Victor said when he finally got back to Laura that night. “We really thought he was going to take a plea, but he backed out at the last minute.” “Lehman? What did he say?” “Nothing. He demanded to talk to his lawyer in private and that was it, man. Never came back. Is Cruller pissed!” Roger Cruller was the county attorney. “I knew—knew—he was going to confess. Why else did Glass call this whole fucking dog and pony show? And then, nada.” Laura wondered about Lehman’s attorney, Barry Glass, who had a reputation for winning big cases. Why had he called the meeting if he didn’t want to work out a deal? Only if Lehman himself got cold feet. “And the bad thing? We don’t have enough to arrest him at this point. The forensics on the computer could take months. You should hear the lame shit his attorney tried to feed me—like the screenplay? He said it was in the refrigerator because, get this, he wanted to protect it in case there was a fire.” She let him rant for awhile before changing the subject. “Did you run my guy’s name through NCIC?”
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