Furthermore, Daniel says, If I didn’t plead guilty, they’d throw me the book. The Justice system used Daniels’s so-called “ Lawyer” as a way to isolate him from anyone who can help him and essentially convinced him to take the blame because since he is guilty of having “some green” on him he is guilty of stealing a car. They essentially didn’t even give Daniel a fair trial and automatically accused him and essentially gave him no other option than to plead guilty. “Man, I can’t even drive a car, and I tried to make my lawyer - but he was really their lawyer, dig, he worked for the city - prove that, but he didn’t”. “They said - they still say - I stole a car,” he says. As he is telling Fonny and Tish about why he went to prison, Daniel says he was too afraid to stand up for his own innocence, explaining how his trial was “rigged” against him. Fonny’s friend Daniel is no stranger to the constant fear that comes along with living within a racist judicial system.
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