Once again, Briggs challenges the witness’s objectivity and moral character, and the judge adjourns the hearing for the day when Briggs starts to get heated. In court, Petrocelli produces another witness, also a criminal who tells the same story as the first, in exchange for a reduced sentence. They attack people for no reason, and one of them carries a knife.

On Tuesday, Steve writes about how much he hates jail and how afraid he is-everyone there is violent and only talks about hurting each other. Steve’s mind wanders back to violent scenes from his childhood growing up in Harlem, even though he himself never sought out violence. King’s attorney Asa Briggs challenges the witness’s ability to be objective since he is benefiting personally from testifying at the trial. The man himself is a convict who testifies so that his own prison sentence will be reduced. Nobody actually witnessed the murder, but Petrocelli presents her first key witness, a man who claims to have information that connects King and Bobo Evans with the murder. According to the prosecution, Steve Harmon and 14-year-old Osvaldo Cruz both acted as lookouts during the robbery, and are thus legally culpable for the man’s murder, as well. Nesbitt, and accidentally shot the man with his own handgun. On the first day of the trial, Monday, Steve sits with his attorney Kathy O’Brien and listens to Petrocelli make her opening remarks: according to the state, late last December, James King and Richard “Bobo” Evans entered a drugstore, tried to rob Mr.

He names the screenplay “ Monster” after what the state prosecutor Sandra Petrocelli called him in court. Through personal notes and a screenplay he writes in his notebook, Steve recounts the 11 days between the start of the case and the jury’s verdict. Nesbitt, a drugstore owner, in a botched robbery in Harlem six months prior. Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon recounts his and James King’s trial for the killing of Mr.

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