A trucking company entrusted a new hire with loading an excavator and hauling it down the highway. The load was never measured. The excavator rammed into an overpass, dislodging a large piece of concrete, which crushed and killed a single mom who was driving behind the tractor trailer. A ten-year-old boy was in the car and watched his mom die. What followed was an ever-moving target, refusal to accept responsibility, a highly sympathetic and remorseful driver, and a boy who deserved justice but seemed to be doing well. We will talk through the shift in focus as we navigated the laws, how we had to frame the case around a sympathetic villain, how we used big data to shape our trial story, and what led to this historic verdict.