Also known as the evidence of Katerina Ivanovna, Katerina Ivanovna was called to the witness-box, the substance of her evidence, Katerina Ivanovna was giving her evidence.
Katerina Ivanovna is expected to be the chief sensation among the defense witnesses. Her relation to Dmitri, and her connection to the disputed three thousand roubles, make her testimony especially dangerous and important. By the time she is called, the court has already begun to turn from medical comedy toward personal revelations.
XII-IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya
Her first testimony helps Dmitri by presenting him as honorable in money matters and by telling how he once gave her his last four thousand roubles. The account moves the court and gives the defense a strong answer to the charge that he would murder for money.
XII-V. A Sudden Catastrophe
After Ivan's courtroom confession, Katerina produces Dmitri's Metropolis letter and reverses the effect of her earlier evidence. She calls the letter a program of the murder and says her first statement was made in an attempt to save him.
XII-XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
Fetyukovitch treats the second statement as evidence distorted by resentment, arguing that a witness who has contradicted herself so violently cannot be accepted as calm and impartial.
XII-XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
In the defense speech, her accusation is described as the cry of a frenzied, revengeful woman rather than proof against Dmitri.
Epilogue I. Plans For Mitya’s Escape
Katerina tells Alyosha that her earlier claim about Ivan persuading her was meant to wound Ivan, and she sees her own temper as part of the road to the courtroom catastrophe.
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