“Evening, officer,” said Sean with a winning smile, unaware his father no longer had diplomatic immunity.
The police did not banter. They booked Gregory Norn for seventeen traffic violations and, because his father was a judge, temporarily suspended his temporary license.
Since Andy Jellick was known to them, they searched him carefully, more than once, while he continued to insist, “I’m clean. I’m clean. You’re harassing me. I’m clean.”
Apparently, they didn’t believe him because they began a thorough search of the car which they called off only after the most perfunctory search of Sean turned up a lump of grass in a plastic sack in his sock.
“You see this bag, son,” one of the policemen said.
“Yes, sir,” answered Sean.
“You got caught holding it.”
After fingerprinting him and book
