Vc04 - Jury Double
“At a corner table in Eugene’s Patio, Shoshana sliced angrily into a turkey enchilada. “I’ve never seen anything so cruel.”Anne pushed her fork at her fruit salad. “But he has a point. How reliable can Mickey’s testimony be if he’s had his brain fried?”Shoshana’s eyes blazed. The skin beneath them looked puffy and tender. “We obviously have different ways of thinking.”“That’s why there are twelve of us,” Anne said. “Maybe we should talk about something else.”“The charge against the defendant is ...conspiracy to commit murder. The charge is not murder.” Judge Bernheim had been speaking for almost an hour now, her voice slow and explanatory as a teacher’s. “Bear this distinction in mind. To be guilty of conspiring to murder, there is no need for the murder to actually occur. What is required is that the accused plans to commit murder with at least one coconspirator, and that one of them—not necessarily the accused—takes at least one step toward the realization of that conspiracy.MoreLess
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