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In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate

equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district

attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Come on, Mark.

Thoughts you were going to sneak out here without anyone noticing?

No,

no, no.

You guys.

Drink up.

Sparkling cider. No need to write us up.

Listen up, everybody.

I'm not going to belabor this, guys. I know we've got places to be.

I've got tickets to Fiji waiting at home.

Costa Rica.

Fun place with those little umbrellas in your drink.

For keeping our skies safe for 37 years.

And just being a mensch.

To Mark. To Mark.

Congrats. Don't leave me with these people.

We're going to miss you, buddy.

You too, Brooke.

Any advice for the young buck?

Enjoy the ride.

There's no shortcuts to any place we're going.

Cheers, my friends.

What do we got?

Two gunshots to the back.

Small cow casings.

No witnesses yet. Still can't determine.

Make sure we pull that footage.

You got it.

Hey, partner.

Hey. You got D .R. Vic?

Mm -hmm.

Mark Turner.

Got this from the Federal Aviation Administration, 2023.

35 years of service.

Who called 911?

I didn't see it. Didn't hear it.

I thought he just crashed in and we got shot.

Okay. Did you see anything else? Anyone leaving the scene?

No. Did he manage to say anything to you before he died?

Yeah.

He told me I should wear a helmet.

He's really gone.

I'm afraid so.

We can only imagine how much of a shock this must be for you.

But now we've got to figure out who did this, okay?

Can you tell us, was your husband having any problems recently?

Maybe any issues at work?

No. It was quite the opposite.

He just retired.

Today was his last day. We're supposed to go to Costa Rica in the morning.

We were.

What about money, Miss Turner?

Any debt?

Liens?

Problems? No, no. He didn't believe in it.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

If I had a dime for the number of times he preached that to the kids, I'd be

rich.

Oh, my God.

The kids.

I don't even know he had. I have to call them. We just have one more question, I

promise. Can you tell us... Why your husband was on the Hudson bike path

tonight? He biked to and from the office every single day.

He said it was the safest way to travel in the city.

Thank you.

Is that the footage from the scene?

Yeah, check it out.

Turner takes two in the back, then the perp takes off.

We lose him after that.

Facial wax no good.

Perp's helmet and face covering sorted that.

He knew what he was doing. So much so, I can't even tell for sure if he's a he.

Yeah. The shooter's bike is a Merrimack Pro. Second best -selling bike in New

York. All right, well, not a lot of help there.

This might be.

Taru got into Mark Turner's cloud.

27 unanswered texts from a Bodie Walsh. Day of the murder.

27 seems excessive.

Well, you read them.

How can you do this to me?

There will be consequences.

Right. Bodie Walsh is the head of an aviation consultant firm, Skyguard

Solutions, formed a month ago.

His home in the store is the corporate headquarters.

One employee, the late Mark Turner.

This last text from Bodie, Armand Sargissian doesn't mess around.

He says so.

No, he's right.

Sargissian is a legit gangster.

Loan sharking, money laundering.

Drugs. How does a paper pusher like Mark Turner get involved with organized

crime? Why don't you pay Mr. Walsh a visit and find out?

Bodie Walsh.

NYPD, open up.

Not a great time.

What's this about?

Murder investigation.

Bodie Walsh?

That's me.

Jesus, what happened to you?

Can I help you? We need to talk about Mark Turner.

Can we go someplace?

It doesn't feel safe here.

Yeah. Yeah, get your stuff.

Rough week?

You want to fill me in?

Faith tells me you owe the Armenians money.

Is Mark Turner in the hole, too? Is that why he's dead?

God, no.

Mark was a saint. Yeah. See, that's the point. As far as we can tell, you're

not. You're in a bunch of debt. You owe money to some violent people. You

threaten Mark with consequences, and now he's dead. I'm a murder cop, so you can

see where I'm going with this.

I was in trouble.

I needed Mark's help.

That's... Why I wrote those stupid messages.

Explain.

A lot of stuff I invested in went belly up.

And I doubled down and borrowed money from the Armenians.

And I don't have it. No kidding.

Why Mark Turner?

We grew up together.

He went one way, I went the other.

But we're going to start a new business.

Yeah, an aviation consulting firm. It's going to work, too. I swear.

See guys like Mark?

Government guys?

A lot of them.

go into consulting when they retire.

Well, that sounds ideal.

What went wrong?

I booked our first job, and Mark wouldn't play ball.

Why not?

Job was with an insurance company. It was a skydiving accident.

They didn't want to pay up.

Mark found out the person who packed the parachute was uncertified.

He didn't want to let the company off the hook, which was literally what they

were paying us to do. Yeah, and you needed the money. People have killed for

less, Bodie.

I didn't. I swear.

Mark was too good for this world.

He was such a... Goody -two -shoes about safety. People are always getting

pissed at him.

He even got death threats.

When?

Like, the last few weeks.

From who?

A guy named Eric Savage.

The boxer.

Bodhi's alibi checks out.

Okay. He was right about those threats, too. The warrant just dropped for

Turner's FAA cell.

Eric Savage left this voicemail last week. We checked the porn records and

everything. This is really him.

Turner, you're a dead man.

Do you hear me?

What the hell is mild -mannered Mark Turner doing tangled up with a

boxing champion?

I mean, the dude's like Forrest Gump. You familiar with the Nomad Rocket?

Space tourism for the rich and famous?

Yeah. The FAA regulates commercial space flight.

Ten days ago, Mark Turner called off a launch at the last second. Caused quite

stir. Our boy Eric Savage was on that flight.

Or he was supposed to be. He left that voicemail two days after Turner canceled

the launch.

And it turns out, Eric Savage had a different career before boxing.

Aggravated assault, armed robbery.

See what he had to say for himself.

I'm gonna let you take point on this one.

Eric Savage, what's up?

Afternoon, guys.

NYPD.

What can I do for New York Finance?

Well... We have video of you walking to the lobby of Mark Turner's office

yesterday. And?

And two hours later, somebody shot him dead.

Not a good look, man. I don't even own a gun.

If I'm killing somebody, I'm using my hand. You're not exactly doing yourself

any favors there, Eric. We heard Turner crushed your dreams to go into space.

And that pissed you off, right? Yeah.

Why should Katy Perry have all the fun?

You know, I ask myself that same question all the time.

That flight would have got me.

Triple the amount of Instagram followers.

And it cost me a huge endorsement deal.

So you threatened Mark Turner's life.

Then went down to his office to make good on those threats. I went to

Really?

Really.

Look, man.

Turner was right.

I did my research.

If we went up in the air, my insides could have been vaporized.

Let's say we actually buy this story. How did Turner respond?

He didn't.

Security guard in the lobby wouldn't even let me near him.

Said there happened an incident.

No outside visitors allowed.

We'll look into that.

Remember this incident that Eric Savage mentioned?

Hard to forget.

This crazy lady blew up at a meeting up there. Had to pretty much drag her out,

kicking and screaming.

Who was she?

Got a name? No idea. I was just told by Brass to escort her out. And when was

this? I left Tuesday right before my shift ended, so about five.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

So, according to Turner's calendar, that meeting was regarding Titan Helicopter

Corporation.

Titan, that helicopter crashed out in Bayport last summer. Yeah, five people

died. The pilot, family of four, two kids, both under 10.

That helicopter was a Titan.

The day that bird went down was the worst day of my life.

That poor family.

And what was this meeting about?

At the FAA?

Standard practice. When the FAA completes an investigation into an

they offer relevant parties a preview of their official determination.

Which was?

Pilot error.

Who was at this meeting?

Mark Turner and a couple others from the FAA.

A few of us from Titan, relatives of the deceased, and Kate Levy, wife of Brian

Levy, the pilot who was flying the day of the accident.

What, she was the one who freaked out at the meeting?

Big time.

Mark Turner headed up that FAA investigation, which tells you it was

And Kate Levy?

Refused to accept that pilot error caused the crash.

It was ugly.

She called Mark Turner a liar.

Said that her husband was ex -Marine.

That they don't make errors.

They had to haul her out of there, and she was screaming into Turner's face.

This isn't over.

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure I'd buy Kate Levy's a cold -blooded killer.

She's got no priors. She teaches Sunday school at St. Catharines.

She posts to Instagram about her hyathens. Hey, turns out Kate Levy's

the helicopter pilot, owned a licensed six -hour.

There he is, Brian Levy.

And there's his firearm license.

And according to forensics, the slugs removed from Mark Turner's body had

distinctive pin markings indicating they were fired in a six -hour.

That's not enough for an arrest.

Enough for a chat.

Okay.

Kate Levy, police!

NYPD, open up!

NYPD!

Yeah,

somebody's definitely home.

NYPD!

Kate Levy!

Drop that weapon, Kate.

Drop that weapon.

It's okay.

Take your hand off that gun.

All right?

Come on.

Come on, I need you to take your hand off the gun.

Kate, stop right there.

Okay? Hey.

It's okay.

Stay right where you are.

Slowly. Keep your hands at your side. Keep your hands at your side, Kate.

Stay right there. It's okay.

It's all right. Look at me.

Face me.

I'm going to step to you.

Okay, here we go.

I got it. I got it. It's okay. You're okay.

Let him out.

Please. Please.

Please. Please.

Kate?

What's happening?

Is everything okay?

Who else is in this house?

No one.

Don't lie to me. How many people are in here?

Talk to me, Kate. Say something.

Anything. You're really scaring me now.

Sir? I'm coming toward you. I have a weapon. Are you armed?

What? No.

Hey, what is happening? Are you okay?

Please tell me you're okay.

Please, I'm okay.

The police? Oh, my God. Please, don't hurt her. Sir, I'm stepping inside. My

weapon is drawn, and I won't shoot you.

Raise your hands to keep them where I can see them. Do you understand?

Please, be gentle with her.

Who the hell are you?

I'm Brian.

Brian Levy.

Kate's husband.

But you died in a helicopter crash.

Two months ago.

I haven't seen you in those earrings in a while.

Oh.

Yeah.

Remember when you got them for me at that place up in Ithaca?

Oh, my God. Remember that place? That guy who rented it to us?

Kate Levy is not talking.

The only hard evidence we have is the murder weapon, maybe.

And forensics won't be back for 48 hours. We can only hold her for 42.

What do we got?

We just got the warrant for her devices, but it turns out Theo didn't see a

ghost there.

Say hello to the late Brian Levy.

And here I was thinking death was a fairly permanent condition.

Used to be, right?

This Brian Levy is known as a grief bot. He's a hyper -realistic, AI -powered

simulation of a dead guy. After you died, Kate Levy got a subscription to a

thing called Memory Branch.

$49 .99 a month. She talks to her husband all the time. There's like 500

of recorded conversations between these two. They talk about what they want for

dinner. They talk about movies they've seen together.

That sounds terrible.

I mean, kind of, but I don't know.

Part of me also gets it. You know, my brother's in a coma.

If I could talk to an avatar of him about, you know...

The Yankees or something? I don't know. Maybe that would help.

How are we supposed to get through 500 hours of this in the next 42 hours?

We might not need to. I've been working my way backwards from the murder.

Kate, these people are trying to destroy my reputation. I did nothing wrong.

That helicopter was doomed.

If it weren't for them, I'd still be alive.

I can't fight back.

What does this thing know, like, about the real world? I mean, is there any

truth to any of this? We don't know yet.

Write it down.

I mean, if dead Brian Levy's telling the truth, then we're talking about motive.

Revenge.

Look, I want answers here as much as you do.

Everybody here thought the world of Mark Turner.

That's not the question, is it?

Found those in a trove of documents that tight -handed over when the FAA

investigated the crash on Long Island. It says the tail rotor that was used on

the helicopter had been dinged in a previous inspection.

Was that tail rotor still on the helicopter on a crash?

No. Is there some kind of cover -up going on here?

Was Mark Turner crooked? Would somebody pay him off to pin this all on Brian

Levy, a dead guy? No. For God's sake, no.

It's true. The helicopter that crashed once used a rotor that had some bearing

wear. Uh -huh.

Basically, the rotor and driveshaft were misaligned, but that's not why it

crashed.

What is this?

Titan swapped out that wonky rotor for a new one a month before the crash.

We've got video of them doing the work in their hangar. You're welcome to see

it. Brings me no joy to tell you this was textbook pilot error.

We're testing the gun that we seized at your home.

It's confirmed it's the gun that was used to kill Mark Turner.

But we already know the answer, don't we?

A friend of mine was killed a couple of months ago.

He was a cop.

All right.

I didn't know Walker knew that guy.

No.

No, he doesn't. He's making this up.

This is what he does. He's a storyteller.

I'm still fighting through it.

You know the part I can't shake.

It's not being sad.

I can handle that.

I'm angry, Kate.

Angry at my dead friend.

At myself.

At God.

And I think you're angry too.

It hurts.

It's not fair.

It's not.

I read this thing the other day.

It said grief is just another form of love.

Love that's got no place to go.

And there was a lot of love, right?

Your husband was a great man.

But the reality is he made a mistake.

No. Yes.

I know we told you that was a bad part on the helicopter.

We've seen the recordings of your conversation.

But your husband's only privy to what's on the internet.

Because he's a computer program, Kate.

Yes.

This is what Brian showed me.

The rotor. He found it online because it's part of the public records

to the FAA investigation.

But he didn't know about this.

Because the FAA's internal work documents are not part of the public

That rotor got changed out. There was nothing wrong with that helicopter.

You will know the truth.

And the truth will set you free.

John 832.

That's right.

Pray with me.

We don't really do that kind of thing in here.

Breathe.

I can see that you want to pray with me.

Forgive me for what I've done.

I practiced for a few days riding my bike with one hand so I'd be ready

to shoot my gun with the other.

And on the day it happened, did you follow Mark Turner from his office?

No.

I memorized his schedule.

I knew when he left work, how he rode home each day, so I knew where he'd be.

I waited and...

There he was.

It was so fast.

I rode up behind him and shot him in the back.

It's a textbook premeditated murder.

Sometimes they come with a bow on top.

Six -hour handgun. We recovered from Kate Levy's home. Not the murder weapon.

It's weird.

Maybe not.

About a week before the murder, she went online and got herself a barrel kit.

She swapped out the barrel of the six arrows so in France it's tested the gun.

The marks on the test slugs were different from the slugs we pulled from

Turner's body.

We'd certainly be in a stronger position if we had the murder weapon, but this

is pretty compelling evidence that she tried to cover her tracks.

We'll still need to get ahead of this. The defense will make a meal of it.

But in the meantime, Kate Levy confessed. She shot Mark Turner with a

A confession's a confession.

Your Honor.

Detective Walker's decision to join hands and pray with Kate Levy while she

in police custody is clearly grounds to quash this confession.

That is not true, Your Honor. I mean, that prayer may have been unusual, but

it's not illegal.

And it was Kate Levy who asked to pray with Detective Walker, not the other way

around. That doesn't matter, Your Honor. This goes back to Miranda case law

itself. Confessions must be voluntary.

And it was. And there was no threat, no promise, no inducement. Which is

immaterial as well, because prayer all on its own has been seen by the courts

routinely as a form of psychological coercion by the police.

Coercion renders a confession involuntary and therefore inadmissible.

Your Honor. Save your breath, Mr. Price. I agree with Ms. Hogan. Her confession

is out.

We're still good on motive.

I've watched hours of Kate Levy's conversations with her husband.

I mean, if I'm being honest, I can't stop watching them. Yeah, it's

Creepy is what it is.

She was consumed by her husband's death, craved retribution.

More technology tries to help, the worse things seem to get.

Everything has a shortcut these days.

Overweight, try a Zunfig.

Only to look right.

Can't handle the death of a loved one? Create a grief bot.

Grief is supposed to be hard. Pretty sure that's the point.

If you can believe it, I've got a voicemail from my father that he left a

of days before he died, which, for all I know, he was trying to get me to

smuggle scotch into the hospital, but, yeah, can't even listen.

Grief is obviously a universal experience, which means everyone on that

experienced it in some capacity, so lean into the anger and confusion of that

journey.

That's what drove Kate Levy to kill.

Miss Levy's cell phone pinged off of a tower on West 61st Street at 6 .12 p

putting her roughly within 150 yards of the murder.

Can you explain these images, Detective Walker?

On the left is an image from security footage.

The killer on a 2023 Merrimack Pro bicycle.

On the right is that same make -or -model bicycle recovered from the

Miss Levy's home.

Lastly, Detective, when you went to Miss Levy's home to question her, how would

you describe her demeanor?

Rattled.

Panicked, maybe.

When we arrived, we knocked. We announced ourselves as police several

she refused to open up. We went inside because we were concerned for her

We could see her pacing frantically.

She had a firearm next to her.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Ms. Hogan.

Detective, how many other phones pinged off of that cell phone tower around the

time of the murder?

About 3 ,000.

So what you're saying is... 2 ,999 other people could have committed this

murder. Respectfully, we're here because we believe the defendant committed this

murder. The gravest allegation one can face. So surely you cleared those other

people by interviewing them, obtaining alibis.

We didn't think that was necessary.

I'm sure you didn't.

Now, based on this image, it's impossible to know if the killer was a

woman.

Based on that image, maybe.

Have the police ever banged on your door?

No. But if they did, it would make you frantic, correct?

Especially if you were innocent?

One last thing. There were 6 ,000 Mary Mac Pro bicycles sold in 2023.

Surely you interviewed these people who owned these bikes?

That wasn't necessary.

You had your suspects. Damn the fact.

Objection, Your Honor. Sustained.

Nothing else, Your Honor.

A gun barrel imparts marks on the projectile it fires, marks that we in

ballistics field call lands and grooves.

They're specific to that firearm, kind of like how fingerprints are specific to

each of us. And a firearm can be taken apart and put back together again,

including the barrel, correct?

Yes, it's common among firearm enthusiasts.

You can buy barrel kits to swap out that piece.

lands and grooves.

Would be new, different. Which would explain how a weapon could be used to

but a forensics investigation would conclude that it wasn't.

Correct. Nothing further.

Kate Levy was never found in possession of the gun barrel that was used in this

murder. So, the theory that Ms. Levy A literal Sunday school teacher without

so much as a jaywalking ticket is such a criminal mastermind that she swapped

out these gun barrels to cover her tracks. It's just that. A theory.

Objection. Counsel is testifying. Sustained. It's impossible to determine

whether the gun found in Ms. Levy's apartment was the gun used to kill Mark

Turner. Correct?

Correct. But the barrel she purchased... Nothing else, Your Honor.

Grief is more than missing someone.

The loss of a parent, a spouse, a child.

It's so powerful it can disrupt our very sense of meaning, identity.

Recovery means rebuilding our story, incorporating that loss into a new

narrative. These grief bots... At Memory Branch, we refer to them as legacy

avatars. Forgive me. These legacy avatars help those who are mourning do

that? Yes.

Articulate memories.

Clarify emotions.

Say the stuff that was left unsaid.

It's a form of therapy.

It's not quite that simple, though, is it, Ms. Matthews?

Kate Levy paid your company $49 .99 a month to speak with her deceased

Yes. But if she woke up one day and decided that she was cured of her grief,

might discontinue her subscription, correct?

Yes. Some people do. Which means your revenue stream is maximized by keeping

your clients, people who are mourning, hooked.

I wouldn't put it that way.

Your company programs legacy avatars like Brian Levy to be echo chambers,

correct?

Isn't it true that they are built specifically to amplify whatever

expressed by your grieving clients?

Yes, basically the client... So then wasn't it true that when Kate Levy

to her husband that someone must be to blame for his death, he was happy to

oblige. Your legacy avatar eagerly coughed up a cockamamie story about a

sinister cover -up. Objection. Leading. He was trying to help her.

Your Honor.

People would like to introduce the video of the relevant conversations between

Kate Levy and Brian Levy's avatar, what has been marked as Exhibit 11A. We

object to the introduction of that video and any other recordings of

conversations between my client and her husband.

On what grounds?

These videos are protected by marital privilege. You cannot be serious.

Chambers. No.

You're on. Your Honor, this avatar is not Brian Levy. It's a computer program.

Communications between the defendant and this thing is clearly fair game.

Your Honor, it is true that this legacy avatar is powered by AI, but he

possesses and has mastered the real Brian Levy's entire digital footprint.

Brian Levy's likeness, voice, mannerism, every social media post, his

past, his life.

When Kate Levy interacted with him, she firmly believed she was speaking with

her husband. Therefore, she had a reasonable expectation of marital

The concept of privilege was designed to protect relationships that society

places a special value on, to promote candor in those relationships.

It dates back to common law.

We're talking about extending it to a machine?

Where does this end? I don't know, Mr. Price.

And I think that's the point.

The genius of the law does not rest in a world that's dead and gone.

But in its adaptability to a world that is ever -changing.

State versus hunt. Five years ago, the prosecution wins this debate. But now,

2026, I believe the spirit of marital privilege was alive in these

conversations. They were meant to be private.

They'll stay that way today.

The jury is not going to see Kate Levy's communications with the grief bot.

None of it?

None of it.

Which dramatically hampers our ability to argue motive. Unless we can turn up

new evidence on this thing before court resumes in the morning, meaningful

evidence, we're going to have to offer Kate Levy a deal.

A plea?

No. What are you talking, manslaughter here? What?

Manslaughter. At this point?

We'd be lucky if she says yes.

But we know she did this.

She looked me straight in the eye and confessed in detail. And the jury will

never know that either.

You have till tomorrow morning.

You know, I was really hoping to make the Ranger game tonight.

Would manslaughter really be that bad?

I just got off the phone with the warden of Rikers.

Turns out, every single day since her arrest, Kate Levy has signed up to

the internet on DOC -issued tablets.

And the only thing she's interested in is... Talking to her dead husband.

Bingo. But she can't because memory branch turned him off.

What's the end of that, then? Once we got him turned back on.

What if we brought Brian Levy back from the dead?

One more time.

Okay. I'll talk to him.

Hey.

Look, with Detective Walker, there's around to something.

What is this?

Apparently, Kate Levy's pleading guilty to murder.

What?

That doesn't make any sense.

No. Our case is falling apart.

And her lawyer knows that. She knows that.

What the hell happened?

Kate, I was wrong.

I'm so sorry.

There was no cover -up?

No. No, there was nothing wrong with that helicopter.

It was pilot error. My error.

Like the FAA said.

That poor man, Mark Turner.

He was just doing his job, honey.

I did this.

Not you.

I love you, Brian, and nothing can ever change that.

But the fact is, I killed a man for nothing.

What the hell have you done?

I helped Kate Lee receive the error of her ways.

What, am I supposed to be apologizing right now?

You went to the CEO of Memory Branch and persuaded her to turn Brian Levy back

on, and you manipulated the algorithm by feeding it the FAA report?

Yeah. And it worked.

Not the point.

We have no choice. We have to disclose Detective Walker's actions in the

defense. Do we?

Let's just take a look at the fuse on this bomb before we light it, okay?

Kate Levy attempted to speak with her dead husband every day since her arrest.

Couldn't you argue that Detective Walker just gave her what she wanted? Or

handed her the shovel to dig her own grave.

Walker facilitated this without her attorney's knowledge. It's essentially

parte communication.

Right. And he tampered with the machine's algorithm.

He fed the thing new information with the express intent or hope of soliciting

new confession.

Which we have to applaud on some level.

I'm not so sure about that. Detective Walker had no way of knowing that Kate

Levy was going to initiate communication with this grief bot.

He merely made the thing available to him. Nick, come on.

I don't like this any more than you do, but... The High Road is a lonely place.

Notify the defense.

This information warrants an immediate dismissal of charges.

Dismissal is extreme, but there is no clear constitutional violation.

Mr. Price, give her the floor, please.

Given what's happened here, it's clearly her serve.

Your Honor, this calls for a mistrial.

The Sixth Amendment, not to mention Messiah, tells us that the police cannot

deliberately prompt a represented defendant to incriminate herself without

lawyer present. That is not what happened. Of course it is. This grief

still a private app. It's not like Detective Walker controlled it with some

magical tools. He turned the damn thing into an agent of the state. On the

connection, it's too indirect to be a Messiah violation. Stop.

Stop. Stop. Just please stop.

My husband has shown me the error of my ways.

I killed an innocent man.

I must take responsibility.

Kate.

Don't do this.

Miss Levy is not my place to weigh in here, but you should listen to your

attorney.

Your husband is dead. You weren't talking to him.

It doesn't matter.

I... I felt like...

I was.

That was enough.

I must atone.

This is the only way.

Miss Levy, did you kill Mark Turner?

Yes, I did. Are you guilty of murder?

Yes.

You remind me never to subscribe to a grief bot.

First, it convinced that Kate Levy to commit murder.

Then it gives her the worst legal advice in history.

Well, I'm going to go read a book.