Melanie Kalmanson

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The following was reprinted with permission from The Tributary, a nonprofit newsroom covering Florida. It is part 1 of a 3-part series. The rest can be found here. By Nichole Manna/The TributaryOn its surface, the prosecution of Kenneth Hartley was like hundreds of others that unfolded in the Jacksonville courthouse in the 1990s, when the violent deaths of young Black men had become a disturbingly routine occurrence.