ADA

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — December 27th

Fandango13 Comments

Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term subscribers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about it? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Flashback Friday post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on any day this past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on December 27, 2017.

A Full Confession

6E2E2DD9-60F5-4DD6-93A6-69F9413296FF

“Did you get him to confess?” The ADA asked the detective.

“No, not yet,” admitted Larry, “But I’m chipping away at him. And once we confirm that his alibi is bogus, he’ll fold like a guy with a bad poker hand.”

“We need a confession, Larry,” said the ADA. “Otherwise, it’s all circumstantial and hearsay. My boss will kick it.”

“Fine,” said Larry, “I’ll get him to squeal like a pig.” With that, Larry went back into the interrogation room.

“We got the goods on you, Jake,” Larry said. “You might as well give it up, cause you’re going to the Big House one way or another.”

“I want a lawyer,” Jake said.

“You know what kind of guy ask for a lawyer?” Larry asked. “A guilty one, that’s who asks for a lawyer.”

“I ain’t saying nothing until I have a lawyer,” Jake insisted.

“Confess, Jake,” Larry said. “Make it easy on yourself. The ADA said he might consider time served plus probation rather than jail time if you just fess up.”

“Fine,” Jake finally said. “I did it, okay.”

“You gotta tell me exactly what you did, Jake. That’s the way it works around here.”

“Okay,” Jake said, drops of perspiration beading up on his forehead. “Yes, I said ‘Happy Holidays’ to the woman I was checking out at the register. I know her. She shops at our store all the time. It just didn’t feel right to say ‘Merry Christmas’ to woman wearing a hijab.”

“You did the right thing by confessing, Jake,” Larry said. “This will make it a lot easier on you. And you really need to remember that we’re living in Trump’s America now. You must say ‘Merry Christmas,’ and not ‘Happy Holdays’ or ‘Seasons Greetings’ if you wish to avoid arrest and incarceration.”

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “confess.”

Closing Arguments

FandangoLeave a comment

“Now that all of the facts have been verified and presented to the jury, I’m sure I will be able to cobble my closing arguments together pretty quickly,” Daniel Snyder, the assistant DA, told his boss.

“I hope so, Dan, because the jury is going to be sequestered during deliberations and the longer this takes, the worse our chances for a guilty verdict get,” Elliot Harwood said. “Just make sure you can effectively bridge any potential gaps for the jury in your closing statement.”

“I’ve got it all laid out,” Dan said. “It’s not a slam dunk, but I think my approach is solid and the law is obviously on our side. The jury members will see that clearly.”

“That’s why I’ve got you at the top of my ADA rotation, Dan,” the Manhattan District Attorney said, “and I’m counting on you to bring a guilty verdict home. I’d hate to have to bench you if you lose this case. I won’t hesitate to reassign you from Manhattan office to the Bronx. And that’s not where you want to spend the rest of your career, is it, Dan?”

“I’ve got this, Elliot,” Dan said, hoping the beads of perspiration forming on his forehead would escape Elliot’s notice.

Written for these daily prompts: E.M.’s Random Word Prompt (verified), My Vivid (will), Your Daily Word Prompt (cobble), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (sequestered), Ragtag Daily Prompt (bridge), The Daily Spur (approach), and Word of the Day Challenge (rotation).

A Full Confession

Fandango14 Comments

6E2E2DD9-60F5-4DD6-93A6-69F9413296FF“Did you get him to confess?” The ADA asked the detective.

“No, not yet,” admitted Larry, “But I’m chipping away at him. And once we confirm that his alibi is bogus, he’ll fold like a guy with a bad poker hand.”

“We need a confession, Larry,” said the ADA. “Otherwise, it’s all circumstantial and hearsay. My boss will kick it.”

“Fine,” said Larry, “I’ll get him to squeal like a pig.” With that, Larry went back into the interrogation room.

“We got the goods on you, Jake,” Larry said. “You might as well give it up, cause you’re going to the Big House one way or another.”

“I want a lawyer,” Jake said.

“You know what kind of guy ask for a lawyer?” Larry asked. “A guilty one, that’s who asks for a lawyer.”

“I ain’t saying nothing until I have a lawyer,” Jake insisted.

“Confess, Jake,” Larry said. “Make it easy on yourself. The ADA said he might consider time served plus probation rather than jail time if you just fess up.”

“Fine,” Jake finally said. “I did it, okay.”

“You gotta tell me exactly what you did, Jake. That’s the way it works around here.”

“Okay,” Jake said, drops of perspiration beading up on his forehead. “I said ‘happy holidays’ to the woman I was checking out at the register. I know her. She shops at our store all the time. It didn’t feel right to say ‘merry Christmas’ to woman wearing a hijab.”

“You did the right thing by confessing, Jake,” Larry said. “This will make it a lot easier on you. And you really need to remember that we’re living in Trump’s America now. You must say ‘merry Christmas’ if you wish to avoid arrest and incarceration.”

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “confess.”