By PhD, Wanda Draper,Collin A. Stutz MFA
The Witness brings a brand new size to the style of real crime literature, piecing jointly shards of private situations and significant lifestyles occasions, so frequently swept lower than the rug of kin disgrace or overlook, revealing how the previous casts a grave shadow over one’s future.
CSI has lengthy considering rolled up the tape but the research isn’t over. Detectives cool their heels from pounding the pavement, however the interviews have simply all started. The suspects – charged and booked – are left to consider their destiny. the foremost to their destiny lies of their previous; whereas the crime is solved, one query remains:
What is justice?
The so much attention-grabbing and fascinating thread to be untangled from the horrid mess of humanity begins with the jury’s verdict – guilty.
In the second one degree of the trial, the jury is charged with the duty of identifying a simply and enough penalty. recommended to place apart their very own reviews and put at the defendant’s footwear, they have to arrive at an neutral determination in line with the evidence. Draper leads them throughout the defendant’s lifepath, from his beginning to this murderous act.
The newly convicted murderer’s motives are balanced opposed to humanity. The DA argues that such an atrocious act warrants dying. The safety and prosecution push and press the conditions, mounting the facts to a landslide verdict. in the course of the overpowering accusations and suppositions, one drawback retains the emerging tide at bay.
Unfolding the most important conditions of youth that result in grownup felony habit finds the original function of the specialist witness, made up our minds to go away no stone unturned in her look for unravelling the human secret of every case. Will her discoveries discover mitigation facts sufficient for the jury to figure out simply punishment – death or life in legal with out parole?
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