A little after midnight, two police officers knocked on my door and asked to speak with my 15-year-old daughter, Lily. They said her brand-new silver Civic had crashed into a tree outside my parents’ house, and several witnesses claimed she had been driving. Lily had been asleep in her room the entire time. The next morning, my neighbor’s camera showed who had really taken the car — and it was not my daughter.

The conference room at the station was far too small for that much guilt.

Detective Owens sat at the head of the table. Assistant DA Whitman sat beside him with a folder so thin it almost looked harmless.

Ari Kaplan sat on our side.