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The Burden of Proof
by
Scott Turow

Also by Scott Turow

PRESUMED INNOCENT

For Annette

WARNER BOOKS EDITION

Copyright 1990 by Scott Turow All rights reserved.

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First Warner Books Printing: June, 1991

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[Our] decisions have respected the private realm of family life which
the state cannot enter.

Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 (1944), an opinion of the
United States Supreme Court

I once undertook to improve the marriage relations of a very intelligent
man .... He continually occupied himself with the thought of a
separation, which he repeatedly rejected because he dearly loved his two
small children ....

One day, the man related to me a slight occurrence which had extremely
frightened him. He was sporting with the older child, by far his
favorite. He tossed it high in the air and repeated this tossing until
finally he thrust it so high that its head almost struck the massive gas
chandelier .... [The child] became dizzy with fright .... The
particular facility of this careless movement . . .

suggested to me to look upon this accident as a symbolic action ....