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September 26, 2005
The Boys in Blue
"Verdict," mouthed Fred Perri at 12:30 p.m., and at that point everyone involved put on their game faces.
Sigel sat placidly in the front row.
The rapper's brother Duan looked just as calm.
Sigel's mother Michelle Brown-Derry sat next to Duan, her face hardened with fear.
Behind her sat Melissa Butts, who reached one hand over the bench to touch Sigel's mom on the shoulder.
It's no coincidence that the rows of seats in a courtroom look so much like the pews of a Catholic church.
Then four sheriff's deputies entered the room, jarheads in blue uniforms whose presence often presages a guilty verdict.
"Oh," Sigel's mother said when she saw them.
A moment later Perri was up. "Whatever the verdict is," he told the spectators on his client's side of the courtroom, "I want no reaction. None."
The deputies arrayed themselves around the courtroom. They could be here merely to maintain order over the large crowd, more than 50 strong.
They could be here to take Beanie Sigel away.
Posted by steve at September 26, 2005 02:31 PM
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