Jury Summons #92

By D. E. Harrison

Detective Rage receives a jury summons. She is excited and wants to serve. Going to the Clerk’s office of the Courts fully armed causes a stir. Besides no lawyer is going to put her on a jury. But the FBI’s D.C. Director has a possible use of her. She is ordered to Little Rock to assist in a case development for a Grand Jury. She bums a rides on the FBI’s prisoner jet to Little Rock.
After several days in Little Rock she assists is outlining a plan to prosecute Medicare fraud. She returns home on the same FBI’s prisoner jet to Seattle.
A strange continuous signal is coming from the general area of Texas. But such a signal should not be coming from an earth station. The frequency is reserved for outer space transmission to earth.
The signal is found by two separate command centers. Using radar and counting the beats per minute, it appears the signal is traveling seven miles per minute.
Both centers identify the signal as coming from the FBI’s prisoner jet plane. There is no place to land the FBI plane and provide ground cover for whatever purpose is needed. Which of the three prisoners do they want? After a time it appears that the real target is officer Rage.
Both Colonel Hill and the Madam watch from their command centers but have no ground forces close to any airport the FBI plane could land at. Both worry the plane also carries a bomb.
Three airplanes are descending on the FBI plane as it is ordered to land and take their chances on the ground. In the air the FBI plane is defenseless. On the ground they are outnumbered four to 12 or 15.
Can Rage mount a defense against automatic weapons where they have only revolvers?
Is there any help coming from the outside to save four FBI agents and three prisoners?

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Oct 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215501702

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Jury Summons #92

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2023 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Jury Summons

Chapter 2 The Trip to Little Rock

Chapter 3 Start the New Assignment

Chapter 4 The Closing Meeting in Little Rock

Chapter 5 What of the Medicare case?

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Chapter 1 The Jury Summons

Detective Rage pulls a single letter from her mailbox, What do we have here. I have never seen one of these.

The homicide Detective Janette Rage has been on the Police force for almost eight years. Her badge number is 7394. She is bright, aggressive, and dedicated to the job. She takes a fair amount of ribbing about her last name and the color of her hair. It usually goes on until they see her empty a clip of sixteen rounds at twenty yards into a 4-inch circle. She shoots a competition matched pair of Colt 45s. If that is not enough, she will crack a few ribs, and she will do it again in the gym.

She is a very powerful and attractive young woman. She is always looking down the road before she jumps. In slow or almost instant decisions, she is way down the road when she makes one. She appears to be a little too quick in judging situations, but she has yet to be shown wrong.

Three years earlier, she had completed the Detective training course at the academy. She finished in second place; the other woman there finished twelfth out of the fifteen total candidates. In such a large metropolitan police force, her new duty assignment could have been one of many. She did not know until Monday after graduation her exact assignment.

Just seven days after graduation and four days on the job homicide Detective Rage shows up for duty, she finds herself in a fatal multiple shooting investigation. The rookie Detective Rage has been involved in more fatal multiple shootings investigations than most see in a lifetime. That does not count the fatal multiple shootings she and her Colts has been personally involved in where they tried to shoot her. A Homicide Detective may be considered a rookie for four years or more.

The wheels turn a little faster in dispatch when they receive a call with shots fired from an officer.

When Rage’s call of shots fired comes in, several additional calls are made. First, SWAT is sent out, then the medics, which are usually not needed, then the Coroner George who is always needed, and finally Inspector Strong is called. Her HLS agent code is JX179.

She drives to work with the letter stuffed in her back pocket. In the office she hands the letter to her senior partner, Detective Smith. Did you ever get one of these?

He replies, Many years ago, I had one. Inspector Strong took it and I never saw it or anything like it after that. Nowadays you go down to see the Clerk of the Court. That is the easy way. No lawyer is ever going to let you on a jury.

Thanks, and the morning moves on in homicide.

Before lunch Inspector Strong is in his office. He