“Questions?”
“It is not my job to promise you an exoneration before a court sees the
evidence.”
Mason hated careful language.
Then he remembered how careless certainty had helped send him to prison.
“Fine,” he said.
“What do we do?”
“We make them look again.”
PART 5
A post-conviction attorney joined Naomi and filed a petition asking the
court to review Mason’s conviction.
The prosecutor’s office received copies of the forensic reports.
The original server images from Reed Industrial Supply were located in
archived evidence.
For the first time, independent examiners could compare the material
Arthur preserved with evidence from the old case.
The match was devastating.
Vendor activity attributed to Mason had continued while he was
incarcerated.
Authentication records showed access from machines he could not possibly
have used.
The former company controller was interviewed.
At first, he denied everything.
Then investigators confronted him with the shell-company records.
