Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime - Chapter 988

Chapter 988: Chapter 988: Avoidance_1 Chapter 988: Chapter 988: Avoidance_1 “Jane McCain, like everyone else, I believe you are innocent,” Allen Rivera began, “I arrested you only because it was my duty, nothing more.”

“So emotionally you believe I’m not guilty, but logically you have to arrest me as a criminal?” Jane McCain looked at him and murmured, “You really are a conflicted person.”

Allan Rivera made no comment.

And he couldn’t help but ask himself, if he had never known Jane McCain, would he have prejudged her as the murderer after taking on this case?

Lost in thought, he felt a weight on his shoulder.

It was Jane McCain, gently patting his back.

“Don’t be afraid,” she said, with a touch of self-mockery, “It’s too late to be scared now, prosecutor.”

Allan Rivera managed a wry smile.

It should have been him consoling her, but the roles were reversed, a situation tinged with subtle irony.

After Jane McCain identified the photographs, Allan Rivera recorded all the photo numbers, and left the photos with Jane, urging her to look at them as much as possible in the hope that something might come back to her.

Memory is a strange thing, like a grasshopper hiding in the grass–sometimes you can’t find it no matter how hard you try, and other times it suddenly jumps out at you.

Two days later, Jane McCain still couldn’t remember where she had heard the story, but the police investigation had made new progress.

While questioning Jane’s friends, they learned from one of them that when Jane was fourteen, she had once cut off a male model’s ear, and her mother had paid a lot of money to the man in compensation.

Allan Rivera received the injury report from the police and sat alone in his office for a long time.

Then he went to the attorney general’s office.

“I request to recuse myself from this case. Please assign someone else to investigate it,” Allan Rivera said.

The attorney general was surprised: “Why? You are one of the best prosecutors in the Prosecutor’s Office. You’re more than qualified to handle this case.”

Allan Rivera fell silent for a moment, then replied, “I know the defendant.”

The attorney general flipped through the files, asking with puzzlement, “Are you… boyfriend and girlfriend?”

“No, just friends,” Allan Rivera said flatly.

“Just friends, there’s no need to recuse yourself, is there?” the attorney general spoke, “If you’re worried about people questioning you, you needn’t be. I trust you won’t let personal feelings affect your work.”

“No, I still request to be recused from this case,” Allan Rivera persisted, “I don’t want any factors to compromise the fairness of this case.”

After Allan Rivera insisted repeatedly, the attorney general reluctantly agreed.

Later, Allan Rivera visited Jane McCain at the detention center again and informed her of the current situation.

“If you’re lucky and get an inexperienced prosecutor and hire a domineering criminal defense lawyer, you have a good chance of an acquittal, so don’t be too pessimistic.”

Jane McCain was dumbstruck.

She vaguely understood Allan Rivera’s implication: If the prosecutor were him, would her case be doomed? No chance of turning things around???

Where did this guy get his confidence…

“But the current situation is still unfavorable for you, especially since you’ve previously injured someone. It will leave a bad impression of uncontrollable violence on the judge and jury…”

Jane McCain, anxious, interrupted before Allan Rivera could finish, “But I didn’t do it on purpose! He was drunk, and I just wanted to stop him from coming over. I waved the knife with my eyes closed and never meant to cut off his ear! Besides, we had already reconciled!”

“Regardless of what actually happened at the time, it won’t change the fact that you once cut off a man’s ear,” Allan Rivera paused, taking a deep breath, “Listen to me, Jane McCain, your case involves dismemberment, the body was cut up, and once the jury starts any mental association with your act of cutting off an ear… the consequences are unthinkable.”

He then asked, “Did your mother find you a lawyer?”

Jane McCain’s face fell, “Yes, she did.”

“Fire them,” Allan Rivera said, “I recommend you seek help from Purple Summers. Having her defend you will greatly increase your chances of winning.”