06 Reversible Errors by Scott Turow

Author:Scott Turow [Turow, Scott]
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NOW AND THEN, Larry had to get on a plane to question a witness, and on big cases, he was willing to go grab a murderer for an extradition. But the truth was that after Nam, he didn’t much like leaving home. Before athletic schedules started to interfere, he took Nancy and the boys to Florida each summer, and every March he still traveled with a group of detectives to Vegas, where they behaved for four days as if they were twenty. They drank and gambled and called every escort service in town for prices, then went back to their lives, feeling a little like dogs that had escaped the backyard fence and were now only too happy to see that bowl of chow. But all in all, he’d rather not have come to Atlanta. The air was so thick you could swim in it. And he wasn’t comfortable at close quarters with Muriel.

By 2:30, they were done at the tall, white federal courthouse. Afterwards, Muriel and Larry stood outside, planning the remainder of the afternoon with an Assistant Attorney General named Thane and an investigator from the Fulton County Solicitor’s Office who’d been delegated to assist them. The CNN Center and the Georgia Dome were visible across a canyon of roadway underpasses. Larry would be able to tell the boys he’d seen the sights.

The four of them agreed that Larry and the investigator, Wilton Morley, would serve Collins, while Muriel waited at the office of the Department of Law with her cell phone. If Collins was suddenly moved to give an interview without his lawyer, Muriel wanted to be on hand to document it properly. In the event she didn’t hear from Larry, they’d meet at their gate at the airport for the flight home.

Morley had an address for Collins in a suburb north of the city. On the phone, with the damn Southern accent, Larry had no clue about Morley’s race, and here he was, black as coal and easy to deal with. Black and white were different here than in the North. Larry had noticed that in the service decades ago and it still felt true. Blacks had won down here more concretely. They’d beaten back slavery first, then Jim Crow. It made everybody happier to have actual bodies to declare dead.

In the car, Morley showed Larry records he had gathered. A credit report listed Collins as the owner of Collins Travel, his own agency. As Erno had insisted, Collins’s rap sheets, both local and national, revealed no further arrests since his release from prison five years ago. Seventy-eight percent of the guys who did time went back. But now and then, Larry actually took heart from the other portion. With the worst cancers, oncologists would be ecstatic with a 22 percent cure rate. True, a lot of guys who went straight didn’t really reform—they just got more skilled at not getting caught, and Larry had no way to know if Collins was one of them. It

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