The gallery gasped as Stu turned towards the witness.
"So, when Detective Briscoe testifies, he will state he called the victim from your home and he knew the both of you?" Stu asked.
"Yes. He knew Julie and Julie gave him the key to my house and he used my phone."
"How do you know that?" Stu asked.
"Because I caught him in my house once and he was calling Julie," Linda said.
"Oh, I see, do you remember what day that was?"
"No," Linda said.
"No further questions," Stu said as he sat down and Jack stood up.
The prosecutor peppered her with questions that got her frustrated.
"So you expect us to believe that a decorated police detective, who has been with the NYPD for over 30 years, went to your house, used your key to get in and your phone?"
"Yes. Are you guys deaf?" she asked annoyed.
"No. But did you call the police when he was at your house?"
"No," she said.
"Why not? He's trespassing since he had no reason to be in your home. He had no warrant for a probable cause." Jack said.
"I don't know," she said.
"One more time, Mrs. Macias, why didn't you call the police when Detective Briscoe was in your home?"
"Objection, asked and answered," Stu said as he got up.
The witness finished her testimony then court adjourned for a ten minute recess, then once they were back from recess Detective Briscoe took the stand.
"Your honor, I have no questions for this witness at this time," Stu said then sat down and Jack got up.
"Did you and your partner do the investigation of the death of Julie Dodd?"
"Yes."
"What did you find?" Jack asked.
"We found that the defendant had a gun that was used, in his room. That same gun was the gun that killed Julie Dodd."
"Before the victim was killed, did you know Mrs. Macis?" Jack asked.
"No," Lennie looked at Jack confused.
"Did you have the key to her home?"
"No," Lennie responded, a bit annoyed.
"The witness, Mrs. Macis, stated, she had not seen or talked to Miss Dodd in a year but your and your partner's reports state that it had been two weeks. Did she tell you it'd been a year or two weeks?"
"Two weeks," Lennie said.
"Did you hear the testimony given by Mrs. Macis today?"
"No, I didn't," Lennie said as he looked at Jack irritated.
"Were there some evidence that had spoken to Miss Dodd in the last two weeks of her life?" Jack asked.
"Yes, there were phone records that show that Mrs. Macis called Miss Dodd," I am sure she said two weeks, I wrote it down on my notes and in the report."
Did you know Miss Dodd?" Jack asked again.
"No."
"Did you ever go to Mrs. Macis' house to make phone calls to implicate the witness for calling Julie?" Jack stated.
"No, I did not."
"No further questions," Jack said then sat down as Lennie looked at Jack then left the courtroom.
"Your Honor, I have no follow up questions for the witness," Stu stated.
'Then the witness is excused and court is adjourned for lunch," the judge said.
Court adjourned for lunch Lennie waited outside the court house and saw the prosecutors walk out.
"Counselor, what was that for?" Lennie said as they both stopped and turned towards him.
"Because the witness had implicated you into breaking and entering and pretty much stated that you knew the victim and her. I had to make sure that the jury knew that you had nothing to do with the charges."
"I really didn't deserve that," Lennie told him.
"I know you had nothing to do with the witness or the victim, and I'm sorry, Detective. Okay?"
"Okay," Lennie said then they parted ways.
At the precinct—
Ed looked over a case file, while he made calls to find out the whereabouts of a person who knew a victim of a crime; then saw Lennie walk in.
"Hey, how did things go?" Ed said then asked.
"Fine," Lennie said annoyed.
"Here, the LUDs of the person I am trying to locate who knew and called the victim," Ed said as he gave Lennie the LUDs.
"I don't want to work this case with you," Lennie said as Ed looked up shocked.
"What?"
"Listen, Ana Cordova went with you right, just have her finish the case with you, okay?" Lennie said.
"Okay. If you change your mind, let me know," Ed said confused as Lennie gave him the LUDs back.
Lennie made some phone calls then while Lennie was looking over a report, Ed got a call of a homicide.
"Lennie, we got a homicide."
Lennie and Ed went to the home of a man and his wife; Ed looked at the woman while Lennie looked at the man.
"Who called it in?" Ed asked.
"The friend of the man who lives here. He said he hadn't seen or heard from him or his wife in a few days," the officer responded.
As Lennie looked at the man, an officer called out to him.
"Detective? Detective?" the officer called out.
"Is that who I think that is?" Lennie questioned to himself.