A Murderer talks!

I just read a half-page report published in the October 24th edition of the New York Post. Like the Ancient Mariner, Kenneth Payne who was set free from prison on October 23rd is evidently telling everyone who stops to listen to him, that it was thru the impact on the NY State Court of Appeals of signed petitions from his fellow residents on Shelter Island, that his murder conviction was reversed. Nowhere in the Post’s article does he express his gratitude to R.B. Kenney, the attorney who represented him. Indeed, nowhere in the article is Kenney’s name even mentioned. Indeed again, my son-in-law tells me that he has yet to hear Payne say, thank you!

Addendum: Meanwhile, back in Venice, gondolas by the dozen are tied to the dock of Roberto Chenni, Avvocato Straordinario. Their occupants, his clients, are impatiently awaiting his return from the Court of the Doge. How this gifted attorney saved Antonio from losing a pound of his flesh to Shylock was now widely known throughout Italy.