XONR8 Case Memo
That first moment my group and I received the entire case we were immediately overwhelmed. In total we had over three hundred pages of legal documents and no where to start. The thing that was most difficult for me was remaining unbiased and not just saying you are being unbiased. I think I was being naive and telling myself, this person has taken the time to fill out this application and send it to the California Innocence Project so there must be a reason behind that. All I wanted was to prove that this person had nothing to do with the crime he states he did not commit. I think the fact that I was carrying that mentality for a majority of the 3 weeks really blocked out the real facts I had to realize. As a group we came to the conclusion that this case was inconclusive. During the last three or four days my group only focused on the facts and realized there was not anything we could do to for this person. Even though his cry for help was difficult to ignore, there was not anything we could have done. Personally, that was the what I struggled with the most.