Not its conclusion — its construction.

The reference code printed across the top did not match the alphanumeric structure of the barcode at the bottom; they were from two different systems entirely.

And the page carried none of the watermarked security seals that every accredited state laboratory embeds in a legal document.

I held it up to the desk lamp, and there was no watermark, no fiber thread, nothing.

It was a color printout dressed up as a legal report.

It was a forgery.