By all accounts, Darrin Goldin was no angel. The defense must have been pretty desperate to find some mitigating evidence, to try to track down his natural parents to see if these might be something biologically wrong with him.
If Wintory had been straight up and honest about the contacts with the intermediary, nothing would have happened and he might well have gotten the death penalty against Goldin. Instead, Goldin received an 11-year sentence - for hiring a contract murderer to eliminate a rival.
