The Last Meal By Jim Rambo Eddie Pankowski was a member of Delaware’s Public Defender triumverate known as the “ski patrol”: Otlowski, Radulski, and Pankowski. He had the dubious distinction of being assigned to represent James Allen Red Dog. Red Dog was a thirty-nine year old Lakota Sioux Indian who had previously been convicted
Order In The Court? By Jim Rambo (Ed. Note: This is the second in a short series of columns about the author’s experiences over his long career as a prosecutor up in the “old country.”) THE JUDGE SUMS UP During jury selection in a murder trial before Judge Carl Goldstein, the prospective jurors were
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Missing Joe Davis Joe was blackAnd played bass in our bandThat was all out of whackTill he lent us a hand, on the upright. First night I saw him doin’ his thingBarney answered the door in the early morn andAllowed me upstairs where I was hearin’ them singOld jazz tunes, to the lead of
Life As Dodgeball My strategy in life was “low key.” Stay on the back line and Let the brave ones be up front so they could Ride motorcycles, climb cliffs, and walk across ropes pulled tight. The front line made their fully-expected early exits. Head-on crashes, falls from high cliffs, and trips over
TOMMIE—An Unforgettable Man By Jim Rambo We were both young, ambitious lawyers and were court appointed to represent a killer, a black, wiry man whose eyes were vacant and who never smiled. And he hadn’t been smiling the year before, 1983, when he senselessly murdered a priest, who had his collar on, in a
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All Cheaters Know By Jim Rambo She was surely a product of one of God’s best days; a singular, glowing beauty. In his thirty two years, Paulie Samson thought he had seen nearly all of them but this sculpted, raven-haired woman outdistanced the rest by far. The problem was: he and the prosecution had
The Last Meal By Jim Rambo Eddie Pankowski was a member of Delaware’s Public Defender triumverate known as the “ski patrol”: Otlowski, Radulski, and Pankowski. He had the dubious distinction of being assigned to represent James Allen Red Dog. Red Dog was a thirty-nine year old Lakota Sioux Indian who had previously been convicted
