SITTING IN A courtroom in Jefferson City, Missouri, I could hear Jonathan Irons crying from his seat across the room -- but my eyes were fixed on Maya Moore, the WNBA star who eight months earlier had walked away from basketball to free this man from prison. Moore's eyes were fixed on him.
It was October 2019, and Irons' legal team was presenting the case for his innocence and wrongful conviction. Irons had just heard his original lawyer say that she didn't have access to a crucial piece of evidence in 1998, something that was discovered by Moore's godfather 12 years before it ever made it into a courtroom.