Booth by Jason Pellegrini

Author:Jason Pellegrini [Pellegrini, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

January 28, 1994

Tried & Sentenced

Thirteen months.

That’s the amount of time it took for Joseph Bateman to be tried and sentenced for the murder of Montel Parsons.

Thirteen short months.

While some trials for the same murder may have taken years before even seeing the inside of a courtroom, Joseph’s was sped along and done in a timely fashion. On the surface, this looked to be because of a determined District Attorney, who made it his personal mission to make an example of Joseph. Beneath the surface, however, there were factors far greater than an enthusiastic District Attorney at work that would see to it that Joseph would ride the lightning on the morning of April 26, 1995.

In the early morning hours of December 21, 1992, a phone call was made to 911. The person placing the call did so to report a recent murder. That person was Joseph Bateman.

He had left the lifeless body of Montel Parsons in the abandoned lot, and walked to the nearest payphone to make the call.

“Are you still in immediate danger, sir?” the operator asked after being told there had been a murder, and given the location of the body.

“No,” was Joseph’s response. “I’m not going to kill anyone else.”

He said nothing else. He hung up the payphone, and headed back to the abandoned lot to wait. He was well aware of what he was doing. He had no desire to even attempt to run. The cinder block that had snapped Parsons’ neck and shattered his skull also served as the straw that broke the metaphoric camel’s back. There was nothing left inside Joseph. All of his hopes for a better life were now as dead as Montel Parsons.

He took a seat beside Parsons’ fresh corpse, and waited. As he sat there and waited to hear the sounds of sirens coming through the morning, he noticed something in the back pocket of Parsons’ jeans. With his interest piqued, Joseph reached into the pocket of the man he had just murdered, and pulled out the pack of cigarettes along with a lighter. He studied the pack for a moment, then flipped it open, and pulled out one of the pack’s contents. He placed the brown filtered tip between his lips, flicked the lighter, and brought the flame to the cigarette.

Joseph had never smoked a cigarette a day in his life, and, truth be told, he had no real desire to do so. He knew, however, his days of freedom would be soon over, and he wanted to exercise his right to make one last choice, and try something new before that right was taken away from him.

He inhaled, and as smoke entered his lungs for the first time ever, Joseph burst into a violent coughing fit.

He had suffered through three quarters of the cigarette—Joseph wasn’t a fan of smoking—when he saw the flashing lights of two police cruisers appear on the opposite side of the fence. He dropped the cigarette on the ground, and stomped it out. By

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