I did not pretend to know what I couldn’t have seen.

Walter testified about discovering that I was breathing and about what he had heard.

He wore a gray jacket and held his notes with both hands.

He answered slowly.

When a lawyer asked why he hadn’t immediately confronted Leticia, he looked directly at the questioner.

“Because I found a living man on a table where he should not have been,” Walter said.

“He needed medical help, not another argument.”