Last Dance Page #6

- Last I heard.

He's almost 22.

His birthday's in April.

Were you close?

Well, we had different fathers.

Neither one of us knew 'em.

After my mama died,

it was just us.

Yeah, you were, uh, what, 16?

Yeah. She died two days

after my 16th birthday.

What was she like?

Pretty. Wild.

When she was feelin' good,

she could be a lot of fun.

She wasn't like

anybody's mama I knew.

We were more like sisters,

I guess.

She just couldn't stay clean. I guess

she passed that on to me.

Now, what is it

you're drawing there?

Oh. Well, sorry I asked.

It say in my file

I take drawing lessons?

- No, I don't think so.

- I do.

Through the mail.

Helps me pass the time.

You know, and every week they

give you something new to draw.

This week it's castles.

Takes me away.

Do you think you could get me

a picture of the Taj Mahal?

- Yeah. Why?

- I wanna draw it.

Taj Mahal? I expect that's

not too easy to draw.

Well, I got 23 and a half hours

a day to get it right.

No. No, hold our table.

We are on our way.

- Order a good bottle of red.

We'll be there in ten.

- No, Johnny, l...

- The ladies are not happy.

- You gotta apologize for me, cause I gotta work tonight.

- Aw, come on.

No, no, no, I been going through

the transcripts from the Liggett trial,

and listen to this...

- Sam gave you Liggett?

- Yeah. He's got that guy Henry Reese.

Well, Liggett shouldn't keep you that

busy. It's a pretty open-and-shut case.

- No, no, not necessarily.

- Huh? Well, it always

seemed that way to me.

- Yeah, but...

- And I'm familiar with the case.

No. L-I found this

police report, right?

Her brother said that she and her

codefendant had been up for two days...

smoking crack

and robbing houses.

At the sentencing hearing, her lawyer

doesn't say word one about drugs...

or intoxication or even a possible

lack of premeditation.

Well, that's a judgement call.

Yeah, but when juries vote to execute,

the key issue is intent.

I mean, was this murder intentional?

Was there a reasonable expectation

that death would result?

I was a prosecutor.

I know the law.

Well, then why didn't the lawyer use it?

'Cause this girl was blasted

out of her mind.

It would've at least raised

a doubt with the jury.

- Does it make it a clemency issue?

- No, not technically.

Then stay within the guidelines

of your office and wrap this one up.

Hold on. Does she have to die because

she had a lousy defence lawyer...

and the father of one of her victims

is a buddy of the governor?

No. She has to die because

she committed a double murder.

Well, I'm not saying that she doesn't

deserve to be behind bars.

I'm saying I don't think this woman

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