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“Yes, but ninety-nine ti to say they didn’t do it”

“You’ve interviewed a hundred homicide suspects?”

“Figure of speech,” Conklin said “I don’t kno many homicide suspects I’ve interviewed Quite a few”

“I see,” Davis said “Is it a figure of speech to say that you and Sergeant Boxer tricked and bullied my client until she confessed?”

“Objection!” Yuki called out from her seat

“Sustained”

“I’ll rephrase As we all know, Ms Moon’s ‘confession,’ ” Davis said,the universal syers of each hand, “wasn’t on tape, isn’t that right?”

“That’s right”

“So we don’t know the tenor of that interview, do we?”

“I guess you just have to trust me,” Conklin said

Davis smiled, wound up for the pitch “Inspector, did you take notes of Ms Moon’s statement?”

“Yes”

“I asked to see those notes during discovery,” Davis said, “but I was told you no longer had them”

Conklin’s cheeks colored “That’s right”

“I want tous, Inspector,” Davis said in the snotty tone she’d perfected over decades and was using now in an attempt to undermine and humiliate Conklin