Bad Behavior

 ONE WEEK LATER!

It was as if it were a whole new trial...We had a new Judge..

Judge Keith Morrison, who we knew and had worked with before...He was tough and fair...He knew the law...He generally liked us..

Nelson and Josie were up against 

Assistant District Attorney Susan Knight  on Voir Dire, picking  a whole new Jury...She gave as good as she got and she understood the game and how it was played.

Roscoe Jenkins was once again lead counsel for the defense with assistance from

Olivia Bennett-Alexander

Beverly West-East

Myself, Donnie Ray Alexander

and of course our lovely intern, Bresha Williams. Bree was getting one hell of an education and was enjoying the new friendships she had made and the fellowship.

Our client, Johnny Honeywell had reason to hope..When he was first arrested...He didn't have money for a lawyer...He was destined to get an inexperienced Public Defender , who would maybe plead him down to a lesser charge and he'd spend close to 20 years in prison for crimes he didn't commit..or maybe the rest of his life, again for crimes he didn't commit.  He hadn't raped any women and he didn't know the dead woman, had never before seen her in his life, he said.

Then famed Criminal defense Attorney,Roscoe Jenkins,

 read about his case in the paper and agreed to represent him Pro Bono. He felt "this boy was being railroaded. I have to do something to help him." he said.

Then he wound up before the most difficult ,tyrannical judge in the system, Merlin Merkins..and he thought..Maybe he wasn't so lucky at all...Especially when he tossed his attorney in the cooler after several arguments for contempt..

He thought he was destined for a Public Defender, when his angels showed up..

Olivia Bennett-Alexander, Beverly West, Nelson East, Josie Boyd and Bresha Williams and they even had an investigator, Donnie Ray Alexander to check things out...That was his lucky day and with the nasty old Judge in the hospital and off the case , and three rape charges dropped..He was in court now with one charge...A Murder charge...He was innocent of that too...All of his attorneys in his corner and a new judge, a Black judge...He looked and felt confident that he just might get off..

His side had gotten seven out of twelve jurors they wanted...

''Alright, the jury has been seated...I don't want to hold this thing up any longer.. Trial begins the day after tomorrow at 10:00 am..Be on time and be ready for trial." said Judge Morrison.

Assistant District Attorney Susan Knight, had used the two weeks before to retool her case against Johnny Honeywell..Now only on trial for murder, the Murder of Helen Green, with a new jury that knew nothing about the rapes he had previously been accused  and cleared of.

Unfortunately, she still had to work with Lt. Tragg..The two barely spoke to each other in the days leading up to the trial...He was just as angry...Angry that Judge Merlin Merkins , who he regarded as a tough no nonsense Judge had had a heart attack and thus removed from the trial. Angry that Olivia and Beverly and crew had joined the original trial lawyer to take up the case and angry that he had been wrong about the Queen Village Rapist charges...Another suspect had been caught and had confessed. He almost needed Honeywell, who he was sure was guilty of something to be convicted, so that his entire investigation wouldn't go bust...If Only Judge Merlin Merkins had stayed on this case, he wouldn't have taken any guff off of Olivia and Beverly and he might have jailed the whole crew..

But Judge Merkins had his own trouble right now..

He and his attorney, Sean Shotwell were outside the offices of the Legal Ethics Board

Where he was about to faces multiple charges of racial discrimination in a class action suit taken against him...

Attorney Yvette Jones -Lockwood walked up to him.,...

She was flanked by two of her associates..Keith Jones and Beatrice Evans and her investigator,

Jade Lee..

"I am Attorney Yvette Jones-Lockwood of McCluskey/Cozen/Connor & Pratt, these are my associates, Keith Jones, Beatrice Evans-Jones and our investigator, Jade Lee... we'll be representing the Attorneys who are bringing the racial discrimination law suit against you today... Joan Wong,Jessica Sanchez-Burrow, Charles Burrows, Sofia Garcia-Ahmed, Kahlil Ahmed, Jasmine Coley, Dabnis Coley,Kayla Bennett-St. Jacques and Ray St. Jacques." she said.

All of the Attorneys were already seated...

''Am I supposed to be impressed?" he remarked dryly..

Yvette smiled.. "You don't remember me do you? Years ago...When I had been practicing law for maybe three years, might not have been that long...I tried a case in your courtroom...You objected to everything I did and was so biased toward the Prosecution that even the Prosecution was surprised..

You threatened me with contempt if I spoke one more word of defiance against you....And you talked to me so cruelly , so contemptable , that I not only lost the case...I left the courtroom in tears....I never forgot how bad you made me feel..  Five years ago you tossed my good friends, Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West in the cooler for contempt...You seem to like doing that...but they fought you back and they got you removed from their case...Ever since then I've dreamed of making you feel as bad as you made me feel that day...And then I heard stories, stories from these very gifted, very talented attorneys ,some of them graduates of IVY Leauge schools of how you talked to them, how close they were to being tossed in the cooler and I decided to represent them all in this class action suit..

I'm no longer a scared little girl in your courtroom...Today, you answer to me.. And I intend to do everything I can to see that you are disbarred and will never sit in judgement ever again you evil son of a bitch!" she said and walked off..

He remembered her now...just as he remembered all of the attorneys and their clients who he had talked horribly cruel to and jailed..He felt a sense of dread like he'd never felt before.

II-

Trial Began...

Assistant District Attorney Susan Knight was good, she was glib, a great storyteller  and very knowledgable of the law... She told the jury that the client, Johnny Honeywell, a registered sex offender strangled Helen Green because she rebuffed his advances in a bar, a week before... He killed her where  and when he did because the neighborhood was upset and on alert about the Queen Village Rapes...He figured if he killed her now, that crime would be lumped in with the rest....But it backfired on him, she said. he was arrested and charged with all of it...when the actual Queen Village Rapist was captured, she argued...He unlike Johnny Honeywell had a rock solid alibi, he was in Kensington, raping a fourth woman. she said, This brought laughter from the jury.

She called people from the M.E.'s office and police officers on the scene as well as crime scene investigators and showed the Jury lurid photos of the murder scene.

Bresha, our intern, brought in a couple of experts who looked at the lititure marks on the neck and ascertained that Ms. Green had been grabbed from behind by a left handed person and strangled..

Mr. Honeywell is right handed, she said..

ADA Susan Knight brought in witnesses from the bar that stated they heard Ms. Green and Johnny Honeywell bantering sexually in the bar...

On Cross, Roscoe,Olivia, Beverly and Nelson compared their testimony today to interviews they had earlier with Lt. Tragg in which they said they weren't sure who Helen Green was talking to...In which they said it was a dark skinned Black man, in which they said that rather than being rebuffed , she and this "dark skinned black man were kissing very passionately.."

They presented the bartender , who said that she was kissing a "dark skinned "black man, but that it wasn't Honeywell, because he knew Honeywell...Honeywell drove the beverage delivery truck and he never drank there..

A Big victory for the defense..

She glared angrilly at Lt. Tragg....It's little discrepancies like this that she wanted cleared up...They had let her walk into a trap and she had..

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet....

I had put myself in his place and ran my investigation the same way he would have or rather should have...Leaving no stone unturned...Honeywell said he didn't know Helen Green and had never met her, nor had he drank at that bar.. Three months of Credit and Debit Card reports and the Bartender bared him out..He had never drank there..

Susan Knight argued that John Honeywell liked white women...She brought up his juvenile statuatory rape of a 15 year old when he was 18 that resulted in her pregnancy and an abortion...

Olivia, Beverly and Josie cried foul and brought up transcripts from the original trial in which it was brought out that that had been  a "consensual relationship between two teens with the only thing being relevant was the age difference..She was indeed a minor...There was no violent assault.

And Nelson presented three Black girls and one Puerto Rican girl Johnny Honeywell had dated since then  thus proving her theory wrong.

"Damn, that Lady D.A. is throwing everything at me but the kitchen sink.." said Johnny.

"Because she's got nothing and she knows it...We haven't even begun our defense yet and we've destroyed most of her case."said Roscoe.

I agreed...he was right...

And everyday of the trial, she looked beaten down at the end of the day....If Olivia and Beverly had poked holes in her case a few weeks ago on their first day, when they were obviously winging it..They and Roscoe Jenkins, no slouch himself had had time to prepare and boy had they...They were knocking down the wall now!

She had to stop the bleeding the best way she could..She implored the jury to give justice to poor "Helen Green"She claimed that Johnny Honeywell was an attractive little psychopath, who was gaming the system and who knew that killing Helen Green during the Queen Village rapes would throw all attention off of him.."No Matter what his slick lawyers tell you, don't be fooled...He did this, find him guilty of first degree murder!" she said 

A DAY LATER-

Roscoe Jenkins, a great orator himself , talked about his client, Johnny Honeywell, who didn't have a record before he got into trouble in High School and who didn't let incarceration slow him down..He got his G.E.D. and went to Community College and graduated with an Associates degree, All of which he showed the Jury... He talked about how he held down a job as a Beverage Delivery driver and had his own apartment and a used car and was planning to further his  education by enrolling in Temple..

He coached Semi Professional Basketball in the area on his off time... He was and is not the monster the ADA made him out to be.

Olivia and Beverly spent a day and a half presenting charactor witnesses...The Bartenders and Restaurant owners of the places he served, The guys he coached and people from his neighborhood..

The ADA had turned him into a "Light Skinned Black Boogeyman..." They were doing their best to dispel all of that...

Josie interviewed the one witness who said she saw him near his apartment ,miles away at the time he was supposedly killing Helen Green...

On Cross, Susan Knight tried to get this witness to say that she was unsure if that was him she actually saw...but the woman stuck to her guns...

''Any Man with a bod like that I'd remember...It was him alright..." she said...Which brought laughter not only from the jury..but from Beverly and Bresha as well.

Who both objected to ADA Knight's badgering of the witness....

Judge Morrison who seldom raised his voice above a whisper ,quietly asked her to cool it.  He was a big difference from the loud imperiousness of Judge Merkins.

Nelson called as his first witness..

Hayden Wells...

"Ms. Wells, how long and how well did you know Helen Green?" he asked.

"I've known her about four years...We drink at the same bar, Dirty Louie's." she said.

''She often watched your child for you didn't she?" asked Nelson..

"Yes..." said Hayden...

"You knew that Helen Green was supposed to testify against you in an upcoming child protective and custody case right?  Your estranged boyfriend, the baby's father got a lawyer...Who is here today and will testify that Helen Green was given a subpeona and the hearing was to be the day after she was ironically murdered." said Josie.

"I don't know anything about that." said Hayden..

"Ohhhhhh honeyyyyyyy, I think you do... I think you do...because one of your neighbors overheard an argument between the two of you in which Helen said she didn't want to testify against you and she cursed your boyfriend for putting her in this position.."said Beverly...

"In what position??, what are you talking about?" asked Hayden..

"You stood to lose complete custody of your son in that custody case....Your boyfriend, the boy's father and his mother were accusing you as an unfit mother...particularly on a night, you left the baby in a hot car, while you were inside drinking at Dirty Louie's Bar.. Helen Green witnessed that..That's what she was being subpeoned to testify about..You would have lost your child." said Bresha.

"I have a copy of the subpeona and the affadavit Helen Green had already signed right here." said Nelson.

"She was last seen with you at Dirty Louies that night... You two had been drinking heavily and you slipped a mickey in her drink...You told the bartender you were going to drive her home."said Olivia..

"Nah, Nah, that's crazy." said Hayden.

"It's in the autopsy report.....right here... Alcohol mixed with a large dose of barbituates..."said Olivia, smiling. "You can't fight the science baby." she added.

Bresha and Josie pulled out a monitor with camera footage of Helen Green and Hayden Wells leaving the bar at 12:15 am....and Hayden returning at 12:45 am , alone.. It is the last known footage of Helen Green alive..

"What happened in between then and when you returned...By yourself?" asked Olivia.

Hayden would say no more..

"The Witness is instructed to answer the question...Please...I don't want to have to hold you in contempt.." said the Judge..."Answer the question." he commanded.

"That's alright....Maybe you can answer this one...Are you right handed or left handed?" asked Olivia.

"I'm...I'm Left handed...why?" she asked.

"No Further questions." said Olivia, smiling.

Roscoe Jenkins gave his closing argument..

ADA Susan Knight held her head in her hands...She looked sick..She knew she had lost the case ..She turned to Lt. Tragg...

"From the beginning, you tried to make this look like the crime of the century, when it was really two seperate cases and you made yourself look like you'd captured a dangerous sociopath...All to raise your profile and get you back on HARD BOTTOM, maybe on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, all the news stations...

All you did was waste my time... The SVU Detectives all told you ,you had the wrong guy...He didn't fit the description...The M.E.'s report, which cleared him of the rapes sat on your desk unread for a week...and you never looked into this girl's life to see if anything else might have been going on..Olivia's husband did..I never want to work another case with you again....You are the absolute worst...Oh My God!!!" she snarled..

Lt. Tragg got up and simply walked out...He was furious!

"I think we won this ....Thank you so much Mr. Jenkins." said Johnny Honeywell.

"You're welcome son... But the real thanks goes to Mr. Donnie Ray here...Mannnnnnn I could have used a great investigator like you when I was practicing...You did the damn thing." said Roscoe.

"You're quite welcome...I was only too glad to help." I said.

"And thanks to these bright young, brilliant Attorneys....I am so glad to have been able to work with you guys.."said Roscoe..

"Thank You...I was honored to work with a legend such as yourself."said Olivia.

"Yesssss, you taught us a few things."said Beverly.

"Indeed...I surveyed the jury...We got a 12-0 slam dunk for acquittal...I'm sure." said Nelson.

"That's a great sign,"said Josie.

"Yes indeed." said Bresha..

Roscoe's daughter and the one who hired us... Judge Julie Wong was there also.....

"You guys did well.....I've stopped by every day....You were worth every penny..." she said, hugging us all and shaking our hands.

III-

The Racial Discrimination Law suit against Judge Merlin Merkins was no walk in the park...It started the same day as our murder trial and turned into an all out war that got very personal.

The Judge hired Attorney Sean Shotwell, a brilliant litigator , who made cases like this go away...

His argument to the board was that this was a personal vendetta brought on by attorneys who like Lt. Tragg said..."Could not take discipline and didn't like it when a judge stood up to them and made them tow the line..He argued that this had nothing to do with racial discrimination at all..

He had done his homework..He brought up the fact that the Lead Counsel in this case, Mrs. Yvette Jones-Lockwood

"Had Had her little feelings hurt when she was a young attorney by a judge who demanded that his attorneys be prepared, which she wasn't and she has harbored a seething hatred for him ever since.." he said.

He brought up that Jasmine Coley, then Jasmine Jenkins was defended in this very court for misconduct a few years ago herself and successfully defended by one of the plaintiffs, Charles Burrows..

Keith Jones and Bee Bee Evans argued that none of the points he brought up had any relevance to the charges...

Aided by Jade Lee...Yvette Jones had two 64 foot Monitors brought in with videos of the Judge in action, talking down and particularly nasty to Attorneys.. Joan Wong, a former Assistant District Attorney, Sofia Garcia-Ahmed, who was threatened twice with contempt and nearly jailed., her husband, Kahlil Ahmed, who was threatened with contempt if he spoke another word and disparaging remarks were made about his ethnicity....Jessica Sanchez-Burrows , who was threatened a record six times with contempt, but amazingly not jailed...Her husband ,Charles "Chip" Burrows, who was told to "Control his wife and teach her to lose that "annoying accent" "She's in America now." he had said, Ray St. Jacques, who he clearly did not like and over ruled his every motion and tossed him and his client in the cooler for a night...

 

and finally Mrs. Jasmine Coley, a former Assistant District Attorney, who had repeated clashes with him as an ADA and as an attorney in Private Practice..

Yvette argued that this was more than bad court decorum...It was personal vendettas against all of these attorneys, who just happened to be young, intelligent and articulate attorneys of color..

She paraded their clients and an assortment of former jurors who all thought the Judges behavior was over the top and racist....Some of these jurors were white..

Sean Shotwell brought up Dabnis Coley

who he accused of being a "Radical Leftist" with an attitude... He talked about him suing the Police department and his antagonism of one cop in particular, Lt. Tragg..

Lt. Tragg was actually at the hearing and testified that he found Dabnis Coley," arrogant and uncompromisingly hostile to law enforcement..." and said that he should be disbarred because of his attitude.

Yvette laid Dabnis's defense out..

"He represented his client, Judge Percy Reynolds who had twice been arrested and falsely accused of murder by Lt. Tragg...His client wanted the Police department sued...He was acting in his client's behalf ,something all of us as Attorneys would do... It in no way justifies the way this man talked to Mr. Coley.

She said and showed another video tape of their Court proceding...

She saved the best or worse, depending on how you looked at it for last...In which she showed Him bullying Attorney Kayla Bennett-Sat. Jacques so bad...she burst into tears and the court had to recess until she got herself together...

Yvette argued as strongly as possible that Judge Merlin Merkins is an over the top tyrant, who had bullied attorneys and defendents a lot for years and should be put to sleep...like any other mad dog would be?"

She had never been so emotional before.

The Board took only a half hour to rule...

"Merkins....This is the third time you have been brought before this board for your bad behavior...From what we have seen on video tape in your own words and the testimonies we have heard from former jurors, attorneys and their former clients, you are indeed an out of control tyrant and so we are ruling that you be removed from the bench , effective NOW!!! We are also recomending that you retire...because one more complaint and we may consider disbarrment..Your behavior is beyond bad...It's abhorrent!!"said the Board Chairman, Judge Brad Johnson.

"Your Honor...We throw ourselves on the mercy of the court...My client has had a very bad time in his personal life...A Messy divorce...Financial woes....It has taken him near his emotional brink.."said Sean Shotwell, who had lost for the first time in one of these litigations...

He took his hat off to Yvette Jones-Lockwood..She had really done her homework...She brought up things that even he hadn't known...And with all of her clients being Attorneys...They laid out a perfect case..

Judge Merkins looked sick..He couldn't believe he had been removed from the bench...He had been a Judge longer than he had been an attorney...He loved striking terror into the hearts of Attorneys, he loved the nearly unchallengable power he had over people's lives...Making sensitive female attorneys 

cry gave him orgasms...And now it was all gone..Because 9 attorneys decided to challenge his authority, in court....He drooped down in his chair...he began to age right there...

And Across town in a courtroom...

"This is it son...I've already got an appeal planned to file immediately if things don't go our way...Don't Worry.."said Roscoe Jenkins..

"I don't think you'll need it Mister Jenkins."said Johnny Honeywell.

"Bailiff, has the jury made a decision?" asked Judge Keith Morrison.

"Yes your honor they have " said the Baillif...

He passed the verdict to the Judge, whose face showed no emotion...

"Read it." he said plainly...

"IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMONWEALTH  OF PENNSYLVANIA  VS. JOHN EDWARD HONEYWELL ON THE CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER...WE FIND THE DEFENDENT,

NOT GUILTY!"

"YESSSSS!" Johnny yelled, pumping his fists, his long ordeal was over...He was a free man... he hugged Beverly, Olivia, Josie and Bree and kissed them all on the cheeks..

"Thank you, Thank you all so much...you saved my life.." he said jubilantly...

"You're welcome!" said Beverly, smiling.

"We always love happy customers." said Olivia.

"You're very welcome" said Josie.

"You're so welcome.." said Bresha..

"Thank you sooo much Mr. Jenkins..He said , hugging him for a long time..

"You're welcome, just keep on achieving son.." he said.

He shook Nelson's hand...

"You're welcome Johnny..." he said.

He shook my hand too..

"What are you going to do now?" I asked, smiling..

"I'm going to a restaurant and have the thickest juiciest steak and the driest Martini " said Johnny...

"Make it a Citris Martini." said Olivia as we all cheered..

Lt. Tragg returned to the courthouse just in time to see us high fiving and smiling...He had just returned from now former Judge Merlin Merkins disasterous Racial Discrimination suit...

"They got an Acquittal huh?" he said.

"Of Course they did...The way you loused up this case what did you expect?" said an angry ADA Susan Knight.

"Judge Merlin Merkins lost that suit...He's been removed from the bench..."said Lt. Tragg trying to pivot away from the subject..

"So what? He was a jerk." said ADA Susan Knight as she walked away ,declining to talk to the press..

Naturally they interviewed us.. Roscoe Jenkins, who came out of retirement to defend a guy who he felt was being railroaded, falsely accused of being the Queen Village Rapist and now falsely accused of murdering Helen Green.  They interviewed Johnny Honeywell, who was so glad to be free and have his name cleared..

And of course.. Attorneys Olivia Bennett-Alexander, Beverly West, Myself, their investigator,Donnie Ray Alexander, Nelson East, Josie Boyd and our intern, Bresha Williams..

we all fielded questions and quickly left the building...They had told us that the original Judge, Merlin Merkins had been removed from the bench....We were  all ecstatic..

As was expected , the press pilloried Lt. Tragg...

''Man Lieutenant, you really stepped in it this time...Accused this guy of being the Queen Village Rapist  and a murderer...You turned him into a one man crime wave... Turns out someone else raped those women and it looks like someone else murdered that woman....Wowwwww both culprits almost got away scott free.." said one reporter..

"But they didn't ." said Lt. Tragg...

"No thanks to you...Wowwww!" said another Reporter...

"Lou, I've had a rough day...I'm not in the mood for it.." said Lt. Tragg..

"You're not in the mood for catching killers either, since you never do." said the reporter..

This was met by loud laughter..

"THAT'S IT LOU!!!! KNUCKLE SANDWICH COMING YOUR WAY!!!" screamed Lt. Tragg

as he rushed into the crowd, arms swinging, knocking over tables, people scattering and punches being thrown...

At a Bar in Bayside...U.S. Attorney Julie Baisden is having drinks with another Attorney, Thomas Armstorng, an Attorney Lt. Tragg arrested a month or so ago for indecent exposure...He had gotten drunk and walked into Sam Mother's Diner Nude.. Olivia and Beverly had paid his fine and he walked away with a warning, Julie had been intrigued by him ever since..

"That's your boyfriend, the cop that busted me.." laughed Attorney Thomas Armstrong

''He's my soon to be ex....I'm starting to get tired of him..His bad attitude and his general foolishness..He's become a bad look for me." said Julie.

They had been watching the entire press conference, including the melee on the television at the bar.

IV-

ONE WEEK LATER-

Judge Merlin Merkins 

found himself once again before the Legal Ethics Board..  No Attorney likes to be before this board one time, and two times in two weeks is a definite nightmare..

Nelson was the lead attorney 

Defending Attorney Roscoe Jenkins from a Contempt Charge that kept him from defending his client..

He served two days of a five day sentence and had not the judge been sidelined with a heart attack, he would not have been able to defend him at all..

They were arguing that the contempt charge was bogus and had no merit..

Olivia, Beverly, Josie, Bresha and I assisted...Judge Julie Wong, his daughter was present.

Sean Shotwell, the judge's attorney...found himself arguing once again that this was a hit job being done as a vendetta..."This Judge jailed two of the attorneys ,Olivia and Beverly five years ago..for disobeyng and order, a direct order he gave them about the apparell... This same attorney, Nelson East...now married to one of the attorneys, Beverly West is once again here with the same argument. Should I also mention that these attorneys live across the street from those other attorneys who argued the Racial Discrimination suit last week and I have it on good word that they consorted with each other and that they all worked on this at Olivia and Beverly's home and office...This is a vendetta, Nothing more." argued Sean Shotwell.

His information was correct... All of the attorneys did work out of our office on laying out this case...It was pretty crowded..Alfreda's Caterer kept the food flowing..Breakfast and lunch and at nights...We fired up grills and had cookouts in the back.

Nelson, Olivia and Beverly argued beautifully that the Judge's behavior not only to Attorney Jenkins was so reprehensible that there was hardly any precedent for it.. Hardly any, they came with two trial transcripts  and two predicates  which they argued dealt with judicial misbehavior of his  type...

Sean Stockwell argued vigorously for the court to have mercy on Judge Merkins..

''My God, he's been through a divorce, had a heart attack and been removed from the bench, what more are you going to do to this more man?" he concluded.

ONE HOUR LATER-

Judge Jetty Dukes came back with the ruling.

"This is entirely too much bad behavior and too many damn complaints... We voted unanimously to Disbar you...My Goddd man!!!....Contempt charge dropped from your record Mr. Jenkins..." he said..

"DAMN IT....I'm ruined.." said Former Judge and now former Attorney Merlin Merkins.. he turned to Olivia and Beverly..

"You satisfied  now, you bitches?" he snarled.

"What did you call me, you sick son of a bitch.?" screamed Olivia, charging at him..

"You are out of your rabid mind you nasty evil old coot!.."said Beverly, holding her aunt back..

"Now you've gone too far buddy...I'm gonna rip you a new one.." I said.

"Not if I get to him first." said a furious Nelson...

"No Donnie Ray!! Nelson No!!! He's Not worth it" said Josie ,getting in  between both of us ..

"No...Not like this.. Josie's right..He's not worth it."said Bresha., who joined her and stood between us.

She didn't want to see us getting in trouble...She knew that she was stopping a possible homicide.

"He's done..He's defeated. He's got nothing " said Judge Wong ,who also got in between us...

"It's all I can do not to kick your ass." said Roscoe Jenkins to former Judge Merlin Merkins.

"The Hell with you....The hell with all of you." said an angry Merlin Merkins...

''Don't you see, the man is sick he needs help, pity" Sean Shotwell pleaded to the Ethics Board members. "He's not in his right mind..I implore you to reconsider your motion....You've already removed him from the bench." he said.

"Awwww shut the hell  up.... I pay you top dollar and you lose BOTH OF MY CASES!" snarled Merlin Merkins., who punched Sean Shotwell, knocking him into the table and knocking over the punch....which splashed all over the floor.

"GET HIM THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!! CALL THE POLICE!!! MERKINS...I WANT YOU OUT!!" screamed Judge Jetty Dukes.

"Oh Shut up and shine my shoes boy!" snarled Merlin Merkins as he stormed out....

"I got your shoes you piece of shit.." said Jetty Dukes, who took off his shoe and tossed it at the Judge, The shoe hit him in the back of the head.

"OOOOOF!" he said in pain as he rushed out of the door. He was afraid he was going to be lynched.

''We won in a big way..We got that mad man off the bench and out the game for good...I'm so glad I met you guys and got to work with you..." said Attorney Roscoe Jenkins.

"We are glad we got to work with you." said Olivia.

"Yes...it was a great experience.."said Beverly, rubbing my shoulder.. I was still seething mad at Merkins.

"It was great working with you."I said.

Beverly and Josie both were trying to calm Nelson down, he still wanted to go after Merkins..

Bresha was stunned by Merkins behavior.. She was glad she had never been in his courtroom.

"Let's get out of here..We all deserve cold one.." said Julie Wong..

No One disagreed with that!

That night, we filled a section of Curley's Bar up..

Olivia and I, Beverly and Nelson, Josie and Paris and Bree and Tony had one big table.

Curley Allowed us to have a private party...We roped off one section....

Yvette and  Gary, Keith and Bee Bee,  Kahlil and Sofia, Jade and Danny Ho filled up another huge table..and our special guest...Attorney Roscoe Jenkins..

and filling up the last table was  Kayla and Ray, Jazzy and Dabnis, Jessica and Chip, Joan Wong and her Aunt, Judge Julie Wong, her new boyfriend, Pinkney Bach

We decided to have it here at Curleys, because we were not going to be intimidated tonight...We were together and we had proven that together we could take down a big bully like former Judge Merkins, who not only was removed from the bench, but disbarred...This was a celebration..

We had plenty to drink and eat as well.

Alfreda and Rockland were there... Alfreda's Caterer set up a pasta tray...

Naturally  an angry and sullen Lt. Tragg walked in..He saw our roped off section, saw all of the food and drink and peered at all of his"favorite people" having a party in his joint..as if they were rubbing it in his face that he had been humiliated in the Honeywell case and they had gotten Judge Merlin Merkins removed from the bench and disbarred.

"What is the freakin world coming to?" he asked.  "Curley?  You let them do this?" he asked.

"Yup!  They paid for it...and they tip well....I love those guys." laughed Curley as he walked away...

Lt. Tragg  turned  and walked out of the bar...Too many of us to contend with...

EPILOUGE-

Hayden Wells was convicted of the First Degree Murder of Helen Green and sentenced to die by Lethal Injection...

Wendell Spinolli, the Queen Village Rapist was sentenced to 15-25 years.

Merlin Merkins reputation for bad behavior followed him..

After hearing the verdict on him in Pennsylvania, He was subsequently disbarred in New York, New Jersey, Deleware and Washington. D.C.

He moved to  Maine and passed the bar exam there with flying colors and applied for a law license ..

It was denied.

He started seeing a young woman, also a disbarred attorney...They started a consulting business.

He never paid Sean Shotwell his legal fees...As a result..Sean Shotwell is suing him.....and so it goes.

A MONTH LATER-

I snuck up behind Olivia and hugged her and kissed her neck....She was in the nearby park, looking at some flowers.

"Ouuuuuu, you're back !" she said and smiled.

"I'm back....I delivered an address to Attorney Shotwell....It seems Mr. Merkins left town without paying the attorney his legal fees...I did a little digging and found out he's living in Maine, running a consulting business...I thought Mr. Shotwell would like to know that....Needless to say, he was very grateful." I said and laughed.

"Ouuu Donnie Ray, you're baddddd!" said Olivia, smiling...

I took her in my arms...

"You don't know how bad my behavior is about to get in a few minutes." I said., kissing her passionately..and running my hands up her sundress..

..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed as I slipped her panties down...

No one was in sight for miles...

"Ummmmmm I have an idea..." she said and smiled in between kisses...