But not none, and the ones who did were not strangers.

Nathan’s mother, Diane Brooks, believed in her son’s innocence completely and without a single day of wavering, and she still does.

Margaret has never blamed her for that either, and she means it.

Diane was seventy-three and she had one child.

Margaret has thought many times about what she herself would have done in that chair, and she has never arrived at an answer she liked.

Diane sat behind her son for nineteen days of trial.