“Very soon now. Any day.” Happy birthday, Jeffrey. Jesse Quiller called. “I bungled it,” David said. “Like hell you did.
You got the wrong judge. What did you ever do to get her so down on you?”
David said, “She wanted me to plea-bargain. She didn’t want this to go to trial. Maybe I should have listened to her.”
All the television channels were full of the news of his disgrace. He watched one of the network’s legal experts discussing the case.
I’ve never heard of a defending attorney screaming at his own client before. I must tell you, the courtroom was stunned.
It was one of the most outrageous— David switched off the station. Where did it all go wrong? Life is supposed to have a happy ending.
Because I’ve bungled everything, Ashley’s going to die. I’m going to be disbarred,
the baby’s going to be born any minute and I don’t even have a job.
He sat in his hotel room in the middle of the night, staring into the darkness. It was the lowest moment of his life.
Playing over and over again in his mind was the final courtroom scene. “You can’t hypnotize her in my courtroom. The answer is no.”
If only she had let me hypnotize Ashley on the stand, I know she would have convinced the jury.
Too late. It’s all over now. And a small, nagging voice in his mind said, “Who says it’s over?”
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