Category: Storytelling
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Dead Man Walking Part 2
The courtroom doors opened and a man strode in shackled and dressed in prison fatigues, surrounded on all sides by a phalanx of RCMP officers dressed in civilian clothes. Underscoring the tension, each of the police officers had one hand on the prisoner, the other on their weapons, safety off. A man sitting at the…
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Dead Man Walking 1
The prosecutor leaned over to me as the witness left the courtroom, surrounded by a phalanx of police detectives, each of them with their hands on weapons under their jackets, “Dead man walking.” he whispered as the witness passed. I was a defence lawyer in one of the most dangerous and intense trials of my…
Tony with a capital T 