Judgment at Santa Monica (Jersey Girl #2)
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Read between August 2 - August 16, 2025
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If justice is truly blind, it’s also fairly tone deaf.
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People are weird and I am a person.
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Then she went to the refrigerator and got out some almond milk, which isn’t milk but that’s another story.
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trying very hard to appear nonchalant but actually being pretty chalant.
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Trench didn’t so much as blink. I’m pretty sure he only blinked when no one was watching.
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I’d moved out here to LA because I didn’t want to do criminal law anymore and family law had seemed so much less seedy and unpleasant. Until I’d started to do it.
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Patrick really wants to help. He just mostly doesn’t. Help.
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‘I appreciate that, Patrick, but you’ll recall I said you could stay for the meeting as long as you stayed quiet.’
Beth
I thought there is no attorney-client privilege if a third person is present? Examples: If a client discusses legal strategy with their attorney in the presence of a friend or relative, the privilege is likely waived, according to sfcriminallawspecialist.com. If a client discusses legal matters with their attorney in a public place, the privilege is likely waived. If a client brings an interpreter to a meeting with their attorney, the privilege may still apply.
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figure out a puzzle that makes your head hurt. For one thing, caffeine feeds the pain.
Beth
Eh, not all pain...
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But I did hear shots ringing out and I did in fact hide my eyes because everyone knows you can’t get hit with a bullet if you don’t see it coming.
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She was more the sort who would sit very still and quiet when upset, chew over her own thoughts, reach a conclusion and then never in a million years let you know what it was. Maddie was a little scary, frankly.
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Poston and Andy
Beth
Oxford comma needed
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Chrys, who was so slight a woman that she seemed more rumor than human,
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I’m sure he must have used inflection occasionally, but only when prescribed by his doctor.
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Los Angeles is a really nice city. Someday it ought to put in a transportation system so people can get around to see it.
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sat down without creating so much as an unwanted crease in his trousers. The man was impeccable from head to toe. It was unnerving.
Beth
I think she and Trench would be better than her and Patrick.
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were you staking out Wendy Bryan’s home?’
Beth
Has anyone asked him if anyone else went into the home? Or left from the home?
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Angie doesn’t have a lot of patience for the outcome. That has proven to be quite a boon for some men she’s known.
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Isobel Sanchez, who held advanced degrees in economics and finance from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and had been Wendy Bryan’s housekeeper since arriving in Los Angeles seven years earlier.
Beth
This feels like a statement, rather than just an aside.
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Patrick believes he knows all about being a lawyer because he played one on television. It’s sort of like if the cast of Gray’s Anatomy started doing surgery.
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only thing I can come up with is the Forsythe case.’
Beth
What if Maddie is not as innocent as she seems?
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People – OK, men – tend to underestimate Angie, usually at their own expense.
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Talking makes my voice raspy, which sounds threatening to a jury.
Beth
The psychology is interesting. Also, someone get her some Vocal-eze
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Emily, who was seated to the side of Patrick
Beth
Could Emily be involved? Maybe she was trying to get rid of any competition, not knowing Cynthia was family?
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treated as someone with influence. She was, after all, in charge of most of the cuticles in the entertainment industry,
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I mentally added him to my Christmas card list so I could take him off of it later.
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and then he left, no doubt to go foil the Joker in a plot to contaminate the Los Angeles water supply.