One Battle In The War

Once again..A courtroom, another arraignment, this time on a second charge of murder...
 

A different Judge, Micheal King....The legal world's answer to Lt. Tragg…. He had been a sterling Defense Attorney and Assistant District Attorney in his day...and from what I hear was a pretty decent judge...Hard but fair...What he had in common with Lt. Tragg was he liked being on Television...He was the legal consultant both CNN and MSNBC went to when there was an important case in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Deleware and sometimes even New York City...The Local news affiliates often got a quote from him on an important case..

 

Olivia

Beverly

and Nelson were arguing vigourously for the latest charges to be dropped arguing that Assistant District Attorney Rockland Cambridge

already under indictment for one murder couldn't have possibly have committed the second because he was already in custody at the time and eating dinner at their house the rest of the time and never out of their sight.

Josie and Bresha brought in practically all of the city's Assistant District Attorneys and Judges and even defense attorneys to vouch for Rockland's sterling charactor...

Alfreda whispered to me.. " They're doing a great job...but It doesn't look too good for Rockland, Tall ,Dark and Southern." she said.

I put my arm around her...I agreed..but said nothing.

To make matters worse, a Special Prosecutor had been brought in from Cherry Hill, Linda Beavers, who was arguing that despite his sterling charactor, being indicted for two murders in a matter of days was a serious matter and shouldn't be taken lightly..

She was an attractive woman and she knew she had the Judge's eye...He couldn't take his eyes off of her and smiled brightly every time she made a motion...Legal or physical..

"Uhhh I know Rockland personally myself..He has tried a number of cases in my court...I find these charges unbelievable...But uh ruh, they have to be taken seriously...so I am revoking bail and I will remand him to the Federal Holding Facility for right now, for his own safety..."

Rockland was in tears as he was handcuffed and taken away by the guards....

"Liv, Bev, Nelson, Josie, Bree you did great....It's alright...We'll get through this." he said.

''Rockland, I'm going to do everything possible to get you out of here."said Olivia.

''We are gonna work around the clock."said Beverly.

"Yeah man and we'll be up to see you with updates." said Nelson.

''Don't you worry." said Josie, although that was easy for her to say..

''Take care." was all Bresha could manage.

I had already put in a call to Gary....

"They'll be plenty more from where that came from when you get out baby...I love you!" said Alfreda..

She kissed him passionately...

"I love you too baby." said Rockland..

Standing by ,enjoying the whole thing was Lt. Tragg...  Seeing Olivia and Beverly defeated in court, seeing Rockland go to jail again  just made his day..

The Special Prosecutor was a babe......

Mikey King certainly thought so...He couldn't take his eyes off of her..

"Uh is that Mrs. or Ms. Beavers?" he asked the Special Prosecutor.

"It's Ms.. " she said and smiled.

"It's not everyday that someone comes in here and beats Olivia Bennett-Alexander and her niece, Beverly West...You did a fine job I must say." said Judge King.

"I didn't exactly beat them.....This was just one battle in the war.. There is a whole trial to consider and frankly, from what I've been looking at, the state's case looks very weak...I've heard of Olivia and Beverly and frankly I'm going to need better than this or they'll definitely win the war..I've seen them win cases that were far better put together than this." said Linda Beavers

"You're going to have to talk to Artie Tragg, I mean Lt. Arthur Tragg on that...He's the case detective... but uh look, you're on the town tonight..I know a place that serves two of the thickest ,juiciest steaks and the dryest martinis...How about dinner?" asked Judge King.

"You're asking me out?  Your Honor...that uh smacks of impropriety....How does that look? A Judge, who is supposed to be impartial going out with the prosecution...A first year defense attorney would rip that to shreds...No, I can't do that...Maybe after the trial is over, but not tonight..but thank you anyway..I'm flattered." she said.

and walked off with her briefcase and her roller.

Lt. Tragg laughed...

"Mikey struck out with that new prosecutor...Heh heh heh.."

He called his girl, U.S. Attorney , Julie Baisden...He hadn't seen her in a week...She hadn't answered her phone and he had stopped by her place and she wasn't there.

He thought ,maybe he'd pay her a visit tonight.

II-

The girls weren't kidding when they said they were going to work around the clock.

Alfreda kept the coffee flowing .....

Bree observed and helped as Olivia, Beverly, Nelson and Josie began working around the clock on Rockland's defense... looking at crime scene photos, the autopsy reports and what few witness statements there was...

Olivia drilled into everyone who worked with her about the importance of preparation and information and not being surprised..

"This looks like the weakest case I've ever been handed...I'm surprised Tragg got an indictment.." said Olivia.

''That's because it is... The weakest piece of police work I've seen in my life/" I said, reading the case report.

"These crime scene photos look staged..Even up to the panties on his head." said Beverly.,

"You caught that too huh?" I said, looking at them myself.

"Rockland did a urinalysis, which showed he had chocolate in his stomach ,just like he said and a large amount of alcohol...some of it champaigne...He was well over the legal limit of intoxication..."said Nelson..

''And his system shows he had been roofied...A large amount of Rohypnol, The Date Rape drug..Just like I had been by that creep ,Willie Crawley Jr.  years ago..Remenber?? It's all here in the report..everything he said, Everything he told Lt. Tragg is true." said Josie.

"That means nothing to him...He never listens to anyone.." said Olivia.

"The Autopsy report says that Willie Tate had been dead for 24 hours when they found his body next to an unconscious Rockland." said Beverly.

''Which means he was already dead when Rockland and the girl, Brenda Rivers, who's real name is Brenda Garland of Camden entered that boat...His cause of death was blunt force trauma." said Nelson.

''According to the police report..Rigor had already set in...He obviously was dead before they got to the boat, long before they got to it." said Bresha.

''And this girl had been in the water an estimated eight hours, strangled to death.." said Josie.

''Which means Rockland couldn't have killed her...He was already in custody and after that, he was with us...There is no way...."said Beverly.

"This is lazy police work , this is Lt. Tragg saying, "Hey I've cleared two homicides." said Olivia.

"It's going to be okay Ms. Jay." said Nelson, hugging his mother in law.

"I know...Rockland's got the best lawyers in the city on his side." said Alfreda, smiling at us.

Paris and Tony stopped in....They both had over night bags..

''Hey...we heard you guys would be up late, so we brought overnight bags..."said Paris , who would be staying with Josie at Beverly and Nelson's place.

"Is the Bennett hotel open tonight Ms. Liv?" asked Tony, who hoped to spend the night with Bresha in the extra room in Olivia and I's domicile.

Olivia laughed... "Yes... I still have food left over from our dinner...when we are through, everybody is welcome to come up and I'll fix you all a hot plate..Alfreda...you're not sleeping alone in that sub-basement tonight...I've fixed you a nice pallet on our comfortable couch...We are all going to be quite cozy tonight." said Olivia.

"Thank You Livy...I didn't want to be alone tonight...Being around you good people makes me feel a lot better. I just feel bad for Rockland, all alone in that jail cell tonight.." said Alfreda.

"Don't worry, we are going to do everything we can to get him out." I said to Alfreda.

III-

A DAY LATER-

Gary and I were at the Morgue talking to Dr. Hazel Baylor. We were looking at the body of Brenda Garland, the young lady Rockland had been with on the boat...She was from Camden...She had three arrests and one conviction for prostitution...She was 23...She was perfect to set Rockland up..and then she was disposed of.. Lowell Carmaichell cleaned up his loose ends well.

She was killed somewhere around 7:30 -8:00 am in the morning.. We discovered a drugged and semi conscious Rockland Cambridge at 4:30 am.."said Hazel.

"Which means Rockland was locked up at the time she was murdered...He couldn't have done it. For some reason I don't think this is Lowell Carmaichell either.. This smacks of someone else." said Gary..

I shook my head in disgust..

"I told Lt. Tragg not to jump to conclusions to wait until a full autopsy had been done..but you know him, He was hell bent on charging  Rockland with another murder..He's the biggest butthead alive..Nobody here likes him..."said Hazel.

''None of the ADA's like him or want to work a case he's involved in and half the cops hate his guts." said Gary, smiling.

"Thank you Hazel... This report will help my folks get one of these charges dropped and maybe get Rockland freed.

And so. A DAY LATER-

Olivia , Beverly, Nelson, Josie and Bresha were back in court..

Arguing the facts before the same Judge, Micheal King and the same Special Prosecutor, Linda Beavers. 

They had Brenda Garland's complete autopsy with estimated time of death being around 7:30-8:00 am.  Rockland was taken into custody at 4:45 am. and was in custody until they got him released , a little before noon!

"Olivia...you and your niece and your team are tenacious..I'll say that ." said a very nervous Judge King..They came loaded with facts, predicates and testimony... 

He would have to drop one murder charge at least.

''In lieu of this new information...The people move to drop the first degree murder charge in the case of Brenda Rivers, also known as Brenda Garland against Rockland Cambridge." said Special Prosecutor Linda Beavers.

"And since the second murder charge has been dropped, I order Mr. Cambridge released from the Federal Holding Facility to await his original trial in the case of Willie Tate." aid Judge King..

"WHATTTTTTTTTT?" screamed an angry Lt. Tragg in total disbelief.....

"This is your fault...You jumped to conclusions, you didn't read the finished autopsy report...You didn't even wait for it. I thought you arrested him on the second charge a little hastily....I TOLD YOU THAT!! Nor did you study the time of death and the fact that your suspect was already in custody....I looked at the report last night and I saw it glaring right at me.. Any Attorney worth his or her salt was going to catch that...NOW I WANT YOU TO GO OVER THAT ORIGINAL CRIME SCENE AGAIN!! and thoroughly...I don't want any surprises...Is THAT UNDERSTOOD?" she said to Lt. Tragg.

''Yes" he whimpered....He didn't like being talked to like that....and especially by a woman...And he was furious that Olivia, Beverly and company just wouldn't let it go...They hammered away and hammered away at his case, like they always do until part of it just collapsed.  But, that was their job as defense attorneys.

''We did it guys..We did it! What did I tell you???..Preparation...Knowledge of law...Facts....That's what wins cases." said Olivia.

"You were right Auntay...and you, Donnie Ray...you're our secret weapon." said a jubilant Beverly..

I just smiled.. This was only the beginning...One Battle in a war..I thought to myself.

"One down, one to go." said Nelson.

"Yes!" said Josie.

''Wow..we cleared him of one murder without having to go to trial ."laughed Bresha.

Lieutenant Tragg looked at the joyous attorneys celebrating and stomped his foot in anger...He then kicked a trash can until it dented...He was so mad..

Alfreda was the happiest...She greeted Rockland, who was surprised himself that he was being released and had been cleared of one of the two murders he had been charged with, without a trial 

with a big , wet, sloppy kiss.

IV-

Tonight the "Bennett Hotel" had a few vacancies..

Only two extra guests....

After our major victory in court today of clearing Rockland of one murder charge without a trial and securing his release... Tony and Bresha went home as did Josie and Paris.. I liked the company, but it was getting a little crowded..

I wanted that alone time with my wife....

To kiss her outside of the bedroom..

"Ummmmm Husband, you make me feel soooooo good!" moaned Olivia.

"You make me feel even better...I told you, yo make me hornier than any other woman I've known.." I whispered..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm I believe you....That huge thing of yours makes me wet too!" she said in between kisses...

To bend her over the kitchen and bathroom sink..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GOODNESSS DONNIE RAY!! OUUUUUUUU!" she moaned.

To lift her petite body up and long stroke her..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  HOO HOO HOOOO, YOU ARE ALL UP IN THIS!" she wailed..

And finally to make love to her on the couch and in our bedroom...in other words to get the full experience... EIGHT TO NINE HOURS OF IT!

And one floor down...

''Woof!" said Nelson...looking lustfully at his wife...

"Meowwwwwwww!" purred Beverly as they stared into each other's eyes..

They began kissing passionately, deeply.....

Beverly could see that his trousers were standing out like a circus tent...She softly rubbed his erection and unzippered his trousers and continued deep throat kissing him....Her soft hands caressing his engorged penis made Nelson even more excited..

   "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nelson...We need to take this back to the bedroom, .."she moaned...

"It's just us tonight Honey Bun...No guests." he reminded her...

He lifted her up and walked her into their bedroom, closed the door and locked it..

He took her top off, she shimmied out of her skirt.. and he began to take his clothes off...

He unhooked her bra and slipped it off..

Nelson sucked on her breasts and kissed her breasts, her neck and her cheekbones and finally her lips....She moaned and leaned her head back........She was giddy with excitement....

Nelson started by kissing Beverly from her mouth down to her breasts, He began giving her french kisses,He moved his lips slowly across her breasts down to her body, He kept kissing her body as he lowered himself to her waist and hips. Beverly was wearing a short skirt and Nelson lifted it.. As he got to her panties, He placed a hand on both of her shapely legs and slowly spread them, Instead he kissed her vagina through her panties and even squeezed it slightly with his lips, "OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ,OHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDD!!! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, NELSONNN!" she moaned. Beverly was near delirium.. 

Nelson ran his tongue softly over her panties... He kissed her through her panties for a few minutes He moved slightly lower, kissing along her inner thigh. He licked & kissed her inner thigh... Then he began deep throat kissing her again...She was breathing heavily and her body was shaking.. "OH MY GODDDDD NELSON....UMMMMMMM!" she cooed. "OHHHHHHHHHHH BEVERLY....OHHHHHHHHHHH!" Nelson moaned.

She slipped her panties off...

She eased herself down on him slowly and moved up and down slower and slower, driving him crazy....

She was going crazy too! She kissed him slow and softly as she moved up and down on him even slower.....

Soon they were on top of their bed, making slow, quiet tender love......

"Nelson, I love you!" whispered Beverly...

"Beverly, I love you too.." he whispered back!..

For the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS, they'd be engaged...

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....OUUUUU YESSSSSS!" Beverly moaned.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" moaned Nelson..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" moaned Nelson...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HUSSSSSBAND!" cooed Beverly softly.

and in our sub-basement...our only guests tonight.

Rockland and Alfreda 

''Come here boy....I got something warm and wet and wonderful for you.."cooed Alfreda.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH LAWWWWD!" said Rockland who was more excited than he had been in a long while..

They quickly got undressed and embraced each other in the middle of the floor..

Rockland lifted her up and long stroked her....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" said Alfreda...She was having an intense orgasm...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ALFREDDDDDDAAAAAA!" he moaned in his deep baritone..

She loved the way he said her name like that...It got her more excited...

They were making sweet love in the bed an old squeaky bed...but they didn't care...They were in the privacy of our sub-basement and sure no one could hear them...

For the next NINE TO TEN HOURS...They didn't care...

Lt. Tragg was concerned... He called Julie Baisden again and got no answer from her phone...It had went to voicemail..He hadn't seen or heard from her in a week.. He had been to Big FED... She had tried a couple of cases and had been seen... He had stopped by her condo twice and it appeared she wasn't there...Nor was her car... He had checked her financials...She had bought groceries two days before..Had gotten gas today for that matter and had been in the shopping center... Had purchased some lingerie...And yet she wasn't home. She'd show up sooner or later, he wagered...

Olivia, Beverly and their team had gotten one of the murder charges on Rockland dropped and gotten him successfully released from custody again..

He told himself...It was just one battle in the war..

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