Read the excerpt from Monster.
Based on this dialogue, what can the reader infer?
PETROCELLI
Then he must have lied, is that right?
• This s Petrocellis first time acting as the prosecuting
attorney in a court of law.
O'BRIEN
• Mr. Harmon knows where he was during the day of
Objection. The prosecution is soliciting an argument.
the robbery.
PETROCELLI
O It isdyule of the court that lawyer may not argue
Withdrawn. Mr. Harmon, you say you weren't at the
with someone during questioning.
drugstore anytime during the day of the robbery.
• Petrocelli has not been a trial lawyer as long as
Perhaps you would tell us where you were.
O'Brien has.
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