Initially, the two detectives assigned to the murder of Raul Levin (Lankford and Sobel) ask Haller about Levin, not questioning or suspecting him, just trying to find out information about Raul. Over the next couple chapters though, Lankford begins to suspect Mickey, mostly because of his hatred for all lawyers. Mickey's show pistol that was handed down to him by his deceased father is identified as the murder weapon by ballistics, and when Mickey goes to look for it, it is gone. Mickey instantly realizes that Roulet stole his gun when he broke into his house a couple nights before. This leads him to be extra cautious while he plots against Roulet in court.
As he goes into trial, Mickey still tries to help Roulet be found innocent. He tricks the rookie prosecuter, Ted Minton, into mistakes that cause him to lose the case. The mistakes include a charge of failure to pass information to the defense and manor in the courtroom. Ted's superior comes to the final day of court and tells the judge that the state drops all charges against Roulet. Outside of the court, Roulet and his family thanks Mickey for his work and Roulet even proceeds to threaten Mickey if he attempts to take him down. As all of this is happening, Mickey sees Heidi Sobel, the detective on the Levin murder, waiting on the other side of the lobby by the elevator.
Response: I was really mad at the book for these 170 pages or so. The author left things out, only talking about the case and how Roulet was released. At this point I was against Roulet and furious that he was being let go. Also, I was scared that Mickey would be charged with the murder of Levin. The book was getting really good, and I was furious, but in a good way. I felt that I had to leave the last 9 pages in a different post becuase, well it deserves it with how the book ends.
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