Braun attacks the suspicions about his client point by point. Sure, Blake made a reservation. They were still working out their relationship. Blake always parked on the street, because Vitello's parking lot is cramped and often full. Reports that no one, including the bus boy, saw a gun at the table where he and Bakley dined don't take into account the fact that the gun had fallen on the floor.
Nobody knows what they're going to do in a crisis like that.
Bakley's relatives back in New Jersey have cried foul about all of this. Bonny had her problems, they said, but she was good-hearted and didn't deserve to be murdered. Bakley's sister Margerry watched a tape of Bonny's graveside funeral service and almost spat with disgust. Margerry explained why the family didn't attend the funeral. Then, with reporters and news crews looking on, Braun traveled to Parker Center with three carloads of evidence about Bonny's secret life and presented it to homicide detectives.