“Sobbing, Sweeney apologized to the court and said he had not been trying to escape. Judge Katz accepted his apology and explanation. ‘We know what a strain you are under, Mr. Sweeney,’ he said. I was appalled at the lack of severity of the judge’s admonishment. What we had witnessed had nothing to do with escape. It was an explosion of anger. It showed us how little it took to incite John Sweeney to active rage. Like most of the telling moments of the trial, however, it was not witnessed by the jury.” “We know what a strain you are under, Mr. Sweeney.” For weeks Alex and I would say that
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