Considered
as one of the most severe and the most straight judges of the county,
judge Monica Larson was chosen as the judge who will conduct Cruz
Castillo's trial for Elena Nikolas's murder.
Honorable
judge Monica Larson has to watch throughout the debates the many law
deviations from both parties so that the members of the jury can make a
right opinion and the closest possible of what really happened in the
Laser Palace. She succeeds in maintaining a fragile balance in the
debates during the interrogations of the Capwell family members, in
front of the district attorney's
excesses.
Repeatedly, she has to summon the defense and the prosecution in her
study to call them in to order. However the situation eventually gets
on top of one when
Cruz tries to strangle Keith Timmons face to everyone.
Moved
by Eden Capwell's
need to enjoy her right to visit Cruz, and also shocked by Keith
Timmons's despising behavior towards law, she grants Eden's
requests and allows, under precise conditions, a right of access to
Eden.
Judge
Larson has regularly to refuse and put back in place Keith when the
defense calls on to new witnesses, as Harold Jenkins and the veiled
woman. She refuses to extent a session to the defense, guaranteeing that
Cruz had a just and fair trial.
At
the end of the deliberations, it is her who asks Cruz to get up and to
face the jury, and the clerk of the court to read the verdict, when Cruz
is declared guilty of premiditary murder.
During
the demand of release on bail, she has to face again and again verbal
sparring matches between Keith and the defense, which perturbs all the
debates. Then she chairs a new session : the reading of the judgment.
Before the reading, she reminds to Cruz his crime : the deliberated
murder of a human being of cold blood, and that for such a crime, the
State law recommends capital punishment. According to the
recommendations of the jury, she transforms it into life imprisonment
matched by a mandatory minimum sentence
of 25 years. However, she accepts Keith's request : to allow Cruz to
attend Kelly Capwell and Jeffrey Conrad's wedding, so making possible
his escape plan...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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