“I was not.”

Michael tried to protest, to say that Gregory had known there were family disagreements, and Gregory said his client’s name once, sharply, a single word, “Michael,” and Michael stopped.

I understood what was happening.

A defense attorney will fight hard for a client, will make every argument the law allows, will stand between his client and the full weight of the court.

But there is a line, and that line is being made an unwitting instrument of fraud, of presenting altered evidence and false statements to a judge, and Gregory Walsh had just realized that he had been walked across that line without his knowledge.