McCracken Poston Jr.

McCracken Poston Jr.

McCracken Poston Jr. is a criminal defense attorney, former Georgia state legislator, and author of "Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom" (Citadel, 2024).

He served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives before returning to private legal practice. In 1999, he defended Alvin Ridley, a reclusive television repairman in Ringgold, Georgia, who was accused of murdering his wife after she hadn’t been seen in public for nearly 30 years. Poston’s discovery of Virginia Ridley’s extensive writings helped prove her agoraphobia and epilepsy — and led to Alvin’s acquittal in one of the most misunderstood criminal cases in Georgia history.

More than two decades later, Alvin was diagnosed with autism at age 79, casting

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