Elias leaned forward, his voice calm and steady. "Marcus, look at me. The police aren't there to hear your 'side of the story' to help you; they're there to build a case. My job is different. I’m the one person in this building who doesn't see a 'Defendant.' I see a person with a future that’s worth fighting for".
He discovered what the initial investigation had missed: the "video evidence" was grainy, and at that specific angle, the shadows of the fire escape made it impossible to distinguish Marcus from three other kids wearing the same generic black hoodie. More importantly, Elias found a witness—a shopkeeper who had been too afraid to speak to the "aggressive" detectives but felt comfortable with Elias’s patient, "client-centered" approach. attorney criminal
The fluorescent lights of the county jail always hummed at a frequency that made Elias Thorne’s teeth ache. As a criminal defense attorney, Elias spent more time in these cinderblock interview rooms than in his own living room. Elias leaned forward, his voice calm and steady