Law of Love

32

On Monday, Stevie was sitting in her office doing some paperwork when she heard a knock at her office door. She didn't even look up, she called "Come on in Linds." 

"How'd you know it was me?" He asks opening his door. 

"I always know when it's you. Besides, a good Criminal Lawyer never leaves a prosecutor waiting." She smirks as Lindsey walks around her desk and sits on it infront of her.

"How's your day." He asks.

"Fine, yours?" Stevie takes her glasses off her face. 

"Good." He shrugs. 

"Alright, well...I honestly did expect to get this case, but after looking at it, it seems pretty one-sided so I'm willing to cut you a deal." Stevie sighs looking up at him

"I thought this meeting was about the Tyler Vick case." He looks at her. 

He will admit that when she called him earlier that morning and requested a meeting he was kind of shocked because Stevie isn't one to meet with her opposing defense on cases. 

"It is." She nods.

"Aren't you overplaying your hand a little?" He crosses his arms. 

"Overplaying my hand?" Stevie asks. 

"Well yeah Steph, I-I know that Tyler made some threats, and was seen going over to the decedent. Jerry Sailor's apartment and was found leaning over the body but all of that seems circumstantial." Lindsey expresses.

"Oh...you haven't heard." Stevie deflates back into her seat. 

"Heard what?" He narrows his eyes. 

"Lindsey, I'm really sorry the detective was supposed to notify you immediately." Stevie bites her lip.

"Notify me?" 

"They have an eye witness, in fact, she was just here in my office not five minutes before you knocked, you had to have passed her in the hall. She saw your client kill Jerry Sailor that night. I'm really sorry. They should've notified you." Stevie grabs his hand. 

***

It was about two weeks later when Stevie and Lindsey had found themselves in court fighting State Vs. Vicks

"Yes, the cause of death was a depressed skull fracture causing a subdural hematoma. This apparently occurred when he fell forward, his head striking the corner of the coffee table in his apartment. Additional but not fatal bruises were also found along the base of the neck, apparently, the result of a blue by a blunt object believed to be a wine bottle?"  Stevie's first witness explains. 

She straightens out her tight black blazer and shifts her weight. "Death was instantaneous?" 

"Yes." 

"And were you able to determine the time of death?" 

"Sometime between 10:30 and eleven p.m." 

"Thank you, No further questions." 

"Thank you, Mrs. Buckingham, Cross-examine Mr. Buckingham?" The judge asks.

"Not at this time your honor." 

"Next witness." The judge nods. 

"Prosecution calls Mr. Lucious Pete to the stands." Stevie smiles. 

"When I tried to stop him he grabbed me by the front of the jacket, lifted me up and moved me out of the way." 

"What happened next, Mr. Pete?"