"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."

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"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."

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"I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully."

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"I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true."

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"I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times."

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