Chapter 34 Summary

Court is in session on Saturday morning, and little changes as the defense calls their final witness, an researcher named Dr. Olney who has experimented with mice and found that exposure to cigarette smoke did not cause them to have lung cancer. Among the spectators were Hoppy, offering Millie smiles of support, Tauton, the black lawyer from Charlotte who kept glancing at Lonnie, Derrick Maple and other members of the juror's families who are there partly to show their support and partly to satisfy their curiosities.

Meanwhile, Beverly Monk wakes mid-afternoon, thinking about what Swanson said. She thinks about Phoebe, another girl that she and Claire had worked with, who might know a little more about Claire's background, particularly a boy she had once dated that was not Jeff Kerr. She knows that Phoebe is currently in the same situation, and mentally plans...