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Part 546 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 4 of Poor Petty Officers vs The Bombastic Ass: A Case Fic
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Pettifogger

Summary:

Have they found the killer, yet?

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 10/29/2000 for the word pettifogger.

pettifogger
A petty, unscrupulous lawyer; a shyster.
A person who quibbles over trivia.

This is a sequel to Impecunious, Orotund, and Promethean. You can read this one without having read the previous ones though. I'm not at all sure I'm using this word well.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #234 Lies.

As always comments, kudos, and constructive criticism are greatly appreciated.

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Pettifogger

Tony fully understood Gibbs rule to never involve lawyers now. It had taken him a long time to put the pieces together and realize that they had a pettifogger lying straight to their face. Despite the lawyer’s rather unscrupulous attempts to redirect them and keep them from finding the clues they needed to solve the serial killings, they’d finally figured it out.

Tony and Abby had even managed to find enough proof to keep him locked up for at least 24 counts of murder, which should keep him behind bars until he died. Tony would never trust another lawyer again. Well unless it was one of his frat buddies.

All other lawyers, even if they weren’t serial killers like this one, made it far too easy for a serial killer to be in their midst simply through their “normal” behavior which supposedly wasn’t suspicious at all.

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