When Ito took the bench I asked permission to address the court. He granted it curtly. This is not the time to stand on your dignity, I told myself. Fall on your damned sword. So, on behalf of the People, I apologized profusely for any slight His Honor might have suffered during Tuesday’s hearings, and I implored him to consider the letter we’d submitted. I begged him not to cripple the People’s case by keeping out evidence when the testing delays were really no one’s fault.
