Halloran did not raise her voice.

She put the message on a screen and asked him, four times, in four different ways, why a man who had unexpectedly finished early would tell anybody he was going to be late.

He gave three different answers.

The jury was out for six hours.

He was convicted on everything except one forgery count and sentenced eleven weeks later to a term with a minimum of nineteen years.

Valerie pled and received a sentence in the low single figures and served less than that.