in, he s convicted of the five murders he s previously been aquited of and he s acquitted of the one murder he s never been tried for before. smitty s the only person in my experience and i think probably in the entire world who has been quatd of every single murder he s ever been charged with but is still serving the rest of his life in prison. clive feels the government abused their power to put smitty away. when the government uses that, they re trying to kill people. no less than hall and hawley killed people. that s what smitty was trying to say. they re trying to kill me. instead of using a bomb, they re trying to use those four witnesses. even though the battle in smitty s case was fundamentally unfair, i m the one who did the trial and i m the one who failed smitty, and that s something that i find quite difficult to live with.