"Look, Livingston. We all know the defendant is guilty as sin. He probably was last time, too, but there was enough sloppy police work we were able to get him acquitted. That's not the case this time, probably because the people he was working for did most of the cops' work for them. His only hope is to find someone guiltier than he is and focus attention on them. These people don't like being focused on, and when things happen that they don't like, they aren't very civilized. This young McCoy will tone it down, if he knows what's good for him."
All right, I admit it. I was jealous. I had gotten some great publicity out of the schoolteacher case, and had gotten it by beating Talbot. For once in my life, I was ahead of him. Now he was going to fight the mob, or the drug cartels, or whoever
