—for Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu (who will not get to read this) 

STAND tall, Richard. You sat before the court, and left the trial as no longer a policeman-murderer. Your presence was a metamorphosis. You are an ambiguity.  

Before the judges, you were both a police officer and offender of the law; in the courtroom, you were a meeting point where justice and injustice, law and empathy, envy and compassion, met and clash