Short Story: The Miller Case

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“Goddamn it, Damon!” I shriek when we pull onto the street. “What are you doing?”
“What do you mean?” He’s finding humor in the situation. Great.
“I don’t want a lawyer when I go into court. The whole point is that the judicial system and the public will be so betrayed that they’ll have made up their minds by the trial! I want to be convicted, remember?”
“What exactly are the charges?”
I groan, my head in my hands. He didn’t even check before blundering in? Or is he just playing games? Does he have an actual plan? I sit up and take a breath to explain.
“Okay, it’s the Miller Case. A family went for a trip and didn’t come back when they were supposed to. I was in the same area. The family’s bodies were found in a river last month. They’ve connected

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