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"I don’t need to pay some fancy-ass lawyer to cut a deal," Nye insisted "I can ht to rehts," Nye said "I’ve been Mirandized a dozen tiet on with it, all right?"
"Let’s"
Briggs removed a lacquered pen from his jacket pocket and slowly rotated the barrel to lower the tip into writing position He turned the yellow pad on the table in front of hi it Nye beat an iers while he waited
"First of all, you’re already going to prison for five years," Briggs said "That’s prison Not jail You violated the terun"
"Shit," Nye muttered
"You have a cris added "Do you know about the criminal history score? Hoorks?"
"Yeah"
"In Minnesota, the reater your score"
"Yeah"
"The greater your score, the more time you do for each conviction"
"I said I knew Jesus Christ, get on with it"
"All right," Briggs said, not flustered at all and in no particular hurry "We have you for first degree assault--"
"First degree?"
"Ms Miller is in Mercy Hospital with a broken nose, fractured jao broken teeth, three cracked ribs, and a ruptured spleen Where I coree"
"Shit," Nye said
"With your score, that’s one hundred and twenty-two ree assault for shooting at Ms Miller and Mr McKenzie ‘Course, if you had hit ’e at "
"Well, let’s say that charge holds up We could go for attempted murder instead You beat up Miller Miller calls McKenzie McKenzie co You ambush him Yeah, I think I can make a case for attempted murder How ‘bout you? Want "
"Shit"
" ’Course, if we had been real lucky, McKenzie would have splattered your brains all over the parking lot--he’s done it before"
I continued to shiver behind the glass
Nye smiled the uncontrollable smile of aworse
"Sos asked
Nye shook his head
"I’ll tell ya what I think is funny," Briggs said "First degree assault, plus two counts of second degree assault at thirty-four months each, plus the five years for your parole violationWhy, Richard You’re going to prison for twenty-one years"
Nye studied Briggs’s beaet a third off for good tie adheres strictly to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines"
"They usually do"
"Fourteen years if the sentences are served consecutively"