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SUMMARY
~Mulrooney's defense is claiming that Gabrielle Roth does exist
~They have 24hrs to produce evidence.

( HERE )

(Prosecute the offenders, get drunk and gossip, whichever! If you're an ADA, feel free to JOIN IN THE LAWYER BAR FUN TIMES!)

After a long day at work, Connie headed to the bar not far from Foley Square where she was supposed to be meeting Jeff Bennett and a few other ADAs. She'd promised to introduce Jeff to some people. At the least, she knew Brian Peluso and Casey Novak would show up (hopefully). Once Connie stepped into the bar, she grabbed a booth not too far from the entrance. When the waitress came by, she ordered a pitcher of beer for the table. While she waited for the others to arrive, Connie looked over some paperwork.

OOC: In case your characters didn't hear about it through the grapevine or being at 1PP themselves...

Breaking News Bulletin

1:07PM

The Ledger has just confirmed that there was an officer-involved shooting outside of police headquarters this afternoon. At this time, there is no other information available.

2:13PM

The Ledger has confirmed that Narcotics Detective Ricardo Montez, 34, of the 24th precinct, is in critical condition after being shot at close range by a suspect already under investigation. The suspect, 27-year old Jaime "Jimmy" Jimenez, is in police custody.

OOC: If you feel like having your character be at the scene or arrive afterward or whatever, feel free to pop in, even if we haven't already talked about it.

Monday, August 24th.
Outside One Police Plaza.

"Look, all I'm sayin' is, he didn't hafta be a little bitch about it," Ricky Montez said before taking a drink from a can of Coke.

"Dude, he's a junkie," Brian Cassidy reminded his partner before wolfing down half of a hotdog. "Don't piss off junkies. They don't tend to like it. You've been working Narco longer than I have and you don't know that?"

"I know that," Montez said, eating part of a sandwich as the pair stood at the bottom of the steps leading up to One Police Plaza, which is where they'd stopped for 'lunch' after a meeting. "And to think you left SVU for us."

Cassidy gave a thin smirk. "Oh, yeah, 'cause I'd so much rather be playing Perv Police." He took another bite of his food before glancing around, seeing who was coming and going at police headquarters.

Notes:
- This is a set up for a storyline based on the episode "Lady's Man"


( RP Log )

[Posted to the Ledger's website on Monday afternoon, as well as being featured on their Tuesday morning cover. The story's also been featured on the Faith Yancey Hour and the local news shows on Monday afternoon and night as well.]

---Filed Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 @ 2:55PM---

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office at 1 Hogan Place was evacuated and temporarily closed down Monday after an explosion occurred in the outer wing of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit bureau.

District Attorney Jack McCoy announced during a press conference outside of Hogan Place that Assistant District Attorney Colin MacManus and file clerk Kate Barbour were injured in the explosion. The extent of their injuries or the hospital they were taken to was not immediately disclosed.

McCoy went on to say that Hogan Place would re-open as soon as the building had been inspected and cleared by FDNY officials. Until then, all pending court cases involving the Manhattan District Attorney's Office were to be postponed.


---News Update, Filed Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 @ 6:00PM---

District Attorney Jack McCoy and Police Commissioner Chip Hadley announced that the DA's Office and the NYPD will begin a joint investigation into the events that occurred Monday afternoon at Hogan Place. As the charges will amount to two counts of attempted homicide, the 27th precinct's Homicide Unit, under Lt. Anita Van Buren, will be the NYPD's investigating entity, along with the DA's Office Investigative Unit.

At this time, the FDNY is still investigating the cause of the explosion and will not elaborate on possibilities until their investigation is complete.


---News Update, Filed Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 @ 7:23AM---

The Ledger has learned from a source inside the DA's Office that explosion victims Colin MacManus and Kate Barbour are being cared for at Mercy General Hospital in Manhattan. The source went on to say that as of last night, both victims were listed in "critical" condition.

{{If your character would normally be in Hogan Place, or has reason to be in Hogan Place this afternoon, please feel free to respond here with their reactions or RP/write their reactions elsewhere. Also, if your character would have a police scanner nearby or even would at some point just hear about this through the news or NYPD/DA’s office grapevine, feel free to have them react as well.}}


Monday Afternoon, Hogan Place

Manhattan District Attorney’s SVU Bureau {located across the hall from the Major Case Bureau and next door to the Homicide Bureau}.

The blond ADA stood in the epicenter of SVU’s wing of Hogan Place, making copies on the Xerox machine. One of the file clerks, a kid training to be a paralegal, came in holding a package.

“Hey, MacManus,” the clerk said, “This was just delivered. It’s addressed to ‘SVU attorney’ but it doesn’t say whether it’s for you or Peluso.”

The ADA smirked. Peluso was out of the office for the afternoon. Had the other man been here, they may have engaged in a brief pissing contest over who should get to open the parcel. As it was, Colin was more than happy to get a head start on whatever information was being sent to their office.

“Hand it over,” he told the woman. The clerk, a woman in her early twenties, nodded and started to walk over to him.

“Wonder what it is,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like paperwork.”
“No?” MacManus asked.
She shook the box, which seemed to rattle for a moment. “Nope. It’s kind of heavy, though…”

The lawyer reached for the box. Once it was in hand, he started to tear the packaging off. He frowned. “What the hell—”
The clerk leaned over close to him. “What is –”

Before either of them had a chance to react, the contents of the package exploded, sending them both flying backward.

Outside of the SVU bureau (that is, next door at Homicide and across the hall at Major Case), the sounds of the explosion echoed, followed by what felt like a minor earthquake as the building rattled.

+ This is the whiteboard for the Porter case. Any thoughts your character has that seem pertinent - leads they think they should be following, information they've gotten that needs to be shared, etc., should be posted here.

+ If you need a re-cap of anything that's gone on so far/if your character needs to take another look at the evidence/interviews/etc., all relevant case materials may be found in the Conference Room.


**Note: Whiteboard and conference room links will be on the community page links for the duration of the case.

After combing the crime scene and conducting initial interviews there, the detectives meet back with their CO, Capt. Ross, who instructs them to do the following:

[] Interview Mark Teague, Vice President of PorterCo. [Wheeler and Eames are already on their way]

[] Interview Brad Mitchell, CFO of PorterCo., find out about the financial state of the firm.
[] Talk with any other relevant people you might find at PorterCo.

[] Autopsy - see Rodgers.