One on One with Jay Ewart 03L

The State of Georgia v. Troy Davis trial was a case that garnered media attention around the world. Davis, who was accused of killing a Savannah police officer, was sitting on death row after being convicted of the 1989 murder. Seven years before his execution, a team of pro bono lawyers, including Emory School of Law graduate Jay Ewart 03L, rallied to prove Davis' innocence one final time.

To the dismay of Ewart, his team and thousands of supporters, Davis was never exonerated and was executed in Sept. 2011. "It's strange, because I still think about the case constantly," Ewart told Emory Magazine in a recent interview. "I'll have an idea for a new strategy, and then I'll kind of wake up and remind myself that Troy's dead, it's over."

Before Ewart took the stage with Kay Levine, criminal justice expert at the Emory School of Law, in the Jan. 18 Faculty within Your Reach alumni series program, "A Matter of Life or Death," he sat down with the Emory Alumni Association's Tania Dowdy 08Ox 10C to discuss life during and after the controversial case.
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Produced & edited by Tania Dowdy 08Ox 10C
Camera: Lindsey Bomnin 12C

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