The Trial of Kate Florick for the Murder of Theodore Tyler, an Attorney at her firm, who had just made partner began...
Our client, who pleaded not guilty had a lot riding on this...If found guilty, she faced immediate disbarment..which was the least of her worries...She could most certainly get the Death Penalty or Life , No parole..
The first break she got was that ADA Ron Harper took the Death Penalty off the table...He reasoned that she being a fellow attorney and nowhere near a career criminal did not warrant the death penalty.
Yvette was grateful to him....
''So if uh you and Gary uh should break up..I'm uh next in line right?" he whispered to her..
"I'm not that grateful Ronnie." said Yvette.
"I had to try."he laughed...
"I'm ready to hear testimony now." said Judge Reynolds , staring coldly at Lt. Tragg...
who was feeling the heat....Because of his particularly bad behavior during the weeks leading up to this case, he had been assigned to the Police Marine Unit for a month...Which meant for a month we'd be free of him...
Still he had a lot riding on this trial...If we lost and Kate was convicted...He could argue he brought in a good case and deserved to be on the street... He had indeed been more thorough than usual on this case or at least it looked like it..
Kate sat nervously in between Me, Bee Bee, Sofia, Kahlil and Jade...We had worked hard on her case...We had a defense prepared for her...a good one..
II-
ADA Ron Harper was a good storyteller...He told the story of a woman who would do anything to get ahead, including a little extra...That little extra was sleeping with a very successful attorney who promised her he'd make her a partner as soon as he became a partner...
He showed photographs of the two at his house, at her condo and at diferent social events.. He said that extreme jealousy over his reniging on his promise or seeing him with other women led to her luring him to the alley with a promise of sex and bashing his head in..
Yvette laughed and she said that the ADA's sumnation was so off the mark and so far from the truth that it wasn't funny...She maintained that Ted Tyler was a boorish lout who had made sexual advances at several female attorneys at his firm and had raped two...This wasn't about jealousy, this was about rape and taking liberties with women, including married women.." she said.
For a week , ADA Ron Harper paraded
Forensic Investigator and Deputy Coroner , Dr. Hazel Baylor, who testified that the victim died of a skull fracture and severe brain trauma brought about by being cracked in the head with a Ball Penn Hammer. She gave the time of death as 2:20 am. which was about 15 minutes before the party ended...
We didn't question her on cross..
Scores of Cops and Crime Scene Investigators and Forensic specialists testified about what was at the scene and what they found..
On Cross, Bee Bee asked them if they found fingerprints, DNA, even a spec of hair belonging to our client.. They all said no..
Sofia asked them if they found any of our clients DNA or Prints on her own phone , which she said was lost for about an hour and later found in a trash can on the first floor..
They all said no..
Kahlil asked them if that wasn't weird that none of her prints or DNA would be on her own phone, a phone which she owned and had been using and was now looking for..
Baffled they all admitted that yes , it did seem strange.
I interviewed several people who testified that they were helping her look for her phone ,including the woman who dialed the number on her phone and helped her find it..
I then asked the CSI and Forensic people if they found any DNA or Prints on the phone or her purse..
They all said they did ,but that it was "unidentified.."
ADA Ron Harper must have objected to my and Kahlil's questioning half a dozen times , but Judge Reynolds allowed every single question and over ruled all of his objections...
Giving Lt. Tragg the evil eye and smiling wickedly at Yvette..
Who surprisingly was blushing....
Lt. Tragg was furious..
"He's predjudiced, He's biased....It's so obvious..." he protested..
"Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have come to this trial."said ADA Ron Harper, who did his best to stop the bleeding..
Ms. Yvette assured Kate that she wouldn't bring up the blackmailing part or her relationship with Mr. Boseman at all.. As it turned out...a thorough investigation by Ms. Jade
and even Lt. Tragg
turned up no proof that Ted Tyler had any proof of the relationship other than what Boseman drunkenly had told him...There was no photos and no real proof he was steering high powered clients to the firm on her behalf.. he was bluffing her all the time and getting sexual favors..
Kate Florick sighed relief...If she somehow got out of this...She would at least still have her job and be able to practice law...Things were looking up, a little.
III-
We began our defense... Yvette painted Ted Tyler as what he was...a Priveledged White male Attorney ,who was on a fast track to partnership from day one and who took advantage of a number of female attorneys with promises of advancement if they slept with him.....She called Jasmine Coley to the stand..
Jasmine told of her run in with Ted Tyler months before.
I was preparing for a meeting with ADA Karen Page and the Wrongful Conviction Unit...I was in the Conference Room by myself or so I thought...
When he walked in....
"Ummmph ,and what are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm on loan to the WRONGFUL CONVICTION UNIT for a couple of weeks...I'm preparing for a meeting." I said..
He walked up behind me...Too close...I could feel his hot breath on her neck...
"I heard about your old cases getting overturned and you going before the Ethics Board...Bad break huh? You were on the fast track to making partner..." he said..
Now he was closer and I could feel his erection....I moved away from him...
"Old news...I was cleared and I've been in therapy....I'm rebuilding my life..."I told him..
"I heard...Sold your condo...bought a small house...Good for starters...but uh I could get you back on that fast track again baby....If you uh If you take care of me.." he said..Now even closer..
"What do you mean?" I asked him, but I knew what he meant...
"You know exactly what I mean....I've been wanting to get in your panties for awhile now...And no time is better than the present..." he whispered..
"You're out of your mind...Plus...I'm engaged and I live with somebody...Forget it..."I told him...
" You'll never be on that Fast track again without my help....Suit yourself.. whoever you're engaged to can't help you here and he never has to know...I can be very discreet baby.." he said.
"No thanks...I don't need to get ahead that bad...." I said.
Since that exchange...While I had been winning big cases for the firm and establishing myself as a heavy hitter..My road to Partnership had been closed and tonight...This guy...This sexist pig had been
made partner. I thought."
Ron Harper hated to do this...Jazzy was his friend...but he had to..
"Maybe he did make a sexual advance towards you...I won't argue that...but you can't say that you turning him down is the reason for you not advancing... Did you not have six or seven of your old cases overturned and for questionable reasons ?? Did you not face an Ethics Board Hearing?/ Isn't that why you didn't advance?"he asked..
Jazzy was speechless.. Score one for the Prosecution...We all felt sorry for her...We didn't think her testifying through...We didn't count of Ron bringing up her past...but he did..It was part of the game..Any one of us would have done the same if we had been in his position.
We weren't done...
Bee Bee and Sofia brought in Susan Dennison, an Attorney and former staff member of the firm, who claimed she was raped by Ted Tyler after refusing his sexual advances several times when she worked at another firm...She got an Attorney and sued him... They settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money and she signed a non-disclosure agreement , which was void, now that he was deceased..
Kahlil and I called in Stephanie Pinkett, An Attorney ,who also refused his sexual advances...Until he also forced himself on her while she was drunk and trying to get in her car..She sued him and like the other woman, She settled for an unspecified amount of cash... she quit working at the firm after that.
Both of these women were unimpeachable...
Ron Harper couldn't break them..
Yvette knew that we had the entire jury swinging in our favor..
We called our client to the stand..
Kate Florick...
She testified that the victim raped her that very night...and that that was the third time he had raped her.. She told of how he had been making sexual advances toward her since he had started at the company and how advances led to rape...She didn't report him, but she should have...She said he was very friendly with the partners and Senior Associates and he was virtually untouchable and everybody knew it..
Ron Harper tried to stop the bleeding again...
"Ms. Florick...I'm sorry this man raped you...I'm sorry he raped and harrassed all of you women, I'm sorry and I understand that you were probably so angry that you struck back and killed him in revenge didn't you?" he asked..
"NO! I didn't kill him and I didn't send that text...My phone was missing for an hour...Within that hour someone posing as me sent that text.." she said..
"Oh come onnnnn, who would do that?" asked Ron Harper, laughing...
"We intend to prove that your honor."said Yvette..
Crystal Pffeifer was called to the stand...She looked like she had been crying...She had one black eye and a bruised cheek..
"Crystal....Remember, you are under oath....Were you sleeping with Ted Tyler?" asked Bee Bee.
She was silent for a moment...Then she admitted..
"Yes.."
"The entire time you worked at the firm correct?" asked Sofia..
"Y-Yesssssss." she admitted.
"You were his pipeline....You gave him inside information on the Partners, The Senior Associate Attorneys and clients...Am I correct?"asked Kahlil...
"Yesssssssssssssssss…" she admitted.
"Did you know that right after he raped Ms. Florick...He took you in the coatroom, locked the door and had consensual sex with you?" asked Kahlil...
She burst into tears....
"No More questions." asked Kahlil..
"What the hell is going on here? We found the hammer in the trash outside of Florick's condo...Why has no one brought that up?" asked Lt. Track...
I called Brenden Pffeifer to the stand,
He seemed agitated and surly, Angry and surprised that he was being called..
"Mr. Florick were you aware that your wife was carrying on a sexual relationship with the victim, Ted Tyler..?" I asked..
"No...This is the first I've heard of it.." he lied..
Kahlil pulled out his phone..
He played back a recorded conversation..
"Brendan Please!" said Crystal.
"Brendan My Ass....I want a divorce....My Attorney will be meeting us here shortly....You've cheated on me for five long years...FIVE LONG YEARS....Like you didn't think I'd know it...What did he promise you Crystal? Huh? A PARTNERSHIP?? MONEY?? HE GOT HIMSELF MADE PARTNER..YOU REALLY THINK HE WAS GONNA MAKE YOU PARTNER?? IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT.. You stupid, stupid girl...That woman, that Kate Florick, who's on trial for his murder....Did you know he was sleeping with her too? Probably told her the same thing..I'll make you partner...He did her in the ladies restroom just minutes before he was humping you in the coatroom...People like him always promise young girls..I'll make you partner if you sleep with me..and they do and they keep on and the years pile up and they never get made partner... That bastard....One thing is good...He's dead!!! Your boyfriend is dead....THAT'S FOR GOTDAMN SURE!" he yelled out...
"That's you....You just perjured yourself..." I said..
"You weren't invited to that party...but you were there...I saw you myself."said Bee Bee.
"No...You're mistaken...I wasn't there." he lied again..
Sofia placed some things on the table.
"This is Ms. Florick's phone, missing for an hour...found in the trash can on the first floor.. Her prints aren't on them....but YOURS ARE...SO IS YOUR DNA!
"Know how we know? This is a cup you were drinking from at a restaurant yesterday....The prints and DNA match yours on that phone
and yours on that purse....Ms Florick's purse.."said Sofia.
"You lifted her phone out of her purse...after you saw her and Ted Tyler coming out of the ladies room...You pretty much figured out what had happened....Then a little while later you texted his phone with a fake message of sex...and you lured him down to the alley and you bashed his head in with this hammer...and you made another mistake...
The sales sticker was still on it...It was traced to Lowes and your debit card....where you purchased it...You killed Ted Tyler didn't you?" said Ms. Yvette.
"I'm not saying a damn thing else...I request legal counsel."said Brenden Pffeifer….
"That's the first smart thing you've said today partner..."I said.
IV-
It was explosive courtroom drama.
"In lieu of this new startling information, the People move to drop all charges against Ms. Florick." said ADA Ron Harper..
''So Moved...Ms. Florick, you are free to go , and I would like to thank the jurors and attorneys who did an awesome job these past few weeks."said Judge Reynolds..
ADA Ron Harper looked disgustedly at Lt. Tragg..
"Another bang up job Artie...The fingerprint on the phone...and the sales sticker on the murder weapon..You could have cracked this case in two hours and brought me the real killer.,.." said Ron Harper in disgust,,,
"It was Jade Lee...
She had help from my guys....I'm gonna write all of them up...Just wait...I'll get to the bottom of this." said Lt. Tragg.
"Artie Don't waste your time...Admit it...Jade Lee is a Hell of an Investigator."said ADA Ron Harper, who ran into Jasmine and Dabnis..
''Jazzy I'm sorry..." he said.
"It's okay Ronnie...It's part of the game...I'd of done the same thing if I was in your place..Forget about it...See ya round babe!"said Jasmine, taking her husband, Dabnis by the hand..
and the two of them walking out..
Yvette saw Jasmine and Dabnis Leaving.... Jasmine ran up to Yvette and hugged her...
"Thank you soooo much Jazzy girl for testifying, I'm sooooo sorry you got put out there like that..We didn't consider him doing that.."said Yvette..
"Ms. Yvette...I was only too happy to help you get the win...and look I'm not mad....either one of us..You or I would have done the same thing had we been in his place and had such an opening..It;s part of the game...You know that."said Jasmine..
"You sure? You alright?" asked Ms. Yvette..
"I'm fine Ms. Yvette...It's over...You guys got the win..."said Jasmine who kissed Ms. Yvette on the cheek and smiled at her..
"Love you!" she said, a tear running down her cheek.
"Thank you all so much..."said Kate.
"You're welcome...You goin back to that firm to work?" asked Yvette..
''Well Yeah...It's my job...I got bills to pay.."said Kate.
"I hear that." I said..
"Good For You.."said Bee Bee.
"So Happy for you Kate." said Sofia..
''Be Well Kate."said Kahlil.
''Come on guys...Let's go home." said Yvette..
That's exactly what we did...
Bee Bee and I went to my apartment upstairs
We were kissing in the stairwell...
"Ummmmm hurry up Hot stuff, put your key in the door.."moaned Bee Bee in between hot smouldering kisses once we got into the hallway...
and inside my apartment....I couldn't wait to get her clothes off or mine..
"Ummmmmmm I couldn't wait." I said..
"Me Neither.."said Bee Bee..
and throw her on my bed...where we were laughing, giggling and kissing. We made sweet sweet love..
for the rest of the night..
Sofia and Kahlil went two doors down to his apartment..
There was much kissing..
"Put your key in the door before we wind up making love out here in the hallway papi."said Sofia, giggling at how turned on Kahlil was...
much moaning and the taking off of clothes...
"Ummmmmm Papi you feel so good.."she said...In the middle of his living room....
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Little Mamasita…" he moaned..
and insanely crazy lovemaking..
until the early morning hours...
Across the street
Ms. Jade and Danny Ho were making crazy love..
and steaming up the windows....
And at newlyweds Jasmine and Dabnis's house..
"Get out of those clothes...You're always talking about how bad you want to put it in me...so now is the time daddy.."whispered Jasmine..
Dabnis was only too willing to comply...
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" he said in his deep baritone
that turned her on and made her giggle.
Soon they were kissing passionately and helping each other out of their clothes...
More passionate kissing that led to
in their bed...going to town, making sweet, sweet love well into the night....
and in another part of town, Rookie Detective Mike White was talking to Lt. Tragg..
"I hear you're goin out on the boat for a month huh? Here take this.. My dad was on the boat..He said this kept him sane.."said Mike White..
He passed him a bottle of Jameson's Irish whiskey..
For the first time in a long while, Lt. Tragg smiled..
"Thanks Kid...Your dad was a good cop..." he said,,
EPILOUGE-
Kate Florick went back to work at the firm...
Crystal Pffeifer turned in her resignation...She divorced her husband, who was convicted of 2nd Degree Murder and sentenced to 15 years to Life.
At A PENNS LANDING RESTAURANT-
The view was fantastic....The night was warm...
Ms. Yvette, Attorney Yvette Jones...our supervisor and benefactor at our law firm was looking as sultry and sexy as ever...A fact not lost on her boyfriend,
Gary Lockwood, an Investigator with the District Attorney's Office..
"Vettie is it me or do you look extra sexy tonight..?" he asked..
"It's you....I've been busy with this trial and haven't been over your house in three nights and you want to make extra sure you get some tonight..but go ahead...Flattery will get you somewhere..."said Yvette..she flashed a devilish grin , he found very sexy.
Gary loved Yvette's dry sense of humor...She was right though and at the same time..She was sexy..as sexy as could be..
"I have a feeling of De Ja vu," Gary laughed..
He kept staring at her....
The Mango Martini she ordered arrived...
For him, Cognac....
The view from Penns Landing was fabulous...It was a Friday Night..end of a long week and they had the weekend to themselves..
Yvette kissed Gary slowly and softly...
''Does this mean I'm going to get some?" he asked ,smiling raffishly...
"I think you can reasonably expect so.." Yvette whispered...
in between slower and softer kisses.....
You couldn't ask for a better afternoon.....
A nice date....a nice view.....End of a long trial...
All that drinking and kissing led back to a drive to Gary's house..
and more kissing in his living room..
"Mmmmmmm thanks for tonight...The food was delish and those drinks...wow..They got me tipsy..."whispered Yvette in between more slow, soft kisses...
''And hopefully horny!" he said, smiling raffishly...
''A little" Yvette giggled.
"Just a little? I'm very horny.." he said..
"No surprise there.."laughed Yvette...
Gary helped her out of her dress...and pantyhose and stiletto heels...and continued to kiss her passionately....
She helped him out of his suit, socks and shoes....
"Come on Horny mannnnn, let's take care of that condition." whispered Yvette
She took him by the hand and led him to his bedroom, which he always found humorous..
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Gary.....you don't make any sense being this hard and this huge...Were you like this all night?" she whispered in a childish voice..
''All night.???.ALL DAY!!!" he said in his deep baritone....
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." she cooed..
He laid her across his bed and entered her slowly...
"Ouuuuuuuu...I'm about to get it aren't I?" asked Yvette, smiling..looking at the huge bulge in his boxers and smiling..."
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Gary ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Yvette cooed..
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned loudly.
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY godddddddddddddd Gary
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY godddddddddddddd!!"she cried out!!!
EIGHT TO NINE HOURS smoothly passed by as they made love under the moonlight...
Tears and sweat ran down the sides of both of their faces...Yvette's legs began to shake furiously and she began to move her head from side to side and cry like a little girl...
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD GARY!" she cried out.. "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Yvette...MS. YVETTE! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned.. Yvette laughed... Gary enjoyed making love to her so much.... "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu YESSS...YESSS...YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GARY!!" she moaned..
Yvette was riding Gary like a surfer rides the waves and Gary was beyond ecstacy... "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW HELLLL!" he yelled out... "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu GARRRRY!" she yelled.. She was having an intense orgasm....Gary was cumming like a gusher......
They were soon both asleep soundly and snoring...
The full moon was out....
Lt. Tragg reported for his first night of duty on the Marine Patrol Unit.. Gone was his fine tailored suits...Replaced by jeans and a denim shirt and a Jacket that said Philadelphia Police Marine Unit.
He boarded the boat with one other man..and they headed out on the river...Overlooking the harbor of the City of Philadelphia , with Camden on the other side...
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