Supreme Court eventually rule against him. Carol Gilmore, Rob's wife, now in private practice, leads the case and wins a huge multi-million dollar settlement for Mason, only to have the U.S. Months pass, Mason Chase decides to sue the county, its DA, lead investigator and criminal lab for damages and restitution for his wrongful conviction. Federal Judge who frees Mason and gets him removed from prison and away from the horror of death row. She turns to the aid of a Houston law firm, who specialize in cases like Mason's. Rob's wife, a lawyer for the county, also discovers her own boss' culpability in the botched conviction.
Not until Rob is killed in a traffic accident does the lawyer's wife discover Rob's secret – a secret that will aide in releasing Mason Chase of incarceration and freeing him from the looming death sentence that crowds him like an angry shadow. At times, mason comes within hours of his death. But a Texas jury decides against him, finding him guilty and sentences him to death by lethal injection.įor close to a decade and a half, Mason sits on Texas death row while Rob Gilmore, his lawyer, and others work to get him set free. In fact there is evidence – strong evidence– to suggest that Mason's claims of innocence are in fact true. With his family gruesomely murdered around him in their comfortable suburban home, he is arrested, charged and convicted of a crime he claims he did not commit. The fact that he didn't might make him wish he was dead. Had Mason Chase gone to sleep that night he might be dead.
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