Naked Justice

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

—SAINT PAUL, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11

Prologue

AS THE BARRETT FAMILY drove from City Hall to the ice-cream parlor, they could scarcely have imagined that soon thousands, if not millions, of people would be scrutinizing, criticizing, and debating what really happened during those final hours.

“I want chocolate chip!” Alysha shrieked, with the breathless anticipation only an eight-year-old confronted with the prospect of ice cream can muster.

“Now, honey,” said Caroline Barrett, Alysha’s mother, “you know chocolate stains your clothes. Why don’t you get vanilla?”

“Want chocolate. Chocolate! Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!”

“Me too,” chirped Annabelle, Alysha’s baby sister.

They both looped their arms over the front seat of the car. “Daddy, we want chocolate! Can we have chocolate?”

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