The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers for Monday, July 24, reveal that the news of Sheila Carter’s (Kimberlin Brown) freedom will bring even more shock and outrage. Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) went to great lengths to score a confession from Sheila, so he was hoping this would be a slam dunk.
Instead, Judge Evan Scott (Michael Corbett) determined that there was no legal footing for the case and was forced to drop the charges.
The evidence was obtained through unlawful search and seizure – not to mention Bill’s personal connections to federal investigators were murky from the get-go.
Judge Scott wanted to see justice done just as much as anyone else, but he felt this was a fishing expedition with no legal standing.
Of course, that won’t stop Bill from blowing his top on Monday’s B&B episode.
There’s a good chance Bill will put Judge Scott on full blast, but the judge may think it’s Bill’s own fault that Sheila is walking free.
If Bill had just let Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and John “Finn” Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) give their original testimony against Sheila as planned, Sheila would be sitting in prison right now.
Instead, Bill and Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) were obsessed with the idea that Sheila might get out too soon, so they worked with the FBI to get a confession that’d put her away for life.
Now the whole plan has fallen apart since Sheila can no longer be prosecuted for her crimes against Steffy and Finn either.
All of this will leave Steffy distraught and frustrated, but Ridge may assure his daughter that he’ll do whatever it takes to protect the people he loves.
Even so, Steffy will fear that Sheila’s going to become even more obsessed with Finn and Hayes Finnegan (Iliana and Vienna Norris).
As Steffy worries, she may find herself wondering where Finn has dashed off to.
Since Sheila is still waiting on all her paperwork to be processed, she’s currently in the middle of a warm moment with her son.
Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) just caught Finn hugging Sheila, so he’ll become quite concerned over the way she’s reeling him back in.
While Liam mulls over what he’s going to do next, Sheila will eventually reconvene with Mike Guthrie (Ken Hanes) and gloat over her prison release.
Mike will be a little disappointed since Sheila won’t be staying behind bars with him after all, but another part of him will be happy for Sheila and may warn her not to blow this fresh start.
Sheila will indeed plan to make the most of the chance she’s been given, but that’ll mean working hard to win Finn over and infuriating everyone else along the way.
The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say Sheila will be in celebratory mode while everyone else deals with some tough emotions, so stay tuned for updates on the hearing aftermath.
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