The Right to Remain (Jack Swyteck #20)

Epigraph

Now, Sir Thomas, you stand upon your silence. . . . But, Gentlemen of the Jury, there are many kinds of silence. Consider

first the silence of a man when he is dead. Let us say we go into a room where he is lying . . . and we listen. What do we

hear? Silence. What does it betoken, this silence? Nothing. This is silence, pure and simple. But consider another case. . . .