In the age of the anti-critical race theory, book banning movement, comparing your client to a character from “To Kill a Mockingbird” in the courtroom is a slippery slope. However, this very action determined the fate of a Black man charged in a cold case from decades ago.

Alvin Ray Allen, 65, was charged in the murder of a 19-year-old white woman, Sandra Elaine Williams, back in 1980. Authorities said she was raped and stabbed over 15 times miles away from her home in Mobile, Ala. Allen originally wasn’t a suspect in the crime and the case eventually went cold, per Law & Crime. However, investigators agreed to the family’s pleas to test the DNA again which resulted in a match to Allen.

The defense argued Allen and Williams had a consensual relationship and that this case was none other than a perpetuation of the racist “Black men prey on white women” trope. Though, in closing, the attorney took the argument a fictional step further.

Source: Attorney Flush a Black Man’s Defense Down the Drain with Lame “To Kill a Mockingbird” Reference