



Tuesday the defense rests without calling him — the testimony he promised never comes — and in the hallway he reads a document filing and detonates: the agents who searched his home carried standard use-of-force language, and by evening it is a headline about deadly force. Thursday night the city that is trying him cheers him in a South Bronx park. Monday's holiday greeting names his enemies before the fallen, and by nightfall he is raging at the order of battle itself: the state argues last. Tomorrow the lawyers sum up. Then twelve citizens get the case.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 467. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…