Mickey Haller 01 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

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I eat holiday mix out of Tupperware well into spring. Since my last divorce, it is sometimes all I get for dinner. Before answering Valenzuela’s question I thought about the calendar call I was headed to. My client was named Harold Casey. If the docket was handled alphabetically I could make an eleven o’clock hearing down in Van Nuys, no problem. But Judge Orton Powell was in his last term on the bench. He was retiring. That meant he no longer faced reelection pressures, like those from the private bar.

Look, this is private. ” The hype made some kind of motion with his hands and shuffled back to the corner he had come from. I looked back at Roulet. ” I asked. ” Roulet responded. “Are you involved in any charities? ” “Yeah, the company does. We give to Make a Wish and a runaway shelter in Hollywood. ” “I’m going to try. You’ve got some heavy charges on you—I checked before coming back here—and I have a feeling the DA is going to request no bail, but this is good stuff. ” I indicated my notes.

In the meantime new information came to light that would bolster Casey’s appeal of a conviction. Analysis of the photographs taken during the flyover of Casey’s house and the focal specifications of the thermal camera used by the deputies indicated the helicopter was flying no more than two hundred feet off the ground when the photographs were taken. S. Supreme Court has held that a law enforcement observation flight over a suspect’s property does not violate an individual’s right to privacy so long as the aircraft is in public airspace.