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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented
by two separate yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

(SNORING)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPANISH SONG PLAYING)

(HONKING)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Couple of locals
on their way to fish saw him from the overpass.

Looks like
a hit and run.

He's alive.

For now.
EMT says he's likely.

Any ID on
our gentleman?

Just a wallet.

No reason
for him to be walking down here.

BERNARD:
Eh, he's either lost or drunk.

LUPO: Whoa.

It's auto glass.

I'm no expert but
I don't know any laws of physics that says

the glass from
the car that hits you

finds its way
into your pant leg.

There's some broken glass
on the road up here.

BERNARD: No ID.

Thirteen bucks,
bad luck

and a family picture

in front of
Iglesia de Santa Maria del Puerto Lempira.

I'm guessing
this man isn't local.

Here it is,
a trail of broken glass about 20 feet long.

It broke while
the car was moving.

Yeah, and somehow
finds its way inside our man's pants.

Well, try this.
If he was kicking out the window from inside,

then glass might fall
down his pant leg,

meaning he jumped
out of or was thrown from a moving car.

Either way,
when he landed on our shores,

I bet this
wasn't the landing he anticipated.

He suffered
traumatic brain injury.

He's in a grade 3 coma.

The odds he'll
come out of it?

Considering
he has no spontaneous respiratory function

and his cognitive
brain activity is nil?

Got it. What about
his other injuries?

Fractured arm, fractured ribs,
lacerations on his hands,

bruises on his
back and neck.

From an impact
with a vehicle?

From impact
with the roadway.

Oh, and there's a fresh
second-degree burn on his left cheek,

about the size
of a quarter.

I'll email you photos.

Thanks.

LUPO: He's got auto glass
embedded in the tread of his right heel,

same as the glass
on the road and a can of juice.

Naranja, a little
taste of home.

Oh, wow. (COUGHS)

That's appetizing.

What is that?
Smoked sturgeon.

That stuff's
50 bucks a pound.

Yeah. Irv's
on Rivington.

Even money.
Our Juan Doe here works in the kitchen.

IZZY: I can barely see
his face with all that mishegoss on his head.

Is he okay?

What does it look like?

It could be one
of my dishwashers. Oswaldo.

It's his day off.

Oswaldo who?

Oswaldo You're-not-gonna-bust-
my-balls-'cause-I-didn't- check-his-papers, okay?

We're murder cops, okay?
So a last name?

Don't know it.
He shares a place with...

Hey, Tomas!

Talk to these cops
about Oswaldo.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Hmm?

It's mi amigo, Oswaldo.
He okay?

He's not okay.
He's in the hospital.

What's his
last name?

Morales.

BERNARD:
And these people?

His family,
in Puerto Lempira in Honduras.

He send them
all his money. He work hard.

When did you
see him last?

This morning.
I come home from night job, 5:00.

And he get up,
I take the bed.

He go look for day work.

Where does he look?
Under Highway 155.

He wait for the cars
to come and they give him a job.

(SIGHING) Looks like
it's the dawn patrol for us. Thanks.

Gracias.

LUPO:
Hey, hot coffee here for the working man.

(BERNARD SPEAKING SPANISH)

If you don't hurry,
he's going to eat it all.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

LUPO: Anyone see Oswaldo
yesterday morning?

MIGUEL: I see him.

You did?
Step forward, please. It's okay.

He go in a car
for a job.

What kind
of car?

Dark green Toyota.
I tell Oswaldo be careful.

Why?

It was three white
kids in the car,

and they say
they got a job for one man.

I see one of the kids
take a picture of us with his phone

so I do not go.

You think
you'd recognize these kids?

No. It's dark,
they stay in the car.

All right,
thanks.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(MEN MUTTERING THANKS)

White kids
taking pictures of Hispanic day laborers.

Yeah, I don't think
it's to send to their girlfriends.

One thing for sure.
Nowadays everything ends up on the web.

The auto glass
is the same make Toyota uses.

We figured he must've
kicked the side window out trying to get out.

Probably when
those kids burned that hole in his cheek.

VAN BUREN: Any idea
what this was done with?

Lab says it wasn't
a cigar or cigarette,

more likely metal
or ceramic object.

Branding, a new twist
on hate crimes.

Well, here's
a newer twist,

a video called
"Beaner Hunt:

"Taking back America
one street at a time."

It was posted
last week.

BOY 1: Hurry up!
Behind the mail box!

(BOYS LAUGHING)

BOY 2: We're going
to nail your ass! (WHOOPING)

I count three voices.

Guy on the corner
said three kids.

BOY 3: Yeah!
(WHOOPING)

BERNARD:
New York Islanders hat.

Good chance
we're in the right place.

Toyota.

What is that, a.22?

BOY 1: Go, go, go!

BOY 2: Bagged
a beaner, baby!

(GUNSHOTS)

It sounded
like a BB gun.

BOY 3:
Bagged you, beaner!

BOY 2:
I got him! I got him!

It's gotta be
the same kids.

Go back to where
they first pulled up.

Freeze it.

See if the lab
can read the ID number on that mail truck.

LORENZI: You found this
on the Internet? I'll be a son of a gun.

Yeah, and that mail
truck's from the Peconic Post Office.

You didn't know this was
going on in your town?

We've had nine bias incidents
against Hispanics in the last month.

Nine in one month?

With unemployment,
the economy,

people blame the illegals.

All those
illegals who made subprime loans

to people
who couldn't afford them.

BERNARD: Any of these
incidents involve a green Toyota?

Three with
a green sedan,

two drive-bys
with a BB gun.

The third one,
the kids put a beating on the victim.

You got
descriptions?

Three white kids,
one with blond hair.

We stepped up patrols

where the illegals congregate.

That's probably what
pushed these kids to find new hunting grounds.

BERNARD: We're going
to need a list from you,

your local
automobile glass shops.

Yeah.

A kid came in
Saturday with a green Camry four-door.

Back window
on the right side was busted out.

Okay, we need
his name and his plate number.

I got nothing.

He didn't have the $180
for parts and labor.

How about
a description

or identifying marks
on the kid or the car?

Sixteen, 17,

average height, dark hair.

You want to come with us
to the local high school, look at some pictures?

Now? I guess.

Jimmy, I gotta go
with these guys.

So what'd this
kid do anyways?

Him and his buddies
put an illegal immigrant into a coma.

You know, I got, like,
10 people that think

they're getting
their cars back today.

Yeah, they thought
wrong. Come on.

LUPO: We need to know
if there's been any... Hey.

Start with the seniors.

This is what
they did to him.

This ain't right.

LUPO: Issues with
race or immigration.

Peconic's Latino
population has grown 25% in five years.

We've had to
accommodate students who are here illegally

and speak English
as a second language.

So that's where all
my tax money's going.

What about your
legal students?

Any of them in particular
been acting out?

We've cut back
on our sports teams,

so there's been
resentment among our athletes.

There've been fights,
some graffiti.

BOBBY: Him.

Tony Stratton.

Point guard,
Varsity basketball team.

Is Tony here right now?

No. Dismissal
was at 3:00.

Green Toyota.

Looks like plastic
taped over the right rear passenger window.

I got the tag number.

Is Tony Stratton here?

No, no, Tony no here.

Do you know
where he is?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Oh! No, no, s�.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Okay, s�.

Gracias, se�ora.

You see her shoes?

Yeah, open-toe pumps.

Not too many housekeepers
do the laundry

in high heels
and a sweater set. Mmm-hmm.

Toyota's registered
to a Juanita Stratton, this address.

I think we just
met Mrs. Stratton.

She's probably
on the phone with her husband,

wondering why the cops
were asking about their son.

I wonder how
the Stratton kid sorts it out in his head.

Huh?

Him being half-Hispanic
and beating up on illegals.

Mmm.

The way people feel
in this town, he probably figures it's all normal.

I get it.

What?
The anger.

Back in
South Central,

the young black man
can't get jobs

because the bosses
know they can pay an illegal four bucks

under the table
with no benefits

and know that man
is too scared to complain.

So sure,
treat them humanely

and put them on a bus
and send them home.

And that fence?
Dig it deep and build it high.

Don't worry, I think
we found a solution for illegal immigration.

It's called
the depression.

Believe me,
all those illegals are heading home now.

Hmm.

Lupes.

Hold up.
Stop the car, please.

Mrs. Stratton?
Soy Juanita.

Juanita Stratton.

Do we still need
an interpreter?

What do you want?

Interfering with a criminal
investigation is a felony.

I'm not interfering
with anything.

What happened
to your window?

It got broken at
the Tastee Freez on Hempstead Turnpike.

Mom?

Go back inside, Tony.

Tony? Tony Stratton.

I'm calling Mr. Mosely,
he's a lawyer.

I said go back inside.

Hey, we want to talk to you.
Come out of the house!

Probable cause
is set out in the warrant application.

The victim was
last seen getting into a green Toyota.

In Manhattan.

Your search warrant
is for a car 60 miles away.

The car's window
was broken out.

The glass at the
crime scene...

Can't be matched
with this specific car.

Maybe we should play
you that video again.

No need.

The car in that video
doesn't have a broken window,

there's no telling
what color it is,

and nothing connects it
to this Stratton kid.

Judge Montaldo...

That's the real
bottom line.

Right there.

You had your pick
of judges

but you brought this
to Judge Montaldo.

You figure a Latino judge
is more likely to grant a search warrant

on a hate crime
against a Latino man,

no matter how flimsy
the probable cause.

If I grant your warrant,

the defense will
call it a gimme

and I wouldn't blame them.

This is an important case.

Get it right.

VAN BUREN: He's not wrong.

Everything about this case
will be under a microscope.

So, forget about
the car for now,

and work on identifying
the other two occupants.

There was a blond kid
in the passenger seat?

And the one with the BB gun.

Well, check Stratton's
entries in the yearbook,

for shout-outs
to his buddies.

Let's see...

"Throwing out a bump
to my man, Bird."

VAN BUREN:
Stratton's on the basketball team.

Good chance his
accomplices will be too.

Yup.

A blond basketball player.

Bird as in
Larry Bird, maybe.

Or Big Bird.

Timothy Moore,
shooting guard.

DIANE: Tim's upstate
today, visiting colleges with his dad.

Looks like he's going
to have his pick.

Now why do you want
to talk to Tim?

We need him to identify
a BB gun pistol

that was used in a robbery
two weeks ago.

The suspect said
he bought it from a student at Peconic High School.

Yeah, the people
at the school

think they remember
your son had one.

His father
bought it for him for target practice

when he was 11.

But he hasn't
used it in years.

Is Timothy in trouble?

LUPO: For selling
his BB gun? No.

He had a game
last Friday night, yeah?

Yeah.
You know where he went after?

He went out
with his friend Tony.

BERNARD: What time
did he get home?

He has a midnight curfew,
and he's never late.

Mrs. Moore, there are
some people lying comes to naturally.

You're definitely
not one of them.

My husband and I were
visiting friends in Maryland for the weekend.

I'll write down his number.

From now on,
you should talk to him.

(CELL PHONE CHIMING)

Well,
now we know Timothy owns a BB gun

and he was with
Stratton on Friday.

And we know
the attack video

was uploaded
from a computer at the school.

COACH: From my
computer? No way.

Well, it's easy enough
for us to check, Coach. Do you mind?

So who has access
to your computer?

I want you to know
I don't tolerate that crap.

Racial stuff, gay stuff,
I hear it from my players, they run laps.

Well, that's good to hear.

BERNARD: The video
itself was deleted from the computer

once it was uploaded
to the net,

but the AVI footprint's
still here on your hard drive.

So again, who has access
to your computer?

My team manager,
Kyle Chase.

He uses it to keep
the team stats.

That makes three.

CLERK: "28943.

"People v. Tony Stratton,
Timothy Moore and Kyle Chase.

"Attempted Murder
in the First Degree."

The People serve notice
we'll be seeking a hate crime enhancement.

So noted.
What's the plea?

MOSELY: Not guilty
as to each defendant.

The People ask for remand.
(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

JUDGE: Silence!
Silence now!

Your Honor, my clients
attend school and play team sports,

they should be ROR'd
to their parents.

The police have
uncovered four videos of the defendants

attacking Hispanic men
in the past two months.

MOSELY: Those videos
have nothing to do

with the charges
they're facing here today.

CONNIE: They prove that
their parents are unable

or unwilling to
supervise them.

JUDGE: Then let's make
sure we get their parents' attention.

Bail is set at $150,000
for each defendant.

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

I don't know
how you can talk about a hate crime,

since Tony Stratton's
half-Hispanic.

His mother's
from Argentina.

Your clients targeted
their victims because of their ethnicity.

Oh, right, the videos.

About the videos...
Motion to suppress.

The judge granted
the defense motion. Videos are out.

(SIGHS) Yeah, so the
videos proving the kids are prejudiced

are tossed out because
they would prejudice the jury against the kids.

You sure you still
want to be a lawyer?

There goes our proof
this was a hate crime.

Well, what's left
is no great shakes either.

We have an eyewitness
who can identify the car but not the occupant

and some broken glass.

(CELL PHONES CHIMING)

ROYCE: Homeless
guy, found him under a mattress.

I saw the burn
on his face,

and him
looking Hispanic,

I thought about
the other guy, so I called you.

You did the right thing.

Any idea how long
he's been here?

About a week.
The cold temperature slowed down the decomp.

I found blunt-force
trauma on his head,

defensive wounds
on his hands.

Going by the shape
of the injuries,

I'd look for
a baseball bat as the murder weapon.

BERNARD: Can we get
a picture of this?

There's a Mexican peso
jammed into the end.

Looks like
it's been heated.

This is what
they've been branding these guys with.

A Mexican peso.
Real subtle.

Rey Alvarez.

What country is he from?

Detroit, Michigan.

UAW card,
stubs from an unemployment check.

They thought they were
bagging an illegal alien,

instead they got
an out-of-work auto worker.

That's what anger gets you.

What the deplorable
events in Peconic and New York City underline

is that
people are scared and people are angry.

All right, bottom line,
under Jack McCoy,

has New York become
a sanctuary city for illegals?

If Mr. McCoy actually
enforced the law,

our schools and our
workplaces wouldn't be filled with illegals.

There you have it.

Where are you with
these deplorable events?

The unemployed
auto worker was living with his sister.

He has recently
found a job

working as a night watchman
in East Harlem.

It looks like
he was grabbed and killed

24 hours after
Mr. Morales was thrown out of the Toyota.

The same kids?
Mm-hmm.

CONNIE: Both victims
had a similar burn,

or a brand,
on their face.

These kids
had been escalating their violence.

They finally got a scalp.

How good a case
against them for the murder?

No witnesses,
no forensics.

We have a somewhat
better case against them

for the assault
on Mr. Morales.

Then join
the two cases.

Prove both victims
were branded with the same device.

And let the assault
bootstrap the murder case.

Or let the murder case
tank the assault case.

I say we proceed
with the assault on Mr. Morales,

hold off on the murder,
see what the police turn up.

I say we prosecute
the assault of an illegal alien

while we back-burner
the murder of an American citizen.

I can write
the editorials myself.

Now political image
even trumps legal reality?

Here is the legal reality.

We're joining
the two cases.

Clear?

Mr. Cutter is seeking
to piggy-back two cases

that have no connection.

Except the
same defendants, similar victims...

An illegal immigrant

allegedly thrown
from a car,

and an American citizen
beaten to death with a baseball bat?

Both men were Hispanic
and both were branded with the same crude instrument.

MOSELY: How do you
know it's the same?

That evidence will be
provided at trial.

Your Honor,
this claim that the same device was used

is Mr. Cutter's only basis
to join the cases.

BERROW: I get it,
Mr. Mosely.

Mr. Cutter, I'm not
granting you this joinder

until you show me evidence

that the victims
were branded with the same instrument.

The defense has
the right to examine that evidence firsthand.

Fair enough.

Mr. Cutter,
you will make both victims available to the defense.

Let's get Oswaldo Morales
examined as soon as possible.

You're here for
Oswaldo Morales?

Uh, yes,
Connie Rubirosa.

Dr. Rodgers
is with the M.E.'s office.

She's here to conduct
an examination of Mr. Morales' face.

Mr. Morales is
no longer here.

He was discharged
last night.

Discharged?
He was in a coma on life support.

Who was he
discharged to?

Well, pursuant to
hospital policy,

patients who are
undocumented aliens

are repatriated as soon
as they're stabilized.

Mr. Morales was
medevaced to his home country of Honduras.

Medevaced to where
in Honduras?

To their main airport
in Tegucigalpa.

And what, you just
left him on the tarmac?

Pursuant to policy,
he was turned over to the Honduran authorities.

He's their
responsibility, not ours.

Shipping a critically ill
patient out in the middle of the night,

without telling anyone.

What's the matter
with these people?

It's simple math.

Seventy grand for
a flight to Honduras

versus 200 grand
a month to keep him on life support.

Well, for 100 bucks,
they could've just put him in a rowboat off Jones Beach.

Do we know where
he is in Honduras?

CUTTER: It doesn't matter.

No judge is going to require
the defense to send their expert there.

We needed him here.

McCOY: Then
let's get him back.

We'll issue a material
witness warrant

and pay for his care out of
our discretionary fund.

I hope your passport
is up to date.

It is. I'll get started on
the warrant application.

Paying for an illegal
immigrant's medical bills

with taxpayer's money
while millions of Americans can't afford health care.

I'm sure you know
what you're in for.

Since when are you worried
about my political image?

All things being equal,
Jack, I do want you to win this election.

(SCOFFS)

You want to take
my son where they try to kill him?

CONNIE: If you let him
come with us,

he can fight back
against the ones who did this to him.

(SNIFFLING)

They say he will
never get better.

Is that true?

He'll be in the best
hospital in New York.

The city will pay
for his doctors, his medicines.

(BABBLING)

Hey, we'll pay
for you to come too.

Your son won't be alone.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

I'll go with Oswaldo.
I want to see the boys who did this to my son.

I'll sign the papers.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

The diameter,
shape and depth of both burns

are identical.

And both exhibit
the same irregularity

on the outer perimeter
of the burned skin.

To what do you attribute
this irregularity?

There's an indentation
on the edge of the coin.

It lines up perfectly
with both irregularities.

In my opinion,
the same heated coin

was used to make
both burns.

Thank you.

All right.
Thank you, Doctor.

Your Honor,
I have questions.

BERROW: Save them
for the trial.

I'm granting
the People's motion to consolidate the indictments.

The defendants will
be tried for both, the assault on Mr. Morales

and the murder
of Mr. Alvarez.

The D.A.'s got to
prove he's tough

so he's scapegoating
our kids.

It's our children who
need protection from these illegal immigrants.

Like that girl in Washington
who was killed by an illegal from El Salvador.

Or those Mexican
drug gangs that are coming across the border.

What are we going
to do about it? Mr. McCoy.

Are you aware
of the complaint that has been filed

with the attorney general
about your expenditure of public funds

to fly an illegal immigrant
back from Honduras

and pay for his
hospital care?

Mr. Morales's
presence serves the defendants' rights

to confront the
witnesses against them, Mr. Pewls?

It doesn't bother you
that Mr. Morales is being afforded medical care

that's beyond the reach
of more than 75% of the residents of this city?

It bothers me that
most people in this city

can't afford high-quality
medical care.

It should bother you too.

One last question,
Mr. McCoy.

The Ledger is coming
out with a story

that you hired
an undocumented alien

as a household worker
and nanny for your children.

You care to comment?

I'll comment after
I read the story.

I'm here to talk
about this case.

I intend to make justice
available to everyone in our jurisdiction.

Justice is not
a finite resource.

Because it's given to one
doesn't mean that it will be denied to another.

But if it is denied to one,
it's denied to all.

Nicely handled,
but what about this nanny?

Oh, great.

As to the allegations
against Mr. McCoy

concerning an undocumented
household worker,

well, that's...
That's a matter for different agencies.

However, I understand...

I was going through
my divorce in '91,

Ellen and I were separated.

She hired a nanny.

She was stressed out,
overwhelmed by

everything.

She never thought to check
the woman's papers.

We didn't find out
until a year later,

we let the woman go,
paid her taxes.

So someone's
been going through your divorce records.

Mike, my problems
are my problems.

The work here goes on,
regardless.

Well, we set
a trial date for the Peconic kids.

Good. Keep the
pressure on. (CELL PHONE CHIMING)

Kyle Chase, the kid
who uploaded the videos,

his new lawyer
wants to talk.

I'm not going to prison
for a murder I had nothing to do with.

CUTTER: No,
we certainly wouldn't want you to do that.

After what happened
with the guy who broke the window,

Timothy and Tony,
they wanted to go back out Saturday night

to find another beaner but...

Sorry.

I meant a Hispanic.

I didn't want
to go with them.

So I bagged out.

Kyle will plead
to the assault on Mr. Morales

and he'll testify against
Moore and Stratton.

Assuming, of course,
we get a satisfactory offer from you.

He doesn't have
an alibi for the murder

or we would've
heard it by now.

And since his friends
haven't exculpated him,

we only have his word.

I... I wasn't
there, I swear.

I was home.
Why are you sweating him?

He'll give you
everything you need against his friends.

First he testifies,

then we'll talk
about a sentence recommendation.

KYLE: We were
driving around Peconic.

Tony saw this Mexican
walking along.

And so we came
up on him,

and Tim capped
him with the BB.

The guy, like, jumped.

CUTTER:
And that's all you did,

shoot Hispanic men
with a BB gun?

At first.
But then one of them flipped us off,

so we put a beat
down on him.

And how often did you
and the defendants

go looking for Hispanic
men to attack?

Not a lot.
Maybe once a week.

Did there come a time
when you started looking outside Peconic?

We were afraid
of being caught by the town cops,

so we went
into the city.

Tony heard on TV
about this place

where the illegals
went to get work.

Tim had this Mexican
coin from his sister

who'd been to Canc�n
on spring break.

Kyle, what did you
and the defendants do with this coin?

Tim and Tony
wanted to pick up an illegal

and burn the coin
on his face,

so everybody would know
he was illegal.

And what happened
that Friday night when you came into the city?

We, uh, waited
for the illegals to start showing up.

This Mexican came over.

This man?
Yes, sir. That's the Mexican.

Oswaldo Morales
is Honduran.

Okay, whatever.
He came over.

We told him
we had a job for him for 50 bucks.

He got in the back with Tim,
we drove away.

Tony talked to him
in Spanish to make him feel comfortable.

CUTTER: What
were you doing?

I had this pipe
that Tim rigged up

with the coin
jammed in the end.

People's 17.
Is this the pipe?

Yes, sir. I heated it
with a lighter.

When it was glowing red,

Tim put his arm
around the guy's neck.

With his other hand
he pressed the coin into his face.

The guy screamed,
he was fighting back.

Tim started
wailing on him.

The guy kicked
out the window.

Tim pushed him out the car,
we drove home.

CUTTER: Did something
happen later that night?

Tim was, like,
let's go back and do it right.

What did that mean,
"do it right"?

Him and Tony wanted
to kill one of them.

But I wanted
nothing to do with that.

So I just stayed home.

No further questions.

Did Tim and Tony
brag to you about killing Mr. Alvarez?

No.

But didn't they show you
the bat they used

or describe how
Mr. Alvarez died?

No, they didn't say
anything about that.

You don't know
for a fact they killed Mr. Alvarez, do you?

No, I don't.

It's pure speculation
on your part

and the more you speculate,
the lighter your sentence.

Isn't that your deal
with Mr. Cutter?

No.

Aren't you afraid to
go to prison, Kyle?

Yes, I sure am.

So afraid that you
agreed to testify against your friends!

Your Honor,
if Mr. Mosely...

Mr. Mosely, do you
have a question?

Kyle, isn't it possible

you let your fear
color your testimony here today?

I don't know. Maybe.

Maybe you did.

No more questions.

Redirect, Your Honor.

Kyle, when you
just testified

about what you
and the defendants did to Mr. Morales,

did you tell the truth?

Young man,
answer the question.

Mr. Chase, answer
or I'll cite you for contempt.

Okay, sure.

I told the truth.

My name is Ramiro Lopez.
I am from Mexico.

I live in Peconic,
on Long Island.

Are you here legally,
Mr. Lopez?

No, sir. I come across
the border one year ago.

Can you describe
what happened to you

in Peconic in March
of this year?

I was walking home.

A green car
stop on the road.

Three boys got out.

They scream,
"Where you going, you stupid beaner?"

I try to run.
But the boy with blond hair catch me.

He hit me in the face.
The other boys kick me.

They broke my nose
and my ribs.

They say if I do not
go back to Mexico,

next time they will kill me.

Do you see any
of these boys in the courtroom today?

Two of them
sit at the table.

Tony Stratton
and Timothy Moore.

Thank you.

Who do you work for,
Mr. Lopez?

I don't want to say.
My boss might get in trouble.

And you don't pay
taxes, is that right?

I'm sorry
but I cannot find a job in Mexico.

You admit you cheat
our government,

you steal from
everyone here...

Mister, if people
came to my country

with no papers
and took jobs,

I would feel bad too.

But I have
to feed my family.

Yeah, that's all
fine and good,

but you're an admitted
thief and liar.

How do we know you're not
lying about my clients?

Your Honor, I move
that this witness's entire testimony be stricken.

Denied. Mr. Lopez,
you're excused.

You may step down.
Thank you, Judge.

Your Honor,
the People rest their case.

BERROW: Mr. Mosely,
are you ready to call your first witness?

Uh...

What's going on there?

Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Your Honor.

We're taking
Mr. Lopez into custody.

Your Honor,
this man is the People's witness.

He is subject to recall.

It's not my jurisdiction,
Mr. Cutter.

But If I were you,
I'd get on the phone to the U.S. Attorney

and make sure
they don't deport your witness.

Mr. Mosely,
call your first witness.

I came here
from Argentina

as an exchange student
23 years ago.

I met my husband here.

I became a citizen,
raised a family.

I'm very proud
to be an American.

But I'm also proud of
my Spanish heritage.

I raised my son Antonio
to be proud of his heritage, too.

My son does not
hate Spanish people,

he doesn't hate immigrants.

It would be like
hating his own family.

MOSELY:
Thank you, Mrs. Stratton.

Mrs. Stratton, has your
son ever come home

and told you someone
called him names like,

and please forgive
my language,

a spic or a beaner?

Yes.

He knows
those words hurt.

That's why he
doesn't use them.

Has he ever complained
that he was excluded from social activities

because of his heritage?

Sometimes, but it
doesn't bother him.

What? It's not important
to your son

to belong,
to have friends?

Yes, like any teenager,

but he wouldn't
do anything bad.

I told you,
Tony doesn't have hate in his heart.

So you say.

When you first
spoke to the police at your home,

you pretended not
to understand English.

You let them believe
that you were the housekeeper, correct?

I didn't say I was
the housekeeper.

No, no,
you pretended to be, to deceive them.

It's them who
made a mistake.

How could anyone
look at me and think I'm a groncho?

I beg your pardon,
what's that word you used?

A groncho?

JUANITA: It's an
Argentine word.

What does it mean?

It means a simple person,
a campesino.

Oh, no, no.
That word I know.

That, uh, means a peasant?

Yes.

But a groncho
is more than that.

It's a derogatory term
for a poor person,

an unemployed
person, isn't it?

It's just a word
we use in Buenos Aires.

By upper class people
to describe the lower class, correct?

Do you use that word
around your son?

I never taught
my son that word.

No, but you taught
him that attitude.

No.

That gronchos, people
like Oswaldo Morales and Rey Alvarez

are bums, garbage,
sub-human...

Objection.
Asked and answered.

Sustained.

I have no further
questions, Your Honor.

McCOY:
We've got nothing to hide, Ellen.

Just tell the truth.

I'm sorry
you got dragged into this mess.

Me, too, Ellen. Thanks.

My ex.

The case is with the jury.

Four hours and counting.

Better lay in the provisions.
It's going to be a long one.

Hey. Judge
wants to see us.

Apparently, a court officer

saw jurors watching
a Len Pewls special on illegal immigration.

Who let a TV into
the deliberation room?

This was on an iPhone.

When is this country
going to wake up to the fact

that we have been invaded?

When are the
junket-softened wimps of Washington

gonna quit kow-towing
to the great god of NAFTA

and start throwing
our weight around?

Amnesty, ladies and
gentlemen, is not reform,

it is surrender.

Mr. Di Grappa,
where did you get this podcast?

My cousin e-mailed it to me.

I only showed it to
four of the jurors.

I'm replacing you
with an alternate.

You're dismissed
from jury duty. Have a nice day.

Replacing one juror
isn't enough, Your Honor.

Mr. Cutter, I'm not
declaring a mistrial.

I not going to put
this city through another month of this.

The other jurors
have sworn to me

that they can maintain
their impartiality,

despite what they've
heard from this race-baiting gas-bag.

The jurors will resume
deliberations.

BERROW: Has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

As to Rey Alvarez,
a count of Murder in the First Degree,

how do you find?

We find the defendants
not guilty.

(ALL MURMURING)

BERROW: As to
Oswaldo Morales,

on a charge of
Attempted Murder, how do you find?

We find the defendants
not guilty.

BERROW: As to Oswaldo Morales,
on the lesser included offense

of Assault in
the First Degree, how do you find?

We find the defendants
guilty.

How much time?

The judge said five years.

(CRYING)

Five years for what
they did to my son?

Oswaldo survived
the attack, Mrs. Morales.

He's still alive.

This is not alive.

Look at him.

No change, no change.
That's what doctors say.

There are other ways
to make them pay for what they did.

We can find you
a lawyer who can sue their families.

I don't want money.

(CRYING) I just want
my son to wake up.

I want to see him
play with my grandchildren.

But he never will.

He never will.

Thank you for what you did.

Thank you.

U.S. V. Stanhope
is a good precedent,

you should cite
it sooner. Paragraph 3.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Mike Cutter.

When?

All right, thanks for
letting me know.

Maria Morales signed
a DNR order for her son this morning.

He was taken off
life support

and declared dead
20 minutes later.

(SIGHING)

Send Mrs. Morales
our condolences.

Then re-charge
Timothy Moore and Tony Stratton

with first-degree
bias murder.

Right.

Jury found them guilty
of assaulting Oswaldo,

stands to reason
they'll convict them of his murder.

CONNIE: You think she knew?

Oswaldo's mother?

Maybe somebody told her

his death would
give us a new cause of action.

Why not?

Everyone games the system.

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