“Vanessa will say she dropped the heavy pan by accident.”

“Vanessa doesn’t drop pans,” I said.

“She threw it across the room.”

“We have to prove that,” Mark said.

“A judge will see one angry text and a hurt child.

The defense will argue the text and the injury have nothing to do with each other.”

He tapped the top folder with one index finger.

“We need a witness to back it up,” Mark said.