The Ransom Red Chief Case

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In the ransom red chief case the prosecution won the case because of the details they gave were more relevant than what the defense team said.The defense team on the other hand gave a lot more information but it didn't make as much sense of the prosecution team did also they got little pieces of evidence from the text to prove their case the defense on the other hand did not and that's what got them mixed up in there words.Also Mrs Gibson helped them out a lot.Also Because the defense team didn't use textual evidence they started saying that red chief was kidnapped.In the case the prosecution team gave more evidence from the book, but the defense team gave more evidence from the movie.The verdict was fair because red chief was forced to go

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