“I guess.”
“The good thing is there were no witnesses.”
I thought of my encounter in the cafeteria the other day. “Right.”
“But the guy went to the hospital with a broken jaw. So, how do we explain that?” I shrugged. “And according to the police report, a Detective Spezza, noticed you had swollen knuckles on your right hand. What's your explanation for that?”
“Caught in a car door?”
Gloria smiled. “Pretty lame, Bernie. They could probably dredge up some expert who would testify the bruising would be different or you'd have a different type of injury and so on. Spezza will be called and he might qualify as an expert or at least, an informed witness who has seen a lot of bruised and swollen knuckles from fights over the 22 years he's spent on the force. We can discredit him. After all,
