The little girl hadn’t spoken since the night her mother was found on the kitchen floor! Then the court dog lowered his head-and she whispered one sentence toward the defense table…

Ava kept Lily’s purple-flower drawing in her office.

On difficult days, she looked at it. Not for inspiration; she distrusted how easily adults turned children’s pain into something motivational. She looked because it reminded her that evidence did not always arrive in the form adults preferred. Sometimes it came as a blue figure under a table. Sometimes continue reading …