Death row: the last hope | World news | The Guardian
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/28/linda-carty-innocent-death-row
It was an unseasonably cold day in May 2002 when Charlie Mathis walked into the Houston courtroom. He had been called as a witness for the prosecution, which he found puzzling: he had, after all, spent the last few years working with the woman now sitting in the dock, and felt sure she wasn't physically capable of committing murder – the crime before the court. In fact, if anything, he had expected to appear for the defence, but Mathis says that as he walked past the woman's lawyers, one of them turned to him and commented glibly: "Oh, I guess I should have talked to you some time, shouldn't I?"
It was an early sign that Linda Carty, the woman in the dock, had a difficult road ahead.
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