When Clara Ruiz stepped into the courtroom that morning, she looked less like an accused criminal and more like a woman carrying the weight of an entire lifetime on her shoulders. Dressed in her old navy-and-white maid uniform, her posture was rigid, her eyes lowered, and her hands trembling slightly. Cameras clicked, reporters whispered, and the public murmured with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion.
Clara had no lawyer. No family behind her. No powerful voice defending her. She was simply a maid — a hardworking, soft-spoken woman who had spent years serving one of the wealthiest families in the city. A woman now accused of stealing an heirloom worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.Most of the world had already decided she was guilty.
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