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(male narrator)
In the criminal justice system...
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the people are represented by
two separate yet equally important groups:
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the police
who investigate crime...
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Yo, Charlene is just too fine,
you know what I'm saying, man?
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What you been smoking, jack?
Charlene is a fine canine, that's what.
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Don't be going
dissing my lady, you know what I'm saying?
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I'm dissing your mother
for making you blind like a hydrant.
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What's up, 'lil Luther?
What's up?
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Where's Fred been hanging out?
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He took Queen Mary to Paris,
you know what I'm saying?
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When you see him, tell him
Eve's been waiting on him, all right?
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The Heat, man.
Harold Miner, number 32.
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That ain't no basketball
that they be playing there in Miami.
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Man,
I'm talking about some Jordan, that's what I'm talking about.
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You're a moron,
you know that, Luther. Damn, Jerome!
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Damn, man.
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What did you throw it
over his head for? You almost hit a window.
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[tires screeching]
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[crashing]
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Damon Fox, 12 years old.
Gone before we got here.
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Hit-and-run?
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All right,
have someone stay with the body.
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We're going to need
the clothes for Forensics.
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This is the headlight.
Probably domestic, looks General Motors.
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Judging from the body,
hit on the right side.
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Well, at least
he buys American. Thanks.
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A car with a dent in Harlem.
Piece of cake.
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(Stokes)
Mike...
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this is
the victim's friend. His name is Luther Heywood.
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(Logan)
How are you doing, Luther? So, did you see anything?
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Yeah,
a white guy in a blue Caddy.
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You didn't happen to get
a license plate number?
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He just hit Damon
and tore ass, man.
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Now we know it's a he.
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It was a Jew, man.
What, was he wearing a little hat?
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You don't think I know a Jew
when I see one?
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Thanks a lot, Luther.
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Peace on earth
and brotherhood to all men.
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Yeah, the brothers
haven't heard the news yet.
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I was taking
tomorrow off from work. It's...
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Parent-Teachers Day at school.
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I guess there's no need.
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I told him to stay inside...
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until I got back
from the store.
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It's that Luther Heywood.
His mother doesn't....
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I'm very sorry, Mrs. Fox.
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Have you found the man?
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A hit-and-run case,
it's not always that simple.
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Problem is we only have
a vague description of the driver.
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What's a white man doing
up there, anyway?
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[door opening]
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Lieutenant,
there's a Reverend Ott here. He says he's with Mrs. Fox.
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Mary.
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They haven't found him yet.
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Things like this take time,
Reverend.
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May I ask, how many men
do you have assigned to this case?
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Detectives Briscoe and Logan
are running point on the investigation.
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Two men? I can see
this isn't a high priority.
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(Van Buren)
We're doing the best with what we have, sir.
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Well, maybe it's not quite
good enough, if I'm bringing in eyewitnesses.
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Evelyn.
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He drove right by me.
It was a blue Cadillac.
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Did you see the license plate?
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Part of it. It was 2XQR.
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(Briscoe)
Thank you.
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Evelyn, Mary.
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[men chattering]
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Can I assume that you'll
get to this before lunch?
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Sure, right after we have
a couple of doughnuts.
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[phone ringing]
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Van Buren.
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Okay.
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You'll keep us informed.
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[door closes]
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There's a Mr. Joshua Berger
and his attorney in lnterview One.
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Let's talk to him.
Before the doughnuts.
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I don't know.
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I've been driving in this city
for 40 years. I've never had anything like this.
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Why don't you just tell us
what happened, Mr. Berger?
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I was at our warehouse,
up in the Bronx.
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I was supposed to meet my wife
at The Palm for lunch.
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It was our anniversary.
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(Logan)
Well, The Palm is on 44th Street...
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so what were you doing
in Harlem?
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Traffic on the FDR
is bad enough at that hour of the day.
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Then a water main breaks.
I got off at 125th.
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I swear the kid came out
of nowhere.
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How fast were you going?
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I don't know, 30, maybe 35.
I was not speeding.
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Is he all right?
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Oh, my God.
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Mr. Berger called
my office immediately. I was in court all day.
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He wanted to turn himself in.
He just wanted to speak with me first.
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If your client is
such an upstanding citizen, why did he leave the scene?
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Let me ask you.
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You just ran over
a black boy in Harlem.
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Are you going to hang around?
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(Logan)
Well, I understand what you're saying...
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but obviously you can't
hit somebody and just ride off.
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I know that! That was wrong.
I was scared.
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That's why I'm here now.
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We're willing to plead
nolo contendre to leaving the scene.
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But that is the extent
of Mr. Berger's wrongdoing.
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We don't do pleas here.
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What, am I under arrest?
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Make yourself comfortable
until the DA gets here.
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(Marks)
Two people, wrong place, wrong time. Look at this.
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Your driver may have hit
the brakes sooner...
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but this is where
he locks them up.
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By this point, the car is
in a full-blown skid.
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Well, if I read
the skid marks right...
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he hit the breaks
way before he made contact.
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Nice to know
he wasn't gunning for the kid.
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So, how fast
was he going, Marks?
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By comparing the
coefficient of friction to the gross vehicular weight...
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he's doing 20, maybe 25.
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Any give in these numbers?
Well, nothing's perfect.
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Change the tire pressure
a few pounds either way...
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you get a whole new
set of equations.
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So, in your expert opinion?
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Berger did nothing wrong.
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I'll talk to his lawyer
about a plea.
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What do you think?
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Suspended license.
100 hours of community service.
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What do you mean
you found the man, but you didn't arrest him?
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Mr. Berger has pled
to leaving the scene.
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Mr. Berger? I see.
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A fine,
upstanding Jewish citizen would never lie to the police.
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The fact that
Mr. Berger is Jewish has nothing to do with it.
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Our accident reconstruction
technician concluded that Mr. Berger wasn't speeding.
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And of what
religious persuasion is he, may I ask?
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Yeah, that's right, Reverend.
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There's this great
Jewish conspiracy to knock off the black man one by one.
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That's why they all drive
big Cadillacs, so they can't miss.
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Well, that's it.
Another 12-year-old black boy is dead. Close the file.
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Hell. Living up in Harlem,
he probably wouldn't have lasted...
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till his 13th birthday anyway.
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The Jew did him a favor.
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Why don't we give him
the key to the city?
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Look, Reverend. Nobody,
and I'm talking man of God...
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or garbage man,
walks in my office...
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and accuses my officers
of giving anybody special treatment.
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Now, I think you'd better go.
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You know what gets me?
Jesse Jackson talking about "Hymietown"...
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Farrakhan yelling about
how the Jews are keeping his people down.
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They forget who was marching
with Martin Luther King back in the '60s.
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Yeah, I remember when Lindsay
tried to get low-cost housing for blacks in Forest Hills.
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All those liberals
put their civil rights banners in the closet real fast.
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Hate to ruin your dinner,
but your buddy Reverend Ott is down in lnterrogation One.
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He says he's got
another eyewitness.
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You mind if l....
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We didn't even discuss
the ltalians. Go crazy, Profaci.
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(Bobby)
I was looking out of my window when it happened.
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(Briscoe)
Just tell us what you saw, Bobby.
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I saw the little brothers,
they was playing some ball.
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You're talking about Damon Fox
and Luther Heywood?
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That's right.
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And the ball goes flying
over Damon's head.
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(Logan)
And Damon flies after it into the street.
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It wasn't like that.
I mean, he wasn't in no hurry or anything.
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And there were no cars coming.
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Then, boom!
The Jew in the blue Caddy comes flying out of nowhere.
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Must've been going 50.
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He's going 50
on a New York City street in the middle of the day?
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You know what I think?
I think you're full of crap, Bobby.
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Ain't that for
the jury to decide, man? Look, I know what I saw.
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That should be sufficient
for an indictment. If you believe him.
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Oh, so you'd rather believe
the word of two white detectives.
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No, I believe the scientists
in our Forensics lab.
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So, you're just going to
ignore eyewitness testimony?
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You really think the only way
to get justice is through lying and cheating?
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If it does produce justice,
yes, I do.
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(Van Buren)
It's happened before.
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The forensic evidence
contradicts an eyewitness account.
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How credible is
this eyewitness?
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It depends on
what part of town you live in.
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You suspect he
fabricated his story?
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I suspect
he had a little coaching.
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(Schiff)
Let me guess, the Reverend Ott.
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He's called six times
since yesterday.
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Not your biggest fan,
Lieutenant.
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Look, maybe another expert
looks at the evidence, draws a different conclusion.
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I don't want to tell you
what to do, but like they say, every action--
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Thank you, Lieutenant.
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I want to book a large block
of time with the grand jury.
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You want a grand jury
for a witness that the police don't even believe?
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Even if we get an indictment,
the defense would call our forensics expert at trial.
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We'd never get a conviction.
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This could turn into
the city's worst nightmare.
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I want us to be cleaner here
than Caesar's wife.
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Yes, I was in a hurry.
I was meeting my wife.
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But speeding on a city street?
I have more sense than that.
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Sir, an eyewitness
already testified that he saw your car...
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moving south on Lenox
at 50 miles an hour.
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Look. I lived in this city
all my life.
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I seen cars go through
red lights, come out of driveways without any warning.
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I've seen little children
run out into the street without looking.
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I know better than to
drive 50 miles an hour.
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Why did you leave
the scene of an accident, sir?
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I have three children
of my own.
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Five grandchildren.
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I can't even imagine
the pain that that woman is going through.
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You haven't answered
the question, sir.
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[sighs]
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I was alone. I was in Harlem.
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I was scared.
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I've never seen a grand jury
refuse to indict that quickly.
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As long as we dotted the i's
and crossed the t's.
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What are you talking about--
The new white mayor wants it clear...
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that this office treats
everyone equally under the law.
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He pled to leaving the scene.
He'll be punished.
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A suspended license
and 100 hours picking up cigar butts in Central Park...
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isn't exactly what
His Honor had in mind.
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[knock on door]
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Wait until you see
what's going on.
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(newscaster)
Reports of injury are unavailable.
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Following
the Reverend Ott's address...
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Iambasting the DA's office
for not bringing charges...
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against the man accused
of killing 12-year-old Damon Fox...
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the city has
erupted in violence.
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[people shouting on TV]
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[siren wailing]
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(Logan)
Excuse me, fellows. Excuse me.
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Barnes, what do you got?
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Guy's name is
John De Santis.
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By the time the ambulance
got through the crowd, he was history.
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Any arrests?
Did you see what it was like down here?
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Means no witnesses.
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(Barnes)
Well, the guy's wife was in the car...
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but I'm not sure
how much help she's gonna be.
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They just loaded her
into an ambulance. I think she's in shock.
234
00:14:38,677 --> 00:14:42,169
It would have been much worse
if that guy hadn't pulled her from the car.
235
00:14:42,248 --> 00:14:44,876
His name is Graves.
Thanks.
236
00:14:44,950 --> 00:14:46,645
John De Santis.
237
00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:50,553
Blame it on the Jews,
sometimes you get an ltalian by mistake.
238
00:14:51,824 --> 00:14:55,282
Mr. Graves? I'm Det. Logan.
This is Det. Briscoe.
239
00:14:55,527 --> 00:14:57,051
Now, can you tell us
what you saw?
240
00:14:57,129 --> 00:14:59,461
They were screaming,
"Get the Jew! Get the Jew!"
241
00:14:59,531 --> 00:15:03,467
We hear they would have
gotten his wife, too, if it wasn't for you.
242
00:15:03,535 --> 00:15:05,435
Did you know
any of those people?
243
00:15:05,504 --> 00:15:08,996
Yeah, right,
it's a secret club. We all know each other.
244
00:15:09,074 --> 00:15:10,541
That's not what I meant.
245
00:15:10,609 --> 00:15:13,840
A black boy
at the scene of a riot. Must be up to no good.
246
00:15:14,213 --> 00:15:16,875
I was on my way to Sam Goody's
to pick up a couple of CDs...
247
00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:19,850
for my daughter's birthday.
They was beating the crap out of that man.
248
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:23,411
The guy from the news
was filming the damn thing. Somebody had to help her.
249
00:15:23,489 --> 00:15:25,616
Would you be able to
recognize any faces?
250
00:15:25,691 --> 00:15:29,525
Yeah. A white lady
who just saw her husband's skull bashed in.
251
00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:36,267
[woman chattering
on PA system]
252
00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:46,537
I saw Johnny at his office.
I met him there.
253
00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:50,411
He's a lawyer at
landlord-tenant court.
254
00:15:54,453 --> 00:15:56,444
We were going home early.
255
00:15:56,855 --> 00:15:59,016
We're trying to have a baby.
256
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:01,824
They took my purse.
257
00:16:02,194 --> 00:16:03,821
How am I going to
get into the apartment?
258
00:16:03,896 --> 00:16:05,591
Mrs. De Santis.
259
00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:09,127
Did you get a look at
the man who....
260
00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:13,763
They were all over the car.
261
00:16:15,507 --> 00:16:18,408
We thought they were
going to flip us over.
262
00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:28,417
He was young,
maybe 20 years old.
263
00:16:30,789 --> 00:16:32,017
Tall.
264
00:16:35,027 --> 00:16:36,517
Do you think
there's any chance?
265
00:16:36,595 --> 00:16:38,859
Maybe if you could look
at some pictures.
266
00:16:46,038 --> 00:16:48,370
(Luppin)
Haven't shot stuff this good since Nam.
267
00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:52,141
Any idea how hard it is
to get this kind of quality?
268
00:16:52,444 --> 00:16:54,139
Hello, Pulitzer.
269
00:16:54,213 --> 00:16:55,908
You want to
slow it down a little?
270
00:16:55,981 --> 00:16:57,209
Yeah.
271
00:17:01,453 --> 00:17:02,886
(Luppin)
There's your man.
272
00:17:03,088 --> 00:17:06,990
Great, now all we need is
the mug book with all the back-of-the-neck shots.
273
00:17:07,059 --> 00:17:10,620
Sorry, that's
as good as it gets. Your boy is camera shy.
274
00:17:11,363 --> 00:17:15,163
Yeah, but this one has got
a bird's-eye view.
275
00:17:17,669 --> 00:17:20,194
Can you push it up
a few frames?
276
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:24,603
(Luppin)
There.
277
00:17:24,676 --> 00:17:28,112
(Logan)
What's that on his cap, Lennie? You see it? S-Y-D?
278
00:17:28,847 --> 00:17:30,644
Some kind of a logo.
I can't make it out.
279
00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:34,675
Maybe he works in
a candy store, a butcher shop, a hardware store....
280
00:17:34,753 --> 00:17:37,119
No, it looks like a
gas station cap.
281
00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:38,850
Can we get a blowup of that?
282
00:17:38,924 --> 00:17:40,221
Take 15 minutes.
283
00:17:40,292 --> 00:17:42,021
(Briscoe)
Yeah, we'll wait.
284
00:17:43,629 --> 00:17:45,358
One of the kids
from the picture looks like...
285
00:17:45,431 --> 00:17:47,194
he was wearing a hat
from a gas station.
286
00:17:47,266 --> 00:17:49,598
(Briscoe)
Yeah, we checked every station above 106th Street.
287
00:17:49,668 --> 00:17:52,569
Nothing?
Well, sometimes fliers pan out.
288
00:17:52,638 --> 00:17:55,198
The problem is no one up there
is sorry this guy got killed.
289
00:17:55,274 --> 00:17:57,003
I mean, we're not getting
much cooperation.
290
00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:59,943
Maybe I should give this
to a couple of black cops.
291
00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:02,077
You know what I meant.
292
00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:06,584
Anyway, we got all the
computer geeks pulling yellows on everybody named Syd.
293
00:18:06,652 --> 00:18:08,984
You know the kid's name?
No, it was on his hat.
294
00:18:09,188 --> 00:18:11,088
Let me see the picture.
295
00:18:13,792 --> 00:18:16,352
Tell the geeks to
kill the power on the PC.
296
00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:18,157
Well, do you want to
give us a hint?
297
00:18:18,230 --> 00:18:21,722
Black cops would have known.
Syd's Sneaker World.
298
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:26,169
129th and Lexington.
Air-Jordans, 50% off.
299
00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:27,466
[Briscoe sighing]
300
00:18:30,242 --> 00:18:32,176
(Logan)
You recognize this kid?
301
00:18:33,178 --> 00:18:36,238
Don't bother to lie.
Hey, you!
302
00:18:45,624 --> 00:18:47,057
(Briscoe)
Mike.
303
00:18:51,163 --> 00:18:53,529
[feet shuffling]
304
00:18:56,168 --> 00:18:57,897
[thudding]
305
00:19:01,740 --> 00:19:03,935
Get those cuffs.
You're under arrest.
306
00:19:04,009 --> 00:19:06,102
You have the right to
remain silent.
307
00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,304
Anything you do say...
308
00:19:07,379 --> 00:19:09,711
Give me your arm!
...can and will be used against you.
309
00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:14,274
Johnson, Daryl. 19.
310
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:19,286
Couple of misdemeanors.
Here we go, assault one, robbery one.
311
00:19:19,358 --> 00:19:21,019
Kid's smart,
he'll cop a plea...
312
00:19:21,093 --> 00:19:23,687
before Clinton passes his
three strikes and you're out.
313
00:19:23,762 --> 00:19:28,028
Well, since Mike already
kicked his butt, this one's yours, Lennie.
314
00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:30,967
Be gentle.
Ain't I always?
315
00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:38,039
Well, hiya, Daryl.
Here, let me get those.
316
00:19:40,445 --> 00:19:42,072
There you go.
317
00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:47,284
[people shouting on TV]
318
00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,520
I get popcorn with this show?
319
00:19:50,589 --> 00:19:53,854
Now, the law says you have
the right to an attorney, Daryl.
320
00:19:53,926 --> 00:19:55,450
Yeah, right.
321
00:19:55,527 --> 00:20:00,226
How many years they
go to school to learn to say, "Keep your mouth shut, Daryl"?
322
00:20:00,299 --> 00:20:02,995
Well, the law says
you have that right.
323
00:20:04,169 --> 00:20:06,137
I got the ticket, man.
324
00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:10,369
I call the lawyer,
then you and me, we can't talk.
325
00:20:10,442 --> 00:20:13,411
Then the DA fries my butt
for something I didn't do.
326
00:20:13,478 --> 00:20:17,471
Except we know you were there,
Daryl. They caught you on TV.
327
00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:19,540
Don't you watch the news?
328
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,185
That don't even look like me,
man.
329
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:25,189
Oh, yeah,
they tried that one in LA.
330
00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:26,918
Worked, didn't it?
331
00:20:28,293 --> 00:20:30,056
Daryl,
we're the good guys here.
332
00:20:30,128 --> 00:20:32,596
See, we don't really
give a damn about these people...
333
00:20:32,664 --> 00:20:35,258
Iooting and
busting up people's cars.
334
00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:37,700
That's not our department.
We're in homicide.
335
00:20:37,769 --> 00:20:39,031
So?
336
00:20:39,104 --> 00:20:42,164
So, your friend there
is "homiciding" somebody.
337
00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:45,233
He ain't my friend.
Yeah, well that's too bad.
338
00:20:45,310 --> 00:20:47,039
Because if you could have
told us who he is...
339
00:20:47,112 --> 00:20:48,704
we wouldn't have to charge you
with murder.
340
00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:50,372
I told you,
I didn't kill nobody.
341
00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:53,418
Yeah, but the jury has to
blame somebody, Daryl.
342
00:20:53,485 --> 00:20:55,510
And you're standing
right there.
343
00:20:58,757 --> 00:21:01,317
The smart move would be
to trade up.
344
00:21:02,227 --> 00:21:06,425
Now, in case you lost
your sense of direction, he's up.
345
00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:15,269
You don't tell lsaac
it was me, all right?
346
00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:17,308
You know where he lives?
347
00:21:18,076 --> 00:21:22,137
With his grandma.
On 128th and Lenox.
348
00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:24,205
Upstairs from the Lotto.
349
00:21:25,384 --> 00:21:28,046
Maybe I better
call my lawyer now.
350
00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:29,746
[banging on door]
351
00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,880
Police officers! Open up!
352
00:21:33,025 --> 00:21:34,890
Open it up! Do it now!
353
00:21:37,262 --> 00:21:39,594
What in the world
is going on?
354
00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:41,633
We have a warrant for
the arrest of lsaac Roberts.
355
00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,294
He isn't here.
You know where he is?
356
00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:47,470
Your grandson, ma'am,
is wanted for murder.
357
00:21:47,539 --> 00:21:49,234
No, you don't know him.
358
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:50,434
(Briscoe)
Please.
359
00:21:50,509 --> 00:21:52,477
My lsaac would never
do anything like that.
360
00:21:52,544 --> 00:21:54,512
I know my grandchild.
Ma'am!
361
00:21:55,547 --> 00:21:59,244
We're going to have to ask you
to come down to the precinct, okay?
362
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,013
Let me get my coat.
363
00:22:01,086 --> 00:22:04,852
Damn! Why don't you
arrest us all while you're at it?
364
00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:08,149
[woman chattering]
365
00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:13,494
A little dramatic,
isn't it, Counselor?
366
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:17,262
Dragging a 54-year-old
grandmother down here in a patrol car?
367
00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,736
Your client may have
committed a felony.
368
00:22:19,805 --> 00:22:22,569
Okay, we confess. Mr. Muldrue
at the corner store...
369
00:22:22,641 --> 00:22:27,135
charged Mrs. Roberts for
a dozen tomatoes and she had 13 in her bag.
370
00:22:27,212 --> 00:22:29,339
Corina, I knew we should've
grabbed that picture of you...
371
00:22:29,414 --> 00:22:30,938
out of the post office
while we could.
372
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:34,213
Ms. Green,
I just can't afford to be in a laughing mood today.
373
00:22:34,286 --> 00:22:37,744
I'm sorry,
next time I'll bring Richard Pryor with me.
374
00:22:39,458 --> 00:22:41,983
Mrs. Roberts,
we have reason to believe...
375
00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:44,961
that your grandson
murdered an innocent man.
376
00:22:45,030 --> 00:22:49,262
Now, if you are
concealing him, we could charge you with conspiracy...
377
00:22:49,334 --> 00:22:50,801
and harboring a fugitive.
378
00:22:50,869 --> 00:22:54,464
If you know where lsaac is,
Mrs. Roberts, you'd be doing yourself...
379
00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:57,133
and your grandson a favor
by telling us now.
380
00:22:57,409 --> 00:23:01,903
The rest of his life
in a white man's jail? I've had better offers.
381
00:23:02,914 --> 00:23:06,441
Mrs. Roberts,
where is your grandson?
382
00:23:06,518 --> 00:23:08,645
She told you
she has nothing to say.
383
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,813
Then you give me no choice.
384
00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:23,191
Mrs. Roberts,
you are under arrest.
385
00:23:23,268 --> 00:23:25,600
And please read her,
her rights.
386
00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:27,794
Well, this is wonderful.
387
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:30,637
Joshua Berger gets off
with a suspended license...
388
00:23:30,709 --> 00:23:32,904
and Corina Roberts is
on her way to Rikers.
389
00:23:32,978 --> 00:23:34,673
Now, what is wrong
with this picture?
390
00:23:34,746 --> 00:23:36,771
Mr. Berger did not
commit a felony.
391
00:23:37,783 --> 00:23:39,648
I have no problem with
the law, Counselor.
392
00:23:39,718 --> 00:23:42,414
It's the application thereof,
now that's another story.
393
00:23:42,487 --> 00:23:46,287
Ms. Green,
I assume you have no knowledge of his whereabouts?
394
00:23:46,958 --> 00:23:50,485
Always room for one more
in that cell, right, Counselor?
395
00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:58,959
Thirty years ago,
the blacks and the Jews and everyone else...
396
00:23:59,037 --> 00:24:00,868
Iived in this city together.
397
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,831
We didn't see riots
in our neighborhoods.
398
00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:06,935
In those days,
we had Adam Clayton Powell working the system...
399
00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:08,479
not Reverend Ott
destroying it.
400
00:24:08,547 --> 00:24:11,038
Well, there's a reason
for the Reverend Otts of the world.
401
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:12,708
To promote anti-Semitism?
402
00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:15,048
To remind us that
there's a long way to go.
403
00:24:17,055 --> 00:24:18,079
[sighs]
404
00:24:18,156 --> 00:24:20,590
That does not justify violence
in the streets, sir.
405
00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:23,389
I want you to release
the Roberts woman.
406
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:24,955
[sighs]
407
00:24:26,832 --> 00:24:29,460
By releasing her,
we condone a felony.
408
00:24:29,534 --> 00:24:32,503
And by putting her in jail
we draw a line in the sand.
409
00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:36,905
So you're guilty until
a percentage of the population threatens violence?
410
00:24:37,209 --> 00:24:38,870
The grandson is out there.
411
00:24:38,944 --> 00:24:41,071
Keep her in jail a week,
and then we'll let her go.
412
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:45,242
And if she's back in her
apartment, he'll contact her sooner than that.
413
00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:49,083
Get a warrant for a wiretap.
Twenty-four hour surveillance.
414
00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:56,517
They've been on her for
48 hours. Nothing.
415
00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:57,926
What about the phones?
416
00:24:57,996 --> 00:25:01,454
Two calls.
One to her dentist and one to her sister in Detroit.
417
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:03,798
This may be something.
418
00:25:03,869 --> 00:25:06,337
Isaac's homeboy Daryl
from the sneaker store.
419
00:25:06,404 --> 00:25:08,372
His one phone call
wasn't to a shyster.
420
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,567
It was to a church on 1 1 2th.
421
00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:12,376
Reverend Ott.
422
00:25:13,078 --> 00:25:16,377
Call the DA's office.
I don't want any screwups.
423
00:25:20,652 --> 00:25:22,415
A little late
for morning prayer.
424
00:25:22,487 --> 00:25:24,478
Or perhaps you just want to
confess your sins.
425
00:25:24,556 --> 00:25:26,751
We have a warrant
to search the premises, sir.
426
00:25:26,825 --> 00:25:28,019
(Briscoe)
Mike!
427
00:25:31,062 --> 00:25:32,654
Isaac Roberts,
you're under arrest.
428
00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:34,289
You can hold your breath,
Detective.
429
00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:36,266
I've given
Mr. Roberts sanctuary.
430
00:25:36,334 --> 00:25:37,995
What the hell
are you talking about?
431
00:25:38,069 --> 00:25:40,629
My attorney tells us
as long as he's in a house of God...
432
00:25:40,705 --> 00:25:41,831
you can't touch him.
433
00:25:41,907 --> 00:25:44,705
And while you're here,
will you please watch your mouth?
434
00:25:44,776 --> 00:25:46,107
Counselor?
435
00:25:46,311 --> 00:25:49,678
Keep him under surveillance
until we can sort it out.
436
00:25:52,617 --> 00:25:54,107
Sanctuary?
437
00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:56,348
What is this,
medieval England?
438
00:25:56,421 --> 00:25:59,254
You really plan to argue this
in front of a judge?
439
00:25:59,524 --> 00:26:02,322
And the Appellate Division
and the Court of Appeals...
440
00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:04,453
and the Supreme Court,
if necessary.
441
00:26:04,529 --> 00:26:07,589
So your client is going to
stay in this church...
442
00:26:07,666 --> 00:26:10,794
until your exercise
in futility is completed?
443
00:26:10,869 --> 00:26:13,463
Considering the alternative,
you bet.
444
00:26:14,506 --> 00:26:16,167
That is, of course...
445
00:26:16,241 --> 00:26:19,574
unless you'd like to
save us all a lot of time and energy.
446
00:26:19,644 --> 00:26:21,236
Well, what does that mean?
447
00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:23,338
Man two,
he serves the minimum.
448
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:27,681
Your client savagely killed
Mr. John De Santis on the local news.
449
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:29,743
We call that murder two.
450
00:26:31,122 --> 00:26:33,613
Then clear your calendar,
Counselor...
451
00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:36,889
you're going to be busy
for the next decade or so.
452
00:26:42,033 --> 00:26:43,057
[sighs]
453
00:26:43,134 --> 00:26:45,659
You've got to admire
her creativity.
454
00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:48,532
Shambala Green's?
455
00:26:50,475 --> 00:26:52,909
Queen of the specious motion.
456
00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:56,812
She's representing her client
with the zealousness required by the canons.
457
00:26:56,881 --> 00:27:00,248
And I'm sure she thinks
we should have exhibited a little more of it...
458
00:27:00,318 --> 00:27:02,650
in prosecuting Joshua Berger.
459
00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:07,224
You can't compare
what Joshua Berger did...
460
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,283
with what lsaac Roberts did.
461
00:27:09,394 --> 00:27:10,884
Of course not.
462
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:14,023
But, suppose this crazy motion
actually works?
463
00:27:14,099 --> 00:27:16,533
A judge buys Green's argument?
464
00:27:16,835 --> 00:27:20,532
Would you drag an innocent man
out of a car...
465
00:27:20,605 --> 00:27:22,539
and bash his brains in?
466
00:27:24,376 --> 00:27:26,606
You know, I don't know
how I would react...
467
00:27:26,678 --> 00:27:29,806
if I'd been screwed
by the system my whole life.
468
00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:37,781
(Green)
The concept of sanctuary...
469
00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:39,721
since ancient
and medieval times...
470
00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:42,885
is founded on the idea of
a religious place of refuge...
471
00:27:42,961 --> 00:27:45,759
for those who have offended
civil authorities.
472
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:49,732
I want to emphasis
the importance of a church in a black community.
473
00:27:49,801 --> 00:27:52,964
If Counselor could please cite
one post-medieval case?
474
00:27:53,038 --> 00:27:55,666
How's 1991, Counselor?
475
00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:58,834
A church right here
in Manhattan was willing to provide refuge...
476
00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:02,243
to military personnel
in danger of deployment to the Middle East--
477
00:28:02,313 --> 00:28:06,409
Pending the determination
of their status as conscientious objectors.
478
00:28:06,484 --> 00:28:09,681
Murder is a far cry from
moral opposition to a war.
479
00:28:09,754 --> 00:28:13,815
In this case, it's not.
We are talking about civil disobedience.
480
00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:17,490
My client violently opposed
the inequitable treatment...
481
00:28:17,562 --> 00:28:19,496
of his race under the law.
482
00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:21,729
So he killed somebody?
483
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:24,591
It's a nice try,
Ms. Green, but...
484
00:28:24,669 --> 00:28:29,072
being that your client is not
a hunchback ringing a bell in a Paris cathedral...
485
00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:31,040
I'm denying your motion.
486
00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:33,907
If I lose at trial,
you've just given me grounds for appeal.
487
00:28:33,978 --> 00:28:37,778
And lucky for me,
I'll be in Palm Beach collecting social security...
488
00:28:37,849 --> 00:28:41,910
if and when this nonsense
should ever return to this courtroom.
489
00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:45,753
[church bell tolling]
490
00:28:46,324 --> 00:28:47,518
[sighing]
491
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:53,960
What are they doing in there?
Final confession.
492
00:28:57,936 --> 00:29:01,372
I hope you know
you have violated the sanctity of our church.
493
00:29:01,439 --> 00:29:03,737
That'll be 10 Hail Marys,
Mike.
494
00:29:03,808 --> 00:29:05,400
Excuse me, Reverend.
495
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:09,202
Isaac Roberts,
you're under arrest for the murder of John De Santis.
496
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,646
You have the right
to remain silent....
497
00:29:12,851 --> 00:29:15,786
The Reverend says,
if we convict the Roberts kid...
498
00:29:15,887 --> 00:29:18,185
this city, and I quote:
499
00:29:18,256 --> 00:29:20,156
"Ain't seen nothin' yet."
500
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,850
He thinks he can hold
this entire city hostage?
501
00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:25,589
No, only the jury.
502
00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:28,865
I think the system deserves
a little more credit than that.
503
00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:29,922
Right.
504
00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:34,028
Remind me what happened to
those kids who beat up that truck driver in LA.
505
00:29:34,506 --> 00:29:36,565
Offer her man
one with a recommendation.
506
00:29:36,641 --> 00:29:39,235
And that's in the
interests of justice, sir? No.
507
00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:41,710
It's in the
interests of finality.
508
00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:43,603
Put an end to this, quick.
509
00:29:43,681 --> 00:29:47,082
Shambala Green
will only take man two.
510
00:29:48,086 --> 00:29:51,021
Well, there just might be
someone else...
511
00:29:51,089 --> 00:29:53,683
who has more influence
over this boy.
512
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,458
How many times, Mr. Stone?
513
00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:02,931
How many times
does a black man have to roll over and play dead?
514
00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,196
Mrs. Roberts,
I am not suggesting that he roll over--
515
00:30:05,270 --> 00:30:06,464
Please.
516
00:30:07,672 --> 00:30:09,799
My son, lsaac's father...
517
00:30:10,508 --> 00:30:13,944
was a night janitor
in a midtown office building.
518
00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:17,306
There was a robbery
during his shift.
519
00:30:18,082 --> 00:30:21,813
His lawyer said,
"lf we go to trial, you don't have a chance."
520
00:30:22,220 --> 00:30:24,017
Rickie took the deal.
521
00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:26,947
That was three years ago.
522
00:30:28,626 --> 00:30:30,355
This family...
523
00:30:31,129 --> 00:30:33,620
has bartered
enough lives already.
524
00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:36,593
Mrs. Roberts,
I am not trying your son.
525
00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:40,934
I'm trying your grandson
and there is no doubt in my mind what he did.
526
00:30:43,741 --> 00:30:45,436
[knocking on door]
527
00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:57,344
In the future, you want to
talk to Mrs. Roberts, you talk to me first.
528
00:30:57,422 --> 00:31:00,550
Shambala, do you really think
that you're doing a client a service...
529
00:31:00,625 --> 00:31:01,717
by refusing to plea?
530
00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:05,729
Why don't you let me determine
what's in the best interest of my client?
531
00:31:06,064 --> 00:31:09,591
Thanks for coming.
You saved me the price of a messenger.
532
00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:15,563
It's my notice to call
Dr. Myron Jansen as an expert to testify...
533
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,108
as to my client's
mental capacity.
534
00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:26,616
If we learned nothing
from the riots in Los Angeles, we learned...
535
00:31:26,684 --> 00:31:30,814
that peace-loving individuals
can be pushed to a point of extreme violence.
536
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,414
The law requires
a modicum of self-control.
537
00:31:33,491 --> 00:31:36,392
Nobody is arguing with that,
in the normal course of events.
538
00:31:36,461 --> 00:31:39,191
But when one's normal powers
of judgment are suspended--
539
00:31:39,264 --> 00:31:40,424
Let me get this right.
540
00:31:40,498 --> 00:31:42,625
You're claiming your client
was legally insane?
541
00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:44,759
Your Honor,
Dr. Jansen will testify...
542
00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:48,863
that individuals swept up
in a riot, can succumb to a collective frenzy...
543
00:31:48,940 --> 00:31:52,501
that can minimize
their ability to distinguish right from wrong.
544
00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:55,011
So, the mob is guilty,
and no individual is?
545
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,671
Exactly.
546
00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:59,444
The scientists call it
group contagion.
547
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,454
I'll listen to your expert,
Ms. Green.
548
00:32:04,522 --> 00:32:06,717
But I'm going to reserve my
decision on admissibility...
549
00:32:06,791 --> 00:32:09,259
until after you present
your entire case.
550
00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:13,188
Don't blame me
for murdering them, they were horrible parents.
551
00:32:13,264 --> 00:32:17,166
And don't blame me
for mutilating my husband in his sleep, he abused me.
552
00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:18,702
It's called
diminished capacity.
553
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:20,863
It's called
fabricating jury sympathy.
554
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,237
And sympathy is
part and parcel of justice.
555
00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:25,936
Right, and my sympathy
is definitely with Mrs. De Santis.
556
00:32:26,010 --> 00:32:27,944
Of course it does,
because you can empathize with her.
557
00:32:28,012 --> 00:32:30,037
You have no idea
what it's like to be lsaac Roberts.
558
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:32,275
To feel exploited,
to be unemployed...
559
00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:34,750
to feel like you have
no opportunities in this life.
560
00:32:34,819 --> 00:32:37,982
You pump enough air
into a balloon, eventually it goes pop.
561
00:32:38,056 --> 00:32:42,186
So, the have-nots can take
their frustrations out on the haves without recrimination?
562
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,352
That's a hate crime.
563
00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:45,988
It's been happening
the other way for centuries.
564
00:32:46,064 --> 00:32:49,227
Look, maybe you did march
with Martin in the '60s, but you know what?
565
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:53,896
Hanging a picture of Bobby
on your wall just isn't going to cut it anymore.
566
00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:01,504
(Daryl)
We were just hanging out.
567
00:33:01,579 --> 00:33:03,274
(Stone)
You and Mr. Roberts?
568
00:33:03,381 --> 00:33:04,848
That's right.
569
00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:07,444
And then we saw people
jumping all over the car.
570
00:33:07,518 --> 00:33:10,009
And you joined them?
Sure.
571
00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:12,915
I didn't think
anyone was going to get hurt.
572
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,720
What happened next?
573
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:16,822
Isaac.
574
00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:21,496
He started pounding the guy.
Did he say why?
575
00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:22,555
Uh-uh.
576
00:33:23,301 --> 00:33:25,235
He wasn't talking much.
577
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:27,835
Thank you.
578
00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:36,841
Was there ever a time
when you heard lsaac say:
579
00:33:36,914 --> 00:33:38,779
"Let's go beat up a Jew?"
580
00:33:39,751 --> 00:33:40,775
No.
581
00:33:41,252 --> 00:33:45,689
Was there ever a time
that you saw lsaac beat up anyone else before this?
582
00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:47,882
No.
583
00:33:48,993 --> 00:33:50,051
So...
584
00:33:50,128 --> 00:33:53,723
would you say that he
wasn't acting like himself?
585
00:33:54,899 --> 00:33:56,730
Yeah, I guess.
586
00:33:57,502 --> 00:33:59,402
Man, you got to understand.
587
00:33:59,537 --> 00:34:02,836
We heard
what the Reverend said, and it got us going.
588
00:34:04,842 --> 00:34:06,173
Thank you.
589
00:34:07,678 --> 00:34:12,411
I screamed at John,
"Just step on the gas, they'll get out of the way."
590
00:34:12,483 --> 00:34:14,075
But he didn't do that?
591
00:34:14,152 --> 00:34:17,315
They were all around us.
We couldn't do anything.
592
00:34:18,022 --> 00:34:19,922
So what happened next?
593
00:34:20,958 --> 00:34:23,586
He broke Johnny's window
with a brick.
594
00:34:24,128 --> 00:34:26,358
Are you referring
to the defendant?
595
00:34:26,631 --> 00:34:27,689
Yes.
596
00:34:28,633 --> 00:34:30,362
Then he opened the door...
597
00:34:30,968 --> 00:34:33,732
and he dragged Johnny
onto the ground...
598
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:36,806
and he just hit him...
599
00:34:37,642 --> 00:34:39,075
and hit him.
600
00:34:42,780 --> 00:34:46,375
Mrs. De Santis,
are you absolutely sure...
601
00:34:46,451 --> 00:34:49,579
that it was the defendant
that hit your husband?
602
00:34:51,189 --> 00:34:52,554
It was him.
603
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,891
Thank you.
604
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:05,665
There was a lot of commotion
on the street that day, isn't that correct?
605
00:35:06,137 --> 00:35:07,297
Yes.
606
00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:09,965
There were people screaming?
Yes.
607
00:35:10,241 --> 00:35:12,869
When my client
broke the car window...
608
00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:15,438
did your husband
try to talk to him?
609
00:35:15,513 --> 00:35:17,208
Are you kidding?
He was like an animal.
610
00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:19,181
You mean
he was out of control?
611
00:35:25,056 --> 00:35:26,250
We aren't even Jewish.
612
00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:29,225
My husband is dead
because he had black hair.
613
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:30,590
Is that right?
614
00:35:30,661 --> 00:35:32,322
No more questions.
615
00:35:34,899 --> 00:35:39,302
It's basically a matter of
the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
616
00:35:39,537 --> 00:35:42,301
A crowd acts very differently
than an individual.
617
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,173
In other words, because of
the circumstances...
618
00:35:46,878 --> 00:35:49,745
a good person
will do bad things?
619
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:53,306
Well, look at the fans
at a soccer match in England.
620
00:35:53,384 --> 00:35:55,477
Hysteria invades the crowd.
621
00:35:55,553 --> 00:35:57,578
Because of
the collective frenzy...
622
00:35:57,655 --> 00:35:59,953
the individual has
no power to resist.
623
00:36:00,258 --> 00:36:01,919
Thank you, Doctor.
624
00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:05,855
Doctor, did you ever hear
the defendant say...
625
00:36:05,930 --> 00:36:08,626
that he heard
voices telling him...
626
00:36:08,966 --> 00:36:10,524
to kill Mr. De Santis?
627
00:36:10,601 --> 00:36:12,569
As a matter of fact, he did.
628
00:36:12,637 --> 00:36:17,165
He heard Reverend Ott telling
him about the substandard treatment of his people.
629
00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:20,301
He heard hundreds of voices
in the crowd screaming:
630
00:36:20,378 --> 00:36:21,504
"Get the Jew!"
631
00:36:21,579 --> 00:36:23,274
(Stone)
So, in your opinion...
632
00:36:23,381 --> 00:36:28,114
the defendant is not
legally responsible for killing Mr. De Santis.
633
00:36:28,419 --> 00:36:29,511
That is correct.
634
00:36:29,587 --> 00:36:32,784
So I assume you'd have to
have the same feeling about a crowd...
635
00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:34,290
of good old boys...
636
00:36:34,358 --> 00:36:36,258
a tree, a noose...
637
00:36:36,327 --> 00:36:38,227
and a dead black man
in Mississippi.
638
00:36:38,296 --> 00:36:40,526
Objection.
Sustained.
639
00:36:53,744 --> 00:36:57,908
Nothing like invoking a good
old-fashioned lynching to blind a jury.
640
00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:01,679
Nothing like confusing them
with a bellyful of self-pity.
641
00:37:03,354 --> 00:37:06,517
Why don't we just take
the gloves off, all right?
642
00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:09,791
And stop behaving
like advocates.
643
00:37:11,495 --> 00:37:15,522
He killed a man.
That's a crime. Hell, maybe it's even a sin.
644
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,363
But he was provoked.
645
00:37:17,435 --> 00:37:19,027
Do you really believe that?
646
00:37:19,103 --> 00:37:21,833
That he was provoked by
a couple of hundred hooligans?
647
00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:24,306
By a couple of
centuries of hate.
648
00:37:27,345 --> 00:37:29,074
Between you and me, Ben...
649
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:32,211
as a black woman,
I am ashamed of what happened on that street.
650
00:37:32,283 --> 00:37:33,409
Are you?
651
00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:35,315
You have a hell of a way
of showing it.
652
00:37:35,386 --> 00:37:36,819
You don't get it, do you?
653
00:37:36,887 --> 00:37:39,685
I don't want that
to happen again.
654
00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:41,281
No, you don't get it.
655
00:37:41,626 --> 00:37:44,151
By infantilizing
your own people...
656
00:37:44,228 --> 00:37:47,288
you are guaranteeing
that it will happen again.
657
00:37:49,166 --> 00:37:52,533
After all these years,
you really had me fooled.
658
00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:56,139
I had no idea that your suit
of liberalism only came out of the closet...
659
00:37:56,207 --> 00:37:58,175
when it was fashionable.
660
00:38:00,244 --> 00:38:01,836
Shambala.
661
00:38:01,912 --> 00:38:05,370
Just once I want someone
to stand up in this country and say...
662
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:06,814
"l did it.
663
00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:09,743
"I'm responsible
for my actions.
664
00:38:09,820 --> 00:38:13,381
"Not my television set,
and not the color of my skin."
665
00:38:14,558 --> 00:38:16,617
And if it makes
you feel good...
666
00:38:16,727 --> 00:38:19,787
to call me a racist.
667
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,090
Fine.
668
00:38:21,732 --> 00:38:25,725
But if you're really looking
for who is responsible for racism these days...
669
00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:28,101
take a good look in a mirror.
670
00:38:34,078 --> 00:38:36,273
(Roberts)
The Reverend finished talking, and...
671
00:38:36,747 --> 00:38:38,578
I don't know,
people were like...
672
00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:40,310
crazy or something.
673
00:38:40,384 --> 00:38:43,615
Tell us what happened
when you saw Mr. De Santis.
674
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:47,713
Well, there was a lot of
pushing and shoving and screaming.
675
00:38:48,426 --> 00:38:50,587
I didn't know
what was going on.
676
00:38:50,695 --> 00:38:52,458
People were screaming:
677
00:38:52,530 --> 00:38:54,327
"The Jew killed Damon."
678
00:38:55,366 --> 00:38:58,096
Do you remember
breaking the car window?
679
00:38:58,502 --> 00:38:59,594
No.
680
00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:02,605
How about dragging
Mr. De Santis from the car?
681
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:04,732
No.
Hitting him?
682
00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:06,901
No.
683
00:39:07,545 --> 00:39:09,775
I just remember the screaming.
684
00:39:11,115 --> 00:39:12,446
Thank you.
685
00:39:17,388 --> 00:39:18,912
Mr. Roberts.
686
00:39:21,625 --> 00:39:24,788
Do you regret
killing Mr. De Santis?
687
00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:27,558
Sure, I don't want to see
anybody dead.
688
00:39:27,665 --> 00:39:29,633
(Stone)
What about Mr. Berger...
689
00:39:30,334 --> 00:39:32,894
the man who killed Damon Fox?
690
00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:36,906
A little kid gets
run down in the street...
691
00:39:36,974 --> 00:39:39,465
and nothing happens
to the guy who did it.
692
00:39:39,577 --> 00:39:41,909
What if it was some white kid
on Park Avenue...
693
00:39:41,979 --> 00:39:43,606
and the car was driven
by a brother?
694
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:44,773
(Stone)
But it wasn't.
695
00:39:44,849 --> 00:39:47,317
It was a Jewish businessman
up in Harlem.
696
00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:49,348
He's walking the streets...
697
00:39:49,887 --> 00:39:53,482
and you could go to prison
for the rest of your life.
698
00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:55,518
What else is new?
699
00:39:55,593 --> 00:39:57,857
They own the banks,
the buildings.
700
00:39:57,995 --> 00:40:01,294
A Jew snaps his finger
and everybody comes running.
701
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:04,061
Now, is that what you were
thinking about...
702
00:40:04,602 --> 00:40:06,627
when you saw Mr. De Santis?
703
00:40:10,007 --> 00:40:12,271
I don't know. Maybe.
704
00:40:12,343 --> 00:40:13,674
Come on.
705
00:40:15,312 --> 00:40:17,371
You wanted revenge, right?
706
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:22,886
You're damn straight, I did.
707
00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:27,687
So...
708
00:40:28,359 --> 00:40:30,987
I guess there is something
you remember...
709
00:40:31,061 --> 00:40:33,757
about the attack after all.
710
00:40:39,336 --> 00:40:40,997
No more questions.
711
00:40:45,176 --> 00:40:46,837
The defense calls
Joshua Berger.
712
00:40:46,911 --> 00:40:48,105
(Stone)
About what?
713
00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:49,441
He was not a witness.
714
00:40:49,513 --> 00:40:52,778
He can, however,
testify as to the defendant's state of mind.
715
00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:56,013
I don't know where you're
going, Ms. Green but you'd better get there fast.
716
00:40:56,086 --> 00:40:58,987
I'll give you time to
prepare cross, Mr. Stone.
717
00:41:00,491 --> 00:41:03,358
(Green)
Sir, after your grand jury appearance...
718
00:41:03,427 --> 00:41:05,918
you left the courthouse
through the rear door.
719
00:41:05,996 --> 00:41:07,623
Isn't that true?
720
00:41:07,998 --> 00:41:09,932
The police thought
it would be better.
721
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,262
And you agreed with them?
722
00:41:11,335 --> 00:41:14,771
They said there was
a lot of people out front, they might cause trouble.
723
00:41:14,839 --> 00:41:16,602
Who might cause trouble?
724
00:41:16,841 --> 00:41:19,275
Are you talking about blacks,
sir?
725
00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:22,035
I said "people," Ms. Green.
726
00:41:22,580 --> 00:41:25,606
Sir, isn't it true that
your excuse...
727
00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:29,449
for leaving the scene of
the accident was that you were scared?
728
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,717
I panicked.
Because you were in Harlem.
729
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:36,326
You're scared of blacks,
isn't that right, Mr. Berger?
730
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:37,954
I am not a racist.
731
00:41:38,028 --> 00:41:41,464
You're not only
scared of them, you hate them, isn't that true?
732
00:41:41,532 --> 00:41:42,726
Look.
733
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,264
Any middle-aged
white person...
734
00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,964
Jew, Baptist, atheist,
whatever...
735
00:41:48,038 --> 00:41:50,165
who says that
he's not frightened...
736
00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:52,801
no, make that terrified...
737
00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:55,937
to find himself alone
on a city street...
738
00:41:56,180 --> 00:41:58,978
being followed by two or three
black teenagers...
739
00:41:59,416 --> 00:42:00,747
is a liar.
740
00:42:01,986 --> 00:42:03,010
Oh, I see.
741
00:42:03,487 --> 00:42:05,717
So you only hate some blacks.
742
00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:08,524
One-on-one,
you don't mind blacks...
743
00:42:08,592 --> 00:42:11,356
but more than
two of them together scare you.
744
00:42:11,896 --> 00:42:15,491
Do you read about
Jewish teenagers carrying guns...
745
00:42:15,566 --> 00:42:17,557
and selling crack
on street corners?
746
00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:20,661
So, Bugsy Siegel
and Meyer Lansky didn't do anything wrong...
747
00:42:20,738 --> 00:42:22,865
until they were in their 20s?
748
00:42:23,173 --> 00:42:26,142
I'm sorry to disillusion you,
Mr. Berger...
749
00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:29,202
but you are a racist.
Objection.
750
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,909
Sustained.
Can you blame my client for being angry?
751
00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:34,575
In my chambers.
752
00:42:35,085 --> 00:42:36,677
As soon as this is over,
Ms. Green...
753
00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:39,382
you can expect
a briefcase full of sanctions to hit your desk.
754
00:42:39,456 --> 00:42:40,548
I was only trying to--
755
00:42:40,624 --> 00:42:43,855
To offer irrelevant evidence
in order to inflame and prejudice a jury.
756
00:42:43,928 --> 00:42:46,419
Now we'll be lucky
if this jury doesn't throw Berger in jail.
757
00:42:46,497 --> 00:42:49,091
I assume, Your Honor,
that you will instruct the jury...
758
00:42:49,166 --> 00:42:52,226
to disregard Mr. Berger's
testimony entirely.
759
00:42:52,303 --> 00:42:53,770
I'll do you one better,
Mr. Stone.
760
00:42:53,837 --> 00:42:54,861
Berger's testimony is out...
761
00:42:54,939 --> 00:42:57,737
and so is everything
having to do with this mob psychology crap.
762
00:42:57,808 --> 00:43:01,175
Then I have no defense.
Tell that to the jury, Counselor.
763
00:43:07,818 --> 00:43:09,752
This should have been over
in a couple of hours.
764
00:43:09,820 --> 00:43:11,845
What could they be
talking about for eight days?
765
00:43:11,922 --> 00:43:14,891
There are 12 people
in that room, not 12 computers.
766
00:43:14,959 --> 00:43:17,154
Roberts admitted
he killed De Santis.
767
00:43:17,227 --> 00:43:20,162
The judge's instructions
eliminate any possible justification.
768
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:22,789
Yeah. Juries
always listen to judges.
769
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,792
[intercom buzzing]
770
00:43:29,106 --> 00:43:30,198
Yes?
771
00:43:31,842 --> 00:43:33,400
You're kidding.
772
00:43:37,181 --> 00:43:39,809
(Judge)
Is there any reason to believe that further deliberation...
773
00:43:39,883 --> 00:43:42,044
would lead to
a unanimous verdict?
774
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:43,643
No, Your Honor.
775
00:43:45,489 --> 00:43:48,788
Then I have no alternative
but to declare a mistrial.
776
00:43:48,859 --> 00:43:50,520
[people cheering]
777
00:43:58,569 --> 00:44:00,662
[people chattering]
778
00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:18,751
Three were for murder two.
Four for man one.
779
00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:20,653
That leaves
five for acquittal.
780
00:44:20,724 --> 00:44:24,990
On retrial we exclude
their expert testimony...
781
00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:27,656
and the jury only hears
our witnesses.
782
00:44:28,966 --> 00:44:30,991
Not going to be a retrial.
783
00:44:39,543 --> 00:44:43,172
Isaac Roberts killed
an innocent man. You're going to let him walk?
784
00:44:43,247 --> 00:44:47,616
If I thought we could impanel
a jury that would give us a chance of convicting...
785
00:44:47,951 --> 00:44:49,942
I'd try the case myself.
786
00:44:52,222 --> 00:44:55,123
Now, you'd think that 20 years
in this office...
787
00:44:56,026 --> 00:44:58,256
you'd have a sense of reality.
788
00:44:59,563 --> 00:45:01,087
Reality?
789
00:45:01,165 --> 00:45:02,530
The reality is...
790
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:06,262
that no one is willing to
stand up and draw a line in the sand.
791
00:45:06,336 --> 00:45:09,499
Nobody is willing to say
that the law is the law...
792
00:45:09,573 --> 00:45:11,768
and if you break it,
you'll be prosecuted...
793
00:45:11,842 --> 00:45:14,902
win, lose, or draw.
Nobody except you, of course.
794
00:45:15,112 --> 00:45:19,173
Adam, better to light a match
than to curse the darkness.
795
00:45:19,516 --> 00:45:22,952
Even if it lights a fuse
that could blow up the city.
796
00:45:24,088 --> 00:45:25,715
What do you want?
797
00:45:25,956 --> 00:45:27,014
Peace without justice?
798
00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:30,492
I'm willing to
straddle a fence so this city can heal.
799
00:45:30,961 --> 00:45:32,929
Can you understand that?
800
00:45:34,598 --> 00:45:35,724
[sighs]
801
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,263
I understand that.
802
00:45:40,771 --> 00:45:42,363
And that cure...
803
00:45:42,873 --> 00:45:44,841
is worse than the disease.
804
00:45:58,989 --> 00:46:00,854
And it's a solution...
805
00:46:04,027 --> 00:46:06,018
that I just can't be part of.
806
00:46:13,570 --> 00:46:14,867
[scoffs]
807
00:46:14,917 --> 00:46:19,467
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