Chapter Eleven
The Case of Mariam B.
Judge Mariam W. Broadherst looked down from the magisterial height of her judicial bench with grimly set lips that curled into the characteristic scowl she reserved for what the State called “s*x-offenders”. Crowding into her courtroom was a mob of prostitutes, pimps, and johns, all caught in the net thrown by the grimly determined Catherine Mather, their reform-minded D.A., newly appointed by a governor whose re-election campaign was in trouble, and who was desperate to secure the “women’s vote.”
Ms. Mather had immediately launched a crusade to rid the city of vice, and she had found an enthusiastic ally in Judge Broadherst. Together, they would clean up the town once and for all. Mather’s tactics, of using undercover policewomen posing a streetwalk
