David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

—“because I would have had many
more people on my side. I probably
would have been a huge advocate by
now. I could have had a huge
organization behind me.”
Wilma Derksen could have been Mike
Reynolds. She could have started her
own version of Three Strikes. She chose
not to. “It would have been easier in the
beginning,” she continued. “But then it
would have gotten harder. I think I
would have lost Cliff, I think I would
have lost my children. In some ways I
would be doing to others what he did to
Candace.”
A man employs the full power of the
state in his grief and ends up plunging