"Your honor I call Ms. Reba Hart to the stand next," the prosecutor stated. Reba wobbled to the stand. Do you swear to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" "I do" "Please be seated "
Reba, with some trouble slid into the seat. "Ms. Hart I have two children myself so I know how you must be feeling. How pregnant are you?" "I'm in my fifth month" "And between you and Doctor Hart how many other children do you have?"
"We have three living children. We have one child that passed away and Brock had… we rather had Henry" "I was under the impression that Henry was Barbra Jean's child?" "He was… but I loved him as if he was my own" Brock smiled at Reba encouragingly.
"So when Henry died it felt as though you lost your own child?" "Yes" "And the children including those twins lost their brother. The twins will never get a chance to know their brother. How did that make you feel?"
Tears streamed down Reba's face. "It hurt. It hurt a lot" "Ms. Hart I understand there was a time when your ex-husband thought he was being funny but actually was being a jerk. What was the story with that" "I was late bringing the kids over to his house for summer vacation and he thought it would be funny to 'ground' me from seeing them for the summer because I did the same thing to him at one point.
"Little difference however. He was back at 3 AM. I got there at 8 PM" "And later it turned out that the reason he was so late was?" "Barbra Jean filled his gasoline tank with water, hid the kids phones and broke Brock's cell phone… she called it a 'harmless prank'
"So Barbra Jean was already messed up?" "That's putting it kindly." "Now when you lost the kids... you at one point tried to take your own life?" "Yes, Brock stopped me from doing it" "So Barbra Jean started this mess and Brock cleaned it up?"
"More or less" "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury this man (pointing to Brock) was unjustly punished for something that he wasn't even responsible for. This woman was driven to depression because of Barbra Jean's cruel sense of humor. Please vote guilty. No more questions.
