The courtroom was packed, the air so heavy with tension it felt like it might snap. Families filled the benches, reporters scribbled in notepads, and lawyers whispered urgently to their clients. All eyes flicked toward the front, where Alicia Matthews sat at the defense table, wrists trembling in her lap. She was a single mother, accused of resisting arrest and endangering a police officer during what was supposed to be a routine traffic stop.
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