“Somebody has to hear this,” she said. She walked across the street from the courthouse and showed up at his office without an appointment. “He’s going to probably think I’m crazy, I’m weird, but someone needs to hear this and the people need to know what’s going on.”

Braswell confirmed that he filed the motion for Morris to withdraw her guilty plea and that he did so free of charge. In it, he cited the “great duress, pressure and confusion” Morris was under at the time of her final hearing.

He said that at the public defender’s office and at his current firm, “It’s been both our credo and our mission ... to provide a good, strong competent legal representation to all people and especially those who need any kind of help.”

“In her particular situation, she came to me seeking our help and I did what I felt was the right thing to do,” said Braswell, who declined further comment.

At this point, Morris is being represented on a pro-bono basis by three lawyers: Braswell, Betty Layne DesPortes and Steven D. Benjamin.