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[Norman]

So, assuming Nicole isn't subject to some loophole that lets the jailers deny her that one tel call, who should she call?

Claud Southend may or may not be happy to help her.

Seamus is undergoing a somewhat prolonged rejuve, and won't be up and about for about a week.

If she calls Doctor Sharkisian's office, she runs the risk of the receptionist answering the phone.

I think her best bet is Hari Copperton, if she has his number.  Failing that, ring up the doc and keep fingers crossed.

Ah, well, perhaps with this visitor she won't need to make a call.  Or at least may have some more data.

[AzureLupine]

I don't remember Nicole being "read her rights" at the time of her "arrest", only the apprehension, and subsequent beating.  (Does Luna have 'Miranda Law'?)  Also, thre was no explanation for her incarceration after coming out of med-vat.  No formal booking, no offer of legal counsel, nothng.  What gives?

[Hans Rancke]

I don't remember Nicole being "read her rights" at the time of her "arrest", only the apprehension, and subsequent beating.  (Does Luna have 'Miranda Law'?)  Also, thre was no explanation for her incarceration after coming out of med-vat.  No formal booking, no offer of legal counsel, nothng.  What gives?

Lunar law must differ in various ways from what we're used to. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to lock up a minor for 90 days for visiting a drinking establishment.


Hans

[Scott]

I don't remember Nicole being "read her rights" at the time of her "arrest", only the apprehension, and subsequent beating.  (Does Luna have 'Miranda Law'?)  Also, thre was no explanation for her incarceration after coming out of med-vat.  No formal booking, no offer of legal counsel, nothng.  What gives?

Indeed.

[Zaylinda]

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Ah, well, perhaps with this visitor she won't need to make a call.  Or at least may have some more data.

...my first thought about the visitor is that it's probably Rando... though after a little thought it occurs to me that it may be Claud. Those are the only two who have been shown to know where she is.
If it's Rando, he's probably going to try to make a 'deal' whereby she is placed in his custody rather than serve her jail sentence... though in that scenario it would make more sense for him to show up after her hearing... if they intend to give her a hearing at all.
If it's Claud... That could actually work quite well in her favor. He could publicize the (I'm assuming) illegality of her arrest and treatment... if nothing else it could get the attention of Seamus' friends.

[Joey1058]

Claud is beginning to grow on me.  For all of his bumbling, I can see this guy breaking a cover-up wide open!  You go, Claud!

[Andreas]

Claud is beginning to grow on me.  For all of his bumbling, I can see this guy breaking a cover-up wide open!  You go, Claud!

Well, we know he's a tool, so he might as well be useful 

[Andreas]

Uh-oh... I think someone is pulling a fast one!!!

[MirrorField]

I don't remember Nicole being "read her rights" at the time of her "arrest", only the apprehension, and subsequent beating.  (Does Luna have 'Miranda Law'?)  Also, thre was no explanation for her incarceration after coming out of med-vat.  No formal booking, no offer of legal counsel, nothng.  What gives?

Indeed.

If this is the case, Nicole is in serious trouble. Not in legal trouble, but extrajudicial trouble as in "people running this op are effectively above the law". Which would also mean that Seamus grossly underestimated the societal degeneration of Luna and/or Mr. Bobinardi plays much rougher than I've expected (as in 'KGB Rules' instead of more genteel industrial espionage).

Worst case scenarios run along lines of "Nacht und Nebel" and Argentinean-style "Disappearance".

[Norman]

Uh-oh... I think someone is pulling a fast one!!!

Note to self:  Let people tell me who they work for, rather than suggesting the answer I want to hear.  Especially when incarcerated on unknown charges.

Although, Mr. Magnum got the news, perhaps it's just that someone in the system didn't get the "keep this quiet" memo in time to prevent Smith & Holder from being notified.  In which case I expect someone from Smith & Holder to be along soon...

[Tucci78]

There's certainly such a thing as not being paranoid enough.

Just what sort of credentials or other bona fides has Herberto Bustamante presented to Nicole as proof that he's even affiliated with Smith & Holder Resolutions, much less that he's assigned to "advocate" for her?

I figure that when Claud eventually does get through to Nicole, she's going to learn some critically important information.

Most of all, just what the hell is this "cheez" crap, anyway?

No, don't tell me. It's a high-cholesterol dairy product prohibited by the Food Nazis on Luna and sold by lipidleggers (see http://lipidleggin.com/), with massive thefts thereof commonly known as "colbyjacking."

[Box13]

This looks and feels like a dream sequence.But if it isnt then I see Nichole sitting tight ,playing along with the leagal help to see where it goes,but waiting for Seamus to step in...of course if she could call her mother then the sparks would fly...Robin

[Zaylinda]

I don't trust this guy's face.
...I mean, after seeing Mr Graves (aka Mr Dead Presidents) change his face so many times...

Could this be Mr Graves himself? Or Rando?

I just hope Nicole gets to make her phone call soon. It's getting disheartening seeing her get put down again and again...

[Tucci78]

Oh, goodie. We finally get to learn what "cheez" is, and discover that the government thugs on Luna are perpetrating the same old "War on (Some) Drugs" bullshit.

Doubtless the rather more sane folks on L-5 treat with such appetites as suicidal self-abuse and don't try to shift water with a carving fork in yet another ever-so-Progressive "moral equivalent of war."

But they got Nicole (perforce) into a medi-vat immediately after those two Officer Friendly assholes beat her nearly to death, meaning at the very least that they've got the vat's automatic assessment of her physiological chemistry, and therefore there had to have been recorded proof that neither N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine nor diacetylmorphine hydrochloride nor their metabolic residua could have been found in her plasma or tissues, right?

Any American physician can tell you that the real purpose of electronic medical records (EMR) requirements is to facilitate government thugs going through every teensy little bit of the minutiae involved in the individual doctor-patient relationship, the better to "detect" evidence of record keeping mistakes that might be conjured into administrative law "Medicare fraud" actions.

At the same time, however, in a bureaucratically sclerotic polity such as Luna is depicted to be here, that kind of wall-to-wall data recording of the most intensely personal information really ought to be advantageously exploitable by a veteran Smith & Holder Resolutions advocate, no?

Some "cheez hor" is our little Nicole.

[macsnafu]

Love Nicole's reaction to "cheez" and its effects!  But then, she might want to try it after suffering under Luna law for a while.