That motion was heard in September and it failed, and it failed because of eleven seconds of audio in which a paramedic says, on camera, that she has a symptomatic child and no idea what she has taken.

The judge’s order runs to nine pages and the operative sentence is: the exigency here was not law enforcement’s; it was medical, it was articulated contemporaneously by the treating paramedic, and it was manifestly genuine.

He moved to exclude Charlotte’s forensic interview as unreliable.

That failed too, and it failed largely because of how little I had said in the lobby — the defense expert’s report, which I have read, concedes at paragraph forty-one that “the initial disclosure appears substantially uncontaminated by adult questioning.”

That paragraph is the closest thing I have to a professional monument and I think about it more than I should.

He filed a complaint against me.