VENTURES: Unwound

FRIDAY MORNING- 10:20 AM

''What a lovely morning." said Bee Bee as we left our homes and walked across the street to Olivia's house.

"It is and last night wasn't so bad either." I whispered in her ear...

"Ouuuuuu papi, last night was amazing...I didn't think you were ever going to stop." said Sofia, smiling at Kahlil.

"I didn't think I was either." said Kahlil..

"Goood Morning Everyone." said Jade.

"Good Morning guys." said Kayla...She was glowing..

"My baby is soo fine." said her husband Ray, squeezing her behind..

"Ouuuuuuuuu cut it out.."laughed Kayla playfully...

"Those drinks last night were afro disiacs...WOW!" said Jazzy.

"I'll say." said Dabnis.

"Ouuuu papi....I didn't think you were ever going to stop." said Jessica ,looking at her husband...

"I almost didn't." laughed her husband, Chip...

We entered Ms. Olivia's house....

To our surprise...Ms. Yvette was already there...

"Good Morning...Good Morning young people." she said with a smile..

"Heyyyy" said Beverly...

''Good Mornin Sleepy heads." said Nelson.

''Heyyyy" said our neighbor Josie..

"Good Morning." said Paris, he had called out today....

"Hi Guys." said Bresha..

who was sitting on her husband, Tony's lap...

"Take a seat, get comfortable." said Olivia, who loved entertaining and was overjoyed we all were here..

"The food should be here shortly." said Donnie Ray...

"Here it is... and here is Virginia, Zoey and Lem...The gang is all here." said Alfreda.

''Sorry I'm late guys."said Virginia..

''It was harrrrrrrddd getting up this morning." said Zoey...

"Yes indeed.." said Lem.

"You aren't late....You arrived with the food." laughed Olivia.

Pancakes, Sausage, Eggs, Hash Browns, Bacon and a cold cut tray for lunch....

And hot coffee for everybody......

We were famished..This food was just what the doctor ordered...

All of us brought our laptops, our legal briefs and papers ,our portals and our phones... This was still a work day... It just didn't feel like one.. Very few people work with their very best friends in such a comfortable enviroment.

''Okay guys...Are we ready?" asked Ms. Yvette.

"Me and Sofia are ready for anything they throw at us..."said Bee Bee.

"And we have the element of surprise with us." said Sofia. "I don't think they have much to throw at us." she said.

''Sofia's right...I've seen discovery and all they've got is a pair of panties....No eyewitness and no other forensic information..." said Kahlil.

"The element of surprise is with us... Mr. Seward....and his testimony." said Jade.

"I've got some questions to ask him which may break him down...but even if it doesn't and we have to go to trial...We have so much to leave so much reasonable doubt and throw such shade on him that a reasonable jury will acquit Mr. Jerkins. This guy is wound up tight...I think he's ready to explode...If I just trigger him right, push the right buttons...he come unwound....You wait and see."said Ms. Yvette.

It was a productive Friday for all parties involved.

II-

COURTROOM A- 10:00 AM MONDAY MORNING-

We Were on time as usual, with our client...It was the first day of the Preliminary Hearing in the murder trial of Frank Jerkins, accused of killing Christine Lockhart.

''Okay...Here we go....If we are lucky...We can end this in the preliminary hearing Hearing...They've got nothing." said Ms. Yvette.

''And if we are unlucky?" said Frank Jerkins, who appeared overwhelmed by it all and the thought that he could be going to jail for the rest of his natural life...

''Then we go to trial..a jury trial."said Bee Bee.

''But don't worry, we've got more than enough to present reasonable doubt to any thinking jury." I said.

''And Keith and my husband always pick thinking jurors."said Sofia , trying to reassure him.

Kahlil smiled.

Jade did too!

Assistant District Attorney Lynne Hewitt was on time....

so was Lt. Tragg..

"Lead Prosecutor, Denver Pyle came in ten minutes late and stumbling....He had really hung one on the night before...

"Assistant District Attorney Denver Pyle, Prosecutor for the Defense , present your honor and it is a pleasure to serve a woman as beautiful as youuuuuuu." he slurred...

Judge Elise Cummings was exasperated..

Lt. Tragg was livid.... "He's plastered....What the hell is wrong with him?" he muttered..

''Oh My Godddd!" said Assistant District Attorney Lynne Hewitt...embarrassed for him...

Ms. Yvette and I and Kahlil were laughing so hard, we had to put our heads down...our bodies were shaking.

"Oh My Godddd, How could he come to trial like this?" asked my wife, Bee Bee.

''Aye Mios Dios." said Sofia.

"Is he serious? He's drunk!" said Frank Jerkins...

"That's putting it mildly..." said Jade, who was also laughing.

"Mr. Pyle are you prepared to begin your arguments?" asked Judge Cummings...

"Babyyyyyyy...I've been prepared for you since....since I -I first met you." said ADA Denver Pyle...

The courtroom erupted in laughter...

"Ohhhh hell, and this guy is prosecuting me?" sighed Frank Jerkins...

''Well your honor...We are here because....because... beeeeeeecaussse a murder most foul has been committed.... This SOB right here...Right here..." he said pointing to Frank Jerkins....

"ADA PYLE!!! YOUR LANGUAGE!!! PLEASE!!!" said Jude Cummings..

"Okay...Okay...I understand the defendent, this guy over there had his hands somewhere they shouldn't have been, up the deceased woman's dress...HEH HEH HEH.....You dirty dog you.... We have his palm print on the back of her uh panties..as well as his sweaty DNA and a fingerprint...Apparently he uh ripped her panties...which proves to me, he doesn't know what he's doing and for that alone...he should be kept in jail for murder one..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he said... "Seriously, we have enough evidence to prove that, that he is a killer...a killer of ladies underwear and should be jailed." he said,laughing...

He stumbled back to his seat.....

''One pair of ripped panties does not make my client a murderer...I and my five colleauges were at the restaurant that night. Our client did in fact have an inappropriate interaction with the deceased in which his hands were under her skirt...She did slap him, but that was the end of his dealings with her...He paid the tab and left and did not see her anymore...as he has said. we intend to prove that!" said Ms. Yvette..

Trying to do damage control the next few days...ADA Lynne Hewitt produced death scene photos and interviewed CSI and Police as well as on the scene witnesses, all that proved little to nothing.

Kahlil and I questioned them all...comparing what they initially said with sworn affidavits they signed later, asking them if other than what they found on the panties , was there any other forensic evidence linking our client to the woman at all, any evidence of any sexual intercourse.They all said no...

Lynne Hewitt did the best she could , calling and interviewing witnesses from Rittenhouse Square who discovered the body for the next two days.

Sofia and Bee Bee questioned them all and not one of them could remember seeing our client anywhere near Rittenhouse square on that night...

On the third day she sighed in frustration... Her first case...and she was losing badly....She wasn't even first chair...She was second chair and she was carrying the whole case, which was very thin....

Denver Pyle fell asleep and was snoring part of the time or when he was awake, he was making silly remarks..

"Lynne, you've got quite a rack on you baby....Artie, take your hands from under her dress!! Heh heh, THAT'S MY JOB! HEH HEH, HEH!" he bellowed out loud, embarrassing Lt. Tragg... and causing the courtroom to howl with laughter!

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet....and furious at Denver Pyle for calling him out like that!! He wanted to punch his lights out! He kept his hands to himself after that!

Lynne Hewitt had spent the past three days fending both of them off of her, removing their hands from beneath her skirt.. and trying to sit as far apart from them both as possible and put on a prosecution...

"The Prosecution has closed it's case.....Mrs. Jones-Lockwood would you like to present a defense? I sure hope so..." said Judge Cummings.

"We do your honor...We are prepared to present our case tomorrow morning." said Ms. Yvette.

"Thank You...Due to the lateness of the hour..Court will adjourn for the day." said Judge Cummings, sighing...

Out in the hallway we attempted to cheer ADA Hewitt Up....Something rare for Defense Attorneys trying to win a case. We were all the same age an trying to make it as Attorneys...We felt a certain Kinship with her...

"For what it's worth, we think you're doing a fantastic job." said Bee Bee.

"You just have a weak case and a Lead prosecutor who would have did you a service if he had stayed home." said Sofia.

"I know....He smells like whatever he had to drink last night...His clothes, his breath..ugh...I try to sit as far away from him as possible, then I'm forced to sit with Lt. Tragg....He's a horndog, always got his hands on my legs or up my skirt....He's given us a case with more holes than Swiss Cheese..He is terrible." she sighed..

"Look this is your first case...Find a real sharp ADA...There are several, work with them, learn as much as you can...You'll be alright." I said..

"Tell your partner, ADA Pyle to lay off the sauce." said Kahlil, smiling..

"Easier said than done." said Jennifer, laughing with us...

Yvette and Jade were coming out of the courtroom when they ran into ADA Denver Pyle..

"MYYYY GODDDD YVETTE, I couldn't concentrate in there because your breasts have gotten so damn big! LAWWWWD!!!" said ADA Denver Pyle..

"That's not why you couldn't concentrate." was all Ms. Yvette would say, pushing by him...

Ms. Jade cracked up laughing.

III-

THAT AFTERNOON

Gary smiled and looked at his wife lustfully after he finished washing and drying the dishes...

Yvette was already sitting on the bed in her red lace baby doll...

"Oh My Godddd..."said Gary, his eyes nearly bulging out of his head.....

He began undressing hurriedly and pulled Yvette to him and began kissing her passionately..

Slipping her bra and panties off.. She giggled...

"My goodness Gary, I'm not going anywhere...Ease up!" she laughed...

''UMMMMMMMM, I'm ready for trial tomorrow...If I'm lucky, we can wrap this thing up without having to have a jury trial.!" she cooed seductively...

"OHHHHHHH VETTTIE....I think you can do anything you say you can do!!" GARY MOANED.

Yvette smiled..

"Awwwwwwww...I know you're saying that because you want some....but thank youuuuuuu." she said..

"I'M SAYIN IT BECAUSE IT'S TRUE BABY!" he said.

The bedsprings were soon squeaking very loudly.....The headboard of their bed was rattling and the sounds of lovemaking could be heard...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuu.." moaned Yvette...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.." moaned Gary.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Garyyyyy, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." she moaned...

"Vettie, I love you , I just love you soooo much.." moaned Gary, beside himself with lust...

He had gone to lifting her up and long stroking her..

"Ouuuuuu Gary, I love you too...I love you so much! You don't even understand how much I love youuuu. OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....SO MUCH!!! SOOO MUCH!!! OHHHHHH!!" she cooed.

"YVETTE ,OH MY GODDDDDDD!" he moaned....placing her on the dresser and plunging into her warm wet center... She smelled so good and was so soft, Gary didn't know if he was coming or going.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU GARRRRRYYYY! UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" she cooed loudly....

to throwing her on the bed and laughing gleefully as he stroked her.....Her arms around his neck...her head turning from side to side....both of her legs just shaking furiously....

To finally mounting her in bed, making sweet, slow love to her....

Yvette had had three to four intense orgasms in the EIGHT TO NINE HOURS of lovemaking...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he moaned...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HUSBANDDDD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MEEEE?" she cooed.

She was embarrassed at the noise they both were making...She hoped her neighbors couldn't hear it...

Her headboard sounded like it might split in half.....

She was equally embarrassed at the noise she was making....Gary was driving her out of her mind...She was cooing and hollering loud! Gary was moaning loudly too!

She was driving him out of his mind also!

Gary didn't seem like he wanted to stop....He never did! but soon he couldn't help it...He came and he came hard like a flowing gusher..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned....shaking violently....

They continued kissing....

"Did you like that daddy?" asked Yvette...

"Ouuuuu I loved it baby.." moaned Gary..

Gary lay in between her legs with his head resting on her breasts.. Both of them were drenched in sweat....

"Damnnnnn , that was good! "he said.

Yvette looked over at her clock...

"You weren't so bad yourself." whispered Yvette...laughing afterwords....

"Yes indeed!!!WOWWWW!!" he whispered...

"Yes....I'm glad you enjoyed yourself..I enjoyed myself too! . " she said as she got up and walked to the kitchen to get a bottle of water...

"I thought about you all day...So much I could hardly concentrate on my work" he said as she returned to bed....

"You've got to stop that......"she giggled..

"Yeah, I know... "laughed Gary.

"You wanna do it some more? asked Yvette..

Gary pulled her to him and kissed her gently and ran his hands into her panties...

slipping them down once again...

"You have to ask?" he whispered and laughed raffishly...

"No you horn dog!!!..I already know." Yvette laughed...She stroked him gently..Amazed at his size and girth....

"OUUUUUUUUUU! OH MY GOODNESS, YOU ARE SOOOOO HARD! GARY!!! You don't make any sense.." laughed Yvette..

"Neither do you! Being so damn hot!!!" said Gary, laughing raffishly...

"You think I'm hot Gary?" she asked..

"You know I do...I always have...Why do you think I've chased after you so long?" he asked..

They wound up back on the bed...Making sweet love for Another THREE HOURS or so...

"Ummmmmmmmmm you never.....you never get enough do you?" she asked..

"No, I don't...you've got me spoiled...All this good lovin.." he said..

Yvette giggled like a school girl, she loved being desired like this...

"I knowwwwwwww!" Yvette giggled....as the bed continued to squeak out of control.

"OHHHHHHHHHHH VVETTTTIE!" he moaned..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU, UMMMMMMMMMMMMM GARRRRRRRRRY!!!!MYYYYY GOOODNESSS...OUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!" she cooed.
They continued making love... The bed was squeaking louder now than ever and the headboard was shaking fiercely... This bed was getting a real working over this week...

Yvette's legs began shaking furiously...She was having an intense orgasm....and Gary was cumming like a gusher, his body trembling...

She lie on his chest breathing softly....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu good luck in court tomorrow baby.." he said, hugging her...

She gave him a nice sweet kiss...

"Thank you....This was a nice send off." she said and dozed off...

At Curley's Bar

"Denver!!!! Get out of here, go home!!! Trial is tomorrow!!! You've got to lay off the sauce....You're blowing the case...."said an angry Lt. Tragg..

"Relax Artie, I'm just having a beer....Blowing the case? I'm blowing the case? What Case? Girl gets murdered in the park or at least that's where the body is found... You have not one eyewitness that places the suspect there.....You have no other forensic evidence other than his DNA on her panties and that could have been hours before...They didn't have sex....and besides the fact she slapped him hours before, you don't even have a motive...Hell this guy shouldn't have even been arrested...At least not until you got more evidence....I sure hope Yvette and her guys haven't turned up evidence YOU should have gotten." said Denver Pyle, who all of a sudden seemed very sober...

He tossed a few dollars on the table...

"Good Night Artie, maybe you have time in between now and the trial to find us some more evidence.!" said ADA Denver Pyle.

Lt. Tragg stood with a blank expression on his face.. He refused to take any responsibility on the way the case was going.. And he definitely was not going to recanvass or try to scrape up anymore evidence.

IV-

COURTROOM A- 10:00 AM FRIDAY MORNING-

Assistant District Attorney Denver Pyle was in the courtroom before us this morning.. and he was sober... New Suit...Nice Fragrance, Fresh Breath....

Judge Elise Cummings was happy for that...

''Good Morning." said ADA Lynne Hewitt as we all entered the courtroom..

"Things are looking up for you missy...Your guy is not only on time...He appears to be sober.."said Yvette to Lynne Hewitt. She liked her...She felt sorry that for her first case she had to work with a damn drunk and the worst Homicide Detective in the city.

"Four Days into the trial and he sobers up! Well if that don't beat all."said our client..Frank Jerkins.

"Hope Springs Eternal." I laughed..

''On Time and Sober." said Bee Bee.

"Imagine That!" said Sofia.

Kahlil laughed..

So did Jade.

The Arguments began..

"The Prosecution says that my client murdered Ms. Lockhart.... The Prosecution would have you believe that because they had an altercation earlier in the afternoon on which his fingerprints wound up on her panties and he was slapped that he was soooo angry, he murdered her. This is the theory of an over active imagination and is not rooted in fact. My client did not know Ms. Lockhart, prior to meeting her in that rooftop Bar and Grille and had no way of knowing where she was going.." said Ms. Yvette.

On a 64 inch monitor Bee Bee showed actual footage from the bar that afternoon and showed the slap!

She then showed Christine Lockhart running into the ladies room.... Mr. Jerkins then paid the tab and promptly left....

"Our client was long gone by the time Ms. Lockhart and my colleagues and I left. Which was a good thirty minutes later." she said.

Sofia produced the Uber driver who explained how he picked her up and where he put her off at..

It was a few blocks from the Square and Street Cam video clearly showed Jason Seward following her.

Following her and carrying what looked like an iron pipe.

"Watch the monitor and check the times.... This is my client, getting in his car and if you follow the route, you see he was driving in a completely opposite direction of Ms. Lockhart, who hadn't even gotten into her Uber yet." I said.

"There he is pulling up in front of his house... and here is a receipt and a time stamped photo of him getting money out of an ATM.... Check the time... According to testimony you hear from the prosecution's own witness...The estimated time of death was around 5:00 pm.... This atm card says 4:58pm... There is no way my client was getting money in Queen Village and killing Ms. Lockhart, miles away in Rittenhouse Square at the same time or in as many minutes." said Kahlil..

Both ADA Denver Pyle and ADA Lynne Hewitt stared daggers at Lt. Tragg..

Lt. Tragg looked like he's swallowed a canary....He had in fact arrested the wrong man and had never bothered to check his alibi....THEY KNEW THIS NOW!!!!

Yvette called Jason Seward to the stand and the first thing she asked him was how long he had known Christine Lockhart..

''I don't believe I know her." he said arrogantly.

"You're under oath and perjury is a serious crime....I have here a Restraining order she took out on you...because you called her and threatened her on numerous occassions....Here is a list of your calls to her and the times. and you are seen here standing outside one of her residences in these street cam photos on these dates.... She changed residences three times and changed her phone numbers because you kept harrassing her...You blamed her for your brother's suicide didn't you?" asked Ms. Yvette...

"I-I-I don't know what you're talking about." he said.

"Ohhhh yes you do...Let me refresh your memory....

On the Monitor was the tallest building in Philadelphia..

"A Man leaped to his death from this building last year....."That man's name was Justin Seward....your twin brother. the CFO of Home Goods Inc., died at a time when his company was experiencing severe losses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and this year’s substantial inflation, according to insiders.

Less than two weeks before, he was named in a federal class-action lawsuit concerning allegations of federal securities fraud, insider trading, and breach of fiduciary duty, court documents reviewed by The Independent show. The lawsuit comes as the company planned to close 150 of its 900 stores, along with a mass layoff affecting 20 per cent of its corporate staff. Mr Seward was cited in the suit along with activist investor Ryan Kalua.

They were accused of collaborating in a “fraudulent scheme to artificially inflate the price of Home Goods Inc. publicly traded stock”.

The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 23 April last year, claimed that the pair provided “materially false statements regarding the financial condition and holding situation” of the home goods company for their financial benefit.

The lead plaintiff is listed as investor Pen Chen Ling. Laying out the case against them, the suit states: “The defendants, knowing that the information they disclosed was false, took advantage of the inflated stock price and used fraudulent and misleading SEC filings to sell all their (HOME GOODS INC.) shares and options at artificially inflated prices to unsuspecting and innocent public investors and then retained control of the profits.” On 18 April, both Mr Seward and Mr Kalua sold shares of the company, with the former selling more than 42,000 shares for an estimated $1million, and the latter selling the entirety of his 9.8 per cent stake through his firm, RC&D Ventures.

Shares in the company then plummeted. According to the lawsuit, it is alleged that Mr Kalua, co-founder of Chewy Chewing Gum and chairman of Games We Play Computer Games, approached Mr Seward about his “pump and dump” scheme as early as March 2020, and “convinced Seward that their plan would be a "mutually beneficial one” from which they would profit handsomely by coordinating their share sales to optimize returns.

Mr. Kalua copped a plea and was given 24 months (2 years) in Federal Prison and a 1.4 million dollar fine.

Your twin brother leaped to his death....

The Attorney, The Assistant U.S. Attorney who made the case at the time was Christine Lockhart." said Ms. Yvette.

"TURN IT OFF!!! TURN IT OFF!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I KILLED THE BITCH!!! I KILLED THE BITCH...I CRACKED HER GOTDAMN SKULL OPEN AND I DON'T CARE.....SHE JUST KEPT ON...SHE KEPT ON....SHE WOULDN'T LET UP!!! MY BROTHER COULDN'T TAKE IT!!! AND HE DIED...HE DIED...HE DIED TO SPITE HER!!! GOTDAMN IT!! DAMN IT!! DAMNIT TO HELLL!!!" he screamed...

"BAILIFFS, TAKE THIS MAN INTO CUSTODY!" said Judge Cummings..

"DAMN IT!! DAMN IT TO HELLLLL!!! GOTDAMN IT!!!! DAMN YOUUUUUUUU!" he kept screaming as they handcuffed him and dragged him out of the courtroom. He had become completely unwound......

"The people move to drop all charges against Mr. Jerkins." said Lynne Hewitt....

Jade walked over to Lt. Tragg...

"I told you! I told you last week you should look at him...but you wouldn't listen." said Jade.

"You mean to tell me you gave him a heads up...and you didn't at least look into it????" said a now surprisingly angry Denver Pyle..

"I told you to recanvass, to question some more people...and you didn't do anything did you??said a livid young ADA Lynne Hewitt....

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet...He stomped his foot and stormed out of the courtroom.

''Ms Yvette, you got all Perry Mason on us." I said, hugging her.

"I figured that guy was wound up...I knew how to trigger him.. I pushed the right buttons and voila, he exploded. He became completely unwound!"said Ms. Yvette.

''You're still the master. Ms. Yvette." said Bee Bee.

''You kept us from having to endure a long drawn out trial..Thank you." said Sofia.

"Yes, thank You." said Kahlil.

''Wasn't just me...You guys helped. I'd like to say it was a team effort." said Ms.Yvette.

"THANK YOU GUYS!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST."said Frank Jerkins glad to be exonerated...glad to have his name cleared...

''Just watch your hands from now on."said Ms. Yvette, smiling..

"Oh Most definitely.... From now on, my hands only go under her dress...Connie...I'd like you to meet my legal team... Mrs. Yvette Jones -Lockwood, Lead Attorney and her associate attorneys, Keith Jones, Beatrice "Bee Bee" Jones, Sofia Garcia -Ahmed and her husband, Kahlila Ahmed and their investigator, Jade Lee..." he said Happily, remembering all of our names.