Stanley 'tookie' Williams

Based on the evidence from the Stanley 'Tookie' Williams case morally as a defense attorney I

would have not moved to exonerate nor reduce the sentence. Not only because he shot and killed a

man in cold blood but he shot him in the back so he could not even say it was self defense. He also

stated that he killed him because he was white, which changed the whole concept of the case. As a

defense attorney just trying to do my job yes I would have moved for exoneration or even a lesser

sentence. They did not have enough evidence to convict him of murder. They only had circumstantial

evidence. Shot gun casings that cannot be 100% sure that they came from Williams shotgun. The only

good evidence they had was that the shotgun was indeed Mr Williams because it was registered to him

and he could not deny that he purchased it because they had a picture of his state identification along

with the shotgun receipt. They found no fingerprints at the crime scene, no gun powder residue or

anything. They didn't even find the shotgun in the defendant's possession or at his home, but found it

in the accomplice home. The defense attorney could have argued that the shotgun was stolen from Mr.

Williams home, without his knowledge and was used in a spree of robberies and murders. If he did not

get exonerated it was very possible for him to get a lesser sentence based