DisOrder In The Court

 11:00 AM- The Honorable Judge Merlin Merkins Residing over the Murder and Serial Rape Trial of John Honeywell.

"Mr. Honeywell since your attorney of record, Mr. Jenkins is serving a five day contempt charge in custody...I am assigning you a Public defender for the duration of your trial...In fact that Public Defender should be here now...I'm not understanding his tardiness." said the Judge.

"That won't be neccesary your honor... I have informed the Public Defenders Office that their service won't be needed.. We are here to represent Mr. Honeywell, Olivia Bennett-Alexander , Beverly West and Ms. Bresha Williams for the defense." said Olivia.

Beverly and I and Bresha sat down at the table next to Mr. Honeywell..

''Wow this looks like my lucky day.." he said, smiling.

"YOU!!!!" snarled Judge Merlin Merkins.... He remembered Olivia and Beverly from five years before.

The Cantana Sexual Assault case in this very courtroom.

Beverly questioned the women and slyly asked them if they'd ever gone for a drink with him or out to lunch...

She got two of them to admit that they did......she slyly left that hanging  with the jury.....

The Judge, Merlin Merkins...was an old grouchy man who didn't seem to have a taste for the entire thing..His whole demeanor betrayed his impartiality...He thought the entire trial was a farce...

He happened to be observing Beverly's cleavage and he noticed a button she was wearing..

He stopped the proceedings...

"Attorney West...What is that button you're wearing?" asked the Judge...

"Excuse me your honor?" asked Beverly

"That button over near your left breast....Does that say "Black Lives Matter?" he asked..

The button was the size of  a case quarter...He had to be looking pretty hard to even notice it...

"Y-Yes...Yes it does!" said Beverly..

'Take it off..."he said.

"Excuse me?" said Beverly...

"Take it off...You can't wear that in my courtroom.." he said.

"Why not?" asked Beverly...

"I don't want religious or political statements worn by anyone in my courtroom, Now Take it off." said the Judge..

"Your honor, I see someone with a Star of David pendant on, A Cross and an  American Flag, What is the problem with her little button, you can barely see it." said Olivia..

The Judge ignored Olivia...

"Ms. West are you going to take that button off or NOT?" he bellowed...

''No,I'm not...This has nothing to do with the case we are trying here...Our client is white..."said Beverly...

"Bailifs..Remove her...LOCK HER UP...Contempt of court!" He said...

"What?" exclaimed Beverly....

Two Bailifs grabbed her and escorted her out...They didn't allow her to get her briefcase or papers...

"Your Honor this is highly irregular and ridiculous...You're disrupting this trial right when we are at a crucial point over a button? A button you wouldn't have even noticed if you weren't checking out her cleavage! "said Olivia..

"One more word out of you and you will be joining your niece...Do I make myself clear?" said The Judge..

"DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?" he bellowed..

Olivia said nothing, but she glared at the judge angrily..

I walked over to Olivia and whispered in her ear...

"Relax...pass me the corporate card....I'll handle it."I said.

That was five years ago and he remembered what ultimately happened afterwords..

He was brought before the legal ethics board thanks to a petition brought on by Olivia , Beverly and Nelson.

and censored for his past racist and sexual behavior in other trials and censured and removed from the case..

He was livid..."You three better  pray to God that none of you wind up in my courtroom again!!" he snarled..

It had been five years and here we were....

"WHO HIRED YOU? This defendent certainly didn't." he snarled.

"An outside party hired us and we are not at liberty to reveal who that party is...We'd like to call for a continuance so we can have the time to confer with our new client." said Oliva.

"DENIED! You're here now you should be prepared for trial.." said Judge Merkins.

''We've just been handed this case only hours ago...We need proper time to confer with our client in order to give him a proper defense your honor." protested Beverly.

"You and your Auntie seem to have a problem with your ears and my AUTHORITY....NOW DAMN IT...YOU WILL PREPARE FOR TRIAL RIGHT NOW.....SAY ANOTHER WORD....JUST ONE MORE WORD AND YOU'LL JOIN ROSCOE JENKINS IN THE COOLER.....NOW DID I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR??" he snarled..

Olivia, nor Beverly said a word...They weren't accustomed to such hostility from any judge they had been in court with...nor being talked to like that...He talked to them as if they were children..They were furious and defiantly said nothing.

"I can't hearrrrrrrrrrr youuuuuuu!" he taunted...

ADA Susan Knight interrupted the Judge's childish taunting..

"Uh Your Honor...We have established that the client has new counsel...Let's just get on with the trial.." she said.

"Dear...When I want YOUR OPINION....I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU!!!   But alright..let's get on with this trial...I can see now it's going to be a contentious one.." he said.

"Oh My God...He's an asshole!" said Bresha.

''Who you tellin?" said Johnny.

I agreed...And it appeared he was worse than he was five years ago.

Lt. Tragg sat with his arms folded....

"I can't believe it...Every case that has a whiff of controversy....These two have to attach themselves to..Unbelievable. I'll bet they're sorry they got attached to this one..That judge aint havin none of their shenanagins.He's layin the law down to them..." he said.. He looked around...He wondered where Nelson and Josie were.

II-

At that moment at the Holding facility known as "The Cooler"  The guard opened the cell door..

"Mr. Jenkins, you have visitors and you have been released.." he said as he released him..

"Is this some kind of joke? I'm supposed to be here for five days." said Attorney Roscoe Jenkins.

"It's No Joke Mr. Jenkins...I'm Attorney Nelson East....Your Bond was posted and your release has been secured.." said Nelson.

"Thank You, I appreciate what you did son.  I thank you for getting me out...but I can't come back into court until after the five day sentence is served, whether I am in here or not." said Roscoe Jenkins.

"We plan to appeal your sentence and we have a court summons here for Judge Merlin Merkins to appear before the Legal Ethics Board.." said Josie Boyd. "I'm Attorney Josie Boyd sir." she added.

Roscoe Jenkins laughed heartedly....

"You two are too young to be afraid of that man...I love it... " he said.

"I along with my associates, Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West took this same Judge before the board five years ago and we won our case...We got him censured and removed from our case...I am seeking to do the same thing again...we think you were imprisoned unjustly..."said Nelson East.

"Young Man, Young Lady...You have my gratitude and my respect...I have a client in the middle of a serious trial right now and unfortunately , some inexperienced Public Defender is representing him."said Roscoe Jenkins.

"No...Our Associates are representing him as we speak.. Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West-East." said Josie.

"Beverly West is my wife..." said Nelson..

"I've heard of them....So you're with them huh? Wowwwwwww! " he laughed as they got on the elevator and head down to the courtrooms..

"They are standing in the gap for you until we can return you." said Josie..

"My daughter.....You guys know my daughter...Judge Julie Wong, she contacted you didn't she?" he laughed.. "My baby girl...She loves her daddy." he laughed, slapping his thigh...

Neither Nelson or Josie said a word...

"You don't have to say anything...I know this was her...I appreciate this...I didn't want to stay in here another minute, thanks for getting me out...Let's go to the courtroom and I'll treat your whole crew to breakfast." said Attorney Jenkins.

"Works for me." said Nelson..

"I knew that would work for you." said Josie, smiling.

III-

Bresha was getting an education on how to wing it and defend a client on the fly.... We hadn't had time to talk to the client  and only knew the basic facts of the case...

ADA Susan Knight was calling witnesses....

Olivia and Beverly had read some of the witness statements 

and on cross examination...They were already knocking holes in their initial statements to the police and what they were saying now..

They were objecting to a lot of what ADA Susan Knight was saying...

Judge Knight was allowing ADA Knight to go forward and when she objected to their line of questioning..he sided with her and told Olivia and Beverly to stand down... He was so obviously biased that even Lt. Tragg noticed and shook his head.

"Liv and Bev sure stepped into it this time...That Judge hates their guts ." he whispered to ADA Knight.

"Yeah , he is kind of one sided...I actually feel sorry for them...."said ADA Susan Knight.

"Your wife and your niece are doing good, but they are really pushing the judge's buttons, more than Roscoe was...He's itching to toss them into the cooler." said Johnny Honeywell.

"Oh he did , five years ago in another trial...They filed charges against him and won..There is no love lost between them." I said.

The Judge looked up..

"What The Devil?" he said..

Nelson, Roscoe Jenkins and Josie walked into the courtroom and sat down in the visitors section..

Olivia , Beverly, myself and Bresha smiled..

"Wait!  JUST A GOTDAMN MINUTE!!! DEFENSE COUNSEL....IN MY CHAMBERS GOTDAMNIT! NOWWWWWWWWW!!!" he snarled..

''Am I going to have to cut him Auntay?"asked Beverly.

"Not if I get to him first." said Olivia, smiling.

Inside his chambers...He glared at Olivia, Beverly and Bresha.

"Don't sit down...you're not going to be in here that long...I don't know what kind of cock and bull stunt you are trying to pull, but you will NOT TURN MY COURTROOM INTO A DAMN CIRCUS ,IS THAT UNDERSTOOD??  Now I see you have had your other associate and I remember him post bond for Jenkins... It doesn't matter...he can't return to this trial until after his contempt sentence is fulfilled., whether he is a free man or not, so your little stunt failed..you're stuck with this trial... I know you must be tired, you just won a case the day before last...Well too bad....You're going to try this case for the next five days." said Merlin Merkins...

"I didn't just start practicing law last week..I am fully aware of that...but I had my associates post a bond for Mr. Jenkins anyway...We plan to represent him against YOU!"said Olivia.

"That's right...We are contesting contempt charges...but you'll be notified soon enough."said Beverly...

''WHY YOUUUU!!" he snarled..

"There is someone at your door your honor...I'll get it.." said Bresha.

"Good Day Your Honor...Since you are here, I figured this would be as good a time as ever to talk to you." said Nelson East..

Josie passed him an envelope..

''What the devil is this?" exclaimed Judge Merkins..

"That looks like a subpeona to me... That's uh a court summons for you to appear before the Legal Ethics Board...We are representing Mr. Jenkins also and we are contesting your contempt of court sentence."said Beverly...

"If there is no more..We'll be returning to the courtroom." said Olivia.

He looked like he had swallowed a canary....Suddenly he was silent.

"Mannn I gotta admit...I'm enjoying the hell out of today..They have been giving that Judge hell...He looks like he's aged since you guys took over this case."laughed the defendent, Johnny Honeywell.

"You guys sprung my lawyer too!" he noticed.

"Yeah, but he can't represent you for five days, despite the fact he's free...So you're stuck with us." I said and smiled.

Olivia, Beverly, Nelson, Josie and Bresha emerged unscathed.

"I could do worse." laughed Johnny.

I liked him..  "Yeah you sure could." I said.

Roscoe Jenkins  smiled... Hard to believe he was Julie Wong's father.. I just smiled.

Judge Merkins looked like the wind had been let out his balloon..

He said. "I uh...I am going to uh adjourn the court for two days...Allowing the defense to confer with their client...It's uh nearly 12:30...Uh let's adjourn for the day..." he said..  he looked sick.

"That damn Olivia and Beverly...They've stressed the damn Judge out...In one day...one day they've turned this trial into a circus.." said Lt. Tragg, who had his hand up ADA Knight's skirt and was palming her behind..He had a pleased as punch look on his face..

!

She removed his hand and slapped him firmly..

"OOOOOF!" he said as he fell out of his chair on to the floor..

"KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF! I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU AGAIN..."she said  as we filed out..

"Oh My God!" said Olivia, who witnessed the whole thing.

"This is getting old." said Nelson..

"It's still funny." said Beverly, who burst into guffaws..

I shook my head.

"OHHH MY GOD!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?" said Bresha, witnessing this for the first time.

"He's very handsy...Likes to put his hands up ladies dresses....I'll never sit near him with a skirt on."said Josie.

"You can sit near me baby...I'll respect you." said Johnny Honeywell, who was amused by everything that had transpired today...

"I bet you would." said Josie, seductively to him.

Bailffs handcuffed Johnny Honeywell.  He looked at us..

He smiled.

"Thank you all for an entertaining day..." he said as he was led away..

"The Great Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West...I've heard so much about you two...I finally get to meet you and you're repping my client and me...Wowwwwww This is a story I'll tell my grandkids.." laughed Roscoe Jenkins, Attorney at Law..

"Well since you know us, let me introduce you formally Mr. Jenkins...

"This is my niece, Beverly West-East, my partner in my law firm...

Her husband and Associate Attorney, Mr. Nelson East, who you met today...

My Husband, Investigator, Donnie Ray Alexander...

My Associate Attorney, Ms. Josie Boyd..

And our intern, Attorney and recent law school graduate, Ms. Bresha Williams." said Olivia..

''Such a good looking bunch...Allow me to treat you all to Brunch...I know a nice place..We can eat and talk,,and since you have an investigator...I have a list of people for you to look up and question, plus an independent DNA lab to go over the clothes and evidence." said Roscoe Jenkins..

"Excellent...I'm starving, let's go...We'll follow you." said Olivia.

Lt. Tragg was rubbing his face...ADA Knight had slapped the hell out of him...He was in one of his foulest moods...Thank God..we weren't going to be eating at Sam Mother's today....

IV-

At Pinkney's Condo....

"Did you get your rest?" asked Pinkney...

"I sure did...I took a very relaxing bath and slept for hours...I'm a little hungry." she said as she unzippered his  trousers and began rubbing his engorged penis..

"Ouuuuuuuu I'm a little horny myself. Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu that feels great..ohhhhhh." he moaned.

"I said Hungry...Not Horny....You are always Horny...." she said.

She kissed him passionately..

"I was in court today... Olivia and Beverly gave that old Judge hell..

I peeked in the hearing after my case let out... I thought he was going to toss them in the cooler like he did your dad...They were really pushing each others buttons...but they know their law...and it was frustrating him that they either had a predicate or something from an actual trial or an actual law to throw in the stew...He didn't like being frustrated like that...Neither did the ADA. Man then to make it worse.. Nelson and Josie walked in with your pops..

"Well when the old Judge saw him in the courtroom two days after he had tossed him in the cooler..He hit the ceiling , called for the Defense to meet with him in his chambers...

I thought all of them were going to the cooler for sure...They all walked out and he adjourned court for two days..It looked like he had been served with a court summons..

He looked sick.....I laughed my head off..The man is an old racist relic..He should have retired years ago." said Pinkney...

He removed her bra and slipped her panties down..

"Ohhhhhhhh, I really like these." said Pinkney, close to cumming .

"I seeeee...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"laughed Julie...

Since she started dating Pinkney she had practically replaced all of her panties and bras with more racy and sexy attire..She had taken her hair out of a bun and replaced her huge glasses with contact lenses..

She bought sexy ,shorter more form fitting dresses and skirts...

She was now getting a lot of attention from a lot of men...She mostly liked it...but sometimes it was annoying.

Julie straddled him and moved down on his waiting penis and began to move up and down..slowly..

"OH MY GOD!!! YOU ARE SO DAMN BIG!!! OUUUUUUUU!" she said as she slowly began to ride him and kiss him passionately...

"You're so soft and wet.....oh my godddddd!" he cried out...

She rode him slow and softly like a surfer rides a wave..

"UMMMMMMMMPH....OH MY GODDDDDD!  JULIEEEEE!!!" he moaned..

"I want you to take me out to eat when we are finished." she whispered in his ear..

"Anything you want Julie...Anything...OHHHHHHH!" he said.

"Pinkneyyyyyyyyyyy? I love you!" she said.

"I love you too Julie...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned.

I'm born and raised in New Orleans and a Foodie as Beverly calls me..But after living in Philadelphia for almost a decade now with Olivia and Beverly...I had a fond appreciation for it's restaurants.

Roscoe Jenkins took us to a restaurant neither I nor my musician friends had ever heard of..

"I love this place... It's been here for years..I used to come here with Julie's mother... Yes...I know she reached out to you....You don't have to tell me..and I know she probably told you that I'm her daddy..I used to come here with her mother when we were courting and a few times with Julie when she was a little girl..Of course it didn't look like this..  What you see now is a product of gentrification...but they still serve good food...Go on and order...It's on me..My new partners as such." he said.

''You don't have to tell me twice." I said.

"Me Neither." said Nelson.

"Come on Girls...Let's order first before our men eat us out of house and home.."laughed Olivia.

"I know right?" laughed Beverly..

"Ouuuuuuu everything looks so good." said Josie.

"It does." said Bresha.

There was an assortment of good food.

Omelettes to order

Bacon

Pancakes

Hash Browns

Sausage

Waffles, Scrambled eggs

Orange Juice, Freshly squeezed

Hot Coffee

and Cheese Grits

There was something for everybody...and we enjoyed a nice relaxing breakfast. free from Lt. Tragg's ravings and rantings..

Roscoe Jenkins was tickled pink and impressed with us and the way we handled Judge Merkins..

"I should have kept my cool like you guys did..You beat him with facts and the law and you weren't intimidated by him...He's a bully...He can dish it out , but he can't take it...But be careful...he's a vengeful and cagey old bird..He'll goad you like he did me and find a reason to toss you in the cooler.." he said as we ate...

"Been There done that..." said Beverly...

"He's so nasty..So mean...I was frightened for you guys too...I thought he was just minutes away from tossing you in the "cooler." said Bresha.

"He was very close when we were in his chambers.." said Olivia.

"Until my brave husband rescued us...with that court summons.."said Beverly..

"I thought that summons would enrage him even more...but something about that summons took the wind out of his sails.."said Nelson..

"I'll look into these people you gave me to talk to and then I want to look into the judge.. Liv can I have Beverly and Bresha tomorrow?" I asked.

"That's my neicey poo...No you can't have her..She's mine."joked Olivia, hugging Beverly and kissing her on the cheek..

Beverly giggled...

I smiled..

"Shortcake and I will interview these people and stop by the M.E.'s office. Bresha is going to Public Records and look up some things." I said.

Olivia smiled

and Nelson, Josie and I and you Mister Jenkins will work on defense strategy." said Olivia.

"I love the way you guys work....Like a tight military unit... I'll see you guys in the morning..Thanks for springing me from the hoosegow." he said.

Beverly, Josie, Nelson and Bresha looked confused..

"That term is a little before their time." I said, laughing..

"Mine too" said Olivia , who was the same age as his daughter, Julie Wong.

Roscoe Jenkins laughed.. "You may be right Donnie Ray...

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