At 1:47 A.M., A Call From A Police Station Turned A Routine Arrest Into A Reckoning That Reached Boston

immediate danger had passed. What remained was the careful work of making it official.

Tyler sat between Jennifer and me on the courthouse bench, wearing the button-down shirt and khakis we’d selected that morning. He straightened his collar for perhaps the fifth time.

“Will I have to speak?” he asked Richard.

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