CIA

I am representing a woman who has been accused of committing two armed robberies. She doesn't think the second one should count because the guy she robbed was trick who ran out on her without paying when she "got up to spit." I put that in quotes because I don't want an intimate connection with that phrase. I spent an hour or so with her in jail, where she explained to me that her confession had been coerced because it was too hot in the interrogation room. Officers should start using my office for interrogation if that is all it takes.

I held her preliminary exam yesterday. Just as I stood up to put in my appearance, she said, "Do you think it will help that I'm a CIA agent?" I whispered, keeping a straight face, "You're a CIA agent. We need to deal with that later." I hope Dick Cheney doesn't out her- she is DEEP undercover.