CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Amador Ibarra is formally arrested for the murder of Dr. Victor McMillan. He is fingerprinted and DNA swabbed, processed and held in a cell overnight, with his arraignment set for the next morning.
“Please,” Anabel implores Marc. “You have to represent my father. He couldn’t have done this.”
“I can’t do it, Anabel. I’m sorry. I’m a court-appointed attorney and your father needs the best lawyer that money can buy, a high-powered criminal defense attorney.”
With the swiftness that only money can buy, Amador’s high-powered criminal defense attorney asks that he be released on his own recognizance. “My client has deep ties to the community, has a business to run and is not a flight risk. He has no criminal record. The evidence at this point is circumstantial, so I a
