Nice writing. Though one bit stretches credulity for anyone familiar with modern legal systems:
When he’d learned Judge Faden had insisted on making Joe Chill’s trial public, Bruce knew what would come of it. Still, Bruce had to see it himself. To see justice executed.
In camera trials are almost exclusively reserved for cases involving big secrets. It‘s very unlikely for petty homicide to warrant anything other than a public trial. So it’s difficult to imagine anything but a very alien society that would need someone to ‘insist’ to make a trial public.
To clarify, this wasn’t the homicide hearing (that took place years earlier, while Bruce was still a child), but clemency for Chill’s help in ratting out the mob with information he gathered while imprisoned. But probably your broader point still stands. I’ll tweak that part.
Nice writing. Though one bit stretches credulity for anyone familiar with modern legal systems:
In camera trials are almost exclusively reserved for cases involving big secrets. It‘s very unlikely for petty homicide to warrant anything other than a public trial. So it’s difficult to imagine anything but a very alien society that would need someone to ‘insist’ to make a trial public.
To clarify, this wasn’t the homicide hearing (that took place years earlier, while Bruce was still a child), but clemency for Chill’s help in ratting out the mob with information he gathered while imprisoned. But probably your broader point still stands. I’ll tweak that part.