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John Grisham

The Judge's List

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Chapters 21-26

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Chapter 21 Summary

Judge Bannick goes to the evidence warehouse in Pensacola where he asks Sergeant Faldo for the Verno file. He also asks if anyone else has looked at it lately. Faldo tells him about the investigator and gives him the copy he made of the detective’s driver’s license. Bannick asks him who crossed out the name of the complainant in the file. Faldo remembers Bannick coming to the warehouse a few years ago and looking at that same file. He suspects that Bannick must have done it himself, but the question is strange enough that he claims he does not know.

Leaving the warehouse, Bannick goes to what he calls his “other chamber,” an office concealed in a building of a shopping mall that he owns. This is his real office. The police could seize every file and computer in his home office or at the courthouse and find nothing.

Bannick opens the computer and uses his own customized spyware to prowl through government files until he finds the BJC. No cases have been opened with his name. He still has no way of knowing who filed a complaint or if the sender of the letter was even telling the truth. Then he finds his way into the state police files and finds a memo reporting that

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