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for helping me tell this story and making me sound halfway intelligent. Thanks to Martha Smith for pitching in as well. We would have been at this till Christmas without you. To my editor at HarperCollins, Matt Harper, thanks for staying on me and putting the final polish to our words.

Last, to all the well-wishers and supporters who sent us their kind words—my eternal thanks.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jeff Ashton recently retired from a thirty-year career as a prosecutor in Orlando, Florida. He is the most experienced homicide prosecutor in the history of Orange County and a veteran of more than seventy successful homicide prosecutions. He lives in Florida.

Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for the New York Times and author of more than a dozen nonfiction titles, including New York Times bestseller Stolen Innocence (with Elissa Wall) and Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery.

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CREDITS

Cover photographs by Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel

COPYRIGHT

IMPERFECT JUSTICE. Copyright © 2011 by Jeff Ashton. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-212532-3

EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062125361

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher