'The Other Wes Moore' author knows what might have been - USATODAY.com: ...The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau, $25) tells the story of two black men with the same name. Both were born in Maryland. Both grew up with single mothers in fatherless homes. By the time they were 11 years old, both had been handcuffed by cops.One became a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins, a Rhodes scholar, a White House Fellow under Condoleezza Rice and an Afghanistan combat veteran who spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
The other Wes Moore, 34, is in the Jessup Correctional Institute's maximum-security unit, where he is serving a life sentence without parole. He was sentenced for his part in a botched robbery in 2000 in which his half-brother, Tony Moore, shot to death an off-duty Baltimore police officer who was the father of five.
