1:38:02
Told me to keep my mouth shut.
1:38:40
The appeals process
is even more Byzantine
1:38:42
than the trial it's appealing.
1:38:46
It takes longer, it costs more,
1:38:49
its outcome is even less promising.
1:38:53
Only five cases in 50
will win in appeals court,
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odds as easy to calculate
as they are discouraging.
1:39:00
They're 10 to 1 against.
1:39:02
Just about any bet at any table
1:39:05
in any casino
anywhere in the world...
1:39:08
is better than that.
1:39:13
I have the evidence but not the
resources or the gambling spirit
1:39:17
to appeal the decision in this case.
1:39:21
I have no money, no partners,
1:39:23
and, it seems, no clients any more.
1:39:28
The Woburn case has become what it
was when it first came to me -
1:39:32
an orphan.
1:39:34
I'm forwarding it on to you,
1:39:37
knowing you may not want it
any more than I did at first.
1:39:43
If you do decide to take it on,
1:39:46
I hope you'll be able to succeed
where I've failed.
1:39:49
If you calculate success
and failure as I always have,
1:39:53
in money divided neatly
into human suffering,
1:39:56
the arithmetic says...
1:39:59
I failed completely.