The courtroom was silent.
My parents and Vanessa sat at the defense table.
Vanessa kept her head down and would not look anyone in the eye. My parents looked at me with open hatred, their faces tight with fury.
The first witness was the emergency physician who had responded to the crash three years earlier.
"When we arrived at the scene, Allison was clearly the more critical patient, so we started treatment on her first. A young woman at the scene identified herself as Allison's sister. She was distraught, but she did not call 911 right away, and she gave us very little useful information at the scene. I asked her twice for the exact location and the victim's basic information, and both times she stalled... Later, when the phone records were reviewed, we found that her first call was n
