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CHAPTER 133

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last update Data de publicação: 2026-04-26 23:40:40

Foster filed the supplementary materials at six in the morning.

Building access logs. Phone records. The audit committee minutes confirming attendance. A signed statement from the committee chair confirming the meeting's duration and Nyla's presence throughout. He packaged them into a re-cross application and had it on the judge's desk before the courthouse opened.

Soto granted it.

Cross was recalled to the stand at ten-fifteen.

Foster began with the date.

He did not approach it dramatically. H
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