If you consider him innocent now, and by law you must, if you have not prejudged him, then I don’t believe we will have a problem convincing you that nothing the State will produce will challenge that innocence. Harmon’s attorney all I ask of you, the jury, is that you look at Steve Harmon now and remember that at this moment the American system of justice demands that you consider him innocent. We will show not only that there is room for reasonable doubt–and you will hear more about that idea at the end of the trial–but that the doubt that Steve Harmon has committed any crime, any crime at all, is overwhelming. In this case we will show that the evidence that the State will produce is seriously flawed. The law that protects society protects all of society. We don’t drag people out of their beds in the middle of the night and lynch them. The novel tells the story of Steve Harmon, a Black adolescent living in Harlem who is on trial for the murder of. “But the laws also protect the accused, and that is the wonder and beauty of the American system of justice. Monster is a young adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers published in 1999.
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