Martin Lang was young, brilliant and confident. He had everything it took to make him one of Seattle’s most successful lawyers but law school graduates were a dime a dozen regardless of how confident and brilliant they were and Stella and the baby had to eat. So that was why Martin Lang took his first case from Branch Malone a notorious gambler and got an acquittal for him, the first of a long line of acquittals. And Martin Lang’s classmates threw up their hands, said he was betraying his profession but Martin needed money and he kept telling himself he had to get a start somewhere so he kept right on getting acquittals for Branch Malone and the money kept on rolling in. But it had to end sometime, there had to be a payoff eventually…