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This is Barry Truths. I'm Hank Clibbenoff.

So where are we? We're in that momentous first day of the Carners inquest and the smoke from

the latest bombshell is still drifting around the courtroom. The medical examiner has just

rendered his expert opinion that AC Hall was shot in the back by white police officers,

and no one's disputing it. Many in the courtroom understand that this changes everything.

I mean if you're defending yourself from attack, how could you shoot your attacker in the back?

That's self-defense? And if it isn't a case of self-defense.

Then what is it?

The courtroom is segregated. White spectators on the main floor, black spectators in the balcony.

You know it's like to kill a mockingbird. Even the lawyers are segregated at the inquest,

so far the witnesses have been white, but that's about to change.

Eloise Franklin, the teenage girlfriend of AC Hall, is next on the stand.

Eloise is 16. She left school in the eighth grade, and she's very light-skinned. People have

always noticed this about her. And on this day she appears very small in this massive high

ceiling courtroom swearing to tell the truth. Now she's practically surrounded by white men,

...