Just hours before he was scheduled for his final hearing, a man who had spent five years behind prison walls made one last request: to see his young daughter, whom he hadn’t held in three years.

One guard looked at him with sympathy. Another simply looked away.

The request eventually reached Warden Robert Mitchell, a 60-year-old veteran who had overseen countless difficult cases throughout his career.

Something about Daniel’s file had never sat right with him.

The evidence had appeared overwhelming—his fingerprints on the weapon, blood on his clothing, and a neighbor claiming to have seen him leaving the house that night.

Yet Daniel’s eyes never reflected the man described in the reports.

After a long silence, Mitchell nodded.