"I thought it was excellent. I thought it was really well written. I was riveted reading it….

"I don’t think it’s just an important book for this community. I think every single person who works for the criminal justice system – every single person – should be reading this book. And I think people who don’t work in the criminal justice system that need an understanding of what it’s like for a person without resources – what a disadvantage they face, when they take on the system – needs to read this book and understand it, too. I think it’s an excellent expose of how people with the best intentions can be very, very wrong and how there are ways to stop that….

"It’s an incredible embarrassment, I believe, that the city of Madison police department has never apologized to Patty. To me, that is probably the biggest wrong that needs to be remedied in this entire case."