ODDS OF LOVE - SEASON THIRTEEN

Episode 103

" I don't care if she did try to off herself ," Carl Winters barked out out as he glared at the other jurors that were seated around the long table in the jury room. " She is guilty ," the older Black man continued on harshly. "She deliberately ran down the Black child and then hit the other car with the dead man and his son. Paterson proved his case. " He pointed a chubby finger at first Vernon Vance and then LuLu Simms. " I don't care what nonsense you two fools keep going on about. We need to convict now. I have a job I need to get back to. I have a wife and two kids that I need to get back to. "

Joe sighed as he pressed his fingers against his head. " I agree with Carl. " And he actually did. In spite of his own past and secret he believed that Dodie Angeletti had done it. The one thing that had shifted his thinking to her guilt was her suicide attempt. He couldn't see an innocent person being driven to that. Hell he couldn't really see a guilty person doing something like that, he realized suddenly as he began to drum his fingers on the tabletop. But it was more evident of guilt to him than anything else. It wouldn't be him though. He loved life too much. Life and sex. And money. And Winston. He couldn't imagine being that desperate he would climb up on a chair or whatever and loop a ....... He shivered suddenly.

Vernon, a tall thin young White man, snapped," Yeah. Well we all have families and jobs, man. My wife has MS. She needs me at home but I'm not just going to say guilty to please the likes of you. "

" What do you mean the " likes of you "?"

LuLu shook her head and yawned. They had voted twice already and it kept coming out ten to two. She was getting tired. She wanted to go eat. She wanted a nap. She wanted to go home to Porky and the babies. Hell. She even missed Wheels next door. She did not care about that dumb woman who couldn't drive. What kind of an idiot ran a red light anyway? Moron. She was about to change her vote to guilty. " Let's not bring up race," she said sharply.

Isabella Gomez laughed. " The defense already did that with their idiotic reverse racism crap theory. That professor almost put me to sleep. "

Joe had had enough. He wanted to go back home to his husband and his club and his life. " Enough of this shit ! Let's vote again. "