Chapter 248: The Third Witness


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    Marcel Jefferson stated that the surveince footage must be fake, leaving Jade Carlson speechless.


    “Objection!” She unconsciously stood up and yelled.


    The judge looked at her with confusion, “Grounds for the prosecutor’s objection?”


    The defense questioning the credibility of a witness’s testimony and presenting evidence to challenge it is a reasonable request, and Jade had no grounds to object.


    Jade opened her mouth, momentarily frozen.


    The judge seemed disappointed in today’s prosecutor and frowned, “Please prepare for the next trial procedure.”


    This simplement basically indicated her ipetence, suggesting she had to prepare even for court appearances.


    Jade’s face turned pale as she slowly sat down, feeling the disdainful gazes from people around her…


    Unconscious cold sweat broke out on her forehead.


    How on earth had ite to this…


    How was Purple Summers so skilled?


    She couldn’t understand it.


    Tworge mobile screens were moved to the center of the courtroom by staff, cing them side by side.


    Marcel Jefferson controlled the remote while the right screen yed surveince footage from November 2nd, and the other yed another surveince video.


    He fast-forwarded to a certain point.


    “Please look closely here.” Marcel Jefferson pointed to the gray-white sandy road in the surveince footage.


    If observed carefully, there seemed to be a small, dark shadow there—tiny and blurry.


    As the video yed, the shadow vanished in a sh.


    The judge frowned and asked, “Is what the defensewyer pointing out relevant to this case?”


    “Of course.” Marcel Jefferson smiled and adjusted both videos to y at the same slow speed, side-by-side.


    Everyone saw a small ck shadow zip across the sandy road in the video.


    What was going on?


    What was that ck shadow?


    Some people had already guessed the answer—


    “It’s a fly, isn’t it?”


    “…A fly flew by.”


    “Both videos have flies flying by!”


    Marcel Jefferson smiled, “This is the factory’s video from the afternoon of October 19th. I want to ask everyone why a fly would appear in exactly the same location on November 2nd?”


    He elegantly turned and addressed the jury, continuing, “Furthermore, it happens exactly 17 minutes and 48 seconds into the video. Unless this fly is equipped with an rm clock urate to the second, I just can’t understand this phenomenon.”


    The jury members looked doubtful, and some even turned their gaze to Jade, waiting for her exnation.


    However, Jade’s mind was already in chaos!


    How could such a clear-cut case end up like this?!


    She was at a loss for words.


    “It’s…It’s a coincidence… This is a coincidence…” she feebly uttered, her voice weak.


    Marcel Jefferson didn’t care about her, his cold gaze focused on the witness stand.


    “That’s because someone deleted the surveince video from the afternoon of November 2nd! In order to fool the police, the video from October 19th was copied! The only person capable of this is the security guard at the factory! Jared Curtis, you found Nana Rowe alone on the afternoon of November 2nd and forcibly kidnapped her! The surveince footage would have captured this, so you tampered with it!”


    He suddenly lunged forward and seized Jared Curtis’s hand, “The color of your hand ispletely different from the rest of your body! Your hands are whiter because you’re used to wearing gloves for many years. That’s why only Caspian Maple and Nana Rowe’s fingerprints were found on the jump rope! Think about it, if Nana Rowe was tortured to death by Caspian Maple, why wouldn’t he wipe his own fingerprints off and stupidly leave the murder weapon behind?” “Objection!” Jade got up anxiously and protested, “I object to the baseless allegations made by the defense against our witness!”


    Both sides were at a stalemate.


    At this moment, the always quiet Purple Summers raised her hand—