Addwatter?” the doctor asked. “Couldn’t really clear her, Doc,” I said. “Let’s face it—the smoking gun in this case was in her hand, after she killed her husband and his hooker.” “Yes, but surely her mental condition, this reprehensible manipulation of medications....” “Oh, I had extenuating circumstances locked up, Doc. Plenty for Counselor Levine to use the insanity defense with confidence.” Once again Bernie Levine and I were seated in the Cook County Jail visitor’s area, in our little booth across the Plexiglas from Marcy Addwatter in her orange jumpsuit. This was a specially arranged evening meeting, no other prisoners and guests present. And this Marcy Addwatter, while physically the same (if better groomed, with a tamed-down hairdo), seemed a different woman—alert, intelligent. Not at all dazed or halting in her speech. An upbeat, animated Levine, on the phone with his client, was saying, “Michael and her partners, Dan Green and Roger Freemont, have gathered all the evidence of extenuating circumstances we could ever have hoped for.”
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