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Lisa DeJong
The Plain Dealer

"Survivor's Journey"


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In the basement of th Old Courthouse in Cleveland, boxes stacked to the ceiling hold files and trial transcripts. "In the hallway, towers of stacked boxes formed a cardboard canyon of mortgage forecloseures. Divorce actions... murder trials, rape trials." Connors writes. " I felt hollow. I had entered a repository of grief, a warehouse holding the collective pain, bitterness, fear and sorrow of the people of Cuyahoga County. " Case Number Cr-193108: The State of Ohio v. David Francis, sat unread for more than 20 years.
 

 

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