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A Confession of sorts?
Kate did not want to be in the court room. She felt sick, light-headed and knew if she mentioned it Jake would insist he led the case while she went home to rest. Smiling slightly to herself she knew he had been overprotective since her sister had attacked her, resulting in neurosurgery. She knew he cared but she needed to do her job. Jake rolled his eyes as he sat next to her listening to the Defense Barrister plead her client's case.
"Objection." Kate got to her feet, hands gripping the wooden beam in front of her.
"Explain." Judge Morgan stared at her. Suddenly Kate felt worse than she had done earlier.
"The argument is clearly speculative. He was seen at the scene of the murder. Eyewitnesses and CCTV were collected from the pub. All state Jimmy Morris was a customer and he was observed talking to the victim ten minutes before she was killed. To suggest he was the other side of London at the time of the murder is to suggest he has some sort of special powers. It's absurd."
"Sustained." Judge Morgan stated. Relieved to have won her point she sat down. Jake glanced at her, wanting to say something but knew he couldn't. Moments later the defence sat down as the Judge motioned for her to start. She nodded once before getting to her feet, aware of all the eyes in the court focused on her. Gripping the side of the bench she glared at the man in the dock.
"You admit you were in the pub between 9pm and 10pm on the night in question."
"Yeah." Morris nodded. "I said that."
"And do you also admit to following the victim out of the pub at approximately 10pm?"
"No."
"You were seen on CCTV leaving the bar by the same door moments after she did."
"Don't mean I killed her."
"No." Kate nodded. "It doesn't. Why did you follow her? You were seen to be chatting her up earlier. Did she knock you back? Did that make you angry? We all know you have previous convictions for domestic abuse." Kate paused, surprised when Justin didn't jump to his feet to defend the client. "And a baseball bat was found in your flat. Can you explain that?"
"Yeah. I like baseball."
"Do you play?" The room spun slightly as Kate spoke.
"No." Kate raised an eyebrow.
"You have a baseball bat. One which is not unlike the one believed to be the weapon and you don't play baseball. Do you deny the fact that when the police took the bat they found not only your fingerprints, as expected but blood matching that of both murder victims." She watched as he glared at her. She knew he was on the ropes. The Jury were on her side and very soon a very dangerous man would be in prison for a very long time.
"I." She swallowed hard, tried to fight the darkness encroaching on her vision. This was too important. She owed it to the dead woman and her family to get a conviction. To make sure the right man was sent to prison. Moments later she heard the Judge dismiss the twelve members of the Jury to consider the verdict. Jake rested a hand on the small of her back, clearly concerned.
"Kate."
"I." Kate took a breath as the nausea overwhelmed her. Suddenly the gasp from the courtroom was the last thing she heard before falling unconscious into Jake's arms.
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A/N Please review. Is it worth going on? This story is definitely more character based than case based but will have all the original team plus Joe and a few others. Anyone from episode 1.1 onwards may appear.