“Maybe now you’ll learn your place,” my mother-in-law sneered after my husband attacked me while I held our sick baby post-surgery. Weak and trembling, I locked us in the room and dialed one number. Minutes later, heavy boots kicked down the front door, and my husband’s face went pale as my father walked in wearing his general’s uniform and said…

“Absolutely not. The blunt force required to shear through sutured fascia in this manner is immense. This was a concentrated, high-velocity impact. A punch.”

The defense’s fatal error occurred on the fourth day. They called Patricia to the stand as a character witness.

Dressed in designer tweed, Patricia attempted to play the grieving, bewildered matriarch.continue reading …