His trial, in which he was accused of killing a white beauty salon owner, had lasted all of one week: two days for jury selection, one day to hear the case, one day for the jury to decide his guilt, and the last day to sentence him to death.
In the typical case, one day in your early 50's, you suddenly can't sleep through the night.
Unfortunately, that's not the case: one day, perhaps not very long from now, the situation will spin out of our control.
He continued, "I try to get down every idea I have, no matter how dumb, in case one day it's useful for something".
Of the still missing, Martínez wrote, "it's not hard to imagine their bones under the ground and that, in the best case, one day they will be found".
"With these very damaged documents it is always the idea that you keep them just in case, one day, you might be able to do something with them," explains Philippa Smith, a principal archivist at the LMA.
Koofi's memoir, The Favoured Daughter, is punctuated with letters to her two daughters urging them to be courageous in case, one day, she does not make it home.
When Mike Sabath flew from New York to Los Angeles earlier this year, he checked a bag containing a few changes of clothes, some microphone filters, and his A.P. calculus textbook, "just in case one day I'm feeling math-y".
A year ago, he'd gone into a Kall-Kwik and had had it photographed twice, nervous in case one day the original might somehow not be there: he did not trust, and never had, any time that was yet to come or what might happen in it.
I wanted to educate myself in case, one day, my brother ends up experiencing something similar.
