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“As I said, on the evening of August 3, I alking along the sidewalk in the direction of Sci-Tron Thursday night was adults only, and I wanted to stand in the observatory gallery at sunset That’s all that was in my mind

“Then the shocking explosion see and I saw aover the bay The concussion of the blast seemed to make time stand still It was like my shoes were bonded to that pave so close to a bo under your feet”

The glow on Grant’s face was riveting He had brought the destruction of Sci-Tron right into the courtroom He was there And even Yuki couldn’t look away

Hoffo on”

“Sorry, Your Honor”

Grant focused intently on the jurors, saying to the People were running fro, and still I could notto understand what looked like spontaneous combustion

“Mr Parisi has told you that I confessed to blowing up Sci-Tron to a police officer I did no such thing Did I co or so? I do not know

“I was in a state of shock I was also a witness I hope you understand that within those firstabout people or panic or death As a scientist with a laboratory mentality, I wasit, too Trying to figure out exactly what had occurred in front of my eyes”

Yuki scanned the jurors’ faces They, too, lookedNo doubt learning fro a plan

Grant shuffled through his note cards, exahts A ain addressed the jury

“Ladies and gentlemen, the prosecution will tell you that the police discovered a science lab in e nor the lab was hidden My garage is in plain sight I do experiood sense The police will tell you that they have found a book on explosives that I have been working on for years That’s true, but it’s very boring, and I don’t think it will ever be published, because it’s not neorthy It’s a notebook That’s how I think of it

“So I have a lab that takes up half of a two-car garage and a collection of notes, but more to the point, there is no way the People can connect me to this explosion

“I did not go into the ht of the explosion, and no one claims otherwise Whatever took down Sci-Tron was a perfectly distributed blast A highly professional job If I had been asked to detonate that building, I couldn’t have done it The skill involved is just way beyond my abilities, and that is a fact

“Here’s the prosecution’s total case: Ito a police officer when I wasn’t thinking clearly And to that Iclearly, either I’d ask you to give everyone involved the benefit of the doubt; ere deafened by the blast, shaken up by it, and frightened almost to death

“We’ll never knohy thisbetween me and the police officer took place, because no record was made of any so-called admission If I had been taken to the hospital, doctors would have said thathad been affected or that I was in shock But I was thrown into a squad car and brought into a police station, where I was locked up overnight in a cell full of dangerous strangers The next ated without benefit of counsel