details that he was able to begin showing the fallacies and the falsehoods in his case, and i had never done an appeal of a capital case. it was terrifying. narrator: lorenzi knew he faced an uphill battle, so he enlisted the help of veteran appeals attorney clive stafford smith. i had worked on another capital case where i had needed a favor and tom lorenzi had very kindly helped me out. so when tom got roped into smitty s case, he called me back and i sort of owed him a favor. narrator: clive was concerned to learn that hard-line judge frank shea, notorious for fast tracking trials, would lead the proceedings. there was no way on god s earth that smitty was going to get a fair trial in front of judge shea. narrator: so clive came up with a risky plan to get judge shea removed from the case. i had someone follow him at