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Submitted to Contest #291
A Black QuixoteTo each his Dulcinea…Though she’s naught but flame and air!—Man of La Mancha, lyrics by Joe Darion You may remember this advice I received from my training officer. “Black guys can have a lot of hate in them. You’re gonna meet some who would be happy to chop your head off.”To make his point, he assigned me Jesse Coleman. I learned from Jesse’s case that justice varies with time, place, presiding, judge, even which attorneys, but that was not the full lesson. It was several years later when Chinanu Rozier taught me the rest. Ho...
Submitted to Contest #163
I don’t know why I went. I had never been there. It was not my kind of town. Not my kind of people, bunch of loud mouth rednecks. Not likely to buy any life insurance from me. I suppose, like most of the country, I was fascinated by them. They were drawing crowds everywhere, especially since that Paris trip. That day was no different. I suppose, it was because he was young, handsome, had that self-effacing humor. And that wife.I was surprised by the lack of traffic but then I realized most everybody in town was watching them. I drove around ...
Submitted to Contest #158
Ellen’s Gams They’re just bad kids. They need to go away, for a long time. Judge Ellen Morphonious There are many stories about Dade County Circuit Court Judge Ellen Morphonios. A few false, others exaggerated, some she told herself in her autobiography, Maximum Morphonios: The Life and Times of America's Toughest Judge. But the one most often repeated in the Justice Building, most in character, one that always brought a smile to those hearing it, was the incident known as Ellen's Gams. But before we get to the incident I will introduce y...
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