Should we go back just a little bit to the very beginning, just what it was like

before this all happened. I was doing really well in school. I was in all

accelerated courses. You know I was pretty much on track. I mean I wasn't in

this is Courtney Kalenda and she's talking about her time as a high school

student in the affluent suburb of East Greenwich Road Island.

Courtney had everything going for her. She was at the top of her class. She was

playing her favorite sport soccer. She was popular. I was invited to the prom by

a boy the year older than me that a lot of the girls wanted to go with and they

were not happy that I was going with him and one day I was walking out to my

Jeep in the back parking lot. I had my backpack on and these three girls came

around and they surrounded me. Started calling me like a slut, a whore. So I said

something that was very very heartful and they attacked me. And because of the

high schools you know zero tolerance policy I was going to be suspended. Not

the time you know I had big college ambitions and it was I didn't want that on

my record. I felt that it was unfair. That's when a couple of other friends told me

that Mr. Bev was the one to call. Mr. Bev was Joe Bevelock,

Virginia, a criminal defense attorney and the air to a prominent political

family. Everybody loved him. Everybody wanted to be around him and everybody knew

him. He was fun. He would take kids fishing and he made all the cow's bones

with the soccer games and he was just kind of like you're all American dad. He was

also the son of a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who had been

impeached for his ties to the mob. But Joe Jr. built a successful criminal law

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