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Parisi yelled, “Objection, Your Honor Irrelevant and out of line because it has nothing to do with anything”

Grant said, “Goes to the veracity of his testimony, Your Honor”

“Overruled, Mr Parisi Mr Molinari, please answer”

“Yes I love my wife”

Grant said, “So if your wife said to you, ‘Joe, this is what Connor Grant said to , you’d be inclined to support your wife, wouldn’t you?”

“Are you asking ?”

“Are you?”

“I am not”

“Let me ask you this,” Grant went on “Did you record my so-called admission?”

“No”

“Did you see ?”

“No”

“Isn’t it true thatof a stunned bystander—me? Is it possible that your wifeher to the hilt?”

Parisi roared his objection The judge sustained it Parisi moved to strike the defendant’s last question, and Hoffized and said that he had no more questions

Grant looked quite s when he returned to his seat, and Yuki understood why He’d made his point Then he’d drilled in on it And he’d concluded his questioning with the sie that Joe’s corroboration was a feature of his e, not his memory