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LINDSAY: Previously on "The Practice"...

- You want to hire me to defend you

in a sexual harassment case?

Don't you think that's a little strange?

- Why? You're an excellent attorney.

- Who you've had erotic dreams about.

- Oh, please. If I had a dime

for every erotic dream I'd ever had, forget it.

- Is it possible that you weren't that great a clerk?

- Well, I don't think she had the opportunity

to really know whether I was a good clerk or not.

- And why is that?

- The only thing that transpired and her chambers was sex.

We probably made love

two to three times a day, sometimes four.

- Listen, maybe you want to get a glass of champagne later?

Toast our victory.

- Sure. - Tell me, Jimmy,

do you typically toast victory with all of your clients?

Or did all that sex talk make you curious?

- We don't want this one. - Why?

- The victim is a nun, stabbed 30 times--

- Oh, come on, you love these cases.

- Plus, the district attorney is my roommate.

That's grounds for disqualification, right there.

- Ms. Gamble, you are going to put this man in jail,

aren't you?

- Yes, I'm definitely gonna do that.

- We got a shot at getting this case kicked.

- Excuse me? - Fourth amendment.

Could be a bogus search.

- The search of the closet was illegal.

The contents are inadmissible. He is free to go.

[murmuring]

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Bobby come in yet? - No, not yet.

What's wrong, Jimmy?

- Nothing.

[door opens]

- Bobby, can I see you a second?

- Now? - Now.

- What's wrong?

- I was on the Internet, last night.

You know, just killing time.

Privacy of my own home.

I don't know what I was thinking.

- Jimmy.

- I clicked onto a web page.

It was about hidden cameras.

I figured, what the heck.

- What, you saw some girly pictures?

- Videos-- and not just any girly videos.

Lucy was in one of them.

- Lucy?

[whispers] Our Lucy?

- Yeah. - You're sure?

- I downloaded it to show you.

[computer whirrs]

It's kind of like psycho.

No, nobody gets hurt or nothing.

Think she knows about this?

- That's not Lucy.

I mean, that's Lucy

but she--she wouldn't, um--

Turn it off.

- There's more. - Jimmy.

- What should I do? - You got to tell her.

- Maybe you should tell her.

[door opens]

What? - What?

- Just bringing in the mail.

- Oh, you can just, uh, put it on the desk.

- Yeah, right on the desk. The desk is good.

- Okay?

What's wrong? both: Nothing.

- The desk is fine.

- I'll take the mail.

- Okay.

[door closes]

- I don't think I could ever look at her the same again.

- I know I can't.

[sighs]

[upbeat dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I already testified once.

- That was at the prelim. I explained this, Gary.

- You can't just go with the other witnesses?

- You're the only eyewitness.

- [sighs] Okay.

- You want to go over it again? - No, I-I got it.

I'm okay.

- Gary, I know this is hard.

- You know?

You ever see your mother get shot, Miss Gamble?

- I'll try to keep it short.

- Does my father have to be there?

- Gary, he's the defendant.

♪ ♪

- So, you didn't know about this?

I didn't think so.

[door opens]

- Hey, what's going on?

- Lindsay, could you excuse us for a sec?

- Sure.

- How could this happen?

- You never made any videos?

- No.

- And you don't have any roommates?

Okay.

Let's go check out your apartment.

- When I arrived at the scene, I found the defendant,

Gordon Armbrust, seated on the living room sofa

with his head in his hands.

- What else did you see, Detective?

- The victim, Charlotte Armbrust.

She was lying on the floor.

- Her condition?

- She'd been shot once in the chest at close range,

as was indicated by the powder residue

around the entry wound.

- Was she alive, at that time?

- The paramedics were unable to revive her

and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

- Detective, were you able to recover a weapon?

- Yes, from the floor of the same room,

several feet away from Mrs. Armbrust.

I've recovered the .38 Special revolver,

registered to the defendant.

Gun residue test revealed that he had fired the weapon.

- And in the course of your investigation,

did you determine if anyone had witnessed the shooting?

- Yes, the victim's son, Gary Armbrust,

had been present and gave a full account of events.

- What did you do, at that time?

- I placed the defendant under arrest for murder.

His shirt was splattered with blood

and that was sent to the crime lab

for testing and analysis, along with the gun.

- So, you spoke to and had an opportunity

to observe Gary Armbrust at the scene?

- Yes. - And according to your report,

you observed his eyes to be bloodshot and his speech

to be slightly slurred.

- He'd just witnessed his mother's murder.

He had been crying and was extremely upset.

- These symptoms are also consistent with someone

under the influence of drugs, correct?

- Sometimes, yes, but he didn't appear to me

to be under the influence of anything other than grief.

- He was never drug tested? - No.

- And Gary Armbrust's account of these events

played an instrumental role in your decision

to arrest his father for murder?

- Yes.

♪ ♪

[clanging]

BOBBY: Here it is.

There's a VCR up here too.

Must be on some kind of timer.

We should just leave it as is and show the police.

We'll check out the rest of the apartment.

In the meantime,

is there another place that you can stay?

Lucy? - What?

- Is there someone else that you can stay?

- Yeah, with my dad.

- And you have no idea who could be doing this?

- [sighs] No. - [sighs] Okay, look,

I know you don't want anybody else to find out

but I'd like to bring in Eugene and Lindsay.

- No. - Lucy.

- I don't want them all to know, Bobby.

- It'll stay within the firm.

Lindsay's pretty up to speed on computers

and I'll need Eugene to knock on some doors.

Let us help you.

- Charlotte was my closest friend.

I knew he was gonna do something like this.

- Why do you say that, Mrs. Roenisch?

- Their marriage was falling apart.

She was planning to leave Gordon

and his ego couldn't take it

- Objection. - Sustained.

- Did you ever hear the defendant threaten her?

- Yes.

About a week before her death

I stopped by their house to pick Charlotte up

for a yoga class.

She hated that class because she didn't think

it was really exercise.

- I know this is difficult, Mrs. Roenisch,

but we need to know about the threat.

- I'm sorry.

Yes, well, when I got there,

no one answered the door.

So I opened it a little...

to call for Charlotte because I knew

she was expecting me.

- What did you see at that time?

- Gordon was holding Charlotte's arm.

She was trying to pull away

and he said that if she left him

she wouldn't even live long enough to regret it.

[murmuring]

- More accurately, Gordon said

that he didn't want her to leave him

and their son, whom he believed

had a drug problem and needed both parents.

- Well, yes, that's true but it was still a threat.

- And you were so concerned the threat you overheard

might be real that you immediately contacted

the police? - No.

That was my mistake.

[murmuring]

- Ms. Gamble. - Hi, Gary, how you doing?

- Uh, I guess I'm okay.

I need to talk to you about my testimony.

- Well, you want to come back to my office

and we can run through the questions again?

- No, no, that's all right.

It's just that--

- What is it?

- Look, I don't really know how to say this

but part of what I told you isn't true.

- Which part?

- The part about my father murdering my mother.

I lied.

♪ ♪

- It was an accident.

- Then why did you tell the police it was murder?

- I don't know. I was angry.

- You need to do better than that.

- My father and I were in this fight.

He was so paranoid, thinking I was using drugs.

I finally got fed up.

- Your father's fingerprints are all night gun, not yours.

- I had flipped out.

I guess he thought I was gonna attack him or something,

because he went and grabbed the gun

he kept in the end table.

- Your own father pulled a gun on you?

- Yeah.

And then, I charged him

and that's when the gun went off.

- If that's the truth, why would you have even

accused him in the first place?

- I-I guess I was kind of in shock.

And I thought that if he went away for this

then maybe he'd finally be out of my life.

- You really expect me to believe this?

- I know it sounds crazy

but that was what was going through my head.

- Yes, and why would you wait till now to change your story?

- I just couldn't go through with it.

And this is not a story, this is the truth.

I was there, you weren't.

- But I was at the preliminary hearing

where you testified that your father shot your mother.

- And that wasn't the truth.

- [sighs]

Have you talked to your dad recently?

- No. - Look, I understand

you might not want to send your dad to prison--

- But he didn't do it, I did.

- You don't have to watch it, Lindsay.

- No, I'm just trying to find out how many websites

it's been uploaded on to.

- Wait, you mean that there's more--

- I'm afraid that you're pretty popular.

- How many times did you watch it, Jimmy?

- Not too many.

[door opens]

- Helen, are we on for lunch?

- No, I actually came

to sort of hire a lawyer.

Ellenor.

Basically, he's recanting now to save his dad.

Which, since he could now face perjury,

makes me think he needs his own lawyer.

- And the reason you want it to be me?

- I want you to scare him.

Make him realize how serious perjury is.

- Well, Helen, if I represent this kid

I'd be working for him, not you.

- I realize that.

I just want him to hear the legal consequences

of recanting from a defense attorney.

His best interests are also mine.

- And you don't think he's telling the truth now?

- No way. His story has been

completely consistent up until now.

His statement the police and the preliminary testimony

corroborate the physical evidence.

This case is tight.

Will you, at least, talk to him?

- Locks have not been tampered with,

no sign of break-ins with the windows.

- What about from above the shower where the VCR was?

- A secured crawl space.

This was done by somebody with access.

You had any parties, Lucy? Friends over?

- I have friends over sometimes but I--

- What about that Boston Celtic guy, basketball players,

what's his name, Hot Rod? - Rodman?

- What about Frank?

- None of my friends would've planted a camera.

[door opens]

- New case. No money.

- It's a favor. Commonwealth thanks you.

- Oh, my God! - Now what?

- It isn't you.

It's Jimmy. - What?

- I just tapped into the Boston Buff website

to see if you were listed but, damn, I lost it.

- Uh, what's Boston Buff?

- The Boston Buff society, court buffs.

They're basically retired people who follow trials

and they rank lawyers. Here it is.

Seems like they went to gossip now.

"Attorney James Berluti

has been making a little chamber music

with Judge Roberta Kittleson."

- What? That's ridiculous.

[stammers] That's trick photography!

- Jimmy, in my office.

- Her own witness is now backing my client's story

and Ms. Gamble's the only one saying that he's guilty.

- He's changing his story out of some

warped sense of loyalty to his father.

- Helen, he was your whole case and, now, you've lost him.

- Do you have any additional witnesses?

- I don't need any. Gary Armbrust's testimony

is coming in just like it did at the prelim.

- Wait a minute, what am I missing here?

- If he takes the stand and changes his story

I will charge him with perjury.

- That is extortion! - No, it's called leverage

to protect against witness manipulation.

- The only one manipulating here is you.

- Look, you can cross the kid however you want,

but she can certainly call him.

- What if I just plead the fifth?

- Well, you can do that, but it really won't help your dad.

If you plead the Fifth Amendment,

it basically means your testimony is unavailable.

Which means the D.A. can then introduce

your testimony from the prelim.

- And you're saying that if I change my story

she could put me in jail?

- It's a very real possibility, yes.

- What do you think I should do?

- Well, I would normally advise you to tell the truth,

but if the truth is something different

than what you said at the prelim,

telling the truth would expose you to perjury charges.

[pensive music]

- He's my dad.

He just got angry, you know? It's--

- Gary, if he's a murderer,

me, I'd ditch the sentiment and save myself.

♪ ♪

- He's my dad.

♪ ♪

- You're sleeping with her!

- It's my own private life. - Not anymore.

It's on the Internet. Jimmy, she's a client.

- Was a client. It started after her case--

- She's also a wacko, did you know that?

- She's not a wacko.

- Jimmy, she is. - She's a great judge.

One affair with the clerk doesn't make her--

- She pulled me into chambers and told me

she was having erotic dreams about me.

- What? - Yes.

While I was in trial with her, she calls me into his chambers

and says she's having sexual fantasies about me.

Then, she hit on me.

Jimmy, she has OCD.

Oral compulsive disorder.

- Look, I don't know what happened with you,

but me and her, we're consenting adults.

We can-- we're consenting adults!

[door opens]

- More? [door slams]

- She's been through half the Massachusetts bar.

- Hey.

- Isn't she a little-- what's the word?

- Old? - Yeah, old.

Isn't she a little old for you?

[door slams]

He didn't even take his coat.

- If called, he will testify that it was an accident.

- He understands I'm gonna have him arrested for perjury?

- He understands. Timely recantation.

it's possible he can beat perjury.

- You tell him that?

- Helen, he's my client. I'm sorry.

- Ellenor, you tell him he's afraid of the wrong person.

He's afraid of his father.

He should be afraid of me cause he'll do time.

- Helen. - I won't let him do this.

- Hey, easy. - I'm calling him, Eleanor.

I'm putting him up there.

- Any new developments? - [groans]

I'll give you voluntary manslaughter.

- You should be dismissing.

- I've got threats, fingerprints,

residue, trace metal--

- Yeah, but if the boy's saying accident--

- How do you know what he'll say?

Have you been tampering with the witness, Arnold?

- Well, I'm assuming he's not gonna say

self-inflicted, Helen. What else does that leave?

- Voluntary manslaughter, take it or leave it.

- Leave it.

- Don't you dare just barge in on me like this!

- Just tell me, yes or no?

- To which question? Did I have a dream about Bobby?

Yes. So what?

- What about the other--

how many lawyers have you been with?

- That is certainly none of your business.

You want to tell me how many women you've been with?

- You heard of the Boston Court Buffs?

- Of course, I've heard of them.

They fill half the room sometimes.

- Well, they've got a website with a program.

It talks about you and me.

It's got a picture of you and me on the elevator.

It also has head shots of other lawyers

you've been with, they say, sexually.

- What do you mean it's got a picture?

- There must be some security camera on the elevator.

How they got access, who knows, but--

- There's a picture of you and me?

- Kissing, and there's pictures of other lawyers,

just head shots, but it says you've been with them.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- This is on the Internet?

- Yeah.

- What else does it say? - I don't know.

I didn't really want to look. I came right over here.

♪ ♪

- Got a picture of you and me kissing?

- From the elevator.

- Well, it's--how do I find this web site?

- I don't know. Lindsay found it.

- What's her number?

- She's probably home by now.

- What's her number?

♪ ♪

- I'm not online here, Jimmy.

Can I tell her tomorrow?

I--I don't know. I had to find it.

Look, I'll give it to her first thing, okay?

[sighs] He told Judge Kittleson.

- Big mistake.

- Meanwhile, in the Armbrust murder trial

rumors that the chief prosecutorial witness

is changing his story.

If true, the prosecution may be in trouble.

- Great. Just great.

- You recall, Gary Armbrust was the one

who identified his own father as the killer.

Now, it seems he's prepared to testify it was an accident.

- Oh, God! Look at what they've done!

How could they do that to me?

- All right, relax. - Relax? You relax!

I'm about to lose a murderer and now, they've got me looking

like Leona Helmsley meets the Wicked Witch!

I'm not gonna lose this! I'm not losing this!

- [sighs]

[door slams]

- Oh, no. Not again.

- I'm screwed. If I call him I'm dead.

If I don't--

- What are you going to do?

Do you know?

- Ms. Gamble, call your next witness.

[man coughs]

Ms. Gamble?

- The Commonwealth calls Gary Armbrust.

[murmuring]

- Members of the jury, the witness

will be accompanied by his own attorney

for the purposes of his testimony.

You are consider only what the witness offers as evidence

and you are to draw no conclusions whatsoever

by the fact that he has a lawyer with him.

- You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

- I do. - Be seated.

- Could you please state your name, for the record?

- Gary Armbrust.

- Gary, the oath you just took,

you understand the meaning of it, do you not?

- I do.

- You understand that you testify today

under the pains and penalties of perjury do you--

- Objection!

She's trying to intimidate this witness.

- I'm merely making sure the witness

understands his obligation to tell the truth.

- Well, given that the witness has a lawyer

sitting with him, I think we're safe, Ms. Gamble.

- Your own father is the defendant,

is that correct? - Yes.

- And it was your mother who was shot and killed,

also correct? - Yes.

- Were you present when your mother was shot?

- Yes, I was.

- And you observed your father shoot your mother

as you were standing in the doorway of the living room?

- That's not how it happened.

- Ask permission to treat the witness as hostile.

ELLENOR AND ARNOLD: Objection!

- Overruled.

HELEN: Gary, do you recall testifying

at the preliminary hearing for this case?

- Yes, I do.

- And you swore to tell the truth?

- Yes.

- And at that time, do you recall

being asked at the following question

and giving the answer? Page four.

Question, "What did you observe?"

Answer, "I heard my father screaming and my mother.

"I went to the living room door

and that's when I saw him shoot her in the chest."

- That's what I said but it wasn't--

- You've answered the question, thank you.

- But it wasn't true. - Move to strike, nonresponsive.

[murmuring]

- If it wasn't true, what really happened?

- I was angry. My father pulled the gun on me.

Then, I basically attacked him. - You attacked him?

- We didn't have the greatest relationship.

I just kind of--

it was during the struggle with me that the gun went off.

- Well, why did you testify at the preliminary hearing

that your father killed your mother?

- Part of it was I was just covering my own ass

for provoking my father to get the gun,

in the first place.

- But if it was really an accident,

why didn't you just tell the truth?

- I was just so furious at him.

I wasn't thinking clearly.

Look, I'm sorry about all of this.

I really am.

And if you want to put me in jail,

I can't stop you,

but it really was an accident.

You have to believe me.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- Only one with a master key is the super.

A guy by the name of Larry Conley.

You know him?

- Oh, my God. - What?

- Well, he always, kind of, looks at me funny

and a few weeks ago--

- A few weeks ago, what?

- He said that there was a leak

in the downstairs apartment

and he needed to check my bathroom.

It's got to be him.

- Lindsay, call the police. Get a warrant.

See if we can search this guy's--

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, a warrant for what?

- To search this guy's place. - Bobby, it's not so easy.

He hasn't necessarily committed a crime.

- Wait, what do you mean he hasn't committed a crime?

- There was no sound on the video.

- So?

- The law prohibits intercepting audio communication,

but silent videotaping isn't a crime.

- You've got to be kidding. - What?

- This guy planted a camera in my bathroom.

That's not a crime? - No.

- All right, well, what about trespass?

- The super, with a master key?

And you said he asked permission to go into your bathroom.

- This guy planted a camera in my home.

- I'm just saying, it isn't as easy as it looks.

- There's got to be some way to nail him.

- So, this is what people think of me?

- It's just a stupid website.

- This goes into people's homes.

Lawyers who appear before me, they've probably all seen this.

- Yeah, I'm sure some have, not all.

Look, nobody believes this stuff.

- You believed it.

That's why you came running down here so angrily.

You believed it.

- Well, is it...

all true? - [sighs]

Some of it is, yes.

I have been with some of these men.

How could--

[dramatic music]

This is my private life!

- Welcome to the information age, Judge.

- This is evil.

It's evil.

- I was fighting with her.

- Your wife? - Yes.

And I was in an enraged state. I don't deny that.

Then Gary came charging in and he was enraged.

In fact, he looked on something.

That's why I got the gun.

- You pulled a gun on your own son?

- No.

I was afraid and I grabbed the gun.

In case, I needed one.

- And then what happened?

- He and I started yelling at each other.

Then, he lunged at me.

He tried to wrestle me to the ground.

That's when the gun went off...

and it hit Charlotte.

- Gary attacked to you?

- Like I said, I think he was on something.

- Why was there only blood on you?

- Gary was on the other side of me.

I was between him and his mother and I'm larger than he is.

So, I guess I blocked him. - Your larger, yet,

you felt physically threatened by your son?

- I thought he was under the influence of drugs

and I didn't know what he might do.

- So, it was self-defense?

- No, it was an accident.

- Well, you say you pulled the gun because you were afraid.

- Yes, I was afraid.

I was afraid that he might hurt me.

So, I grabbed the gun.

- Afraid he'd physically assault you?

- He did assault me.

That's when the struggle took place and the gun went off.

- And it was an accident? ARNOLD: Asked and answered.

- Did you tailor your story to fit your son's testimony?

ARNOLD: Objection. - No, I did not.

- Your wife leave a will?

- Yes. - Who inherits?

- I guess, I do, as well as my son.

- Wow, accident, you both make out!

What, you both plan this little witness

for the prosecution stunt?

- Objection. JUDGE: Sustained!

- You both conspire to kill her, setting him up as our witness?

- Objection! - Sustained!

[murmuring]

- I've got it. - What?

- You pay your own utilities, right?

- Yeah. - Theft of the electricity.

He plugged his equipment into your outlet.

There's some case law, theft of electricity.

- That feels like a stretch. - It'll buy us a warrant.

Get Eugene.

- Mr. Lawrence Conley? - Yeah.

- You're under arrest. - For what?

- Theft of electricity and trespass.

- What? - We have a search warrant.

- Wait--what the hell is going on here?

- Read him his rights.

- What are you looking for, stolen electricity?

OFFICER: You have the right to remain silent.

- Bobby.

OFFICER: Anything you say can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

You have the right to seek an attorney,

and have an attorney present during questioning.

If you so desire--

[dramatic music]

- Uh, do me a favor Mac.

Will you have your guys search the bedroom?

- Bedroom, now.

♪ ♪

- Now, can you look away?

- Five seconds, don't hurt him.

- She's a teenager and a friend of mine,

you sick bastard. DETECTIVE MCGUIRE: Okay, Bobby.

I said, okay, Bobby.

- [gasping]

They were security tapes.

- [grunts]

- We'll take it from here. - [panting]

♪ ♪

- Basically, I've got two choices:

I can argue believe his testimony at the prelim,

but that got reasonable doubt,

or I can argue some witness for the prosecution theory,

which who knows? It could be that.

Things have certainly worked out for them.

- Witness for the prosecution?

- We relied on the son, Mark,

he changes his testimony at trial,

instant reasonable doubt. - With the threat of perjury?

- Oh, he won't do much for that.

We both know that so does he.

If the recanting is ruled timely he could get off altogether,

which his lawyer told him.

[sighs]

I've lost another murderer.

I can't believe this.

First, I lose a guy who dices up a nun.

Now-- - Can you recall forensics,

prove it couldn't have happened the way they're saying?

- I can't prove it, not beyond a reasonable doubt.

I can't believe this. - Yeah, well,

I wouldn't go witness for the prosecution,

it's too desperate and I think it's too late.

Just give it your best shot.

- Hm.

There's got to be a way.

I'm gonna find a way.

- A hundred tapes?

- He had other cameras planted in other places.

- So, he has videos of me... doing everything?

- I've arranged to have them destroyed.

- But they could've already been uploaded on websites?

- Yes.

- Will he go to jail? - He's being arraigned today.

I told Jimmy to cover it, but, Lucy,

the law-- stealing electricity,

maybe trespass, he-- he won't do any time.

[somber music]

- Hey.

- What if my father--

- You said he doesn't own a computer.

- Yeah, but what if somebody makes a tape

off of the computer and--

- Look, you did nothing wrong.

♪ ♪

- Well, can I sue him?

- Well, we could

but he's--he's--he's pretty judgment proof.

He did lose his job.

I mean, that's--that's something.

♪ ♪

- Okay. [sniffles]

Um, I should get back to work.

- Uh, you want to take the day off?

- And do what, go home?

Nah, I'm fine.

Yeah, I've got a lot of work to do.

I'm totally fine.

- Lucy, the reason you feel so violated

is because you have been.

And this is no time to play tough.

Look at me.

Maybe this isn't the equivalent to rape,

but that man took your privacy from you

and it's not nothing.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to get some counseling.

- Okay.

- And it wouldn't be a bad idea

to lean on people here a little.

- It's just that I feel like-- [crying]

- I know.

I know.

- Two different versions from the same witness.

How can you know which one is true?

The state will probably stand up here, in a few minutes,

and try to convince you that Gary Armbrust

suddenly felt bad.

Didn't want to see his father convicted.

Decided to change his story.

Now, you've heard Ms. Gamble

toss out witness for the prosecution,

they did it together for the insurance.

Now, that theory came at the 11th hour, didn't it?

Why?

Desperation.

Because the only eyewitness told you it was an accident.

Told you he attacked the defendant,

causing the gun to go off.

Do I really need to be standing up here

arguing reasonable doubt?

The state wants you to believe Gary Armbrust is truthful

when he says one thing, but he has no credibility

when he's saying another.

But you can't have it both ways.

[murmuring]

- Yes, we have two versions now,

from one witness.

It's up to you to weigh the credibility

and circumstances of each.

You're free to discredit recantation and find

that the truth lies in his original accusation

and I'll tell you why you should.

Gary told the officers at the scene

that his father murdered his mother.

He said that they had a bitter argument.

She threatened to leave him

and they shot her point blank in the chest.

Now, Gary testified to the same facts,

under oath, at the preliminary hearing,

not one inconsistency in any of the details.

Every last bit of his account

was consistent with every piece of physical evidence.

Then suddenly, just as the trial begins,

he has a change of heart

and I guess we can understand.

He's already lost his mother,

he doesn't want to lose his father, does he?

And, well...

maybe he's found a way to even forgive his dad.

But we can't.

A woman is dead.

Charlotte Armbrust deserves to have us

stand up for the truth,

even if her son no longer can.

Charlotte doesn't have a voice anymore.

You do.

We all know what happened.

Prints only belonging to the defendant,

blood spattered only on the defendant,

we have the threats.

That man committed murder.

And his son,

well, he suddenly decided he wants him

to get away with it.

Do you?

- 32623, Commonwealth versus Conley.

Trespass, theft of electricity.

- Robert Olson for the defendant.

- Theft of electricity,

are they prosecuting that these days?

- Your Honor, the defendant is a superintendent

at an apartment complex.

He installed cameras to tape one of the dwellers.

Then, he uploaded her naked images on the Internet.

Theft of electricity-- - Hold on a second.

Well, well, well, Mr. Conley,

did you get the wrong judge.

OLESON: We'll waive reading, Your Honor.

- Why don't you wave good-bye, while you're at it?

Did you have fun invading a young woman's privacy?

- Excuse me, Your Honor?

- Council, you speak when I ask you to.

Uploading her naked images on the Internet.

Funny, I just discovered things about me on the Internet.

Maybe there's stuff about all of us, who knows?

Take off your pants. OLSEN: Your Honor!

- Bailiff, would you please take Mr. Olsen into custody.

He is in contempt. - What?

- You want another chance? Then shut your mouth!

Mr. Conley, drop your pants, right now

or I will add contempt to your charges

and you will go straight to a jail cell!

I am going to count to three!

One, two--

[murmuring]

[gallery gasps]

[murmuring]

No underwear. Figures.

And nothing much else, I might add.

[laughter]

- Do you feel violated, Mr. Conley?

Exposed?

How does it feel?

Would you turn around and face the gallery?

Show them what you haven't got.

- Your Honor, even I have to say,

this is a little bit irregular.

- Tough!

Turn around, Mr. Conley.

[murmuring]

[women exclaiming]

Take Mr. Conley. Put him in jail.

We had can arraign him again tomorrow.

Would you call the next case, please?

Leave your pants, right there...

at your ankles!

[murmuring]

- Case number 32624, Commonwealth versus Waterman,

criminal violation, illegal disposal of toxic waste.

- That was different.

- Imagine his luck,

getting me for a judge, of all days.

- Are you okay?

- I am so--

you know, I am no prude.

I would have no problems taking the bench naked,

so long as it were my choice, but to be--

- Well, hopefully the laws on Internet stuff

will start to change.

Maybe the test case will come before you.

- [sighs]

It did bother you, reading all of that stuff

didn't it, Jimmy?

- Yeah, but, you know, it's my mother's influence.

In the back of my mind, I guess I was still

hoping you were virgin.

- Yes. We know you thought that.

- [chuckles]

- Thank you.

- For what?

- For being there.

It helped.

- Well, whatever I could do.

- Will the defendant please, rise?

Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor. - What say you?

- Commonwealth versus Gordon Armbrust,

on the count of murder in the second-degree,

we find the defendant, Gordon Armbrust,

not guilty.

[murmuring]

JUDGE: The defendant is free to go.

Jury is dismissed with the thanks of the court.

We are adjourned. [gavel bangs]

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- Congratulations.

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- Gary Armbrust,

you're under the arrest for the murder

of Charlotte Armbrust. - What?

- You have the right to remain silent--

- We know his rights. What's going on here?

- Take him away. - Helen?

- By his own testimony, as well as his father's,

the gun went off when he attacked his father.

Felony assault, accidental shooting or not,

felony murder rule applies. - What is she talking about?

- You're looking at an automatic life sentence, Gary.

That's what I'm talking about.

- Helen, come on. - I told you, Ellenor,

I told you he should be more afraid of me than his father!

- This is an over reaction-- - Life sentence, Gary!

Go celebrate, Dad.

- Is this true?

Can I get life?

Tell me!

- Don't say anything to anybody.

I'll be right back to talk to you.

- What the hell is going on?

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