Category: CERTIFIED Quotes

Justin reads. It is heartbreaking to see him struggle with it. He cannot read aloud well. He is trying so hard to read it as…

Whiskey, Dynamite and Irish Tempers I eat lunch alone today. I get a hot dog and a giant pickle from the vendor on the courthouse…

Prologue Once upon a time … there was a magical city, Las Vegas, in a desert valley in the United States of Nevada. Buffets were…

Pavao on cross-examination only underscores to the jury and the rest of us how broken and paralyzed by this tragedy the mother is, which is…

Once upon a time … there was a magical city, Las Vegas, in a desert valley in the United States of Nevada. Buffets were delicious…

One crime scene tech testifies and authenticates dozens of photographs taken at the scene on the night of the homicide. As they are admitted, Jake…

I pick up her feet and wash them, waiting for her to continue. “Why was she made a saint?” I ask her. “Well, when she…

Gabrielle picks it up. “Good morning, John. Yes, your wife is sitting here having breakfast with your daughter.” She passes the phone to me. “Charley,…

Rookie K picks up the gun, barehanded, and takes it to the dining room table in the next room. K’s sergeant hasn’t looked up from…

I would love to give you more details of the drama, but none of the other Turke testimony coincides. For the most part, two of…

Nobody should have to live without coffee. I think the industrial and technological revolutions can be credited to the masses quaffing this warm and enervating…

Q How’d you know that? Had you consulted an attorney, or did Nurse Wellesley guide you through that process, as well? A Both. Q I…

But there was no yelp on January 19th. There was instead the sound of the .9-millimeter firing into the mouth of Justin. Mary entered the…

Back in the day, one of the original Foley Brothers, who shall remain nameless — although, I will allude that he was the black sheep…

As I mentioned, a defendant on the stand in a murder trial is unusual, at least at their first trial … assuming they got a…

After lunch, Pavao looks concerned, as well he should be. He is about to gamble. Way back in February, as soon as the doctors released…

Picture it. Right-handed Cheyenne, pointing the gun to her head with her left hand — because the cigarette and lighter are in her right —…

Court reporters must develop coping mechanisms to compensate for sitting in a state of Zen-like attentiveness, I personally believe that by the time every court…

No. I am not doing Jake Christensen. I thought I left my keys at the pediatrician’s last night. John took my extra car key and…

John walks through our door, grinning through his perfect teeth.

I’m the second, the Las Vegas wife, as his KU friends call me.

The mirage of this afternoon has evaporated along with my husband and his new blue Cadillac.

I think Skip likes easy, sparkly women.

V makes faces at him while Pavao asks questions. They are faces of disdain and disgust. He acts as if Pavao is a giant cockroach…

I find the camera and snap a picture of John, capturing the easy, happy moment, as a souvenir.

Quaffing the lesson in sorcery, tapping his Cross pen, like a wand.

CHRISTENSEN: I object, Judge. This is a homicide, not an accident. THE COURT: Overruled. The Defense is entitled to assert its theory of the case.…