In the summer of 2014, a Knoxville, Tennessee man named Svante Ebinare Hinton, a 35-year-old African American male, found himself in a precarious legal situation. He was on trial for the attempted second-degree murder of his cousin, David Williams, stemming from an incident in August 2012. Hinton claimed self-defense in the shooting, but on July 22, 2014, a Knox County jury found him guilty. As the jury was set to deliberate on an additional charge of a felon possessing a gun, Hinton, who was ou
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