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“Mr. Gold, would you like to use the phone to call your lawyer?”
“Yes, officer. Thank you very much.”
I called my friend Saul Greenberg. We went to law school together, and he now worked as a criminal defense attorney in Queens.
“Saul! I’ve been arrested for felony cocaine possession. I need your help.”
“What? How much is bail?”
“Fifty thousand dollars. I contacted the bail bondsman that I usually use. I should be out in a matter of hours.”
“I’ll be right here.”
I put my head into my hands as I sat in the “drunk tank.” The jail was very overcrowded and understaffed. It took hours to process inmates. The cell had forty people in it. I tried not to look at anyone.
Two large men who must have weighed two hundred and sixty-five pounds each approached me.
“Hey there boy! I like tho
