Kim Wozencraft by Rush (txt)

Author:Rush (txt) [Rush (txt)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I had a stack of case reports in front of me, but rarely looked at them. It was as though I were talking to a long-lost friend about events that had gone on during her absence. But seeing it on paper, the times, dates, descriptions, faced with the clinical rendering of the events, I tried to draw a line down the middle of my emotions and convince myself that I had never been a friend to any of them. I had gone on the streets to make dope cases, and that’s all I had done. If some of the defendants were foolish enough to think I actually cared about a dope dealer, it was their own delusion, not mine. I tried to maintain that attitude as I spoke to the God-fearing citizens at the table. Their faces, the pinched eyes, the drawn mouths, told me that they were terrified of what they were hearing. Their town had been invaded, and with the Lord’s help they were here to do something about it. It scared me. And even though I knew that I was supposed to be disinterested, the truth was that I had gotten close to some of the defendants, and so I played down their cases, tried to portray them as decent people who really didn’t deserve to go to prison. It didn’t seem to help.

Vince saved the big one for last. By that time, the jurors, all but the woman in the hat, looked tired, bored with going over the same details case after case. She was into it, fists clenched neatly on the table, but I couldn’t get my mind off my feet,

which were hurting from the contortions forced on them by high heels.

“Okay,” he finally said, ‘your partner has already testified on this case involving Will Gaines, but I’d like to just run over it with you.”

I pulled the report from the stack in front of me.

“Let me direct your attention to the twenty-sixth of April, 1978, that’s a month or so ago. Do you recall that date?”

“Yes sir, I do.”

“Sometime after six P.M. on that date, did you have occasion to speak to Officer Raynor in your apartment?”

“Yes, sir, I did.”

“Did the two of you discuss a Mr. Will Gaines?”

“Yes sir.”

“What was the nature of that conversation?”

“We discussed the possibility of making a cocaine purchase from Mr. Gaines that evening.”

Yes, we did, Mr. Assistant District Attorney, ladies and gentlemen of the grand jury, we did indeed discuss the possibility of buying coke from Will Gaines. We decided it couldn’t be done.

“And where did you go to make the purchase?”

To the alley behind the Drillers Club.”

“What time did you arrive?”

“Shortly after eleven o’clock.”

“What was your assignment?”

“I was to wait in my car, near the back door of the club while Agent Raynor bought the cocaine.”

“When he bought the cocaine.”

“Yes sir.”

“From Gaines.”

“Yes sir, from Will Gaines.”

“And what did you see while you were sitting in your car that night?”

“I saw Will Gaines step out back, and there appeared to be a short conversation, and then Gaines handed Agent Raynor a manila envelope.

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