A Story for the Gallows

Summary

In 2016, I took on a bizarre case for a second-instance defense.

My client was a teenage killer. He had assaulted three people, murdered four, and burned the bodies before fleeing. He had already escaped the police radar.

But suddenly, he turned himself in, pled guilty in court, and calmly accepted the death sentence.

I was at my wits' end, assuming the case was lost.

Then he said, "I want to overturn the verdict."