Tina is already exiting out the firm’s door after snatching the note from between Ralph’s fingers.  Ralph takes a moment to smile at her exuberance thinking he too was that eager once.  It was refreshing to see it in Tina.  It gave him that extra umph he needed today to resume looking at the file on his desk.

Tina wasted no time getting downtown to the city lock up.  The city and the county jail were right next to each other making them easily accessible to the court across the street.  Tina was an old hand at the process by now having bailed out clients on behalf of the firm before.

Walking through the front door, Tina breezed through the metal detectors on her way to the front desk.

“Hello I’m Tina Kennard, I believe you have a Shane McCutcheon in the back.” Tina says looking at her note quickly then giving the officer a warm smile.

The officer looks up at Tina and smiles back he’d seen her before but still needed to go through the routine, “So who are you and which firm are you with?”  Handing Tina a sign in sheet on a clipboard.

“I’m a third year with Ralph Gamble’s office.” Tina says in an impish way that makes the officer chuckle.  Signing in she hands the clipboard back.

“Well Tina Kennard with Ralph Gamble’s office we have who you’re looking for just give me a moment and I’ll set you up.”  He smiles to Tina before returning back to his computer terminal.

Tina could hear him clicking away at his terminal.  When she saw him staring at his terminal screen, Tina figured he’d located Shane McCutcheon. 

Turning back to Tina, “We’ve got her in the women’s area.  Do you want to see her in her cell or would you prefer the lawyer’s conference room?  I don’t have a lot of staff on today so if you want the conference room you’ll have to wait until someone gets back from lunch to accompany you.”

“The cell is fine with me.  Can you tell me what’s she going to be charged with?”

The office looked back to his screen.  “The charges will most likely be assault and battery.  Apparently Miss McCutcheon took a bat to a John Ballard, hitting him once across the chest knocking him down and then putting a foot on his chest preventing him from rising.  He looks to be pressing charges against her.”