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有人说，人生贵在坚持。我想这句话真是一点都没错。是不是有很多人也和我一样，在一个新学期的开头，信誓旦旦地说我要取得好成绩。第一个月非常好好，第二个月just so so，第三个月开始觉得自己坚持不下去了。于是就在对着老天抱怨说，为什么这个学期过的那么久。可能女主并不是一个很聪明的学生，至少生活上有很大的压力造成她在兼顾家庭和事业上失去了平衡。所以，她才会学业上没有成就，然后连自己的孩子都计划离开自己。其实她也想过放弃。女主也有一段日子没有去上学，也有情绪低落的时候。谁人不是呢，人之常情。如果是你身处于这样一个进退两难的状态，可能很多人都坚持不下来吧。

But she did.
就是传说中的，有志向的人，在付诸于行动上是不会吝啬的。我很感慨，也希望可以成为这样坚强的人。我听说过一句话，如果连你自己都不坚强，那就真的没有人能帮你坚强了。

我或许也是多多少少在学业上遇到了瓶颈。presentation啦essay那些浮云啊成绩不高啦种种。可是真的是相较于女主来说的话，这些困难好像就真的不算得上是那么回事了。我也是个学生，我也在学law。我自然知道essay赶不及deadline的那种恐慌感，我自然知道做presentation时候那种紧迫感，我也自然知道成绩太差或者attendance太低被学校劝退的那种绝望感。人生在摇摆不定和停滞不前的时候最恐怖了，因为它真的是考研一个人意志力的最佳时期。我最近意志力也开始受到各种外界诱惑，我想要真的做到“不以物喜不以己悲”还是需要一定距离的。

所以还在等什么呢。为什么不愿意坚持走下去呢。

加油。

PS：这其实是励志片子。这其实是励志片子。
PS的PS：里头涉及的关于各种law的英文词汇我现在听起来好顺耳啊。o(╯□╰)o

目前百度不给力，没有相关网页，只有google搜出来几篇相关报道，翻译水平有限，仅摘过来：
1、kenneth很不幸，出狱后只享受了6个月的自由，就死了。
2、兄妹俩获得了3.4million的赔偿。
3、Nancy taylor没有受到任何形式上的处罚，网上连的照片我都没找到。有找到的麻烦给我个地址，我去吐口口水。

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Estate of Kenneth Waters To Receive $3.4 Million In Settlement For His 18 Year Imprisonment

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Avi Kamionski
The Boston Globe is reporting:
波士顿环球 报道：

The town of Ayer and five of its insurers have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the estate of the late Kenneth Waters, who spent more than 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit before his sister earned a law degree and helped free him through DNA evidence. The estate was represneted by Barry Sheck of Neufeld Sheck and Brustin.

Ayer police were accused of coercing false testimony to convict Waters and withholding evidence that could have cleared him. A sixth insurance company, Western World Insurance Group, has declined to settle, but negotiations are continuing. Kenneth Waters was freed from prison in March 2001, and the Middlesex district attorney’s office dropped the charges against him. But he enjoyed only six months of freedom. He died on Sept. 19, 2001, after he fell on his head from a 15-foot wall in Rhode Island while taking a shortcut to a restaurant.

Ayer’s town administrator, Shaun A. Suhoski, said the lawsuit was “a very complex case and, through the very diligent efforts of our legal team, with close oversight of the Board of Selectmen, it appears we’ve reached an acceptable endpoint in this litigation.’’

Kenneth Waters was convicted in 1983 of first-degree murder and armed robbery in the death of Katharina Brow. She was found on May 21, 1980, with more than 30 stab wounds, in her mobile home in Ayer. Waters; his girlfriend, Brenda Marsh; and two of her children, one of whom Waters had fathered, had been living in a house behind the mobile home.
 

According to the complaint filed by Betty Anne Waters, her brother had a solid alibi for his whereabouts when the killing occurred: He had been working a night shift at a local diner and then had a court appearance the next morning for an unrelated matter. Ayer police interviewed him after the killing, but filed no charges, and the case remained unsolved for 2 1/2 years.

 

In October 1982, a man who was living with Marsh approached Ayer police and said she told him that Waters had confessed to killing a woman in Ayer, according to the complaint. She also said she had washed Waters’s bloody clothes, he said. Ayer Police Chief Philip L. Connors and Officer Nancy Taylor-Harris interrogated Marsh. Although she initially denied that Waters had anything to do with the killing, Marsh ultimately relented and said he had come home drunk the morning that Brow was killed with a long, deep scratch on his face, according to the complaint. Police arrested Waters, even though officers had examined him after the killing and found no wounds.

The complaint alleged that Waters was indicted based in part on false testimony before a grand jury by Taylor-Harris that fingerprints found at the crime scene were smeared and useless to investigators. In fact, authorities found a bloody fingerprint on a broken toaster and a partial print on a kitchen faucet that was still running when Brow’s body was discovered. Taylor-Harris knew that Waters had been excluded as the source of the prints, the complaint alleged. Waters was convicted by a Middlesex Superior Court jury and sentenced to life in prison.

    这是一個很简单的故事，个人认为，给女主的哥哥翻案并不难，DNA技术的进步能轻易撕开错案的口子。
    不知道是确有其事，还是为了剧情需要，影片中一再渲染的深厚兄妹感情和二兄妹在听到DNA被排除但仍不能翻案后的极为不淡定两处情节“太刻意了”，编剧斧凿痕跡严重，让人觉得略不可思议。
    个人认为，女主之所以18年坚持为她哥翻案，主要不是因为她爱他哥，而是坚信他哥不是杀人犯。
    影片所反映的致力于为因没有DNA技术而含冤入狱的人平反的律师群体和最后也投身于此的女主，让人深为钦佩。
    我觉得本片法律这个主题和律师这个职业居于次要，坚持做自己认为对的事并取得成功的人生励志性更多一些。

这部电影对我个人来说非常重要。这种真实存在的真情、坚持、信任让人温暖，热泪盈眶。Betty的坚持令人动容，而让我感动的更是Kenny的坚持:一个充满了爱的父亲因为被污陷而入狱18年，除了他自己和妹妹，全世界都认为他是个变态杀人狂；面对着一次次的希望燃起而又被扑灭，无能为力，毫无办法，好像再努力也只能烂死在该死的监狱里。后来的DNA测试他拒绝了，那是一种因为害怕再次落空而不敢去尝试的心理，我想我知道那种感觉。生活有时仿佛一片黑暗，摔倒了我们已经没有力气再去爬起来。最后Kenny走出了监狱，钢琴声响起，我的眼泪止不住地流到了最后。那是感性的几分钟，情绪复杂，回想自己这几年的不顺和所失，我尽力假装无事，即使单独一人是也不愿承认，可事实是一切都遭透了，很多蠢事我确实做了，很多误会我也无力解释...这种电影随时提醒我们希望的存在，总有一天会乌云散去。