ELLIOT
“She wrote it voluntarily.”
He said it before Harmon finished explaining the application. They were in the corridor outside Judge Osei-Mensah’s courtroom at eight forty in the morning and Harmon had the focused energy of a man who had spent the weekend preparing for something he found professionally offensive.
“I know that,” Harmon said. “You know that. The problem is Faust’s team has produced a psychiatric assessment dated three years ago suggesting Margaret was exhibiting symptoms of coercive control consistent with a long-term manipulative relationship.” He held up the document. “They are arguing Faust held the original confession over her as leverage for sixteen years and that the act of giving Acheampong a copy was itself a product of that coercive dynamic. That she was not
