I've been in situations like that where as an attorney you try and script what you "think" the judge wants to here. But when she leaves the script and becomes so brutally honest with the court it resonates with the judge. There is a lesson here. She also fails to understand how lucky she is at the end as she is overwhelmed by revealing so much of her failings as a human being in the open. I had a case once where I spent hours "teaching" a client how to act and what to say once on the stand. She took the stand and promptly forgot what I had told her. She then told her "own story"-because that's all she had-and it was marvelous.
