“How are you getting along?” he asked. “Anything I can do to help?” “I’m fine.” Quiller looked around the office.
“Do you have everything you need?” David smiled. “Everything, including my best friend.”
On a Monday morning, David received a package from the prosecutor’s office listing the state’s discovery. As David read it, his spirits sank.
Sandra was watching him, concerned. “What is it?” “Look at this. He’s bringing in a lot of heavyweight medical experts to testify against MPD.”
“How are you going to handle that?” Sandra asked. “We’re going to admit that Ashley was at the scenes when the murders took place,
but that the murders were actually committed by an alter ego.” Can I persuade a jury to believe that?
Five days before the trial was to begin, David received a telephone call saying that Judge Williams wanted to meet with him.
David walked into Jesse Quiller’s office. “Jesse, what can you tell me about Judge Williams?”
Jesse leaned back in his chair and laced his fingers behind his head. “Tessa Williams... Were you ever a Boy Scout, David?”
“Yes...” “Do you remember the Boy Scout motto—‘be prepared’?” “Sure. When you walk into Tessa Williams’s courtroom, be prepared.
She’s brilliant. She came up the hard way. Her folks were Mississippi sharecroppers.
She went through college on a scholarship, and the people in her hometown were so proud of her, they raised the money to put her through law school.
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