Andrew Vachss(1942-2021)

[on how he broke his hand in court] I was trying to get him [the defendant] to say the baby's pelvis was broken by a blow, not from being shaken. He said both points of the pelvis were broken, something hard to do with a single blow. So I told him to mark on my hand the space between those two points. Then I spun around and chopped a piece of the wall behind me. I was expecting to hit plaster; I also hit a stud.