Chapter 1010: Chapter 1010: Just a Warm-up_1 Chapter 1010: Chapter 1010: Just a Warm-up_1 After a morning of verbal skirmishes, the judge announced a recess, and the court hearing would continue in the afternoon.

Purple Summers joined Marcel Jefferson, Aria Jackson, and Zara Jameson to find a restaurant near the courthouse to have lunch together and take a short break.

“The prosecution must be nearly finished presenting their evidence, right?” Marcel Jefferson said, “It seems like there’s only one witness left.”

“Yeah, just Dion Benson left.” Aria Jackson looked at Purple Summers, “Are you confident about the cross-examination?”

Purple Summers slowly tasted her bowl of steamed egg with shrimp, lifting her gaze at the question, “Fifty-fifty, I guess.”

Zara’s heart tightened at this, and she expressed her concern, “Will Jane McCain be convicted? Do we still have a chance to appeal?”

“Stay calm,” Aria Jackson gently patted her shoulder, “The fifty percent she’s talking about is the chance of sending Dion Benson to jail. Jane McCain will definitely be fine.”

Zara let out a sigh of relief, but she still felt nervous given that the morning’s court hearing did not seem very optimistic. Although Purple Summers occasionally had the upper hand, it did not seem to be a very clear advantage.

After eating half a bowl of steamed egg with shrimp and picking out all the shrimp, Purple Summers asked, “Any news from Allen Rivera yet?”

“No.” Aria Jackson glanced at her phone, “The calls aren’t going through, and it’s uncertain if he’ll make it back today.”

Purple Summers continued her lunch in silence, asking nothing further.

…

Standing in front of a household’s door within an old, grey-white building, Allen Rivera said earnestly, “I’m sorry to bother you again, but this is about the truth of the case. Please try to remember if your son was particularly close with someone before the incident, or any abnormalities…”

The middle-aged woman looked troubled, “Mr. Rivera, we really don’t know. We’ve already told you everything we could…”

Before she could finish, a middle-aged man’s roar erupted from inside the house, “Tell him to get lost! Get out!”

The man came charging to the door, angrily flinging a potful of dishwater straight at Rivera!

“Ahhh!!” the woman screamed in shock!

Although Rivera reacted quickly, he still got doused with half a pot of dishwater! The culprit then slammed the pot on the ground, it crashed with a loud bang, and he stormed off.

“Prosecutor, are you okay?” the woman hurriedly turned around and brought some paper from inside to wipe Rivera, but even though the water stains could be wiped off, the putrid smell of the dishwater could not.

“Don’t blame him…” the woman was worried the prosecutor might retaliate, her voice filled with pitiable explanation, “We only had these two sons, and for years there was no news from them. We thought our child was making good money in the big city, but who knew…”

Allen Rivera wiped his face with the paper, his expression still indifferent.

The woman sighed, “Please don’t come here again. We really don’t know anything. If we had to say someone came by, it was only that one time when Kaiser came home to recuperate, some male colleague visited him at the hospital…”

“Recuperate?” Allen Rivera’s movements paused.

The woman turned her face away, embarrassed and sorrowful, “Alas! Who knows how he got it… how he contracted that disease…”

…

The afternoon court hearing began, and Purple Summers and Marcel Jefferson returned to the defense bench.

As they predicted, the prosecution was wrapping up their evidence presentation, and the last witness to take the stand was the long-awaited Dion Benson!

Aria Jackson sat in the viewer’s area with a smile, whispering, “Someone is about to officially start working.”

“Hmm?” Zara was puzzled, “Wasn’t just now counted?”

“Just now?” Aria Jackson chuckled, “That was just a warm-up. Now she’s going all out!”

Zara asked uncertainly, “Is this… a strategy? To exert full effort at the very end?”

“No,” Aria Jackson looked towards Purple Summers at the defense bench, smiling, “It’s just that she was worried about scaring the opponents away from the courtroom, so she had to go easy at the beginning. Watch, the fox is about to show its tail.”