Episode 5: The Golden Thread

As lawyer Luke McMahon prepares a new fight for Robert Farquharson’s release, we discover something new: that Farquharson and his ex-wife believed that police investigators were trying to pin the crime on him just days after the crash.
So would it be a problem if the system had a strong impression, right from the start, that Farquharson was guilty?
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