“You’re swearing that the classification was correct,” Sarah said.

“It was correct.”

Sarah signed the temporary protective custody order, dated it, then signed the second copy and the third.

“Judge Vance’s annex, four o’clock tomorrow,” she said, and put the cap back on her pen.

Out front the copier started up, and a man’s voice asked the receptionist whether the Miller file was available to review.

Sarah glanced at the door and didn’t answer him.

Defense attorney Arthur Pendelton laid a manila folder on the conference table and lined it up with the edge of the laminate.