This Game That You're Playing

 

 

 

KEITH JONES-

Born in Philadelphia PA. 

Mother, Nancy Jones, Court Stenographer

Father, Judge Keith Morrison

Graduated from West Catholic High School

B.A. Administration of Justice, Trial Advocacy, Pre Law- Howard University

J.D.- University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fluent in Spanish, French, German

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Deleware ,New York, Texas, California

Associate Attorney- McCluskey/Cozen/Connor/Pratt

Married to Beatrice Evans

BEATRICE LYNN EVANS -JONES

Born in Philadelphia PA.

Graduated from Philadelphia High School For Girls

B.A. -Administration of Justice, Trial Advocacy ,Pre Law- Temple University

J.D.-University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fluent in Spanish and French

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Deleware, Texas, California

Associate Attorney- McCluskey /Cozen/Connor and Pratt

Married to Keith Jones

SOFIA CARMELITA GARCIA-AHMED

Born in Philadelphia PA.

Graduated from Philadelphia High School For Girls

B.A. -Administration Of Justice, Trial Advocacy, Pre Law-Temple University

J.D.-University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fluent in Spanish and French

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Deleware and New York, Texas, California

Associate Attorney -McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt

Married to Kahlil Ahmed...

KAHLIL ABDUL AHMED

Born in Philadelphia PA.

Graduated from Central High School

BA.- Administration of Justice, Trial Advocacy, Pre Law- Temple University

JD- University of Pennsylvania Law School

Speaks Arabic languages fluently, fluent in German and Russian.

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Deleware and New York, Texas, California

Associate Attorney-McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt

Married to Sofia Garcia

YVETTE DENISE JONES-LOCKWOOD

Born in Philadelphia PA.

Graduated from North Catholic High School

BA-Trial Advocacy, Pre Law, Administration of Justice -Lasalle University

JD -University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fluent in Spanish, French and Russian

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Deleware , New York, Texas, California.

Senior Associate Attorney-McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt

Managing Partner- McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt

Married to District Attorney Investigator-Gary Lockwood

THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANITA SCOTT

ADA Scott was on her laptop looking us up..She liked to know who she was working with...

She was three years older than Myself, Bee Bee, Sofia, Kahlil and had an almost identical history...

"They're good...They're all from PENN, like me.....To be so young and relatively new to the game, they are very polished... Mrs. Yvette Jones-Lockwood has trained and mentored them very well." she thought to herself..

In our conference room Ms. Yvette was looking her up too..

sipping her coffee and on her laptop.

ANITA CHERYL SCOTT-

Born in Philadelphia PA.

Graduated from Philadelphia High School For Girls

B.A. -Administration of Justice, Trial Advocacy ,Pre Law- Temple University

J.D.-University of Pennsylvania Law School

Fluent in Spanish and French

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Deleware, Texas, California

Clerked for Judge Carter Baum..

Associate Attorney at Bason, Cox and Dunn, Philadelphia PA

Associate Attorney at  Johnson and Keegab, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Assistant District Attorney-Philadelphia D.A.'s Office

"Wow,.her resume almost reads like you two."laughed Yvette.

"Yeah almost...Same High School, She graduated three years before us..."said Bee Bee.

''Same College for Undergrad.. and like all of us...she's a PENN graduate.." said Sofia....

"Our Client, Mitchell Foster attended Central High around the same time when she was in Girls High..

and he also attended Temple University , same time she was there and wait for it... He got his Masters from....The University of Pennsylvania.." I said.. "Jade and I looked it up " I added..

Jade smiled.."He's coming right along as an investigator.." she said, smiling..

"He went to Central, She went to Girls High....They both went to Temple and they both went to PENN..Their paths had to cross.. They had to know each other." said Kahlil.. "Just like I knew Bee and Sofia prior to our graduating and hooking up again in Temple and Penn." said Kahlil.

"It's probable and likely, but their paths didn't necessarily have to cross...butttt I'm going with the notion that their paths did cross...and not just happenstance...I think they were lovers."said Ms. Yvette. 

"We might want to ask him when he calls us this morning.."said Jade..

THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANITA SCOTT

Anita replayed what had happened last night over and over in her mind..

The doorbell to her townhouse rang...It was afternoon... She was off from work, just getting home and trying to decide if she should cook dinner or order take out..

"What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here" exclaimed ADA Anita Scott...

"I'm doing a lot of things I'm not supposed to be doing lately..." said Mitchell..staring deeply into her eyes...

It had been seven years, seven long years since she broke their engagement...He never dreamed he'd be seeing her again under these circumstances...

They kissed passionately...She took her foot and kicked the door shut...

They fell up against the wall and continued kissing...

She was crossing all kinds of lines here...She could lose her job behind this, even get censured...At the moment, she didn't care...

'OHHHHHH I've missed you soooooo much...." he moaned.

"I've Missed you toooo, OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she moaned as his big hands squeezed her buttocks and slowly removed her panties, sliding them down her legs...

She eagerly stepped out of them...

He lifted her up and slowly entered her..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...OH MAH GODDDDDDDD!!! OHHHHHHHHHHH
I FORGOT!!! UMMMMMMMMM I FORGOT HOW BIG AND HARD YOU ARE.....OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YOU ARE ALL UP IN THIS!!! UMMMMMMM!"  she cooed loudly...

He lifted her petite body up and placed her on her kitchen sink, spread her legs apart and entered her again...

"MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LAWWWWWWWDDDD OUUUUUUUUUU MITCHELLL, UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" she moaned loudly..

He soon had her bent over the kitchen sink entering her doggie style..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YOU ALWAYS DID LIKE MY BUTT!" she cried out..

"I STILL DO....I SAW YOU IN   COURT TODAY...THAT DRESS WAS FITTIN YOU NICELY!" he said.

"THANK YOU !" she said..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ANITA!!" he moaned..

"MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LAWWWWWWWDDDD OUUUUUUUUUU MITCHELLL, UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" she moaned loudly..

They stopped, They kissed some more.. She picked up her clothing and her underwear off the floor..

"Let's take this to the bedroom upstairs...We'd be more comfortable." she whispered, rubbing her index finger across his lips..

He picked up his clothes and followed her upstairs to her bedroom..

On the side of the bed , she moved up and down on him......driving him to near delirium...

They made slow, smouldering love in her nice comfortable warm bed...for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS!! And it was good... She hadn't had sex in a year and a half ,since her last relationship busted up..She was good and ready for tonight..

She had an intense orgasm, the likes she had never had before. He came so hard, He felt as if he was dying!

She lie on top of him with his arms around her waist....Trying to catch her breath....

"You know you can't stay here...You can't be seen here.." she whispered..

"I know....I-I just had to see you again...It's been a long time... I know you got a job to do...So do your thing... My lawyers are good...I'll be alright." he said softly...

"I know they're good...I saw how they performed in the preliminaries...Good luck to you Mitchell, this isn't personal...you know that?" she said.

"I know that!" he whispered 

He took a hot shower ,dressed and left..

If it got out she had slept with him last night...She could be censured...She surely would be fired on the spot...Did he do this to get some kind of leverage over her??He had never been mean spirited or spiteful before...And his lawyers all seemed like good decent people who wouldn't resort to dirty tricks like that...

Was he just horny and needed a quick release?? He was definitely horny...but she knew in her heart, the emotions that both of them displayed last night..was real, very real...The question was...How long could she do this?? She couldn't send him to prison for life or possibly to death row...She couldn't...and yet..She had a job to do.. She had to be professional and do her job!!!

II-

We sat around the table in our conference room.. My wife, Bee Bee, Myself, Kahlil and Sofia, Ms. Jade and Ms. Yvette.

"The Good News Mitchell is that your gun passed a ballistics test...It's not the gun used in the murder....You don't own any other guns do you?" asked Yvette.

''Absolutely not..and I haven't fired that gun in over a year."said Mitchell.

"I need to know where you were the night of the murder and any purchases you made that can be verified by credit or debit card...." said Yvette.

"I was in the No I.D. Bar until around Midnight... It was a Thursday Night.. I remember.. 

I was alone.. but I saw some of your friends there and they saw me.. They waved...

That Jazzy girl and her husband..

That girl named Kayla and her husband...And they were with others , who I did not know.

(It was Beverly, Nelson, Josie,Paris ,Bresha and Tony....Yvette knew that...but he didn't!)

..Oh yeah that girl, uh Natalie that I met today...She was there and she and that other attorney...I think he's her man, They saw me...We all left around midnight..

They all piled into a mini bus... I thought that was peculiar...but I said..At least they don't have to worry about getting a DUI.... Me? I was lit like a Christmas tree. I was driving real slow, trying not to attract the cops attention." he remarked..

''What did you do afterwords..?" asked Yvette.

"I gassed up my ride at around 1:00 AM...from a gas station miles away from that lovers lane where they say the shooting took place.. Look I haven't even seen that clown in two weeks before this happened." he said.

"Then I went to that Diner... by Stoleys...They know me in there...You can check it out.. I went in and I ate a late meal, charged it to my credit card and then I left around 2:35 AM...After that..I went home, alone and was there until the next morning when the damn cops kicked my door in and arrested me..That's the honest to god truth Vettie." said Mitchell.

"Okay, we have an established alibi...we are going to check it out...Now...There is something I have to ask you....Something we all want to know....Do you and ADA Scott have prior history?? You both went to the same High School, Same College for Undergrad...and Same University for Grad studies?" said Ms. Yvette.

"Throw in the same Middle school and Elementary school and you got it!  Yes..We were engaged to be married once.. We broke up seven years ago...Yesterday in court was the first time I'd seen her in seven years..." he admitted.

"So you guys are not uh?" asked Ms. Yvette.

'No, Not at all...She's trying to put me away for life.. That should tell you all you need to know." he said.

"I guess it does." said Ms. Yvette.  "That's all we need for right now...We'll talk to you in maybe a few days...Get some rest...Keep a low profile.."said Yvette.

"I will and thank you again Vettie, for everything."said Mitchell.

A FEW HOURS LATER-

" Everything he said checked out Yvette.....He was in No I.D. Bar from 6:30- Midnight  just like he said...and Jazzy, Dabnis, Kayla, Ray, Beverly, Nelson, Josie, Paris, Bresha, Tony, Natalie and David have confirmed he was there.... His Credit Cards and Debit cards confirm it and he was getting gas, miles away and eating at that diner until 2:35 AM....just like he said."said Jade...

"Okay...the murder occurred at 3:10 AM.....He claims to be headed home and to have stayed there until his door was kicked in ,in the morning.We have to cover at least 40 minutes."said Yvette.

In a car , the only way he could have made it from that diner, to that lovers lane in time to do all that...

He would have had to have made every stop light and still really had to floor it...I just don't see it Ms. Yvette."said Bee Bee.

"Kahlil and I drove it at lunch time today...We couldn't make the distance in that time frame."

"First off like Bee said...you would have had to have made every traffic light..Today naturally, there was a lot of traffic..It took us 55 minutes...but even at night, with no traffic...You gotta make every light and even then..it's going to take some time...and how would he know exactly where the car was?" asked Kahlil..

''We know the gun registered to him is NOT the murder weapon." I said.

"Okay , Good! Good! We have the beginnings of a solid defense..." said Yvette.

Jade showed us the crime scene photos and a preliminary autopsy report..

"There is semen on the floor and as you can see, the victim had on ,only his boxers..."said Jade.

"That means he was there with someone...A Girl!!!" said Kahlil.

"Apparently this mystery woman was nowhere to be found..Do the police have her prints?" asked Bee Bee.

"No...but they have a bra and a pair of panties found under the seat....They've taken DNA off of the articles, but they have no leads on his mystery partner...He was calling someone, Brenda Carter...That's the young lady both he and Mitchell Foster were beefing over...So It couldn't have been her."said Jade.

"I'm going to do some more digging...Find out where this young man was that night." said Jade.

"Good...Good, we're on a good track." said Yvette.

"Is Lt. Tragg looking into any of this?" asked an exasperated Sofia.

''Probably Not.. but he will be on TV tonight...You might want to watch." I joked.

Lt. Tragg was at this moment addressing a presser...

"Apparently the murder was the culmination of a long series of altercations, on social media and verbally by the two men... Both men were romantically involved with the same young lady and after a night of drinking....Mr. Foster apparently followed Mr. Jordan to the lovers lane and executed him...ending their long feud... I looked into the cold , angry eyes of Mr. Mitchell when I arrested him..." he declared.

"Ohhhhhh I wish he'd shut up.....Nothing he said has any basis in fact."said Yvette, watching his press conference at home on Television.

"I'm no lawyer...but a tape recording of that quote can be an argument for your client not being able to get a fair trial..." remarked Gary.....

"Ouuuuuuu you're actually right....Ummmmmmmmm you are so smart." said Yvette...

She put her arms around Gary's neck and kissed him passionately....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" moaned Gary..

Slipping her panties down.....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UMMMMMMMMMMM MEOWWWWWWWW!| cooed Yvette.

and slowly, gently taking her into his arms and entering her....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HUSBANDDDDD!" she moaned.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VETTTTIE!!! OUUUUUUUUUU YOU ARE MY SWEET GIRRRRl!" moaned Gary

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned as they began making sweet love....

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, HUSBAND!" she cooed.

FOR THE NEXT EIGHT TO NINE HOURS, Yvette rewarded her husband immensely for his idea.

III-

THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ANITA SCOTT-

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? HUH? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE AND MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE CASE THAT YOU CAN'T VERIFY YET!!!! YOU HAVE NO MURDER WEAPON, YOU CAN'T FIND THIS GIRL, BRENDA CARTER,WHO THEY WERE SUPPOSEDLY BEEFING OVER AND YOU CAN'T FIND THE MYSTERY WOMAN MR. JORDAN WAS WITH!!! THIS CASE HAS A LOT OF HOLES, A LOT OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS...YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS CALLING ANY KIND OF PRESS CONFERENCE TALKING ABOUT THIS CASE AT ALL!" shouted ADA Scott, she was incensed at Lt. Tragg for calling a press conference and for talking to the particulars of the case...

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet...He didn't like being dressed down by a woman, a Black woman at that...and for something he felt was harmless...He was livid...So livid, his body was shaking..

"Artie you are sabotaging the case...Find the gun...the murder weapon, find Brenda Carter, find the mystery girl who obviously was with him and who may not be attached to the panties and bra found under the seat...Do you know where this guy was before he picked up whoever???... and do you know enough about the whereabouts of the defendent???...Sounds to me like you've once again brought in an incomplete case."said ADA James "Jumpshot  Jim"Taylor..

"Sounds to me like you should mind your own business and butt out counselor...I work my side of the street and you lawyers work your side of the street.." snarled Lt. Tragg, who turned and angrily slammed the door so hard..some of the glass cracked..

"Oh My God!  What an asshole!" said Anita Scott....

'' He's leaving us wide open for a counter suit from Yvette and company...They can argue and they'd be right that her client can't get a fair trial with Lt. Tragg's inflammatory statements...They could argue for a change of venue.. Call The Deputy of Operations, Philadelphia Police Department."said Jumpshot Jim, writing down a number..."Hell put a stop to Lt. Tragg's press conferences.." he said.

"Thank you J.J. Will do." said Anita Scott.

"Don't mention it babe." he said, leaving her office.

She wasn't going to call the Deputy of Operations,,,She was going to let Lt. Tragg sabotage this case. She hoped Yvette and company did initiate a suit or argue for a change of venue. That way, Mitchell's fate would not be in her hands...

She was playing a dangerous game here and she knew it!

Yvette wasted no time..She filed a suit in Court claiming that her client was denied a fair trail due to Lt. Tragg's over the top Press Conference and she was demanding a change of venue...

She appeared in court with myself, Bee Bee,Sofia, Kahlil, Jade and our client, Mitchell...

She showed the video of his most recent performance and stated that it was on the news and the entire city saw it..

She asked how would they pick jurors who had already seen it ?

Lt. Tragg was not at the hearing, but ADA Anita Scott was..

She surprisingly said nothing...

We weren't arguing in front of our trial judge, Judge Reynolds... but another Judge,

Judge Alan Craft....

He read our brief and he watched the video.... Then he ruled..

"Mrs. Jones-Lockwood..You have made a lot of good points... a lot of valid points.. but I'm going to deny your petition for change of venue right now...You are free to reapply and appeal.. But what I am going to do is make sure Lt. Tragg is silenced..I don't happen to like his bombastic Press conferences before trials either....I'm going to call his Captain and The Deputy Of Operations... I guarantee you , he won't be on TV anytime soon." he said.

"Jade... I didn't expect to win this appeal...I just wanted to light a fire up under Lt. Tragg, which I did...

but I expected a fight out of ADA Anita Scott...We were prepared...It might be me... but I could swear she actually wanted us to succeed..." said Ms. Yvette.

"I got that feeling too! Like she wanted this whole thing out of her lap."said Jade.

''Why doesn't she just recuse herself?" asked Sofia.

"That's a good question...." said Ms. Yvette.

IV-

CURLEYS BAR!

Assistant District Attorney Anita Scott sat by herself...

She downed three Martini's....She had a slight buzz.. She was in a precarious position... A man she had known and loved her entire life...A Man she lost her virginity to, who took her on her prom..Who had attended every school she had gone to from elementary school, through middle school, not high school, but college and grad school, who she thought she might marry was on trial for his life, for first degree murder...She was prosecuting him....A Conviction would send him away for the rest of his life or he could be sentenced to die.  This was in her lap.. She didn't want that hanging over her head and to make matters worse...She didn't think he was actually guilty... She had wanted Yvette and her associates to win today... She had wanted them to get a change of venue, which is why she didn't fight it..She was as surprised as they must have been that they didn't get it... 

They had a good argument.. Mitchell "Pop Tart" Foster is the most famous Rapper, D.J./Producer in the area...Everybody had heard about his beef with rapper, YOUNG BOY NEVER GONNA BE BROKE AGAIN and everybody knew  that the beef was boiling over to the breaking point... His arrest made national news...It would be hard to find a Philadelphian ,white or black who hadn't heard about it, especially after their loud altercation at the I HEART Music awards or at MS PANTIES Preliminary pageant the week before.. Even she doubted he could get a fair trial and yet here it was...

She could recuse herself...She didn't know why she wouldn't... She had never recused herself from a trial before.. She had prosecuted a distant cousin of hers, sent him to prison for a Robbery/Homicide.. She figured if she could send a relative, what was an ex-fiance..one of seven years before?

Yvette didn't come in here alone anymore...or even with one girlfriend, Liv...Remembering how as young lawyers , her and Liv came in here on Wednesday nights, when they had two for ones.

She came with her whole posse now...Everybody from her block...and with the assurance that Olivia's buses would pick them up and take them home.. There was safety in numbers.....but tonight was different... She was taking a chance that she could talk to Anita before Lt. Tragg wandered in or maybe , maybe he wouldn't wander in...

Her four hard working assistants were out at AQUA BAR, having fun tonight... They had earned it , she thought and smiled..

They all were in Aqua Bar tonight...even Jade and Danny and Virginia and Jetty.... Danny and Jetty were sitting at the bar watching them all dance..

They were joined by the rest of the gang... Olivia's niece, Beverly, her husband, Nelson, Josie, her husband, Paris, Bresha, her husband, Tony, Jazzy, her husband, Dabnis, Kayla, her husband, Ray, Jessica, her husband, Chip and our new friends, Brookie, her husband, Sean and Natalie, her fiance, David Charles.. They were all dancing...

But Ms. Yvette was in Curley's tonight, alone...without the protection of friends..

"Hello Anita." said Yvette..

"Hello Mrs. Jones-Lockwood, or can I call you Yvette?" asked Anita.

"You can call me Yvette...." said Ms. Yvette.  "My friends call me Vettie...Despite our unenviable predicament...It is my hope that you and I could be friends....After this is over of course!" she said.

''We could be friends now...I don't see why not.. We both graduated from PENN LAW...You were a few years before me...and I'm a few years before your young protoge's, who I have to tell you...You did an excellent job with...They are all fine young lawyers....I was very impressed with their professionalism, their knowledge and mostly their poise...all four of them. You must be very proud of them." said Anita, smiling.

"I am and I'm very impressed with you too, Sister....That's why I'm wondering why you would risk your career with this game that you're playing... I know that you love my client...that you've never stopped loving my client and that he loves you too...Not by what he told me, but by what he didn't tell me.. I asked him if you two had history... He told me he 's known you all his life, that you two were engaged and that you broke up seven years ago and that it ended there...He wouldn't discuss anymore..but I knew ,just by the cold way he interrupted my inquiry that there was more.. That there was so much pent up emotion in what he was saying...That he still has feelings for you... I knew when you didn't fight me in court yesterday that you want this out of your lap...I know you're a tough cookie.. You have a reputation... Never lost a case to date...Sent your distant cousin to prison for a robbery/homicide..but this is different..This is love...You love him, you can't bring yourself to go through with this..and maybe, just maybe, you don't believe he is actually guilty...Knowing the man behind the public image like you do." said Yvette.

''Did he tell you he stopped by my house a few nights ago and spent the night with me? " she asked.,

Anita could tell by the shocked look on Yvette's face, that he hadn't told her that..

"WHAT?" said a shocked Yvette.

"My Mother used to always tell me I talked too much....Guess that's why I became an Attorney... Yes..He stopped by...The same day you guys arraigned him and got him released on bail....I should have closed the door and told him to go away....but girrrrrrl, it had been a year and a half since I'd had any... I eat alone most nights..I order take out and I sit in my bedroom alone in my panties and my bra listening to Jill Scott and Robert Glasper....reading legal briefs or novels until I'm sleepy... I was ready...I needed it...and he gave it to me....oh my god...he gave it to me...." said Anita.

"Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl, What you sayyyyy?  That was me before I got involved with my husband and before I hand picked those kids straight out of Law School and began mentoring them...I knowwwww... I knowwwwwww. I've been there!!!" said Yvette.  She then turned serious... "So what are we going to do Anita?" she asked.  

''All I ever wanted to be was an Attorney.. I worked hard to get here...I'm not going to throw it away...When you read the papers tomorrow.. It will be on the front page... I not only recused myself from the case....I turned in my resignation to the D.A.'s office... I was growing tired of sending people to jail anyway..." she sighed and finished her third drink... "Can I buy you a drink?" she asked.

"Oh No...Noooooo.....Oh My....Well uh , what will you do now?" asked Yvette.

"I'm a good Attorney if I don't say so myself.. I have a sterling resume... Gil said he understood and though he hated to lose me.. He said He'd give me an excellent  reccomendation....I'll find something..Thank you for asking." said Anita.

"I'm a Partner at McCluskey/Cozen/Connor and Pratt.  My voice holds a lot of weight... Here is our card... This is our main office, where I used to work...I am at the Bridge Building now..Me and my staff... 4 Attorneys  an Investigator and an Office manager.. But we still have offices in the main building and in Cherry  Hill... You go to this address, you ask for Michael Pratt...He's also a Partner and my closest friend of all the partners... Tell him I recommended you for hire.. You check off two boxes..You're Black and you're a woman..." said Yvette.  "They're trying to diversify." she whispered and winked.

"Thank You Yvette... I see you have a diverse team... 

Black Male, Black female

, Latina Female,

 Arab Male

, Asian Investigator...Did I miss anything?" She laughed..

"No...you didn't... You just about got it. We'll get around to hiring an LGBTQ person sooner or later if there isn't already one there." laughed Yvette.

"You never know....Everybody isn't out of the closet yet!" laughed Anita.

"I know right?" said Yvette/

Both women howled with laughter...

"Vettie I am soooo glad we had this talk...and thank you for the information... Whooooooo, I am done tonight...You sure I can't buy you a drink?" asked Anita.

''No, I'm not drinking tonight... Hey How are you getting home?" asked Yvette.

"I'm calling an Uber...That's how I've been getting around now of days.. My car is in the shop."said Anita,

"If you don't mind waiting...My Husband is meeting me down here... He'll drop you off whereever you want to go." said Yvette.

Lt. Tragg walked into the bar.. He was astounded seeing ADA Anita Scott and Yvette Jones not only talking, but laughing like old friends...He shook his head.. He just couldn't understand it.. When he started out, Defense Attorneys and ADA's were mortal enemies.. He sauntered over to the table uninvited as usual...

"WELL YVETTE!!!! YOU'VE DONE IT!!!!  YOUR ARGUING FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE GOT ME IN HOT WATER WITH THE DEPUTY OF OPERATIONS!!!! I'VE BEEN BANNED FROM SPEAKING TO THE PRESS UNTIL THE TRIAL IS OVER!"he snarled.

"They denied my motion....I didn't say anything to your Deputy of Operations." said Yvette.

Lt. Tragg knew that Yvette was not a liar.... He then angrily turned to ADA Anita Scott.

"PLEASE TELL ME YOU DIDN'T CALL THE DEPUTY Of OPERATIONS...We are supposed to be on the same team here." he asked.

"No I didn't call the Deputy of Operations.And I'm not on the team anymore..I recused myself from the case this morning and I turned in my resignation from the D.A.'s office.. I am off the case..." said Anita Scott.... "It was Judge Crass who called Captain Cantrell and The Deputy of Operations...He wanted you thrown off the case completely but the Deputy of Operations wouldn't do that..." said Anita Scott.

"I never liked that damn Judge Crass anyway....Well Yvette....Looks like you're stuck here in Philly with your case...And it looks like you'll be dealing with another ADA...somebody tougher, who can handle the pressure of a high profile case." he said, getting a dig in at former ADA Anita Scott.

Yvette's husband Gary walked in the bar.. He easily found her... 

''Anita, this is my husband, Gary Lockwood, He's an Investigator for the D.A.'s Office." she gushed.

Gary hadn't seen her since she left the house this morning...He scooped her up in his arms and kissed her passionately....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she cooed....

"Oh...Uh...As I was saying.."said Yvette, embarrassed that she was momentarily aroused and sweating a little.

"I know Gary....He's an Investigator for the D.A.'s Office...I didn't know he was your husband, but I should have put it together... Yvette Jones-Lockwood... Gary Lockwood." she laughed..

"Gary can we give Anita a ride home tonight?" asked Yvette..

"Sure , come on! The Car is outside... Good Night Lieutenant!"said Gary as the three left the bar..

Lt. Tragg stood there balefully staring  as they exited the bar...

It was a nice unseasonably warm night in mid winter.

(TO BE CONTINUED)