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The night of the murder, Gary had been at a local bar, the Stallion, and

had gotten into an argument with a girl whom he had asked to buy a drink for.

Despite the assurance of a local drug-dealer friend of Gary’s, Kevin Booth and

his friend, Christopher Mammon, the college girl had rejected Gary heavily not

knowing he was slightly retarded. This upset Gary and lead him to jaunt out of

the Stallion and back to his soon-to-be brother-in-law’s house and then to his.

That is when the police arrived and asked him to come to the station and help

them solve a crime.

At this time Dennis Downes and Bob Patrick, the officers who brought him

there, began to question him about his whereabouts the night before and about

his information on the murder that occured that night in Wishing Well park. The

questions led to Dennis Downes putting words into Gary’s mouth about the murder

and Bob Patrick intimidating Gary into believing he had supernatural powers and

could remember everything about the crime, or in essence that he really did

commit the crime.

This would be the basis of Peter’s defense case of Gary Harmon. He

would use the entire script of this interogation of Gary Harmon to try to

establish that Gary was coerced into giving the details of the crime that were

fed into his mind by the police, but Peter was still not sure that Gary did not

commit this crime. His beliefs were that there was no way Gary did this, and

his heart told him that if he didn’t win this trial, his life would be

indefinately over and if he did he would experience a new beginning.

The trial was not the only thing happening to Peter, as Steve and his

now wife began to have troubles. Steve took out his emotions on his wife and

hit her many times. Peter was the one who was always there for Donna and was

becoming attached to her and her brother whom he was defending. This would add

even more pressure and confusion to Peter’s life.

Things began to unwind and in the end a corrupt Becky O’Shay and Steve

Mancini aided in the coverup of the murderer, Kevin Booth, in order to coverup