In recanting, Calciano asserted that she was pressured by prosecutors to incriminate Giuca. The letter stressed that she was not recanting her accusation. The judge grants a mistrial given Neary's death and the recanting of other witness statements. Mike eventually accepts $50,000 for recanting his testimony. Thomas Haywood, who had been condemned with him, was afterward pardoned on recanting his opinions. There Ileana signed a letter recanting her denial, witnessed by Watson. Ford also wrote a public letter to ADL president Sigmund Livingston recanting his anti-Semitic views. Hamilton would also have been accused of recanting Cooper's letter out of cowardice. Recanting that assertion is one of the Catholic Church's demands. Webb ended up recanting her story so Dotson was set free. Official policy under Trajan was to provide Christians with the choice between recanting and execution. Nestorius himself retired to a monastery, later recanting his Nestorian position.