A couple days later, a lawyer was hired for Randall to help him out in his trial. It was a lawyer that had a certain liking for reptilians, as he knew that they were often a most distrusted bunch. He was glad to take this case.
He was a red male with dragon like features. He had wings too. Red eyes. Two arms and six legs. He had spikes going down his back. He wore a black shirt suit. His name was Mr. James Quiverstone.
Randall could see how he got the last name. He was a rather intimidating monster. He could tell he was a strictly business kind of person.
Quiverstone made it clear right away that Randall was to tell him every bit of the truth for what he was about to face at the trial in a few days and he would make it clear that what he said was the truth to the judge, witnesses, and the jury.
Randall was nervous talking to him, but he told him everything that he had told Sullivan just a couple days ago.
Quiverstone saw how he surely made the smaller lizard nervous, as the colors flashed he saw. Pink and red meant nervous.
"Judging from everything you've said and your reactions to me, I'd say you were up front with me." The dragon said.
"I was. I swear." Randall said.
"Well, I think we're ready for the trial."
Randall was still nervous about what his sentence would be when it was all done. Even when this guy is supposed to stand up for him.
…
Three days later, it was trial day. It was a Thursday.
Randall was at the courthouse in a orange shirt and cuffs on his two good arms, criss-crossing across his chest. His tail was still held low to the ground due to the fracture.
Mr. Quiverstone was standing next to him at the table.
Amanda, Sulley, Mike, Celia, and Fungus were all there to be like advocates for him or just witnesses. Mike just still had so many doubts about the lizard, but he would do what was needed.
The judge was a big brown rhino type monster. He wore a big black robe and looked rather scary too. He had a deep frown into his face.
"We are here to present evidence of the defendant known as Mr. Randall Boggs." He said. His voice was deep too.
The lawyer on the other side said, "I would like to call a Miss Amanda Boggs to the stand." She said.
Randall was a little surprised his sister was the first to the stand. He gave her a little smile. She returned it a bit. But she knew she had to answer the questions truthfully.
The yellow female snake monster approached the stand. "Now, Miss Boggs, how would you describe your relationship with your brother?"
Amanda looked at Randall. He had a curious look on his face. He wanted to know that too.
"If I can go back, he was always such a sweet if shy young monster. We were close when we were kids until our parents died. Then we got separated. But when we reunited years later, he was still nice and well mannered until he went to college. Things changed for him there, and there was a certain hardness to him that I didn't understand. He tried to stay loyal to me and our small family, but the more things got harder for him at work, soon, he decided to shut us out for a long time. But as of recently, we have rekindled our family bond." Amanda explained.
"How would you describe him?"
"Smart, a hard and determined worker, a good brother. He hasn't seen his nephew since he was a baby. My son."
There were some other hard questions asked by both sides and she hated to say any mean thing about him, but she had to tell them.
Amanda had said she had never thought her brother would have stooped so low as to do what he had done, but she still cared for him. He was still family. He deserved a second chance at a new life out of jail.
"Thank you, Miss Boggs. You can step down."
Amanda stepped off.
Randall greatly regretted his actions.
Mike was called next and he definitely didn't have many nice things to say about him, though he did say about how they were friends in college and that was about it. He was also asked about how he felt when he saw Randall return in the shape he had seen.
"It was a shock that he came back in through the door with George Sanderson, looking like he was attacking him. But he got off and he just fell to the floor. And we saw the blood on the floor."
"I was trying to get away from humans and saving George too!" Randall shouted.
"That will be enough, Mr. Boggs. You'll have your chance to explain later."
"Don't make things hard for yourself, Randall." Quiverstone said with a hand on his shoulder.
Randall sat down. He said that he remembered it all too well in a low voice to his lawyer.
Mike went on to explain how Randall had tried to harm him with the scream extractor and in the chase.
From Mike's perspective, the evidence wasn't looking good for Randall. He cringed.
When the eyeball stepped down, Randall gave him a good glare.
Celia was more there just for a supporter of her lover.
Fungus was up next. He was nervous and jittery, but he talked his peace.
He had seen Randall as being bossy, dominant, grumpy, tired and stressed. His boss was mean to him. He didn't get any praise for work that he did. Their relationship was not considered friends and often stressful. But Randall hadn't let him die either at the end of the scream extractor. But he did also say he was a hard and determined worker. He had worked hard to get where he was in the scaring industry, at least before the kid incident.
Then after him, it was finally Sullivan's turn to answer questions.
Sulley explained how Randall had told him everything in what happened and he had done the things he did to him and why he did it. He said he believed in Randall having a second chance.
Randall almost couldn't believe his ears that his old rival had said that. Sure, he knew he needed a second chance, but who would actually give it to him? Sullivan sure was so forgiving about all this. With that being said, the lizard began to really think about giving the blue furball a chance as a friend.
After all the testaments from the main witnesses, a recess was called for them to have lunch. It would resume in a couple of hours.
Randall really did want to tell his side of the story. He and Quiverstone had lunch together with a guard standing nearby. They were at an outdoor restaurant. There were plenty of others staring that a prisoner was eating there.
Randall had some food in front of him, but he wasn't touching it much. His stomach felt so jumpy in possible responses of what he might say in his own say of his actions and or his story. He was also nervous of the other monsters staring at him.
After lunch and talking, the court case began again.
The female lawyer now called Randall to the stand. He nervously went up. His hands were loose for the time being.
She questioned him on a good many things. Then his own lawyer questioned him. And eventually he was allowed to fully tell his story.
Quiverstone did all in his power to try to convince the jury that Randall knew how to be a law abiding citizen. He had never been in trouble with the law up until what happened with Waternoose and the child incident. He might have been grumpy with others, but he had never intentionally tried to harm anyone. It had all been under orders.
Randall had even said that he never wanted to harm anyone. He just thought he was doing the right thing when it came to the scream extractor. He was sorry for his actions. He really wanted a second chance. He had been manipulated all his life by the wrong crowds.
The other lawyer tried to make it seem that Randall was still a bad guy and was trying to see he was put away in jail for a long time.
Judgment would be in the morning to give enough time for the jury to discuss the options.
Randall was sent back to the prison medical ward overnight. He was so stressed out about their decision that he couldn't really sleep that night.
….
At ten a.m. the next morning, the trial was back in action.
The witnesses were back and so were the lawyers and same jury and judge and Randall.
"Will the defendant please rise."
Randall and Quiverstone stood up.
"Has the jury made a decision?" The judge asked.
"We have, Your Honor."
The judge saw the paper and he passed it back to them. Then a male orange tentacle monster read the results.
"We the jury, find defendant, Randall Boggs-"
Randall and Quiverstone awaited the anxious news.
"Guilty, for Industrial Espionage, Conspiracy, Assault, and Kidnapping."
Randall closed his eyes sadly.
The judge then spoke up, "You are to be held in the prison's medical ward until full recovery of the injuries and then moved to the main prison grounds. Lawyers will discuss the full sentencing."
Randall turned around and gave his sister a hug. He didn't want to leave her.
"It'll be alright, Randall. We'll get through this." She said.
"Come on, Boggs. Time to go." The guard was now pulling on him.
"I don't want to go."
"You must go now. I'll see you soon, I promise."
Randall reluctantly was taken away and his good hands were cuffed again.
The witnesses could see how emotional it was.
"I know he was desperate and all, and he tried to kill you, but he never succeeded in it. I hope he doesn't have to spend the rest of his life behind bars." Amanda said.
"He shouldn't. A few months or a few years. Depending on what the lawyers decide and a judge agreeing to it." Sulley said.
Mike would have been nervous about the lizard coming back anyway anytime soon.
Sulley still wanted to give him a chance. He would go and visit him when he could and no doubt Amanda would too.
….
Later on, Randall and Quiverstone were once again waiting on a sentencing.
From another lawyer, they had come up with a month per count of all the troubles as he had only been under his boss's orders and from his own testimony and the others' testimony. His boss would be more prosecuted with all the more severe punishments.
"Four months in jail, then a very strict probation time of 15 months."
Randall didn't want to spend anymore time in jail, but this was better than being told he would be there for a decade or more.
"I'll take it." Randall said. He wanted out as soon as possible.
Quiverstone would continue to be his lawyer until everything was up. He wished Randall the best of luck.
Randall was taken back to the medical ward.
I know every court case is different. I just used what I had seen like on many cases of Law and Order like shows.
