When we got online in 1998, we knew what we wanted to do but we didn't have a clue what we were doing. We put up our own case and then set about to find related injustices. We were aware of David Milgaard, Donald Marshall, Guy Paul Morin and Stephen Truscott in Canada and once we had found what we could on them, we looked south.

We found the injustice line. This site had many many American injustice stories, beautifully written. We stole them. We used them to practice formatting and html. James L. Lawrence was tolerant of our theft and grasped that we were amateurs. We still are, in the keenest definition of the word: we love our work.

One of the first stories we stole from the injustice line was that of Floyd Caldwell. It is a very long story and I took the whole thing. I read it and I formatted it and I agonized and wrote a piece to introduce it. While working on our own story, I realized just how much effort it takes to put together a major story and I took the Caldwell story down and sent our readers to injustice line to read it. That is how it should be done.

The philosophical piece I wrote is still up there, clunky formatting and all. We haven't heard what became of Floyd and Synthia. We do know that injustices have been happening a mile a minute, with more and more Americans incarcerated wrongly. But there have been some moves to set things right. James L. Lawrence has been part of that. We thank him for being there and for whatever we gained from having his stolen stories on our site while we were creating our own.

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