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"I always said, and still say, one day God gonna open that door for me. I know this. I believe. I have faith."

"It was a good life [in Florida City]. Everybody knew everybody 'round the neighborhood. You could go to Mississippi and back, leave the doors open."

"I said I did it 'cause I wanted to stay alive. At the boys' school, kids got killed. If them teachers could do it, I figured the cops could kill me too."

"My impression was that he was a poor lawyer who lost practically all his cases. Zarowny was well-known for doing very little work on his cases."

Two facts become clear: There was no physical evidence on which to convict Laster, and no potentially exonerating evidence was introduced.

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