The air-conditioning hummed inside the old courthouse in downtown Chicago, but it did nothing to ease the suffocating tension in the packed courtroom. Every seat was taken. Journalists stood shoulder to shoulder along the walls, cameras ready.
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At the center of it all stood 23-year-old Emily Carter, wrists cuffed, eyes fixed on the scuffed wooden floor.
She was from the South Side.