Landmark Trial, part 1 of ? by The Misogynist (aka Jake Baker) Trisha Campbell sat teary eyed in the courtroom. The defense called its last witness - Byron James. The man who had raped her, who had... she couldn't bear to think of it. Her pretty brunette head sagged and she started crying again. It was all so horrible. Byron James took the stand grinning. Byron was called "Bear" by his friends, and he looked like it: 6'4" of construction-worker muscle wrapped around his body; his black hair was long and uncombed, and his shaggy beard was equally unkempt. The attorney for the government, Clyde Barker, was well dressed in a cheap suit. The short weasel of a man skittered over to the stand and began asking some very direct questions. Trisha was not fond of the man, but she was the only lawyer she could afford. His questioning was kind of lame; Trisha herself was a first year law student, and could have done better. "Do you know this woman?" asked the weasel, pointing, almost accusingly, at Trisha. Trisha looked up, but the rapist grabbed her eyes, and she squealed under her breath and swung her head down again. "No." said the bear, slowly, deliberately, chewing his words, staring directly at Trisha, "Nope, I never seen her in my life, god as my witness!" He thought she looked like a rabbit, a brown-haired floppy- eared rabbit; no, that wasn't right - she was a doe. A young, fragile deer. Bear watched the little girl across the courtroom shiver and try to hide. He undressed her with his eyes; it was easy, he'd stripped her naked before he had raped her. Now that had been fun; he couldn't recall those few hours without grinning, just like he was grinning now. His cock stirred in his pants. "Are you sure?" asked the weasel, stalking over to the 20 year old Canadian girl. He put his hand under her chin and raised it up. Trisha blushed deeply, her wet eyes still downcast, hoping the judge would find fault with Mr. Barker's exhibition of her. She wasn't on trial here, he was! "Yup, I'm sure." Said the bear, as if his mother had just asked him if he had ever stolen from the cookie jar. She had been tight in her cunt, he recalled with pleasure, rubbing himself under the bench, but then again, most bitches were tight to him, him and his 3" wide cock. The weasel walked again to the accused grizzly, "Now, consider this carefully, remembering you're under oath: this girl, Trisha Campbell, 20 years old, was visiting New York with her choir group on March the 9nth; did you rape her?" "Uh-uh." "So you didn't..." the weasel flipped a few pages in his notes, "(and I quote Ms. Campbell's testimony here) 'Beat her, make her strip off her clothes like a striptease act and then proceed to..." (flip, flip, flip) "Stick your penis in her vagina, and then her ass, and then her mouth, not once but several times?" The bear's cock throbbed under his pants. Yes, he had. Yes, by god, he had taken the fucking cow like a real man and he had taught her how stupid sluts like her should respect a real man like him. "No sir, by god, not only have I never seen this woman, I never even touched her or said good-day to her, and neither have I done any of that other stuff." The prosecution seemed a little at a loss, as if he had expected Mr. Kudgel to confess under such bald questioning. He walked back to the desk to take a sip of water, and the lovely brunette hissed at him, "th-the tape. Show him the tape!" The weasel spun on his heel instantaneously, as if he had never heard his client speak. In his other hand he wielded an unlabeled VCR tape as if it were a struggling carp. He crossed to the judge's stand in two strides, and handed the tape to him. He was intercepted by an acute aide, who snatched up the tape and had it bagged and labeled and in the evidence pile before the weasel could blink twice. Honorable Judge Cowen presided over this trial. He ran his courtroom with nary a word, examining all sides impartially. He was, the residents of New York, both criminal and law-abiding, admitted, one of the best judges ever to sit on the stand. He was fifty years old, his otherwise waxy head circled by a filigree of white hair, but his face was still strong, as was the body underneath the flowing black judge's robes. Now, his face was a scowl, a scowl aimed deeply at the weasel. "What," he said, drumming his finder impatiently on his table, "was that?" "Um, sir, it's the uh it's the ah tape of the rape... alleged rape... taken at the scene, allegedly by Mr. James." The judge's face moved like a stone statue to face the victim, "Is this true?" he asked slowly and deliberately, each word measured twice and cut once. The brunette's pretty head bobbed up and down, her light brown hair flying up and then back down, "Y-yes sir. He, uh, he made a tape of... it..." her voice died in silence. The judge had not seen her eyes. Trisha liked the judge; he had never even smiled at her, but she had been told by many people that he would see justice done in this matter. There was a long moment of silence. The lawyer for the defense, Guy Winter, motioned with his well-manicured hand that he did not wish to cross his client. The bear was returned, hands still chained behind his back, to sit next to his lawyer. The bear stared deeply at him; the well-dressed defense lawyer glanced at him once, and then blinked. They both turned away, as if satisfied by the exchange. The moment of silence became a minute of silence, and then five minutes of silence. The judge, during these five minutes, folded his arms across his chest and put his chin down. Except for the fact that his eyes were open, and moving rhythmically from Trisha, victim, to Guy, defense, to Byron, rapist, to Clyde, prosecution, one would have assumed he had fallen asleep. During this time, Trisha managed to control her crying, but turned her chair away so that she could not accidentally see the man who had violated her. Clyde shuffled papers for a while, seemingly with no purpose, then paused, then shuffled them back again. Guy grinned like a snake and felt his silk suit rustle against him. It made him feel so... scaly. Byron stared at the back of the brunettes head, grinning, happily reliving the first time he had fucked her shit-hole, and then the second time, when he had made her beg for it, and the third, when she was just screaming hysterically. Finally, judge Cowen turned to his aide and, ignoring the rest of the courtroom, said, "I will recess to my chambers now. Re-assemble the court in one hour." Everyone stood, Trisha trembling a little on her knees, holding the table for support, as judge Cowen, who looked a little like an owl, left the room. Then there was a mutter of conversation as each party went off to its own private meeting room to discuss the events of the last hour.