There had been bitter public quarrels between the two, but all the evidence against Helen was circumstantial.
After David had gone to the jail and met with her, he was convinced she was innocent.
With each meeting, he had become more emotionally involved. In the end, he had broken a basic rule: Never fall in love with a client.
The trial had gone well. David had refuted the prosecutor’s evidence bit by bit, and he had won the jury over to his client’s side.
And unexpectedly, a disaster had occurred. Helen’s alibi was that at the time of the murder she had been at the theater with a friend.
Under questioning in court, her friend admitted that the alibi was a lie,
and a witness had come forward to say that he had seen Helen at her stepmother’s apartment at the time of the murder.
Helen’s credibility was completely gone. The jury convicted her of first-degree murder, and the judge sentenced her to be executed.
David was devastated. “How could you have done this, Helen?” he demanded. “Why did you lie to me?”
“I didn’t kill my stepmother, David. When I got to her apartment, I found her on the floor, dead.
I was afraid you wouldn’t believe me, so I-I made up the story about being at the theater.”
He stood there, listening, a cynical expression on his face. “I’m telling you the truth, David.” “Are you?” He turned and stormed out.
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