That day Senior Advocate Steve Jackson wanted to call John Smith, his newly joined associate who has taken up the legal apprenticeship with him. He felt little ashamed of himself for having given him the toughest and a hopeless case to deal with, considering that was his first one. The case was about Williams Sherwood, owner of multiple retail outlets in and around Texas, who had hit a jay walker with his Mercedes on the outskirts of Texas in a remote high way junction.

The worst part was that he had left the vehicle and fled the scene abandoning the dying victim. The jay walker was actually drunk and could not survive by the time the ambulance arrived. Meanwhile with his wide network of lawyers, Williams had managed to get one of his drivers who consented to be a proxy and surrendered to the police as the offender. As a sharp twist to the tale, there was a lone witness on the highway who had seen Williams getting down from his Mercedes before he fled the scene. The adamant witness could not easily be dealt with either money or pressure. He proved to be a stubborn asshole in the earlier deposition, proclaimed that he would come to court and tell the jury that he had seen Williams hit and run.

Steve was on a business trip and away from the court for a week’s time who actually thought of calling John to get appraised about the case proceedings when he received a call in his mobile. It was none other than John. He explained verbatim the day’s proceedings in the court with the hit and run case. The witness got into witness box and after usual inquiries John asked him where he lived and inquired about his place of business or work. The witness informed his place of residence and business and John intervened and quizzed him that both had nothing to do with the place of the accident.

“How come you have gone to the place of accident at the night time and the purpose?” Immediately the lawyer for prosecution objected and the judge sustained it. At one point John again asked the witness “You seem to have travelled often, say almost twice a week along this route through the high way junction where the accident happened. Did you travel this area to meet someone or for any specific business?” The advocate again objected and pleaded with the judge that this question has nothing to do with this case to which the judge again warned John not to ask any questions irrelevant to the case. At this juncture, John mumbled in a feeble voice only audible to the witness “may be not connected to this case, but soon this would be relevant to another case”

Listening to the proceedings as explained by John, the Senior Advocate Steve got puzzled and asked “truly speaking John, even I could not understand, and I am sure your question has nothing to do with this case and how do you explain your expression this relates to another case”

“So, you got curious, then, guess how curious and shocked the witness would be, considering the fact that he has been visiting the residence of his girl friend at this route twice every week which is unknown to his beloved wife” said John. Now, Steve got the point and appreciated that his associate had made really a thorough research on the witness. “So you expect the witness would make a contact soon?”

John said “The witness already contacted me confidentially and inquired about it. I told him that I knew all the details about his visit to his secret lady’s residence including the log details of his vehicle parking and the video shots of the security camera fixed outside her apartment with exact time of his arrivals and departures.

“Then?” .Steve was more curious now.

John continued and said that the witness got panicked and asked, “So what do you propose to do with this information?” I told him ‘as I said, this information may be not useful for this case, but for another case to be filed by your beloved wife seeking divorce from you very soon on the basis of infidelity; your extra marital relationship with your girl friend Sophia’.

Steve could not control his laughter and asked “So he budged to your black mail? And how do you intend to convince his wife for a divorce?”

“ I told him that I would make his wife visit the court gallery for the next hearing on this case where I had to continue with the witness cross examination and I warned him that on that day I would put more questions about his mysterious travel on the accident road.“

“How do you plan to bring his wife to the court for audience? Don’t you think this is too much? And he believed it? “

“Of course, he has no option but to believe me to safe guard his little dirty secret and avoid divorce petition from his wife. You know pretty well that there is no need for me to bring his wife to the court. I am damn sure that son of a bitch would skip all the subsequent hearings and we could comfortably move ahead with the prosecution process of the proxy.”

Senior Advocate Steve Jackson was astonished with his associate John’s brilliance and tactics and realized that he had got a tough competitor in his own booty.