THIRTEEN
PRESENT DAY
While K.C. had been talking to the section’s partners, Detective Jerry Knowles had been doing some investigating of his own. A young assistant with the Dallas County District Attorney’s office finally arrived with a court order authorizing a search of common areas at Christopher Clark & Oliver and a specific search of the offices of Frank Oliver and Ken Hargrove. It was still an open question whether other offices could be searched. The firm already had lawyers researching the application of privilege in the world of criminal search and seizure law.
From the time the bloody knife was first spotted on Frank Oliver’s desk to the time the warrant arrived, Jerry had camped out in the doorway of Oliver’s office, making sure no one entered the room as well as observing th
