Alexis Coe
Appearances
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
You know, she believed him that he didn't do it because I think she realized that this was an innocent man who, if she didn't do something to help him, would most certainly go to jail.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
And by the time he woke up, he woke up because he slipped into a river. It was cold. The woman was gone. And he tried to just go catch a bus home, but instead he found himself in deep shit.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
At first, Roundtree thought, okay, this is an easy case in some ways to win because he's got an alibi. He was, you know, with a woman, a woman who wasn't his wife, but they were drinking, they were fooling around, they fell asleep. He slipped into the river, he wakes up, she's gone.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
And, you know, Vivian completely confirmed all these details, and Roundtree thinks, great. Ray had an alibi. There was a hitch, though. She wouldn't appear in court because she was married. It was the first of many setbacks.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
And so I think that as the case went on, she kept finding these wonderful leads and these things that would discount the evidence that the prosecution had, and then it would all fall apart.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
There was no preliminary hearing, which is, you know, sort of unheard of. There was no warrant for the clothes they took from him. They cut hair from his head without his lawyer's permission.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
She's constantly litigating because she's incredibly talented.
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Married to the Law
She experienced white supremacy firsthand as a child. That's historian Alexis Coe. If you think about some of your formative memories of fear, it's really something to consider the Klan being one of them.