Warren Wilson’s championship basketball team members filed into the Buncombe County Commissioners’ chambers, each putting their medallions around their necks. They had to take them off to go through the metal detector. Just minutes before, yours truly arrived at the guilty-until-proven-innocent scene. I had forgotten to empty my pockets. So, into the same bin where the medals would go, I put my spare change, reading glasses, old receipts, used Kleenex . . .