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In late October of 2010, a young public defender named Ben Goldsmith was reading the Seattle

Times when he spotted a piece about a new development in a murder case out in Redmond.

The headline read, Sex Offender Charged in 2008, Redmond Halloween Slay.

When you're in the sign of work, you're looking for the challenging complicated cases and

just from seeing the news article about this, it seemed like this case was all of those

things.

There was DNA involved, which was going to make the case complicated.

It was a homicide, which also made the case complicated and clearly the stakes were

high.

Ben finished the article with great interest.

He did not see a lot of these kinds of cases in the area.

In Seattle, homicide of a stranger, so not a domestic violence situation, but a situation

where it's actually unclear what the connection is.

Those cases are more rare and I think there's more of a chance of some sort of injustice

being done against the person charged.

From the time Ben was growing up in the Berkshires and Western Massachusetts, he'd wanted

to go into law enforcement, put the bad guys away, make the world just a little more just.

Then in college, he landed an internship at a public defender's office in Washington,

DC.

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