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Japheth looked relieved “Do y’all want to hear this or not?”

“Please,” LJ said, straightening his face into a serious expression “Please read on”

“Jury selection will begin on September the seventeenth at nine o’clock am,” he read

“Goddamn, what is that, next Monday? That’s six days froonna have to scramble”

“Wait Wait Wait,” Japheth said

He read slowly, emphatically:

“Further, the Supreme Court has exercised its judicial discretion to appoint a judge to oversee this ie appointed is…”

Japheth glanced over toWe absolutely were

Then he read on:

“The judge appointed is a lifetime citizen of Eudora, the Honorable Everett J Corbett”

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SON OF A BITCH!

It was not illegal for the Mississippi Supreme Court to appointthe prosecution

Not illegal, but wildly unusual, and absolutely deliberate

I could have fought it, but I already knew that I wouldn’t It gave us a second, decent ground for the eventual, inevitable appeal