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I was doing burglaries and some robberies...
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and a few possession cases
and stuff like that.
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I think he just came up to me and said:
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"Are you Edith James?
I'd like to talk about my case."
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That's the way I remember it, anyhow.
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And I said, "Sure."
And I said, "What sort of a case is it?"
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He said, "It's a capital murder." And I said...
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Inside, I kind of thought:
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"I've never done one,
but I can surely talk to him about it."
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I hate to be considered...
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some kind of dummy that believes
in the innocence of her clients.
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A lot of people think, "A woman lawyer...
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"she's bound to stupidly believe
anything she's told."
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I admit, I'm sort of a gullible person.
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But on the other hand,
I've seen an awful lot of people...
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who admitted guilt or were found guilty...
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and all but Randall turned out
to be guilty, in my opinion.
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Douglas Mulder had a perfect win record.
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I believe he resigned from the
D.A. 's office without any defeats.
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That's why he's legendary.
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Everything, as I recall,
that Mulder ever said...
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was about what a great guy Mulder was...
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and how marvelous it was that
he was getting all these convictions.
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I wanted somebody else in on it,
so I got Dennis interested in it...
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because Dennis has a lot more
trial experience...
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and Dennis wins
practically all of his jury cases.
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And Dennis was very enthusiastic
about the Randall Adams case...
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because he kept saying,
"This is one we can win.
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"They don't have substantial evidence.
All they've got is David Harris."
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I prepared a motion for a continuance
to get more time to try the case...
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and in doing that had to lay out
my schedule for several weeks...
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as to exactly what time
I'd be in Vidor, Texas.