Christmas Present
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The judge wouldn’t see me until I showed him the food bag and coffee. That seemed to get him going, but it was quickly clear that I was not going to be able to talk Meri out of jail. They were convinced that she had something to do with her friend’s disappearance and it appeared to me that the testimony that was given by Rico had a lot to do with the fact that Meri was in jail. The man’s name kept coming up and I had to wonder why that was. Maybe Meri was right about him.
“Well at least let me get her out on bond. We will stay here if that is what is required of us. It would look good for our countries if we did this in a better way. The treatment she has gotten since she has been here goes against several human rights.”
“It is the jail for everyone. Americans are no better when they come here and do crimes on our soil. This is our country, not America.”
The old judge had a hard look on his face and I was trying to figure out an angle. I am used to reading people, it’s what I did for a living, convincing people to see things my way. I just had to figure out how I was going to get this judge here in front of me to see things my way.
“You see Sir, it is not because she is better, in any way. If anything else, she is weaker than many of the women in there with her. She has a medical condition and the last thing either one of us wants is for something to happen while she is in jail. If she is out, I will make sure she doesn’t go anywhere, she will give up her passport until we have this all straightened out. I assure you that it will come to light that she had nothing to with the disappearance of her friend. There is no body, so there is no real proof of a crime.”
“She will not get out for free.”
“Naturally.”
“There will be conditions, but if you agree to them, I will go ahead with a temporary release.”
Relief flooded over me and I told him that I would agree to whatever I had to do to get her out of jail. She didn’t actually have a medical problem, but the fact that she was just so delicate should have been reason enough. A woman like Meri wouldn’t be able to survive in such a place for too long and I genuinely didn’t want to see her in that place another moment. It was no longer just about helping out Ashlyn. It was now about righting an injustice, the whole reason I became a lawyer in the first place.
Did it matter that my client happened to be young and absolutely beautiful? Well it certainly didn’t hurt anything.
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