By Susan Bassi, Fred Johnson and Faith StraderA COURTROOM TOO SMALLThe courtroom couldn’t hold everyone who came. For a family that believed a jury’s decision was permanent, this looked less like justice than a door that never locks. No one is required to tell them their verdict has since been renegotiated twice by lawyers who no longer disagree. For a family told for decades that a jury’s word was final, learning that a new legal standard can reopen everything is its own injury. A jury’s decision, even one upheld by the state’s highest court, doesn’t mean what it used to.