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Which is exhibit EW-8.
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All the aforementioned items
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were kept in a cloth bag,
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which as Your Lordship can see
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is exhibit EW-9.
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Vera Drake is not concerned with riches.
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She simply helps people
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as and when she's asked.
She's always helped people.
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Her solicitude for others
:52:28
has led her to commit
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one of the most serious offenses
:52:31
in the calendar,
:52:33
but her intention...
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was to help the young girl
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and not to harm her.
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l may assure Your Lordship
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That Vera Drake is more relieved than anyone
:52:43
about the recovery of Pamela Barnes.
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l submit that Your Lordship
would have little doubt
:52:50
that this...
:52:51
unfortunate woman is now ever likely
:52:54
to reoffend...
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and that is the case
for the defense, my Lord.
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Thank you, Mr. Hampton Ward.
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Prisoner at the bar, please rise.
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Prisoner at the bar,
you stand convicted of felony.
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Have you anything to say
:53:19
why the court should not give you
judgment according to law?
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No.
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Please remain standing.
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Vera Rose Drake,
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you have committeda crime, the gravity of which
:53:43
cannot be overestimated.
:53:46
The law is very clear
:53:48
and you have willfully broken that law.
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And furthermore,
:53:54
in so doing,
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you have put at risk
:53:57
the life of a vulnerable young woman.