In the apartment of Assistant District Attorney Hayden King, her boyfriend, Assistant District Attorney
Peter "Petey S." Smith was examing a dossier on the man he would be prosecuting..Attorney Greg Garland.
Gregory Princeton Garland
Born in Philadelphia PA.
All City Basketball Player
Graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia PA.
B.A. from Temple University- Pre Law, Trial Advocacy, Administration of Justice
JD- University of Pennsylvania Law School
Speaks French, Spanish and Russian fluently.
Passed the Bar in Pennsylvania, Deleware, New York, New Jersey and later in Georgia.
Senior Associate Attorney at the Colgate Firm, Atlanta Ga.
Special Counsel-The Harris Group, London, U.K.
Asst. Counsel- Pennsylvania Stock Market
Associate Attorney- Whitmer and Broaden, Atlanta Ga.
''Hmm Very accomplished.. Cute too..Not your average murderer.." said Hayden, smiling..
She lived in the same apartment complex where the murder took place..She was just one floor down from it..Everybody had been shaken up a little bit.
Lt. Tragg had called her and asked if she need him to come over and "Comfort her." She assured him that that wasn't needed.. "I was a cop before I was a lawyer...I'll be fine." she told him.
"No he's not...and even though this case looks open and shut..Found with the murder weapon in his hands, at the scene...looks like a domestic quarrel, possible rape gone wrong...Nothing involving Lt. Tragg is ever simple.. I been on a roll lately, Won my first 12 cases...Why'd I have to get a case involving Barney Fife?" asked Petey S.
Hayden laughed...
"Oh My God, Barney Fife...Lt. Tragg has been called many things..but Barney Fife takes the case..,
Hahahahahahahahaa...Look you were a Investigator for the D.A.'s office up until a few weeks ago, Do a little digging of your own...and now get over here and get into these panties." cooed Hayden..
"Ummmmmmmmmmmm....Ohhhhhhhh Hayden.." he moaned. Kissing her in the middle of the living room floor..
"Ohhhhh Petey, my goodness.. OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU LOOK AT YOUUUUU!!!OUUUU!" she cooed.
He slipped her panties down and unhooked her bra.
"Ouuu Petey!" said Hayden..fondling him to the point of deliriousness on his part..
until they were making sweet, sweet love in her bed!!!!
"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPHHH" he moaned..
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU , PETEYYYYYY!! OH MY GODDDD!" she cried out.
For the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS!
The next day, Greg Garland was in Sam Mother's Diner, enjoying a pitcher of Ice Tea..
Lt. Tragg walked over to his table..
"Ohhhh look who it is..Mr. Garland...That Ice Tea looks delicious....It's hittin the spot on a hot day like today huh?...Enjoy it..I don't know if they serve that on Death Row...Tell me, what are you gonna pick, Lethal Injection or the new Gas Chamber? Heheheheheheh!" he laughed.
Greg stared balefully at him, but didn't utter a word..
''Why don't you stop it? The man is trying to enjoy a cool drink..He doesn't need any hassling from you!" said Ms. Jade to Lieutenant Tragg.
''You've got a license that can be pulled at anytime...I'm just looking for a reason.."said Lt. Tragg to Jade, whom he despised.
''Why don't you try looking for the real killer instead?" said Jade.
I had just walked in with Bee Bee, Sofia and Kahlil...We smiled, but didn't laugh outright...
Greg laughed loud and hardy at what Ms. Jade had said..
"OUUUUUU!! WHY YOUUUU!" he snarled.
''What's going on here? You're not intimidating my client are you Lieutenant?" asked Ms. Yvette softly..
''He most certainly should not be.. He should be recanvassing the crime scene LIKE I ASKED HIM TO DO DAYS AGO!"said Assistant District Attorney, Petey S.
"YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME! YOU DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!! I'LL KNOCK YOU THE HELL OUT!" snarled Lt, Tragg..
"Artie...Artie!! Cool it! Order something or get out !!" said Sam Mother..
"I'm not hungry anymore...I'll leave.. Sam saved your ass kid...You'd better watch it...JUST WATCH IT!!" he snarled as he stormed out..
"Recanvass that crime scene like I asked you..." said Petey S. without blinking... He said nothing to us..
"Sam ,I'll take a Chicken Salad sandwich, on rye, Mayo ,Lettuce and Tomato and some Ice Tea." said Petey S.
We all sat at the table with Greg.
"Well Hello guys..."said Greg.
''Heyy Greg." said Bee Bee.
"Heyy Greg." said Sofia.
"Pull up some chairs..I'm sitting here sipping this Ice tea and enjoying this AC!" said Greg.
"It is a scorcher today..."I said, wiping my brow..
"Yeah it is.." said Kahlil..
We ordered another pitcher of Ice Tea and six more glasses.
"Does the name Tony Salerno mean anything to you?" asked Jade.
''Yes...He's the Gambler from Atlanta that Erika was on the hook to..." said Greg.
''He's been seen in the Philadelphia area a lot over the past month. He was even at the trials..."said Ms. Yvette.
"My contact at the Justice Department told me that he is persona non grata in Atlanta too...There is an open air contract on him there, so he may still be in the Philadelphia area..Think he may have killed Erika?" asked Jade.
"It's possible...She owed him big time to the tune of nearly three million...You don't owe a man like that for too long and you don't cause him to be on the hook either."said Greg.
"Why kill her? Then she can't pay." said Kahlil.
"He's got a point." said Yvette.
"You'd just have to ask him that!" said Greg.
II-
The Preliminary Hearing into the Murder of Erika Crawley began...
Newly minted Assistant District Attorney Peter "Petey S." Smith argued that Attorney Greg Garland murdered Attorney Erika Garland in a drunken rage...
And produced the weapon, a ballistics match as a people's exhibit...He also produced lurid crime scene photos and Greg Garland's Gin soaked suit as evidence...And brought up the fact that the police found the gun in his hands when they arrived.
Sofia pulled out a 64 inch monitor and showed the judge and jurors..photos of his urinalysis and photos of the now completed autopsy that showed no alcohol of any kind was in Greg Garland's system or Erika Crawleys's system that night.. There was no drunken rage, because neither was drunk.
Bee Bee called several witnesses who testified that Erika Crawley did not drink ever! She brought attention to Greg's head wound...He had been struck by a blunt object from behind...
She called a Doctor to verify that....She produced the police report that showed Greg Garland was unconscious and bleeding from his head wound when the police arrived, yet no blunt object was found...
Kahlil produced neighbors who gave statements to police and Ms. Jade that they heard no noise at all in the apartment until around 11:00 pm...They heard what sounded like two loud pops..
Another neighbor said that she didn't see Mr. Garland until around 11:10, minutes after the pops and he was heading toward the apartment.
I brought up the fact that the gun, even though the registration numbers had been filed off, was found to be registered to an Atlanta underworld figure named Bobby Sykes, now deceased...Thus saying anyone could have planted that gun on our client...and poured gin on him, since the bottle was never found..
Petey S. looked like a fish out of water... Trying vainly to argue that Erika was planning to leave him...Thus proven by the ONE WAY Airline ticket found in the room and the $2500.00 also found and that's why he murdered her..He was madly in love with her to the point of obsession.
To disprove this, Ms. Yvette called Lt. Tragg to the stand.. She asked him two simple questions..
"Lieutenant...where did you discover the Airline ticket and where did you discover the money?
"Uh the money was in an envelope in Mr. Garland's suit jacket as was the Airline ticket." he said.
"Sooooooo he came there with the ticket and the money on him, and we can reasonably assume he was giving that airline ticket and that money to Ms. Crawley, since we know she called him at 3:00 pm, right after the trial let out and they called each other again at 7:30 pm...and he called her at 10:30- 10:45, when she was more than likely in the shower and 11:00, while she was being murdered...correct?" asked Ms. Yvette.
''Yes" admitted Lt. Tragg.
Petey S. put his head in his hands...
"I can't believe this guy....I can't believe him!!!" he said..
''Lieutenant, the police didn't arrive on the scene until 3:34 am...How did you know a homicide had occurred?" asked Yvette.
''Well that's simple, we got an anonymous call." said Lt. Tragg.
Petey S. shook his head..
"This guy is incredibly stupid ." he said.
Yvette smiled her sexiest most seductive smile.
"No further questions...The defense rests." she said.
And at the Federal Building..
Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Dellums is grilling
Atlanta Gambler , Tony Salerno...
"You've confessed to Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, Interstate Gambling, Extortion and conspiracy to commit murder... You've agreed to testify against 39 members of the Capritzi Family in Atlanta in exchange for a short prison sentence and Witness Protection...before the Federal Government agrees to this is there anything else?" asked Todd Dellums.
"Anything Else?" said Tony Salerno.
"YES...Anything else Tony...If they discover anything else after the fact, they can charge you with it and the deal is off...You'll go to prison...Surrounded by guys you helped to put there and they'll be sooo glad to see you...Now is there anything else?" said his Federal Public Defender....
"Yeah , there is.. A murder! I uh killed that lawyer , Erika Crawley...she was into me for four million in gambling debts..." he said,.
Todd Dellums shook his head..
"Okay...you're gonna do 15 years in a federal prison for that...Then upon your release , you'll be entered into witness protection..." sighed Todd.. "Get on the phone... Call Judge Julie Wong in District Court." he said.
III-
"I'm going to adjourn court for two hours...Something has been brought to my attention that I must attend to." said Judge Julie Wong.
We had two hours to kill so we all ordered lunch..
Burgers and Onion rings...and
and Cokes...
''Greg, I'm almost certain this isn't going to trial..I think we have this won right here today." said a jubilant Yvette.
"I think you do too..You made that poor young ADA cry almost..He wasn't ready for you guys...Is he new?" asked Greg.
"Yeah, just passed the bar a couple of months ago...Was previously an investigator for the D.A.'s office." said Sofia.
''Which means he could have investigated this better himself..Why did he rely on Lt. Tragg?" asked Kahlil.
"Because he's in love...He spends most of his nights over at Hayden King's apartment.." said Bee Bee.
"And I'm bettin he's not studying this case..." I said..
"I'm bettin you're right!" laughed Greg.
We all laughed...
Ms. Jade walked in...
"You won't believe this..but my contact over at the Justice department told me that the Feds have this gangster, Tony Salerno in custody... There is an open air contract on him in Atlanta, so he can't go back home...He 's confessed to a number of crimes and cut a deal for 15 years in Federal prison and then the witness protection program...He's giving them the book on 39 organized crime figures...He also confessed to killing Erika Crawley...I'm certain Judge Wong has been called about that..." said Jade.
"YAYYYY!!WE WON THIS!!" said Bee Bee.
"I think we had this won regardless." said Sofia..
"I know right?" said Kahlil..
"Mannnnn what a month this has been." I said.
"Told you we weren't going past today..."said Yvette.
"Yeah, but the Judge found that out an hour ago...She adjourned the court for two hours? What for?"
asked Greg Garland.
Inside the locked Judges Chambers..
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh......OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Pinkney...OUUUUUUUUUUU!" Judge Wong moaned in between kisses..
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH JULIE....YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY..." said former Judge Pinkney Bach.
"YOU DRIVE ME CRAZYYYYY!" cooed Julie Wong...
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu you've got to stop sending me photos of your penis on my phone.. especially when I'm working" she giggled.
"I can't help it... Just thinking about you , gets me that way!!! OHHHHHHHH, just thinking about you made me want to run over here on break."said Pinkney...who couldn't believe how he was behaving ever since he hooked up with Judge Julie Wong.
"You get too excited...look how you're panting and sweating.." cooed Julie Wong...
As they continued kissing passionately in the middle of the floor..
He slipped her panties down and lifted her up..
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Pinkney you are Freshhhh!" she said. "Ummmmmm and so damn BIG!! OUUUUUUUUU!" moaned Julie Wong.
He lifted her up and entered her...
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH , UMMMMMMMMMMMMM PINKNEYYYY!" she moaned... "OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed...
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!" he moaned..
"OUUUUUUUUUUU HOOO HOOOOO..UMMMMMMM YOU ARE ALL UP IN THIS..OUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned..
Pinkney was going to town...thrusting away inside of her...
An HOUR AND A HALF WENT BY
IV-
We had a TWO HOUR and a HALF break....
When Judge Julie Wong appeared she had the most refreshed , serene look on her face...
She said. 'I have spoken to U.S. Attorney Todd Dellums...His prisoner, Tony Salerno has confessed to killing Attorney Erika Crawley...and assaulting the defendent, Gregory Garland....So this matter is closed. Mr. Garland, you are free to go." said Judge Wong.
"Oh My God, thank you Vettie, once again you've pulled my nuts out of the flames." said Greg..
''Yeah, for lack of a better way to say that." said Ms. Yvette.
I cracked up laughing...
"I told you...Told you he confessed..."said Jade.
"Yeah and worked out a deal.. 15 years jail time and Witness Protection afterwards. That's how much a life is worth!" said Bee Bee, shaking her head in disgust..
''He deserves a needle."said Sofia.
"Even though I didn't like her too much, she didn't deserve that." said Kahlil..
"They cut deals like this everyday...You know he's giving them dirt on the Mob...Probably giving up names of the big fish...That's who they really want...They don't care about a small fry like him..Even if he did murder somebody! " I said solemnly.
''Well look at it this way..You didn't lose...New Evidence surfaced..It Happens." said Hayden, tryin g to sooth her boyfriend's bruised ego.
"If certain people DID THEIR JOBS AND WEREN'T SO QUICK TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS AND ARREST THE WRONG PERSON, WE MIGHT NOT EVEN BE HERE!" said Petey S. loud enough for us all to hear it.
''YEAH? , YEAH?? WELL IF A CERTAIN PERSON DID HIS JOB MORE , RATHER THAN JUMPING INTO SOMEBODY'S BED EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY , THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN BETTER PREPARED." snarled Lt. Tragg angrilly.
"Ignore him Petey...Come on, he's just jealous." said Hayden
taking Petey by the hand and leading him away..
"That's right..run away...Go on with your girlfriend...Whipped Cream!!!" snarled Lt. Tragg.
"WOW!! What was that?" I said.
''Jealousy" said Bee Bee
"The Power of the Pan-TAYS!" said Sofia...
Kahlil and Jade cracked up laughing...
"Is that dumb ass Keystone Cop sweet on her? At least he has good tastes in women." said Greg Garland..
"At least!" said Yvette as they both cracked up laughing..
HOURS LATER AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS BUILDING....
Greg Garland looked at the remains of Erika Crawley...
"That's her...Probably not the way you would want to remember her." said Dr. Hazel Baylor.
"No, but I had to see her one last time before I left town... I heard her father has claimed the body and is planning on giving her a big funeral....I don't plan to be there." said Greg.
''Where are you going Mr. Garland.?" asked Hazel.
''Somewhere where the beer flows long and cold and I don't know the names of the players..Goodbye Hazel, thank you for your kindness." said Greg as he left.
EPILOUGE-
SATURDAY MORNING- 7:30 am
A Hot Saturday Morning at Sam Mother's Diner and the place was packed.. Dabnis, Jazzy, Kayla, Ray, Jessica and Chip were seated at one long table..
We were the last ones to enter...
"Hey Guys, you better get in here and get a table before we eat all this good food up." said Dabnis.
''He means before HE eats all of this food up...How are you guys doing?" said Jazzy..
"Hey Ms Vette,Gary Keith, Bee Bee, Sofia, Kahlil and Jade..." said Kayla.
"Hey Family!" said Gary..
"Hola Guys." said Jessica.
"Like he said...This food is going." laughed Chip..
And all types of food was on it..
Right next to them was another long table. Olivia, Donnie Ray, Beverly, Nelson, Josie, Paris, Bree and Tony were all sitting together...The same orders were on their table..
''Vettie pull that long table up , so we can all eat together." said Olivia.
"I guess none of us felt like cooking this morning." said Donnie Ray..
"I'm glad we are all here..Let's hope you know who is sleeping off a hang over and we can eat in peace."said Beverly..
" Don't mention his name."said Nelson.
"Please." said Josie..
"Hey guys" said Paris.
"Hi Ms. Vettie, guys..."said Bresha..
"Let me help you pull up that table." said Tony...
"Thank You Tony!" said Yvette...
"Thanks man.."said Gary...
"I'm starved...Let's order" I said.
"Well Hot stuff, you're consistant..You're either Hungry or Horny." said Bee Bee, laughing.
''Same here with this one." laughed Sofia.
"Let's order."said Kahlil.
"If we are lucky, we can order eat and be on the buses before you know who gets here." said Jade.
"If we are really lucky , he won't be in here at all." said Danny Ho.
We ordered a lot of food too and began eating...
We all had a week off and decided to go to the Maryland Harbor.
We had booked an entire floor in a hotel there..
... Our bags were packed on the two buses that were going to take us down there and bring us all back...
We were able to finish our meals and pay our bills without interruption...
We couldn't however miss him, Lt. Tragg, coming in and looking hung over and he couldn't miss an opportunity to jeer at "his favorite people"
"Well look at this, a lawyers convention." he sneered.
"Take one last look at us Lieutenant....We will be away for a week..We are going on vacation." said Jade.
"Oh really and where might that be?" he asked.
"That's confidential." said Beverly..
As we all got up almost on cue and began leaving..
The two buses pulled up and all of us piled on...He looked as our buses pulled off..
"Well How do you like that?" he said as he watched the buses pull off into the sun....
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