Beth Ann Carpenter said she feared courtroom work, finding it “very intimidating” and wanted a career in transactional work when she started practice in 1992. But last week she was in the thick of it-sometimes in tears-as the surprise star witness at her own murder-for-hire case, joining the battle to keep her from a life prison sentence.

“Intimidating” only begins to describe this.

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