Chapter 280. Plea.
LOGAN
My lawyer laid the numbers out the way he always laid out numbers, flat, precise, no room left for the kind of negotiation I used to assume I could always find somewhere inside any set of facts.
"If we go to trial," he said, "and I want to be honest with you about this, Logan, because I think honesty is the only thing left that actually serves you, the conspiracy charge alone is close to indefensible. The cooperating witness's statement is corroborated by financial records that are, frankly, airtight. A jury hears that recording, hears the dates lining up against the transfers, hears about a knife in a parking lot at six in the morning, and I don't see a realistic path to acquittal on that count. Add the assault charge from the park, with witnesses, with your ow
