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Payne is Ray’s ballistics expert in his first trial—he is the only person willing to testify for $500, which is all Ray can afford to pay. In the trial, the prosecution completely dismantles his testimony by demonstrating that Payne didn’t know how to use the equipment to test the evidence, and he is legally blind in one eye.
Andrew Payne Quotes in The Sun Does Shine
The The Sun Does Shine quotes below are all either spoken by Andrew Payne or refer to Andrew Payne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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I could do nothing but lay my head down in my arms and cry. I knew at that moment, I was going to be convicted of murder. I was innocent. And my one-eyed expert had just handed the prosecution a guilty verdict.
Nothing mattered anymore.
It took the jury two hours to find me guilty.
It took them forty-five minutes to determine my punishment.
Death.
In that moment, I felt my whole life shatter into a million jagged pieces around me. The world was fractured and broken, and everything good in me broke with it.
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Andrew Payne Quotes in The Sun Does Shine
The The Sun Does Shine quotes below are all either spoken by Andrew Payne or refer to Andrew Payne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
I could do nothing but lay my head down in my arms and cry. I knew at that moment, I was going to be convicted of murder. I was innocent. And my one-eyed expert had just handed the prosecution a guilty verdict.
Nothing mattered anymore.
It took the jury two hours to find me guilty.
It took them forty-five minutes to determine my punishment.
Death.
In that moment, I felt my whole life shatter into a million jagged pieces around me. The world was fractured and broken, and everything good in me broke with it.
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Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
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