Chapter 23 - The Verdict
After less than two hours of deliberation, the jury returned with their unanimous verdicts across all twenty counts.
The foreman stood up, reading the crisp white papers aloud into the microphone.
“On all counts of attempted murder, conspiracy, and arson, we find the defendants, Julian Calloway and Eleanor Calloway, Guilty.”
Eleanor let out a sharp, bird-like gasp, slumping forward against the mahogany table as her attorney patted her shoulder in hopeless defeat.
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Julian stared blankly at the polished wooden floorboards, his mouth moving silently as reality finally crushed his soul.
Two days later, the federal judge handed down his sentence: life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for Julian, and forty years for Eleanor.
