Chapter 255: Shifting Gears
Even the closing arguments made by the defense team were not very convincing. The lead attorney who was expected to deliver the closing arguments left mid-trial because he had chest pain.
Everything was dramatic.
Lennon knew he was screwed the moment the judge read his name as William Caroll and when the lead attorney walked out, he knew his fate was sealed.
Rory shivered at the glare of Lennon as the lead attorney was taken out. She sensed everyone’s gaze on her as Lennon glared at her.
Liam held her hand and covered her from the glare of everyone else.
The final arguments were given by another attorney and although he was not a bad lawyer, his arguments were. They were lousy at best and made one believe if the defense team was trying or not. They didn’t even bring up Liam’s name as their entire argument in the earlier trials was that Liam was the culprit.
Well, maybe the slightly embarrassing moment when Liam was asked to tie a fairly complex knot that was used by the killer, he sucked so badly that even the jury laughed. Everyone knew that Liam was not pretending to not be able to make the knot because they could see how hard he tried to make the knot.
Maybe that was the reason the defense decided not to bring up Liam.
The defense just mentioned that there is no concrete evidence against Lennon. They stated that all the evidence are circumstantial. The biggest evidence against Lennon was his office room where he made a shrine for all his victims. They argued that anyone could have made it in Lennon’s house which he no longer used.
But there were already many witnesses who testified on record that Lennon was still using the house himself. And the records of the flights he took in secret when he was supposedly in LA, and the enormous amount of evidence found in the cave in the woods which only Lennon had access to. The footprints were crosschecked, and the expert said that it could be Lennon’s as he used different size shoes just to throw everyone off.