I don't remember the author nor the title or this story.

This is what I remember though:

The protagonist is a transgender student who went to another student's house. The boy tried to sexually assault the girl. She stabbed the boy with a letter opener.

The dad of the son who got stabbed wanted her charged with murder even though it was self defense.

The dad and the prosecutor hired a man to help pick jurors to support a conviction. Before the trial the young girl and her mother were in a restaurant and the man hired to pick a jury against the young girl came into the restaurant with his bodyguard. The man was obese and not well liked by other patrons of the restaurant. He choked on a piece of meat and the young girl showed his bodyguard how to do the Heimlich maneuver and saved the man's life

At the jury selection time, the man's bodyguard recognized the young girl as the one that saved his bosses life. In the end, she was acquited and the obese man had a check delivered to the young girl.

That is all I remember of the story.

Thanks for any and all help.

Bill D.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - C.S. Lewis