Defense: We’ve been talking about motive, Ms. Sands, so I’d like to further discuss the restraining order the victim took out on you a few months before his death. What pushed him to do that?
Penny Sands: I don’t know. He was a psychopath. Why did he do any of it?
Defense: If I recall, that’s what he said about you when he spoke with the police.
Penny Sands: Then it’s my word against his, and he’s dead. I guess that means I win by default.
Defense: He stated that you continually tried to contact him, even after he asked you to stay away. Is that true?
Penny Sands: I had a pretty good reason to want to talk to him.
Defense: It’s noted here from the victim’s personal files that you had begun taking things that belonged to him. He recorded in a journal that you stole several items. Is this also true?
Penny Sands: I borrowed, like, a pen. It wasn’t a big deal.
Defense: Why did you take it at all?
Penny Sands: It was an accident. It’s not like he deserved any of his nice things.
Defense: Did he deserve to die?
Penny Sands: Someone thought so. Why don’t you ask the other woman he was sleeping with? I don’t think she was happy when she found out about me.