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I put the receiver back in the cradle and said to Conklin, “Stevens blew me off”

“Typical,” said Conklin “Old-timer Get offa my cloud”

I had a bad feeling about it It wasn’t just that the old-tihe didn’t want me to know

CHAPTER 12

YUKI WAS HUNCHED over her co transcripts of her intervieith some of Marc Christopher’s associates from the Ad Shop

Parisi had warned her that their case prettywas powerful Yuki thought that if it was true the DA could get a grand jury indictment with a ham sandwich, then Marc Christopher’s rape video was a five-star seven-course e wine

No doubt she could get a grand jury indicto into evidence and had to be shown to the jury

Giftos would try to get the video excluded That way, if he put Hill on the stand, the jury would hear both versions of the sex act Only one juror had to agree that the rape was staged, and Briana Hill would be found not guilty

Yuki had to find more evidence to shore up her case if the video was thrown out, but how?

No one else had been in the bedroo bruise marks on Marc’s wrists and ankles, but apparently, Marc hadn’t told anyone that he had been raped until weeks after the fact

Now she wondered if anyone else had had a sexual encounter with Briana Hill that could be called rape

As she reread the interview transcripts, she was looking for soht have missed, a comment that she should have probed, a tell that she had let slide

She called up the transcript of senior art director Lyle Bevans He was forty-two, had worn red-rilasses and an untucked plaid shirt over his jeans, had long hair, and had s with the ADA and been willing to spend as much time as she would allow

She had interviewed hi with both Christopher and Hill

Yuki highlighted the relevant parts of the transcript, including the part where Bevans told her that Briana Hill was hot and de “She’s a sex bomb”