Author: mikesh
Title: Why did my life have to end up this way?
Summary: What if Darry had decided not to raise his two brothers?
Part: 24?
AN: Here is week one day one of the trial. There are going to be three weeks to the trial. And I'm not a lawyer so anything that's wrong sorry for ok?
Monday January 1, 1967
It's 8:30 in the morning, trial starts at 9:00. Before they went into the court room, Rose gave Pony a pad and pen. She told him that if he had any questions then to write them down and she would answer them either during
lunch or after they were done for the day.
Everyone has already entered the court room. Now they are just waiting for the judge to enter.
"All rise for the honorable judge Toby Low." Said the Bailiff
So everyone got up and waited for the judge to take his seat.
"You maybe seated now." Toby said
"Call your first witness Mr. McBoy" Toby said
"Thank you honor. I call Alex Boyd to the stand." Frances said
So Alex Boyd walked to the stand.
"Please place your right hand on the bible and raise your left hand. Do you solmy swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?" The Bailiff asked
"I do" Alex said
"You maybe seated" The Bailiff said
"Please state your name for the record." Judge Toby said
"Alex Boyd" Alex said
"Mr. Boyd How long have you known Mr. Moss?" Frances asked
"I've known him for eight years" Alex said
"Now how long have you known Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"I meat him just in the last ten months." Alex said
"How do you know Mr. Moss?"
"We've been friends since grade school." Alex said
"Ok and how do you known Mr. Curtis?" Mr. McBoy asked
"I know him through his dad Rick" Alex said
Pony just glared at him and he glared right back until Rose noticed that he was and she said
"Pony you can't glare at them ok?"
"Fine" Pony said not happy at all
"Have you seen Mr. Moss hit Mr. Curtis?" Mr. McBoy asked
"No I have never seen him raise so much as a hand to him." Alex said
"Ok So he never seen him raise a hand at him?" Mr. McBoy asked
"No never" Alex said
"Hmm that's interesting. Now is Mr. Moss a respected person?" Mr. McBoy asked
"Objection your honor I don't see what that has to do with anything" Rose said
"Either do I move on" Judge Toby said
"Have you ever seen Mr. Moss loose his temper?" Frances asked
"No never in my life!" Alex said
"I see so does Mr. Curtis show Mr. Moss respect?" Frances asked
"Objection your honor, I don't see what that has to do with anything." Rose said
"Either do I move on counselor." Judge Toby said
"But your honor!" Frances exclaimed
"Move on!" Judge Toby exclaimed very loudly
"Yes your honor. Now Mr. Boyd Does Mr. Moss and Mr. Curtis fight?" Frances asked
"I haven't seen it but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen." Alex said
"Ok last question is there any reason to believe that Mr. Moss would lay a hand on Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"No he's like a big bear." Alex said
There were some people who either started to laugh or in Pony's case snorted.
"Ok thank you. No more questions your honor." Frances said
He went and took his seat.
"Your turn counselor." Judge Toby said
So Rose got up and started talking.
"Hello Mr. Boyd I won't take too much of your time up since you've been up here for almost an hour. Now you said you've know Pony for how long?"
"Ten months" Alex said
"Really? That's interesting because Mr. Curtis has only been with Mr. Moss for seven to eight months." Rose said
"Oh well it just seems like I've known him longer." Alex said
"I see and how often have you seen Mr. Moss and Mr. Curtis together?" Rose asked
"Well just the once." Alex said
"I see. Thank you no more questions." Rose said
"You may step down. Call your next witness Counselor." Judge Toby said
"I call Sam Toy to the stand." Frances said
So Sam Toy walked to the stand and they swore him in and then he took his seat.
"Please state your name for the record." Frances said
Unknown to him Pony was writing down all the questions that he asked because he wanted to see if he did ask the same questions.
"My Name is Sam Toy" Sam said
"Thank you. Now how long have you known Mr. Moss?" Frances asked
"I've known him for five years. We work together at the hotel." Sam said
"Ok But I thought that he worked at the lab?" Frances asked
"No he works at a hotel. I don't know about any lab." Sam said
"O…k. Now how long have you known Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"I've known him for a month at most." Sam said
"Since we already know how you know Mr. Moss, how do you know Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"I know him through his father Sam" Sam said
It took all of Pony's nerves to not yell at the guy for calling Sam his father.
"In the time that you've know Mr. Moss have you ever seen him raise his hand to Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"No but I have seen him raise his hand to his wife." Sam said
There were some gasps in the court room.
"Have you ever seen Mr. Moss loose his temper in front of Mr. Curtis?" Frances asked
"No but I have seen him raise his hand to…" Sam started to say
"No future questions your honor." Frances said seeing that this guy wasn't helping them in the less bit.
"Your turn counselor." Judge Toby said
"Thank you your honor. So Mr. Toy you say you have seen Mr. Moss raise his hand to his wife?" Rose asked
"Yes I have" Sam said
"So would it be likely that he may have raised his hand to my client too?" Rose asked
"Yes it very well could have happened." Sam said
"Thank you no more questions." Rose said
Rose and Sam both walked back to their seats.
"Seeing as its eleven now we will break until noon today. Court dismissed." Judge Toby said
So the guys along with Rose and Pam and Steve all went to the dinner four blocks away to have lunch.
Dinner
"So why do you only ask a couple of questions? And why does that guy repeat himself? And you're not going to too are you?" Pony asked
"I'm getting them where it hurts and the guy isn't the best of lawyers. Actually he's not a good lawyer at all. And no I will not keep asking the same questions." Rose said
"Good because that guy's starting to sound like a broken record." Pony said
Everyone including Pony had to laugh about that.
They ate lunch in peace.
Court Room
Everyone got seated again and the judge arrived.
"Call your next witness counselor." Judge Toby said
"I call Kate Moss to the stand." Frances said
Kate is one of those girls that wears a little too much lipstick and eye shadow
So they got her sworn in and seated.
"Mrs. Moss how do you know Mr. Moss?" Frances asked
"Why he's my boyfriend." Kate said in way too high pitch of a voice.
Yes Mr. Moss was cheating on his wife. No he wasn't married to Mrs. Moss, she just liked to use his name so she didn't have to fight off guys, well the drunk guys that is.
So the questioning went on. My time she was done Pony was about to go and strangle her. She called him a brat and said how he was always in her way. She didn't say it in quite those words but Pony knew that that was what she was thinking.
The next person to come up was Elisa Mr. Love's soon to be ex wife
They got her sworn in and then she took the stand and shocked the courts with what she had to say.
When asked if she had seen Mr. Moss ever raise a hand to Mr. Curtis this is what she said
"She he's raised a hand to Pony a couple of times. He's raised his hand to me too. He does it because he needs to have control, but he doesn't have control."
"So you're saying that Mr. Moss wants to have control of people?" Frances asked
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Elisa said
(AN: Since I forgot to tell you, They've heard the evidence for Elisa and gave her one year in jail, but she still had to testify for the trial.)
"Thank you no more questions." Frances said
"Your turn counselor." Judge Toby said
"Thank you your honor. Now Mrs. Love would you say Mr. Moss hit you and Pony quite often?" Rose asked
"Yes he hit me almost every day. He didn't start hitting Pony until he'd been with us for a couple of weeks." Elisa said
"Thank you. Now if you knew Mr. Moss for 18 years like you say then why did you stay married to him if he was abusive?" Rose asked
"I stayed married because he didn't start getting real bad until we found out we couldn't have kids. Then once we adopted Pony he stopped for a couple of weeks and then he started again." Elisa said with tears in her eyes.
"Ok you say you weren't able to have kids, why is that?" Rose asked
"Objection your honor I don't see what having kids has anything to do with this trial." Frances said
"Counselor?" Judge Toby asked
"If you'll let me. I'm trying to figure out why the abuse got so bad." Rose said
"Go ahead answer the question." Judge Toby said
"It was because Sam had a low sperm count." Elisa said trying not to laugh.
"Ok I see." Rose said
There were a couple of people who started to laugh but calmed down within a few minutes.
"So Sam started beating you after you guys found out that it was because of him that you couldn't have kids?" Rose asked
"Yes that's right." Elisa said
"Ok thank you no more questions." Rose said
"You may step down now." Judge Toby told Elisa
"We are going to end there for today. Now everyone has to be here by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Court dismissed." Judge Toby said
So everyone left the court room.
"So we'll see you tomorrow." Two-Bit said
"Where are you going?" Steve D asked
"Home" Two-Bit said
"You guys can stay with us through the trial because Pony is too." Steve D said
"Thanks but we can't do that. Besides we have school" Dally said
"No I insists. Sorry I kind of forgot about that." Steve D said
"Sorry but we have to go to school." Two-Bit said
"Actually Keith because of the trial they've closed the school until the trail is over." Keith's mom said
"No they haven't." Two-Bit said
"Yes they have." Dally's mom said
"Here look at today's paper." Two-Bit's mom said
So the guys looked at the paper.
The headline said:
SCHOOL CLOSED FOR TRIAL
Principle John Weak has decided that since the trila of Ponyboy Curtis is starting today school will be closed until the end of the trial so anyone who wants to can go and cheer Ponyboy on.
"Now do you believe us?" Dally's mom asked
"Yeah. So is that offer still good?" Two-Bit asked
"Yeah it is." Steve D said
"Ok we'll see you tomorrow." Two-Bit said
"Bye" everyone said to each other.