Accountants testify in the passive voice and let the paperwork talk.” She tore down a clean sheet and uncapped a marker.

“First question for Delaney.

What do you ask her?”

“Where were you on the fourteenth?”

“No.

That hands her a runway.

Ask whether she packed the nebulizer, then ask where it was the night my client’s daughter couldn’t breathe.”

She wrote it out.