Chapter 1251: 1251. Severe ntal illness patient
“Helen! So much blood, Helen…”
“Elly, wake up! Elly, wake up Elly…”
Adam Jones directly stepped onto the bed with his slippers and embraced Elly Campbell in his arms.
Feeling the great struggle and violent trembling of Elly in his embrace, it was evident that this accident had terrified her.
To witness her best friend get stabbed in the heart with a fruit knife and lie bloodied in front of her would traumatize anyone.
“Elly! Elly, it’s okay now, Elly!”
All Adam Jones could do was hold Elly and softly soothe her.
After a long while, the person in his arms finally began to relax.
She slowly opened her eyes, looking up sowhat blankly, and t Adam’s deep, heartbroken gaze.
“Adam?”
“Are you awake?”
Adam Jones reached out to gently wipe off the cold sweat on her forehead, “Were you scared by what happened today?”
Hearing Adam ntion today’s event, Elly’s complexion turned abruptly pale.
It took her a long ti to speak, “Helen was stabbed by that person while trying to save , at that ti…”
“No.”
Adam interrupted her, “That person was targeting Helen lendy from the start.”
Elly paused, her gaze filled with surprise as she turned to Adam, suddenly recalling the mont when he had grabbed the attacker’s hand to prevent further stabbing, the words the man kept repeating.
To avenge my brother…
What did that an?
“That was a ntally ill person, his brother is John Stevenson, the college student from the recent news who fought with a classmate and inadvertently caused a death. The person who stabbed Helen lendy is John’s brother.”
Elly had heard Helen talk about John Stevenson’s case.
John Stevenson’s family was poor, and his academic performance was average in school, often facing exclusion.
John Stevenson was arrested and prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office for getting into a fight at school and causing the death of a classmate.
Because John’s family couldn’t afford a lawyer, Helen lendy, besides running her own law firm, also registered at the Legal Aid Office to take on cases from there.
John Stevenson was Helen’s first legal aid case.
The family adamantly insisted that John had acted in self-defense after being bullied by the classmate and requested Helen to defend John as innocent.
However, the evidence submitted by the police, including witness statents and surveillance footage provided by the school, all indicated that it was John who had initiated the fight that day.
John Stevenson was not acting in self-defense.
Helen lendy tried several tis to explain to John’s parents that the evidence was solid, and at most she could only argue for a reduced sentence for involuntary manslaughter based on the fact that John was often bullied by the victim at school.
But the parents didn’t listen to Helen at all, they constantly berated her, saying she didn’t care to help their son in court because they were poor and couldn’t afford her lawyer fees.
Because of this incident, Helen would often say to her that the pitiful have faults to hate, and she shouldn’t have taken on such people’s cases.
Sure enough, her words proved true, taking on such a case from these people almost cost her her life.
Thinking of this, Elly’s face darkened, a frost spreading across her expression.
Suddenly, she rembered sothing, looked up at Adam Jones, and said, “John Stevenson’s brother is a ntally ill person?”
Adam Jones nodded, he had just received this information from the police.
John Stevenson’s brother was a severe ntal patient without full criminal responsibility, and it was very likely he would not be prosecuted.
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