My Own Mother Testified Against Me—Until the Court Revealed Where I’d Been Working

in more courtrooms than most attorneys will ever enter, and when he was sworn in, he stated his name with the simplicity of a man who knows it needs no introduction.

“Thomas Barrett. Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court.”

The gasp that moved through the courtroom was not subtle. It was the collective, involuntary exhale of thirty people simultaneously continue reading …