He had the restraining order against Jeffrey, he had the 28 calls he made the night of the murder and
he had a list of 98 other calls, 72 texts and 102 emails..
The Jury saw all of this....
He called Jeffrey , a stalker...He even had film footage of their two dates and testimony from three women who worked with Lola, who testified that she complained about him not getting the hint that she wanted nothing to do with him...
Jeffrey was his own worst enemy in this case....He sat very contrite....Gone was the braggadocio and the bluster...
He was so embarrassed around Ms. Yvette...He could hardly look at her..something she found quite humorous...
Naturally ADA McCafferty dragged the crime scene photos of the crime scene out and the forensic specialists , cops at the scene and film footage of the scene..
Kahlil and I got them to admit that our client's Fingerprints and DNA weren't on anything in the house, nothing at all...and that another man..
Trevor Lawson, the man she dated that night was seen on film footage leaving around 3:15 am..and that the Autopsy said she died anywhere between 3:15-3:30 and that it may have been earlier...
We reiterated that she was dead when our client got there...
ADA McCafferty challenged us to prove that she could have been killed earlier..We couldn't.
Bee Bee and Sofia went hard on cross with the witnesses who heard her complain about Jeffrey. They asked if they ever heard her say he was violent or had a temper..
They all said that "Goofy, but harmless" was more likely the way they described him...
It didn't matter...
ADA McCafferty gave his sumnation and it looked like the jury was 12-0 to convict...Despite the spirited defesne we had given him...At this point...We had failed to convince anyone that Jeffrey didn't do this..
Like I said , He was his own worst enemy...
Lt. Tragg walked by...He couldn't help but get his digs in..
"Face it Vettie...You guys did well...you put up a good defense...but this guy is as guilty as sin...He's his own worst enemy...Face it...He practically fell into my lap..."he laughed as he walked away...
"God I want to win this case so bad to knock the smile off his face...I swear I do, but this won't be easy.." she said.
II-
At Sam Mother's diner...Jade sat with the young Black woman, who had stopped by her apartment a week and a half ago..
We had a delicious meal and great conversation....He is a real smoothy...and he appears to be loaded..He must have spent $300.00 in one night and he didn't seem to blink...He didn't even go to my house...He drove me to my door and dropped me off..
We then went to Mulberry Street a few nights later.... It was a double bill
Reed Nelson and his quintet with special guest Downtown Rob Brown ...
We sat on my front steps and talked until sunrise..He was actually very nice...He didn't even try to come in...He drove home, said he'll see me later...We have a third date tomorrow night." said Michelle.
"Well you know what they say about the third date jinx...That might be the night he tries to make his play..." said Jade..
"Yeah, guys always think by the third date they're supposed to get some...That's not always the case."said Michelle..
Both women laughed heartedly...
And at Trevor Lawson's house..
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu Lloyd, Oh My goddd...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu you are so huge...soooo hard...Ouuuuuuu
my goodnessssssssss Lloyd you don't make any sense being this hard...ouuuuuuuu " moaned Monica Lawson...As Lloyd sat on her living room couch and she moved up and down on him very slowly...
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! OUUU WEEEEEEE...OUUUUU WEEEE! OUUU HOOO HOO
HOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!" she squealed with delight..Her head turning back and forth...Her legs trembling....a combonation of sweat and tears just rolling down her face.....
"UMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!" he moaned...delerious with pleasure as she began to move up and down even faster and the soft kisses continued....
She was moving up and down on Lloyd Butler..Kissing him passionately and having intense orgasms...
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh myyyyy lord...." she moaned..
The past TWO HOURS were mind blowing..
In all this time, she had no fear of her husband walking in on them...He hardly ever came home.....He was gone for days sometimes with the excuse being, "Business"
"Whewwww that was incredible...but we've got to cool it...We could get caught doing this here." said Lloyd...
"Let's go to a hotel.." said Monica Lawson..
"Baby girlllllllllll, I like the way you think!" laughed Lloyd..
They kissed passionately for a few minutes and then he got ready to leave...As he was leaving, she said
"Oh Baby....I hate to bring this up...but uh that girl that works in your office...Francesca...she has the hots for me...She's been flirting with me for a few months now...She was the one who told me about Trevor's mistress...She got me the photos and she also got me the photos of him on these dates...I didn't hire a private investigator...It was her...Then she started asking me to meet her for drinks...I did a couple of times and she told me she wanted to sleep with me...First off, I told her I was married...Second off,I told her I don't do women at all..She tried to tell me I'd never know if I didn't try it...I stopped communication with her completely after that...She still texts me though." said Monica Lawson..
"She's as good as fired...Don't even worry about it...And I know some lawyers...in my building..I'll get you a restraining order if she continues to be a problem." he said.
"Thank you baby." she said and kissed him one more time....
And according to Ms. Yvette, our defense was those 15 minutes and the dating habits and history of one Trevor Lawson..
At least we thought we were..
Bee Bee and Sofia brought up Virginia Maitland
"When I read about that Assistant District Attorney getting killed and having dated a man from the Atlas Dating Service , I thought about my experience with them...
"Thank you....I didn't think you'd be up to it...You got drilled in court today...I heard..."said Michelle.
"Yeah, but I'm finally off the hook...They tried to put that woman's death on me..but they couldn't....I was innocent...I truly am innocent.. I didn't kill that woman..." he said..
"Yeahhh...I don't think that guy on trial did it either...He doesn't look the type...He's the clown that was calling her all night while we were on a date...and sending flowers....a real nerd...but not a killer.." said Trevor..
He kissed her passionately for a few minutes..
He smiled..
Michelle cut the lights...
"Wow! she's not the one I expected to be catching tonight."said Jade..
"Life hands you little surprises doesn't it?" laughed Gary.
who had once again arrested the wrong person...and had been outdone by a Vice Detective, A Private Investigator and an Investigator for the D.A.'s office..
''So Moved...You are free to go Mr. Robinson." he said, smiling...
It was all Ms. Yvette could do not to laugh at both of them, so cocky, so sure they had a conviction...
I smiled... I was right about there being another killer...Never imagined it would be Francessca, who we worked out with at the gym..
Bee Bee smiled...She was happy the case was over and we wouldn't have to spend another few days on the defense..
Sofia felt the same way....
Kahlil looked releived.
"Francesca was in love with Mrs. Lawson...She followed and photographed Trevor Lawson with his Mistress and on all of those dates and passed the information on to Mrs. Lawson, hoping she would leave her husband...When she didn't leave him and spurned her advances..She turned to murder...to set him up..She failed on a trial run with two women, but she hit the jackpot with Lola Albright..got inside and snapped her neck quickly...Trevor had just left...His fingerprints and DNA was on the coffee cups..It was perfect...He'd go on trial and be convicted of killing Lola..Only thing screwed up her plans were Jeffrey arriving ,while she was still in the house, hiding..and being caught on street cam footage ,leaving...He then became the chief suspect in the murder.,foiling her plans.. Oh yeah and her fingerprints were on the jimmied basement door and lock...." said Jade..
''So Neither Trevor Lawson, Nor Jeffrey Robinson killed Lola...It was Francessca...She's confessed."said Gary...
"I was beginning to think it might be yet another person other than Lawson or Jeffrey."I said.
"I remember you saying that too."said Kahlil..
"Keith, you were right...We should have started looking for a second suspect...Thank god she was captured.."said Ms. Yvette.
"What will you do now Jeffrey?" asked Bee Bee.
Lt. Tragg was left alone to face an unforgiving press, a press that lambasted him...
"Oh My God!!!! They're fighting..."observed Jeffrey Robinson..
"Welcome back to Philly Jeff!" I said..
"Let's get out of here.."said Bee Bee
"Yes...Now.."said Sofia..
"Come on...Out the side door.."said Kahlil..
III-
We began our defense..
ADA Cam McCafferty successfully argued that his past dating history had no bearing on the case, which eliminated the nearly 100 witnesses we were going to call to testify that he was a serial cheater..
We were allowed to bring up that he was married and had a girlfriend , who he was paying for and that he used a dating service ,but little else..
Last year..I went to them and they hooked me up with Trevor.. He seemed nice..A little older, mature,Dressed nice, looked like he had a little money..Took me to Atlantic City..we had a nice meal, saw a show at the Borgata...Then the next weekend, he took me to the Baltimore Inner Harbor..we heard some live jazz...ate some good seafood...
We had a nice time.. Then there was the third dinner..
He had his hands on my legs first, then he had his hands under my skirt...I removed his hands...then he put them back up under my dress..
I laughed nervously...I said.."Trevor, we are in public..." He smiled and he was cool..but once in his car..he took my hand, unzippered his trousers and placed my hands on his penis...I fondled him the entire time he drove me home..He tried to force my head down there, but I wouldn't do it..I said that I didn't know him that well yet..
I shouldn't have invited him inside...but once I did..He was like an octopuss..he was all over me..squeezing my butt, kissing me, grinding me up against the wall..
I kept asking him to stop and then he ripped my dress...
I slapped the hell out of him and told him to leave..
He left....
Then about two hours later...I heard someone monkeying with the lock on my back door..
I turned the flood lights on and called the police..
A squad car came, but no one was there.. I couldn't prove it was him...So I couldn't press charges...but I swear it was him...
I've got a man now and he lives with me...I'm less worried...But when I read about that woman and what happened to her...It certainly made me think.." she said
Trevor Lawson was relieved his wife wasn't here and hoping this didn't get in the newspapers..
He argued that he did indeed pressure Lola for sex, but that when she refused..He left and did not return..
ADA McCafferty successfully showed footage that actually showed Lola at the door as he left...It showed his car at the gas station and in front of his Mistresses house...
"You want to talk about 15 minutes...Mr. Robinson showed up ,soon after Mr. Lawson left...and miraculously discovers the body...Can he account for his time?" he laughed.
Yvette showed an enlarged photo of the basement door ...It had clearly been jimmied and she brought in a Detective from Robbery-Homicide who testified as such...The police had failed to even look at the basement door the night of the murder..
Yvette argued that the killer more than likely arrived after Mr. Lawson left and was still in the house..when Jeffrey arrived.." It wasn't much of an argument.. but it split the jury 6-6....
It got me thinking about whether there was indeed another killer..
Kahlil shook his head..
"At best, we get a hung jury.." he said..
It was Friday...At least we had two days before we were back in court..
Friday Night and Trevor Lawson was finally in Michelle Rhodes apartment..
"Nice Place you got here..." said Trevor Lawson...
"Well...I guess the real killer is a mystery.."laughed Michelle...
"Gotta pull it in early tonight babe...I'm a bit beat after being in court all day..I'll call you tomorrow." he said and waved and left..
He pulled off...It was 12:45 am..
At 12:55 am ..Someone was jimmying the lock...
A shadowy figure dressed in black ,slipped into the house..walking around quietly...like a Ninja!!!
Michelle switched on the lights and aimed her gun at the figure.
"FREEZE!!!" she said to the startled stranger..
before she could move..
Jade, Gary Lockwood, Investigator for the D.A.'s Office and a police tactical squad walked behind the figure and pulled the mask off..
It was Francesca, the kickboxer from the gym and assistant at ATLAS DATING CENTER!!!!!
"I'm Detective Michelle Rhodes, Vice..Francessca Warden you're under arrest for breaking and entering and the murder of ADA Lola Albright..You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can be and will be used against you...You have a right to an attorney. If you can't afford one..One will be provided for you...do you understand these rights as I am explaining them to you?" she said..
"DAMN IT!!!" she snarled... "I did it for Monica...I loved her...I hated the way that husband of hers cheated on her...I was trying to set him up for murder...and I'd of gotten away with it too if that goofball guy hadn't of showed up and discovered the body and went running out of there..DAMN IT, DAMN IT! DAMN IT! " she said as she was Handcuffed..
IV-
MONDAY MORNING IN COURT!
A Frustrated and thoroughly embarrassed Assistant District Attorney Cal McCafferty said to the Judge..
"If It Please the court, in light of uh new developments over the weekend with the arrest and subsequent confession of the real killer of ADA Lola Albright..The People move to drop all charges against Jeffrey Robinson.." he said...He shook with anger and glared at Lt. Tragg.
"I remember you saying that....Whewwwwww, this was close..I thought I was a goner...Thank you guys for saving my ass.." said a very contrite and thankful Jeffrey Robinson..
"Yeah...What are your plans?" asked Sofia.
''Well before I got arrested ,I was in the middle of getting a new apartment.. I have three offers from law firms on the table..Two here in Philly and one in Cherry Hill, now I'll be free to take care of that...Don't have a social life anymore... I don't think I'll be using a dating service anymore..I think I'll meet people ,the old fashioned way...In a bar." he said.
And we all laughed..
While we were laughing ADA Cal McCafferty glared at Lt. Tragg..
"YOU! YOUUUUUU!!!!! You didn't dust the Basement door for prints...Always something with you,Always something you fail to do....YOU ARE THE MOST USELESS DETECTIVE ON THE FORCE....ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned and walked away..
"Hey Artie, Maybe that Vice Detective should be transferred to Homicide.. She did crack the case..she could teach you a thing or two..."said a reporter..
"LOU....I'm warning you!"snarled Lt. Tragg..
"Hey ,you oughta write a book about all the cases you've blown...Blind suspicion!" said Lou...
The reporters broke into waves of laughter..
"THAT DID IT LOU!!! YOU ASKED FOR IT!!" screamed Lt. Tragg who lunged at Lou and punched him in the stomach, only to be punched multiple times by other reporters....They turned the press table over, Fists began flying... People in the crowd screamed and ran as uniformed policemen rushed in and tried to get in between Lt. Tragg and the reporters, who were scuffling and throwing blows at each other..
"Come on follow the kids." he said.
"Right behind you !" said Yvette..
"You don't have to tell me twice.." said Jade..
Francesca Warren was convicted of the Murder of ADA Lola Albright and sentenced to Life...
Monica Lawson divorced her husband, Trevor
Lloyd Butler closed down the Atlas Dating Service...
''So Nice to be done with that case and HIM!" said Bee Bee..
"I think Jeffrey was humbled a bit....don't you?" I asked.
''After he saw Gary kissing Ms. Yvette..I think he was...For once, he was exposed in front of us."said Sofia.
"You would have thought Lola Albright exposed him..."said Kahlil..
Ms. Jade looked at Yvette, who was sitting in Gary's arms..
"Yes...a toast to Lola."said Yvette.
Gary poured some champaigne and we all raised a glass... TO LOLA.
We slipped out the side door of the courtroom while the melee' was in full force....
And so it goes!
EPILOUGE-
and gained a considerable amount of his fortune...
He and Monica got married and moved to Atlanta.
Trevor Lawson found out that Monica Rhodes 
was a Vice Cop and was setting him up for a sting ....He was really starting to like her too and to make matters worse...His Mistress moved out of the condo he was keeping her in and left him..
For him...The well was dry...
The seven of us relaxed in Bee Bee and Sofia's apartment..
"A Toast....To Lola.!" she said..
FOR MONIQUE-
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