Ashworth, had prepared with the confidence of someone who has built a case on what he believes to be solid evidence and has no particular reason to doubt it.
What Ashworth did not know, what nobody except the defense team and Walter knew, was what was coming.
Marcus had made a deliberate choice not to telegraph any of it in pretrial filings.
Everything he could legitimately withhold until the courtroom, he withheld.
He wanted the full weight of it to land in the room in front of the judge and
