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The cops were saying it looked like a random killing
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  the king of torts | Автор: admin | 19-08-2010, 08:56
The cops were saying it looked like a random killing. All street killings were random, her brother had said, but they all had a reason.


On one side of the courtroom was a table around which the authorities gathered. The cops whispered to the prosecutors, who flipped through files and reports and tried valiantly to keep the paperwork ahead of the criminals. On the other side was a table where the defense lawyers came and went as the assembly line sputtered along. Drug charges were rattled off by the Judge, an armed robbery, some vague sexual attack, more drugs, lots of parole violations. When their names were called, the defendants were led forward to the bench, where they stood in silence. Paperwork was shuffled, then they were hauled off again, back to jail.


“Tequila Watson,” a bailiff announced.


He was helped to his feet by another bailiff. He stutter?stepped forward, chains rattling.


“Mr. Watson, you are charged with murder,” the Judge announced loudly. “How old are you?”


“Twenty,” Tequila said, looking down.


The murder charge had echoed through the courtroom and brought a temporary stillness. The other criminals in orange looked on with admiration. The lawyers and cops were curious.


“Can you afford a lawyer?”


“No.”


“Didn’t think so,” the Judge mumbled and glanced at the defense table. The fertile fields of the D.C. Superior Court Criminal Division, Felony Branch, were worked on a daily basis by the Office of the Public Defender, the safety net for all indigent defendants.

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