Chapter 14
Clara testified via video link from a private room, delivering a harrowing, courageous account of the family dinner where she was drugged. Her voice did not waver once as she described waking up inside the pitch-black, suffocating confines of the polished wooden casket.
"I knew my husband would find a way," Clara told the jury with unwavering conviction, her eyes shining through unshed tears. "Because love is stronger than any prison my mother-in-law could build."
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The jury members listened in rapt silence, visibly moved by her grace and resilience under fire. The defense lawyers attempted a weak argument regarding mental instability, but it fell completely flat against the mountain of forensic and documentary proof.
After closing arguments concluded, the judge handed the case over to the jury for deliberation. Everyone in the courtroom knew the verdict was inevitable.
