Two in a Million

Father and Son

To prove a few of his points, Ernest Kinney read from a letter Mr. Ewell had written to Dana just a few months before the murders, in where the sentence "I am so proud of you, Dana" screamed from the page.

If the prosecution had made the assumption that Dana and his dad were at odds, Kinney wanted to point out that the documented evidence didn't support that theory.

This one letter, anyway.

"That's the state of mind of his father ... before the murders," Kinney shouted, flapping the letter, shaking his head in disbelief.

One letter—err, rather, one sentence from one letter—was supposed to prove Dana and his father had an Andy and Opie relationship. Whistling. Arm on shoulder. Walking. Gone fishing.

Right. Okay. Sure.

Then Kinney refocused on Ponce.

"We know he lies and lies and lies and lies and lies until they arrest him for murder. Then he pulls the grisly, dirty gun out of the dirt."

Repeating something doesn't make it a fact.