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Gentleman of the jury, today we have heard the accusations against Tom Robinson. He is accused of rape. I, Atticus Finch, have been appointed as Mr. Robinson’s defense and I urge you to strongly believe that he is telling the truth. In Mr. Heck Tate’s testimony he stated that Tom Robinson has raped Bob Ewell’s daughter called Mayella. He also said that Miss Mayella has been mighty beat up. However, if that is true why didn’t Mr. Heck Tate call a doctor? At the moment I asked him that he started to be nervous and started to second doubt himself. In Mr. Ewell’s testimony he does not add any more information than Mr. Heck Tate already said. When he enters the court he has no respect to anyone else in the court. He used extremely offensive language furthermore he was very aggressive. Mr. Heck Tate said the Mayella has been punched in the right eye therefore Mr. Ewell could have punched her since he is left handed. …show more content…

Robinson punched her. After she had changed her statement multiple times and was very uncomfortable. She was a bucket full of emotions up here. One of the reasons I think she was like this is that she was told to lie. I believe that she is lying because she wasn’t screaming when Mr. Robinson raped her. Tom Robinsons told us that he has been helping her to chop the kindling multiple times. He hasn’t done it to earn money but he did it to help her. He did not rape Miss Mayella but Miss Mayella hugged him and wanted to kiss him. It is impossible for Tom to do such thing as others stated because he cannot use his left

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