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Steve Harmon Wrongly Accused

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In today's society, lots of people do the wrong things. In the book, Steve Harmon is wrongly accused of murder and is on trial. Steve Harmon is a 15-year black boy who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Steve was not the lookout was not responsible for MR. Nesbitt's death because he never confessed, Mrs. Henry didn't even see him in the store and he wasn't even in the store when it happened. First of all, Steve was not the lookout because he never confessed to it. For instance, when O’Brien asked Stever if he was a part of the robbery, Stever answers, I know I wasn't in the drugstore on page 229. He is also under oath. So why would he lie to the judge if he doesn’t want to go the jail? So that's a way to prove he is innocent. Steve

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