Lena met with me the next day in a room with mismatched chairs and a shelf full of donated children’s books.

She read the deed, listened to the timeline, then placed her pen down.

“Rebecca, there’s something I need you to understand.

This might take months or longer.

Prosecutors don’t reopen a judgment just because a witness behaved badly.

We’ll need material evidence that was unavailable at trial, or evidence that a witness knowingly gave false testimony.”

“I have waited four years.”

“I know.