More Heat

 TRIAL DAY-

"HOT COFFEE!! COME AND GET IT GUYS AND GALS!" said Natika Sommers, the director of the Public Defenders Office, who would be here observing the trial today...

She had purchased two steaming hot coasters of hot steaming coffee for us from the coffee shop down the street from the courthouse..

"Ouuuuuuuu I love the smell of fresh coffee beans...Thank you Natika."said Natalie.

"Ummmmmm just what the Doctor ordered." said a smiling Brooke.

"Thank you.." I said, noticing how beautiful and attractive all three women looked this morning.

"Thanks Natika." said Sean...

"Where is your boss lady this morning?" asked Natika.

"She had to stop by the office...She's on her way."explained Natalie.

"Speak of the devil...here she is.." exclaimed Brooke.

"Good Morning all, Sorry I'm late....Ouuuuuuu thanks for the coffee." said Karen.

"Oh you are welcome.." said Natika.

ADA Wilbur Patch walked by us without looking at any of us... He didn't want to be here retrying this case and he hated the fact that attorneys from his own division would be retrying it...

Walking next to him was newly minted D.A.'s Investigator, Pamela Lundy...She owed her employment to a good word from Lt. Chris Curtis, who fast tracked her resume and helped her get the job at the last minute. She didn't bat an eye or look our way...Hard to believe she had been all up in our office just weeks 

Lt. Curtis did stare at us....He didn't know who Natika was....but he knew the rest of us and like ADA Patch ,he really did not feel like reliving this case again...He was furious about the other 12 cases we had worked and the attorneys who had aided us.. "Aunty and Niecey" the nickname for Olivia and Beverly and their associates.. They had aided in six of the cases....Getting new trials , winning acquittals and getting the charges dropped..

 

and "Ms. Big Tits and her snot nose youngins." The derogatory nickname he had for Yvette Jones -Lockwood and her associates.. They had also aided in six other cases....Getting new trials , winning acquittals and getting the charges dropped..

 

 

And those troublesome Innocence Project Attorneys.....who had aided in all twelve cases...

He knew how close they were...They lived together, socialized together and worked together, some of them...What they all had in common was that they had all conspired to make his life a living hell..

It also didn't help that Karen Page's husband, B.L. Benz had reported on all twelve trials in detail and a lot of heat was being put on him and his sloppy policework since he had been the arresting officer in all of these cases and his promotion to Captain was now in jeopardy...He was livid...

All 12 of those boys had been out of jail within Three years and only one had returned to prison and even he had since been released....And now their records were clean, much to his detriment...But this case, this case today was serious...This was Murder one, This was a death penalty case.. They had already succeeded without the help of the other attorneys mentioned in getting his conviction thrown out and a new trial ordered..and more heat on him from the bosses in the department..

It was now time to go to court.

II-

COURTROOM A-

Our Client, Former Death Row Inmate ,Alex Williams was brought in a suit we had bought for him...He was in handcuffs.....

Karen and Brooke asked that his Handcuffs and Leg irons be removed.. He was no longer a death row inmate they said.

The Judge, Julie Wong agreed and his handcuffs were taken off as well as his leg irons..

Lt. Chris Curtis sighed and rolled his eyes in derision.

"Good Morning, Good Morning , Good Morning Attorneys and Potential Jurors....Welcome to my courtroom...I am Judge Julie Wong...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 Wong... "We will start today with introductions." she said.

"Assistant District Attorney Wilbur Patch your honor.Representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."said Wilbur Patch.

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...OUUUUUUUUUUU!"moaned Pamela Lundy, she could feel Lt. Chris Curtis's hands running up her skirt and tugging gently on the waist band of her panties..

"CUT IT OUT!!" she said angrilly and slapped his face..

"OUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned out loud! Livid at what had just happened.

"WILL YOU TWO IVY LEAUGERS KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF?  WE ARE IN A COURT OF LAW

FOR GOD SAKES!" said an angry Wilbur Patch...

It wasn't lost on us..We had all witnessed what had just happened and we all snickered...

"Lead Attorney for the defense , Karen Page-Benz your honor." said Karen.

"Attorney Natalie Charles,for the Defense your honor." said Natalie.

"Attorney Brooke Marks for the Defense, your honor..." said Brooke.

"Attorney David Charles for the defense your honor." I said.

''Attorney Sean Marks for the Defense your honor." said Sean...

"ALRIGHT!!! We will now have jury selection!" said Judge Wong.

Voir dire or Jury selection is the process by which potential jurors are chosen from a pre-selected jury pool. During this phase of jury selection, the attorneys for each party, as well as the judge, ask questions of each potential juror to determine whether he or she has any bias regarding the case, or other reason he or she should not be chosen.

Nelson East ,having minored in Psychology and taken Trial Science while in law school was a master at it, which was why Olivia wanted him at her law firm...That and their past history at the Public Defender's office.

He spent hours tutoring and teaching  Keith Jones and Kahlil Ahmed of Yvette's team and Myself, my wife Natalie and Brooke the art of Voir dire.

We used the media room to look at the juror pool and take notes of their ages, political beliefs, religious affiliations, education and employment and economic standards and pick the exact juror we wanted and to write the questions we wanted to ask...

Alex was going to have a better jury than the all white, middle aged suburbanites who convicted him in his last trial.

We drew straws and Natalie and Brooke won...While I sat behind a laptop and fed them information and reminded them of questions..

Brooke and Natalie were like tag team wrestlers the way they operated...They were so used to working together that neither one got in the others way and they were very in sync...

Wilbur Patch was completely unprepared and looked a bit off of his game....

Natalie and Brooke battled him to a 10-2 split....an amazing victory for us...

Lt. Chris Curtis moved down in his seat and breathed heavily.....He squeezed Pamela Lundy's butt.

"Do you want to get slapped again? I TOLD YOU TO KNOCK IT OFF!" she said.

"Alright...Alright...OUTSTANDING!  We have a jury....Trial will begin tomorrow morning at Nine O'Clock Sharp....This courtroom...Courtroom A... Jurors and Attorneys be on time and ready for trial." said Judge Wong.

We all filed out of the courtroom...

"Not used to these eight and nine o'clock trials eh? Welcome to my world."laughed Natika who was sitting in the Visitors section observing..

''When I was a working ADA, I was used to them." said Karen..

''When we were Public Defenders, we used to have 8:00 am hearings and trials." said Natalie.

"Yes, don't remind me of those...No Breakfast...No coffee even...Coming to court blurry eyes.."said Brooke.

"I remember those days."I laughed..

"I think we all do."laughed Sean, who was still a Public defender..A Federal one.

"Slapping me in the damn face eh? Last week you were willing to drop your panties on Broad Street for me if I got you a job..."snarled Lt. Curtis.

"I never agreed to that and now thankfully, I don't have to." said Pamela Lundy as she walked away.

III-

That night at our home-

"Did you see all of that loosey goosey going on between Chris Curtis and Pam Lundy in the courtroom?"laughed Natalie.

"I saw her slap the hell out of him." I laughed..

"That used to be Lt. Tragg and whoever the female prosecutor or investigator is...but ever since he hooked up with Judge Kelly Anne...He's kept his hands to himself."laughed Natalie.

"He's got her legs to feel on and her skirt to put his hands up under...I've seen them in Curleys...and she must like it...He never gets slapped.."I laughed..

"Just like I don't slap you...You feel me up everyday at some point..The only reason you didn't today was because I was sitting next to Brooke."laughed Natalie.

"Well you're here now, alone with me..."I said ,pulling her to me and taking her in my arms..

"OUUUUUUUUUUU!" she gasped and cooed..

"And I want to kiss you deeply  and then enter you deeply afterwords..."I said.

"Ohhhh Myyyyyy! Such Ambition!" Natalie said..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DAVID!  UMMMMMMM YOU'VE GOT ME EXCITED!" said Natalie as we kissed...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NATALIE...YOU'VE GOT ME EXCITED!" I said.

"Oh you stay excited....You wake up horny!" she said,laughing...as our kissing got hotter..

I unsnapped her bra and slipped her panties down..

I entered her warm and very wet center deeply....She smelled like a newborn baby.....her skin was so soft and she was so wet, I was losing my mind..

Natalie gasped...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY DAMNNNNN!!!" I moaned

"YOU EXCITED?" she asked.

"YESSSSSS!" I said....

"ME TOO!" she said

Her head moved from side to side...She was crying like a little girl, having a massive orgasm....

"WOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she hollered..

She wrapped her legs around my waist and allowed me to plunge even deeper inside of her...

She wrapped her arms around my neck..

and kissed me deeply...."OUUUUUUUUUUU!" she gasped and cooed..as I stroked her masterfully..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"I moaned.

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HUSBAND.." moaned Natalie, moaning and crying as she experienced an Orgasm unlike any she'd had up to date..

"OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!" she cried out...her body trembling something fierce...

We continued in the bed finally, making sweet love for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS...

We ended the night with Natalie resting on top of me...totally satisfied..

"David ,I love you!" she whispered..

"Natalie ,I love you too!" I said, softly caressing her butt as we drifted off to sleep..

Brooke and Sean hadn't stopped kissing since they had closed their front door..

"UMMMMMMMMMMM CHOCOLATE DADDY!" cooed Brooke..

"VANILLA!" cooed Sean in between smouldering hot kisses..

"I've had enough kissing, haven't you?" asked Brooke..

"I never get enough of you." said Sean..

"I want you inside of me..."said Brooke..

"Oh, that's what you mean."said Sean/

"YES!  " said Brooke.

He unsnapped her bra and relieved her of her panties..

Brooke opened her legs wide and eased down on Sean......She was warm and very wet...He was as hard as a baseball bat... Her body trembled something fierce...Tears streamed down her face...She was having an embarrassingly quick orgasm...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"she cooed...

Sean moaned...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY DAMNNNNN!!!" he said.

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HUSBAND.." moaned Brooke, moaning and crying as she experienced another Orgasm unlike any she'd had up to date...Riding him like a surfer rides the waves..

Sean's body was trembling also.....

They sat on the side of the bed, Brooke riding him slowly and kissing him passionately..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMM SEAN....OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I LOVE YOUUUU!" Brooke moaned.

"I LOVE YOU TOO!" he moaned..

SEVEN TO EIGHT HOURS SLIPPED BY BEFORE SEAN HAD AN ERUPTION...HE CAME UNLIKE HE'D ever come before..

Brooke held him in her arms...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMM We'll feel good tomorrow morning for trial." she said.

"Ohhh for sure." Sean agreed.

End of a nice day for us!

IV-

A WEEK LATER-  COURTROOM A-

The Trial of Alex Williams began...

ADA Wilbur Patch basically tried the same case he had tried a year before..The Difference was..he was playing to a different jury...Younger, more politically and racially astute and diverse...

He tried his old tricks..

But Natalie and Brooke challenged him every step of the way with objections based on Predicates and law based on simular trials and his former trial...

ADA Patch had had a snoot full of both of them by the end of week one.

Week two I introduced five witnesses who were up until this time, not heard from, who verified Alex's movements that day and which placed him in another part of the school at the time of the murder...

Sean introduced a board that had a bloody handprint on it...A Handprint that didn't belong to Alex.. For one thing ,it was bigger than his hand and two fingerprint experts said that the prints didn't match...

There was also the problem of DNA....It was not a match to Alex's DNA at all... This didn't come up in the first trial, because this board was never found..It had mysteriously vanished at trial time and resurfaced in the evidence room, six months after the trial, but was never examined..

Lt. Chris Curtis squirmed in his chair....He later put his head in his hands....This was definitely more heat than he had anticipated...and there would definitely be more heat coming his way from the brass.

Karen brought up the two former cops who Alex said had beat a confession out of him...They both denied it...

But Natalie and Brooke brought in 6 other young men who told the same story, of confessions being beaten out of them and presented a record of more than 22 brutality complaints brought against both of them.

They both were as red as beets and looked like they wanted to attack both women...

Finally they confessed on the stand that they had beaten Alex Williams on orders from Lt. Chris Curtis who said to them.. "Tune him up a little...until he's more co-operative."

"That's a lie...That's a dirty stinking lie..." screamed Lt. Chris Curtis.

Karen called her last witness, the man of the hour..

Fred Ulek, the husband of the murdered Vida Ulek...

"I can't believe we have to go through this again...That Punk murdered my wife.." he said angrilly..

"No....you killed your wife.. That bloody handprint, which Lt. Chris Curtis discovered and hid, to get you off the hook matches your DNA and your fingerprints."said Brooke.

"He discovered you were the real killer early into the case....but he bought your sob story about the lowlife ghetto kid, having sexual relations with your wife...When there was no evidence whatsoever of that.."said Natalie.

"You killed your wife and you were willing to let an innocent man go to his death for it...You disgust me." said Sean.

Fred Ulek shrugged....

Gary and Danny Ho put the handcuffs on Fred Ulek...... and they also put handcuffs on Lt. Chris Curtis.

charging him with Obstruction of Justice...

"In light of these developments...People move to dismiss all charges against Mr. Williams."said Wilbur Patch.

"We concur.." said Karen...

"So Moved...Case Closed...Mr. Williams, you are Free to Go.   I'd like to thank the jurors for their attention to this matter., you can exit over there at the right...Your check will be sent to you in the mail.

Court is adjourned." said Judge Wong.

"Oh My God, I'm Free...I'm Free.." said an exuberent...Alex Williams..

"Yes you are..."said Sean, smiling and shaking his hand.

''We told you we were going to get you off."said Karen.

"HAPPY NOW?" asked Brooke.

"I'm ecstatic....I want you to meet my mom and dad...They're here."said Alex Williams.

"Oh really? Of course!" said Natalie.

I was happy for him... He had been through one year of hell...On Death Row...at death's door.. We had gotten him off death row and now free period...It was a great feeling I'm sure.

Pamela Lundy stared at Karen for a brief second..She tried to manage a smile..  She thought better of it and moved on down the hallway..

Karen just smirked..

"Come on everybody,let's go home." she said.

The four of us, Brooke and Sean and Natalie and me walked out of the courtroom with smiles on our faces.

EPILOUGE-

Fred Ulek was convicted of First Degree Murder and sentenced to Life imprisonment.

Lt. Chris Curtis was fired from the Philadelphia Police department  and tried and convicted of Obstruction of Justice...and sentenced to Three years .

Pamela Lundy continues to be an Investigator for the District Attorney's Office.

We celebrated at The NO I.D. BAR that Friday

"Well congratulations on finishing your case..." said Jazzy, hugging her friend, Natalie.

"Thanks Jazzy...We were never in doubt that we couldn't get him off.." said Natalie...

 

"He says he wants to go to law school...to be an Attorney like us, keep other people from having this fate."I said.

"That's good ...Another one for the cause." said Dabnis.

"I knew you guys would pull it out...Thank you for taking this case."said Natika.

"It's nice he wants to go to law school and be an attorney."said Brooke

"He can apply for a City scholarship to go to Drexel's Thomas Klein School of Law or Middleton."said Kayla.

"Tell him to give us a call, Kayla or me..We can put him up on it."said Ray..

"That'll be great...I wish they'd had that type of scholarship when I was graduating from High School."said Brooke.

"Yeah, I know..Me too! "said Sean...

"I got a Crawley Scholarship..."said Jessica....

''So did Beverly and I....our last year at Temple."said Natalie.

"Yeah, so did I."said Chip...

"That's great....I'll give him a call...I still have his number.." said Karen.

"I'm going to have him on my show next week." said B.L.

"Olivia said she was bringing food." said Natalie.

"They'll let her do that..Bring in outside Food.." I asked.

"Olivia brings us here and then some on a Friday Night...Yes they'll let her do it."said Brooke.

"That's why we are sitting here in this roped off area." said Sean..

"This is so nice...A Pre Holiday Celebration..."said Zoey.

"Yeah...We are some festive folks aint we?" said Lem.

"Here they come now.."said Renee.

"And with the food." said Tyrell.

"Mmmmmmmmm Yes."said Lee.

"Loving this...Good Ole Liv."said Matthew.

"One thing for sure..With food..We won't be tipsy when we leave here tonight." laughed Nina.

"That's for sure." said Carlos.

"Hi Everybody...Sorry we're a little late."said Olivia.

 

"But we got here as fast as we could.." said Donnie Ray..

There was no need for explanation...Everyone immediately went for the sandwiches..

"We've got hot food too...New Orleans style Cuisine." said Beverly as more tryas came in...

"Ummmmmmm everything smells good and looks good too!" said Nelson.

"MMMMMMMMMM, let's all dig in."said Josie.

"Don't have to ask me twice." said Paris.

"This is soooo nice."said Bresha.

"It is... It is indeed."said her husband, Tony grabbing two plates.

"We outdid ourselves this time."said Alfreda.

"Yes indeed." said Rockland, who was already making himself a plate.

Olivia brought a catered sandwich tray..It went in nice with our beers and martinis... The Sandwiches went quick.

In addition to the Sandwiches, They also brought a catered New Orleans Buffet... This was a big hit.. Hot food.

 "You are spoiling us Liv." said Yvette.

"Damn sure are.."laughed Gary..

"We deserve it ....We work hard." said Keith Jones.

"You are such a humble man."laughed his wife, Bee Bee.

''We are so fortunate to be connected to friends like these." said Sofia.

"Yes we are."said Kahlil as he grabbed a plate and prepared to chow down...

"Ouuuuuuuu I love it." said Jade.

"Ummmmmm, smells good...looks good."said Danny.

"Damn the sandwiches...I want the hot food." said Virginia.

"Go for it baby." said Jetty.

Natika made a plate for Lester..

who was grateful and happy to be with her tonight....

Serendipity and Kevin also joined us that night..

Once again, a night of friendship, fellowship , food, drinks and fun!

There was no heat on anybody tonight!

FOR DANYL-