There is a paragraph in the finding that I asked for a copy of and that Reyes had laminated as a joke, and which I have in a drawer:

Officer Callahan’s decision to restrict access pending supervisory review was consistent with policy and with the department’s obligation to the child.

The Board notes that Officer Callahan did not, at the point of decision, possess corroborating evidence, and that this is the ordinary condition under which such decisions must be made.

The trial itself took five days.

Charlotte did not testify.

That was Laura Montgomery’s decision and it was fought hard by the defense, and it held because the state had the syringes, the bottle, the label, the toxicology, the texts, the lobby video, and the forensic interview under the state’s residual hearsay provision, and because Montgomery’s position — which she made in open court and which I heard her make — was: “The People will not put an eight-year-old on that stand to be cross-examined about her father by four attorneys when we do not need her to prove this case.”