''Come on you guys...The Jury is back, the verdict is in.." she said excitedly...
"I wouldn't be that excited if I were you...The Jury took four days....They asked for instructions and interpretation of the law a record six times..That means...You guys lost....Your boy is as guilty as hell and he's on his way to Death Row sweetie.." said Lt. Tragg..
''You're always soooo sure of yourself...I like that...but face it...You did a lousy slip shoddy investigation like you always do...You arrested my client with just circumstantial evidence.." you proved nothing." said Beverly..
"Little Lady, you and your pretty auntie have argued your case for two weeks...It's in the Jury's hands now.." said ADA Mark Tate...Who had put on a masterful show for both the jury and the press the past two weeks of this trial..
Our Client, Malik Seiky was arrested and charged in a horrific Triple Rape/ Murder that captivated the city..Much of the evidence against him was circumstantial and the two key witnesses against him were caught in a web of lies....There was no forensic evidence against our client and a stunning set of circumstances that placed our client at a different location at the time of each of the rape/ murders..
He unfortunately lived in the same apartment complex as all three young ladies. He only knew them in passing, he said and did not socialize with them at all.
Still , we were up against a very good prosecutor , who was charismatic and an excellent showman. He tried to paint Malik Seiky, a truck driver as a serial rapist and murderer...Something that everyone who knew him said was just impossible to believe.
Olivia, Beverly, Nelson and Josie had put up a brilliant no nonsense defense that paled in showmanship next to ADA Mark Tate...Who appeared on Television and in all the papers daily...with Lt. Tragg..
I don't know which one of them was the biggest ham.
"Come on Guys, Let's go in.."said Olivia, who surprisingly looked very hopeful and confident.
"I believe in the Jurors...we got an intelligent jury." she said.
I know that jury's can be very funny....I was worried.. I didn't exactly solve the triple murders, but my investigation did enough to alibi this guy... I began my investigation the way I would ,If I had been a Homicide Detective again...and worked backwards...Soon I found enough lies, a lack of fingerprint, DNA and forensic evidence and other witnesses who swore they saw him someplace else at the time of the crimes to cast doubt in my mind that he was guilty..
He passed a lie detector test, which we couldn't use in court and most important... Some Semen was found in the panties of all three young ladies.. It was not a match for his..
Nelson got us six of the 12 jurors we needed..
And Josie had already began working on an appeal ,just in case we lost..
In court we all stood as the jury returned..
The Judge looked at the verdict... He looked astounded...
"Bailiff, Read the Verdicts." he said softly..
COUNT ONE- MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE- NOT GUILTY!!!
COUNT TWO-MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE-NOT GUILTY!!!
COUNT THREE-MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE-NOT GUILTY!!
COUNT FOUR- USE OF AN INSTRUMENT OF CRIME-NOT GUILTY!!
COUNT FIVE-CONSPIRACY TO COMMITT MURDER-NOT GUILTY!! " read the bailiff..
''I want the jury polled"said the Judge...
Each juror was polled and each juror said "NOT GUILTY"
''Alright,,,I'd like to thank the jurors for a job well done...Court is adjourned...everybody is free to gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo." said the Judge, banging his gavel and doing a little dance..
We all laughed..
"We did it Auntay...We did it!" shouted a jubilant Beverly...
"Yes we did Niecey Poo!" said Olivia as they hugged and Hi Fived...
"YEAHHHH BABYYY! THANK YOU GUYS....THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE!" said a jubilant Malik, glad to be a free man...
He and Nelson leaped up and bumped shoulders and high fived each other coming down...
Josie smiled.. "This was sooo satisfying...ADA Tate was sooo smug, so sure he had a win...On Television with Lt. Tragg practically putting our client on the table and injecting him with the needle.."said Josie.
"I know...Look at him...He looks sick.." I said laughing..
ADA Mark Tate was sitting at his desk with his head in his hands...
"I don't believe this...I have never been so humiliated in my life..." he sobbed.....
He had only lost one time before...and that was years ago....Now he had lost for the second time in his career....and to us of all people.. The Two Attorneys he said he could beat if he ever faced us..
OLIVIA BENNETT-ALEXANDER
AND BEVERLY WEST.....her niece!
Lt. Tragg looked on in disbelief....He knew in his heart that our client had killed those three women..and now he was going free...He was stunned..
"Man I can't thank you guys enough...Thank you sooo much..."said Malik..
"Let's Celebrate...Sam Mother's Diner has a special today.."said Beverly..
"Gooood….I'm starving.."said Olivia.
"I am too!"said Nelson..
"That makes it unanimous...How bout you Josie?" I said.
"Like you said...That makes it unanimous.."said Josie..
Of course we waded through the press ,who once again congratulated us on our latest win...
When asked who we thought committed the murders...Olivia said.
"I don't know...I just know that my client didn't do this."said Olivia.
Lt. Tragg stuck to his guns...
''A murderer was set free today..He lucked out and got some good lawyers , who used a lot of legal tricks to win the jury over." he said.
"Oh like uh application of the law? Exposing witnesses who were lying?? Lack of uh something called uh EVIDENCE?" said a reporter..
This was met by raucous laughter....
"LOU, you're cruising for a fat lip buddy?" he said and charged at Lou, who decked him with a left right combonation..He got to his feet and rammed his head into Lou's stomach, forcing him into the crowd as fists flew and general mayhem commenced..
We snuck out of the courthouse
At Sam Mother's Diner..
We all had Cheeseburgers, Fries, Onion Rings and Cokes...
"This is sooo good after eating jail food for two weeks.." said Malik..
He had been denied Bail and had sat in Curran-Fromhold Correctional Center.
''I know it is.." I said.
"Nothin could be better than this.."said Nelson, Chowing down..
"Ummm this burger is delish...pass me some onion rings Josie?" said Beverly..
"This is soooooo satisfying.."said Josie..
"The best thing was kicking Mark Tate's butt...He was sooo sure he had won...I trusted the jury...I trusted that they would look at facts and realize a lot of things just didn't add up.."said Olivia.
"You know....I wonder who did kill those three girls?" asked Malik...
"You did it!!! You know you did it!! You just had some good lawyers...Olivia...You and your team are magicians, the way you twist and turn the law around to suit your narrative."said Lt. Tragg, who had a black eye and a swollen cheek..
''We argued this case in court...I don't plan to argue it here in the diner." said Olivia softly as she continued eating..
Neither Nelson, Beverly, Josie or our now former client, Malik said anything...We just continued to eat and drink...
Lt. Tragg quietly walked away and sat at the counter, fuming...
He had no one to blame but himself.. Had he of done a thorough investigation , he not only would have caught the lies that both of the so called witnesses told, but realized they had been paid by someone to lie and to pick Malik out of a line up..
Had he of bothered to have read the discovery evidence from the M.E.'s office, it would have noted that a large amount of semen was found on each girl's body..Semen that didn't match Malik at all, but rather, a middle aged white man..
I wondered myself why the ADA didn't look at the Discovery evidence, even if Tragg didn't.
III-
Some Hours Later, Olivia was back in a nearly empty courthouse...
She went back into the courtroom we had tried our case in and heard a familiar voice.
"You were looking for this.." said Mark Tate, passing her her drivers license....
"Yes, thank you...I can't imagine how this wound up here..."said Olivia, smiling..
"These little small pocket books you ladies carry...They're not built for carrying serious stuff like this."he laughed..
"Perhaps not..I do have another License at home...but I still wouldn't want this to wind up in the wrong hands.."said Olivia.. ''What are you doing here so late?" she asked.
"Oh nothing...just thinking.." he said softly...
"Oh.."said Olivia..
"Ya know Liv...I've seen you around for years...I've always found you extremely attractive...Extremely attractive....and I've uh always wanted to date you..I remember when you divorced your first husband...and I lost track of you for years...You were uh at a corporate firm...Then when you appeared on my radar again...You were remarried..I'd still love to date you..." he said.
"Oh really?" I -I never knew that.." said Olivia, now feeling a bit uncomfortable...
"If you were open to it...We could discreetly go to a motel one afternoon and spend a few hours in bed.. …." he said before she stopped him..
"Mark I'm married , very happily married...You know that! So that makes this conversation a waste of time on your part.. It's not gonna happen. NOT EVER!"said Olivia..
"Is that the only thing keeping you out of my bed? You being married..I told you I can be very discreet...." he said in a low hushed voice..
"Trust me, it's not the only thing...but it's a major thing...I happen to love my husband very much and he's the only one I'm interested in sharing a bed with." she said..
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmph that is a shame, because I'd really like to...." he said.
''Don't torture yourself with that...Like I said...IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!" said Olivia..as she hurriedly exited the courthouse...Hoping she never saw Mark Tate again...He gave her the creeps..
I was
was still up
when Olivia returned home..
I poured two cups of coffee..Coffee for both of us..
"Thanks babe.." she said to me...
and gave me a sweet and soft kiss..
She told me about her encounter with Mark Tate on the courthouse..
"That old perv....I got a good mind to find him and knock every tooth out of his pervy mouth.." I said.
''That's okay...I handled him...I just couldn't believe him..It was as if he was waiting for me to come back and get my license...And I don't like that he saw it and now he knows where I live."said Olivia.
"Don't worry...I'm going to stick on you like glue..I'm not going to leave your side." I said.
"What's new about that? You're always up under me?" said Olivia smiling.
"You should have let me go with you tonight "I said..
"I know ,I should have...Next time I will.." said Olivia..
"All these horny old men want to make passes at my baby" I answered..
''There's only one horny man I want to make a pass at me...and that's you." she said.
"Well I'm ready to make a pass right now.." I whispered..
''I 'm ready to let you."she said.
I pulled her night shirt up...ran my hands down into her panties and squeezed her butt...and kissed her passionately...
"Ummmmmm….ohhhhh Donnie Ray...ouuuuu you are....ouuuuuuuuuuu you areeeee ready!.." she moaned, feeling the huge bulge in my trousers.. "UMMMMPH...OUUUUUUUUUU...YOU ARE BLESSED!" she said and giggled.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Olivia..Yessss...How are you going to sit here in front of me in that little night shirt and panties and I not be.?" I moaned...
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….I wanted you to be.." she cooed silently... ''Well I am..You got your wish.." I said...in between slow , soft kisses...
She eased out of my embrace...
"Wait, let me change....You get undressed.." she whispered...
She changed into her lavender see through nightie.. with matching lavender panties..The one I loved.. I pulled her to me..
She smelled great...as usual...Her skin was baby soft..
I loved it..
We kissed passionately in the middle of the floor of our home...
I bent her over the kitchen sink and entered her from behind..
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...OOOOOOOOOOUUU ! OH MY GOOODNESSS DONNNIE RAY!!!" she screamed..
Soon I was lifting her petite body up, going to town, long stroking her...
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HOO HOO..OUUUU HOO HOO HOO....OH MY GODDDD! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DONNIE RAY!" she screamed..
On the floor of our living room, I was going to town on her..
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! OH MY GODDDDD DONNIE RAY!" she moaned..
Soon, we were in bed...
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu girllll.." I moaned..
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh husband, ummmmmmmmmmm.."she moaned.. ''Ouuuuuuuuuu Donnie Rayyyy I love you sooo much, sooo much, you don't even understand..."moaned Olivia.... "I love you too Olivia...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my godddd…" I cried out.. "Ummmmmmmmmmmm… ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu you like it daddy?" she cooed.. "I do.." I said.. "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I like it too!" she said..
We were making sweet love...Nice and slow and unrushed...
EIGHT TO NINE HOURS passed by and we weren't even close to stopping...
Olivia positioned herself on top of me and began to move up and down..
"OHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDD DONNIE RAYYYYY! Thank you baby!" she bellowed..
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.. Thank youuuu!"I moaned.. I didn't know if I was coming or going..
This bed didn't squeak, but the headboard did rattle....
ANOTHER TWO TO THREE HOURS SLID BY..... We were going to be tired tomorrow morning, but right now...we didn't care....
We were driving each other to delirium in that bedroom..
IV-
In a walk up apartment building in West Philadelphia.. There is yet another murder to be investigated..
This time a petite African -American woman was found strangled and raped by her room-mate ,who was returning home..
"Lots of fingerprints in here Doc." said one of the CSI people..
Dr. Hazel Baylor was examining the body..
"Most of em are hers and the room-mates..I'm sure.."said Hazel... " She appears to have been strangled.. and there is signs of sexual assault..."said Hazel..
She glanced out the window just in time to see Lt. Tragg walking up the stairs..
She sighed
"Why do they keep assigning him cases?" said Hazel... She hated working a case with him...
"Alright, what have we got here?" he said..
"African-American female...27, strangled ,possibly raped..Her name is Rachel Clark."said Hazel...
"We found a condom in the bathroom doc.."said one of the Forensic guys...
"Bag it and tag it...but that condom was used and judging by the state of the semen in it...It's hours old..Probably the result of consensual sex..Not our doer.."said Hazel.
"Dr. Baylor...I know your husband Duke is a detective....but you are not...I wear the Gold shield right now and I will determine what is good evidence or not."said Lt. Tragg..
"I just use common sense...If I'm going to rape someone and use a condom...would it make sense for me to take it off and toss it in the trash can?" asked Hazel.
"Just bag it and tag it.."said Lt. Tragg..
The victim's room-mate was making a statement to the police..
"Herbie, my room mate's boyfriend was here when I left...but apparently he must have left too and whoever killed him came in here afterwords.." she said.
"Release the body." said Hazel..
"Have the Autopsy report and everything else pretaining to this case on my desk..ASAP…."said Lt. Tragg...
''Why? You never read em."said Hazel tersely...
"I'm going to have to speak to Doc Gibbons about our working relationship.."said Lt. Tragg.
"If that means I don't have to work with YOU anymore...I welcome that conversation."said Hazel as she walked out...
He didn't understand why she did not like him. The Fact that he had tried to have her fired twice apparently had left his memory!
The body was removed from the building..
TWO DAYS LATER-
Beverly and Josie were watching the morning news and kicked back in our conference room...
"Girrrl, I need to get my hair done soon!"said Beverly..
"Me too girl, I'm going to see if Bernadette can squeeze us in..."said Josie.
"Hey, you guys see the news? Rachel Clark, the court stenographer we all said looks so much like Liv was strangled and raped a few nights ago..." said Nelson, who pulled the story up on the large monitor from a news feed..
"Awwwww I liked her, she was sooo nice." said Beverly..
''She was...Who would do a thing like that?"said Josie.
''Well Lt. Tragg arrested her boyfriend,
who lived across the hall from them...They found his fingerprints all over the apartment and a loaded condom in the bathroom trash can that has his semen in it."said Nelson..
Olivia and I were catching the tail end of the conversation..
"That's all? That's all the evidence they have? I mean if he was her boyfriend...His fingerprints WOULD be all over her apartment...And finding a condom in the bathroom just means they practice safe sex..."said Olivia.
"If I'm going to rape someone and use a condom...would it make sense for me to take it off and toss it in the trash can in the girl's bathroom, especially after I just strangled her to death?" I said.
''You were clearly a better homicide detective than Lt. Tragg ever was."said Beverly.
"No shade on Tall Dark and Southern...but that's not a hard task. being better than ole Lt. Tragg."said our office manager, Alfreda.
"That guy? Her Boyfriend...His name is Herbie, Herbie Du Bois...I know him...He works at the courthouse too...He's a bailiff..."said Nelson.
"Yeah, I recognize him...Herbie..Yeahhh, he's as sweet as pie..Nicest guy...He's not the murderous type...I'm sure this is a mistake."said Beverly..
"Yeahhh, I know him too...He escorted me out the back door one time during one of Lt. Tragg's many scuffles with the press...I think Yvette and her guys had just won a major case and the press was really giving it to him and I had just finished a case a few doors down and they started fighting and Herbie helped me get out of there.."said Josie..
''Liv..I think the youngins want to represent Herbie.."I said.
''I think you do too..You think this stinks don't you?"said Olivia.
''Something about it reminds me of those three girls who were strangled and sexually assaulted." I said.
''But they were white."said Beverly...
''I know, but all young..all sexually assaulted ...Nobody saw the assailant and all worked in and around the courthouse.. Two were attorneys and one was a Para-legal...Just makes me wonder.."I said.
"Okay...We are going to see Herbie..."said Olivia..
And in another part of town a man talks to a mirror..
"You damn fool...You can't control your hormones....That's the fourth girl you've killed...You need help." comes the voice from the mirror..
"I know...I know...I just need to get laid...real bad... I couldn't help myself.."came the voice of the man looking in the mirror.
"You had the perfect fall guy for those three , who knew he was going to have good lawyers and not overworked Public defenders who actually looked into the case and sprung him...?" said the mirror.
"But now another young man has been arrested..."
''You know he's innocent...."said the mirror.
"Yes maybe, but he has to be sacrificed...These young black guys, they all have a record for something..He'll be convicted in a speedy trial and none will be the wiser.."said the man.
"Then you'd better get some help... This Triple Murder is still open....You better hope nobody connects this to that..." said the mirror.
"Those were three white girls in another part of town...This was a black girl in West Philly.No connection." said the man..
"For your sake, you'd better hope so." said the mirror.
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