Armstrong felt the cuffs tighten around his wrists; all he wanted to do was leap across the room and rip out the chief's throat.
"Then you had Darius Smith. You had done it before. You knew the lawyer would jump at the case. Hell, she had been told she was being looked at for Chief Justice. Another slam dunk. She makes the press once more."
The sudden silence was followed by a muted sound.
"They had a witness each time who could place them at the scene. The trouble was that she recognised Andy Carlson as the witness from the Tyrell Williams case. The tabloids had been blowing up the hype quite nicely, and it was only one reporter who had the facts."
The chief took a silk handkerchief from his breast pocket and wiped his nervous brow as beads of sweat trickled down.
"Julie worked it ou
