“On what grounds, exactly?” María asked.

“He says dispatch cooked up the emergency code to get around the search warrant requirements,” Mark said.

Claire opened her leather briefcase on the conference table and took out three bound timeline sheets.

“The dispatch override code went in at nine sixteen and ten seconds,” Claire said.

She set the first sheet down in front of the prosecutor.

“This column is the automated central office switch register,” Claire said.

“The line was live and sending background audio the entire time.”