HABEAS PORPOISE (Solomon vs. Lord) by Levine Paul

Author:Levine, Paul [Levine, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nittany Valley Productions, Inc.
Published: 2013-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

SOLOMON'S LAWS

6. When the testimony is too damn good, when there are no contradictions and all the potholes are filled with smooth asphalt, chances are the witness is lying.

Twenty-two

THE SECOND PUZZLE

Steve wanted to talk to Victoria, but she'd hurried out of the courtroom and disappeared.

Did she look angry?

She'd seen him in court so many times, surely she knew he was just playing a role.

She's not really pissed off, is she?

They should talk about the case, share information. Even though they were on opposite sides, weren't they both out for the same thing?

Truth. Justice. All that stuff in the books.

Victoria always railed about how trials should be less adversarial and more concerned with fair results. The criminal justice system should seek the truth, not just convictions or acquittals. Frankly, he never agreed with her, and his goal was always to win. But now, with this shitstorm called State v. Nash, he was willing to try something new.

He wouldn't offer to share evidence with one of Pincher's dwarves on the other side. But this was Victoria. His partner. His lover. His best friend. He wanted to think through the case with her.

C'mon, babe. Let's do some justice.

He figured her first reaction would be to stiff-arm him.

"It would be unethical, blah, blah, blah."

Now, as he drove home from the Justice Building, fighting the traffic on Dixie Highway, Steve ran through the evidence.

On the face of it, Gerald Nash appeared one hundred percent guilty of felony murder. But there was just too much that didn't make sense.

The mysterious Chuck Sanders.

Grisby in the park with a shotgun and a fuzzy story about why he shot Sanders.

Two tough guys who snatched Steve off the street and pumped him for information.

Steve remembered something his father, the cagiest trial lawyer Steve ever knew, told him years ago.

"If you come across a piece of the puzzle that just won't fit, it means there's a second puzzle where it'll fit just fine."

The first puzzle was why Grisby shot Sanders at all, much less twice. Steve had taken Grisby's deposition a few days earlier. The owner of Cetacean Park testified that his regular security guard had quit abruptly and moved away.

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