SLOANE
He set his briefcase down and straightened his cuffs and said, "I am not entirely sure what has been happening in this courtroom today but I know why I am here. My client has a rightful claim to his son and I intend to see that properly established." He looked around the room once, calm and unhurried. "Let's start the DNA test. Fresh…..Right now."
The judge behind the bench said nothing. He just nodded. That was the part that got me. No argument, no procedure speech, no defending the results that had just been announced two minutes ago.
He simply nodded and the medical practitioners who had come in with the man in robes were already moving, opening their bags, setting up the same equipment, the same clean swabs, the same sealed sample containers, all of it happening right there
