Filling in the missing pieces

A quick step away from campaign news for a moment to point out that David Milgaard has apparently agreed to testify at the inquiry into his wrongful conviction:

Hersh Wolch (Milgaard's lawyer) told The Canadian Press that he will ask Justice Edward MacCallum to make special accommodations to minimize any stress on Mr. Milgaard as he tells his story.

"We're just going to ask that David's story be before the commission, but not through him having to stand up in front of the cameras," Mr. Wolch said in an interview from his Calgary office late Friday afternoon...

Mr. Wolch said Mr. Milgaard is open to a number of options, including testifying in another room away from the glare of television cameras or answering questions put to him in writing.

We'll see if an agreement can be reached, and it may not be a good sign that the request has gone through the media first rather than directly to Justice MacCallum. But at the very least, it looks like there's now some reasonable prospect of finding a balance between the need to avoid further harm to Milgaard and the need to get at all the facts behind his conviction.