Birds With Broken Wings

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NADIA

"You may now cross-examine the witness, Counsel."

The Judge's voice rang out immediately I took my seat beside the defendant and I watched as the prosecutor stood up from his side of the court and he crossed over, in slow strides to stand in front of the witness.

The witness.

"You said you got a report from a reliable source that the accused was dealing drugs, right?" He asked the witness in a very confident voice that almost irked me. He sounded too confident that he was going to prove me wrong.

And well, I was going to give him a rundown for his money.

"Yes, I..."

"And how did you conclude that your source was reliable?"

"He had evidence of him dealing with drugs, there was photo evidence of the accused using an injection..."

"And that was it? The photo evidence of him using an injection was enough to conclude that he was injecting opioids into his body?"

"No, we also confirmed..."

"The accused is diabetic," He interrupted the witness again before he started to turn slowly, making sure to meet my shocked eyes because I was shocked.

Diabetes? How was that possible? That was going to turn that all my arguments, it was going to nullify the argument I spent the whole night building.

"The accused is diabetic," He repeated loudly this time around before he walked back to the counsel's stand, picked a file I assumed to be medical reports of the accused's health and he handed it over to the clerk to pass to the judge.

"And his medical reports have it that he has been on insulin injection for the past three years and..."

"Objection my Lord," I was up on my feet before I could even help it, "He can't bring a new evidence in when..."

"It's not a new evidence, it's just a fact; a fact that was ignored by the prosecution." He interrupted me in a firm tone as if he was talking to an errant child as if he wasn't just talking about this.

And honestly, I was starting to feel like everything he had been saying was just beyond this.

I was sure it has to do with the whole AY case.

"Overruled," I heaved a loud sigh before sitting down while my brain was working overtime, trying to come up with ways to salvage the situation, "Counsel, you may continue the cross-examination."

"Your source, the accused best friend of 6 years, sent the picture of the accused injecting himself and he lied that he was injecting opioids into his body knowing fully well that it was an insulin injection, doesn't this big lie nullify every other thing your source must have told you."

I was out of my seat again before I knew it, "Objection."

"That's all," We said at the same time and he just walked away from the witness stand to take his seat beside the defendant while I was just fuming with rage.

What's this? How could he just overturn my whole evidence and argument with just a single fact, a fact that I shouldn't have missed in the first place?