Chapter 32
Chapter 32
Most of that day was little more than a blur. Randall said he'd spent a great deal of time developing a new approach for the negotiation of my sentence. My parents were highly skeptical and I honestly refused to believe a word of it unless I saw it for myself. As usual, the prosecution was ready. They presented a thorough, yet brief, review of the events that led to my conviction, noting that nothing substantial had been produced that would cause the jury to reconsider my sentence and in not so many words, they remarked that my punishment should be held up as both an example and a deterrent. Randall stood, unfazed by the prosecutor's argument that I should be used as, more or less, the poster child of the military's wartime moral compass. He argued that the death of
