My Husband Mocked Me For Having No Lawyer—Until My Mother Walked Into The Courtroom

dead. We were estranged. We hadn’t spoken in twenty years. Until yesterday, when I finally called her and told her what you were doing to me.”

“Estranged,” Catherine Bennett repeated, the word rolling off her tongue like a verdict, like a pronouncement of doom. She moved around the defense table with fluid grace, taking the chair beside me. She didn’t continue reading …