Accusation by Paul Batista

Author:Paul Batista
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Three hours later, Jodie Lanzar was in the large, wood-paneled conference room of the office of Edie Graham, a seventy-nine-year-old woman who had as a young lawyer written articles for the then-new and now long-defunct Ms. magazine. She counted as her friends feminists from the late 1960s and early 1970s: Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, Jane Fonda, Susan Jacoby.

Edie Graham was, as she never hesitated to describe herself, a publicity magnet. Although she had only rarely tried cases in her five decades of practicing law, she was very comfortable and effective when that happened. But, far more important, she believed in the magical power of publicity and television. She was one of those very rare lawyers who, if she contacted bookers at all the major networks, could assemble a press conference in two or three hours if she said she had a client or clients to appear with her. “Explosive” was one of her favorite words.

“Explosive” was the word she had used to describe the press conference she quickly assembled for Jodie Lanzar. Just four hours after Clair Southwood thanked Jodie for her courage in speaking so forcefully to the Grand Jury, Clair sat in her office, surrounded by her associates, as she waited, in quiet fury, for the press conference with Edie Graham and Jodie Lanzar. Every major cable network had cameras and reporters around the mahogany conference room table at which Edie Graham and Jodie Lanzar sat in Graham’s Midtown office.

And in the next half hour, prompted by leading questions from Edie Graham, Jodie, articulate, young, and calm, repeated in detail everything she had said to the Grand Jury—the meeting at the party with Aaron Julian, the text messages, the events in her small apartment. She left out only that she had sent him a nude and erotic photo of herself and that Aaron Julian had placed his tongue in her vagina. Instead, she said Aaron Julian had raped her in her apartment.

When the press conference ended on a signal from Edie Graham, Clair Southwood, as elegant and smooth as she was, angrily threw a pen at the television screen.

“That little bitch has ruined my case. She promised me she would shut up until I wanted her to go public. Now that bitch Graham has lured her with cash and prizes.”

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