The Lincoln Lawyer (last nine pages)

First, Detectives Lankford and Sobel come over and arrest Roulet for the murder of Martha Renteria. Mickey is scared because he thinks that the cops don't have enough evidence to convict Roulet unless they get a confession out of Louis.

After 12 hours in a confession room with officers drilling a confession out of Roulet, they find out that they cannot hold him any longer. They let Louis go, freaking out Mickey. He has Val watch him on his ankle tracking device. While this is going on, Mickey calls Maggie to tell her to get home and get Hayley and get the heck out of town. She hurries home, but while packing up Hayley's bag, Val calls back saying that Louis just turned onto Maggie's street. Mickey begins freaking out, thinking that he has caused his ex-wife and daughter's death.

Mickey hangs up the phone and runs for the door so that he can drive over to at least try to save Hayley and Maggie. He knows that he can't get there in time, but he doesn't want to just sit at home while his world comes crashing down. Mickey opens the door, and bang. He falls to the ground with a bullet in his stomach. He can barely move as he looks up and sees who it is, it wasn't Louis, it was his Louis' mother, mary Windsor. He reaches for the inside of his coat which holds a pistol he borrowed from his driver Earl.

Mary moves in closer and points the gun at Mickey's face. He puts his arms up as a surrender sign with one of his arms behind the coat he is also holding up. Bang.

Mary falls to ground, Mickey hit her in the head. He hears foot steps coming up the door and a familiar female voice. Detective Heidi Sobel entered the room. Apparenly, her and Lankford had been keeping an eye on Mickey. As he is laying on the ground he mumbles Hayley, that's when Sobel tells him the truth. The whole time Maggie had been lying to him. She had to make it believable; therefore, she couldn't tell Mickey in advance that her and Hayley were safe. It was all a trick because Mary and Louis had tapped into his phone lines.

Sobel and Mickey come to the conclusion that Mary had been the one that killed Levin. Louis hadn't pulled off some magic trick with the bracelt, his mom did the dirty work. She had never been raped, it was all just a trick to cover up the many lies and murders that Louis had commited. As the book wraps up, Mickey falls asleep, but not to worry he was fine. Three surgeries later and a conviction of two murders and one attempted murder on Louis Roulet, Mickey gets back to work after a sebaticle.

Response: I have never read anything like that before in my entire life. This book was amazing, so many twists and turns....it was awesome. But the last nine pages were pure genious. After I finished it I just looked up and said, "what just happened?". It was so good I re-read those last pages 4 times.

The Lady Spartans Finish With A Perfect NHC Season

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110130/SPORTS05/301309931/1092/SPORTS05

the article after our win last night :)

Jason Derulo - What If (OFFICIAL)

The Lincoln Lawyer Movie Trailer Official (HD)

Terrified, Katherine McPhee and Zachery Levi

I heard this amazing song today and I felt that I had to put the lyrics on here. I love a song with a meaning.....

You, by the light
Is the greatest find
In a world full of wrong
You're the thing that's right

Finally made it through the lonely
To the other side

You set it again, my heart's in motion
Every word feels like a shooting star
I'm at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows burning in the dark

And I'm in love
And I'm terrified
For the first time and the last time
In my only life

And this could be good
It's already better than that
And nothing's worse
Than knowing you're holding back

I could be all that you need
If you let me try

You set it again, my heart's in motion
Every word feels like a shooting star
I'm at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows burning in the dark

And I'm in love
And I'm terrified
For the first time and the last time
In my only

I only said it 'cause I mean it
I only mean 'cause it's true
So don't you doubt what I've been dreaming
'Cause it fills me up and holds me close whenever I'm without you

You set it again, my heart's in motion
Every word feels like a shooting star
I'm at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows burning in the dark

And I'm in love
And I'm terrified
For the first time and the last time
In my only

The Lincoln Lawyer (pages 220-394)

Initially, the two detectives assigned to the murder of Raul Levin (Lankford and Sobel) ask Haller about Levin, not questioning or suspecting him, just trying to find out information about Raul. Over the next couple chapters though, Lankford begins to suspect Mickey, mostly because of his hatred for all lawyers. Mickey's show pistol that was handed down to him by his deceased father is identified as the murder weapon by ballistics, and when Mickey goes to look for it, it is gone. Mickey instantly realizes that Roulet stole his gun when he broke into his house a couple nights before. This leads him to be extra cautious while he plots against Roulet in court.

As he goes into trial, Mickey still tries to help Roulet be found innocent. He tricks the rookie prosecuter, Ted Minton, into mistakes that cause him to lose the case. The mistakes include a charge of failure to pass information to the defense and manor in the courtroom. Ted's superior comes to the final day of court and tells the judge that the state drops all charges against Roulet. Outside of the court, Roulet and his family thanks Mickey for his work and Roulet even proceeds to threaten Mickey if he attempts to take him down. As all of this is happening, Mickey sees Heidi Sobel, the detective on the Levin murder, waiting on the other side of the lobby by the elevator.

Response: I was really mad at the book for these 170 pages or so. The author left things out, only talking about the case and how Roulet was released. At this point I was against Roulet and furious that he was being let go. Also, I was scared that Mickey would be charged with the murder of Levin. The book was getting really good, and I was furious, but in a good way. I felt that I had to leave the last 9 pages in a different post becuase, well it deserves it with how the book ends.

A Friend

I wrote this poem after my family had to put my 8 year old dog down.

A friend who loved everyone,
and always truely cared.
A friend that I could talk to,
and would always be there.

A friend that would help me,
when i was bound to drown.
A friend that would lift me,
right up off the ground.

A friend who I loved so much,
I cried and sobbed and teared.
A friend who meant the world to me,
but is no longer here.

A friend who neated to be treated,
but we didn't have the money.
A friend who had to be put down,
I am so sorry honey.

Scooby, I love you more than anything,
and now I truely know.
That even when life gets rough,
friends can make it so-so.

You taught me how to live,
and that it's okay to cry.
I'm so sorry you had to go,
it wasn't your turn to die.