After Maya Moore helped overturn Jonathan Irons' sentence in 2020, the couple is experiencing the kind of joy far too many innocent Black men are denied.
. Her great-uncle had met Irons prior to his 1998 conviction and later introduced Irons to Moore’s extended family as a case worth fighting for. At just 16 years old, Irons was tried and convicted as an adult—part of the larger adultification of Black kids predicated on racial biases—for the burglary and shooting at the home of a 38-year-old white man named Stanley Stotler. Stotler later identified Irons as the perpetrator, and the jury gobbled up the wobbly prosecution.
Moore was 18 years old when she visited Irons in prison, one year before she’d begin her dominant reign at the University of Connecticut.that stunned the sporting world: She was leaving the WNBA at the height of her career to invest time in “some ministry dreams that have been stirring in my heart for many years.” Those ministry dreams, it turned out, included liberating Irons.
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