Closing Statement

Closing statement

The Prosecution comes up here and claims that you should feel sorry for poor old Liz Vickers who needs more money from this accident she was in. But you don’t realize that Vickers already had her chance to sue Nick Ivy but she settled instead. And now she realizes that she wants some more money from this so she attacks our responsible host. Imagine that you are Mike Hearst right now. You decided that you wanted to have a perfectly legal gathering at your home. The purpose of this event was never just to get trashed but actually to get to know people. A guest creates a disturbance and is asked to leave. And now you are sitting in this courtroom being charged with causing an accident you were never involved in, facing an $18,000 penelty. This people, is unfair and ulawful when you take a close look at the law.
“Every person who negligently serves or causes to be served any alcoholic beverages to an obviously intoxicated person shall be severall...