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Personally, I think that makes Jill look worse. If Tybalt has a legitimate case, then at least she's doing something to help. If Tybalt's case is pure smoke and mirrors, it just makes Jill look too stupid to investigate the claims before knuckling under and dumping the MC.I don't know why people are still discussing the legality of Tybalt's claims. He only has to convince Jill that the mc is trouble and subtly coerce her into not seeing him. Which he did. His claims will fall apart once they are challenged, but Jill doesn't know that yet, so she's worried for the mc.
Stupid should never be one of Jill's characteristics.
They didn't just crash a party, they turned on the sprinklers and ruined the first floor of a hyper-expensive mansion full of people with influential connections (or are influential in their own right, since the point of that party was to suck up to the guests). That raises the stakes considerably.You are not going to be able to bring a suit in a court of law against someone for crashing a party. Period. Your lawyer would never agree to bring the suit, even if he did the Judge would dismiss the case out of hand. He would then summon your lawyer to chambers and chew him out, or worse he would chew him out in open court.
Also, Jill has stated in front of all the residents in the Alpha Omega mansion that the MC is welcome there. There is no trespassing.
You seem to be confusing unethical behavior with ineffective behavior. Pressing a nonsense suit and filing bogus motions to run up the bill is certainly the former. Sadly, it is not the latter when the disparity in resources is great enough. And I'm confident Tybalt (or his dad) can find a shady lawyer happy to help (if he wants to go the civil route).And you keep missing the point, there is NOT enough to start an investigation. Merely being seen at the scene of a crime is NOT evidence. It doesn't even come close to probable cause. Also, you seem to have an unrealistic sense of fingerprints. First, the kitchen is a common household area, there could be hundreds of set's of prints in that kitchen. You would have to collect and identify all of them, then you would have to get Derek and the MC's fingerprints for a match, that would require a court order which you would never get. You can't press a suit against someone to bleed their bank account without cause. It would probably backfire on you and leave you open to a counter suit for harassment. Your lawyer would know that and refuse to take the case.
As for fingerprints, again, Tybalt doesn't have to play fair. He can hire PIs to get the MC's prints, or even invite him around for a drink to 'settle things amicably' and keep the glass; Jill might realize what he's doing but the MC wouldn't. I also wouldn't recommend the kitchen, I'd recommend the bedrooms where the MC and Derek stole their suits. Much less traffic there and potentially reason to look if the preps notice their clothes are moved.