ABSTRACT
His first parole hearing would be in 2054, when he would be ninety-one years old.2
It has been said that God does not give anyone more than she can bear. Melinda Elkins had lost her mother and now her husband. Because she believed that her husband was innocent, she no longer had the support of her sister, her grandmother, and many of her friends. She would somehow have to raise her two sons without Clarence or her family. She may not have known her own strength, and she certainly never could have anticipated the road ahead, but if there were ever a person who could bear the burdens of these multiple injustices, it was Melinda Elkins.
