Opinion: ‘Judge Coffee, release Andrew Hayes’
“I struggle to understand why Judge Lee Coffee (pictured) has not ordered Hayes released,” writes William E. Arnold Jr. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
William E. Arnold Jr.
Dr. William E. Arnold Jr. is an administrative leader in higher education, public service and community organizations. He was wrongfully convicted in 2013 and was exonerated in 2020 after serving seven years in prison.
“The true measure of a justice system is not whether it can claim perfection. It is whether the justice system has the courage to correct itself when it discovers that it failed.”
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