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Hung Jury
by Terrance Aldon Shaw
(excerpt)
“Lady lawyers!” District Judge W. Hardin
Longfellow shrugged off his robes with a weary sigh. “I assume you both know
why you’re here?”
“Your
Honor!” The defense attorney raised her hand. “If I may? I’d like to—”
“Purely
a rhetorical question, counselor.” The judge draped his robes over an antique hall
tree that dominated one corner of the room like a set of trophy antlers. The
chambers in the small county courthouse were on the shabby side, with cheap veneer
paneling where fine oak wainscoting would have graced grander surroundings. “Let’s
get down to it, shall we?”
“But,
Your Honor!” The young woman persisted. “My client—”
“Your
client is a single-celled organism
with serious boundary issues, Miss Bubachevski. A fact which, your most valiant
efforts notwithstanding, everybody on that jury is unquestionably aware.” The
judge grimaced as he sat down behind the desk.
“But—”
“Ah!”
He raised a finger for silence. “The Constitution of these United States
guarantees even a scraping of unregenerate pond scum like Mr. Enos ‘Rhymes-with-You-Know-What’
Reeks the due process of law—much as we’d love to ignore that pesky little
fact.”
“Speaking
of pesky little facts,” the prosecutor interrupted, “I must ask if Your Honor
deems such language appropriate?”
“I
was wondering when we’d be hearing from you, Miss Apple. Were you always the quiet one in class?”
The
prosecutor was not amused.
“Your
comments are clearly biased, sir. Need I remind you that it’s our duty as
officers of the court to avoid even the appearance of…”
“Give a bimbo a law degree!” The judge
rolled his eyes.
“…and
that such remarks could be interpreted as sexual harassment…”
“Are
you quite finished, Miss Apple?”
“I—”
“What
is it that leads either of you to believe I was, somehow, born yesterday?”
Hizzoner spoke evenly. “Hell! I was
practicing law before your daddies discovered their peckers were good for more
than just taking a whizz.”
“Objection!”
The defense shot out of her chair before remembering where she was. “Oh…sorry.”
“Dumbass,”
the prosecutor stifled a cough.
“That,
however, is not the question before us this afternoon,” Judge Longfellow said.
“The question is: why in blazes, given you two young ladies’ behavior, should I
not immediately declare a mistrial?”
Silence.
“Thought
so,” he said. “In fact, I am well aware of these issues, Miss Apple. But,
seeing how the two of you have both been caught with your tits in the
proverbial ringer—in flagrante dilecto no
less—I am inclined to call it even and move on. What the bar association
doesn’t know won’t hurt it.”
“Huh?”
The defense attorney seemed confused. “What are you—?”
“Oh,
give it a rest, Bambi,” the
prosecutor sneered. “Can’t you see he’s figured it out?”
“Screw
you, Candi,” the defense shot back.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Enough,
you two!” Judge Longfellow pounded the desk with his fist in lieu of a gavel. “It’s
already been a sow’s anus of a day, and the last thing I want to do is referee
a cat fight. Got it?”
“Yes,
Your Honor.”
“Good.”
The judge continued. “This simple, open-and-shut case is rapidly turning into amateur
night at a demolition derby. And why should it be thus, aside, that is, from
you two D-cupcakes constantly trying to one-up each other in front of that
jury? You, Miss Bubachevski, batting those big brown eyes as you finger the top
button on that blouse, virtually inviting the men to undress you. And you, Miss
Apple, not to be outdone, pouting like a porn star just before the cumshot, all
the while tossing those platinum locks back across your shoulder. Hell’s bells!
You’d make a mockery of a mock trial. I haven’t seen shenanigans like this
since law school. Speaking of which, the two of you graduated in the same class
at State, am I correct?”
“Yes,
Your Honor.”
“Neither
particularly distinguished?”
“No,
Your Honor.”
“Dead
heat for smack-dab in the middle, as I understand, which might explain these
competitive antics of yours?”
“Uh-huh.”
“I
suppose.”
“So
tell me: how did you young geniuses finance your less-than-distinguished essay
through the halls of Academe?”
“That’s
hardly relevant!” The defense protested.
“And
yet, I ask, Miss Bubachevski. So?”
“I
worked as an exotic dancer.”
“And
did you have a stage name?”
“There’s
no shame in honest work,” Bambi insisted.
“True,
my dear, but jury tampering’s another matter. So, how did they introduce you
when you strutted out on that stage?”
“Foxxy
Boob-a-licious.” She blushed.
The
other woman snickered.
“And
what of you, Miss Apple?” Judge Longfellow swiveled in his seat, fixing the prosecutor
with a rheumy stare.
“I worked my way through as a paralegal,”
Candi said haughtily.
“Bullshit!” the former Foxxy Boob-a-licious
muttered.
“All
right!” Candi admitted. “I worked for an escort service on the side. Didn’t
even have to change my first name.”
“Candi
Apple… Bambi Bubachevski…” The judge smirked. “Hard to be taken seriously with
names like that.”
“Mmm.”
“Yuh.”
“And,
I suspect, both of you view this trial as a chance finally to break out of this
podunk purgatory, do something other than standard contracts and wills for
little old ladies the rest of your lives; get your pretty little behinds to the
big city and real careers while the getting’s good. Or would I be mistaken in
these rather clichéd assumptions?”
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