https://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/53677658 As Jonathan Irons emerged from prison, Maya Moore fell to her knees. 当 Jonathan Irons 步出监狱，Maya Moore 跪了下来。 It took a moment for her strength to return. Then she got up and embraced him, a free man for the first time in over 23 years. 她花了些许时间找回起身的力量，并拥抱这位等待了23年，重获自由的男子。 Irons' first steps outside that building were also the last on a path the two had been walking together for more than a decade. Irons 踏出这栋监狱的第一步，也是他们两位在过去超过十年间，共同奋斗 的最後一小步。 Once she had regained composure, Moore turned to the phone filming the momentous occasion and said: "OK guys. It's done. It's over.” Moore 恢复冷静後，拿起手机录下这个重要时刻，并说「好的，各位朋友， 结束了，我们达成了。」 This is the story of their extraordinary journey. 以下是他们不凡的旅程。 --- The 2020 WNBA season started on 25 July. The Minnesota Lynx are aiming for a fifth title but for the second season in a row they are doing it without one of their star players. 2020年 WNBA 球季於7月25日展开，明尼苏达山猫队瞄准队史第五座冠军，但 他们将连续第二年缺少阵中明星的助阵。 Back in 2011, Moore was a first-round draft pick for the Lynx. Since then, she has helped them win four championships and was named MVP in the 2014 season. 2011年开启职业生涯，Moore 於首轮状元被山猫队相中。她已经帮助球队拿 下四座联盟冠军，并於2014年获得最有价值球员殊荣。 The 31-year-old also has two Olympic and two World Championship gold medals. Some would argue she is the best the WNBA has seen. 现年31岁的她，也已赢得两届奥运以及两届世锦赛金牌，有些声音称她为 WNBA 史上最佳。 But in early 2019 she shocked the sport by giving it all up because of a man she had met 12 years before. A man who had become like a brother to her. 但在2019年初，因为一位12年交情的朋友，一位跟她有如兄妹般亲情的朋友 ，让她选择抛开一切震惊体育界。 Although he was just 16 when the crime took place, Irons was tried as an adult. 这位 Moore 的朋友 Irons 在犯罪发生时虽然仅仅16岁，但他是以成人身份 受审。 On 14 January 1997, someone entered the home of Stanley Stotler, situated in a white working-class suburb of St Louis, Missouri. When Stotler returned, the burglar shot him in the head. 1997年1月14日，位於密苏里州圣路易，白人蓝领阶级聚集的郊区，Stanley Stotler 的住家遭人闯入。当 Stotler 返家後，遭到此位强盗朝头部开枪。 Stotler survived and was initially unable to identify the perpetrator in a line-up of six photos. According to the New York Times, a police officer asked him to make his best guess and he pointed at a picture of Irons and another one of a different African-American man. Stotler 幸存下来，但起初无法从六张照片中指认出犯罪者。根据纽约时报 纪录，一名警官要求他做出臆测，他便指出 Irons 和另一名非裔美国男子。 Later, at a preliminary hearing, Stotler identified Irons as the assailant. But there were no fingerprints connecting the teenager to the crime. No DNA or blood evidence. No corroborating witnesses. 之後的初步听证会场上，Stotler 紧咬 Irons 为凶手，不过并无任何指纹， 任何 DNA 或是血液证据，或是目击者指出这位青少年与案件的任何关联。 A public defender would not allow Irons to take the stand to proclaim his innocence, saying he was too young and uneducated. 当时公设辩护人并没有让 Irons 起身替自己辩白，理由是他还太稚嫩，还缺 乏教育。 Prosecutors said Irons had admitted the offence, something he and his lawyers denied. The officer who questioned Irons was alone and did not record the interview. 检察官表示 Irons 已承认犯行，Irons 和他的律师始终否认到底。此外，警 方对 Irons 采取单独讯问，且过程并无进行记录。 At the time of the trial, in October 1998, American politicians were running on tough-on-crime platforms. There were particularly harsh sentences for young offenders handed out. 案件审判发生在1998年10月，当时严厉打击犯罪为美国政界所主张，针对少 年罪犯的判决尤其严苛。 A prosecutor is quoted as saying about Irons:external-link "Don't be soft on him because he is young. He is as dangerous as somebody five times that age. 一段检察官对 Irons 陈述：「不要因为他还年轻而对他心软，他和年长五倍 的罪犯同样危险。」 "We need to send a message to some of these younger people that if you are going to act like somebody old, you are going to be treated like somebody old.” 「我们需要对年轻族群传达一个讯息，如果你想作出成人的行为，就必须被 当作成人对待。」 In December 1998, aged 18, Irons was convicted of assault and burglary by an all-white jury and sent to prison for 50 years. 1998年12月，一个由白人组成的陪审团做出决定，18岁的 Irons 被以攻击和 强盗定罪，求处50年刑期。 In 2007, nine years into that sentence, an 18-year-old Moore travelled to Missouri to visit family and met Irons through the prison ministry they were involved with. 时间快转到2007年，18岁的 Moore 前往密苏里探望家人，并透过与家人熟识 的监狱部门，与已经服刑九年的 Irons 见面。 Over the years that followed, she continued to return to Jefferson City - her hometown - to visit Irons. She sent him books by her favourite writers and spoke to him on the phone before big games. 此後每一年，她保持返回家乡 Jefferson City 的习惯，去探望 Irons，还 送上她最爱作家撰写的书籍。每当重大比赛前夕，都会与 Irons 透过电话聊 上几句。 Eventually, she decided to press pause on her basketball career. 最终，她决定将篮球生涯按下暂停键。 Why? Because she always believed Irons was telling the truth. 为何？因为她坚信 Irons 说的是实话。 "There's something about truth that makes you believe it's going to happen," Moore says. 「真相让你相信平反终将会发生。」Moore 说道。 "He just had to keep believing that if we could get the truth in front of the right people, who want to do the right thing, they'll do it.” 「他必须继续保持信念，相信如果我们能够把真相传达给愿意做正确事情的 人，他们会帮我们达成。」 So in early 2019, when she was supposed to be preparing for the new WNBA season, Moore got to work with Irons and his lawyers to request a retrial. She dedicated herself to the cause. 2019 年初，Moore 本该开始为新球季备战时刻，她与 Irons 以及他的律师 团合作，着手声请重审。她全心奉献在替好友平反工作上。 Some 21 years after Irons' conviction, state prosecutors were still not willing to admit defeat. They tried to prevent a review but were unsuccessful and, in October 2019, Irons was finally able to state his innocence in front of a judge. 距离 Irons 的判决过了21年，州检察官仍不愿承认审判失败，他们试着回避 重新检视此案，但并没有成功。2019年10月，Irons 终於能够在法官面前， 陈述他当年该说的话。 On 9 March 2020, Irons' conviction was overturned. Judge Daniel Green described the original case as "very weak and circumstantial at best”. 2020年3月9日，Irons 的原裁决被推翻，法官 Daniel Green 用「非常薄弱 、充其量间接证据」来描述原判例。 In his decision, the judge cited a fingerprint found inside a door in Stotler's home that matched neither Stotler nor Irons. 法官说明理由，他举出从 Stotler 家中房门内侧采集到与 Stotler 和 Irons 皆不吻合的指纹。 It was evidence that could have proved someone else committed the crime, but it was never turned over to the defence team in the trial in 1998. 那是原本可以让真正凶嫌定罪的证据，但在1998年审判当时，从未移交给辩 护团队。 Irons' story is not unique and it is rooted in systems and issues unimaginably complicated to unpick. Irons 的故事并非单一个案，它深植在整个系统内，揭露问题是难以想像地 复杂。 The 2016 Netflix documentary 13th shone a light on statistics demonstrating how prisons in the United States are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. 2016 年 Netflix 的一部纪录片「13th」秀出统计数据，显示美国监狱不成 比例地充斥着非裔美国黑人。 Perhaps the most eye-opening one was this: while a white male in the country has a one in 17 chance of ending up behind bars, for black males it is one in three. 也许更让人惊讶的事实：每17位白人男性有一位会被定罪，但黑人男性却是 每三位就有一位。 But sometimes for change to happen, statistics are not enough. It takes a real, human story. 但有时渴求改变发生，不只需要冰冷统计数据，也需要一则真实有温度的故 事。 --- For now, Moore will be sticking to prosecutorial reform. Her campaign, Win With Justice, seeks to challenge a "win" culture that is considered to be "eroding the trust our community must have in those charged with promoting public safety”. 到目前，Moore 将持续专注於检察官改革这方面。她的倡议 - Win With Justice，挑战着「胜诉」文化，这样的文化被视为是「侵蚀社会群体对负责 促进公共安全执行者的信任。」 She says: "I see such a connection between sports and the leadership that prosecutors have of winning and losing. What is a win and what is a loss? 她进一步表示「我看到竞技运动和检察官领导对於输赢有类似思考，什麽才 是胜利？什麽又是失败？」 "I will continue to try to help and share and empower others to do the same.” 「我将持续尝试帮助和分享，让其他人加入行列。」 It is not yet clear what form Moore's continued work will take, nor whether she will return to basketball. 至於 Moore 接下来的工作要用何种形式进行，或是她是否将重返篮坛，那就 拭目以待了。 ------- 最近看到联盟搞了一个没有明确目标，方式有不太适当的罢赛(休息)後， 突然又想起持续为理想在奋斗的 Maya Moore，刚好近期BBC有一篇整理 报导，但内容很长，只撷取部分，应该跟本版有一点点关系，都在明州 的同一座球场打球，而且是同一位老板XD。 黑人在美国的问题不可否认是个盘根错节，历史延续下来的问题，但要 改变不能只停留在争辩口号如何喊，实际行动更为重要，Maya Moore是 很好的示范，也令人尊敬。 --

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