A Little Fish in A Big Pond.

 

 

 

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

Senior 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

Senior Associate Attorney-McCluskey/Cozen/Connor/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

Senior Associate Attorney-McCluskey/Cozen/Connor/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

Senior Associate Attorney-McCluskey/Cozen/Connor/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

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leroy Brown was looking at dossiers on us he had googled on his flight to Philadelphia from Houston.... He had heard we had won an extradition fight and immediately took a flight to Philadelphia.....

"Ummmph Ummmph Ummmph, This Yvette Jones -Lockwood, the lead attorney is some kind of fine...

I'm going to have to really turn on the charm...lawwwd jesus.." he thought to himself.  He had called and asked for a continuance....The Judge had granted him a two day continuance...

And now he was on his way to Philadelphia......

Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Dellums met him at the airport....They had worked together before many years ago when Todd was in Houston.

"Hello Leroy, Welcome to Philly." said Todd...

"Heyyyy man, how you doin? Hey what happened to your eye? Who gave you that shiner?   You were brawlin in a bar? YOU?" laughed Leroy Brown....

"No...it happened during an arrest...Some Dumb ass Philadelphia cop tried to take jurisdiction from one of my FBI agents...I had to step in." said Todd..

"Well I hope you represented..."laughed Julius...tickled at the thought of Suave Conservative HARRRRVARD educated Todd Dellums fighting anybody....

"He just got out of jail two days ago, where he sat for a week...I cuffed him and locked him up.,"said Todd...

"My Mannn,heh heh heh!"laughed Leroy Brown...

Ms. Virginia and Ms. Jade brought hot steaming tumblers of coffee to us in the conference room...

"Ouuuu thank you Ms. Jade..."said Bee Bee as she took her coffee..

"Ouuuuuuu thank you Ms. Virginia." said Sofia, taking her coffee...

"It was nice , us getting a continuance...It gave us more time to prepare an argument." I said.

"Yeah but poor Brenda is spending more time in jail," said Kahlil...

"They've called in some AUSA from Houston to prosecute this case...Here he is..." said Ms. Yvette, who turned her laptop towards us..

Leroy Merwyn Brown

Born in Monroe, Louisiana...

Educated in Monroe Public Schools..

BA-Trial Advocacy, Pre Law, Administration of Justice -Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

JD- Southern University Law Center

Associate Attorney, Proctor/Gamble/Britton and Rose Attorneys at law, New Orleans.

when the firm shut down , he and 18 other attorneys joined the firm of Butler and Mayfield Attorneys at law as Associate Attorneys, also in New Orleans.

Assistant District Attorney, New Orleans...

Moved to Houston, Texas... 

Assistant District Attorney, Harris County (Houston) Texas...

Assistant United States Attorney, Southern Texas Region.

"He appears to be quite accomplished...."I'm supposed to meet with him sometime today."said Yvette..

"OUUUUUUUUUUU MS. YVETTE!  You be killin em before they even meet you.."laughed Bee Bee.

"Should Gary be worried?" joked Sofia.

"Trust and believe , Gary has absolutely NOTHING to worry about...He treats me VERY WELL..VERY WELL!" emphasized Yvette..

"Ummmmmmmm, UMMMMPH and she put a n emphasis on "VERY WELL", so you know what that means." joked Ms. Virginia...

"I heard that!"laughed Bee Bee...

"YESSSSSSSSS!" agreed Sofia.

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" cooed Ms. Jade,laughing..

Bee Bee , Sofia and Jade all laughed and looked at each other in that conspiratorial look that women give each other.

"You know...I feel like I'm missing the joke." I said.

"Yeah man, I know what you mean."said Kahlil, smiling.

II-

This man, Leroy Brown was something else....He called her and told her where to meet him... Usually there was a middle man to make the introductions....She thought Todd would at least be there....

She suddenly felt self conscious with this mini skirt on....She only wore this dress because Gary begged her to...He loved it...Said it turned him on...It turned on a lot of men. As she walked into the rooftop bar ,mens heads were turning...Black and White...

Leroy saw her and smiled and motioned her over to his table..

"Lawwwd Jesus...Look at those big shapely legs and those breasts...MYYYYYYYYY WORDDDD,

I think I'm in love..." he said to himself...

"Ms. Lockwood?" he said.

"MRS. JONES-LOCKWOOD....I'm married." she said....

He saw her wedding bands...

"Oh I see....My bad!" he said... "LAWD THIS WOMAN'S HUSBAND IS A LUCKY MAN!" he thought.

''What are you drinking?" he asked..

"Citris Martini"said Ms. Yvette.

Their drinks came up....

"Yvette You guys are good..We and by we, I mean the Federal Government almost never lose an extradition case and yet we did...Which means you guys were super prepared..and it also means that there was a personal reason behind this.." said Leroy Brown.....

"Brenda Cherry is a Philadelphia Native as I'm sure you know....What you don't know is that we are close friends....been close friends since 8th or 9th grade...The last time I saw her in person was right after I passed the bar...She moved to Houston, but we kept in contact through post cards....Then she called me and told me she was here and with her fiance..."said Yvette.

"Uh Huh! She sold you a bill of goods....Her "Fiance", the late Mr. Dakota Jefferson was married and has two kids...two teenagers I believe...He and his wife were seperated....for about a year I believe...but he was still legally married until the day of his unfortunate murder..... Now I know your girlfriend didn't murder him....I believe that was the handiwork of our number one suspect, Charles "Sonny" Brown, who we are watching back in Houston....but we got her for embezzlement." he said, rubbing Yvette's legs and slyly slipping his hands up her skirt....

"No you don't...and you know it..." said Yvette, who smiled and politely removed his hands......

"I find you extremely attractive.....If you are uh nice to me...I could make all of this go away....Your client is really a little fish in a big pond..." he whispered.. He again slid his hands on her legs and up her skirt and squeezed her butt

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM" he moaned.. 

She again removed his hands..

"You know you're all kinds of wrong right now don't you??....I told you I'm married." said Yvette, who could see the massive erection he had in his trousers..."And even if I wasn't...This smacks of impropriety and I don't play that.." said Yvette in all seriousness.

"And I'm very discreet, VERY DISCREET.....Share an afternoon with me in my hotel...I'll make it worth your while..I promise...No one will have to know....and I'll make this all go away...I swear...Brenda Cherry is NOT important, like I said...She's a Little Fish in a big pond baby...I'd like to put my BIG fish in YOUR POND....UMMMMMMM" he said, almost pleading...

Yvette removed his hands from off of her legs and from under her skirt....

"Nah, I'll take my chances with trial...I'm going to pretend this conversation never happened.." she said and got up, dropped a couple of dollars on the table...

''See you in court counselor.." she said and smiled and walked out..

"Damn that's a sexy woman." he thought as he watched Yvette walk away..

The afternoon was still young!  She called Gary....Asked if he could come home early....Gary knew what that meant.

A few hours later at her home...

Her husband Gary arrived at home.....Yvette was already there...

"Welllllll anything interesting happen today??/" he asked ,smiling wryly and checking her out..

"I met with a U.S. Attorney from Houston who will be prosecuting our case...He propositioned me..."said Yvette.

"Yeah? So what did you say?" asked Gary, smiling wickedly and staring at her in the dress..

"I'm here, aren't I?   I wore this dress only because you begged me to....It's way too short and it gets me in trouble..."said Yvette.

"It turns me on, I know that much.....Damnnn girrrrrl..You about to get in trouble with me..." said Gary still smiling and pulling Yvette toward him...

They kissed passionately.....

"I'm always in trouble with you..." she whispered...

"A good kinda trouble.." he said.

"Yes.." she said..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VETTIE....THANK YOU , THANK YOU FOR WEARING THIS DRESS...I'VE ALWAYS LOVED IT!!!!" said Gary.

"YOU'RE WELCOME!! THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU....UMMMMMMMM, OH MY GODDD, YOU'RE SO ERECT, SO HARD....OUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Yvette moaned..

"I LOVE YOU VETTIE," said Gary..

"YOU JUST BETTER!"laughed Yvette.

"VETTIE YOU ARE DELIBERATELY TRYING TO DRIVE ME CRAZYY!" moaned Gary...as he helped her slip out of the dress.....

"I DON'T HAVE TO DO MUCH TO DO THAT! JUST BREATHE!" Yvette said.

Gary unbuckled her bra....

"This is sooo pretty." said Gary...

"Thank You!" said Yvette...

He slipped her thong down and off...

"AWWWWWWW...OH MY GODDDD!" he moaned...

He lifted her up and entered her slowly.....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned....sweat running down the side of his face....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  HUSBAND!" Yvette moaned..

Gary put Yvette on the dresser drawer, spread her legs and entered her slowly....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......UMMMMMMMMMMMMM GARY!" moaned Yvette, as her body began to tremble , her legs shaking, tears flowing down the side of her face,,,,and her head turning from side to side..... She was having an intense orgasm...

She sat on the side of the bed, slowly kissing Gary and riding him slowly...

"Gary?" she asked..

"Yes Baby!" he said.

"I'll wear anything you want...OUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she screamed..

"You always dress nicely....I just like this dress...it shows off your big shapely legs...that's all."said Gary.

Yvette wrapped her legs around him and began to move up and down slower and slower on Gary...

Gary was delirious, he didn't know if he was coming and going...

Gary flipped Yvette over and slowly entered her again...on top of the bed....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......UMMMMMMMMMMMMM GARY!" moaned Yvette, as her body began to tremble , her legs shaking, tears flowing down the side of her face,,,,and her head turning from side to side..... She was having another intense orgasm...

Yvette looked at her husband and smiled broadly, wrapping her legs around him and wrapping her arms around his neck... she loved Gary sooo much....and was tickled pink that she turned him on so much...

She didn't give a second thought about Leroy Brown and how turned on he was....Turning on Gary meant everything to her..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH VETTTIE GIRRRRRRRRRRL!" Gary moaned softly..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMM HUSBANDD!" she cried out...

They made love for the next TEN TO ELEVEN HOURS!!!

When they were finished...they were both exhausted...and dripping with sweat.

"I love you." whispered Yvette..as she cuddled up in his arms on top of him...

"I love you too!" said Gary...rubbing her butt softly....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" cooed Yvette as she drifted off to sleep.

III-

I loved the federal courtroom- It was big and modern....and it was walking distance from the job...We could all have a good breakfast and walk to court... Our cases started no earlier than 10:00 am and today was 11:00 Am.. I wished all of our cases were in Federal Court...

We had a Black Judge, who none of us knew...His name was Christopher Russert...He was young, handsome and seemed alright....

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leroy Brown was there and somewhat testy... Angry that Yvette had spurned his advances and given him a case of "Blue Balls" last night and angry that Yvette's husband, Gary chose to show up this morning..

with hot tumblers of coffee for all of us from his wife's favorite coffee shop

which delighted her..

and earned him a smooch so hot and steamy that I got a little aroused myself..

 

 "Okay girl, hopefully we can get you out of here..." said Yvette...

"I hope so too...I've been locked up for a week now...I want to sleep in my own bed..."said Brenda.. "Oh and Vettie...Your man is fine!" she said.

"Thank you Brenda...Glad he meets your approval."laughed Yvette.

"I wish we had just one charactor witness...It would go a long way in this court." I said.

"Don't worry hot stuff..We won once and I feel we can win again."said Bee Bee.

''We are used to these kind of arguments...Let's just go with what we know and hope it's enough." said Sofia.

"Yeah......You ready Ms. Jade?" asked Kahlil jokingly...

"You're the attorneys....You'd better be ready." said Jade.

The arraignment began.....

The Judge seemed to be fixated on Ms. Yvette...He couldn't take his eyes off of her..."Lawwwd Jesus...Look at those big shapely legs and those breasts...MYYYYYYYYY WORDDDD,

I think I'm in love..." he thought  to himself...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leroy Brown was a bit angry that Yvette had spurned his advances....Married or not and went hard on Brenda, calling her a flight risk and charging her with Embezzlement, Interstate Flight to avoid prosecution for such and even going so far as to accuse her of double crossing her partner with conspiracy to commit murder...

 Ms. Yvette argued that these charges were groundless and that our client was just a little fish in a big pond of events as we would prove in trial..She said the purpose of this hearing was to free her on bail and not to argue the merits of the case against her.,.

The Judge who was all smiles whenever Yvette talked couldn't have agreed more.

We didn't have one charactor witness, but we argued that Brenda Cherry had no arrest record,not in the State of Texas or in the State of Pennsylvania, had never been in trouble before in her life and was now an established residence on Pensylvania and should be allowed fair bail  being this was the first time she had ever been in any kind of trouble.

AUSA Leroy Brown argued that the fact that she had fled Houston all the way to Philadelphia was proof that she was a flight risk.

Ms. Yvette argued that she moved from Houston to Philadelphia after she lost her job and was not under indictment for anything at the time she left Houston.

The Judge agreed and set bail at $2000.00.....

Our Bail Bondsman laughed as he paid the bail.. a mere $200.00

And for the first time since she'd been arrested...Brenda walked out of court, a free woman...

"YALL ARE THE DAMN TRUTH!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! I DIDN'T THINK I WAS EVER GETTING OUT!!!" said Brenda.

 

 "You're not out of the woods yet...You're just out of custody...."said Yvette.

"Come on back to our building..You'll be just in time for lunch." I said.

"Wow....that was a close one...We could have lost this one easily.."said Bee Bee.

"Not with that judge...Did you see the way he was ogling Ms. Yvette?" laughed Sofia.

"He was practically looking down he throat..."said Kahlil..

"That's not what he was looking at." laughed Ms. Jade.

"Girl , that Judge definitely has the hots for you.....You know him or something?" laughed newly freed Brenda.

"Never saw him before today.." said Yvette...

"Well he wants to see more of you...Unloosen that top, show a little bra." laughed Brenda.

"There you go...You sound like we are in high school girl.."laughed Yvette...."Come on let's go get lunch."she said as we exited.

IV-

CURLEYS- Couples Night...We had gotten Brenda out of jail just in time to party with us...

"Vettie I love your friends.....The ones who work in the building with you and your fly ass girlfriend Olivia, who lives across the street from you....She's got her own law firm and she owns the buses that brought us here....Man,,,,,not only are you a baller, but you hang with ballers."gushed Brenda, so glad to be out of jail and with us at Curley's, having a cool drink and relaxing...

 

 ''She's been my day one since day one of law school when both of our mothers brought us down to the University....Two 22 year old college graduates...Adult women, whose mothers were gushing over us like we were first graders...both Olivia and I were equally mortified...We connected right then and there and decided to be room-mates...We've been tight ever since then...."said Yvette, hugging Olivia.

"Yeah, she's like my sister...I always say that.." smiled Olivia.

"Two fine sexy women, united...I wish I had been around to see that."laughed Gary....

"You met us both together in Josies...." said Yvette, reminding him...

Bee Bee was sitting on my lap, sipping her drink........

"Enjoying yourself Hot stuff?" she asked.

I smiled and hugged her tighter.....

"We really escaped with a victory today...We didn't have to win with what we have...and in fact I didn't think we would win considering we were up against a really good prosecutor." said Sofia.

"He thought he was going to win too...We really gotta buckle down on her defense...We've already won two victories...Two that we shouldn't have..."said Kahlil..

"That Judge couldn't take his eyes off Ms. Yvette...He was salivating...."said Jade,laughing.

"Well that's what did it...Sometimes you've got to use what you've got to get what you need."said her husband, Danny Ho.

"Go On James Brown, preach!"laughed Virginia.

"I don't know about that judge, but you've got this judge eating out of your hands.."said her husband, Jetty.

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwww" said Ms. Virginia, smiling and rubbing his hands softly... She was happy to be married and happier still to have such good friends, a good job and a house...

"I'm so happy to be out of Federal Lock up and sitting here drinking with you good folks...I'm sorry I missed St. Patricks Day last week." said Brenda.

"Oh it was such a good time.Best time I've had in here in awhile."said Olivia.

 

''Well we are going to make this Thursday just as good for you." said Olivia's husband, Donnie Ray.

"Call it Freedom Thursday!" said Beverly, Olivia's niece and law firm partner....

"Yeah Freedom Thursday....Your next drinks are on us." said Nelson...

"Enjoy!" said Josie.

" Yeah Enjoy!" said her husband, Paris.

Bresha was sitting on her husband's lap sipping her drink...

Tony was holding her and smiling srenely....

"You're loving those Mojitos aren't you baby?" said Alfreda to her husband....

"Yesssssss...Like you, I find them quite enjoyable." said Rockland.

 

"Oh My God,...I'm glad buses are taking us home...After all this drinking, I can't walk." said Brenda.

"Enjoy yourself girl...This is your night...What did Beverly say "Freedom Thursday" said Jazzy, who was slightly tipsy herself..
 

"Freedom Thursday....Have another drink." laughed Jazzy's husband, Dabnis.

Kayla smiled but said nothing...she felt bad for Brenda.. here with no man...Drunk and going home alone...She and all of her girlfriends were here with their husbands...

She was in her husband Ray's lap and he was hugging her and rocking her slowly back and forth....

Jessica was already a little tipsy and sitting on her husband's lap,leaning into his chest...

Chip hadn't drank much alcohol at all... Drinking mostly soda and a few Mojitos...

Karen was also a little tipsy and sitting on her husband's lap,leaning into his chest... 

B.L. was smiling and holding her tight...

"If I drink much more....I won't be able to be your little porn star when we get home.."giggled Natalie..

"Well by all means, stop drinking..."said her husband, David...and they both busted out laughing.

" Enjoying yourself honey?  This is as much fun as last week.."said Brooke.

"I know...Two straight weeks without he who will not be named...Go figure."said her husband, Sean.

"Another Mojito Lover ?" asked Zoey...

"Yeah, one more..for the road." said Lem and they both laughed.....

"Ugh Ohhhhhhhhh here comes he who would not be named." said Renee.

"I knew it was too good to be true." said her husband, Tyrell.

Lt. Tragg walked in...He looked around...He had on a very expensive tailored suit....Shiny Italian made shoes.. and as usual, every hair was in place....The swelling in his face had gone down....even though he was heavily made up....

He strutted over to the area where we all were...

''Well if it isn't the cop who tried to put the bite on me."said Brenda.

"Judging by the people you are palling around with ,I'm not ssurprised you're back on the streets....I should have guessed it when I saw Yvette and her snot nosed youngins eating in Pappy's Diner that morning.... They were in Federal Court, defending you...That's why you haven't been extradited and are presently not in lock up....Heh heh heh....Now those Feds know what I go through...heh heh heh!" he laughed... He looked around at all of us, drinking, laughing and talking and bellowed..

"ALL RIGHT YOU HIGH FALLUTIN LAWYERS..DOING ALL THIS DAMN DRINKING AND CAROUSING!!! YOU'D BETTER NOT BE DOIN ANY DRIVING AFTER YOU LEAVE HERE....I CAN SEE THAT MOST OF YOU ARE INEBRIATED....I WILL BE WATCHING AND HAVE OFFICERS READY!" he said.

Of course no one paid him any mind , We kept on "drinking and carousing"

He stood there for Twenty Minutes staring at all of us balefully, which we hated...before he finally walked over to the bar and ordered a drink...

At 2:15, our buses arrived and all of us entered the buses and was driven to our homes....

We let Brenda off at her apartment...

"I had a great time Vettie...." said Brenda......

"I'm glad.....The train station is two blocks from here....Meet us at work tomorrow...We have much to talk about.." said Yvette....

"Okay and thanks again girlfriend...."said Brenda, hugging Yvette....

She watched as the buses pulled off , taking us to our homes....

She smiled...

Freedom felt good...She hoped it would last..

(CONCLUSION NEXT)