Chapter 522
Not to mention Celeste’s body hasn’t fully recovered, and she was still a bit childish herself. It would have been like a child raising a child. He didn’t think it was the best time for them to have a kid given their situation at the time.
They had a huge disagreement on the issue of having children, and on top of that, Shawn’s company had quality Issues with their products, which involved Celeste and affected Clyde’s project. The board members kept asking him for an explanation, and Celeste brought up the topic of having a child at that time, so they had a big fight.
After the argument, he was busy dealing with the aftermath of Shawn’s issue and barely stayed at home during that period.
If it was back in July last year. It was exactly when these two things happened.
Liam’s heart clenched.
He had no idea she was taking sleeping pills, let alone about this diagnosis.
Liam felt a lump in his throat. Although Celeste hid her Celestial Haze account from him, she never hid her emotions. It was he who overlooked
those facts
She didn’t hide it that well. If he had been just a little more caring, he wouldn’t have found out about all this until now.
After Mason finished his statement, the judge asked the defense lawyer to speak.
Sydney got a top–notch lawyer for Hanson, who didn’t deny the evidence listed by Mason. Instead, he questioned the diagnosis.
Celeste’s diagnosis was from last July, while the main abusive messages from the defendant were mainly after this January. Therefore, he asserted that Celeste’s depression had no direct connection with the defendant’s comments.
The defense lawyer spoke sharply, “In conclusion, we believe that there is no necessary causality between these two events. We cannot say that the plaintiff’s depression was caused by the defendant’s comments. Maybe her life situation was already not going well, or maybe she was already prone to depression.”
He looked at Celeste, “Your Honor, I request to ask the plaintiff some questions.”
Owen whispered to Liam, “Mr. Reed, the defendant’s lawyer seems to be your college classmate.”
Not just “seems,” he was Liam’s college classmate.
The defendant’s lawyer, Hector, was all about money. As long as he was paid, he’d take any case without considering the character of his clients.
His most famous case was a poisoning incident in a university lab five years ago. At that time, there was plenty of testimony that the suspect had ample time and motive to commit the crime, but there was no fingerprint or hair evidence found at the scene, nor was there any direct evidence that the suspect had entered the lab before the incident. In other words, there was no proof that the poison was placed by the suspect. Although he brought the toxic substance back to his dormitory, the poison was found in the water dispenser in the lab. Since the entire chain of evidence could not be connected, there was no proof that the suspect was the poisoner, only that he carried a toxic substance illegally.
Hector grasped a key point and successfully turned the case around. A poisoning case became a manslaughter case, and the suspect was sentenced to only five years for causing death by carrying a toxic substance.
The case caused quite a stir at the time.
Hector was widely discussed by netizens, but it didn’t affect his reputation.
Those who hired him for their cases were wealthy people. For them, avoiding jail time was the best deal they could get.
