The lead defense attorney read Elena’s words aloud—”He keeps begging me to try another round of treatment. He doesn’t understand: I’ve already decided”—and by the time they got to the final entry, half the jury was crying. One woman had to be excused so her fellow jurors weren’t washed away in a flood of tears.
The tone of the headlines shifted after that. BILLIONAIRE MURDERER became A HUSBAND’S HEARTBREAKING SECRET became THE LAZAREV LETTERS: INSIDE ONE WOMAN’S HEARTBREAKING FINAL WISH. Public opinion, that fickle, bloodthirsty animal, rolled over and showed its soft underbelly.
So now, Lukas’s lawyers are cautiously optimistic. “Cautiously optimistic,” of course, is lawyer-speak for “we think we’re going to win, but we’d rather swallow glass than say so on the record.”
But that’s okay
