The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revisited the 1985 trial of 10 young gang members for the killing of a mother of six, a trial and case that one of the lead defense lawyers said she has been unable “to shake from my conscience.”
Michele Roberts was then deputy director of the D.C. Public Defender Service’s trial division. The murder of Catherine Fuller and the subsequent trial alarmed and consumed the nation’s capital. Roberts’ client, Alphonzo Harris, was one of only two defendants acquitted by the jury.
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