Steve Harmon was on trial for being the lookout in a robbery and murder of Mr. Nesbitt. In the book Monster By Walter Dean Myers Steve writes in a journal and makes it into a movie script. He writes about how he feels about being in jail. He mentions a couple things meaning that he was involved in the murder. Steve Harmon is guilty by lying multiple times, having no alibi,and his journal entries.
Steve lied multiple times on the stand during the trial. By lying he is obviously guilty of something. He lied about being in the drug store even though he wrote in his journal he was at the drugstore to get mints.(Myers 140)He lied about knowing bobo and osvaldo. Then came back to say he’s talked to them a couple times about basketball.
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He writes about how he’s scared of his mom thinking he is a monster, what actually happened during the trial, and when the trial is over. He was scared of being in jail because he did not want to get beat up. He said the only time to cry was at night while other guys were getting beat up, so he was obviously crying a lot and worried about the outcome of this trial. If he was innocent he would not have to worry so much, cause the judge would eventually see it.His mom said to him “ No matter what anybody says, I know you are innocent and I love you very much.” He then wrote in his journal “I knew mama felt that I did not do anything wrong. It was me who was not sure. It was me who lay on the cot wondering if I was fooling myself.” (Myer 148) He admitted he was guilty of doing something right there. During the trial he mentioned in his journal entries that he had gone in the store and bought some mints and on trial he said he was never in the store and that he would remember giving a hand signal. If he was innocent he would not have to lie about it,and he would not be scared of his punishment; he is guilty of something. At the end of the trial Kathy O’Brien, his Attorney would not hug him back and she looked at him as if she saw him as a monster.She knew he did it and she just saved a monster from