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Chapter 7 - DANIELDaniel Reyes was forty-six, irritatingly calm, and allergic to dramatic legal theories.
At our first meeting I told him:
“Jason tried to kill me.”
Daniel asked:
“Can you prove intent to kill?”
I hated him.
“No.”
“Then don’t start there.”
“He poured boiling water on me.”
“Can you prove he deliberately poured it?”
“I don’t know.”
“Good.”
“Good?”
“Good that you said you don’t know.”
He slid a legal pad toward me.
“Tell me what you know.”
That became our method.
Not:
What happened?
May you like
What can we prove?
Different.
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Chapter 12 - MADISON TESTIFIES ONCEMadison was deposed.
Chapter 13 - THE THREATThe first direct threat came from voicemail.
