Clark Fredericks

And I met with him several times, you know, you got to do like, you know, like, I don't know how many exams, 500 multiple choice you got to take.

And I did the Rorschach test and I did, I had to draw pictures and I had to look at pictures and describe what the scene is and like all this stuff.

Um,

He drafts his report, and he thinks I fit in perfectly to passion provocation.

Our defense was diminished capacity.

He says passion provocation fits perfectly.

It's never been used 30 years after the fact.

But there's four criteria to passion provocation.

The husband comes home, and the wife's in bed with the mailman, and he kills her or him.

That's passion provocation.

And I fit into those four criteria.

And that was my defense, thanks to the prosecutor.

The prosecutor came up with my defense.

And when my lawyer and the prosecutor met with the judge to tell him we've arrived at a plea deal,

The judge wasn't like a big fan.

And he said to them both, you can expect Frederick's to do every day of those 10 years.

And then sometime from that meeting to when I went for my sentencing, whether he looked into the case more, whether he talked to people, whatever happened in court,

He apologizes to me.

He says he's tempted to liberate me right now.

And then he says, I'm going to give you the minimum that I'm allowed to give you five years.