In the law library in Jasmine Coley's law firm that they so graciously allowed us to use... Olivia, Beverly, Nelson, Josie,Jazzy, her husband Dabnis, Jessica, her husband, Chip, Yvette , Keith, Bee Bee, Sofia and Kahlil were all looking over ten case files...and doing the boring grunt work that makes real attorneys, reading trial transcripts, studying arrest reports, medical examiner reports a forensic information as well as legal precedents and framing new arguments for each case..
''Wow, even though this has been hard work...I have just loved hanging out with you guys"said Olivia.
''Yeah, we so often get caught up in our own cases...We rarely get to hang out and fellowship."said Beverly..
"Yeah, we are wrapping up one case and Yvette and her guys are just starting a case." said Nelson...
''We are all like ships passing in the night." said Josie..
"Wow I couldn't have said that better myself.." said Jazzy...
"And we all live like right around the corner from each other..."said Dabnis.
"Or in our case, right across the street." said Jasmine..
"Well there was that week we were all working at Olivia and Beverly's place..
That was fun." said Chip.
"Everybody but me...I was in my office so lonely and bored.." said Yvette, playfully sulking..
"Well, we do see each other in the clubs and at Sam Mother's place.."laughed Keith Jones...
''This is better...We are all in the same room, and we found a new restaurant..."said Bee Bee.
"And a new Bar...It's not Josie's or Aqua Bar or Stoleys...but for these past two weeks , with all you guys, it'll do.."said Sofia.
"Yeah....I'm loving this...It's almost as much fun as when we all go away on a case.."said Kahlil..
While they were hard at work at Wrongful Conviction Offices near Penns Landing.
The next TWO WEEKS found
Jade, Gary Lockwood and I along with ADA Karen Page paying daily visits to the CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION of the Philadelphia Police Department...They had their own building.
We would be working with the elite detectives of the CID and The FBI and ATF.
Even though Jade, Gary and myself were quite capable investigators...reworking these old cases with elite detectives and federal agents made the entire thing that much easier.. We knew we'd get no help from Lt. Tragg...Fortunately..We didn't need his help..
"Keith, thank you so much for letting my investigators work with your guys.."said Karen..
''Any time, all you have to do is ask."said ADA Keith Wallace..
"Next to these guys here...My family...I love working with you guys.."said Hazel, who dispised Lt. Tragg.
"Considering he is the primary in all ten of these cases...I'm certain a lot of mistakes were made."said FBI/ATF SAC, Sharon Hopkins..also no fan of Lt. Tragg.
"He's the only one involved that's not in prison...The Original ADA, The Judge and Detective Dominic Evans..all are in prison.."I said.
"He's an idiot, but he's no killer." laughed Gary Lockwood..
"Thank you so much for helping us Sissy.."said Jade.
''We have autonomy here....Privacy...A nice cafeteria that serves us all great food...We eat Breakfast ,Lunch and Dinner here...
I miss Sam Mother's place...but I don't miss the haranguing my guys used to take from him...You guys are welcome to work on the federal floor above our cafeteria...That way if he should show up...He won't even know you guys are here." said Lt. Sissy Van Buren.
"You guys are in luck...We all have 100 percent clearance...So we can ride around with you..Help you look up witnesses, get statements.."said Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace..
''Yeah it'll be fun." said Jimmy.
"Donnie Ray, you ride with Top ,Junior and Me." said Tyriq..
"Great." I said.
"Jade...You ride with me and Hop."said Sirena.
"Yeah.."said Hop..
"I'd be honored."said Jade...
''And Gary, you can work with Angie and me..It'll be like old times." said Duke.
"Yeah with me holding things together." laughed Angie..
"Listen at her Duke...We are going to have to keep her together." joked Gary.
II-
We all got on the elevator and headed upstairs , except for ADA Karen Page, ADA Keith Wallace and Lt. Sissy Van Buren and it was a good thing we did because no sooner than we all left..Lt. Tragg walked in...
"Well what's going here? Where are your detectives Sissy?" asked Lt. Tragg.
"They're on the street working cases...Why? did you need to speak to one of them?" asked Sissy..
"No.Nooo...I just like to make sure..Everybody is working?" he said..
"That's my job...I'm the officer in charge of this shop.." Sissy reminded him.. 'Why aren't you at Central , Minding yours?" she added..
"Look I am the Superior Officer Here...I've got seniority...You should watch the way you address me." he snarled..
"I wouldn't have to address you at all if you were in your office where you should be or actually doing police work! My detectives are actually doing police work.."said Sissy..
''Well I'm glad they are...earning the money the city put out for this fancy dan building with hotel rooms and all." said Lt. Tragg.
That is what really bothered him...That they had a whole building to themselves....He never failed to mention it in a snide way...
The always Diplomatic ADA Keith Wallace asked..
"Is there something else you wanted ?"
He said no more!
He smiled at ADA Karen Page and sat next to her..
"I haven't talked to you in awhile...or seen you...What are you doing here?"he asked.
"I came to see ADA Wallace about some cases....He has an office here now." she said.
"Yes...It seems like everybody has an office here..The Feds..Sissy and her detectives.. speaking of which, where are your playmates, Olivia and Beverly and crew and Yvette Jones and her folks.?I dropped by Olivia's place...Their receptionist says they aren't there, they haven't been there for the past two weeks and I stopped by Yvette's office and they aren't there...I even stopped by that conference room where you work...No one there..and they're not in court...Where are they?" he asked.
He had no idea that everyone was five floors above, tucked safely away in the law library at Jazzy's law firm.
"You don't have anything to do ,do you? Stopping by my Job, Olivia's house, Yvette's office...Here..Don't you have a murder to solve?" asked Karen..
Lt. Tragg smiled...
"You didn't answer my question baby!" he said..
"It's not my turn to watch them.." said Karen Page, who got up and moved before he got any ideas about putting his hands up her skirt..
Sissy got up and walked toward her office..and closed the door!
She said no more to Lt. Tragg...
Keith Wallace ,feeling ADA Karen Page needed to be rescued grabbed his briefcase...
"Karen come to my office....I have the transcripts to that one case you were telling me about and the Judge's decision." he said..
'"Oh yeah, the reason I came here in the first place." said Karen...
With the other detectives nowhere in sight...and seeing that he was getting no more reaction or conversation from Sissy, Keith Wallace or Karen Page..
Lt. Tragg got up and left and headed back to his office.
III-
We had our last meeting of the day in the conference room...
"Tomorrow ,Dress Comfortably and bring two days change of clothes...We Are going to Stanga Prison. We'll be staying in the town for two days while we interview all 10 of our clients." said Jessica.
''We lucked out..All of our clients are housed there..We can have one on one meetings with them."said Chip
"I made arrangements...We have two Air BNB's in the town...we'll all be staying there and they are near a supermarket.." said Olivia..
"Cool, Road trip..."said Beverly...
"Wow..Two whole weeks working together here and now we are actually leaving town..."said Nelson..
"But we are going to Prison...Not exactly Nashville or San-Diego or Houston or Hawaii."said Josie.
''Wow! you guys have been on some great trips."said Jazzy...But this will be my first time away with you guys..Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" said Jazzy..
"I feel like I did in school when we were going on a road trip, Only..We are going to Stanga.."said Dabnis..
"It'll be fun...We'll make it fun..."said Yvette..
"That's how we met Jessica...She was staying across the street from us one of the times we went to Stanga to see a client."said Bee Bee.
"Yes..I remember.."said Sofia..
"Yes and you guys were my key to meeting everybody else here.."said a smiling Jessica.
"Look at all us lawyers.."laughed Kahlil..
"I know right?" said Keith Jones..
As usual, We headed to Camden to our new restaurant...Where I ,along with Jade, Gary and Karen Page met the others...
We knew about the trip to Stanga tomorrow... Karen wasn't going...She had to be here to try and secure a judge, but everyone else would be gone for two days...
"Sissy and her detectives were so helpful...It was almost like being on the force again...It was nice working with real detectives , who know their business." I said..
'' Yes they were all very co-operative and helpful...So was Hazel."said Jade..
''Yeah and The FBI and ATF guys even helped...We got more evidence and faster than we expected."said Gary, who was grateful for his friendships with Keith Wallace and Sissy and her detectives..
"Of course Lt. Tragg stopped by....He's so miserable..He didn't see our guys they were up on the federal floor with Hazel ,Sharon and the Detectives, he never knew they were there...He is really bummed out that you guys are nowhere to be found...And for two days when you guys are actually out of town, he is going to be beside himself.."Laughed Karen..
As we chowed down and spent our last night at our new watering hole..
IV-
CURLEY'S BAR...AFTERNOON...
"Hey Artie..where are your lawyer friends? I haven't seen any of them in two weeks.."said Curley.
"I know..They must be out of town..Nobody has seen them...So Curt...Who represented that girl? who got her to sign that restraining order?" asked Lt. Tragg.
He was asking Curt Summers...A lawyer friend of his, who knew most of the goings on at the court house..
"You're not going to want to hear this..but neither Yvette Jones or any of her people had anything to do with her taking out that restraining order...It wasn't Auntie and Niecy(Olivia and Beverly)
either (They don't even know her!) I saw her talking to your boy, Dabnis Coley...but it wasn't him..SHE FILED THE RESTRAINING ORDER HERSELF!!! She says you're waiting outside her apartment every night when she comes home and she's told you numerous times to knock it off..so now you can't be 300 feet of her building or of her..."he said..
"It had to be Coley...He gave her the idea...Wait till I see him ,I'm gonna knock him the hell out!" said Lt. Tragg refusing to believe that Abigail Sleet had filed a restraining order against him on her own!..
And then suddenly...There she was.. Sitting across from them..
She looked great....Lt. Tragg got an immediate erection just looking at her in a white mini skirt that accentuated her every curve...
She was having a margarita..
Despite the restraining order...he longed to sit next to her...run his hands up and down her legs...feel her panties...slip them slightly down....Only any thought of that was interrupted..
Judge Tad Thornton came in and sat at her table..
She smiled dreamily at him...
Soon they were kissing passionately at the table with his hands squarely up her dress...
"Judge Thornton?? Her?? That's who I heard in her apartment? Was that her in his apartment, nights before??? Oh My god " He thought...He knew that was his girl..What a creep..He thought Tad Thornton was a stand up guy.." He was livid..
To make matters worse..Attorney Alonzo Williams, recently cleared of Murder charges came in...He stared at Lt. Tragg balefully...He still wanted to put him through the wall for arresting him in the first place..He came in with ADA Brittany Hughes..
He took her in his arms and kissed her passionately too..
His hands rubbing her butt....
Lt. Tragg tossed a few dollars down on the table...and stormed out...Mad as hell!!
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