Forty Two Years Later, The Same Questions

Tim Botos: "Did you commit this robbery?" the attorney asked her client.

Emil Jaroszyk (pronounced Ja-ross-ik) had answered that question many times over the years. First, as a young man when he was arrested for the crime. Then later, on a polygraph test. He told friends and relatives his truth before he went to prison and after he got out. Here he was again this month, as a much older man, answering that same question inside the same Carroll County Courthouse where he stood trial for the crime 42 years ago.

Dressed in a brown sport coat, his patterned burgundy and gray tie furled up as he leaned forward in the witness stand. The 66-year-old, with brownish-red hair and a grayish goatee, often…