He could lie or tell the truth
with the same absolute conviction.
And now he was giving an ample demonstration of this to the panel.
He knew that he had been called in because Henry was terrified
that the document examiner's evidence had been overturned by
the defense testimony. He also knew that the three women
on the panel were not disposed favorably to the analyst
who had come to testify. Well, by golly, he thought,
old Mark will put out the fire.
In answer to a simple question, Mark replied by starting from
when he graduated from law school and tracing his entire career.
Along the way, he revealed, he had discovered these
particular document examiners.
For all his verbosity, he was convincing. Henry was pleased.
After all, he was an attorney. Who would know better how courts
and evidence worked than an attorney? Then too, Mark had been
the one to send the `suspect' evaluations to the analyst that he,
himself, had recommended. Mark had ordered the material from
Diana's personnel file, so he could attest to the legality of it.
Jane observed that the other members of the panel, immersed in his tale,
seemingly failed to realize that he confirmed several interruptions
in the chain of custody of the documents he was referring to.
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