A Short Story Of Bryan Stevenson Preparing For The Hearing

One story that conveyed an important lesson to me was the story about Bryan Stevenson preparing for the hearing in an empty courtroom in the Midwest. In this passage the judge assumed that Stevenson was the client and not an attorney. The judge told Stevenson he could not be in the courtroom without representation and Stevenson politely corrected him. “The judge laughed at his mistake, and the prosecutor joined in. I forced myself to laugh because I didn’t want my young client, a white child who had been prosecuted as an adult, to be disadvantaged by a conflict i had created with the judge before the hearing. But I was disheartened by the experience. Of course innocent mistakes occur, but the accumulated insults and indignations caused by