Dummy
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First there was Ernestine Williams, a prostitute found murdered in a Chicago alleyway on November 12, 1965. She had last been seen leaving a bar with a young black mute. Donald Lang, "The Dummy" was arrested. It was the beginning of one of the most bizarre murder cases in American History.
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From Chicago's South Side Donald Lang was twenty years old, poor, black, totally illiterate - and deaf and dumb. He could not talk, write, read lips, or understand sign language. It was an unprecedented legal problem: How could the accused defend himself when he could not even communicate? In bewilderment the court appointed the only man who might be able to defend the boy - a tough, determined, resourceful lawyer named Lowell Myers. Myers was also deaf. Dummy is a story of the legal process as an enormous "Catch 22", a nightmare that ends only to begin when Lang is implicated in a second murder.
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