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Thanking Consequences!
Don’t deny your children the right to learn from their mistakes.
“When you attempted to hire me, I asked if your son was innocent,” Albert Simms, the twelfth attorney Janice Grant tried to hire to defend her only son for the savage rape and murder of sixteen-year-old Melanie Anderson, said. “Why did you lie? I have been practicing law for more than thirty years. You thought I wouldn’t have found out the truth?”
“Your job is to prove reasonable doubt, not innocence or guilt,” she dished back.
“This law firm doesn’t prove reasonable doubt. We prove innocence.”
“That’s not what I wanted to hire you for,” Janice said.
“Well, after examining your son’s history, rap sheet, and life, I suggest you take the deal the District Attorney offered.”
“You don’t believe my son is innocent?” she asks in anger.
Mr. Simms pushed the intercom on the phone on his desk and speak into it, “Sue, tell Sam to bring the files in.”
The door behind her opened, and a man dressed in blue denim overalls pushing an Upline Loop Handle Aluminum hand truck in, three boxes stacked on top of each other. “Where should I put them, Sir?” he asked.
“Beside her,” Mr. Simms points to the left of Janice sitting in front of him.
