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The Iron Verdict

Words: 3198 · Source Novel:: Gilded Knuckles

The civil suit Miles v. Strickland et al is filed on November 30, 2018, by Danny’s mother Rosa. Inside the courtroom, the same evidence transforms. The prosecution plays the audio: Strickland’s voice is dismissed as an actor’s dialogue from a film project; the diary is characterized by a defense psychiatrist as paranoid fantasy. A bribed ringside doctor testifies Danny had a pre-existing heart condition. Judge Hawthorne, whose late wife was a Strickland cousin, overrules key objections. The jury, shown a dead young man one day and a violent delinquent the next, acquits the defendants. The evidence has spoken, but the court hears only what it wishes.