Patrick was arrested as the fraud case developed, under the authority obtained through that process.

The charges were not a criminal verdict.

The detention and case proceedings that followed had their own rules, their own lawyers, and their own timetable.

I learned about them without being required to watch a recording of handcuffs closing.

There was no view into a cell available to me.

I did not know whom he called or how he spent his first night.

I would not turn those unseen hours into a scene I could describe as fact.