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In April 2024, my cousin Alan was delivered to federal court in San Francisco for his sentencing hearing.
It had been just under a year since the jury found him guilty of hiring someone to kill his ex-wife, Priscilla.
The maximum sentence for this crime is 10 years.
The cast of characters, the judge, the public defender, the prosecutor, and Alan, were back in the same courtroom.
All of them seemed the same, except maybe Alan.
He was contrite.
Genuinely filled with regret, or so it sounded to me.
He apologized to Priscilla, who was listening on Zoom.
He promised that he would never again do anything to harm her or the children.
He talked about his decision to reject a plea deal and go to trial.
And for a minute, he didn't sound like Alan at all.