Forty-Eight Hours
She is the only one who did not.
She went to trial in the January and it lasted eleven days and she was convicted on every count.
She is seventy now.
She received forty years and she will not come out.
And the thing I want in this account about Claudia Vance is not the sentence.
It is that on the Wednesday afternoon in that hallway, when her son came out of a room where a woman was doing CPR on a six-year-old, what she said was five words about removing me from the building.
Her granddaughter was alive, eleven feet away, and she had four seconds of information and no time to construct anything, and the sentence that came out of her was administrative.