The Whole Truth Page #4

Without a pronoun, my

client might have meant,

"someone should've done

this a long time ago,"

suggesting that

someone else did.

Continue.

Well, which was it?

Hang on a second.

Yes, I'm sure.

He said, "I should've done it

a long time ago.

I should've done this

a long time ago.

How long did it take

the other officers to arrive?

Only a few minutes.

I told the lawyer, mister, um...

Mr. Ramsey.

Yes, sir, I told him,

I need the boy to step

away from the body.

Mike.

He needs to step back.

Honey?

We need to leave the room now

so the police can do

their work, okay?

Ma'am, I'm gonna need you

both to stay nearby.

Thank you.

No further questions,

your honor.

Mr. Ramsey?

You're excused.

We're in recess until

9:
00 A.M. in the morning.

You see, Mike? You see how

it sounds in open court?

"I should've done this

a long time ago."

To a cop? Really?

Unless you start talking

to me, we're going down.

All rise.

Why won't he talk to you?

That's the problem with

people who refuse to speak.

They never say why.

You're cocky for a kid

going to prison for life.

- Did he say anything to you?

- Loretta Lassiter,

Janelle Brady.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Is he talking?

- Loretta...

- Ramsey, I'm terrified!

You can't let him go to prison.

Relax, Loretta.

It's the first day.

He's a boy.

The papers make him

look like some monster.

I know.

I know that.

The way it sounds in there...

It always sounds bad

in the beginning.

I want to see him.

Can I see him?

Yeah, if you can get down there

before they put him in the Van.

What a horrible position

for her to be in.

Yeah, mother of the

accused is never easy.

Loretta's, actually,

compared to some...

She's pretty calm.

- Where's your car?

- Oh, around the corner.

They sent you to c lot?

Room 254 at the Marina hotel.

Our war room.

You don't have an office?

Yeah.

People there who expect me

to return phone calls

and answer emails

and god knows what.

Everything we need

is in room 254.

Witness statements, police

reports, coroner's report.

Are you coming?

Got it all up here, I hope.

Tomorrow, 9:
00, okay?

I doubted miss

Ivy league corporate law

would come back when she saw

what she was getting into.

But just sitting

there beside Mike,

she would help him look

less like a spoiled rich kid

or a sociopath,

maybe even get him to talk.

Funny thing

was, I second-seated

my first murder trial

with Boone.

It was a case where a teenage

mother suffocated her own infant,

put him in a garbage bag,

and threw him in the bayou.

The pictures alone

convicted her.

But Boone kept saying,

"if you can stand her,

so can the jury."

He had me talk to her,

put my hand on hers.

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