Petra Hillsburg Case Study

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The air was stifling and muffed, as it strangled the life out of everyone in the room. Who knew that this would be the most enigmatic and complex trial in the history of man kind. In the front of the room stood the tower of a man, with a mean double chin, ready to convict and sentence a man to death, with a stroke of his gavel. Judge Richard, known as the hanging judge has never acquitted a man in his life. He holds the record of three hundred convictions a multitude that is unprecedented by any other of his pre successors. To the left of the judge stood the riffraff of hillbillies assigned with the task of hearing evidence, whose lack of comprehension would yield the participants as members of a Kangaroo Court. Standing in front of them, was the defendant Petra Hillsburg, a young misguided twenty-year-old set on trial for the murder of her husband, Mr Louis Hillsburg.
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Danni had represented many convicted criminals and murderers and was a maestro at manipulation. The prosecutor of the case was Attorney General of Louisiana, Gordon Bates, a man known for conniving and macchavellian nature. This was the ensemble that would determine the fate of a young women, whose marriage to a violent, drunk, that resulted in life of continual battery and assault. Was it self defensive or murder?
It is 9 am and the first witness is called to the stand. A Mr Shnoz, the elderly gentlemen who lived next door to the troubled couple. The prosecutor approached the bench and begins his cross examination of Mr Shnoz.
“Please identify yourself as Mr Shnoz the neighbour to the accuse Petra Hillsburg.” Exclaimed the

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