Brian Hinck followed from a distance the suburban New Orleans trial resulting in the convictions on Thursday of people charged in the drugging death of his son-in-law, Telemundo sports reporter Adan Manzano.
That was because he and his family had simultaneously been girding themselves for another trial scheduled to start four days later: that of the motorist charged in the car crash that killed his daughter, Ashleigh Boyd, in Topeka, Kansas.