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“Your objection is sustained, Mr. Blake. Please refrain from using the words ‘crime’ and/or ‘crime scene,’ Mr. Weaver. These terms call for a legal conclusion that the evidence has not yet established.” Zack almost laughed out loud at Judge Shipley’s ruling on his objection. The jury just heard the trial judge say that there had been insufficient evidence offered, thus far, to establish murder.”

“If two people were present when a grenade was exploded and one of those people lost his life, which of the two would be more likely to have exploded the grenade, the one who lived or the one who died?” “The one who lived, of course.” “And why do you say, ‘of course?’” “To put this into lay terminology, the one who pulls the pin and throws the grenade has the element of surprise, knows which way he’s going to throw the grenade and approximately how long he has to get the hell out of there.”

“Weaver smiled as he remembered, word-for-word, his criminal procedure professor’s ‘three rules’ lecture for criminal defense lawyers: ‘One, get the money up front; two, the client does the time, not you, and three, get the money up front.’ Zachary Blake was a guy who always got paid, one way or another.”