25 books
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13 voters
Courtroom
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I can’t believe you would represent a killer like that Jake. I thought you were one of us.
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‘Gotta have a lawyer, Helen. You can’t put the boy in the gas chamber if he doesn’t have a lawyer. Surely, you understand.’
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‘...I can’t imagine doing that for a living, representing killers and child rapists and such.’
‘How often do you read the Constitution?’
‘...the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, says that a person accused of a serious crime must have a lawyer. And that’s th
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― A Time for Mercy
― A Time for Mercy
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The Fairfax courthouse had made the witness list, along with most other court filings in the case, public on their website. Amber’s witness list included names like Elon Musk and James Franco, but ultimately neither would appear. The case was brought in Virginia; non-Virginian citizens weren’t compelled to give live testimony unless they volunteered to. If the lawyers couldn’t subpoena someone, that was that. Amber’s only in-person witness who was not a paid expert would be her sister, Whitney.
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