Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Prologue: 1987 3
1 Firm and Unequivocal 7
2 Chris 46
3 Only a Few Additional Weeks 50
4 Lake 52
5 K and O 57
6 Rosen 63
7 Some Ideas of Persecution 67
8 Newman, Coleman, and Weitzel 76
9 The Benefit of Every Reasonable Inference 87
10 A Problem for Everyone 95
11 One of Those Cases 106
12 Nobody Could Be Against This 118
13 In Favorable Times and Difficult Times 130
14 Their Different Individual Viewpoints 143
15 We Must Use Our Judgment 151
16 The Elephant in the Room 167
17 Does Not Admit to Crime 176
18 An Extraordinary Procedure 187
19 A Situation Not of His Making 195
20 We Recommend the Closing of This File 208
21 Some Concerns About His Medical Condition 222
22 Any Cases Where Evidence Had Gone Missing 230
23 In Three Dimensions 231
24 I Can Tell That This Lady Have Went Over My Case 234
25 Everybody Knows He Didn't Do It 238
26 The First Real Test 243
27 They Will Try to Get Me to Sign Papers 252
28 The Last Avenue I Can Think Of to Pursue 257
29 He Spoke About Going Through Changes 262
30 Send Him a Questionnaire 270
31 If They Had Anything, It Can't Match Nothing from Me 272
32 What She Said Happened, Happened 296
33 A Lawyer I've Never Met 304
34 A Type of Panel I've Never Seen 310
35 A Long Time Coming 325
36 Cases of Innocence Still Open 331
Acknowledgments 347
Notes 349
Sources 357
Index 377