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and that not everything
he had said

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about nothing happened
was true.

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Peter Panaro
was personally convinced

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that my father
had sexually abused me

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and nothing I could say
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could dissuade Peter
from this notion.

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Jesse felt that
if Judge Boklan knew

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that he also was a victim
of his father

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that she might consider
the plea negotiations

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in a more favorable way.
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He came up with this strategy.
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It was Peter Panaro's
fictionalized story

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that he fed to me
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and said, "If you say this,
it's gonna look good for you. "

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I told him
I wouldn't do it.

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I told him, "Jesse, when you
plead guilty in open court

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you're gonna have to admit
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to this type
of anal sodomy 14 times.

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And I'm not gonna
let you do that

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unless you can admit it. "
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He looked me
right in the eye

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always liked to call me
by my name

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before he made a statement
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and said,
"Peter, I can admit it. "

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The only concern
that Peter Panaro had

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was that ethically
as a lawyer

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he couldn't let
his client go into court

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and say something happened
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that he knew his client
had told him was a lie.

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The private investigator wasn't
coming up with anything helpful.

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There was not gonna be
any defense witnesses.

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There wasn't any money
to hire experts.

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Mom was insistent upon
there not being a trial.

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Peter Panaro
wasn't believing me

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no matter how many times
I told him nothing happened.

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I just ran out of options.
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Jesse was a very good baby.

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