It was a Monday afternoon in the state capital, normally a somnolescent time of year.

And the City of Brotherly Love, used to a sedate or what some would call a somnolescent downtown, finds itself groping for a solution.

Remo Cavarelli, cowed and silent, sat beside Stern, biting anxiously at his sloppy mustache and upper lip, Notwithstanding Remo's agitation, the indulgent somnolescent air of the early afternoon had fallen over the courtroom.