Aaron Middlebrooks

“My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown

“he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Carmen: An Urban Adaptation of the Opera