The jury room smelled of stale coffee and old paper. Nick Delaney...

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The jury room smelled of stale coffee and old paper. Nick Delaney sat at the far end of the table, his hands rough from forty years on the docks, and listened to the other eleven people argue about whether a man was guilty of nothing at all.

The case was simple on paper: Mason Verge, meat-processing billionaire, had sued Dr. Hannibal Lecter for murder. Verge claimed Lecter had killed three government officials. Lecter claimed he had done nothing. The question for the jury was not whether Lecter had killed anyone—the criminal case had been dismissed—but whether Verge had proven civil liability. Kate Starke had testified on Tuesday....

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