Marlee - (aka Claire Clement - real name is Gabrielle Brant) Nicholas Easter's accomplice on the outside of the courtroom.

Rankin Fitch - Ran the show of high-priced lawyers and consultants for the defendant, Pynex (tobacco co.). Directed all the illegal proceedings going on outside the courtroom for the defendant.

Durwood Cable - Head lawyer for the defendant team.

Wendal Rohr - Plaintiff's, Mrs. Jacob Wood, head lawyer.

Judge Frederick Harkin - the presiding justice for this case.

This story was about how two very smart and focused individuals who could manipulate a jury and the defense team in a multi-million dollar legal battle to receive a very large cash payment. The defense was Pynex, a tobacco company, and they had very deep pockets and were willing to pay for the correct verdict. A verdict for not guilty.

The story starts with the very laborious job of jury selection. The tobacco industry has on their payroll a man

When Nicholas found out that the FBI agents that visited Hoppy were fake he snuck into Millie's room when Hoppy was there to devise a plan.

Hoppy was told by the fake FBI agents that since he couldn't persuade his wife he would have to tell her that she has to vote for the defendant if she was to save her husband from going to jail. Hoppy did just that and after he left Millie cried. She was so confused. She saw Nicholas in the TV room and decided to confide in him. She trusted him. He took the names of the so-called FBI agents, Napier, Nitchman, and Cristano and told Millie not to say anything to anyone until he had a chance to do some investigating.

by the name of Rankin Fitch. Fitch foresees the selection of the lawyers and consultants. Fitch and the consultants foresee the selection of the jurors. Each perspective juror is investigated and watched. The defense as well as the plaintiffs want to secure a verdict so they only want jurors sympathetic to their side. Fitch along with Rohr, the plaintiff's lawyer, also had high priced detectives tailing perspective jurors. Anyone who was the least bit wrong for their cause had to be eliminated from the process.

Meanwhile, Nicholas was getting the jurors trust. They started to look to him for information and advice. He told them that at one point he was a law student and he seemed very knowledgeable so they asked him many questions. He was also very confident in things he did and said and he was very friendly ready to lend a hand to anyone. All these things enabled him to sway these people his way. He even swayed Judge Harkin to get the jurors better food and walks for relaxation. On the weekends the defense team did their share of swaying the jury or should I say a light touch of blackmail. For instance one of the jurors, Lonnie Shaver, worked in a manager position in a supermarket chain. The tobacco company just so happened to purchase the chain and they approached Lonnie saying that he would have an upper management position if he could just vote the right way and maybe sway some other jurors. If he didn't his position was not to promising. One person that never would show his feelings because he never discussed the case, as per Judge Harkin's rules, was jury foreman, Herman Grimes, who happened to be blind. He was very honest and took his position seriously.

The jury kept listening to experts testify on how smoking is bad and how commercial advertising targets children. Then they heard from the defendant's experts on how smoking doesn't cause cancer.

Nicholas planted copies of newspapers and magazines that had articles on the court case in Colonel Herrera's room. He then told the judge that Herrera was reading inappropriate material. When the judge saw the newspapers hidden under Herrera's bed he was taken off the jury and replaced with an alternate. Marlee told Fitch this would be done and when it happened Fitch saw what control Nicholas had on the jury.

Nicholas and Marlee had to get Fitch's attention to let him know that there was someone working on the jury and outside and they could make his life miserable or quite pleasant. This was Marlee's job. She left Fitch a note telling him what clothes Nicholas was going to wear the next day. Fitch knew he had to investigate Nicholas deeper. He hired Doyle, a private eye, to search Nicholas' apartment. He found nothing of interest and couldn't get into Nicholas computer. It had a sophisticated security system. When Nicholas came home he went directly to his computer. What Doyle didn't know is that Nicholas had surveillance cameras hidden throughout his apt. and now the tape, which was on the computer, with him breaking and entering, was there for Nicholas to use to get what he wanted.

Marlee told Fitch to now wire the money to her account in Panama. He

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