Bronx D.A./1
Copyeditor’s Style Sheet
Sarena Straus, Bronx D.A., Barricade Books
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345 pages (1-344 + 1 insert page); prologue, 15 numbered and titled chapters, and epilogue
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Style Notes
serial comma used
direct thoughts in italics
numbers over 9 arabic (and all numbers if there are multiple numbers in the paragraph)
ordinal numbers spelled out
Chapter Four
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no periods in abbreviations, per most common style in MS: DA, ADA, US
AM, PM in small caps
Words and Phrases Used
730.30 exam (89)--for
insanity defense
ACS (60)--Administration for
Children’s Services
after-school (299)
Andy (9)--autistic 6-year-old
witness
AP10 (59)--misdemeanor sex
crimes court
Asha (31)--ADA
baby-fatha’ (8)
babysit (211)
Baldini, Roberta (180)--ADA
Bar Association, the (41)
Berger, Dr. Robert (106)-forensic psychiatrist
BLAP (33)
Blow Pop (9)
boombox (167)
brainstormed (184)
breastfeed (255)
Bronx, The (16)
Brown, Ira (97)--defense
attorney; portly, gray hair
burnout (14)
Buy and Busts; B&Bs (37)-narcotics operations
BXDA (29)
BXSVS (56)--Bronx Special
Victims Squad
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Cardillo, Sylvester; Sal
(120)--defendant
caregiver (219)
carpool (25)
caseload (19)
Cavellini, Gia (313)--junior
ADA
check-up (139)
cinderblock (7)
Clark-DiRusso, Mary (66)-senior ADA
Complaint Room (30)
Connolly, Marianne (30)-ADA; tough talking
redhead
cornrows (267)
crime victim advocates (13)
Darden, Jamal (69)--sexual
abuser
DeJesus, Esmeralda (8)--26year-old stripper killed on
p. 7
DIs; DI Squad (144)-detective investigators
Diaz, Barbara (234)--battered
woman
Diaz, Jose (25)--drug dealer
and Healey’s killer
Domestic Violence and Sex
Crimes Bureau; DVS (10)
downplayed (175)
easygoing (47)
Eisenreich, David (237)-ADA
Fairstein, Linda (230)-prosecutor turned writer
fare-beats (10)
farfetched (53)
Flack, William (83)--senior
ADA
garbage can (204)
GJE (41)--Grand Jury
Evaluations Bureau
Globerman, Ira (223)--judge
gofer (82)
Goldstein, David (147)-defense attorney
Gomez, Enrique (319)--77year-old defendant
goodbye (111)
Gottleib, George (248)-disorganized defense
attorney
Grandma Katie (21)--great
grandmother
gunbelts (18)
halfway (320)
hardworking (25)
Harlem, Rosemary (55)-senior ADA
Harris, Quanie (73)--victim
Harrison, Leah (155)--nurse;
witness
Healy, Sean (25)--ADA
killed in 1990
highball glass (199)
Hogan, Judge Aaron; Skippy
(181)--pro-defendant
judge
hogtied (200)
Holdman, Robert (51)--ADA;
now a judge
homicide assistant (6)
homicide car, the (5)-stripped down burgundy
Chevy Lumina
hothead (156)
Hyland, John (145)--DI
JD; John Doe (37)-unidentified suspect on
complaint
Juanito (136)--abused boy
Johnson, Robert (27)--DA
jumpsuit (197)
junkie (112)
Kaiser, Steve (178)--defense
attorney
Koenderman, Elisa (8)--boss;
nee Spittola
Leonard, Kevin (7)-detective; older
Lewittes, Dr. Donald (308)
lineup (7)
Lobster Shift (35)--overnight
shift
lockdown (18)
Lopez, Dennis (8)--suspected
of killing Esmeralda
Maloff, Larry (147)-supervisor
manpower (41)
Marcus, Judge martin (302)
markup (79)
Martin, JoElle (120)-complainant; nee Matos,
nee Klein
Martinez, Luis (137)--21,
looks 15; youth leader;
abuser
McCarthy, Dan (150)--ADA;
mentor
McNaughton Test (89)--for
insanity defense
Meltzer, Dr. Anne (157)-child psychologist
Mobb Deep (94)--band
Montefiore Child Protection
Center (60)
Montoya, Claudia (236)-Legal Aid Society lawyer
mothballs (198)
mousetrap (18)
nationwide (60)
neverending (113)
nonstop (84)
Ortiz, Cruz (144)--detective;
retires
Otto, David (166)--creepy
victim; wife beater
overburdened (90)
Panel, The (287)
Payton, Consuela (170)-defendant’s wife
Payton, Ramon (166)-defendant; soft-spoken;
dark curly hair
Perez, Bernadette; Bern
(149)--ADA; tall, beautiful
brunette
Plopnick, Randolph H. (180)-loathsome attorney
ponytail (121)
prepubescent (61)
pross (36)--prostitution
Quarter Pounder (11)
Quinones, Leonel (79)--cop
redhead (30)
Reyes, Yohanna (166)-David Otto’s wife
Richman, Murray (124)-defense attorney
Rivera, Hector (199)--gay
murder victim
Rockefeller Laws (175)
roundup (36)
sandcrab (116)
schoolbus (223)
Seewald, Judge (147)
Silva, Jesus (234)--abusive
boyfriend of Barbara Diaz
South Bronx, the (5)
spacesuit (197)
standoffish (74)
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Staton, David (5)--ADA; tall,
thin, black, sweet
disposition, dimpled smile
Straus, Sarena (12)--Fordham
Law grad; 25 at beginning
of story; dad doctor, mom
professor, grew up in
affluent suburb
streetwalkers (36)
superhero (337)
T-shirt (193)
Tracy, Kevin (85)--detective;
stocky; muscular; crew
cut; barbed-wire tattoo on
bicep
turnstile (337)
UCs (36)--undercover cops
Upper West Side (27)
videoconferencing (33)
Vasquez, Felix (79)--cop
Vernon, Michael (79)--killer
Villanueva, Sergio (30)--cop;
died on 9-11
warmup (97)
Wayne, Kelvin (223)-teenage pedophile
Williams, Patricia Anne
(123)--judge
Withers, Daniel; Danny (7)-detective; handsome;
muscular; sandy crew cut
and goatee
write-up (37)
Yearwood, Alvin (5)-supervisor; short; booming
voice
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Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: My Affliction
Chapter 2: Operation Losing Proposition
Chapter 3: The Case of the Golden Dildo
Chapter 4: Quanie
Chapter 5: The Little Chester’s Shoe Store Massacre
Chapter 6: The Wannabe Wiseguy and the Junkie
Chapter 7: The Case of the Perjuring Pastor
Chapter 8: Winning the Unwinnable
Chapter 9: The People v. Dernell Thomas
Chapter 10: Homicide Duty
Chapter 11: Jolanda Bermudez’s Ear
Chapter 12: The Documentary Did Not Tell the Whole Story
Chapter 13: Could It Happen to Me?
Chapter 14: Just an Old Man Who Drinks Coffee and Works for Jesus
Chapter 15: Burnout
Epilogue
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283
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336