"For my first witness," Blind said, motioning towards the bench. "I'd like to call up someone who can give us a pinpoint character testimony."

"I'm already up here, dingus," Joy Lester said, adjusting her frilly red glasses.

"Dingus?" Blind said, his brow wrinkling in disgust. "Is that any way to address your prosecutor?"

"No..." Joy sneered and pushed back her mom hairdo. "But it is a way to address a man. Now let's incriminate this dingus so I can get to a lecture at my college."

Blind shrugged his shoulders. "I can't do that without your character testimony, so please be as vitriolic as possible towards Mr. Banks, please."

Joy glared at Monty Banks with such hostility it made the middle aged man whimper and attempt to hide behind his much smaller mistress. "Where do I begin?" Joy snarled. "This man is the biggest worm to ever infest the moldy apple that is Business Park ever!"

"I object to that metaphor..." Monty Banks whimpered.

"Overruled," Divine said whacking her gavel. "Back in my day, we had politicians who ran Business Park with R-E-S-P-E-C-T!"

"It's not the sixties, you old bag!" Monty muttered.

"My point exactly," the judge said. "Now Miss Lester, please continue your tirade...i mean testimony."

"Objection!" Mina cried out.

Everyone turned their eyes to Monty's defense attorney. "This witness is obviously biased. I should know, because I was part of Greta Goode's Gretettes!"

"Gretettes?!" The judge exclaimed. "Did Ms. Goode have a group of backup singers? We had the Diviners backup singers when I was in my girl group, The Divines. Sadly, nobody would book them because everyone thought they were mediums!"

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"No ma'am," Mina said, shaking her head. "The Gretettes were a hip young voter group. And I was happy to be one!"

"And now you betrayed us," Joy sneered and began to rant. "You sold yourself out to the biggest crybaby boomer there was! All for the love of crapitalistic society!"

Mina winced. She couldn't even object to Joy's accusations of her own character. They were a 110% true...but...regardless, her client was innocent. In this case at least.

"You may say I'm biased, being the opposing campaign manager," Joy remarked, "But who better to give you the perfect reason why the baby boomer would make my candidate go boom!"

The judge was silent, and Mina feared that she and everyone else was waiting to hear the inside scoop on hr campaign.

Joy grinned like a maniac. "Greta Goode was the utilitarian candidate and she appealed to everyone! She was old and dowdy enough for the old folks but she knew the imminent coolness of Hokey Mom Go. She was was up with the grown ups and down with the kids. She was rich enough to fit in with the one percent, but she wasn't above a taxi ride every now and again!"

Once again, the judge and Blind did nothing to contest her testimony. And even worse, Mina had nothing to say. Greta Goode was indeed the greater good.

Joy's eyes gleamed behind her librarian glasses. "She donated to orphans, endangered whales and people without proper fertilizer for their lawns! She was the Jackie of all trades and I was the one who made her that way."

"Aside from my client's insufferable vanity," Blind said. "I'm sure no one can argue. Can you...Mina...I mean, Defendant Hawkins?!"

"I uh..." Mina tried to search her brain for any scandals or sketchiness regarding her candidate but nothing came to mind.

"The cat lady clearly has your tongue!" Blind scoffed. "Now your honor, you can clearly see why the defendant had a motive for killing the victim. He was obviously going to lose in a landslide. Not even someone as contrarian as Miss Hawkins can combat that. She was even going to vote for Ms. Goode!"

Mina bit her tongue. Blind gave her a confident smile, knowing he got her where he wanted her. Clearly their little meeting and flirtations wasn't gonna stop him from doing his job as a proper prosecutor.

"I either have to up my flirting game and leave him speechless, she muttered to herself. "Or find that elusive opening!"

Blind gestured to bench, with a smug smile on his face. "Now if that character witness of Greta Goode wasn't good enough, I have someone who got it all on screen!"

"Who?!" Mina exclaimed.

A handsome, young spikey haired man in a tuxedo stepped up to the stand. He held a microphone in his hand and spoke clearly and professionally. "This is Tim Justin, ace reporter, reporting live from the West Wing Lawson Courtroom!