Torri Piekarski's Case

Good afternoon, my name is Torri Piekarski, and it's my pleasure to represent Maycomb County and to serve as a prosecutor in this case. The trial began Mayella Ewell lied under oath to the judge that Tom Robison had raped her. Mayella Ewell committed this crime because she knows that if she tells the truth, then her father would violently act upon her. So, she lied about telling the whole truth and nothing about the truth, so her dad wouldn’t do anything to her about telling the truth. They would just keep everything on the low down together. Mayella has grown up very poorly. Her father, Bob Ewell, got money and just spent it on alcohol. She lived near the garbage dump with her dad. Mayella has no friends and no way of reaching out for help.

After you have heard a little bit of information on the trial of Mayella and Tom's case, I am confident that you will return a judgment guilty of perjury. Members of the jury, Maycomb County, will represent some evidence that has been found on Mayella lying under oath. She claims that Tom Robinson has raped her, but there is no evidence of any injuries to her body from him (Lee 200). Tom Robinson's employer, Mr. Link Deas, testified that Tom was at work at the time of the reported rape (Lee 222). Mayella is the daughter of Bob Ewell, who is a known racist and has a history of violence (Lee 195). Heck Tate is the officer of Maycomb and he didn’t immediately report the crime (Lee 190). The last evidence we have today is that no one called a doctor right away when they saw Mayella (Lee 190-191). It is a very bad thing to lie under oath to all people. Mayella is guilty because she had bruises on the left side of her face and accused Tom of doing that to her. She is wrong because the person who would have had to hit her on that side would have been left-handed. Tom Robinson is right-handed because he can’t use his left hand. His arm was caught in a cotton gin when he was a kid, his left hand twelve inches shorter than his