They called him a pillar of the community. He was one of the wealthiest men in a wealthy community and he had the general appearance that his neighbors associated with respectability. He did all the respectable things after all.
But this trial was about the other things he did. Things that couldn't be spoken about in polite company. Crimes with victims who didn't always inspire that same type of respect. Perhaps that's why he chose them. People that people did not want to believe.
In any case, to say that the testimony he delivered was ‘not representative of the facts’ would have been far too generous of an understatement. He told lie after lie like a man with no respect for the mountains of evidence piled up against him or the workings of the criminal justice system.
Yet he left the courtroom free and eager to commit some more of his favorite crimes.
Looks like I opted for a darker story again. In my defense, the prompt leaned more in that direction. Feel free to drop something less depressing in the comments.
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