Beside my chair on the cedar decking, fast asleep on a braided wool rug with his heavy golden head resting across my boots, was Barnaby—the faithful eighty-pound Belgian Malinois who had watched over our family through every turn of the wheel.
Under the comprehensive military court-martial decrees, high treason convictions, and civil asset forfeiture settlements finalized in the United States District Court in Washington:
– Former Chief Justice Arthur Sterling-Vance was convicted on sixty-four counts of High Treason under Article Three of the United States Constitution, Conspiracy to Sabotage Strategic Defense Infrastructure under Title 42, and Premeditated Attempted Murder under Title 18. Sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, without the possibility of parole, his sixty-billion-dollar shadow consortium completely dismantled into the sovereign custody of the United States Treasury, he spends twenty-three hours a day in an eight-by-ten subterranean concrete cell, having discovered that forty years of aristocratic calculation ends in an un-marked grave.
