The Power of Letters Written by a Lawyer with Clarity on Evidence and Law

By Advocate Haresh Raichura

The convict was on dying row about to be executed. All authorized treatments, appeals, healing petitions, mercy petitions have been exhausted.

One legal facet trial court docket lawyer nonetheless felt that he was harmless and the witnesses have been mendacity.

He wrote a small letter to Earl Stanley Gardner (the creator of Perry Mason Lawyer novels) about this case.

Earl referred to as for papers, and drew a map of the crime scene, the place of witnesses and their timeline about their arrival on the scene of crime.

The timeline made it apparent that the convict couldn’t have been at scene of crime.

Now what to do?

The convict had exhausted all authorized treatments and was going to be hanged anytime in few hours.

There was no time to draft a petition or to maneuver court docket.

Earl ready a letter, connected it with a diagram of the scene of crime and a listing of occasions.

He posted letters to all judges of the California Supreme Court docket and in addition to the Governor.

The Governor postponed the execution of the dying warrant for a while to look at the difficulty.

The Court docket additionally took motion and ordered additional investigation.

However within the meantime the convict had turn out to be insane.

Madness itself was contemplating ample floor to commute the dying sentence and so the dying sentence was transformed to life imprisonment.

The Court docket didn’t reopen the case. The proof had disappeared and additional investigation couldn’t throw a lot mild.

(Additional investigation was made however it was troublesome to search out one other suspect who additionally had related purple hairs and who was additionally seen close to scene of crime on the similar time. So the additional investigation was closed)

For extra particulars see e book “The Court docket of Final Resort” by Earl Stanley Gardner.