VENTURES: Rufus

It was a rainy night, the night before the re-trial of Death Row prisoner began...

Assistant District Attorney Courtland James and his attractive Assistant Attorney Alva Simmons were having dinner and drinks at a tony rooftop bar and restaurant...

"This is so nice. Especially with all that rain out there." said Alva Simmons..

as she enjoyed her drinks

and her dinner, lobster....She was impressed.

"Yes.let's hope that by the time we are done it'll stop raining.heh heh heh!"laughed ADA Courtland James.

as he enjoyed his steak and his martini.

They laughed and talked and drank and ate until a quarter to two in the morning. The raining had stopped.

He drove her to her condo....He slyly asked if he could come up "For Coffee"

She was a bit tipsy....but not that Tipsy....

"Counselor....you didn't come up here for coffee, did you?" she asked...laughing..

"I did not....Heh heh heh...No grass grows under your feet....heh heh heh!" he laughed..

He pulled her to him and slowly and softly kissed her.

"You came up here to get in my panties, tee hee...You've been wanting to ever since I started working with you....I've seen how you stare at me in the office. Tee hee.." she laughed.

"You are a very perceptive young lady." he said as they continued to kiss.

"Ummmmmmm and YOU are a very direct and ERECT YOUNG MAN!!...We really shouldn't be doing this...We are going to be working together." she whispered... Softly caressing the bulge in his trousers..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! What a better way to break the ice." he moaned.

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" she cooed.

Their kissing got more passionate...

"That's all the reason why we should be doing this.." he whispered as they continued kissing....

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." he moaned..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed as they continued kissing...She slowly unzippered his trousers and began fondling him...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MS. SIMMONS!" he moaned.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU MR. JAMES!" she giggled

"OUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned as he unhooked her bra..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GOOODNESS!" he moaned as he slipped her panties down...

It was dark....They lie across her bed ,kissing passionately....with her rubbing his penis softly...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU LOOK AT YOUUUUUU!" she exclaimed..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM look at you!!!!" he said.

He spread her legs apart and slowly entered her..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU COURTLANDDDDDDD! OUUUUUUU!" she moaned..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...AWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWD!" he cried out...

She was so wet, so soft...he was nearly losing his mind...Her body was trembling something fierce...her head was turning from side to side.. and tears were slowly streaming down her face...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU COURTLANDDDDDDD! LAWWWD! OUUUUUUU!" she moaned..She was having and embarrassingly quick orgasm.

"OHHHHHHHH SWEET ,SWEET BABY!" he moaned softly...

"OUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned..

The bed began to squeak loudly....the headboard began to rattle..

They began to make sweet love for the next FOUR TO FIVE HOURS! with Courtland cumming so hard and so furious, he felt like he was dying...

FRIDAY MORNING- I sat in the courthouse with Jessica , Chip, Ms. Yvette, Keith, Bee Bee, Sofia ,Kahlil and Jade. We were awaiting the beginning of the trial. The retrial of former death row inmate,Rufus Haney...

We were all drinking coffee and sitting quietly.....

"Well guys, this is it." I said.

Jessica rubbed my back...

"We got your back.." she said, smiling....

"With this team...We are not going to lose..."said her husband, Chip confidently....

"We have a vigourous defense ready." said Ms. Yvette...

" We are in this to win this." said Keith Jones.

"That's right."said Bee Bee.

"We aren't in this to lose."said Sofia..

"We got your back David." said Kahlil.

Jade whispered some last minute things to me about discovery...

I smiled confidently.....

The Sherrif's bus arrived with our client, Rufus Haney...He looked hopeful..He was still in a white jumpsuit and in shackles...We were going to try and get him some clothes for later court appearances.

Assistant District Attorney Alva Simmons walked in... She looked tired , like she hadn't had a good night's sleep.

There was no sign of Assistant District Attorney Courtland James...

Detective William Wisdom and Lt. Arthur Tragg walked in together...They both glared at all of us angrilly...None of us blinked or paid them any mind..

They purely didn't want to be here...This case was closed in their minds...They didn't like to be going over a closed case, especially Lt. Tragg. This case had brought him rare good press headlines...and now, once again, he looked like the goat.

Judge Charlotte Peterson walked in...She didn't make eye conduct with any of us...We Understood.

We followed her into the courtroom...

Assistant District Attorney Courtland James came running in, almost late...He looked as if he'd just gotten out of the shower...He was out of breath...

We were about to begin.

II-

"ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE JUDGE CHARLOTTE PETERSON." said the bailiff.

We all stood up.

"Take Your seats....I am Judge Charlotte Peterson , Welcome to my courtroom.... Due to courtroom crowding of cases, we are going to bypass a preliminary hearing...We know that a crime, a henious crime has been committed so we are going to go straight to trial. I expect some of you are tired of hearing this...but it is what it is..We are trying to wind down our case load. We will have Jury selection today. Trial could begin tomorrow morning if we seat a jury today." said Judge Mercer... "We will start today with introductions." she said.

"Assistant District Attorney Courtland James your honor, representing the Commonwealth your honor." he said.

"Assistant District Attorney Alva Simmons representing the Commonwealth your honor.." she said.

"David Charles, Lead Attorney for the Defense." I said.

"Jessica Sanchez-Burrows, Attorney for the Defense." said Jessica..

"Charles Burrows, Attorney for the defense your honor." said Chip.

"Yvette Jones-Lockwood, Attorney for the Defense your honor." said Ms. Yvette.

"Keith Jones, Attorney for the Defense." said Keith Jones.

"Beatrice Jones, Attorney for the defense" said Bee Bee.

"Sofia Garcia-Ahmed, Attorney for the Defense your honor." said Sofia.

"Kahlil Ahmed, Attorney for the Defense your honor." said Kahlil.

Jade , being our investigator didn't need to introduce herself.

Jury selection began...

Courtland James would have been on point except that he was exhausted from a night of lovemaking....

Keith , Kahlil and I had very good questions for jurors and a great idea of what jurors we wanted....We had spent a great deal of hours studying the juror pool...

We were amazed at how out of it and how off of his usual game, ADA Courtland James was...It took the three of us , aided by Bee Bee and Sofia on their laptops, feeding us questions

to get us a slam dunk of all 12 jurors we wanted...It was excellent.....

"Fantastic...We have a jury...Trial will begin promptly Monday morning at 9:00 AM, Be on time and Be ready for trial." she said. "Everybody get a good nights rest before hand.." she said.

We all exited the courtroom....

I looked at Rufus and gave him a thumbs up....

he looked at me and smiled weakly as he was led back to the Men's Correctional Center... He had been incarcerated for four years...He'd only be happy when he was a free man...

Meanwhile across town at Olivia and Beverly's house..

In their law library...Natalie and Brooke were with Beverly ,Josie and Bresha doing the necessary research for the case....Studying every single law that might be used in this case, predicates and looking at witness statements and trial transcripts..

After studying all morning they took a break...

"Wow, this feels like study hall at Girls High."laughed Natalie.

"I didn't go to Girls High, but you're certainly right about how it feels."laughed Brooke.

"It's a small world..We are all the same age except for Bree, graduated the same time and here we are working together...Me and Nat go back to 9th Grade...Me, Nat, My cousin Kayla and Jazzy...

"What about you Brooke? Did you and Nat know each other in D.C.? You were both there around the same time."asked Bev.

"You know what's funny? We did not...and yet we just missed crossing paths many times...The D.C. Legal world is just like the Philly legal world.. Everybody works with or against everybody at some time or other." said Brooke.

"We didn't meet until we both returned to Philadelphia and began working at the Public Defender's Office...That's when we found out we had both worked in D.C. at the same time."laughed Natalie.

"Yeah and you know what's funny? I met Renee Cantrell

while she was in D.C. She had just graduated law school and passed the bar and she was clerking for the Attorney I was working for at the Justice Department." said Brooke.

''Wowwwww Small World..Renee and I go back as far as 11th Grade..She was in 9th grade and she started hanging with me, Kayla, Jazzy and Natalie.."laughed Beverly..

"We corrupted that little girl, didn't we Bev?" laughed Natalie..

Beverly laughed..."We sure did...hahahahahaha...Had her smoking joint with us...She lost her virginity to one of the guys from Central, who was always sniffing around behind me or Kayla...You know what else? Josie was at PENN, the same time me, Kayla and Jazzy were there..." she said.

"Yupper...They were in the law school and I was at Wharton...We even graduated the same day...We just didn't know each other." she said.

"That's funny how we all were in the same spaces and met later in life.. I think it's kismet..I think we all were meant to be together." said Brooke.

Her bestie, Natalie smiled. "She's such a Space Cadet." she said, hugging her good friend.

Just then, Nelson and Bresha walked in.. They had been in the next room..

Looking at the Jury pool and picking the jurors they were going to target.

"We are all done.We are taking five." said Nelson.

"Yeah..we have our type of juror picked." said Bresha, who had worked closely with him today.

Olivia walked in...She had a lot of faith in all of these young lawyers...All attorneys she had mentored at one time, leaving so much of this case to them...

"Come on inside...Lunch is here." she said.

Everybody retired to the conference room.

There was Hot ,Steaming Chinese food from Chinese Bob's on the conference room table. Enough for everybody..

and sweet ice tea to chase it down with...

"Everybody dig in.." said Alfreda, Beverly's mom and Olivia's Office Manager.

"Oh my god...Everything smells sooo good!" said Natalie.

"Mmmmmmmmmmm Yes it does...Pass me some chopsticks.."said Brooke, who next to Olivia was the only one who knew how to use them...

"Mmmmmmmmmmmm this is delish." said Karen Page.

"Yes it is." said Olivia.

"I found both of the witnesses who testified against our guy....Neither of their statements match what they said at trial. I dropped subpoenas on them."said Donnie Ray.

"And I went to the prison, I got his DNA and ran it over to Dr. Goggins Laboratory and to the Medical Examiner's Office." said Sean.

"That's great!! Mmmmmmmmm this food is delish." said Beverly..

"Yes..we are coming right along..." said Nelson.

"I wonder how David, Jessica, Chip,Ms. Yvette and the others are doing?" asked Josie.

"They picked a jury today...Trial starts Monday.," said Bresha.

III-

MONDAY- COURTROOM A- 9:00 AM

The Trial of Rufus Haney began!

With Judge Peterson overseeing..

ADA Courtland James seemed to want to play by the exact same playbook he used in the original trial....

The difference is...That jury had been all white and much older and having no more than a high school education..

This jury was young, there was three African-Americans on the jury, Three Latinos and six whites...All but two were college educated....

At times it appeared that his Assistant, Alva Simmons should have been running the case...She was more prepared and through us more curves than he did..

Still I was prepared and with Jessica, her husband Chip and Ms. Yvette backing me up..

We more than held our own with serious objections based on laws in similar cases, present day law, predicates and the like that Judge Peterson had no choice but to uphold..

much to the chagrin of Detective William Wisdom and Lt. Arthur Tragg who sat in court like two petulant children...

with Bee Bee and Sofia, we argued if his daughter's death was even murder in the first place...

We questioned the "junk science " that determined if this was a murder in the first place..

We brought in Doctors and medical experts to refute the claims of the late Dr. Corazone....

Keith Jones and I and Kahlil brought in witness after witness who testified that the Late Dr. Corazone made false diagnoses in a number of cases and was let go from the hospital staff late last year before her unfortunate death....

ADA Courtland James said that he was never made aware of any of this during the original trial.

"Typically in a– Especially in a child this age, blunt force can be caused both by– well, by an impact to the head, so being struck with something or being struck against something.

Shaking also falls into this definition of blunt force and when enough– And although it doesn’t seem like, you know, shaking is not necessarily striking a child, when you are– When a child is say, shaken hard enough, the brain is actually moving back and forth within, again, within the skull, impacting the skull itself and that motion is enough to actually damage the brain.

Dr. Corazone's trial testimony repeatedly described Baby Mellisa's injuries—the triad—as caused by shaking/blunt force; relying on the triad to presume inflicted head trauma is the discredited “Shaken Baby Syndrome.” ( subdural bleeding saying: “this is another type of bleeding that we see with blunt force injuries and shaking.” described as a retinal hemorrhages as: “Again, this is something that is typically seen in a blunt force or shaking type of injury.” described brain swelling saying: “Subdural hemorrhage alone, the subscalpular hemorrhage alone.

You know, it’s a small amount of blood loss. Again, these injuries themselves are not going to kill this child, but what is going to kill this child are the actual injuries to the brain. And so these other things, the subarachnoid hemorrhage and the subdural hemorrhage are markers that the brain is injured in this way. What actually happens is when the brain is shook or struck hard enough in cases such as you might find here, the actual nerves, the actual individual cells that make up the brain are injured. So those same cells that create our memories or tell our hearts to beat and remind our lungs to breathe are actually damaged and along with, when those cells are damaged like that we get the bleeding into the brain and we get the swelling or the edema.” Mellissa's medical records, as Dr. Corazon admitted in 2022, show that she had DIC, a blood clotting disorder that causes “increased susceptibility to bleeding and bruising,” yet Dr. Cporazon did not include this information in the autopsy report put before the jury or factor it into her assessment of Mellisa's condition. Because Dr. Corazon did not review any of the medical records, she had no way to account for the effects of two days of extensive medical treatment on Mellisa's body before the autopsy was performed." I said in closing....

With the Jury not present....

Judge Peterson met with all of the attorneys...

"From the testimony I have heard throughout these seven days.....I have to agree with Judge Redding that no crime was even committed here in the first place and that this was a grave miscarriage of justice.

ADA James, you have it at your disposal to do a better job of investigating than this, even if the detectives from the Philadelphia Police Department are sub-par... I am dropping all charges and declaring this man Innocent and ordering that he be released immediately.....I am deeply sorry for the five years he spent wrongly incarcerated...." she said.

Jessica hugged Chip..

"You did it papi!" she said smiling..

"Congratulations Man!" said Chip to me...

"It was a team effort....Thank you all.." I said... I hugged Jade... "You did a great job of investigating...."I said.

"Considering the opposition, that was no big deal." she said,laughing.

Rufus Haney, rescued from a death sentence...incarcerated since 2019 was a free man...He cried tears of joys as the handcuffs and shackles were taken from him...

"How can I ever thank you all." he said, his body shaking as he cried profusely...

"We were just doing our jobs..." said a jubilant Yvette Jones-Lockwood..

"When we took your measurements the other day when we visited you...That was for a suit.."said Keith Jones.

"We had our tailor, Sam the Tailor make you a suit..and we brought you some shirts and a nice pair of shoes...I know you're tired of wearing that white prison jumper." said Kahlil.

"Yes I am." said Rufus....

"Take him to the men's room so he can get cleaned up." said Bee Bee.

"And leave that white jumpsuit in the trash...It's not yours anymore." said Sofia.

In the corner, Detective William Wisdom and Lt. Arthur Tragg were not happy.

"Get a load of that damn judge....She called our work sub-par....How the hell were we supposed to know that dame was a quack?" scoffed Detective William Wisdom...

"I know....Once again, those lawyers used every trick in the damn book every loophole and got the verdict they desired...OUUUUUUUUUUU! And that damn Judge,she lives in my girl's building..Just wait until I see her...OUUUUUUU!" snarled Lt. Tragg as the two men walked out.

But ADA James thought differently...

"Those two dumb bells may have cost me my job....I hope they did better police work on the next case." he said angrilly.

"From what I can see, they did not...Let's get to work...Maybe we can win the other case..." said Alva Simmons.

The Case had lasted seven, nearly eight days....I was glad it was over.. We all were.

IV-

That night, Natalie wanted to celebrate my win....Just me and her.

Natalie drove me to the Lovers Lane...

''You've heard about what has happened here haven't you?" I asked.

'' Beverly told me about her and Nelson's two times here...but I don't think we have anything to worry about...There's nobody around for miles... It's just you and me..."said Natalie..

She leaned over and kissed me slowly and softly.. I forgot about any misgivings I had about this place..

"Just you and meeeeee." she cooed.

"AWWWWWWWW LAWWD!" I moaned.

I ran my hands up under Natalie's dress... I rubbed her legs and slowly slipped her panties to the side..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU NATALIE GIRRRRRL, I LIKE THESE!" I said.

'Do I have any panties you don't like?" she asked and giggled...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I DON'T THINK SOOOO!" I moaned..

My trousers were standing out like a circus tent... a fact that Natalie noticed...She giggled and put her hand over her mouth...

"WELL DAMN!" she said....

We kissed some more...

Natalie moaned as I 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....Her body trembled with excitement...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DAVID!! UMMMMMMMMM MEOOOOOOOOWWW!" she moaned..

I started by kissing Natalie from her mouth down to her breasts, I began giving her french kisses,I moved My lips slowly across her breasts down to her body, I kept kissing her body as I lowered myself to her waist and hips. Natalie was wearing a nice sheer skirt and I lifted it..

As I got to her panties, I placed a hand on both of her shapely legs and slowly spread them, Instead I kissed her vagina through her panties and even squeezed it slightly with my lips,

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ,OHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDD!!! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, David!" she moaned.

She was really trembling now!

Natalie was near delirium.. I ran my tongue softly over her panties... I kissed her through her panties for a few minutes I moved slightly lower, kissing along her inner thigh. I licked & kissed her inner thigh... Then I began deep throat kissing her again...

She was breathing heavily and her body was shaking.. "OH MY GODDDDD DAVID....UMMMMMMM!" she cooed.

"OHHHHHHHHHHH NATALIE....OHHHHHHHHHHH!" I moaned.

"YOU'VE DREAMED OF DOING THINGS LIKE THIS TO ME FOR YEARS HAVEN'T YOU..OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, OHHHH MY GODDDDD!" she moaned.

"YES....YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, OUUUUUUUUUUUUU YESSSSSSSS!" I moaned.

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, YOU NASTY BOY!" she cooed..

We began deep throat kissing and moved to the back seat...

Natalie spread her legs and straddled me, moving up and down on me..driving me totally insane!

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" I moaned...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDDDD DAVID!!! OUUUUU!" she screamed out...

And she mounted me..allowing me to move in and out of her as she slowly moved up and down...Neither of us could believe it..

We had finally got to this point with no interference from anyone..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DAVID I'M IN LOVEEEE." NATALIE cooed.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NATALIE I'VE BEEN IN LOVE...UMMMMM."I cooed.

"AWWWWWWWWWWW"she said as she moved up and down on me in that back seat..

She rode me like a surfer rides the waves, while kissing me passionately...

Waves of pleasure went through both of us as our bodies trembled...

Natalie had an intense orgasm in that back seat which caused tears to flow freely from her eyes and for her to hold me tightly and squeeze me until I found myself cumming like a gusher....

THREE TO FOUR HOURS LATER!