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All Characters are 18 years or older.

When a law office intern discovers that a fellow intern is one of his favourite new OnlyFans performers, a ball begins rolling that will bring a boring summer of paperwork and coffee-fetching into an avalanche of sexual adventure. Fair warning to readers, this story will jump categories. This collection of chapters includes legal Mock Trial drama, flirty lunch meetings, and blunt requests.

OFG is a variation story based on the setup by Aurelian14. Originally written in small chapter releases, they will be collected here on Literotica in 10 chapter chunks for smoother reading.

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Chapter 461

"Alright, folks," Garrison said loudly as he, the female lawyer from the other firm and an older man who looked like he was in his seventies all mounted the stage. "Welcome to court. I'd like to present to you the Honourable Ivan Mathews. Judge Mathews served as a District Judge for seventeen years, and then on the State Supreme Court for another twenty-two, all after a successful career as a criminal prosecutor with a specialty in financial crimes."

You and all the other interns clapped politely, and you sort of wanted to shake the man's hand. It was an impressive career and, to be frank with yourself, he sounded like a fucking amazing reference for law school applications. There were also a little under two dozen other folks who had come in; several were Associates and Partners from your firm, and you had a feeling the others would be from the opposing one. They were all clapping as well, and you wondered if the Judge was something of a local legal celebrity.

"Judge Mathews will be presiding over your trial," Garrison said.

"Let's keep things fun, and have a good mock trial," Judge Mathews said. "I don't want any funny business. What my good friend here didn't tell you is that I also managed the high school and college-level Mock Trial association in the State for forty years, including when he was competing in college, and have written several large cases including the one you'll be presenting today."

"Shiiiit," Sabrina hissed softly beside you through her smile.

You glanced at Garrison, who was smirking just a little, and you knew he'd been sitting on

that

one just to put that last little bit of pressure on the four of you.

"Any questions?" Garrison asked all of you.

You shook your head slightly, though you felt like you

should

have had questions. Out of the corner of your eye, you thought you saw Samantha twitch at the other table, but someone must have stopped her.

"Great," Garrison said. "Then, All Rise for the Honourable Judge Mathews. Sir, you can assume your position."

The Judge, who used a cane lightly even though he didn't seem to really need it, headed around to the Bench, climbed a couple of stairs and assumed his seat, rearranging the notepads and other things that had been set back there for him. It lasted for almost three minutes until he looked up, eyeing all of you still standing and waiting.

"Good," he said. "You may sit."

You all sat, and you wondered how many kids, or other college students, had fallen for

that

simple little trick.

"Good morning everyone," Judge Mathews said, gesturing you forward. "I'll be presiding over your case for the next few days. Could counsel please introduce themselves?" He looked pointedly over to the Plaintiffs.

"Your Honour," Tucker said, quickly standing up. "Tucker Jackson, representing the Plaintiff, joined by my friends Amanda Garcia, Samantha Van Der Groot, Thomas Malberry, and Maeve Walker."

The Judge nodded, Tucker sat, and Mathews looked over at you.

"Your Honour," Sabrina said, standing up just like the four of you had planned. "Sabrina Sodemeyer representing the Defence. I am joined by my colleagues Gemma Anderson, Eric Daniels and John Watkins." Each of you nodded in respect to the judge in turn, and Sabrina sat.

"Excellent," Judge Mathews said. "Alright. Do we happen to have a settlement on the table here, folks? I'm not getting paid by the hour, so you won't hurt my feelings."

"Your Honour, no settlement has been offered at this time," Sabrina said, standing up again. "Our client is fully prepared to defend themselves against these frivolous claims."

"Noted, Miss Sodemeyer," Judge Mathews nodded, then looked to the Plaintiffs. "Any second guesses on the strength of your claims, Counsel?"

"Not at all, your Honour," Samantha said, shooting up to her feet before Tucker could.

"Alright then," Judge Mathews nodded. "If we have no settlement on the tables, let's see your pre-trial motions. No need to stand on ceremony for this part, folks. This would usually be handled well in advance. Someone just bring up your packages for me to review."

That was your job for the moment, so you grabbed the thick file of motions, slipped around Sabrina in the 1st Chair position and brought it up to the Judge at the same time that Amanda was doing the same.

"Your Honour," you murmured, giving Mathews a respectful nod as you handed over your file. There were ten motions, each one helpfully tabbed and labelled. Amanda handed over her file and it looked like they had a few less, but that didn't mean that your case couldn't get torpedoed by any one of them. She glanced at you as you both turned to head back to your tables, and you gave her a little nod as well which made her smile slightly before you split up back to your chairs.

Mathews was like a machine, skimming through the motions. You had to assume that, since he was the man who fucking

wrote

the damn case, he knew what sort of hooks and traps and pitfalls he'd woven into it so it wasn't quite as difficult to parse through as a real civil case.

Preliminary motions weren't the usual for Mock Trials, nor was the size or timeline of the case. Usually, a civil Mock Trial only lasted about an hour and was limited to short opening and closing statements, a couple of witnesses per side, and closing arguments. But Mathews had crafted a fucking

beast

of a case that was like a Mock Trial on steroids - you couldn't imagine anyone tackling it in the usual time limits of 'competitive' Mock Trial. Part of the package had been the variation on the usual rules for the trial - preliminary motions would be presented before opening statements and ruled on, and all such motions that would usually come up in discovery were on the table even if discovery, depositions and all of the other formalities were presented in the package.

That meant that, technically, the Trial could end right at that moment if your side had smashed a Motion to Dismiss out of the park and Mathews agreed.

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"Alright, folks," Judge Mathews said, calling everyone to attention. "Here's my rulings. First, on the Motion to Dismiss from the Defence, I'm reserving comment or ruling until after the rest of the trial - it's no fun if I rule in favour, but I'm also not telling you if it wouldn't have worked. Points will be awarded at the end."

That dashed your Hail Mary hopes that one big swing could win for your side, but it also made sense. There wasn't really a point to all of this if you could just get the case dismissed and the Plaintiffs couldn't even fight it.

With the big one out of the way, however, Mathews started ripping into the rest of the motions of both sides. They were almost all motions for the suppression of evidence by both sides, though Eric had also filed a motion for a change of venue based on the fact that the county jurisdiction seemed to rule in favour of plaintiffs against insurance companies a little over 80% of the time, showing a likelihood of bias.

That one got a smirk and laugh out of Mathews, who denied the motion but told Eric he'd made a decent case for it on the merits.

He tossed out almost all of the motions to suppress from both sides on their merits, which wasn't too surprising. Motions to Suppress were usually criminal case matters since it was usually related to bad actions on the side of law enforcement. In a civil case, the space for that to actually apply was generally fairly small. Still, both teams had tried, and Judge Mathews narrowed them down to one each from the Defence and the Plaintiffs. He then handed them over to opposing counsel and gave you a maximum of an hour to formulate defences against the motions.

The good news was that the four of you had strategized, trying to figure out what your opponents would try to get tossed. The bad news was that even though you had pre-planned defences, you didn't have witnesses to call in for this part of the trial. The first responders to the major pileup included police, and it was different testimonies that both sides were trying to get tossed. You were going to need to argue in favour of an officer's actions to combat the Plaintiff's motion while accusing another officer at the same time.

"Alright," Sabrina said after quickly scanning the motion. "The one they got through is on Officer Penholt."

"He's the officer who found the bag of pot in the trunk of the plaintiff's car, right?" Eric asked.

"Exactly," Sabrina nodded. "They're arguing it was an unreasonable search without a warrant, and no criminal charges were brought forward, so it should be immaterial to the civil case."

"Well, we've already got that one prepared," you said. "The pot was in the open, and he saw it while checking for injured people in the pileup."

"We should split up the problems," Gemma said. "John and Eric work on the defence, and Sabrina and I work on attacking their defence."

"Actually," Eric said. "I've been thinking about this. Follow me for a second. Our case doesn't rely on the pot at all, right?" You all shook your heads. "So what if we just let them have it? We agree it's immaterial to the civil litigation. We know we can't prove that the pot in the trunk means the driver was intoxicated. That way we look more agreeable to Mathews and maybe buy some goodwill."

Sabrina chewed on the inside of her lip in thought and then glanced at Gemma, who shrugged, and then at you.

"I think he might be right," you said. "Remember what Garrison said about playing to the Judge. If we look like we're fighting everything tooth and nail, we look desperate and Mathews knows this case inside and out. The pot is probably a red herring in the story, and if we ignore it instead of fighting over it we might look a lot better for it."

"OK, Sabrina nodded. "We ignore the pot and let them suppress the testimony. There wasn't anything else in Penholt's story we needed, right?"

"He was... a tertiary source for a couple of things, but we've got them covered anyways," Gemma said, already having pulled Penholt's file from our list of witnesses and scanning our notes.

"Perfect," Sabrina said. "Then we focus on defending our motion. Which one was it?"

"He didn't say," you said, shaking your head. "So we either need to ask him, which means we ask to approach the bench and they send someone as well and we give away we're prepping more defence, or we take best guesses."

"I vote we take best guesses," Gemma said. "If they aren't thinking about further defence, we don't want to

get

them thinking that way."

"I agree," Eric nodded.

Sabrina agreed as well, and you quickly went through your motions - there were eight that Eric had put together outside of the motion to dismiss and motion to change venue, but they weren't all made equal. Five of them you were able to weed out pretty quickly since you'd always known they were a little flimsy. Next went the one about claiming violation of right to a lawyer - it was technically true, but the guy who'd been briefly in custody and demanded a lawyer wasn't crucial to the opposition's case and you already had two lines of defence to weed out his testimony on the stand if he got called. That left the Chain of Custody issue where the police had misplaced the keys to the plaintiff's vehicle for several days while the wreck was impounded, and the Violation of Miranda Rights on one of the other drivers in the crash.

"It's got to be the Miranda Rights," Gemma whispered. "The missing keys were found in the wrong evidence bag, yeah, and that's bad. But the car was still impounded and it doesn't prove anything. Getting the admission of guilt tossed from the other driver is way bigger and applies more directly."

The other three of you weren't so sure, but Gemma was

so

sure that you sided with her, and that pulled Sabrina in, and Eric followed. That let you focus all four of your minds on making sure your arguments for your motion were tight and controlled. No splashy outburst, no dramatisation, just the facts.

"Alright folks, that's time," Judge Mathews called. "Let's hear it. Plaintiffs counsel, you first."

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"We are shocked," Samantha said as she stood up. "That opposing counsel would even consider the fact that a duly appointed member of law enforcement, highly trained and in a position of trust in their community, would fail to perform even their most basic of duties when speaking with a member of the public. Based on the testimonies of both Officer Sanchez and Mr Greg Tribonello, there was no arrest made and therefore Mr Tribonello's discussion with Officer Sanchez required no declaration of Miranda Rights. If opposing counsel is contending that Officer Sanchez

had

placed Mr Tribonello under arrest, then we would very much like to hear this from the Officer or Mr Tribonello themselves."

So it was the Miranda Rights case, and Gemma had been right.

For having an hour to formulate their attack, you had kind of been expecting more. During your 'from the opponent's point of view' reviews over the weekend you'd come up with a couple more reasons they could have used - namely that Greg Tribonello had made a voluntary admission of guilt. Officer Sanchez hadn't been asking him for a confession.

The problem was that Officer Sanchez might have

said

he was only detaining Tribonello, but that wasn't quite the case.

"Rebuttal?" Judge Mathews asked, looking over at your table, and you stood up.

"Your Honour," you said. "I believe that my friends have become somewhat zealous in their Defence and have forgotten to manage their expectations in terms of how the rule of law is applied outside of this courtroom. Officer Sanchez's actions on the day in question very much reached the level of an arrest and therefore required the reading of Miranda Rights prior to any further questioning. Even though the word 'arrest' was never used, Officer Sanchez refused to allow Mr Tribonello his freedom of movement for an extended period without engagement, including ordering him to remain near the bumper of his police cruiser and then placing him inside the cruiser despite repeated requests by Mr Tribonello to leave. Two hours after arresting Mr Tribonello, Officer Sanchez then began an express line of questioning while Mr Tribonello was still in the back of the police cruiser, beginning a custodial interrogation by any reasonable reading of the definition. At this point, Mr Tribonello had been arrested, intimidated, and denied his rights. This may be civil and not criminal court, Your Honour, but we believe it is absolutely clear that anything Mr Tribonello said during the subsequent interrogation by Officer Sanchez is tainted beyond belief and should be suppressed."

Judge Mathews was nodding along with your reasoning, then looked back to Samantha at the defence table. "Anything else to say, counsel?"

Samantha stood again. "Officer Sanchez placed Mr Tribonello in the police cruiser to get him out of the sun, not because he was under arrest. And the discussion Officer Sanchez engaged in had nothing to do with the admission of being at fault for the accident."

"Not good enough, Miss Van Der Groot," Judge Mathews said. "Not 'meaning' to kidnap someone doesn't make it any less of a kidnapping when you grab them off the street, throw them in your trunk and drive away. I'm granting the suppression of Mr Tribonello's testimony and the alleged admission of guilt due to it being taken during a custodial interrogation lacking Miranda warnings. Officer Sanchez is not barred from testimony, but if you try and bring in the testimony I will

not

be happy."

"Yes, Your Honour," Samantha said, getting a spiteful look on her face as she sat back down.

"How about you, Mr Watkins?" Judge Mathews turned to look at you. "Thoughts on the Plaintiff's motion?"

You glanced at Sabrina, who nodded for you to field it. "No, your Honour," you said. "We have no issues with the findings of Officer Penholt being considered outside the scope of this case."

"Excellent," Judge Mathews nodded. "Then I grant the motion, and I'll give you the same warning - if Officer Penholt hits this witness stand and you try to sneak the details back in, I will not be a happy camper. Understood?"

"Understood, Your Honour," you nodded.

Judge Mathews nodded again, more definitively, and looked down at his notes as you sat. There wasn't exactly an uproar coming from the Plaintiff's table, but you could tell by the quick, harsh whispers that there was some confusion in their ranks as to why you wouldn't fight them on the discovery of the pot. There really wasn't a good reason for it to be suppressed, but you'd handed them a 'win' and they weren't sure why. It was all the little wins that could stack up into a proper victory.

But... this wasn't a competition. Not like the Mock Trials run by a school or a conference. You, Gemma and Sabrina, were applying the lessons you'd learned from the first time Garrison agreed to mentor you - play the game in front of you, not the game you think should be there. Just like working together to finish that practice LSAT, you weren't looking to score little points - scorecards didn't matter in court, only the final decision. Judge Mathews was more than capable of keeping those scorecards blindfolded, but you had a feeling he didn't really care about them. He was a retired Judge, here for the fun of it. He was used to working with professionals, and that's how you wanted him to see you and your side of the case.

Gemma and Sabrina had both whispered their encouragement when you sat down, and you'd wanted to grab their hands under the table but you knew that just because the Judge might not see you do that, didn't mean it would be hidden. Garrison and a dozen other lawyers from the firm were watching quietly from behind you. Some of them were working on laptops or their phones, and others were paying more attention to the goings on. No public, or secret, displays of affection were going to fly.

"Alright," Judge Mathews said after he finished writing down some notes. "Pre-trial motions are now concluded, and we can get on to the case proper. We're lacking a court clerk, so I'll fill in the role myself and call this session to order. Counsel, are you prepared to make your case?"

"We are, Your Honour," Tucker said, standing briefly and nodding.

"Defence is ready, Your Honour," Sabrina nodded, standing as well.

"Good," Judge Mathews said, then smirked a little. "I'd be concerned if you suddenly weren't. Alright, we'll begin with opening statements."

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Surprisingly, it wasn't Tucker or Samantha who stood up to give the Opening Statement for the Plaintiffs. The two of them had been dominating and, honestly, a little domineering in how they seemed to act within their group dynamic. If it wasn't them, you would have expected it to be Amanda - the large-breasted woman seemed to be fairly

normal

compared to her compatriots despite her unordinary physical feature.

It wasn't here either though. Thomas, the mousy guy with the bad posture, was the one who stood up and came around their table into the space between the lawyers and the Bench.