Washington but for everything I represented I thought Authority meant never having to question yourself I was wrong and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to make up for that mistake. Judge Carter let her words hang in the air before making his final statement this court is adjourned until Monday morning when we'll begin examining. The full scope of this misconduct I remind everyone present that this investigation is ongoing and all evidence is to be preserved as people filed out of the Court cour room. Savannah remained standing watching as Darnell and his family left together Michelle's words echoing in her mind every Thursday she thought understanding finally the true weight of what she'd done not just to one. Family but to countless others whose stories were only now coming to light outside the Setting Sun cast Long Shadows across the courthouse steps.
Judge Carter watched from his chamber window as reporters gathered knowing that tomorrow's headlines would tell only part of the story Story the real work. The slow painful process of rebuilding trust and accountability was just beginning rain drummed against the windows of the precinct's records room as Savannah hunched over a computer terminal. Her fingers flying across the keyboard the clock on the wall showed 2:17 a.m. But she barely noticed she'd been here for hours diving deep into public records News archives and any database she could access her Target. Judge Marcus Carter her desperation had driven her here after three sleepless nights the investigation was destroying everything she'd built everything she believed in but if she could find something anything to discredit.
The judge a news article from 35 years ago caught her attention the headline made her pause local teen cleared after 3 months in detention. The grainy photograph showed a much younger Marcus Carter being embraced by his parents outside a courthouse Savannah leaned closer reading intently according to the article 17-year-old Marcus. Carter had been wrongfully arrested for a convenience store robbery despite multiple Witnesses placing him at a school event during the crime he'd spent 3 months. In juvenile detention before being cleared her phone buzzed a text from Kevin Nash a journalist she'd contacted earlier got your message meet me. At Riverside Diner in 20 Savannah glanced at the time then back at the article on my way she typed back the diner was nearly empty.
When she arrived the fluorescent lights harsh against the rain stre Windows Nash sat in a corner Booth laptop open coffee cooling beside him. He was younger than she expected probably fresh out of Journalism School hungry for his first big story officer Mitchell he greeted her eyes bright with anticipation you said you had something on Judge. Carter Savannah slid into the booth pushing a thumb drive across the table his juvenile record was sealed but I found newspaper coverage did you know. He was arrested as a teenager Nash's fingers hovered over his laptop Keys that's public record what makes it newsworthy think about it Savannah pressed a judge who was wrongfully arrested. As a teen now presiding over cases inv involving police misconduct how can he be impartial you think he's biased against law enforcement because of his past I think.