I thought that the case went very
well, especially for my side, the defense. I think that we were very prepared
for this case and did a good job at proving our points. I’m very happy that
Jack was found not guilty for the murders of Simon and Piggy because despite
that fact that he was my client, I honestly felt that he was not the murderer,
or sole murderer of these cases. In Simon’s case, he obviously helped in
killing him, but I really believe that it was for self-defense and not just
because he was a violent person and wanted to kill Simon for no reason. Also,
in this case, every single other boy in the group helped with the death of
Simon. On account of Piggy’s death, I also truly believe that Jack had nothing
to do with this. Yes, he was there but I really, truly believe that he was
innocent. I’m a little disappointed, however, that my client received 3 years
in prison, but on the other hand, I can’t disagree with the fact that he tried
to kill Ralph. One thing that I would do differently in this case would be to
focus in a little more on the attempted murder of Jack. My partner and I did
not really go into detail on this. I think that if we did, the verdict would
have been not guilty for the attempted murder of Ralph. I would have argued
that again, Jack was not the only one involved in this crime. The rest of the
boys on the island were too. Although, I do think it is much different from the
death of Simon, where everyone was involved again because that was a case of
self-defense and the attempted murder of Ralph was not. I think that the
witnesses on the side of the defense did an excellent job in convincing the
jury that Jack was not guilty for the murders of Simon and Piggy. I wouldn’t
have changed any questions on the direct examinations. However, for the cross
examination, I would have wished that Piggy would have agreed with my question
that he was equally as responsible as Jack was for the murder of Simon. Piggy
denied this on the stand and made it very hard to get my point across although
it did come through in the end. Nevertheless, Piggy was not on my side and it
was good for the prosecution that he gave me a hard time. All in all, I thought
this case was a good experience for me because a want to be a lawyer sometime
in the future. I also had a good time doing it.