This is The Guardian.

By August 2023, when Judge Lynn denied Alex a new trial,

Jennifer and Eric had been obsessively working on his case for more than three years,

but it hadn't been enough.

In order to be successful in this job, you have to have a tenacity and a will to keep fighting and not give up. And for the first time, I really felt myself wanting to give up, like, just being like, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this to

myself? Alex was in prison for life, and as they looked around their own lives, they discovered

they'd become captives to the case, too. I mean, it really, the termites dug in at every

level in our lives. Well, I started having thyroid issues.

I think I was in fight or flight all the time.

So I started having books about that.

And I have jaw tension now that I used to not have.

Real bad, TMJ.

Gained 35 pounds, I think.

So I was about 200, 210 pounds by the end of this. So I got depressed. And it affected

my relationship with my girlfriend because I was working all the time. Even if we were having

dinner, I would be on my computer or I would be taking phone calls. I found that I lost my joy

for doing things that brought me joy before.

Working Alex's case was breaking them, physically, emotionally, and financially.

And I think last year on my taxes, I made $25,000.

Jennifer told me that working on the case pushed her back into therapy,

where she found herself questioning everything she believed in as a lawyer.

What I realized is it was impacting me so much psychologically because it was a total and utter complete failure on every level of the justice system.

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