Aaron Mackell’s Reviews > Judge Stone > Status Update

At this point, everyone seems to be judging Bria before the trial has even truly begun, and Nova still feels like she’s hiding a major piece of the story.

Wow, Union Springs is completely unraveling over this case. Bria’s lawyer meets with Nova and her mother and gets a firsthand look at the poverty and difficult home environment Nova is living in, while it becomes even more obvious that Nova is hiding something.

Bria Gaines is beginning to lose faith and genuinely fear that she’s going to prison. The hostility surrounding the case is also getting worse!

: The case is getting more intense as another lawyer joins Dr. Gaines’s defense and Judge Stone begins feeling the pressure outside of the courtroom through disturbing calls from angry people.

The case is really starting to pick up. Dr. Bria Gaines’s case officially lands on Judge Mary Stone’s docket, putting her at the center of what could become one of the biggest cases the county has ever seen.

The story is starting to come together now. Nova suffers serious bleeding ,requiring emergency medical treatment and exposing what happened. I’m starting to see the bigger conflict forming between morality, medicine, and the law, and how Judge Stone is going to be pulled into the middle of it.

Judge Stone has to decide whether to sentence convicted murderer Ferrell Gray to death or life without parole, but the interesting twist is that Gray actually seems to want the death penalty and pushes her toward giving it to him. Stone ultimately chooses life without parole