The Price of Justice by Marti Green

Author:Marti Green [Green, Marti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00U0N5GC4
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2015-07-21T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

26

The next morning, they were back in court, ready to continue the trial. Whiting called Greg Kincaid to the stand. Once he was sworn in and the preliminary questions were out of the way, Whiting said, “Tell me about the last time you saw Carly Sobol.”

This was the first time Dani had seen Kincaid. He was smaller than Win, plainer looking. His shoulders drooped, and he sat hunched over in the witness chair.

“It was the night she was murdered,” Kincaid answered. “She was my date to a dance at the high school.”

“Had you been dating long?”

“A few months.”

“Were you aware that she’d previously dated the defendant?”

“Sure. Everyone knew that.”

“Did you see the defendant at the dance that night?”

Kincaid squirmed in his seat, looking as though he couldn’t find a comfortable spot in the chair. “Yeah. I saw him. Standing by the door. Carly saw him, too.”

“How do you know?”

“I saw her staring at him.”

“Did either of you speak to him?”

Kincaid shook his head, then answered, “I didn’t. I went to get us some drinks, and when I got back, Carly was gone.”

“Did you look for her?”

“I didn’t have to. I knew she left with Win.”

Whiting walked back to his table and picked up a photograph, then brought it over to the witness. “This is a picture of Earl Sanders. Did you see anyone looking like him on the night in question?”

“No.”

“Thank you. I have no further questions.”

Dani stood up and walked over to him. “Did you actually see Carly leave with Winston?”

“No.”

“Did you see either Carly or Winston after that?”

“No.”

“So even if they’d left together, you have no idea how long they were together, do you?”

“Long enough for him to kill her.”

Dani immediately turned to the judge and said, “Strike that. It calls for a conclusion.”

The judge looked over at the jury. “That answer is stricken from the record. You should give it no weight in your deliberations.”

“I’ll ask you again. Do you have any direct knowledge as to how long they were together?”

“No.”

“So, it’s possible that they spoke briefly and then Winston left her, isn’t it?”

“I wouldn’t know.”

“That’s the point. You don’t know. No further questions.”

The remainder of the day was filled with other students who had seen Win at the high school, including a few who’d seen him leave with Carly. Dani questioned them lightly, since she didn’t plan to deny Win was there, or that he’d walked into the forested area with his former girlfriend. She did ask each witness if they’d seen Win return to the gym. All said they hadn’t.

At the end of the day, the prosecution rested its case. Two days for a capital-punishment case. Their evidence was so sparse, it had only taken them two days to ask the jury to send a young man to his death. Dani shook her head in disgust.

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