5 Channing PalmerIt was Friday and Channing was glued to her desk at the Legal Resource Center.
She’d pushed her own heavy caseload aside, but she hadn’t been able to finish revising the brief for Gustavo Ochoa. Nora’s phone call early Wednesday morning had forced her to put the job on hold.
She wasn’t pleased to be appointed bad-news messenger but she hadn’t wasted time objecting. No one else knew of her friend’s felony conviction and incarceration. She could tell Nora’s story better than Nora could.
She’d immediately gone to Quinn and done that. She’d explained that the AG was making a furtive investigation. Details of Nora’s past might soon become public.
Quinn had freaked. He was sure asshole conservatives would start screaming that death penalty lawyers were no better than their c
