first brought Stoeckley to see prosecutor James Blackburn, he heard =er give a detailed confession to the prosecutor. Blackburn, he said, =hen told Stoeckley that, if she repeated her account under oath in =acDonald's trial, he would have to charge her with murder. =Blackburn, who was disbarred in 1993 fo

d =ome on the night of the murder, high on drugs, wearing a blond wig, =hite boots and a floppy hat and accompanied by three male Vietnam =eterans. Stoeckley recalled details dovetailing with MacDonald's description, =ncluding that she had held a candle, as MacDonald claimed. He had said =hat she tried to

d others that she and three friends had been in the MacDonald house on the night of the murders and that her friends had committed the crimes. Though Stoeckley's word alone may not have been worth very much—she was known to be a drug addict—she provided some details, which tended to corroborate her story and

boyfriend, who may have been the actual killers, and Jim Britt, the Deputy Marshall who would have testified that the prosecutor improperly pressured Stoeckley to “forget” what she had seen—that is, to lie about her memory. ™ Tn 2009, I challenged Justice Scalia, who has written that he would have to leave