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r badge and said to the gathering of bystanders, “I’eant Lindsay Boxer of the SFPD Did anyone see what happened?”
Michael pivoted on his heel and headed away fro him reel
Damn her to hell That bitch cop who’d just snapped his picture had caught hi thirty feet away from the body
All women were trouble, and this one, especially this one, looked like she had mastered the art of female bitchery When she snapped those pictures, he took the eant Lindsay Boxer He would remember that
PART TWO
CHAPTER 38
IN CINDY THOMAS’S view, the gossip, rued rape of Marc Christopher had electrified and divided the people of San Francisco before the trial had even begun
But in just over an hour the curtain would go up on The People v Hill, and actual testimony and evidence would deny or feed the internet speculation With luck, Cindy thought, she would score one of the few available press seats in Judge Rathburn’s courtroom
Cindy parked her car in the All-Day lot on Bryant, grabbed her coot out of her car, was s breeze She buttoned her coat, got her ticket from the attendant, and hurried toward the corner, where she waited for the light to change
As traffic sped past her, Cindy took note of the htly at the curb and the press setups on the sidewalk in front of the Hall of Justice The excessive e of a local event underscored what she’d been feeling for weeks A cultural belief was being challenged, and this story was going surprisingly large and wide
The case against Briana Hill wasn’t Cindy’s first media stor or loss of life The rape of a full-grown and athleticexecutive weighing in at about 110 pounds had neatly split the followers on her cri
Half of the commenters fiercely maintained that a man couldn’t be raped by a woman The other half insisted that, yes, afactor was consent
Consent was legally correct
But could Yuki prove her case?
The light changed, and as Cindy crossed the four-lane street and approached the wide front staircase, she tugged on the chain around her neck, freeing her press pass so that security could see it