One person characterised the impact of Blessed Oscar Romero’s murder in El Salvador on 24 March 1980 as “of a magnitude that is hardly describable”. I was only four years old, and the significance of the event did not register in my world at the time. Twenty-four years later, though, as a green lawyer at the California-based Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA), I found myself part of a team taking one of his killers to court.