Mekia Juanita Shuford, Nathan's sister, cuts an impressive and smart figure in her U.S. Army Reserve uniform. Ms. Shuford, Specialist E-4, served our country in Iraq from February 2006 until April 2007.
She would have made a powerful witness at the sentencing hearing for her brother. As with Nathan's other family members and friends, Mekia Shuford was not interviewed by the alcoholic lead trial attorney or the inexperienced second chair counsel. Together the two court-appointed attorneys spent less than three hours speaking to witnesses who could have influenced the jury to spare Nathan's life.
Doesn't Mekia Shuford's brother deserve better representation than that? Doesn't Mekia, who risked her life wearing our country's uniform, deserve better than that?
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