Chapter 12: The Trial Of Giovanni Fulton!

A few weeks later Fulton is dragged into a courtroom wearing shackles and is seated next to his attorney a man with balding grey hair with blue eyes wearing square glasses and a black suit he nods at Fulton who just snorts in annoyance at him as he sits there.

As the Judge a man with short white hair, long white beard reaching to just above his stomach and brown eyes wearing a typical Judge's outfit enters the room the Bayliff shouts "All Rise For The Honorable Judge Marshall Schneider!" and everyone stands up as the Judge walks up to his stand where he grabs his gavel and slams it as he says "You may sit" then takes a seat himself.

Roy smiles broadly at the prosecutors table as he turns to Ada says "Yes!, i was hoping it would be Marshall Schneider over seeing this case he's very no nonsense and has never gotten a single verdict wrong" Ada nods as she replies "That's good" then glances up at the judge and reacts with a bit of shock when she sees him glaring at Fulton.

Ada looks back at Roy "Why is the judge glaring at Fulton?" she asked but Roy just answered her question with a chuckle as the Judge said "Giovanni Fulton you are charged with three counts of attempted murder, two counts of sexual assault as well as crimes against humanity how do you plead?".

Fulton stands up and says "Not Guilty your honor!" making everyone react with shock as the Judge slams his gavel down and says "Order!" making everyone quiet again as he continues "Mr. Fulton i must warn you if you plead Not Guilty and are found Guilty you could face the death penalty do you still wish to plead Not Guilty?".

Fulton nods and says "Yes your honor" making everyone gasp again as Ada looks at him surprised "Gutsy bastard isnt he?" she asked turning her attention to Roy who replies "Indeed he is.." as the Judge once again slammed his gavel down and said "Order!".

Fulton looks up at him sneering "I'll have a cheeseburger and fries your honor" making everyone except the Judge who glares angrily at him laugh "ORDER!" the Judge bellowed slamming his gavel down then everyone immediately stopped laughing and looked at the Judge as he pointed his gavel at Fulton and said "Any more wise cracks out of you Mr. Fulton and i'll hold you in contempt!".

Ada can't help but smile as she looks at Roy and says "I love this Judge..." Roy just chuckles softly as he replies "Told ya he's no nonsense" The Judge turns toward Roy and says "Your first witness please!". Roy nods as he says "I call Riza Mustang to the stand!" then stands there and watches as she walks up to the stand he winks at her before she turns her attention to the Bayliff who holds up his hand as he asks her "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god?".

Riza raises her hand and replies "I do!" then takes a seat as Roy approaches her she gives him a loving smile as he asks her "Could you please state your name and occupation for the record?", Riza nods and replies "My name is Riza Mustang I'm a General for the army" Roy nods and looks at her for a moment before continuing "Thank you my dear now if you please give us your testimony".

Riza nodded as she said "I met Mr. Fulton five years ago i was just leaving the office when i came across him and two of his men one his henchman was holding a gun to my son Richard's head so i pulled out my own guns and ordered them to drop their guns instead of doing that the other goon pulled out his gun and they both pointed them at me Mr. Fulton told them to hold their fire and walked up towards me so i pointed my guns at him and ordered him to freeze and I took my eyes off of his men which is when they grabbed me and held me then..." Riza stops as she starts tearing up.

Roy smiles kindly at her as he says "Its okay dear you have nothing to fear please continue.." Riza wipes her tears away as she nods and says "Mr. Fulton forced himself on me and started grabbing my breasts, he fondled and sucked them for awhile before ordering his men to lay me down where he proceeded to rip my clothes up with a knife then he raped me" Riza starts crying softly again as she looks at Roy.

Roy nods and smiles kindly again "Thank you Miss Mustang you've been very brave" he said as he turned to the Judge and added "I have no questions your honor!" the Judge nods and says "Does the defense wish have anything to ask Miss Mustang?" the defense attorney stands up as Fulton gives a very defeated look and says "No you honor i see nothing wrong with her testimony".

The judge nods again as he kindly smiles at Riza and says "Very well you may step down Miss Mustang", Riza nods and stands up then walks back to her seat as the Judge adds "Next witness please!" Roy holds up his hand as he says "I now call Jillian Holtzmann to the stand!" Jillian walks up to the stand and after taking the oath sits down while chewing her gum, Roy walks over to the stand and says "State your name and occupation for the record please!", Jillian looks at Roy and says "Jillian Holtzmann I'm a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army as well as the head scientist!".

Roy smiles kindly as he says "Thank you Miss Holtzmann now your testimony please!" Jillian looks at Fulton for moment before saying "I met Mr. Fulton about two years ago i had come home early from work that day and when i entered my home i saw..." then like Riza before her she started crying softly as she continues "I saw Mr. Fulton and his men, his men had their guns pointed at my parents and when Mr. Fulton saw me he ordered his men to kill them!, but before they pulled the trigger my dad yelled at me to run which i did out of fear but I'll never forget the cold, emotionless look he gave me when i first entered my home..".

Fulton continued sinking in his chair with an even more defeated look as Roy turned to the defense attorney and said "Your witness" then sits back down at the prosecutors table as the defense attorney stands up and straightens his tie as he says "Miss Holtzmann did you actually see or hear any gunshots that day?" Jillian nods as she replies "Yes sir but i don't know who fired the rounds as i ran away before the shots we're fired".

The defense attorney sighed and shook his head as he said "Did you at any other time return to the crime scene that day?" Jillian nods and says "Yes sir i returned about 4 hours later and found the place had been scrubbed clean and my parents bodies nowhere to be found..", the defense attorney sighs harder "Damn...that just killed my whole case" Ada could swear she saw a smirk on the defense attorneys face as he walked back to his chair "Nothing further your honor..".

Judge Schneider looked at Jillian and smiled kindly as he said "You make step down sweetie" and Jillian smiled back at him "Okay thank you your honor" Ada could swear she saw Jillian give the judge a quick wink before she left the stand and sat back down in her chair.

After a few more hours of witness testimony and going over every piece of evidence the Judge slammed his gavel down and said "Having heard the testimonies on both sides and having seen the evidence I'm sure the Jury will have no issue rendering a verdict that said im placing this case in recess so the Jury may deliberate" then slams his gavel down again.

Roy sighs as he looks at Ada "This is the part i always hated..." he said smiling as Ada nodded "Yeah the waiting's gotta be a pain in the ass" then stood up and walked out of the court room with him only to be greeted by Aiden who walks up to them and hugs Ada "You were amazing in there!" he said kissing her.

Ada returns the kiss as she replies "Thanks babe but we're not done yet!" Aiden smiles happily as he says "Doesn't matter i have faith in the Jury they will serve justice!" as Roy crosses his arms and smiles "I agree Major!" he said with his hand on his chin.

Ada giggles "Did you see the look on Fultons face when Mom testified?, he looked totally defeated!" she said happily as Aiden chuckled and said "Yeah and his attorney looked like he wasn't thrilled with even defending him either" and it was Roys turn to laugh as he said "Yeah the poor bastard..".

Chapter 12 End.