LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Junie Moon is a prostitute,” Yuki said. “She’s in violation of the law every time she works, and her clientele is made up largely of schoolboys below the age of consent. But we don’t hold the defendant less credible because of what she does for a living. Ms. Moon has her reasons - and that doesn’t make her guilty of the charges against her.
So, please judge her as you would anybody else. We’re all equal under the law. That’s the way our system works.
Ms. Moon is charged with tampering with evidence and with murder in the second degree.
In my opening statement, I told you that in order to prove murder, we have to prove malice. That is, that the person acted in such a way as we can construe them to have had ‘an abandoned and malignant heart.
What does an abandoned and malignant heart look like
Ms. Moon told the police that she ignored Michael Campion’s pleas for help, she let him die, and then she covered up this crime by dismembering and disposing of that young man’s body.
Could any of you cut up a person’s body?” Yuki asked. “Can you imagine what’s involved in dismembering a human being? I have a hard time cutting up a chicken. What would it take to dismember a person who was living and breathing and speaking only hours before - someone who was sharing your bed
What kind of soul, what kind of character, what kind of person, what kind of heart, would it take to do that
Wouldn’t that behavior define an abandoned and malignant heart
The defendant made this confession when she thought she was off the record and in the clear. But Junie Moon got it wrong. A confession is a confession, ladies and gentlemen, on tape or off. It’s as simple as that. She made an admission of guilt, and we’re holding her to it.
Now, the People have the burden of proving our case beyond a reasonable doubt. So if you can’t answer every question in your mind, that’s normal. That’s human. That’s why your charge is to find the defendant guilty beyond reasonable doubt - but not beyond all doubt.
Yuki’s voice was throbbing in her throat when she said, “We don’t know where Michael Campion’s body is. All we know is the last person to see him is sitting in that chair.
Junie Moon confessed again and again and again.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all you need to find her guilty and to give justice to Michael Campion and his family.
