With the door to his room open for any extra breeze, Ronnie Mendez has a smoke in bed while watching the soap opera Michael Whiteman, recently paroled after serving eleven years in prison for a murder he claims was self-defense, in his room at Salt Lake City's Regis Hotel. Whiteman is attending paralegal classes at Salt Lake Community College and putting his life back together.About the medal given to him for being sober twelve years, Michael Whiteman says,