They do capital habeas work and white-collar reversals and they have argued four times in front of the Supreme Court.

They do not take parolees with brooms.

Every asset Daniel had, legitimate and otherwise, was frozen and then forfeited under RICO seven years ago. Eleanor’s estate was seized. He served his sentence with a public defender who was so overloaded she once appeared at a status conference by telephone from a parking garage.

Somebody is paying Brennan, Wilcox & Duarte three hundred thousand dollars a year to get Daniel Thorne’s conviction vacated.

Here is where I want to be extremely precise, because this is the entire lesson of the last seven years and I would rather write it down than explain it again.

Seven years ago, I would have opened a laptop.