He had cut a brake line intending to kill Adriana Vance.

Under the law of that state, the identity of the person who dies does not matter.

He took a plea eleven months in, against the advice of his second attorney, in exchange for testimony he then gave badly.

He is serving a sentence with no realistic prospect of release.

Maya went to the sentencing.

She had not planned to.

She sat in the third row and did not give a victim statement, because she had written four and had thrown all of them away, and because she had realized somewhere around the third draft that everything she wanted to say was actually to a version of him that had never existed.

He looked at her once.