EDITOR’S NOTE: Testimony in the trial of Steven Hayes, one of two men accused in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion murders, wrapped up last week. Because the basic facts about the testimony have been widely reported, we have given Senior Writer Thomas Scheffey, a licensed attorney, freedom to write about the case more as a commentator than as an objective reporter.

On one of the final days of his murder trial, Steven Hayes was ready to fold, literally. Everyone else in the courtroom dutifully stood at the judge’s knock on his door, and the marshal’s cry, “All rise!” But Hayes, stumbling to his chair, began hunkering down to his seat. Deftly, his lawyers pulled him to his feet.

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