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“Days later I was charged and held without bond

“Think of that,” said the science teacher “The police had me in custody, an innocent man, a victim of circumstances, and because they had no evidence at the tiroup, they never looked any further than h apparently, GAR has taken credit

“So the prosecution has me and no one else That’s why they are desperate to pin the tail on the donkey Me Because it’s better than having no donkey at all

“Here’s the simple, honest truth,” Connor Grant said to the rapt jurors “Soive you my word I swear on the Bible, I didn’t do it”

Grant returned to the defense table Yuki lowered her eyes and made notes on her tablet so that no one, not the defendant and not, God forbid, the jury, could see how a remarks He’d been unbelievably articulate He hadn’t whiffed a line And he’d coht anation, so much so that Yuki could see on the jurors’ faces that they were identifying with him

And she was questioning her own certainty that he had bombed Sci-Tron

She canceled the thought as she heard Parisi say to the judge, “The People call Sergeant Lindsay Boxer”

CHAPTER 33

THE INFLUX OF erous traffic conditions on Bryant Street Satellite trucks fron news outlets were double-parked, blocking the grid and narrowing the lanes in front of the Hall

Camera crews had set up on the sidewalk Reporters sat in tall director’s chairs under silk shades and spoke to their viewers Others put microphones up to the faces of anyone ould stop, and they did impromptu interviews on the Hall of Justice steps

I dodged thethe breezeway, and through the back door

I’d taken tiray Ralph Lauren blazer and blue trousers, a man-tailored white shirt, and sturdy, polished Cole Haan flats My blond hair was pulled back in a pony, as usual, and I’d wornball chain around my neck And I arrived ahead of time in the hallway outside courtroom 2A, where I waited to be called

The testiainst Connor Grant was pretty much the heart of the prosecution’s case I wasn’t nervous exactly, but I was keyed up A lot of people were depending on me

The door to the courtrooeant Boxer? You’re up”

He held the door open, and I strode into the courtroo to look at“Here Comes the Bride”