Your honor, I come to you this evening on October 31st, 1953 with my final word. I understand I have committed the act of murder of Alexander Harris, i at this point in time feel no remorse for what I have done. I have taken the law into my own hands after being told for months there was nothing anyone could do for me. I have relocated five times in two months, I have made over a hundred complaints about him coming into my home or showing up to my place of work. I have refused to go to the grocery store and I have taken all my doors off every room so I could easily see into them. I can’t sleep and I can’t eat thinking he will come out while I’m distracted. Your honor when I got five restraining orders I was told I was “safe from harm” but when he continuously broke the order I had no aid. My family turned against me and I refuse to feel guilt for a man who tried to take my life constantly and I will not feel guilt for a system that refused to help me. This is all I have to say and for that I am ready for the verdict.

With that statement I feel awful for the things you’d been through. But it is up to the jury to decide your fate. And to them I ask to please stand and tell the court what you have decided.

Guilty on all accounts.