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McCracken Poston Jr.

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McCracken Poston Jr. is a criminal defense attorney, former Georgia state legislator, and author of "Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom" (Citadel, 2024).

He served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives before returning to private legal practice. In 1999, he defended Alvin Ridley, a reclusive television repairman in Ringgold, Georgia, who was accused of murdering his wife after she hadn’t been seen in public for nearly 30 years. Poston’s discovery of Virginia Ridley’s extensive writings helped prove her agoraphobia and epilepsy — and led to Alvin’s acquittal in one of the most misunderstood criminal cases in Georgia history.

More than two decades later, Alvin was diagnosed with autism at age 79, casting
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“We walked to the back of the line of the one-register fast-food restaurant. Before I could ask him what he wanted, Alvin tapped the shoulder of the woman in front of us. She turned around, startled. “Hey,” Alvin said, “I’m that feller they said kilt his wife, but I didn’t kill my wife, and the jury just said that I didn’t kill my wife!” Then he did his characteristic spring back, hands on hips, as if saying, What do you think of that? The woman turned and fled the establishment. “Okay, Alvin,” I said, “that was a good start. Just don’t sneak up on ’em like that next time.” I added, “And don’t lead with that you were accused of murder.” We sat at Hardee’s and enjoyed our meal, and then I took Alvin Ridley, a free man and an innocent man, home.”
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