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Previously on L .A. Law.

What's up?

My friend Alice, she's gone to the hospital for an operation.

What sort of operation?

One that makes it so she won't have a baby.

Whoa!

I don't know what Benny's told you, but my daughter is not pregnant and she's

not going in for any abortion.

Then what's going on?

Alice is going in to be sterilized.

Sterilized? Why?

Because she and Benny are having sexual intercourse, that's why, and she could

never take care of a baby.

I really think I'm making the right call, Leland.

It could be right, it could be wrong. The only thing I'm telling you is that

it's premature.

And what do we do?

I talk to Benny.

I make sure he wears a prophylactic.

Okay. For now, I'll hold off.

Randy and I were childhood sweethearts.

Thanks.

He was literally the boy next door.

We got married and had Chloe while he was still in design school.

For about five years, everything was great.

When did things start to go wrong?

Right about the time he started making money. I helped him finish school,

him build his business, put my own ambitions on hold.

But he was this great architect now.

Nothing else mattered.

What do you want to do?

What do I want to do?

It's your call.

I probably want to run him over with a car.

The problem is we have a seven -year -old daughter who loves us both.

So I think what I need to do is to resolve this thing as quickly and

as possible.

Okay? Whatever you want. I will need a $7 ,500 retainer from you.

Okay. And today, not tomorrow, today, we change the locks on your house.

Is that really necessary?

It is if you have anything you don't want him to take.

I don't think Randy would do that. Who do I make this out to?

Mackenzie Brackman. You have a key to his place?

No. Why should he have a key to yours?

Seems a little drastic. I don't know. Deal from strength, Corinne.

That's the way to resolve this quickly.

All right.

I'll change the locks. But I want you to understand, divorced or not, to our

daughter, we're still a family.

What does that say?

Arnold Becker, family law.

I am nothing if not sensitive.

Black college professor is accused of killing his pretty white research

assistant. How big a part is race going to play in this trial?

Well, it shouldn't play any part at all on trying this case on the facts.

How's your client holding up?

Right now, he's anxious for the trial to start.

And we both feel confident that once all the facts are laid out, he will be

exonerated and he can put this whole mess behind him.

Both sides should conclude jury selection today.

From the Los Angeles Criminal Court Building, I'm Hal Ochoa.

Since we can assume that Michael's lost to us for the duration of this trial,

Victor, would you make sure that his more drab, less newsworthy cases don't

require immediate attention?

Will do.

Ah, Benny, very good.

Just set it down right here.

Good God, where are the togas?

People, you can't eat too much fresh fruit.

High water content to cleanse the gastrointestinal tract.

Zero cholesterol. These are things we need to pay attention to. Try, though we

might, to ignore them. In fact, I've instructed Benny to put fruit in all our

offices. Thank you, Douglas. Can we move on with the meeting?

Hammond versus Hammond. Arnold? Yeah. Hot shot architect walks out on wife and

child. I should be able to carve out a... Major council fee right out of his

midsection. Here, here. Having just seen the quarterly reports, would that we

were all doing likewise?

Yes, uh, Stuart, you might fill us in on a few of these horrible details.

Yeah, uh, our gross income is down 11%. Malpractice premiums are up again. And,

uh, there's this balloon payment due next month on the office renovations.

sluggish and bloated.

We need to be lean and mean.

On that...

We're adjourned.

Victor. Huh?

Last week, I promised Leo Hackett that I would make sure that...

I'd make sure that Benny was practicing responsible sex.

Uh -huh. And I figured you might help me share the burden.

Now, Arnie spoke to him once, but then he didn't wish to entertain the

discussion. And I figured since you had such a successful trip with him to the

zoo... I don't know, Leland.

You're the fatherly figure.

Oh, no. Oh, no. I figure coming from me, that would make him too nervous.

Please.

Mr. Nevins, do you believe that black people are discriminated against in this

country?

Let's just say that it's my experience, not my belief.

Do you think that experience is shared by all black people?

I do.

Including the defendant?

Yes, ma 'am. Including the defendant.

Prosecution asks that Mr. Nevins be excused for cause.

Objection. What's the cause?

I believe that Mr. Nivens is predisposed to view the charges against the

defendant as racist and is incapable of judging this case on the facts.

There's no showing of cause here.

Denied. In that case, prosecution would exercise one of its preemptory

challenges and ask that Mr. Nivens be excused.

Mr. Nivens is excused.

Thank you for your time.

Mr. McGuire, do you have many black friends?

No.

You have any black friends?

None. How would you feel if your daughter married a black man?

I don't know if he was a decent sort. I don't think it would bother me much.

The defense would accept this man.

Mr. Metwyer.

How do you feel about capital punishment?

I guess I'm on the fence.

Do you think, sir...

That the possibility of execution would prevent you from rendering a guilty

verdict if the facts supported it. Not if the facts supported it, no. In other

words, you're capable of sending this man to his death.

Yes. Thank you. The prosecution accepts this man.

I did the best I could picking him. With jurors, you just never know. Oh, it's a

crapshoot.

We got a good case, Earl. That's not a crapshoot.

Jackie, tomorrow, don't forget to bring a dark suit, a white shirt, and a tie

for Earl. And I want the kids dressed like they're going to church.

The kids are supposed to be in school.

It's important that they be here.

They told me this morning that they want to be here with their father, Earl.

Your family's behind you.

I want the jury to see that.

Miss Vitek, in what capacity did you work for the defendant?

I was his secretary.

Are you familiar with People's Exhibit No.

1? Yes, it's a claims form for a 1989 Jaguar. And what about People's Exhibit

No. 2 through 97?

Are you familiar with these forms?

They're all automobile claim forms that Mr. Knipp put through. Can you tell the

court, ma 'am, if the automobiles that these forms refer to...

ever actually existed?

They did not. And for each and every instance, Miss Vitek, who received the

money that Pioneer Insurance paid on these policies?

He did. Let the record reflect that the witness has indicated the defendant,

Leonard Nip. Tell us, ma 'am, didn't the company have ways of verifying claims?

Leonard was senior claims adjuster. He knew exactly what to do. Objection. The

witness has no idea what Mr. Nip knew. Sustained.

Did the defendant admit to falsifying claims?

Admit it?

He used to brag to me about it.

He thought it made him a big man.

Guess what, Leonard?

Thank you, Miss Vitek. I have no further questions.

Miss Vitek, you're testifying under a grant of immunity, are you not? Yes,

Korngold, that's what I'm doing. In other words, you yourself could have

prosecuted for these crimes.

Tell us, did Leonard ever buy you anything out of the monies he received

these policies?

Listen, he was constantly buying me things.

Yes, he was. He bought you a Mercedes.

He bought you a co -op apartment in Century City. What's your point?

My point is, Miss Vitek, that you are what is known as a dominatrix.

Objection. Irrelevant. Your Honor, this is cross -examination. The sexual

persona of the witness is wholly appropriate subject matter. Objection is

overruled. You specifically ordered Leonard Nip to falsify those claims.

Leonard's a big boy.

He did what he wanted. Did you or did you not spank Leonard?

Very rarely. He referred to you as Mistress Irma, and you called him Little

Lenny the Worm.

What have you been telling people, Leonard? It's all irrelevant, Your

is not irrelevant, Your Honor.

The relationship between these two people is central to the question of

innocence. No speeches, Miss Korngold. The objection is overruled.

Don't you feel just the tiniest bit strange, Miss Vitek? What does that

You had an intimate relationship with Leonard for more than seven years, and

not only disavowed any personal responsibility, you turned on someone

adores you.

So what?

He loves it.

All these big, strong women around him.

So much abuse.

So little time.

Just by the process, that's all. I never thought you'd have an arrest warrant.

Don't worry, okay?

What do you mean, don't worry? You're putting him in jail.

Corinne, we're not putting him in jail. What we're doing is sending him a

message. So look, here's what I want you to do.

Just stand behind me and not say a word.

So you should have arrested the two of them?

Uh -huh, who are they? She's your complainant, Sergeant. That's right, and

her lawyer. You're pushing it, Arnie. On this one, you're pushing it. Hey, last

time I looked, breaking and entering was still a crime.

It's his own house.

You abandon this woman, you abandon the house. All right, bring him over here.

What were you doing there?

I was picking up some of my daughter's things for the weekend.

Did he harass you in any way?

No. She wasn't even home.

Why the hell did you ever arrest him? He set off the alarm. Security patrol

responded. They called us. Then they called him.

They're instructed to call me. He told me the guy didn't live there anymore and

that they were pressing charges.

I thought we weren't going to do this, Corinne.

Take the cuffs off him. Wait a minute. I said take the cuffs off him and get out

of here, all of you.

You might well be looking at a false arrest beef here, man.

Save the bravado, my friend.

In the future, he won't say anything from that. You tell him to have your

office, call my office. Let's go.

He knows we mean business now. This is good.

Her name was Nina Corey.

She wrote poetry.

And she dreamed of becoming a reporter.

She loved a gray and white cat named Emma.

She made the mistake of loving the defendant.

And that mistake, ladies and gentlemen, caught Nina Corey her life.

Three days shy of her 21st birthday, the defendant...

That man killed her.

Oh, it wasn't quick.

And it was anything but painless. In fact, he wanted her to suffer.

He wanted her to cry out in pain. We will place him at her apartment on the

night she was killed.

We will prove beyond all reasonable doubt that he took a baseball bat and

systematically broke her legs, ruptured her spleen.

and crushed her skull with such fury.

Positive identification was only possible by using dental records.

After you've been shown all that, I have every faith, ladies and gentlemen,

that each and every one of you will do the right thing

and find the defendant guilty.

A terrible crime was committed.

A brutal murder.

And it is always the case we are desperate to find someone to blame.

Now, the police felt that desperation.

They felt the public clamoring for this killer to be caught.

And the people of Los Angeles, almost as one, wanted to know his name.

They wanted to see his picture in the paper, and they wanted it fast.

Now, it offends us as deeply as anything can that a crime like this one goes

unpunished.

But it also has to offend us just as much, however, that the wrong man be

punished.

And this man is the wrong man.

He wasn't Nina Corey's lover.

And he wasn't Nina Corey's killer.

The police will tell you that he is.

Because they want to know that they have solved this crime.

The prosecutor will tell you that he is.

Because prosecutors like to win.

All I ask is that you honor your oath.

Honor your oath.

If you do that, ladies and gentlemen...

you will set Earl Williams free.

Now, I know I only spoke to you about this last week, and I know that you do

like talking about it, but we have to, Benny, okay?

Now, you know what I'm about to say, don't you?

Sex.

That's right, sex.

Now, nobody here thinks it's wrong for you and Alice to have sex.

Benny?

Benny, I need you to listen to me, and I want you to look at me, okay?

Sexual intercourse is a very big step in a relationship.

Now, some people feel that you need to be married first, and other people

Personally, I think it's okay if the two people really care very strongly for

each other and are really committed to one another.

Now, if you and Alice decide to have sex, that's nobody's business.

But it's really important that you act responsibly so that you can prevent the

spread of disease and so that you can prevent Alice from becoming pregnant.

Betty, when you and Alice have sex, do you wear a condom?

Well, we only had sex one time.

Okay. Did you wear a condom?

What's that?

Benny, I thought Arnie told you that you have to wear something when you're

having intercourse.

He said I had to wear a rubber.

Yeah, right. Well, that's the same thing. Did you wear one?

Well, why not, Benny? It's really important.

I'm afraid to buy them.

Oh, Benny, well, everyone feels awkward about buying them at first.

You get used to it.

Okay, I'll tell you what.

We'll go to the drugstore and we'll buy them together.

So that way you can see how easy it could be.

I don't know.

Benny?

Tomorrow, you and I are going condom shopping.

Okay?

Okay.

Corinne. It's too rough on me, Arnie. It's too rough on my daughter. I just

it to be over.

What do you mean?

I don't want any more scenes like last night.

Hey, me neither.

In that case, let's just shut it down as quickly as possible, okay?

Fine, let's shut it down.

Towards that end, what can you tell me about your husband's discharge from the

service? Excuse me?

Well, he was given a general rather than an honorable discharge from the army.

Would you happen to know why?

Leave that alone, okay?

We're on the same side, remember?

When I negotiate a deal, the more I know about whoever's across the table, the

better I can do my job.

Well, you're going to have to do it without Randy's service record. But

There are certain confidences I just can't betray.

Corinne... Just settle it, please.

You have all the information you need.

I'll do my best.

Rock. Give me Dave Stapleton at the Veterans Administration.

Leonard Lipp is a masochist. This is combined with an abnormally high sex

The result is an individual who lives in a state of virtual bondage to the will

of another.

And in the defendant's case, who is that other? His former secretary, Irma

Vitek. Doctor, what does this bondage, as you call it, entail? Well... One

ritual was that Miss Vitek would order Leonard to clean her bathroom, then let

him chew on one of her dirty socks as a reward.

Would ordering him to falsify claims qualify as bondage? Absolutely.

Regardless of the demand, Mr. Nip was wholly incapable of disobeying. Was he

capable of telling right from wrong?

In my opinion, he was not.

Thank you, Doctor. No further questions.

Tell us, Doctor, what was the effect on the defendant of obeying Miss Vitek?

Very, very intense physical gratification.

In other words, he did it for pleasure.

Ms. Van Owen, pleasure to Mr.

Nip is not the same as pleasure to you or me.

You're right about that. What I'm trying to say is that Mr.

Nip's behavior can only be understood in the context of his condition.

What condition?

Masochism.

Coprolagnia? Hyperesthesia? I'm not talking through my hat here.

Flagellum Salutis was first published in 1698. It specifically refers to this

phenomenon. Doctor, have you ever known a patient to fake it? Leonard Nip is not

faking it. No?

This...

Sniveling, whining, attempt at self -justification?

This couldn't be an act?

I would see through it, Ms. Van Owen. But then you wouldn't be paid to

Doctor. If you had said that Leonard Nip grovels because and only because it's

in his best interest to grovel, then you wouldn't have been hired, would you

have? I didn't inquire into the conditions of my employment.

Would you have been hired, yes or no?

No. Thank you.

By this time, she'd been his assistant for about two years.

Mr. Corey, was your daughter romantically involved with the defendant

time of her death?

It's my belief that she was, yes.

What do you base that belief on?

At first, she'd just talk about him.

How much she was learning in his class.

How he wasn't like any of her other professors.

Then, like I said, she became his research assistant.

They went away together for weekends.

I asked her about it once.

All she said was, Daddy, I know what I'm doing.

When was the last time that you saw your daughter, sir?

The night he killed her.

Objection. Sustained. The night that she got killed. Okay, is that better?

Go on, Mr. Corey.

The police called me. I saw her lying there on her bedroom floor while they

pictures. This little bit of a thing lying in a heap.

With her skull crushed.

Thank you. I have no further questions.

Did you ever see your daughter and the defendant holding hands?

Or kissing?

Or doing any of the things that people who are romantically involved might do?

She wouldn't have done that around me.

So the answer's no. Now these...

weekends when they went away together. These were, in fact, academic

that were sponsored by the university and were attended by hundreds of others.

Is that right?

That doesn't change anything.

Well, you testify that your daughter was having an affair with Mr. Williams, and

you're basing that on her having spoken about his teaching, her having worked

with him, and her having gone away with him on academic conferences.

Now, forgive me, but that doesn't sound like very conclusive proof, sir. I knew

my daughter.

Well, did she ever tell you that she was seeing Mr. Williams?

Not in so many words.

In any words?

In any words, Mr. Corey, did she ever tell you she was seeing him?

No, she never told me.

Thank you.

I have no further questions.

Thank you, Mr. Corey.

Norma Vitek was everything.

I was nothing.

I only wanted to serve her. How did you know Irma Vitek wanted you to file those

claims? She told me to do it. She said she couldn't waste her time with someone

who showed no initiative or courage.

So you were willing to break the law?

I obeyed her. You're a grown man, Leonard. Age has nothing to do with it.

Leonard, why couldn't you just say no?

Total obedience is total obedience. You can't pull back. That wrecks it. I know

you all think I'm some sick freak, but you don't know what it's like to obey. I

live for it. Thank you, Leonard.

No further questions.

Let's see, Mr. Newt. You sent in these false claims for two and a half years

without being caught.

You had bank accounts under 16 different aliases. You're a pretty clever guy.

Not really.

No?

Miss Vitek certainly couldn't have done it.

She didn't know how to send in claims forms that would pass muster with your

company. She wasn't a claims adjuster. You were. In fact...

You were her boss.

What a charade that was.

I was her slave, her plaything. No, Mr. Nip, you were and are a liar and a

thief.

Objection. Sustained.

You knew you were committing a crime when you filed those claims. Yes. You

took precautions so that you wouldn't be caught.

Only so that I could keep on doing it.

Filling out those forms was the greatest sexual experience I've ever had. And

you can laugh at that all you want to. I know it's true.

Ask that the witness confine his remarks to answering the question.

I'm sorry.

Asked that the witness stop embellishing his answers with submissive behavior

specifically calculated to support his defense. Mr.

Nip.

I'm sorry.

I won't do it anymore.

Benny?

Benny?

Benny? Come on, the coast is clear. It's okay. Come on.

Can I help you?

I, uh... I want to buy a cannon.

What kind?

The kind for sex.

Do you think that's funny?

Uh, Pentrix, please.

I'll be with you in a moment. I'm waiting on him right now.

I'm with him.

Oh, I see.

Pentrex non -lubricated, no reservoir.

Please.

Phil!

Pentrex condoms, there's no price.

Is that the right size?

Pentrex non -lubricated.

Mint? Not mint.

Who may I help here?

Well, the condoms are for him. He's doing the shopping. We're together.

They're together.

How much is that, please?

$2 .79.

That's the 297 was attacked.

Urban.

Thank you.

I did it, Victor.

I bought my condom. Yes, you did, Dana. Come on, let's go.

You were living in the apartment directly underneath Nina Corey's, is

right? Yes.

Were you home on the evening of November 8, 1988?

Yes, I was.

Tell us what happened. Well, around 6 .30, I heard a lot of screaming and

yelling up there.

There was a loud thud, and then this pounding, like somebody was pounding on

floor with a hammer, seemed to go on for a long time. What did you do? I called

the police, and then I went upstairs to see what was going on. When I got to the

top of the steps, I saw a man run out of Nina's apartment.

Was the man that you saw in the courtroom now?

Yeah. He's sitting right over there.

Let the record reflect that the witnesses identified the defendant, Earl

Williams. I have no further questions.

Amy, it was an outdoor staircase that you were on when you saw this man,

Yes. Now, according to the records of the U .S.

Meteorological Service, the sun set that day at 4 .54.

You testified that you went upstairs around 6 .30.

I could see fine.

How much time would you estimate you had to observe this man?

A few seconds. I don't know exactly, but he passed right next to me.

Were you frightened?

Sort of. You're not used to seeing a black face where you live, are you?

Objection. That has nothing to do with the witness's identification of the

defendant. It has everything to do with it, Your Honor.

Overruled. Amy, in the statement you gave to the police, you described the

you saw as being a male black, 30 to 40 years of age, medium height, medium

build, medium complexion.

That really narrows it down, doesn't it?

I also picked him out from a photograph.

Right, a photograph that you saw a month later that had a caption on it that

identified Earl Williams as the suspect in the case.

Do you have a question for the witness, Mr. Cusack?

What did you do when this black man ran past you?

I didn't do anything. I stood there.

Well, did you look at him? You look away from him? What? I looked at him long

enough. Long enough for it to register that he was black, that he was a

stranger, that he was in a hurry.

One split second.

And then you did what anybody else in your position would do.

You put your head down and you stayed out of trouble. Counsel's making

Mr. Cusack.

That is the man that I saw.

What color is my tie?

Objection. The witness is being asked to jump through hoops under pressure. She

was under a lot more than pressure that night. She was scared to death.

The witness can answer. Your tie is red.

What's the pattern?

Polka dots.

You sure?

Yes.

At least you got the color right.

Arnie, you've got the house.

You've got the vault. They can divvy up the art with alternate picks.

The Idlewild cabin was designed by Randy.

Built by Randy.

The title is held by his corporation.

It's a marital asset.

Like hell it is.

Did Corinne say she wants me to sell it?

Stuart, would you please advise Mr. Hammond that whatever my client tells me

privileged communication? She would never want me to sell it. It's the first

house I ever designed. And she's not entitled to it. She is entitled to it

great deal more.

Like what?

Like a major piece of that burgeoning architectural firm that your client

Wait a minute.

I'm not going to dismantle my firm.

Come up with a $750 ,000 lump sum payment. You won't have to. You are way

line. Am I?

I don't think so, but, hey, there's an easy way to find out. Let's bring an

appraiser in to take a look at the business. Hey, I have partners.

I'm carrying a large debt.

I'm up to my neck in work. You are not about to start pawing around through my

firm. Is that a no?

I thought you wanted to settle on it.

It doesn't mean I want to drop my pants and bend over. You shysters.

You can see the dollar signs, don't you?

Shysters? Yeah, shysters.

Bloodsuckers. Leeches.

You can show your client out now. Stuart, let him do what he's gonna do.

I'm not giving up Idlewild. And I'm not negotiating on my business.

Believe me, this isn't coming from Corinne. Let me ask you something,

Does getting the better of a woman make you feel like a man?

What's that supposed to mean? Your client got caught in a little homosexual

activity while stationed at Fort Benning, Stuart.

She told you that?

I think it's left him feeling like he has something to prove.

Maybe beating up on his wife in a divorce settlement is one way to do

don't you shut your mouth?

Hey, what's done is done, babe.

Oh, is that it? Is that it?

Huh?

You gonna hit me?

Is that gonna make you feel like a man?

Is it difficult for you to believe that this man lost the ability to tell right

from wrong?

Consider this.

We live in a vast, sprawling metropolis.

Within it are countless walking bundles of psychosexual pathology.

Sadists, masochists, rotors, apron freaks, all of them living ostensibly

lives while nurturing their own particular little kink or quirk. The

in Leonard Nip's case,

is that his grew too powerful to resist.

So he bartered his will for the whip point of happiness.

You might say, strange, yes, but is it insanity?

I submit to you it's precisely that.

Leonard Nip was unable to tell right from wrong. He was unable to control his

impulses. Leonard wasn't sane and Leonard wasn't free.

He was held captive by his own obsession.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't make him a criminal.

Understand him for the tormented, sick individual that he is.

Thank you.

First off, ladies and gentlemen, let me say that nothing you

do can make Leonard Nip a criminal.

If he's a criminal, it's because he elected to commit a crime.

Secondly, I don't think this case is all that strange. When you cut through

all the lurid details, it's about greed.

Mr. Nip wanted things he couldn't afford, so he defrauded his employer to

them. The fact that Irma Vitek may have benefited from these crimes or even

encouraged their commission doesn't absolve the defendant.

There is no criminal insanity here.

Leonard Nip likes to be abused. I don't condemn him for that. I don't seek to

ridicule him. All I've been trying to do is to demonstrate that he was possessed

of criminal intent.

that he planned, carried out, and benefited from the crime of

Punish him for that.

Punish him for each and every one of those 90 counts. Find

him guilty and punish him.

Thank you.

In the murder trial of Earl Williams, defense attorney Michael Cusack appeared

to score a few points of his own today as he shook the testimony of an

eyewitness. Additional eyewitnesses expected to claim the defendant as the

of the crime did not materialize. And prosecutor Margaret Flanagan has

that she will proceed without them.

Well, I'm going.

Nice.

How you doing?

I'm great.

Oh, you look like you've lost already.

I'm just tired, that's all.

You know, you got the department squirming on this one.

Yeah, well, we're not exactly relaxed either.

Did you know that he was fluent in Russian?

Who?

Earl Williams.

Oh. He had to read Tolstoy in its original order to get his doctorate.

I mean, the man is fluent in Russian.

You think you've got an innocent one here, don't you?

I know he's innocent.

You want to come join us for a beer?

It's a fun group.

No, I think I'll finish this and go home. I've got a big day tomorrow.

Mr. Forrester, what's your background, sir?

I'm a molecular biologist by training.

Now, your lab has positively placed the defendant inside Nina Corey's apartment

by means of DNA testing. Can you explain to the jury just what that is? I renew

my pretrial objection, Your Honor. With respect to DNA testing, there is no

evidence of conformity with scientifically accepted standards.

You're free to cross -examine on the point, Mr. Cusack. The witness can

Deoxyribonucleic acid, or... DNA is found in every cell in our body, and

person's DNA is different. How do you match one sample with another? We

them until they almost resemble a barcode that you'd see in a supermarket.

Then we compare them.

The likelihood of two people having matching samples is statistically

insignificant. Based on a comparison of DNA samples... Is it your opinion that

the defendant was present in Nina Corey's apartment?

Objection. Irrelevant. The defendant has already admitted being in the apartment

in the past. The issue here is whether he was there at the time of death.

I'm getting there, Your Honor.

The objection's overruled.

Tell us how you identified the defendant.

Two hairs were located that were left behind on the bed. I object to the

implication, Your Honor. For all Mr. Forrester knows, those hairs could have

been carried in on Nina Corey's coat.

Sustained.

What else is your opinion based on? Fresh semen was found on Nina Corey's

sheets at the time her body was discovered.

Objection. Move to strike.

Overruled. Whose semen was it?

Objection, Your Honor. Overruled, Mr. Cusack. Whose semen was it? Your Honor,

object. It was the defendant, Earl Williams.

Your Honor, the defense moves for a mistrial right here and now. I'll see

counsel in chambers.

Where's the... Surprise, Your Honor. Mr. Cusack knew we were calling a DNA

expert. Well, not to testify to sexual intercourse. I sure as hell didn't know

that. The only thing I knew about were the hair samples.

You have some explaining to do, Miss Flanagan.

Your Honor, the semen report only got to me the day before yesterday. I barely

had time to go over it myself.

I don't believe it.

You think I'm lying?

Yes, I think you're lying. Wait a minute.

Why was there no evidence of sexual intercourse in the autopsy report?

I don't know, Your Honor.

But I'm told if you were wearing protection, there might not be.

Well, the fact of the matter is, Mr.

Cusack, you knew that the prosecution was going to try to establish that a

romantic relationship existed?

Yes, I did, but I didn't know they were going to do it by this offer of proof.

I understand. And that being the case, I'll give you time to prepare for cross

-examination. Also, you can hunt up your own DNA expert to refute these

findings, assuming that's what you're going to try to do. Yeah, well, that's

going to take a little more than an afternoon, Your Honor.

You want a continuance? You got it. With all due respect, I think that the

prosecutor's conduct here warrants a mistrial. Mr. Cusack, right now I am not

granting a mistrial. Until you decide whether or not to contest this evidence,

don't know that your client has been prejudiced at all.

Also, I cannot conclude that an officer of the court willfully concealed

evidence if she denies it.

Of course you have to show him.

What good is a condom if he doesn't know how to put it on?

Abby, what am I supposed to do? Give this guy a demonstration?

He's a model.

I don't have a model.

Oh, here.

Here.

Use this.

A banana?

Yeah.

Looks about right.

Go get him, Victor.

Abby.

Please be advised that unless an appropriate response is forthcoming, We

fully prepared to do that which is necessary to enforce the aforementioned

judgment. You bastard.

What? You went behind my back. You did exactly what I asked you not to do. I

what I felt was necessary. What you felt was necessary.

Yeah, so maybe you ought to wait and see what kind of offer they come back with

before deciding I was wrong. Here, everything you asked for.

This is fantastic.

Maybe to you.

My daughter is seven. She doesn't seem to think it's so fantastic.

She wasn't quite ready to have all the venom and the hatred that grown -ups

on each other dumped into her lap.

I think she was entitled to just a few more years of being a kid.

Look, I played rough, yes, but I got you what you wanted.

I didn't want for my little girl to grow up breathing poison.

Look, it'll pass.

Who deals with it if it doesn't pass?

Corrine.

Corinne! Corinne, can we discuss this?

There's nothing to discuss.

Corinne, come on.

Come on, honey, let's go.

You're very welcome.

Are you going to eat that banana?

No. May I have it?

I'm feeling a potassium low.

I guess so.

Thank you.

Fresh.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you? We find the defendant guilty.

I would like to thank the jury for its effort.

Sentencing will be set down for Tuesday, December 5th. Your Honor, my client has

made a request that I'm duty -bound to convey to the court. What is it? He's

asked that his bail be revoked and that he be remanded to custody pending

sentencing. Might I ask why, Mr. Niff? Your Honor, Miss Van Owen...

Mistress Van Owen was right.

The things I did were bad. I belong in jail.

Your Honor, I object.

This man is doing nothing more than continuing to trot out this canard in an

effort to gain lenience. Ms. Van Owen, please.

Mr. Nip, you want me to send you to jail.

Fine. That's where you're going.

Let me be your serf. Mr. Nip. Let me do your wash.

Your Honor, the man needs professional care.

He needs to be held accountable for his actions.

Let me lie face down in your dirty bathwater.

That's it. The court officer will remove this man and place him in custody.

Let's go.

Oh, my.

Earl, you got to get real straight with me, real fast.

I can go in there and attack the prosecution's DNA expert.

Or I can find one of our own to testify that that semen wasn't yours. But before

I do, I gotta know.

Did you go to bed with her that afternoon?

Yes or no?

Yes or no, damn it?

Yes.

Earl.

You're a smart man. You know how sophisticated the crime labs are. What

think, that we're going to find out? I didn't think they could trace it to me.

So you sent me in there spewing bald -faced lies. Now the DA has cut the legs

out from under both of us. I thought you'd do a better job if you believed I

innocent.

Meaning what?

You're not?

I'm innocent of murder.

Well, it sure as hell doesn't look like that.

I know.

What did your wife say?

I'd rather not get into it. You don't have a choice.

It's between her and me. Look, I am not asking you this because I'm nosy. I have

to know whether or not I can put her on the stand.

Then talk to her. I'm talking to you. Now you better give me some answers that

aren't lies or stop wasting my time.

I went to Nina's early that afternoon and made love.

Afterward, we sat in the kitchen, had a cup of tea.

About four o 'clock, I kissed her goodbye and I left.

You think I'm a liar?

I know you're a liar.

So does the jury.

The question now is whether or not they think you're a killer.