"I am a lawyer, and I am in prison."
Chap. 1, pp. 3

"Malcolm Bannister, black, aged forty-three, convicted of a crime I had no knowledge of committing."
Chap. 1, pp. 6

"I am sitting here doing ten years for a noncrime because a hotshot US Attorney needed to jack up his kill quota."
Chap. 2, pp. 17

"Judge Fawcett was found near the safe, shot twice in the back of the head, definitely an execution, and there was a large pool of dried blood on the floor around him."
Chap. 3, pp. 18

"The other body was that of Naomi Clary, a thirty-four-year-old divorced mother of two who had recently been hired by Judge Fawcett as a secretary."
Chap. 3, pp. 19

"Judges often change as they mature, but few turn as abruptly as Raymond Fawcett."
Chap. 4, pp. 26

"Soon, though, I met the man who would eventually kill Judge Fawcett. I know the identity of the murderer...