TWENTY-NINE
By the time Frank posted bail and went home to his empty house, Kelly and Mac had gotten copies of the lab reports on the blood and fingerprints. Kelly summarized Frank’s version of the Sunday events to Mac, but they both now knew that the blood wasn’t the result of any nosebleed. They weren’t sure they believed that part of his story, anyway, but even if true, it couldn’t explain away Frank’s palmprints and fingerprints in Ken Hargrove’s blood. That was going to take some creativity. Unfortunately for Frank, both Kelly and Mac found their creativity inhibited by the truth. Ethics and integrity – concept foreign to many lawyers – were their watchwords. Neither was willing to concoct a story that stretched or distorted the truth just to win a case. Their hope was that the old a
