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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

(5 Years Later)

Jack

Hey Ceci, we sued Nancy Grace and CNN. Here's what we filed in court:

January 19, 2015, a mother in Nebraska put her children to bed and returned to her kitchen. She picked up her cell phone and found a picture of an unidentified man. She assumed it was a fresh "selfie" taken by an intruder.

She called 911. Nebraska Crime Stoppers, Inc., immediately posted the man's selfie, but the police investigation quickly determined that the photograph was not a selfie, but an old Facebook photo of Robert Greene. Mr. Greene was in Connecticut, not Nebraska. There was no home invasion. No crime. It was all a mistake. Mr. Greene was completely innocent.

However, defendant Nancy Grace broadcasted Mr. Greene's photograph on national television, and told the public that he invaded the family's home, took a selfie, and  then she told her audience, "this is a textbook serial killer's calling card." See Exhibit 1, Grace Video. Grace then posted her false story on the internet and spread it around the world to millions. As early as February, 2015, Grace's own viewers told her that her broadcasts were false and must stop.

In August 2015, Mr. Greene served Grace with a Cease and Desist letter, and in November he served her again. But, to date, Grace continues to defame Mr. Greene as a serial killer. Grace and CNN face claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, and outrageous conduct.

Jack

The Nancy Grace video you made for us was just featured on CBS News!!

Call me.

Ceci

Looks great! Will call.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Jack

Ceci, Facebook is reporting your location.

ARE YOU ON ANKLE MONITOR?!

Ceci

Really, I always deny access when they want to report my location. What kind of locations you talkin bout?

Jack

Drug dens, Church of Satan, fabric stores.

You got any tips to brighten up my teenage boy? I'm losing ground to an Xbox.

Ceci

Do you force hugs on him? That's what we do with Charlie. His little brother makes us group hug. Often. Like it or not, we're hugging.

Jack

Aaaaah, Yes! That's excellent, simple, and cheap. And Justin is like a 9 on hugability.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Jack

A tiny, dark-haired wife is punched and beaten into the emergency room by her drunken, dickless husband. In other moments of tenderness, he tries to drown her in a pool, and kicks her ass for bringing home the wrong brand of frozen pizza. We go to trial for her and against him tomorrow. I haven't been thinking about anything except how to crush the shit out of Mr. Wonderful. Then, off a week for our annual pig roast, then two life-sentence trials, during which the wheels of justice will grind the desiccated husk of my soul to a fine dust.

I am really sorry. I was hoping to be further along with you, the video, and JusticeTV before all the ugly showed up.

The trial is here, pulling me under waves of work, reports, and caffeine.

I will get back to you the moment I can.

Doctor just told me, "Happy Birthday! Time for your colonoscopy!"

Monday, September 21, 2015

Jack

How are you doing? Your message sounded dire. Are your parents ok? Just finished the trial against Mr. Wonderful, the wife beater.

$$SEVEN FIGURE VERDICT$$!!

Your tree story was the best part of my closing argument!

"My friend Ceci had a beautiful old tree in her front yard. One morning a city crew came out with orders to cut it down. Ceci ran out and begged them to stop and only trim the branches. Years later, after she moved, Ceci went back to visit her old home.  The tree was gone. Without its champion, the crew returned, cut it down, and hauled it away. In this case, we are the champions of the victim, and for justice to be true and lasting, our verdict must be one powerful enough to stand eternally even after we leave this Courtroom."

Ceci

Awesome!!

Yeah, Mom, who is the primary caretaker of Dad, went into the hospital.

So me and my sisters were doing shifts over there to keep an eye on them both. She's doing better and at home.

We just got back from Lake Michigan with the kids.

It was our annual camping trip. Weather was perfect. Lake was warm. Dunes were gorgeous. Back to the office today with both my boys in tow.

I'm really glad your trial went so well. Used my story, eh?

Cool.

[Ceci and Jack talk on phone]

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Jack

The highest ranking Sex Assault Nurse Examiner in Colorado has decided to testify as our expert witness!!

Ceci

Odd title, very happy for you and your team. I know this is good news.

Jack

She's the Director and Trainer for all the nurses in Colorado who examine sex assault victims. SANE Nurses.  A smokin' hot expert witness. 35 yrs experience, confident, and pretty good looking. The kind where the beauty starts in the eyes as she confidently holds your gaze and watches as her spell takes effect. Very rare. Only once have I seen this magic in a stronger form.

Do you have any time to advise me on how to do our trial and save us all from destruction?

Ceci

Call you in a minute.

Friday, October 2, 2015

Jack

A shy, boyish meth-addict client is court-appointed to me.

Due to the police seizing his drugs, extracting his confession, and a heavy mandatory prison sentence, we decline trial, take a deal, and set his case for sentencing. It's his fifth felony conviction and he was on probation when arrested. His history includes three prior probation violations, an escape, multiple prison sentences, and absconding from parole four times (a county record). Our judge is a hard and rigid woman from the old world, The kind who drives home in a Lincoln, is handed a scotch from the husband in a sweater-vest, and then served roast beast with a side of peeled white potatoes. She is that kind of dude.

So, we are holding a guaranteed ticket to prison.

There is nothing helpful in the court file, only poison.

I go to jail and spend a few nights with him in his cell. We talk about how fucked we are and how fucked we will be at sentencing. He is in despair. Resigned to his concrete fate. But he also gave me some clues. The next morning, I drive to a faraway county court and order files from storage. A month later, and a day before his sentencing, the files for his childhood are delivered to my office.

This morning, the day of sentencing, the Judge takes the bench. She makes an unsmiling scan of the courtroom, and calls our case.

We walk to the podium. My client's head is down.  He has closed his eyes as if to place a black hood over his head.

I have nothing, so I tell his story:

Exactly eighteen years ago, Bill, age 8, came to the attention of the State of Colorado.  His mother and her boyfriend fled the New Jersey State Police.  They were found in Denver in a trailer they had broken into, drunk, wading in a wash injectable paraphernalia and empty liquor bottles. Bill, and his two little brothers, ages 6 and 5, were discovered nearby, dirty, unfed, and living in an unregistered 1977 Ford Pinto with a seventy-one-year-old man. Bill's father was in Florida prison for murder. Bill's older sister was dead, beaten to death by one of his mother's boyfriends.

When Bill and his brothers were seized by Colorado, the boys were told "all three brothers will be kept together." But the two youngest were placed in a foster home. Bill was left alone in a state facility. He never saw his brothers again. His mother abandoned her boys to the State and left on a bus for New Jersey. Bill, age 9, still in a state facility, was told his mother left him. He wrapped his institutional t-shirt around his neck and hung himself until he was cut down, and hospitalized. . . .

I went on and on with Bill's story until it ended with him standing next to me in Court, downcast and shivering at the podium.

The DA stared down at her hands. Did not insert a blade into Bill. Did not twist a blade. Said nothing.

In perfect harmony, everyone in the courtroom played four measures and sixteen beats of silence.

The judge sentenced Bill to community corrections (a halfway house).

NO PRISON!!

The only odd moment was when the Judge said that she based her sentence on my "reasoning and argument."

There was no reasoning or argument, just Bill's story.

We are now looking for his brothers.

And we have a lead!

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Photo: Sad Boy, Kat Jayne, 2013 (Pexels, Royalty Free Image #551590).