Chapter 48 Section 21

In this regard, there was only one sentence in the chief juror's statement: "Because of fearing that she and her mother's lives would be hurt, Cheryl Carran took extreme defensive measures." Just outside the gate of the courtroom, Mickey Cohen was so angry that he yelled in front of the media: "What the hell? 'Excusable murder'? According to the jurors, Johnny himself was not careful. I ran into a knife edge myself... It seems that my decades have been in vain. I never knew that a dead person could be convicted of his own murder... 'Excusable murder'? It's slippery What a joke!"

Stepanato's family called the forensic jury's verdict "absurd": "There is no such thing as 'excusable murder' in the world... How can it be 'excusable' when it's 'murder'?  … In the end, we were doomed from the very beginning, even before the case went to court... Who is our opponent? A famous Oscar movie star, a restaurant owner with a family fortune of millions, they have money, with the best lawyer in California, and the Chief of Police is a regular at Mr. Carran's..." In fact, like Mickey Cohen, Stepanato's family members also know that the real reason for their loss is Jonny Stepanato's underworld background. Since he is "black", he deserves death. Everyone can be punished.

Hours later, the forensic jury's verdict appeared on the front pages of nearly every newspaper in that afternoon's issue, with the L.A. Evening Herald-Express headlined "Lana Turner Best Performance, Jury Awards Gold Oscar." There are also many reports focusing on the doubts raised by the police officers' testimony about the case.At that time, a poll showed that more than half of the American public believed that Lana Turner was responsible for the case, and then launched the "underage" Cheryl to take the blame and clean herself up. More people believed that Lana had at least a stronger motive than Xue Luoer.

The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Michelson announced that the Attorney General's Office, after careful consideration, had decided to accept the verdict of the forensic jury and not pursue the Joni Stepanato case.However, in view of the fact that this "accident" injured human life and had serious consequences, Lana Turner will be held accountable for "lax discipline" of her children as a parent, and Cheryl Karan will be ordered to "transfer" to St. Duogu Girls' School, a juvenile correctional school for "problem girls", ordered the "negligent party" to pay a certain amount of compensation to the "injured party".

So far, those who should be tried have been tried, those who should be punished have been fined, those who should be compensated have been compensated, and those who should be paid have been paid. otherwise. I don't know when it started, another letter quietly spread among the people.According to many people's speculation, this may come from Mickey Cohen again.Although its origin cannot be ascertained, the authenticity of the letter itself is beyond doubt—— Dear Jonny: First of all, please forgive me for writing to you on such crude letter paper, but I really don't have any better paper at hand.

Received your letter this morning when I happened to be at home for the weekend. How are you?how is mom "Rowanna" did well and I'm not afraid of her at all now.It is as tame and docile in my hands now as it was in yours last summer.Yes, I still plan to take it to Dongyuan Equestrian Club to practice hurdles this summer. I always feel that I dare not, you know, but now, I am confident that I can control it. School life is still the same as usual, but the homework is getting more and more difficult. I went to the "Crescent" studio to watch John Mathers record his "Sunday Night" and like you said, he was really good!

Did you go water skiing again?I know you'll forget about me when you're having a good time.Be sure to think of me.I love that feeling of missing you. When are you coming back?I hope soon.