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Handcuffed at the defense table, Rodney Hinton Jr. stood under the glare of courthouse lights as if on display. Uniformed officers surrounded him like an armored wall—dozens of deputies lining the walls of the courtroom behind him. Hinton’s face was tense and eyes downcast as the judge read the charges: aggravated murder for allegedly driving into and killing retired Deputy Sheriff Larry Henderson. It was a grim tableau of shame and fear—a Black father shackled before a river