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“I understand you were arrested by the officers because they had a reasonable belief that you had committed a crime?”
“Guess ’cause I be there.”
“And I also understand that you went before a judge or magistrate and that no bail was granted. Did a lawyer go with you?”
He nodded. “Some white man. Don’t ’member his name.”
“Was he a public defender?”
Jerome shrugged. “Don’t know.”
“What did he say to you?”
“He say, ‘You got money for a lawyer?’ And I think he mean right then. So I says no. Then we went to the courthouse and they ask me how I...”
“How you plead?”
“Yeah. And I say I didn’t do nothin’ to nobody.”
“Did your lawyer request bail?”
“He ain’t say nothin’ ’bout that. But the judge say I gotta go to jail.”
“Did the commonwealth’s attorney mention an indictment?”
Jerome shook his head. “I ain’t never hear that word.”
“What did the man who went with you to court look like?”
“Skinny, short. Got red hair. Loud voice.”
“George Connelly? That ring any bells?”
“Yeah. You know him?”
“Yes. I’ll talk to him to get more details. Has he been here to see you?”
“Naw.”
Jack wrote down a few things. “Did they take any bodily fluids from you? Like a urine sample?”
Jerome looked offended. “Naw. Why they wanna do that?”
“To see if you might have been intoxicated or on drugs.”
“I ain’t either one.”
“Have you ever used narcotics?”
Jerome fidgeted and glanced nervously away.
Jack said, “If I’m your lawyer, everything you tell me is confidential. I can’t reveal it to anyone.”
“Took drugs in ’Nam. Army give ’em to everybody.”
Jack thought of his brother. “I’ve heard that.”
“But I ain’t never take nothin’ since I been back.”
