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The prisoner whose story led fellow inmates to raise funds for his defense

As a retired judge, Lawrence Wood thought he'd seen all the angles, every lie a desperate man could cook up to save himself.

Eileen Law describes the scene where the killing for which James Kelly has spent almost two decades in prison took place. Law is a detective hired by Lawrence Wood, a retired judge, with money raised by Kelly's fellow inmates in an effort to prove his innocence.
Eileen Law describes the scene where the killing for which James Kelly has spent almost two decades in prison took place. Law is a detective hired by Lawrence Wood, a retired judge, with money raised by Kelly's fellow inmates in an effort to prove his innocence.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
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