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Andrew Dillard is a local bigot and previously the suspect in a series of murders actually committed by Simon Brooks.

History[]

Dillard was a bakery delivery truck driver, which by coincidence had a route near all the sites where five black boys were murdered in 1991. Jack McCoy and his colleague Diana Hawthorne were both assigned to prosecute Dillard for the murders. Dillard was actually innocent, and a Detective Monfredo corroborated with a statement from a woman named Laverne Chalmers, who specifically saw a black man at the scene of the murder of the third boy, Jaleel Franklin. The trial's writing expert also found the results inconclusive between Dillard and Brooks' notes at the scenes of the boys' murders. But Hawthorne was all too eager to prosecute, as well as wanted to maintain her private relationship with McCoy. Turning her procedure in a based direction, she gave more notice to fingerprints than the writing or Chalmers' witness account, and Dillard was convicted and served five years.

In 1996, two more boys were killed, and a copycat was assumed. Brooks was found and arrested, giving a fill confession in interrogation to all the murders. It was revealed he took a break because his mother placed him on psychiatrics and send him to regular hospital appointments, but he killed more boys when his mother died and he stopped the drugs and appointments. With the evidence at hand, Dillard's sentence was overturned, and he was released, but he was furious over the miscarriage of justice and filed a lawsuit against all parties involved in the prosecution.

Hawthorne was revealed to be the corrupt influence behind the trial, so she was arrested after she confessed, taken to her own trial, and convicted and sentenced to prison time. (L&O: "Trophy")

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