Asa Bartram inquired. Meditating on his own question, he furrowed his brow, a troubled look in his pale blue eyes. “You must have made the motion. It’s almost always denied, but still, in a case like that, after what the boy said …” His voice trailed off as another thought came to mind. “Calvin denied it, didn’t he? But why?” An instant after he asked, his eyes flashed and he began to nod his head. “He thought there was still a chance you could lose, didn’t he?” Asa knew his old friend well, and he was right. The boy could have admitted on the stand he had made the whole thing up and Jeffries would still have denied a motion for acquittal at the end of the prosecution’s case. But that was not what happened. “I didn’t make the motion,” I admitted. Asa thought I was making a joke. “Everybody makes that motion. You have to make that motion.” “Ineffective assistance of counsel,” Jonah Micronitis observed, as if he had actually spent time in a courtroom. Harper Bryce was laughing to himself.
What do You think about Antonelli - 03 - The Judgment?
