"A maroon football jersey with gold trim hangs in Richard Sharpstein's law office on Brickell Avenue, one block from Miami's waterfront. A black marker's scrawl winds across the jersey's No. 21: "Thank you for everything." The wavy lines of an autograph sit below.

Sean Taylor.

While the sporting world counts down the hours until the start of Sunday's Super Bowl, family and friends of the onetime Washington Redskins superstar face a much longer wait for justice to be done."