And then she said: “I am going to charge it anyway, and I want to tell you what it will and will not be, so that you do not spend a year expecting something.”

Forgery in Ohio is a felony.

On these facts — an attempt, no loss, a sixty-one-year-old defendant with no prior record, a deceased victim who had told a county caseworker that nothing had happened — it was never going to be a felony conviction and she said so in the first five minutes.

She said: “If I take this to trial, I have a teller who can describe a capital H, a dead woman who denied there was a problem to Adult Protective Services, and a loss of zero dollars.

“I would probably win.