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plaintiff
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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The only party present in support of Shay—and my first witness—was Father Michael, seated just behind the plaintiff's table.†
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"In fact," Maggie said, "he's the plaintiff in this case who was sitting beside me at that table, isn't that correct?"†
At the plaintiff's table, I closed my eyes—at the very least, Shay had surely just lost the case for himself; at the most, I was going to wind up with a cross being burned on my lawn.†
I wondered whether remaking him in the image of a viable plaintiff said more about who he was willing to be, or whom I had become.†
If I stayed in bed when the verdict was read, did that mean the plaintiff lost by default?†
Maggie's hand slipped back through the slatted rails that separated the first row of the gallery from the plaintiff's table.†

Definitions:

(1) (plaintiff)
a person who brings a legal action against another in a court of law
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)