The Court of Public Opinion (Ebook)

Same evidence. Six different trials. You only saw one. In the Republic of Vey, justice is a television event. A judge decides guilt, but the public decides the sentence, after watching ninety minutes of edited evidence called The Hearing. Viewers win points for predicting the vote. Commentators have millions of followers. Emergency call handler Amara Cole took a forty-one-second call from a seven-year-old boy whose sister had stopped breathing. The line dropped. The address never came through. A four-year-old girl died. Now four million people are watching Amara's trial. They've seen the dial tone. They've seen her worst photograph. They've seen her divorce and a glass of wine at a party. They haven't seen the first eight seconds of the call, or the empty desks in the control room. Her lawyer, Jon Ferris, thinks the broadcast has been edited. He's about to find out it's been edited six different ways. THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION: a novella of justice, media and the edit. Complete and standalone, from ThextonLabs. WHAT YOU GET - The complete novella (12,300 words, 49 pages) - EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books - 6x9 PDF that reads beautifully on any phone, tablet or computer HOW TO READ IT - Kindle: send the EPUB to your Kindle with the free Send to Kindle app or email - iPhone and iPad: open the EPUB in Apple Books - Android: open the EPUB in Google Play Books, or just open the PDF - Computer: open the PDF PLEASE NOTE - This is a DIGITAL download. Nothing physical will be shipped. - Personal use only: please don't share or resell the files. - Contains the death of a child (off page). Suitable for adult readers. - Written and designed by ThextonLabs with the help of AI tools, then edited and proofread.