REDIRECT (N.)

AN ADDITIONAL DIRECT EXAMINATION OF A WITNESS FOLLOWING CROSS-EXAMINATION

DAMIEN

My blood strain was spiking to ranges unknown, however I refused to leap to conclusions.I simply stared on the goddamn info.

“Elizabeth Tanner” wasneveraccepted into Harvard or Harvard Legislation College.

EllieTannerwas.

“Elizabeth Tanner” dropped out of school to pursue theater, however after committing a brutal assault and being charged with tried homicide, she started serving a jail sentence in her hometown of Seattle.

Ellie Tannercompleted her Harvard training and labored at Hamilton & Associates earlier than transferring on to the general public defender’s workplace.

They switched lives.

I staredat the notes I’d written on my outsized whiteboard, shaking my head.

Irrespective of what number of occasions I ran this by way of my head, one factor was clear: Elizabeth,myElizabeth, deserved a spherical of applause for her good performing.

How did I not catch this earlier than?

Pulling up her sister’s public jail photograph, I noticed that she was the spitting picture of Elizabeth, right down to the precise curve in her bow-shaped lips.

Or issheEllie? I’m nonetheless barely confused…

I walked over to my file cupboard and pulled out the professional bono case Elizabeth stored attempting to make me look over.

I felt a pang in my chest the second I completed.

Case Abstract

A groupof seven school college students broke right into a Seattle highschool theater in a single day, luring a fellow pupil there for a revenge beating. On the similar actual time, one other pupil and her relative (who was by no means caught) additionally broke into the theater, by way of one other entrance.

The police have been known as upon receiving an alarm, and all of the intruders (besides one) have been quickly detained, however not arrested.

The beating sufferer was left with everlasting mind injury and suffered contusions, so arrest warrants have been despatched out for all of the perpetrators who broke in that night time.

All seven have been charged with tried homicide, property theft, illegal breaking and getting into.

Six pleaded not responsible, whereas the opposite one, a feminine named “Elizabeth Tanner” went to trial.

She was discovered responsible and given the longest sentence.

Ten years.

No hues of grey.

All black and white.

Underneath the summarynote was a lavender sheet of paper, marred with Elizabeth’s cursive handwriting.

Expensive Damien,

I didn’t inform you why I ventured out of city each different weekend, however…I’m positive you may draw a last conclusion from right here.

Sure, I’m conscious that taking on my sister’s life midway into her Harvard profession was flawed, and that training legislation with out a license is against the law…however she insisted on taking my place since she was the rationale we broke into that theater that night time to start with.

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