The Big Case

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The Big Case 

"Your witness Miss Katie Tarver," exclaimed the chief prosecuting attorney as Peter Penn stood up before her.

She just stared into his deep blue eyes, and he into hers. Her head was full of mixed emotions and she couldn’t make sense of it all. ‘It shouldn’t have happened last night,’ she thought to herself with a sense of regret. ‘We should never have gone out for a meal last night, it’s unethical. It’s your biggest case yet and there you go, sneaking out for a meal with your defendant’s son. You could lose your job.’

"Miss Tarver, your witness."

Still she sat there, tall and slender with ocean blue eyes and blonde hair that just fell onto her face. She looked around the courtroom, filled with news reporters and the type of spectators attracted to fatal highway accidents and murder trials. As murder trials went, this one was spectacular. Katie Tarver was a compact, energetic shark who had built up a reputation for racking up acquittals for her clients. She looked over at Gus Penn and asked herself, ‘Am I defending a cold-blooded killer who murdered his helpless wife for money?’

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It had not been easy to impanel a jury. The case had occupied the headlined for months. The cold-bloodedness of this case had created a tidal wave of anger within the community. The press had already tried and convicted him of murdering his wife for a bundle, but what was more, he admitted that he had killed her. ‘What we’re dealing with here is euthanasia, a mercy-killing, a crime of passion, where he couldn’t bear to watch his wife suffer any longer. The problem is, his wife was a very wealthy woman and people thought it was a crime of ...

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