Justice
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Chapter One
Justice:
A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer
It was the beginning of a long hot summer. I flew to Los Angeles on
July 5, 1983, for an indefinite stay. Throughout the flight from New
York I engaged in diligent conversation with the stranger next to
me, postponing as long as possible facing the feelings of dread
within me. My two sons, Griffin and Alex, had preceded me out from
New York. Alex, the younger one, met me at the airport, and we drove
into Beverly Hills to the house where my former wife, Ellen Griffin
Dunne, called Lenny, lives. Griffin was already there. It is not the
house we lived in as a family. It is smaller and on one level. Lenny
has multiple sclerosis and is confined to a wheelchair. We were
gathering, a family again, for a murder trial.
The first time I saw Lenny she was getting off a train at the
railroad station in Hartford, Connecticut. She was ravishing, and I
knew that instant that I would marry her if she would have me. We
had a large wedding at her family's ranch in Nogales, Arizona, in ... read full excerpt from: Justice ebook
