Fireflies in the Delta

Fireflies in the Delta is an examination of why innocent inmates in jail confess to crimes they did not commit. A deputy sheriff, motivated by an illicit love affair and hunger for power, gets an illiterate vagrant to confess to a murder commited by his lover's brothers. A newly elected, idealistic District Attorney refuses to use the false confession as the resolution of the case. This unwittingly draws him into a power struggle with the diabolical deputy and those in the criminal justice system aligned with him. The resolution of this struggle may be too true to life for many readers.

Raised in southern New Mexico, Dan Dane earned his BA from the University of New Mexico, and a JD from the University of Arkansas. He is a Vietnam war veteran-who tried war crimes as a JAG officer with the 1st Calvary Division. When he returned, Dan practiced law in Arkansas, Atlanta, and Texas. He has extensive legal experience as a criminal defense lawyer, bank lawyer, a District Attorney and judge.