The room shifted. Doubt, once unthinkable, crept into the edges of certainty.
Gaines turned to security. “Delay the procedure.”
Holt stepped forward angrily. “You can’t postpone a lawful execution because of a dog.”
Gaines’s gaze hardened. “I can postpone it for credible cause.”
Within minutes, Internal Affairs officers were summoned. Valor was guided down the adjacent corridor where evidence from the original case had been stored temporarily before transfer. He pulled decisively toward a side door marked Archived Materials.
“Open it,” Gaines ordered. Inside were sealed containers long assumed irrelevant.
Valor stopped at one crate and barked repeatedly. The crate contained a jacket not entered into final evidence exhibits. And tucked inside its lining, investigators discovered a memory card sealed in plastic.
Holt’s composure cracked.
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