My client Mr.Hyde, is of nothing but the highest of morals. The witness must have not paying attention at all, she even admits to her fainting. Although that is irrelevant since the only logical explanation is the murder is none other than Henry Jekyll. Aren't they the same person I heard someone ask, if you say that then you are suffering a mental illness and should go to an insane asylum ; since that is quite impossible. As we all know Hyde and Jekyll have a close relationship, they share a key to Jekyll's house,the will. For all we know Jekyll could have been using Hyde to take the murder for him. As I have shown you before, the check from Hyde that was actually from Jekyll to pay off the blackmail of him trampling a little girl. But obviously Jekyll had set it up that way to give Hyde some bad rep so to easily pin the murder on him later.
In Conclusion my client Edward Hyde is not guilty, but instead we should have a testimony from Henry Jekyll on where he was on the night of the murder. Which we can't do since Jekyll is missing which clearly makes Hyde innocent since there's not evidence on the contrary.
You jumped right into the point of view of the defense attorney in the Hyde murder trial. Bravo! I do think that you need to work a bit more on a more captivating beginning and ending statement, for this is your last chance at making an impact on the jury. You want this statement to be powerful enough to sway the jury to side with you. I really admire how you payed attention to the ignorance of the Victorian society when thinking about a realistic defense. Of course, they would not have any way to explain why Jekyll is missing and would not very likely believe that Jekyll and Hyde were the same person since this was not universal scientific knowledge at the time. This is a great point and should certainly be your last reason for acquitting Hyde. You do need to spend a bit more time and elaboration on disproving the evidence and witness statements that the prosecution would be trying to use. Try to be as specific as possible and construct realistic facts that would support your side of the argument. Use quotes from the book for witness statements in order to remain authentic. Paragraph breaks will help isolate your main reasons that Hyde should be released. One final hint: try to watch some courtroom TV drama shows or youtube clips of courtroom TV to get a feel for the legal language and phrases to enhance your writing. Great start.
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