“Two-forty an hour and I’ll tell you before I do anything that costs more than a thousand dollars.”

It came to nineteen thousand four hundred dollars over eight months and I paid every cent of it myself out of a savings account that existed because a woman had given me a job, and I have never resented a single dollar of it.

Ruben Duran did four things for me and I want them listed because they are what a decent lawyer actually does and none of them are dramatic.

He told me, in our second meeting, that I was almost certainly not going to be charged with anything by anybody, and that I should stop thinking about that, because a man who is frightened of prosecution makes terrible decisions in a deposition.