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In America, when you're charged with a crime, you're afforded the right to face your accuser. But what happens when your accuser isn't human?
In 2022, over five days in Akron, Ohio, jurors in the murder trial of a 19-year-old named Adarus Black heard from 17 witnesses, none of whom could place Black at the scene of the drive-by shooting that killed Na'Kia Crawford. They viewed surveillance footage, none of which showed Black in the car from which the bullet was fired.