He Sneered At Me Until I Gave Him An Answer He Did Not Expect

done, and that what the jury had delivered was real but not complete, and that she was sorry for the gap.

I told her the gap was not her failure.

She looked tired. “No,” she said. “But it’s still a gap.”

She was right. Partial accountability is not justice in full. I had spent decades watching the machinery of the law produce outcomes that looked like continue reading …