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CHAPTER 89

YUKI SAW THE stunned looks on the faces of the jurors and was glad for it. She’d only just gotten started.

But before she could continue, Dario jumped to his feet and, releasing a full breath, screamed at Yuki.

“Everything you just said was a lie! You don’t know any of that! You can’t prove any of it, and you won’t get away with this, this, slander! Go ahead and try and I will sue you. And I will reveal your masked witness’s name. Right, El Gato?”

The judge’s expression was the picture of pure, undiluted fury. Using the butt of her handgun, she rapped the bench with several sets of ringing blows and called for silence. “Mr. Garza. Sit down and shut up. Mr. Credendino. Take charge of your client. If there’s another outburst from him, he will be watching his trial on CCTV from a cell in Folsom Prison.”