Part Twenty-Nine: The Second of June

She pleaded on the second of June 2025 in a courtroom in downtown Phoenix and it took nineteen minutes.

Nobody fought anything.

There was no trial and there was never going to be one; over ninety-five per cent of criminal cases in this country end exactly this way and the courtroom drama that people expect has not existed in my lifetime.

She pleaded to the forgery, designated as a class six undesignated felony, and to the misdemeanour assault with the domestic violence designation attached.