Pretense is part and parcel of our adversary system of justice. A trial is essentially a one-act play, like “Main Street” with a jury instead of an audience. Shakespeare might well have said that the courtroom is a stage and that all of us in it are pretenders, witnesses and lawyers alike.
At the young of age of seven, Jill's mother Eve takes her for regular sessions to a child psychologist for treatment of her anxiety, which only makes her behavior worse. When she reaches her teens, she starts drinking and then smoking marijuana with
