Richard D. Taylor was born and raised in
Northern Indiana. He now has a Bachelor's
Degree in Psychology from Indiana University,
but a few days after he turned sixteen,
the principal in the school he was attending
asked him to pack up and leave. He joined
the Army while he was still sixteen served
three years in Korea and Japan, and then
returned to school shortly after his discharge.
Several years later, while drifting
through Phoenix, he was robbed in an alley
behind a bar. Ironically, two weeks after
the robbery, he met one of the men who
robbed him-a seventy-year-old man who
had just been released from Arizona State
Prison after doing forty years for armed
robbery and murder. The old man bought
Richard a beer and they talked. Richard
wrote A Righteous Verdict based, however
loosely, on the story the old man told him.
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| This Historical crime novel isn't
the familiar story of an innocent man
being railroaded through a prejudice
nineteenth century court system. Set
in 1888, it's the story of a guilty man
caught up in the legal system of that
time, but ironically with a deep inner
need to be found guilty in order to
escape God's wrath. Elmer Hatt, a
petty thief drifting through South
Bend, Indiana, isn't a violent man by
any man's reckoning, but the split
second it took to pull the trigger was
all the time needed to change his
carefree life to one of tragedy.
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