[Lady Justice 22] - Lady Justice and the Conspiracy Trial by Robert Thornhill

Author:Robert Thornhill [Thornhill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Politics, Humour
ISBN: 9781530039463
Amazon: B01BRK5K4M
Barnesnoble: B01BRK5K4M
Goodreads: 29101074
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Suzanne Romero was the defense attorney most feared by the Kansas City police, not because she was ruthless or vicious, but because she was a stickler for the letter of the law. Many an officer who had not followed procedure in an arrest, or a prosecutor who had not dotted his I’s or crossed his T’s, found themselves at her mercy in the courtroom, and many offenders had walked because law enforcement had not done their job properly.

Singlehandedly, she had done more to make officers in the field follow the book than anything their superiors could have said.

Knowing her reputation, we hired her on two separate occasions.

My good friend, and housemother at the Three Trails Hotel, Mary Murphy, shot and killed an intruder who had threatened her with a knife. An overzealous prosecutor, wanting to make an example of her because of a rash of vigilante murders, took her to court.

Later on, Ox and I were framed for the theft of valuable King Tut artifacts by a pair of dirty cops.

Both times, Suzanne prevailed.

A byproduct of these two cases was the development of a mutual respect, and when I retired and opened my P.I. firm, Suzanne hired Kevin and me to help clear one of her clients.

I wasn’t at all convinced that our past association would be enough to persuade her to represent a crime boss.

At least, it was enough to get an interview.

“Walt, good to see you again. Please don’t tell me Mary Murphy has struck again.”

“No, nothing like that, thank goodness. I’m sure you’ve been following the news stories about Carmine Marchetti being arrested for the murder of Jack Carson.”

“Of course. It’s been on the front page every day. Too bad. Jack Carson was a gifted reporter. He came to me several times for background material on stories he was writing. I know the city has been after Marchetti for a long time. It’s just a shame that Jack’s death had to be the thing that brought him down.”

This was the moment I had been dreading. “That’s why I’m here Suzanne. Carmine Marchetti didn’t kill Jack Carson and I know who did.”

Suzanne sat in stunned silence. “You know this how?”

“Because Jack and I were working on a story so big it cost the lives of three people, and now Jack is the fourth.”

She shook her head. “Walt, you never cease to amaze me. Start from the beginning. Let’s hear it.”

I knew if I was going to convince her to represent Marchetti, I would have to convince her that the chemtrail conspiracy was real, so I started with Jack’s first call wanting me to get more information about Falcon’s accident from Ox, right up to the time Carson disappeared. I did not tell her about the manila envelope in my safe.

The expression on her face as I was telling my story was probably the same face she would have made if I had been sharing an experience of being abducted by aliens.

When I was finished, her response was exactly like Derek Blaylock’s.

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