Lena,” Vance said.

“You can step down.”

Lena went back to her chair.

She kept her head down and didn’t touch her silver ring again.

At a quarter past eleven, Judge Vance gathered the scattered papers on his bench and squared them into a neat stack.

He picked up his heavy brass pen.

“The evidence presented today is overwhelming,” Vance said.

“The emergency call transcript and the medical scans speak for themselves.