I Fought the Law: Sarah Smith, "Benefit of the Doubt"

Storyteller Sarah Smith took the All Y'all stage in July 2016, during our live event entitled "I Fought the Law," to share her personal account of trial by fire. The first case that Smith ever took to trial during her time as a public defender turned out to be a maelstrom of media coverage, protests and social media outrage. Much of the public has only heard one side of this highly publicized story, which involved accusations of animal cruelty against a young black man from Shreveport. In this episode of the All Y'all podcast, we present another perspective on this controversial case.