Circus

The Trial of Nationally Acclaimed Author, Ellen Johnson began....It was a media circus...Even bigger than the Stephen Graves trial..which put Olivia and Bev on the map nationally...

Ellen Johnson drew enough attention herself...her now nationally acclaimed attorneys were drawing attention of their own...Unwanted attention..

Olivia and I's every move was now scrutinized...

A gaggle of media people camped outside of our home and office every night leading up to the trial...

Beverly and Nelson felt the heat too....

We wisely snuck out of town and holed up in a small motel in Cherry Hill, We had everything we needed...

Josie came with us too..

ADA Rockland Cambridge was also being assaulted by the media.

He was enjoying being in the National spotlight...He frequently mentioned his 100 consecutive convictions and his recent spate of 25 consecutive convictions...

But reporters always reminded him of his loss to Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West...

That really gnawed at him.....One very ambitious reporter brought up a courtroom loss, years before  to Nelson East, then a young Public Defender...

Who it was noted was on Olivia and Beverly's team and was dating Ms. West....

"That doesn't bother me...That doesn't bother me at all...This is about Facts and Law and Justice...The Administration of Justice." he said... He pointed out that both Mrs. Alexander and Ms. West...

had attended his lectures at PENN LAW some years ago...A fact!

ADA Keith Wallace , thought by many to be the "Golden Boy" because of his major crime prosecutions and convictions was interviewed...He being the last Attorney to "defeat" Olivia Bennett-Alexander in court...

He laughed about the whole thing..

"I don't see these as competitions..Sports competitions...We are lawyers, we defend or prosecute people, our decisions ,our actions effect people's lives...This is nothing to play with or to take lightly... Olivia Bennett-Alexander is a close personal friend of mine and has been for years.." he said..  "I also took some losses to her in court..." he added, hugging Olivia, who laughed..

"We did have some epic battles back when I was a Public Defender.." she said..

The Press Loved it!

ADA Nina Rios was interviewed about her battles with Olivia and Beverly during the celebrated Stephen Graves case...which ended in a sort of stalemate...

She said.. "Olivia has been my good friend for years...Going back to when we were in Law School together...I truly hate it when we had to face each other in court.." she said..

ADA Rockland Cambridge considered what Keith Wallace and Nina Rios said treasonous...They were both fellow Assistant District Attorneys like him...They had no business even appearing to side with the enemy...That enemy being....Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West..

 One person was loving the media attention-Lt. Tragg.

He was calling press conferences and weighing in on the case and his roll in it...After All ,it was he who had made the arrest...It was angering the Police Department, but there didn't seem much if anything they could or would do about it...


II-

 Olivia and I were kissing passionately as soon as we got back to our hotel room...

Being holed up in a hotel in Cherry Hill was good for one thing...We got time and privacy.....

We wasted no time , making sweet love as soon as we got back to our hotel room...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmm Baby I missed you sooo much babes.." I  said...I hadn't been in court today..I was still out investigating..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Donnie Ray....I missed you too baby." cooed Olivia..

  I had her skirt unzippered and off and blouse off and had my hands deep into her panties as she kissed me slow, softly and sweetly...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I missed this horse you have in your pants...." she moaned..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh girlllllllllllllllllll..Show me how much..." I moaned in return....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm daddy, you just don't know..." she moaned... 

 Beverly and Nelson weren't even on the same floor...

They were a floor above us and Josie was a floor below us..

We had all of the privacy we would need and so did they...

Like us...When they got home from that trial...They wasted no time ,getting out of their clothes and getting into each other..

Beverly  moaned softly as the massive bed in their room began to squeak and slam against the wall...
''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...""Ohhh baby, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph...NELSON...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU"she screamed!

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... BEVERLY...BEVERLY......ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"GIVE it to me NELSON...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."she moaned.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh THIS IS SO GOOD  girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesussssssss.arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."he cried ...out!!"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..

"NELSON..ouuuuuu..NELSON....OHHHHHHH. NELSON! Work me...Work me daddy like a job..ouuuuuuu work me daddy....."she wailed...

"Ohhhh BEVERLY, this is sooo damn goooood,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..I'm losin my minddddddddd!! "

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...I needed this. WE NEEDED THIS soooooooooooooo mucccchhhhhh!  AFTER WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH, OHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GOODNESSS!!! " she moaned...

Olivia and I were drenched in sweat, out of breath after our session and like wise..

Beverly and Nelson were cuddling too after a good afternoon and early morning of sweet love making..

Paris , the only outsider, who knew where we were and was sworn to secrecy, visited Josie a few nights also.

III-

The trial as it was , was still a big circus.

Ellen Johnson was being portrayed as the Brilliant, but Flirtatious Best selling Author of Erotic Novels that maybe led Brian Gleeson on that night at dinner making him think she was more or less like her racy charactors in her novels ...Things got out of hand in the room...He sexually assaulted her and raped her and she shot and killed him in retaliation...

ADA Rockland Cambridge brilliantly sold this story to the jury....

Olivia and Beverly counter-acted his argument... Yes , Brian Gleeson believed she was like her racy charactors in her novels...but he came upon this all on his own...They presented three of his ex-girlfriends, who said he liked rough sex....The presented the torn dress worn by Ellen Johnson that night...her torn panties and bra and testimony from police and forensic experts who pointed out his fingerprints, sweat abd semen were on all three...but re-iterated...There was no rape...Only a sexual assault and that when she yelled to stop...He did and she grabbed her things and ran from his apartment...

ADA Rockland Cambridge wanted to know why Ellen Johnson had acquired Olivia and Beverly as counsel almost immediately after the murder...

Olivia and Beverly countered that she came to them to initiate a suit..A civil suit against Brian Gleeson and his network...No one knew there had even been a murder!  They produced documents as such...They challenged the time shown on the street cam video and the testimony of the UBer Driver who picked Ellen Johnson up with the time the Coroner put as the time of death...They argued that Ellen Johnson was already in route to her home when Brian Gleeson was shot to death...

Now ADA Rockland Cambridge was in trouble...The Jury was confused and starting to doubt his story for the first time...He was in a bit of a quandry....He produced a surprise eyewitness...

Ms. Kelly Carter...She said she lived across the hall from Brian Gleeson and that the two were intimate....from time to time...She gave her occupation as an "Actress"

Beverly wanted her testimony stricken because the Prosecution had kept her a secret from the Defense....

I already made a mental note to do a complete work up on her...

The Judge thought a minute and over ruled Beverly. He allowed her testimony to stand..

Kelly Carter testified that she heard the altercation going on between Gleeson and Ms. Johnson...and that she heard a shot and saw Ms. Johnson running out of the apartment  "at  a little after 9:00"

 Olivia asked Kelly if it were not true that she told all of us that she was out when the murder occurred??

She laughed...took a cigarette out of her pocketbook and attempted to light it with her left hand..

"PUT THAT CIGARETTE OUT IN MY COURTROOM!" said the judge..

She smiled, put the cigarette out and smiled..

"I might have told you that...I don't recall..

Olivia then said...

"You said you heard the shot right after nine?  You couldn't have...At 9:00, Mr. Gleeson and Ms, Johnson were still dining...In fact ,they didn't leave the establishment until quarter to 10:00, maybe later...As supported  by his credit card payment and this receipt from the establishment and footage of them leaving taken both by Street Camera and this tabloid reporter's photo...Look..It's time dated...So at 9:00 pm, they weren't even at his place yet, which was seven city blocks away." said Olivia..

"Okayyyyyyyyyyyy...I was mistaken.." she said.

"The Uber driver picked her up at 10:35...The coroner places the time of death anywhere between 10:35-11:45...That's nearly 90 minutes after you say you heard a shot and saw Ms. Johnson running....Now were you out as you told me, my niece and my husband when we saw you or were you there?" asked Olivia..

Kelly laughed....but said nothing...

"Answer the question mam!" asked the Judge..

"I don't know...I thought I heard something.." she said.

Olivia smiled a very sexy smile...

"No more questions your honor." she said.

And with that, court was adjourned for the day...

ADA Rockland Cambridge was devestated....Olivia and Beverly had totally destroyed and discredited his eyewitness...Both of them, His living eyewitness and the traffic cam...They were the basis of his whole argument...He had to rest his case tomorrow and he didn't have a really compelling argument...He was furious...Lt. Tragg had done some shoddy police work...and it might cost him this case....He had to win this case...He had worked extremely hard on prepping for this case and seemingly in one day...Olivia and Beverly had destroyed whatever case he had been building.

IV-

Olivia and Beverly's cousin, Attorney Kayla Bennett met us all outside of court...

"Heyyyyyyyyyyyy Cousin Liv, Cousin Bev." she said , hugging them and kissing them... "I'm so proud of you..Being related to you two has helped me...I made Junior Partner at my firm and I've got an office now..A small one..but still an office.."said Kayla..

''That's great baby....This trial is wearing me down.." said Olivia..

"Me too...I'm going to need a nice foot massage Nelson." said Beverly...

''What about my feet"?Joked Nelson...

"I'm gonna make your toes curl.." whispered Beverly into his ear...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." he moaned silently...

"That girl was a surprise...I had no idea she was going to be a prosecution eye witness...He deliberately kept her a secret..She told us she hadn't been there when the murder occurred."I said..

"That's Kelly...Kelly Carter...She's perjured herself in three different trials and served a four day sentence in county lock up.You don't have to worry about her.."said Kayla..

"Really??" I asked..

"Yes... A friend of mine represented her...She's a washed up actress...Had one major film...then drank ,drugged and DUIed her career into the toilet..." said Kayla..

"Good to know." said Olivia..

"Anybody hungry? Thirsty?? My Friend told me of a great little place that just opened up a few blocks from here.."said Josie..

"I know where he's talking about...Come on everybody...Let's go...My treat." said Ellen...  And so the seven of us followed Ellen to the Tony Bistro...

V-

That night in our hotel room , a totally exhausted Olivia sat on the floor in her slip with her head leaning on the small table...

"I didn't want to, but I'm going to have to call Ellen to the stand to testify in her own behalf...This is too close...This decision could go either way.."said Olivia..

"I think you got this...Lt. Tragg did some shoddy police work and rushed to justice...He was so hungry for a big headline...A career making case that he may have overlooked the obvious..."I said..

"And what is that?" asked Olivia..

"The real killer...I think I know who it is...It was staring us right in the face the entire time..."I said..

Before I could say anymore...Olivia kissed me slowly and softly...

"Time to End This Circus Baby!" she whispered in between more kisses.


(CONCLUSION NEXT)