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Yuki asked, “Does the fact that they’d slept together before the rape hurt his case?”

Parisi said, “Not legally, but it couldabout Unless you can turn upon the video He said no and she kept the gun on him He says it was loaded She says it was not He said, she said

“But she asks good questions,” Parisi said “Why didn’t he call the cops when he woke up? Why did he wait teeks to do that? That’s going to come up And I don’t like this story that he tried to black true to you?”

Yuki said, “This is the first

I’ve heard of extortion I’ll ask him”

“Unless he puts that in writing, it’s ainst hers”

Yuki nodded in agreeues in common I interviewed three people at the Ad Shop I’ll review their notes again”

Yuki went back to her office andwith Briana Hill Hill had sounded truthful, but Yuki had seen the video Marc Christopher said no, and Briana Hill didn’t stop And that hat mattered in the eyes of the law

CHAPTER 9

AT A QUARTER to eight on a hazy Fridaylot on Bryant Street across from the Hall of Justice, where I work in Homicide

I crossed the street between breaks in the traffic and jogged up the steps to thethat housed not only the Southern Station of the SFPD, but also the DA, the municipal courts, a jail, and thefor the handle of the heavy steel-and-glass front door to the Hall when I heard soeant Lindsay Boxer”

I turned to see aa dirty fleece hoodie and baggy jeans, hurrying up the steps toward nized My last case had been high profile Adozens of people, includingthe boe of the San Francisco papers and on the local TV news Months later h the public consciousness

Fro on the street I had change from a ten in my jacket pocket, and I pulled out some bills, but she waved them away

“I don’t need any eant I want to report a murder”

I looked at her The assertion sounded like the opening to an old episode of Murder, She Wrote, but I had to take it seriously The woman was distressed And I’m a cop