1 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,246 Councilman Donnagher, who is the only member to vote against the proposal... 2 00:00:16,350 --> 00:00:18,631 said he was not at all convinced that the proposed site... 3 00:00:18,686 --> 00:00:21,246 was the only suitable place for such a facility. 4 00:00:21,355 --> 00:00:23,395 He went on to say that this is not the first time... 5 00:00:23,457 --> 00:00:25,457 the utilities commission has come up with a site... 6 00:00:25,493 --> 00:00:28,758 that it insisted was the only suitable place. 7 00:00:28,863 --> 00:00:32,094 In South Los Angeles, the body of a woman was found in an alley... 8 00:00:32,199 --> 00:00:34,099 behind a row of abandoned automobiles. 9 00:00:34,201 --> 00:00:36,533 She was identified as 68-year-old Margaret Howard. 10 00:00:36,637 --> 00:00:38,605 She'd been shot in the head at close range. 11 00:00:38,706 --> 00:00:41,607 Sergeant Thomas Spota told Eyewitness News reporter Chuck Hurley... 12 00:00:41,709 --> 00:00:44,610 this appears to be the work of the same person or persons... 13 00:00:44,712 --> 00:00:48,910 who have committed a series of similar attacks in the area in the past few weeks. 14 00:00:49,016 --> 00:00:52,543 She had apparently cashed her welfare check about a block and a half away... 15 00:00:52,653 --> 00:00:55,952 at approximately 4:00 in the afternoon. 16 00:00:56,057 --> 00:00:57,957 She was shot at close enough range... 17 00:00:58,059 --> 00:01:00,619 with a .38 caliber bullet to leave powder burns. 18 00:01:00,728 --> 00:01:02,923 Forensics estimates the time of death... 19 00:01:03,030 --> 00:01:05,726 at somewhere between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. 20 00:01:05,833 --> 00:01:07,733 Do you have any suspects? 21 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:09,735 No. Not really. 22 00:01:09,837 --> 00:01:13,432 Five elderly women have been murdered and robbed in this area in the past two months. 23 00:01:13,541 --> 00:01:16,066 Is one man responsible for all of them? 24 00:01:16,177 --> 00:01:18,257 Well, we haven't finished our ballistics check yet... 25 00:01:18,345 --> 00:01:21,075 except that all of the other victims were shot with a .38... 26 00:01:21,182 --> 00:01:23,241 all were robbed of their welfare checks... 27 00:01:23,350 --> 00:01:25,250 all were killed in the afternoon. 28 00:01:25,352 --> 00:01:28,844 The ballistics on the first four match. I expect they will on this one. 29 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:32,153 Anyone with any information on the Southside Killer... 30 00:01:32,259 --> 00:01:34,250 should call our Eyewitness hotline number. 31 00:01:34,361 --> 00:01:37,091 555-4545. 32 00:01:37,198 --> 00:01:39,166 You don't have to give your name. 33 00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:41,166 The only possible lead reported by the police... 34 00:01:41,268 --> 00:01:44,101 is two people who claim they saw a male Chicano leaving the alley... 35 00:01:44,205 --> 00:01:46,105 at around 4:30 p.m. 36 00:01:46,207 --> 00:01:48,107 He is described as in his mid-20s... 37 00:01:48,209 --> 00:01:51,269 approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and slender. 38 00:02:24,178 --> 00:02:27,579 600,000 to catch a goddamn baseball. 39 00:02:27,681 --> 00:02:29,581 Now we gotta worry that he's sensitive. 40 00:02:29,683 --> 00:02:31,184 Shit. You give me 600,000, you can call me any name you want. 41 00:02:31,185 --> 00:02:32,083 Shit. You give me 600,000, you can call me any name you want. 42 00:02:32,186 --> 00:02:34,086 You gotta know how to 43 00:02:34,188 --> 00:02:36,816 you know, get the best out of them. 44 00:02:36,924 --> 00:02:38,653 Hey. Check this cutie out. 45 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:40,386 - Where? - Green jacket. 46 00:02:41,495 --> 00:02:43,224 - You know him? - No. 47 00:02:43,330 --> 00:02:45,491 So what about him? 48 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:49,592 I don't know. What's he doing bopping around 6:00 in the morning? Tell me that? 49 00:02:49,703 --> 00:02:51,728 Maybe he's coming from a physics lab at USC. 50 00:02:51,839 --> 00:02:53,773 Right. Let's check him out. 51 00:02:53,874 --> 00:02:55,774 - Are you shitting me? - This dude ain't right. 52 00:02:55,876 --> 00:02:57,935 - You got a hunch, right? - Right. 53 00:02:58,045 --> 00:02:59,774 - Instinct, right? - Right. 54 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,575 You're watching too much television again. 55 00:03:08,155 --> 00:03:10,521 Wonderful. 56 00:04:22,329 --> 00:04:24,229 - Wait! Don't touch it! - Is it wired? 57 00:04:24,331 --> 00:04:27,061 No, no. Of course not. You just can't search it. We need a warrant. 58 00:04:27,167 --> 00:04:29,067 - Right. - For real. 59 00:04:29,169 --> 00:04:31,729 - You're crazy. - Probably, except we need a warrant. 60 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,239 I know because it happened to me once before. 61 00:04:34,341 --> 00:04:36,901 How about if I knock on the garbage can... 62 00:04:37,011 --> 00:04:39,104 and identify myself as a police officer... 63 00:04:39,213 --> 00:04:41,113 and the can gives me consent? 64 00:04:41,215 --> 00:04:43,342 You can fart around all you want. 65 00:04:43,450 --> 00:04:46,851 The guy's garbage can is his private property and we need a warrant. 66 00:04:46,954 --> 00:04:48,888 I don't believe this. 67 00:04:48,989 --> 00:04:50,889 We got a pile of slime... 68 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:53,084 making tracks as soon as he sees us. 69 00:04:53,193 --> 00:04:55,957 He stops long enough to drop something in a garbage can. 70 00:04:56,063 --> 00:04:57,963 Think he just can't stand to litter? 71 00:04:58,065 --> 00:05:00,665 You also think we're gonna get a warrant in the next 30 seconds... 72 00:05:00,768 --> 00:05:02,728 because that's when the can is going in the truck. 73 00:05:02,803 --> 00:05:05,863 Time out. I got it. 74 00:05:05,973 --> 00:05:09,409 This can is going to that truck. 75 00:05:09,510 --> 00:05:11,410 We can't search this can... 76 00:05:11,512 --> 00:05:14,675 But we can search the truck. 77 00:05:16,150 --> 00:05:18,118 We're talkin' genius here. 78 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,831 Don't pull no lever. Police. 79 00:05:45,346 --> 00:05:48,076 Join the police and see the world. 80 00:05:49,183 --> 00:05:51,083 Join the navy and see the world. 81 00:05:51,185 --> 00:05:54,279 Shit. I joined the wrong thing. 82 00:05:54,388 --> 00:05:56,549 Yecch. 83 00:06:01,028 --> 00:06:03,230 Bingo. 84 00:06:03,464 --> 00:06:05,864 Gimme a pen. 85 00:06:16,377 --> 00:06:18,311 Hello, turkey! 86 00:06:23,250 --> 00:06:26,378 Judge Culhane is never too busy. 87 00:06:26,487 --> 00:06:28,717 We live in a selfish age. 88 00:06:28,822 --> 00:06:31,723 They like to call this the "Me" generation. 89 00:06:31,825 --> 00:06:34,555 Well, Jim thinks this should be the start of the "Us" generation. 90 00:06:34,661 --> 00:06:37,221 He lives his life that way. We should live ours that way. 91 00:06:42,836 --> 00:06:45,464 When Community Hospital needed the new wing... 92 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:48,973 it was Jim Culhane who spent two years... 93 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:51,067 calling old friends... 94 00:06:51,178 --> 00:06:54,011 starting the fund drive, following through. 95 00:06:54,114 --> 00:06:57,641 It was Jim you called when there was a problem, any problem. 96 00:06:57,751 --> 00:07:01,653 Now, Community Hospital has that wing, thanks toJim. 97 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:05,691 Thanks to the countless hours he spent doing thankless work for us all. 98 00:07:21,475 --> 00:07:23,375 In the past 11 years... 99 00:07:23,477 --> 00:07:26,037 Jim's record as a superior court judge... 100 00:07:26,146 --> 00:07:28,512 has been a model of fairness and courage. 101 00:07:35,222 --> 00:07:39,056 There's probably no more difficult task for any public official... 102 00:07:39,159 --> 00:07:44,324 to bridge the gap between public understanding and civic responsibility. 103 00:07:51,338 --> 00:07:54,739 Judge Culhane has never shirked his responsibility... 104 00:07:54,842 --> 00:07:58,642 and he's managed to engender the trust of the community. 105 00:08:10,958 --> 00:08:12,858 Jesus Christ. 106 00:08:15,128 --> 00:08:17,995 Superior CourtJudgeJames Culhane was found dead tonight... 107 00:08:18,098 --> 00:08:20,362 the victim of an apparent suicide. 108 00:08:20,467 --> 00:08:23,197 The incident occurred during a testimonial dinner forJudge Culhane... 109 00:08:23,303 --> 00:08:25,203 in which he was being honored... 110 00:08:25,305 --> 00:08:27,705 as Southern California Legal Association Man of the Year. 111 00:08:27,808 --> 00:08:31,039 Judge Culhane had served on the superior court bench for 11 years. 112 00:08:31,144 --> 00:08:34,545 He leaves a wife, Michele, two daughters and five grandchildren. 113 00:08:34,648 --> 00:08:36,548 And then what did you do? 114 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:38,845 Detective Mackay remained stationed outside the defendant's house... 115 00:08:38,952 --> 00:08:40,852 while I took the gun to a lab. 116 00:08:40,954 --> 00:08:42,854 We ran a ballistics check on it... 117 00:08:42,956 --> 00:08:45,891 and it turned out to be a gun used in four previous killings on the Southside. 118 00:08:45,993 --> 00:08:49,724 Killings that were known as the Southside Murders? 119 00:08:49,830 --> 00:08:52,230 We also found a clean set of fingerprints on the weapon... 120 00:08:52,332 --> 00:08:54,892 and based on that evidence, obtained a search warrant. 121 00:08:55,002 --> 00:08:59,200 We returned to the house where Detective Mackay was stationed. 122 00:08:59,306 --> 00:09:01,206 - You conducted a search? - Yes, sir. 123 00:09:01,308 --> 00:09:04,300 - What did you find? - We foundjewelry... watches and rings... 124 00:09:04,411 --> 00:09:07,141 that kind of stuff... in a shoe box in a closet. 125 00:09:07,247 --> 00:09:09,738 We also found four women's handbags with wallets in them. 126 00:09:09,850 --> 00:09:12,114 The wallets contained driver's licenses... 127 00:09:12,219 --> 00:09:14,517 social security cards and food stamp cards... 128 00:09:14,621 --> 00:09:16,714 all belonging to the Southside victims. 129 00:09:16,823 --> 00:09:19,087 - Are these the items you're referring to? - Yes, sir. 130 00:09:19,192 --> 00:09:22,992 And they were all found in the home of the defendant, Mr. Hector Andujar? 131 00:09:23,096 --> 00:09:25,394 - Yes, sir. - And then what happened? 132 00:09:25,499 --> 00:09:27,228 We arrested him and then we Mirandized him. 133 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:29,097 What do you mean when you say you Mirandized him? 134 00:09:29,202 --> 00:09:32,535 We read him his rights. We told him he had a right to an attorney... 135 00:09:32,639 --> 00:09:34,869 that one will be appointed for him if he couldn't afford one... 136 00:09:34,975 --> 00:09:36,875 that he had a right to remain silent. 137 00:09:36,977 --> 00:09:39,070 You know, his rights. All of'em. 138 00:09:39,179 --> 00:09:41,079 And then what happened? 139 00:09:41,181 --> 00:09:44,207 He confessed. Now, we told him he didn't have to say anything... 140 00:09:44,318 --> 00:09:46,513 that he could have a lawyer, all that stuff. 141 00:09:46,620 --> 00:09:48,520 He said he wanted to confess and waived his Miranda rights. 142 00:09:48,622 --> 00:09:53,355 We asked him ifhe knew what he was doing, ifhe understood. 143 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:55,360 He said, yes, he understood... 144 00:09:55,462 --> 00:09:57,362 and he confessed to the killings. 145 00:09:57,464 --> 00:10:00,433 We took him downtown and booked him. He repeated his confession to a stenographer. 146 00:10:00,534 --> 00:10:04,095 Thank you, Detective Wiggan. No further questions, Your Honor. 147 00:10:08,842 --> 00:10:11,572 Yeah. Detective Wiggan... 148 00:10:11,678 --> 00:10:14,545 I'd like to go over some of your previous testimony if I may. 149 00:10:14,648 --> 00:10:17,014 Of course. 150 00:10:17,117 --> 00:10:19,745 Now, you stated that you didn't search the garbage can... 151 00:10:19,853 --> 00:10:22,413 in front of Mr. Andujar's home because you didn't have a warrant. 152 00:10:22,489 --> 00:10:24,616 Yes, sir. 153 00:10:24,725 --> 00:10:29,185 Right. So you waited for the contents of the garbage can... 154 00:10:29,296 --> 00:10:31,594 to be deposited in the garbage truck? 155 00:10:31,698 --> 00:10:33,598 Yes, sir. 156 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:38,467 You then searched the contents in the garbage truck itself? 157 00:10:38,572 --> 00:10:41,336 Okay. Detective... 158 00:10:41,441 --> 00:10:46,208 tell me exactly what kind of garbage truck it was. 159 00:10:46,313 --> 00:10:48,304 What? 160 00:10:48,415 --> 00:10:51,543 What kind of garbage truck was it? 161 00:10:51,652 --> 00:10:53,745 I don't know. It was a garbage truck... 162 00:10:53,854 --> 00:10:55,845 the kind that comes up the street and collects garbage. 163 00:10:55,956 --> 00:10:58,891 Well, let's be a little bit more specific than that, shall we? 164 00:10:58,992 --> 00:11:03,554 Was it a big open truck? Was it an enclosed truck? 165 00:11:03,664 --> 00:11:06,758 Was it the kind of truck that had a big scoop in the back? 166 00:11:06,867 --> 00:11:09,995 - Was it a... - Yes, that kind with a... 167 00:11:10,103 --> 00:11:13,436 The kind with a scoop. 168 00:11:18,078 --> 00:11:21,241 - That kind? - Yeah. 169 00:11:21,348 --> 00:11:25,580 Now, did you search the contents of the scoop... 170 00:11:25,686 --> 00:11:28,746 or did you wait until the contents of the scoop... 171 00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:30,914 were dumped into the body of the truck? 172 00:11:33,026 --> 00:11:37,793 Well, we searched the scoop after the trash had been emptied from the can. 173 00:11:37,898 --> 00:11:39,923 - I... I don't understand. - Was the scoop empty... 174 00:11:40,033 --> 00:11:42,263 before Mr. Andujar's trash was put into it? 175 00:11:42,369 --> 00:11:43,802 Yes. 176 00:11:43,904 --> 00:11:47,431 Thank you, Detective Wiggan. 177 00:11:47,541 --> 00:11:50,237 I don't understand. That was a perfectly good search. 178 00:11:50,343 --> 00:11:52,436 Thank you, Detective. There's no further questions. 179 00:11:52,546 --> 00:11:54,605 Your Honor, may counsel approach the bench? 180 00:11:54,715 --> 00:11:56,615 Yes. Detective, you're excused. 181 00:12:01,588 --> 00:12:05,217 I move that all the evidence obtained by Detectives Mackay and Wiggan... 182 00:12:05,325 --> 00:12:07,606 be ruled inadmissible in this case, dismissed immediately. 183 00:12:07,694 --> 00:12:10,595 On what grounds? They were meticulous in their procedure. 184 00:12:10,697 --> 00:12:13,996 They waited until the garbage can was emptied. Andujar waived his rights. 185 00:12:14,101 --> 00:12:16,061 - On what grounds? - Your Honor, under the rule... 186 00:12:16,103 --> 00:12:18,571 my client had a reasonable expectation to privacy. 187 00:12:18,672 --> 00:12:20,992 The police cannot search his garbage can without a warrant. 188 00:12:21,007 --> 00:12:23,840 They did that. They waited until the garbage can had been emptied. 189 00:12:23,944 --> 00:12:27,573 However, they searched the scoop of the garbage truck. 190 00:12:27,681 --> 00:12:30,241 They did not wait until Mr. Andujar's garbage... 191 00:12:30,350 --> 00:12:32,670 had been mixed with the rest of the garbage in the truck... 192 00:12:32,686 --> 00:12:34,586 thereby rendering it common garbage. 193 00:12:34,688 --> 00:12:37,919 As long as Mr. Andujar's garbage was there by itself in that scoop... 194 00:12:38,024 --> 00:12:42,085 as long as that garbage hadn't been mixed with other garbage in the body of the truck... 195 00:12:42,195 --> 00:12:45,255 the police could not search without a warrant. 196 00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:48,823 - I don't believe this. - There is ample precedent 197 00:12:48,935 --> 00:12:51,836 specifically People v. Krivda... 198 00:12:51,938 --> 00:12:54,304 I know the precedent, Mr. Karras. Thank you. 199 00:12:54,407 --> 00:12:56,773 Since the gun was the grounds for the warrant... 200 00:12:56,877 --> 00:12:58,777 and the evidence and the ensuing confession... 201 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:00,779 were the direct result of that warrant... 202 00:13:00,881 --> 00:13:04,078 and that warrant was granted illegally because of. 203 00:13:04,184 --> 00:13:07,881 Your Honor, I have to ask you to rule all the evidence and the confession... 204 00:13:07,988 --> 00:13:10,286 as tainted and inadmissible. 205 00:13:10,390 --> 00:13:15,350 - This is not happening. - Mr. Hyatt, I'm afraid he's right. 206 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:17,362 The evidence is not admissible. 207 00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:19,694 Your Honor, we have a man here... 208 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,360 who cold-bloodedly murdered five elderly women... 209 00:13:22,469 --> 00:13:25,302 after robbing them of their welfare checks. 210 00:13:25,405 --> 00:13:27,896 We have the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it. 211 00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:31,466 We have thejewelry and the wallets of the victims in the defendant's apartment. 212 00:13:31,578 --> 00:13:33,808 We have his full confession, freely given by him. 213 00:13:33,914 --> 00:13:36,348 And now you're telling me that we don't have a case... 214 00:13:36,449 --> 00:13:39,247 because two cops at 6:00 in the morning... 215 00:13:39,352 --> 00:13:41,411 searched the scoop of a garbage truck... 216 00:13:41,521 --> 00:13:43,853 instead of waiting for some guy to pull a lever. 217 00:13:43,957 --> 00:13:46,050 Are you really going to tell me that? 218 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:49,253 I'm gonna tell you that if I allowed this evidence... 219 00:13:49,362 --> 00:13:51,353 it would all be thrown out in the appellate court. 220 00:13:51,464 --> 00:13:53,659 I don't like it any more than you do. 221 00:13:55,202 --> 00:13:57,033 This man is gonna go free? 222 00:13:59,372 --> 00:14:03,741 - You're gonna let him go? - I don't have a choice, you understand that? 223 00:14:03,844 --> 00:14:05,869 No, Your Honor, I don't. 224 00:14:07,647 --> 00:14:09,877 In superior court, Hector Andujar... 225 00:14:09,983 --> 00:14:12,213 the man accused of committing the Southside Murders... 226 00:14:12,319 --> 00:14:14,719 was released from custody this morning... 227 00:14:14,821 --> 00:14:17,722 after the case against him was dismissed on a technicality. 228 00:14:17,824 --> 00:14:19,883 Despite confessing to all of the murders... 229 00:14:19,993 --> 00:14:21,893 Andujar is now a free man. 230 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:25,453 Deputy District Attorney Martin Hyatt said that the case will not be retried. 231 00:14:25,565 --> 00:14:27,123 He spoke with reporters. 232 00:14:27,234 --> 00:14:30,726 We cannot retry him, because all of our evidence has been thrown out. 233 00:14:30,837 --> 00:14:34,238 Than includes the confession, the stolen articles... 234 00:14:34,341 --> 00:14:36,400 the gun with his fingerprints on it. 235 00:14:36,509 --> 00:14:38,909 All of it. We have no case against him. 236 00:14:39,012 --> 00:14:42,880 - How do you feel about that? - How do you think I feel? Nauseous. 237 00:14:42,983 --> 00:14:45,747 I don't know what they expect us to do. 238 00:14:45,852 --> 00:14:49,583 We have a man who admits. 239 00:14:49,689 --> 00:14:52,317 Right now, he's walking out of this building a free man. 240 00:14:52,425 --> 00:14:56,589 This is all because a judge has ruled that some. 241 00:14:59,266 --> 00:15:01,860 What do you want? 242 00:15:01,968 --> 00:15:04,869 - Hey, kiddo, what do you want? - What? 243 00:15:04,971 --> 00:15:06,871 Food. What we have here is a restaurant. 244 00:15:06,973 --> 00:15:08,873 - They bring you food here. You'll love it. - Sorry. 245 00:15:08,975 --> 00:15:13,207 I'll... I'll have anything you're gonna have. 246 00:15:13,313 --> 00:15:15,713 Can't read the menu. I forgot my glasses. 247 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,051 - Just testing. - Deputy D.A. Hyatt, he looked at me. 248 00:15:24,157 --> 00:15:27,718 He said I'm letting the man go. I'm putting him back on the streets. 249 00:15:27,827 --> 00:15:30,887 So? Nobody else was sitting on the bench, so it must've been you. 250 00:15:30,997 --> 00:15:32,965 I want soup. 251 00:15:33,066 --> 00:15:36,399 I'm ready to put the guy away for 150 years... 252 00:15:36,503 --> 00:15:38,403 but it would have been thrown out in the appellate court... 253 00:15:38,505 --> 00:15:40,496 and that son of a bitch, he knows it. 254 00:15:40,607 --> 00:15:42,768 But he's sitting up there trying to make me look bad... 255 00:15:42,809 --> 00:15:45,073 while he's running for office on the twelve o'clock news. 256 00:15:45,178 --> 00:15:48,511 "Sizzling rice soup." I love the sound when they dump the rice in. 257 00:15:48,615 --> 00:15:50,913 At my age, that's excitement. 258 00:15:51,017 --> 00:15:54,418 Jesus Christ. I don't know what we're doing. 259 00:15:54,521 --> 00:15:58,582 - Playing a game, kiddo. - Yeah. 260 00:15:58,692 --> 00:16:00,751 So that's why my mother sent me to law school. 261 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:03,693 We've got five women murdered... 262 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:08,359 and the killer's free because a garbage man didn't pull a lever. 263 00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:11,130 - Ben, that's not a game. - Sure it is. 264 00:16:11,237 --> 00:16:14,570 Who do you think we are? Umpires, sweetheart. 265 00:16:14,674 --> 00:16:16,642 Every day we get the lineup cards... 266 00:16:16,743 --> 00:16:19,143 and then explain the ground rules to the managers. 267 00:16:19,245 --> 00:16:23,045 We tell 'em anything hitting the bull pen is a ground-rule double. 268 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:25,879 And then in the eighth inning, some clown hits one in the bull pen... 269 00:16:25,986 --> 00:16:29,046 so the left fielder, he knows the ground rules, he doesn't chase after it. 270 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:31,385 The runner, he figures "What the hell," so he keeps on going. 271 00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:33,451 Then the manager comes steaming out and he says... 272 00:16:33,493 --> 00:16:35,893 "You send that runner back to second base!" 273 00:16:35,996 --> 00:16:39,898 And I say, "I'm sorry, they just changed the ground rules. Today the bull pen's okay." 274 00:16:41,001 --> 00:16:42,901 So the run scores. 275 00:16:43,003 --> 00:16:44,903 It's always been a game. 276 00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:48,406 Only now the bad guys have a stronger team. They had a better draft. 277 00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,908 You know, I took a lot of notes in your class... 278 00:16:51,011 --> 00:16:54,708 and I can never remember you saying anything quite like that. 279 00:16:54,814 --> 00:16:57,282 You should have taken fewer notes and listened more. 280 00:16:57,384 --> 00:17:00,410 I love it. 281 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,681 The recent appointees, you're all alike. 282 00:17:02,789 --> 00:17:05,189 You're not even old enough to shave. 283 00:17:05,291 --> 00:17:07,919 Listen, you think my court is any different? 284 00:17:08,028 --> 00:17:10,496 You think I don't set guys free every goddamn week... 285 00:17:10,597 --> 00:17:12,497 who have raped entire school districts? 286 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,033 You wanna match ulcers? 287 00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:17,865 You know, I watched you grow up. You love to suffer. 288 00:17:17,971 --> 00:17:21,964 You wear it like one of them corduroy jackets with the patches on the sleeves. 289 00:17:22,075 --> 00:17:25,738 Me, I just don't complain about it. I do something about it. 290 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:29,638 You do what? 291 00:17:29,749 --> 00:17:32,775 Pork with the silly pancakes. What the hell do they call that? 292 00:17:32,886 --> 00:17:37,380 - What do you do? - I want soup. Soup, yeah. 293 00:18:15,128 --> 00:18:18,529 Detective Lowes? I'm Picker. I made the call. It's over this way. 294 00:18:19,899 --> 00:18:21,867 My partner found him. 295 00:18:21,968 --> 00:18:23,868 We were on foot, doing a routine patrol... 296 00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:25,970 when we noticed something in the bushes over there. 297 00:18:25,972 --> 00:18:28,532 - We went over to take a look. - Anybody touch anything? 298 00:18:28,641 --> 00:18:31,872 Well, the lab guys got here about five minutes ago. 299 00:18:31,978 --> 00:18:34,708 Looks like the same M.O. As the other ones. 300 00:18:34,814 --> 00:18:37,874 Christ, it's a mess too. 301 00:18:43,656 --> 00:18:46,955 - Any identification on him? - No, sir. This is my partner, Nelson. 302 00:18:53,466 --> 00:18:55,366 - Any signs of a struggle? - No, sir. 303 00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:57,902 Looks like the body was dumped here afterwards. 304 00:18:58,004 --> 00:19:00,029 He's just a little kid. 305 00:19:03,143 --> 00:19:07,011 There is a set of indentation marks in the grass. 306 00:19:07,113 --> 00:19:09,843 Maybe good enough to make a cast of. 307 00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:11,917 The body had to be driven here. 308 00:19:17,857 --> 00:19:19,825 Oh, shit. 309 00:19:19,926 --> 00:19:22,520 Bushes aren't disturbed. There's no blood stains on the grass. 310 00:19:22,629 --> 00:19:24,859 It happened somewhere else. 311 00:19:24,964 --> 00:19:26,864 He's just a little kid. 312 00:19:31,771 --> 00:19:35,332 Look, why don't you take your partner back to the car? 313 00:19:35,441 --> 00:19:37,773 Yes, sir. Come on. 314 00:19:48,321 --> 00:19:50,551 - I've never seen anything like it. - I know. 315 00:19:50,657 --> 00:19:52,625 Just a little kid. 316 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:56,056 I got a little boy. 317 00:19:57,997 --> 00:20:01,296 - I never... - Come on, let's just get out of here. 318 00:20:01,401 --> 00:20:03,892 Just a little kid. 319 00:20:04,003 --> 00:20:06,904 How could anybody do that? 320 00:20:07,006 --> 00:20:08,974 - Come on. - Why? 321 00:20:32,432 --> 00:20:35,424 Hey, fellas! Here come de judge. 322 00:20:36,869 --> 00:20:38,837 - Hi. - Hi. 323 00:20:41,207 --> 00:20:43,607 - You want a drink? - No, thanks. 324 00:20:43,710 --> 00:20:46,611 Well, I saw the news on television. I think you need a drink. 325 00:20:48,114 --> 00:20:50,014 - Hi, guys. - Hi, Dad. 326 00:20:50,116 --> 00:20:53,449 Just a sec. 327 00:20:53,553 --> 00:20:55,783 How about the bottle and a straw? 328 00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:02,488 You want breezy patter, or do you want to talk about it? 329 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,563 I'll take the patter. 330 00:21:09,802 --> 00:21:11,702 Thank you. 331 00:21:15,808 --> 00:21:18,834 Some weather we're having? 332 00:21:33,259 --> 00:21:36,854 Do you think the Dodgers will win again this year? 333 00:21:45,872 --> 00:21:48,340 - How about those freeways? - I'll talk. 334 00:21:55,381 --> 00:21:57,815 I love you. 335 00:21:59,218 --> 00:22:01,516 And I love you. 336 00:22:08,294 --> 00:22:11,661 - Hello, freakos. - Turn on some music, man. 337 00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:13,664 The Monk is here, little freakos. 338 00:22:13,766 --> 00:22:17,566 What are we doing here, man? Nobody's got shit worth taking. 339 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:20,161 Shut up, man! Just shut your fucking mouth! 340 00:22:20,273 --> 00:22:23,003 I'm not talking about the freakos. 341 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,403 There's a liquor store a couple of blocks from here. 342 00:22:26,512 --> 00:22:29,675 Just a couple of blocks. The Monk knows, right, little freakos? 343 00:22:46,199 --> 00:22:48,167 Hello, little store. 344 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:53,100 Wait! Just be cool. 345 00:22:53,206 --> 00:22:55,106 Let's just check this little place out. 346 00:22:58,878 --> 00:23:02,279 - Let's get out of here, man. - No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 347 00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:22,591 Big score, asshole! 348 00:23:24,570 --> 00:23:27,164 The market. The all-night market, it's up here. 349 00:23:27,273 --> 00:23:29,264 It's big. There's always people. 350 00:23:36,883 --> 00:23:38,783 Pull up behind that blue van. 351 00:23:38,885 --> 00:23:41,513 - What's the matter? - I don't like it. 352 00:23:41,621 --> 00:23:45,250 - What about it? - I don't know. They're cruising. 353 00:23:45,358 --> 00:23:49,590 One-Adam-41. Request want and warrant on light blue Ford van. 354 00:23:49,695 --> 00:23:52,630 One-Adam-Thomas-George-one-niner-three. 355 00:23:52,732 --> 00:23:54,632 One-Adam-41. Roger. 356 00:23:54,734 --> 00:23:57,931 - I wanna listen to some music. - No! No, I gotta think. 357 00:24:00,373 --> 00:24:03,638 One-Adam-41. Blue Ford One-Adam- 358 00:24:03,743 --> 00:24:06,303 No want. Two moving warrants. 359 00:24:06,412 --> 00:24:08,812 One-Adam-41, roger. 360 00:24:11,984 --> 00:24:14,282 Oh, shit. Cops! 361 00:24:17,723 --> 00:24:20,123 Be cool. 362 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:22,126 We ain't done nothing wrong. 363 00:24:22,228 --> 00:24:24,560 - You all right? - I'm all right. I'm all right. 364 00:24:24,664 --> 00:24:26,632 I'll take the driver. 365 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,739 What's the problem, Officer? 366 00:24:42,849 --> 00:24:44,874 Can I see your driver's license and registration, please? 367 00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:46,679 Sure, sure. Wh-What'd I do wrong? 368 00:24:46,786 --> 00:24:49,380 There are two outstanding traffic warrants on this vehicle. 369 00:24:49,489 --> 00:24:52,083 Must be some mistake. I paid those tickets. 370 00:24:52,191 --> 00:24:54,591 I really did. A long time ago. 371 00:24:54,694 --> 00:24:59,393 Can I see your license and registration, please? 372 00:25:15,848 --> 00:25:19,284 - Your name Lawrence Monk? - Yeah, that's me. 373 00:25:19,385 --> 00:25:21,945 - May I see your license, please? - Sure, sure. 374 00:25:23,556 --> 00:25:25,114 Wallet! 375 00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:36,057 What are you guys doing around here this hour? 376 00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:38,728 Nothing. Just driving, you know. 377 00:25:38,838 --> 00:25:41,033 - Just driving? - Just driving. 378 00:25:42,341 --> 00:25:44,605 - Hey, Nelson, you smell something? - What? 379 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:47,543 - You smell marijuana? - Shit, man! 380 00:25:47,647 --> 00:25:49,647 - I don't know. - What the fuck are you guys doing? 381 00:25:49,649 --> 00:25:52,379 - We ain't been smoking. You know it. - I smell marijuana. 382 00:25:52,485 --> 00:25:54,544 - You think maybe they got more inside? - You want me to check inside? 383 00:25:54,654 --> 00:25:56,645 Do it. 384 00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:13,433 Freeze! Freeze! 385 00:26:15,908 --> 00:26:20,208 The pretrial hearing of Lawrence Monk and Arthur Cooms is set to begin tomorrow. 386 00:26:20,313 --> 00:26:24,579 Monk and Cooms are accused of the mutilation and murder. 387 00:26:24,684 --> 00:26:27,284 The District Attorney's office has confirmed to Eyewitness News... 388 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,949 that the murder of the Lewin boy was part of a child-pornography ring... 389 00:26:31,057 --> 00:26:33,389 in which small boys were kidnapped, drugged... 390 00:26:33,492 --> 00:26:35,687 used in pornographic films and then murdered. 391 00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:39,561 Precisely why did you stop the vehicle. 392 00:26:39,665 --> 00:26:42,395 We ran a D.M. V. Check on the vehicle... 393 00:26:42,501 --> 00:26:44,901 and the response was that there were outstanding warrants. 394 00:26:45,004 --> 00:26:47,472 - And then what did you do? - I informed the driver. 395 00:26:47,573 --> 00:26:49,473 - Mr. Monk? - Right, Mr. Monk. 396 00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:51,338 I informed him that the warrants were outstanding. 397 00:26:51,444 --> 00:26:53,002 And what was Mr. Monk's response? 398 00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:55,012 He said that he thought there must be some mistake... 399 00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:57,912 that he had already paid his traffic tickets. 400 00:26:58,017 --> 00:27:00,577 Well, I told him I didn't have any choice. The warrant was there. 401 00:27:00,653 --> 00:27:03,850 And then I asked him for his driver's license and his registration. 402 00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:06,186 - Did he produce them for you? - Yes. 403 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,852 - Were they in order? - As far as I could tell. 404 00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:11,395 Then why, if the driver of the vehicle... 405 00:27:11,497 --> 00:27:14,728 had a valid driver's license and registration for his vehicle... 406 00:27:14,834 --> 00:27:17,359 if he was fully cooperative... 407 00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:21,065 if all you say he had done was fail to pay a few traffic tickets... 408 00:27:21,173 --> 00:27:24,074 then why, Officer Picker, did you conduct a search of his van? 409 00:27:24,176 --> 00:27:26,076 I smelled marijuana. 410 00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:28,510 - You smelled marijuana? - Yes, sir. 411 00:27:28,614 --> 00:27:31,640 Were either of the defendants acting in a manner... 412 00:27:31,751 --> 00:27:33,671 that would indicate that they were intoxicated... 413 00:27:33,753 --> 00:27:37,086 or in any way under the influence of marijuana? 414 00:27:37,189 --> 00:27:39,384 Were they stoned? 415 00:27:39,492 --> 00:27:42,859 Well, I can't say that. But I did smell the marijuana. 416 00:27:42,962 --> 00:27:46,261 When you searched the vehicle, did you find any marijuana? 417 00:27:46,365 --> 00:27:48,560 No. 418 00:27:48,668 --> 00:27:51,694 - You didn't find any? - No. That's what I said. 419 00:27:51,804 --> 00:27:53,669 You're excused. 420 00:27:55,441 --> 00:27:59,434 - Did you smell marijuana? - Well... 421 00:27:59,545 --> 00:28:02,173 - I'm not sure. - Either you did or you didn't. 422 00:28:05,117 --> 00:28:07,278 I can't say I actually did. 423 00:28:07,386 --> 00:28:11,015 - Yet you searched the vehicle. - My partner instructed me to. 424 00:28:11,123 --> 00:28:15,526 I see. Tell me, Officer Nelson... 425 00:28:15,628 --> 00:28:19,189 the shoe in question, the black sneaker... 426 00:28:19,298 --> 00:28:22,028 could you see it in the van from the outside? 427 00:28:22,134 --> 00:28:24,967 - What do you mean? - I mean, was it in plain sight? 428 00:28:25,071 --> 00:28:29,940 Or could you only see it after you opened the side door during the search? 429 00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:32,977 After I opened the door, I saw it. 430 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:36,378 - Thank you, Officer Nelson. - I'll never forget it. 431 00:28:36,482 --> 00:28:38,450 - You're excused. - Never. 432 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:41,384 - Thank you, Officer. - Your Honor, the defense... 433 00:28:41,487 --> 00:28:43,546 moves for the exclusion of the child's shoe as evidence. 434 00:28:43,656 --> 00:28:46,216 I'm sure the prosecution plans to introduce it in the case. 435 00:28:46,325 --> 00:28:48,285 - On what grounds? - On the grounds, Your Honor... 436 00:28:48,327 --> 00:28:51,888 that the police had no right to conduct the search in the first place. 437 00:28:51,997 --> 00:28:53,897 Your Honor, under the Ross Decision... 438 00:28:53,999 --> 00:28:55,899 of the United States Supreme Court... 439 00:28:56,001 --> 00:28:58,601 the police do have the right to conduct a search of the vehicle... 440 00:28:58,671 --> 00:29:01,003 if an officer suspects the presence of contraband. 441 00:29:01,107 --> 00:29:03,371 It is specifically stated in that decision... 442 00:29:03,476 --> 00:29:06,673 that a police officer's assertion that he smells marijuana... 443 00:29:06,779 --> 00:29:09,577 is sufficient reason to suspect the presence of contraband. 444 00:29:09,682 --> 00:29:12,014 Mr. Hingle, the Deputy District Attorney is correct. 445 00:29:12,118 --> 00:29:14,609 I wasn't referring to the search. 446 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,917 If the Deputy District Attorney had taken the time out to check her records... 447 00:29:18,023 --> 00:29:20,184 she would have found that the outstanding warrants... 448 00:29:20,292 --> 00:29:22,692 for the unpaid traffic tickets were invalid. 449 00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:26,697 Mr. Monk paid those tickets more than a month ago. 450 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:30,963 Since the state was forced to lay off a number of clerical employees... 451 00:29:31,070 --> 00:29:33,766 the vehicular records have been way behind... 452 00:29:33,873 --> 00:29:36,307 as much as 60 days in some cases. 453 00:29:36,408 --> 00:29:38,376 Now the District Attorney's office knows it. 454 00:29:38,477 --> 00:29:41,139 Your Honor, those officers were acting in good faith. 455 00:29:41,247 --> 00:29:43,215 They were told that a warrant existed. 456 00:29:43,315 --> 00:29:46,546 It doesn't matter whether they were acting in good faith or not. 457 00:29:46,652 --> 00:29:49,382 The simple fact of the matter is they had no warrant. 458 00:29:49,488 --> 00:29:51,456 My clients were illegally detained. 459 00:29:51,557 --> 00:29:54,458 The result of that detention was the search of the van. 460 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,826 Your Honor, the police did everything properly. 461 00:29:58,931 --> 00:30:02,458 You can't suppress this evidence because of... of a clerical error. 462 00:30:03,903 --> 00:30:06,394 I'm gonna take this under submission. 463 00:30:06,505 --> 00:30:09,531 And if either of you have case authorities that you feel are relevant... 464 00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:11,542 I'll be very glad to hear them in my chambers. 465 00:30:11,644 --> 00:30:15,410 I'm gonna rule on this motion tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. 466 00:30:22,822 --> 00:30:25,586 Your Honor, the principal piece of evidence is that shoe... 467 00:30:25,691 --> 00:30:28,091 a child's sneaker that belonged to Daniel Lewin... 468 00:30:28,194 --> 00:30:30,594 covered with Daniel Lewin's blood. 469 00:30:30,696 --> 00:30:33,426 It's the major link between the defendants and the crime. 470 00:30:33,532 --> 00:30:35,762 And if we aren't allowed to present it... 471 00:30:35,868 --> 00:30:38,564 the people may not have a strong enough case to secure a conviction. 472 00:30:38,671 --> 00:30:41,333 If Your Honor grants the motion to suppress... 473 00:30:43,709 --> 00:30:46,007 that would be the same thing as dismissing this case. 474 00:30:46,111 --> 00:30:50,275 The motion from the defense concerns itself with police procedure. 475 00:30:50,382 --> 00:30:53,112 There is a question here whether or not this was a proper search. 476 00:30:53,219 --> 00:30:57,952 Your Honor, this is a case involving the torturing... 477 00:30:58,057 --> 00:30:59,991 the sexual molesting... 478 00:31:00,092 --> 00:31:02,253 and the murder of a little boy. 479 00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:05,125 There is reason to believe that this case also involves... 480 00:31:05,231 --> 00:31:07,563 similar horrors committed against other children. 481 00:31:07,666 --> 00:31:10,260 I know how serious this is. 482 00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:14,567 Maybe you should have realized how serious it was when you presented your case. 483 00:31:14,673 --> 00:31:16,903 You've done fairly sloppy work here. 484 00:31:17,009 --> 00:31:21,070 You've hinged everything on a piece of evidence obtained in a shaky search... 485 00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:23,239 and now you drop it in my lap. Terrific! 486 00:31:23,349 --> 00:31:27,945 I will not allow something that I know is gonna be overturned by the appellate court. 487 00:31:28,053 --> 00:31:29,816 Now, Mr. Hingle here is doing his job, I'm trying to do mine... 488 00:31:29,922 --> 00:31:33,585 and I would suggest that you do yours a little bit better. 489 00:31:33,692 --> 00:31:37,128 - Your Honor, I... - Do you have a case authority to bring me? 490 00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:39,925 Do you? Because if you don't... 491 00:31:40,032 --> 00:31:43,263 I'm not gonna sit here and listen to you tell me how serious this is. 492 00:31:43,369 --> 00:31:46,566 Now, I'm gonna try to find some precedent, some case... 493 00:31:46,672 --> 00:31:49,266 some decision that could possibly justify this evidence. 494 00:31:49,375 --> 00:31:51,468 And I'll give you my answer tomorrow at 10:00. 495 00:31:56,048 --> 00:31:58,175 - Thank you, Your Honor. - Your Honor. 496 00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:17,560 Judge Hardin! Judge Hardin, please, can I talk to you? 497 00:32:17,670 --> 00:32:19,670 - I have something I want you to see. - What is it? 498 00:32:19,672 --> 00:32:23,403 It's a photograph of a boy. He's a 10-year-old fourth-grader. 499 00:32:23,509 --> 00:32:27,070 His front teeth are too big and his hair falls on his face. 500 00:32:27,179 --> 00:32:29,113 Are you Dr. Lewin? 501 00:32:29,214 --> 00:32:31,978 I was Dr. Lewin. I'm not anyone now. 502 00:32:33,419 --> 00:32:35,387 The school sent us these pictures. 503 00:32:35,487 --> 00:32:37,421 They wanted to know how many we were gonna order. 504 00:32:37,523 --> 00:32:39,821 How many 5-by-7's, how many wallet-sizes. 505 00:32:39,925 --> 00:32:43,053 We took 'em all. I want you to have one. 506 00:32:43,162 --> 00:32:45,062 I'm sorry. I can't take this. 507 00:32:45,164 --> 00:32:48,395 Why not? Might help in your deliberations. 508 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:51,230 Might help you decide whether these men go free or not. 509 00:32:51,337 --> 00:32:53,271 Dr. Lewin, please try to understand this. 510 00:32:53,372 --> 00:32:58,935 I am not deciding how guilty or not guilty these two men are. 511 00:33:00,879 --> 00:33:06,215 Now, I'm sure your son was a wonderful boy. 512 00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:09,378 And I know how you must fe... 513 00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:13,049 No, I don't. 514 00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:16,719 I don't have any idea how you must feel. 515 00:33:19,832 --> 00:33:22,096 Could we sit down for a minute, please? 516 00:33:27,506 --> 00:33:30,236 I have to rule on a point of law... 517 00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:33,903 that has nothing to do with these two defendants. 518 00:33:34,013 --> 00:33:37,744 It's only concerned with how a particular piece of evidence was obtained. 519 00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:42,253 My wife she has to be sedated all the time. 520 00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:44,914 She says she can hear Danny screaming. 521 00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:46,924 We had to move out of the house. 522 00:33:47,026 --> 00:33:49,586 She kept going into Danny's room. 523 00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:51,925 I had to get her away from that. 524 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:57,559 How can someone torture a child? 525 00:33:57,669 --> 00:34:00,229 How do you erase that sound from your head? 526 00:34:00,339 --> 00:34:03,035 Those two are creatures. They're not human beings. 527 00:34:08,147 --> 00:34:10,877 Look at the photograph. 528 00:34:10,983 --> 00:34:14,783 That was my little boy, not a plaintiff or a statute. 529 00:34:16,488 --> 00:34:19,389 That is my little boy. He's not a point of law. 530 00:34:23,328 --> 00:34:25,819 Look at the goddamn photograph! 531 00:34:32,171 --> 00:34:34,571 I understand how you feel. 532 00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:36,732 I really do. 533 00:34:36,842 --> 00:34:39,402 But I only deal with the law. 534 00:34:39,511 --> 00:34:42,412 What about justice? Do you ever deal with that? 535 00:34:42,514 --> 00:34:46,575 Does that ever fit into this little crossword puzzle that you call the law? 536 00:34:46,685 --> 00:34:50,519 You're so worried about the rights of those two monsters! 537 00:34:50,622 --> 00:34:52,817 What about my little Danny's rights? 538 00:34:58,397 --> 00:35:00,297 You don't escape so easily. 539 00:35:02,468 --> 00:35:05,198 You don't run and hide so easy. 540 00:35:10,409 --> 00:35:14,778 You take this photograph and you look at it! 541 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,474 That's what this is all about. 542 00:35:17,583 --> 00:35:19,608 Nothing else. 543 00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:24,015 Nothing else. 544 00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:33,730 - He's a lightweight. - I don't agree. 545 00:35:33,832 --> 00:35:35,823 - A lightweight. - I grant you 546 00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:38,402 doesn't wait with bated breath for his next decision. 547 00:35:38,504 --> 00:35:42,065 But he's a solidjudge who does his homework, and he's a stable man. 548 00:35:42,174 --> 00:35:45,735 I'm sure he's very nice to his cocker spaniel, but that's not good enough. 549 00:35:45,844 --> 00:35:48,244 Now look, we can argue all night long. 550 00:35:48,347 --> 00:35:50,406 It's not gonna do us any good. 551 00:35:50,516 --> 00:35:52,416 It also won't erase the fact... 552 00:35:52,518 --> 00:35:55,578 that we have a vacancy created by Culhane's death. 553 00:35:55,687 --> 00:35:57,587 It won't go away... 554 00:35:57,689 --> 00:35:59,850 and we're not a full court till it does. 555 00:35:59,958 --> 00:36:01,858 Now, we have to find a man. 556 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,860 Granted, it must be the right man. 557 00:36:03,962 --> 00:36:08,023 However, we have an obligation to find him. 558 00:36:08,133 --> 00:36:10,363 What about your friend, Hardin? 559 00:36:15,807 --> 00:36:18,537 - He's good. - Is he ready? 560 00:36:18,644 --> 00:36:20,544 He's close. 561 00:36:20,646 --> 00:36:23,706 When will you talk with him? 562 00:36:23,815 --> 00:36:26,716 - Soon. - What does "soon" mean? 563 00:36:26,818 --> 00:36:30,049 It means not in the next 10 minutes and before late. 564 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:32,214 - You will talk with him? - Yeah. 565 00:36:33,492 --> 00:36:37,223 Yeah. He's very close. 566 00:37:28,914 --> 00:37:32,042 It's not working anymore. 567 00:37:32,150 --> 00:37:35,916 All the catch phrases, all the bromides that get you through the day. 568 00:37:36,021 --> 00:37:38,489 It's just not working anymore. 569 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:40,490 I feel like I'm on the wrong side.! 570 00:37:40,592 --> 00:37:43,959 Jesus Christ! It's all upside-down. 571 00:37:45,864 --> 00:37:49,425 My first day in law school, I went to the library, you know? 572 00:37:49,534 --> 00:37:53,231 And there were all of those books, and they were tan and red... 573 00:37:53,338 --> 00:37:55,738 and they had gold writing, and they smelled so good. 574 00:37:55,841 --> 00:38:00,471 It was... It was like I was looking at the truth... 575 00:38:02,381 --> 00:38:04,508 right up there in all those rows. 576 00:38:05,884 --> 00:38:07,909 The truth. 577 00:38:09,354 --> 00:38:13,222 The law. You even got to say it in a deep voice... 578 00:38:13,325 --> 00:38:15,350 like you're in some kind of echo chamber. 579 00:38:15,460 --> 00:38:18,861 "The law." Nothing is right or wrong! 580 00:38:18,964 --> 00:38:22,365 It's either the law or it's not the law. 581 00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:37,877 Well, we got a problem here, because... 582 00:38:37,983 --> 00:38:39,883 it's... it's not working anymore. 583 00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:45,214 It turns out that right and wrong count. 584 00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:57,066 He's Max's age. 585 00:38:57,169 --> 00:39:01,162 The last thing he ever felt was torture. 586 00:39:01,273 --> 00:39:03,332 I got five women shot through the head. 587 00:39:03,442 --> 00:39:06,741 I got bodies piling up all around me. I'm passing out the ammunition. 588 00:39:06,845 --> 00:39:08,745 See, the bad guys... 589 00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:11,008 they get hold of one of those books... 590 00:39:11,116 --> 00:39:14,779 they find something and... and I give 'em the prize. 591 00:39:14,886 --> 00:39:16,786 It doesn't matter that it wasn't put there for them. 592 00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:18,788 It was put there for that little kid and the five women. 593 00:39:18,890 --> 00:39:20,858 But that doesn't matter... 594 00:39:20,959 --> 00:39:26,556 because they found it, and that's the law. 595 00:39:26,665 --> 00:39:29,862 W-What happened to right and wrong? 596 00:39:31,636 --> 00:39:34,196 It's gotta be somewhere in one of those books. 597 00:39:36,308 --> 00:39:39,209 There's so many books. It's gotta be in there somewhere. 598 00:39:44,649 --> 00:39:47,880 I don't know if I can do it anymore. 599 00:39:47,986 --> 00:39:52,548 I don't know if I can look at one more face come into my court expecting right... 600 00:39:52,657 --> 00:39:54,716 and I gotta tell them wrong. 601 00:39:54,826 --> 00:39:59,627 I just... I don't know anymore. 602 00:40:02,367 --> 00:40:05,469 All rise. Department 121 of the Superior Court. 603 00:40:05,470 --> 00:40:05,902 All rise. Department 121 of the Superior Court 604 00:40:06,004 --> 00:40:07,938 for the County of Los Angeles is now in session. 605 00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:11,406 The honorable Steven R. Hardin judge presiding. Please be seated. 606 00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:28,423 In the case of People v. Lawrence Monk and Arthur Cooms... 607 00:40:28,527 --> 00:40:31,724 a motion has been made by defense to suppress certain evidence... 608 00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:34,128 specifically an article of clothing belonging to the victim... 609 00:40:34,232 --> 00:40:36,530 on the grounds that it was obtained in an illegal search. 610 00:40:36,635 --> 00:40:41,095 The prosecution has stated that this piece of evidence. 611 00:40:43,041 --> 00:40:48,946 Whether that is true or not, my basis for ruling cannot. 612 00:40:49,047 --> 00:40:51,948 My criteria is, and always will be... 613 00:40:52,050 --> 00:40:54,848 the constitution and the laws of the State of California. 614 00:40:54,953 --> 00:40:59,356 If, in fact, this single piece of evidence is that crucial... 615 00:40:59,458 --> 00:41:02,791 then it is the responsibility of the prosecution... 616 00:41:02,894 --> 00:41:06,887 to make doubly sure that it conforms to the laws and precedents... 617 00:41:06,998 --> 00:41:10,559 laws and precedents the prosecution is quite familiar with. 618 00:41:10,669 --> 00:41:13,297 My responsibility... 619 00:41:13,405 --> 00:41:17,569 is to ensure a fair trial for the accused. 620 00:41:17,676 --> 00:41:20,236 If I knowingly allowed a procedural defect... 621 00:41:20,345 --> 00:41:23,337 or a violation of the law to pass before me... 622 00:41:23,448 --> 00:41:26,508 I would not be fulfilling those responsibilities. 623 00:41:26,618 --> 00:41:30,918 I would be equally derelict if I simply allowed something like this to pass... 624 00:41:31,022 --> 00:41:34,082 and forced the appellate court to overturn a conviction... 625 00:41:34,192 --> 00:41:37,525 that was based on that evidence or procedure. 626 00:41:37,629 --> 00:41:40,325 I believe that the search in question... 627 00:41:40,432 --> 00:41:43,765 would be found by any appellate court... 628 00:41:43,869 --> 00:41:46,599 to be without probable cause. 629 00:41:46,705 --> 00:41:51,108 And as a result, as painful as it may be... 630 00:41:51,209 --> 00:41:53,370 I must rule in favor of the defense... 631 00:41:53,478 --> 00:41:56,345 and rule that the evidence be excluded. 632 00:42:01,820 --> 00:42:03,788 Your Honor... 633 00:42:04,823 --> 00:42:06,882 As I stated yesterday... 634 00:42:06,992 --> 00:42:08,960 this evidence is the main link... 635 00:42:09,060 --> 00:42:11,893 between the defendants and the hideous crime that was committed. 636 00:42:11,997 --> 00:42:14,227 If we are forced to proceed without it... 637 00:42:17,002 --> 00:42:20,699 we do not feel that we will be able to properly prosecute this case. 638 00:42:20,805 --> 00:42:23,035 We are rendered powerless without that evidence. 639 00:42:23,141 --> 00:42:25,473 I understand. 640 00:42:25,577 --> 00:42:27,977 I have no choice. 641 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,742 Your Honor, the defense moves for dismissal on the grounds of insufficient evidence. 642 00:42:31,850 --> 00:42:34,250 How do the People respond? 643 00:42:34,352 --> 00:42:36,286 Your Honor, the People have no choice either. 644 00:42:36,388 --> 00:42:38,322 We do not object. 645 00:42:38,423 --> 00:42:42,325 The motion is granted. The case of People v. Lawrence Monk. 646 00:42:42,427 --> 00:42:45,260 The defendants are hereby released. 647 00:42:45,363 --> 00:42:47,558 God bless fucking America! 648 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,828 No. 649 00:42:55,941 --> 00:42:57,841 Can we lose this place now, man? 650 00:42:57,943 --> 00:43:01,401 It'll take a couple of hours to do the paperwork, then you can. 651 00:43:01,513 --> 00:43:04,380 The Monk is free. The wheels of justice have turned. 652 00:43:04,482 --> 00:43:06,382 I believe it's the scales of justice. 653 00:43:06,484 --> 00:43:09,453 - Hey, you did okay, man. - Thank you. 654 00:43:09,554 --> 00:43:12,421 Yeah. Maybe you wanna come and have a drink or something? 655 00:43:12,524 --> 00:43:14,424 Look, I did my job. 656 00:43:14,526 --> 00:43:17,222 The lady who holds those scales is blindfolded. 657 00:43:17,329 --> 00:43:20,321 She doesn't have to see who I do it for. However, I do. 658 00:43:20,432 --> 00:43:22,559 I checked with the Bar Association... 659 00:43:22,667 --> 00:43:25,636 and they said I don't have to have a drink with you. 660 00:43:30,775 --> 00:43:33,744 No. No. 661 00:43:37,649 --> 00:43:40,447 Goddamn it, no! 662 00:43:40,552 --> 00:43:42,884 No.! 663 00:43:48,393 --> 00:43:51,385 - Give me the gun, man! - No.! 664 00:43:58,703 --> 00:44:00,364 Goddamn it, it's over! 665 00:44:04,275 --> 00:44:06,869 Dusty Baker. 666 00:44:13,485 --> 00:44:16,147 Charge.! 667 00:44:16,254 --> 00:44:18,950 Charge.! 668 00:44:43,848 --> 00:44:47,545 - Baker's a class act. - For 800,000, he should be. 669 00:44:47,652 --> 00:44:50,917 - $800,000? - Ayear. 670 00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:53,743 That's four times more than the President of the United States makes. 671 00:44:53,792 --> 00:44:56,192 - Baker's a better hitter. - Sometimes. 672 00:44:57,362 --> 00:45:02,095 Steve Sax. Second base. 673 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,691 Why does everybody here bring radios? 674 00:45:04,803 --> 00:45:08,364 It's as if they won't believe what they see till Vince Scully tells 'em he saw it too. 675 00:45:08,473 --> 00:45:10,941 Come on, Sax! Do something! 676 00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:13,374 - Which one's Sax? - The one up at bat. 677 00:45:13,478 --> 00:45:16,447 Sax is a class act. 678 00:45:16,548 --> 00:45:18,880 You wimp! 679 00:45:18,983 --> 00:45:21,042 He wants more money than Baker. 680 00:45:21,152 --> 00:45:24,121 If Mays was playing now, they'd have to give him his own state. 681 00:45:24,222 --> 00:45:29,216 What did you mean when you said that you didn't complain about what's going on... 682 00:45:29,327 --> 00:45:31,227 that you did something about it? 683 00:45:31,329 --> 00:45:33,889 - What? - At lunch. 684 00:45:33,998 --> 00:45:36,228 One day you said that you did something about it. 685 00:45:36,334 --> 00:45:38,234 - I did? - Yes. What did you mean? 686 00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:40,998 I'm old. I say things. How the hell do I know what I mean? 687 00:45:43,174 --> 00:45:45,608 But what do you think that you meant? 688 00:45:47,545 --> 00:45:49,672 Throw the stupid ball! 689 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:12,428 Pedro Guerrero. 690 00:46:12,537 --> 00:46:15,335 - Don't you play games with me. - This is not the time. 691 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,271 - Was that a home run? - No, it was a single. 692 00:46:20,378 --> 00:46:22,869 - Why is this not the time? - Not now, kiddo. 693 00:46:22,981 --> 00:46:25,211 - When? - When you're ready. 694 00:46:26,484 --> 00:46:29,044 - Ready for what? - For what I will tell you. 695 00:46:30,488 --> 00:46:32,456 I don't understand. 696 00:46:35,493 --> 00:46:37,393 - I don't understand. - You don't have to! 697 00:46:37,495 --> 00:46:39,455 - I'll come to you when the time is right. - When? 698 00:46:39,497 --> 00:46:41,522 Soon. Come on, Guerrero! 699 00:46:41,633 --> 00:46:43,533 A class act, that guy. 700 00:47:20,438 --> 00:47:23,339 - Inspector. - Another body? 701 00:47:23,441 --> 00:47:25,875 Looks like 11 years old, maximum. 702 00:47:25,977 --> 00:47:29,208 No identification. It's unbelievable. 703 00:47:29,314 --> 00:47:32,044 - Time of death? - Within the last four hours. 704 00:47:33,651 --> 00:47:36,211 - Tire tracks? - Indentations. 705 00:47:36,321 --> 00:47:39,222 The body was transported here. 706 00:47:39,324 --> 00:47:43,055 - Anybody see a van in the area? - Nobody saw nothing. 707 00:47:43,161 --> 00:47:46,892 A patrolman spotted the body making routine rounds... 708 00:47:46,998 --> 00:47:49,125 looking for smoochers, that sort of thing. 709 00:47:50,668 --> 00:47:53,569 A little kid. 710 00:47:53,671 --> 00:47:57,402 What kind of thing we got running loose in this city? 711 00:47:57,508 --> 00:47:59,499 I never saw anything like it. 712 00:48:00,845 --> 00:48:02,437 I have. 713 00:48:16,794 --> 00:48:19,092 I wanted to check to see that you could make bail. 714 00:48:20,298 --> 00:48:23,131 Yes. I'm putting my house up as collateral. 715 00:48:24,569 --> 00:48:28,869 The policeman. I'm told he's gonna be all right. 716 00:48:28,973 --> 00:48:31,567 - Yes. - That's good. 717 00:48:31,676 --> 00:48:36,170 Well, if there is anything that I can do, please just let me know. 718 00:48:36,281 --> 00:48:39,079 That's very kind of you. I think you've done enough. 719 00:48:40,752 --> 00:48:43,880 Tell me, do they really make license plates in prison... 720 00:48:43,988 --> 00:48:45,888 or is that just in the movies? 721 00:48:45,990 --> 00:48:48,390 - Dr. Lewin... - I'm not upset, you know. 722 00:48:48,493 --> 00:48:51,758 I'm really not. I tried to do something. 723 00:48:51,863 --> 00:48:54,696 At least I tried to do something. 724 00:48:54,799 --> 00:48:57,893 My only regret is that I didn't kill those two creatures. 725 00:48:59,504 --> 00:49:04,168 You want absolution? I'm not gonna give it to you. Try a priest. 726 00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:06,334 No, I understand. 727 00:49:08,446 --> 00:49:10,846 As a man, I would have tried to kill 'em too. 728 00:49:12,617 --> 00:49:16,144 As a judge, I can't. 729 00:49:16,254 --> 00:49:18,188 Well, you don't have to worry. 730 00:49:18,289 --> 00:49:22,521 You didn't murder my son, so you're covered. 731 00:49:22,627 --> 00:49:25,391 I take it that's what you wanted to hear. 732 00:49:25,496 --> 00:49:28,056 Maybe, yeah. 733 00:49:28,166 --> 00:49:30,066 You did murder someone else's son. 734 00:49:30,168 --> 00:49:32,159 You're gonna have to deal with that pretty soon. 735 00:49:32,270 --> 00:49:34,568 - What are you talking about? - Didn't you hear? 736 00:49:34,672 --> 00:49:36,902 You should be in prison. 737 00:49:37,008 --> 00:49:39,101 They have a wonderful communications system in this place. 738 00:49:39,210 --> 00:49:41,269 It's better than the six o'clock news. 739 00:49:43,815 --> 00:49:48,275 Another little boy was tortured and murdered last night just like Danny. 740 00:49:50,488 --> 00:49:55,152 There's another father that's gonna have those sounds in his. 741 00:49:55,259 --> 00:49:57,489 And you're gonna have to face him... 742 00:49:57,595 --> 00:50:00,063 and explain to him how you let those two go... 743 00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:02,132 so they could murder his child. 744 00:50:03,368 --> 00:50:05,734 This one's on you, Your Honor. 745 00:50:07,071 --> 00:50:09,733 This one you did. 746 00:50:09,841 --> 00:50:12,309 That boy would be alive if you hadn't let 'em go. 747 00:50:14,512 --> 00:50:17,913 You go tell that father about your system. 748 00:50:18,016 --> 00:50:22,077 You give him the... the lecture on your precious justice. 749 00:50:22,186 --> 00:50:24,416 Save all the platitudes that you were gonna use on me. 750 00:50:24,522 --> 00:50:27,582 You use them on him. Better than that, use them on yourself. 751 00:50:27,692 --> 00:50:31,321 But don't worry about me. I am really all right. 752 00:50:31,429 --> 00:50:33,920 I can look at that man. 753 00:50:34,032 --> 00:50:36,091 I tried to do something. 754 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,168 You killed his son. 755 00:50:55,553 --> 00:50:57,851 Why, Steven. Hello. 756 00:51:03,661 --> 00:51:05,629 Hey, kiddo. 757 00:51:06,998 --> 00:51:10,490 No more games. No more. 758 00:51:10,601 --> 00:51:13,502 - You all right? - Yes. 759 00:51:13,604 --> 00:51:16,368 Please, close the door. 760 00:51:17,842 --> 00:51:20,743 - You want something to drink? - No. 761 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,613 Sit down, kiddo. This may take a few minutes. 762 00:51:32,757 --> 00:51:35,851 You're asking me to tell you things that you may not want to hear about. 763 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,087 I mean, right now you're pure... 764 00:51:38,196 --> 00:51:42,098 suffering, however, pure as your actual driven snow... 765 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,259 which is what you want to be. 766 00:51:44,368 --> 00:51:47,929 If I continue, once you hear what I'm gonna say... 767 00:51:48,039 --> 00:51:50,337 you'll lose that forever. 768 00:51:51,709 --> 00:51:54,269 - You want me to continue? - Yes. 769 00:51:54,378 --> 00:51:56,846 I need a drink. 770 00:52:01,052 --> 00:52:04,044 There were nine of us... 771 00:52:04,155 --> 00:52:06,555 all on the superior court bench. 772 00:52:06,657 --> 00:52:12,220 You're an instant replay, kiddo. The very same dialog, 773 00:52:12,330 --> 00:52:14,890 Oh, boy. You are... 774 00:52:14,999 --> 00:52:18,059 You are depressingly familiar. 775 00:52:18,169 --> 00:52:22,071 So we all sat around and compared horror stories... 776 00:52:22,173 --> 00:52:26,405 and we said, "What's happened to the law?" Just like you. 777 00:52:26,511 --> 00:52:29,480 And then somebody said the strangest thing. 778 00:52:29,580 --> 00:52:32,242 He said, "We're the goddamn law." 779 00:52:32,350 --> 00:52:35,080 Think about that. We are. 780 00:52:41,025 --> 00:52:42,925 The whole goddamn system... 781 00:52:43,027 --> 00:52:45,427 has been turned into this giant Rubik's Cube... 782 00:52:45,530 --> 00:52:49,933 which anyone can twist into whatever pattern they want, 783 00:52:50,034 --> 00:52:53,765 You see, it's not good enough for us to sit around and say... 784 00:52:53,871 --> 00:52:58,604 "What you're doing is not what the system is all about. 785 00:52:58,709 --> 00:53:01,678 However, it's okay with us, because it fits." 786 00:53:01,779 --> 00:53:06,079 Oh, no. Thatjust is not good enough anymore. 787 00:53:06,184 --> 00:53:10,712 You look around you. Everybody glides along on roller skates or on jogging shoes... 788 00:53:10,821 --> 00:53:14,222 with those Martian radio things over their ears. 789 00:53:14,325 --> 00:53:16,418 People who stay inside, double-lock their doors... 790 00:53:16,527 --> 00:53:18,552 and turn the TV up as loud as they can... 791 00:53:18,663 --> 00:53:20,743 so they won't be able to hear what's really going on. 792 00:53:20,831 --> 00:53:23,459 The whole goddamn world is out to lunch. Why? 793 00:53:23,568 --> 00:53:25,968 Because nobody wants to be held accountable. 794 00:53:26,070 --> 00:53:27,970 Well, we are accountable. 795 00:53:28,072 --> 00:53:31,769 We're the judges, for Christ's sake! We're the law! 796 00:53:31,876 --> 00:53:33,571 We let it all happen. 797 00:53:36,180 --> 00:53:38,148 So the nine of us... 798 00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:41,450 we became a court. 799 00:53:43,054 --> 00:53:45,818 Our own court of last resort. 800 00:53:48,125 --> 00:53:50,252 We review cases, the excruciating ones... 801 00:53:50,361 --> 00:53:52,158 the ones where it's all been perverted. 802 00:53:52,263 --> 00:53:54,288 We make judgments. 803 00:53:57,068 --> 00:53:58,968 We carry out sentences. 804 00:54:23,894 --> 00:54:25,794 I... I don't believe this. 805 00:54:25,896 --> 00:54:28,865 Time to get your fingernails dirty, kiddo. 806 00:54:31,369 --> 00:54:34,236 Someone has kidnapped justice and hidden it in the law. 807 00:54:34,338 --> 00:54:36,465 Now who's better qualified than we are to find it? 808 00:54:36,574 --> 00:54:38,769 - You tell me that. - I don't know. L... 809 00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:41,969 I just... I don't know. 810 00:54:43,714 --> 00:54:47,980 You have arrived at exactly the same place we are. 811 00:54:48,085 --> 00:54:50,315 You're a good young man, who wants to be a good judge. 812 00:54:50,421 --> 00:54:52,912 You don't know what the hell being a good judge is anymore. 813 00:54:56,193 --> 00:54:58,161 There are eight of us... 814 00:54:59,196 --> 00:55:01,096 and we have a vacancy. 815 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,360 Judge Culhane, he was the ninth. 816 00:55:05,469 --> 00:55:08,131 Now don't tell me you haven't thought about something like this... 817 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,299 because if you do, you're a liar. 818 00:55:11,409 --> 00:55:13,707 - I don't know what to say. - In or out, kiddo. 819 00:55:13,811 --> 00:55:17,042 In or out. Nothing in the middle. There's no more time for that. 820 00:55:17,148 --> 00:55:20,049 If it's out, you'll never be able to prove anything you heard... 821 00:55:20,151 --> 00:55:22,483 and you can go back to wringing your hands. 822 00:55:25,656 --> 00:55:29,092 I'll tell you this. I can sleep at night. 823 00:55:29,193 --> 00:55:31,991 I really can. 824 00:55:35,299 --> 00:55:37,290 Can you? 825 00:55:41,639 --> 00:55:44,301 Beamer, Albert R. 826 00:55:44,408 --> 00:55:48,708 Age:28, height:5'7", weight: 140 pounds. 827 00:55:48,813 --> 00:55:54,046 Two priors... 1977, assault with a deadly weapon, 828 00:55:54,151 --> 00:55:56,847 Served a total of three years. 829 00:55:56,954 --> 00:55:59,218 February 8, 1981. 830 00:55:59,323 --> 00:56:03,089 Mr. And Mrs. Herbert Lear, age 66, 64 respectively... 831 00:56:03,194 --> 00:56:07,096 withdraw $200 from an instant credit machine outside 832 00:56:07,198 --> 00:56:09,564 at 11:00 p.m. 833 00:56:09,667 --> 00:56:12,898 As they're walking back to their car, which is parked less than 10 yards away... 834 00:56:13,003 --> 00:56:15,767 they are attacked and robbed at gunpoint. 835 00:56:15,873 --> 00:56:19,502 Mrs. Lear was struck across the temple with a gun when she screamed. 836 00:56:19,610 --> 00:56:22,477 Mr. Lear was shot at point-blank range and was killed instantly. 837 00:56:22,580 --> 00:56:24,480 Mrs. Lear suffered a fractured skull. 838 00:56:24,582 --> 00:56:28,643 Albert Beamer was arrested two days later... 839 00:56:28,753 --> 00:56:30,983 when he attempted to use one of Mr. Lear's credit cards. 840 00:56:31,088 --> 00:56:35,457 At the trial, Mrs. Lear positively identified him as the attacker. 841 00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:37,550 Beamer was found guilty and was given the death sentence. 842 00:56:37,661 --> 00:56:40,255 The verdict was appealed. 843 00:56:40,364 --> 00:56:44,164 The court stenographer, named Martin Peel, dies of a heart attack... 844 00:56:44,268 --> 00:56:47,101 before his notes can be transcribed. 845 00:56:47,204 --> 00:56:51,732 He's one of the old-timers that uses his own personal shorthand. 846 00:56:51,842 --> 00:56:55,437 The judge is Ed Lynn. Figured he'd save some money during the trial... 847 00:56:55,546 --> 00:56:57,673 didn't order daily transcriptions. 848 00:56:57,782 --> 00:57:03,687 As a result, all they had was Martin Peel's notes, 849 00:57:03,788 --> 00:57:07,053 The appellate court ruled... 850 00:57:07,158 --> 00:57:09,353 that since there was no valid trial record... 851 00:57:09,460 --> 00:57:12,952 the court could not properly hear the appeal and ordered that Beamer be retried. 852 00:57:13,063 --> 00:57:16,760 This was after he was convicted and sentenced. 853 00:57:16,867 --> 00:57:20,462 The one witness, Mrs. Lear, subsequently suffers a stroke and dies. 854 00:57:20,571 --> 00:57:24,871 The autopsy proves that the stroke was directly related to her head injury. 855 00:57:24,975 --> 00:57:27,705 Since there was no longer any witness... 856 00:57:27,812 --> 00:57:29,712 the State had no grounds to retry Beamer. 857 00:57:29,814 --> 00:57:31,782 And he's free. 858 00:57:33,417 --> 00:57:36,045 - Any questions? - Did he have an alibi? 859 00:57:36,153 --> 00:57:39,520 Yeah. He said he was at home watching television that night. 860 00:57:39,623 --> 00:57:41,614 Any corroboration? 861 00:57:41,725 --> 00:57:43,693 He said he was at home alone. 862 00:57:45,596 --> 00:57:48,531 How did he explain the stolen credit card? 863 00:57:48,632 --> 00:57:52,796 He said he found it on the street. 864 00:57:52,903 --> 00:57:55,167 Any other questions? 865 00:57:57,041 --> 00:57:59,236 I'd like a verdict. 866 00:58:03,481 --> 00:58:05,449 Guilty. 867 00:58:08,586 --> 00:58:10,554 Guilty. 868 00:58:12,656 --> 00:58:14,624 Guilty. 869 00:58:16,026 --> 00:58:18,392 Guilty. 870 00:58:18,496 --> 00:58:20,464 Guilty. 871 00:58:21,866 --> 00:58:23,834 Guilty. 872 00:58:24,869 --> 00:58:26,837 Guilty. 873 00:58:43,387 --> 00:58:45,287 Guilty. 874 01:00:36,500 --> 01:00:39,697 - When are you going home? - Soon. 875 01:00:39,803 --> 01:00:41,566 Have you had something to eat? 876 01:00:41,672 --> 01:00:44,072 - Yes. - When? 877 01:00:46,310 --> 01:00:48,778 Yesterday. 878 01:00:48,879 --> 01:00:51,746 Yesterday? You look like shit. 879 01:00:53,183 --> 01:00:57,552 - Thank you. - You're welcome. You want a pizza? 880 01:00:57,655 --> 01:01:00,818 No. I don't want any pizza. 881 01:01:00,924 --> 01:01:03,290 - Go home, Harry. - In a little while. 882 01:01:03,394 --> 01:01:06,420 You can look at that stuff all you want. The words are not gonna change. 883 01:01:06,530 --> 01:01:08,498 I know. 884 01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:15,135 If you don't get some rest and something to eat, you're gonna die. 885 01:01:15,239 --> 01:01:17,605 And if you don't go home, you're gonna die here. 886 01:01:17,708 --> 01:01:19,676 I don't want you to die here... 887 01:01:19,777 --> 01:01:24,373 because if you die here, that'll mean I have to do all of that paperwork. 888 01:01:24,481 --> 01:01:27,006 And right now, I'm up to my ass in paperwork. 889 01:01:27,117 --> 01:01:30,746 The answer is in here somewhere. 890 01:01:30,854 --> 01:01:33,823 - It always is. - It'll be there tomorrow. 891 01:01:43,467 --> 01:01:46,459 All right. Let's get a pizza. 892 01:01:46,570 --> 01:01:48,834 - I hate pizza. Let's go get drunk. - What? 893 01:01:48,939 --> 01:01:51,019 You're the one that's always worried about my health. 894 01:01:51,041 --> 01:01:54,238 You can die in a bar. That's okay. I can skip out and leave you there. 895 01:01:54,344 --> 01:01:58,542 It's just when the bodies fall across my desk, you see? 896 01:02:00,718 --> 01:02:04,245 I thought it was another woman. 897 01:02:04,354 --> 01:02:06,254 What are you talking about? 898 01:02:06,356 --> 01:02:10,156 A woman knows when there's. 899 01:02:10,260 --> 01:02:14,424 In bed, you just know. 900 01:02:14,531 --> 01:02:17,125 Nothing's the matter with me. 901 01:02:17,234 --> 01:02:21,261 I just felt like I've been losing you, and I don't know what to do about it. 902 01:02:21,371 --> 01:02:23,271 And I'm terrified. 903 01:02:23,373 --> 01:02:26,900 It's like you're pulling away from me... 904 01:02:27,010 --> 01:02:30,138 as if you went away somewhere. 905 01:02:30,247 --> 01:02:32,715 And I don't know how to fight it. 906 01:02:37,554 --> 01:02:39,454 Look, I'm... 907 01:02:39,556 --> 01:02:42,354 sorry. 908 01:02:42,459 --> 01:02:44,950 I've really made it miserable for you, you know. 909 01:02:46,730 --> 01:02:49,164 It's not you. It's not us. It's... 910 01:02:51,935 --> 01:02:54,028 I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing. 911 01:02:56,039 --> 01:02:58,667 I love you. 912 01:03:00,077 --> 01:03:02,170 I love you too. 913 01:03:03,447 --> 01:03:05,347 I'm so proud of you. 914 01:03:05,449 --> 01:03:09,442 - Don't be too proud. - Why not? 915 01:03:11,455 --> 01:03:14,447 Because I may not live up to your expectations. 916 01:03:19,163 --> 01:03:21,131 You could never disappoint me. 917 01:03:24,802 --> 01:03:27,566 Marvin Dawson. 918 01:03:27,671 --> 01:03:30,538 Age: 29. Six feet, 160 pounds. 919 01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:33,007 Eight prior arrests, two convictions. 920 01:03:33,110 --> 01:03:36,807 1977 armed robbery and 1980 assault with a deadly weapon. 921 01:03:36,914 --> 01:03:42,079 August 20, 1980. Ajewelry store owned by a Mr. Victor Willis... 922 01:03:42,186 --> 01:03:44,086 located on Spring Street, is robbed. 923 01:03:44,188 --> 01:03:46,088 Mr. Willis is shot and killed. 924 01:03:46,190 --> 01:03:50,217 Local informants told the police that the robbery was committed by Dawson. 925 01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:54,024 Investigators brought photographs of Dawson to the witnesses. 926 01:03:54,131 --> 01:03:56,759 Both identified him. 927 01:03:56,867 --> 01:03:59,734 A warrant was obtained on the basis of the identifications... 928 01:03:59,837 --> 01:04:03,364 the informants and Dawson's prior criminal record. 929 01:04:03,473 --> 01:04:05,373 His apartment was searched. 930 01:04:05,475 --> 01:04:11,277 The stolen jewelry was found, along with the knitted hat and a.22 caliber revolver. 931 01:04:11,381 --> 01:04:15,579 Ballistics confirmed that both murder victims were killed by that gun. 932 01:04:15,686 --> 01:04:18,678 Dawson was arrested later that night in a local bar. 933 01:04:18,789 --> 01:04:22,452 He was Mirandized and booked. He was informed of the jewelry and the gun. 934 01:04:22,559 --> 01:04:25,722 He waived his Miranda and confessed to a police stenographer. 935 01:04:25,829 --> 01:04:28,127 Dawson was convicted and sentenced to life. 936 01:04:28,232 --> 01:04:30,496 The case was appealed by his lawyer... 937 01:04:30,601 --> 01:04:33,297 on the grounds that the warrant that had been obtained... 938 01:04:33,403 --> 01:04:35,530 stated that the police were searching for... 939 01:04:35,639 --> 01:04:39,575 quote, "stolen jewelry," end quote... 940 01:04:39,676 --> 01:04:42,406 and that the warrant should have been more specific. 941 01:04:42,512 --> 01:04:45,640 The appellate court ruled that stolen jewelry could have meant 942 01:04:45,749 --> 01:04:50,311 from any other robbery and gave the police a license. 943 01:04:50,420 --> 01:04:55,289 The appellate court held in favor of Dawson and ruled that the warrant was invalid. 944 01:04:55,392 --> 01:04:58,327 Since the warrant was invalid, thejewelry and the gun were not admissible. 945 01:04:58,428 --> 01:05:02,524 And since they were not admissible, the subsequent confession was not admissible. 946 01:05:02,633 --> 01:05:04,601 Dawson's free. 947 01:05:51,448 --> 01:05:55,441 Hello? Yeah. 948 01:05:57,287 --> 01:06:00,313 Dr. Harold Lewin, who was scheduled 949 01:06:00,424 --> 01:06:02,483 for the courtroom shooting of a policeman... 950 01:06:02,592 --> 01:06:07,495 has apparently committed suicide by taking a massive overdose of sleeping pills. 951 01:06:07,597 --> 01:06:10,430 Dr. Lewin is the father of eight-year-old Daniel Lewin. 952 01:06:10,534 --> 01:06:13,162 Daniel Lewin was one of nine children who have been brutally murdered... 953 01:06:13,270 --> 01:06:16,171 in what police suspect may be a child pornography ring. 954 01:06:16,273 --> 01:06:21,142 Lawrence Monk and Arthur Coons, who were accused of murdering 955 01:06:21,244 --> 01:06:24,338 were released from custody and all charges against them 956 01:06:24,448 --> 01:06:27,246 when Judge Steven Hardin ruled that a crucial piece of evidence... 957 01:06:27,351 --> 01:06:30,514 linking them to the murdered child could not be used in the trial. 958 01:06:30,620 --> 01:06:32,588 When the ruling was announced byJudge Hardin in court... 959 01:06:32,689 --> 01:06:35,749 Dr. Lewin allegedly tried to shoot Monk and Cooms. 960 01:06:35,859 --> 01:06:38,657 In the ensuing struggle, a police officer was wounded. 961 01:06:38,762 --> 01:06:43,222 Dr. Lewin left a note asking his wife Carol to please forgive him. 962 01:06:43,333 --> 01:06:45,995 Guilty. 963 01:06:46,103 --> 01:06:48,003 Guilty. 964 01:06:48,105 --> 01:06:50,767 Guilty. 965 01:06:50,874 --> 01:06:52,774 Guilty. 966 01:06:52,876 --> 01:06:54,810 Guilty. 967 01:06:54,911 --> 01:06:58,506 - Guilty. - Guilty. 968 01:06:58,615 --> 01:07:00,776 Guilty. 969 01:07:31,448 --> 01:07:33,416 Here. 970 01:09:32,869 --> 01:09:34,837 You all right over there? 971 01:10:09,005 --> 01:10:13,339 Flowers, w-would you quit being a pain in the ass? 972 01:10:24,321 --> 01:10:27,381 Hey, I really don't feel like running after you. I just ate lunch. 973 01:10:33,430 --> 01:10:37,025 Flowers, this is so dumb. 974 01:10:37,133 --> 01:10:41,194 Look at you, bimbo. I ain't getting down on my hands 975 01:10:41,304 --> 01:10:43,966 and ruin a perfectly good pair of pants. 976 01:10:44,074 --> 01:10:46,941 So what I'm gonna have to do is... 977 01:10:47,043 --> 01:10:50,206 shoot this gun under some cars. 978 01:10:50,313 --> 01:10:55,114 Now the bullets, they're gonna bounce all over hell and back. 979 01:10:55,218 --> 01:10:59,279 And one of them could hit a gas tank and rupture it... 980 01:10:59,389 --> 01:11:03,849 and the car would blow up, and you'd be roastedjust like a marshmallow. 981 01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,361 Then I'd have to go fill out all those reports about the car. 982 01:11:07,464 --> 01:11:12,026 And the morgue guys would come and put you in one of those black plastic bags. 983 01:11:12,135 --> 01:11:15,696 And that's a whole ton of paperwork for me, Flowers. 984 01:11:15,805 --> 01:11:18,296 And you know how much I hate to do paperwork. 985 01:11:18,408 --> 01:11:23,436 I could wound you. Nah, that would mean paramedics and ambulances... 986 01:11:23,546 --> 01:11:25,446 and a whole bunch of noise. 987 01:11:25,548 --> 01:11:28,449 Then I'd have to go to the hospital and question you. 988 01:11:28,551 --> 01:11:31,452 And that's two different sets of reports. 989 01:11:32,856 --> 01:11:35,723 So the more I think about it... 990 01:11:35,825 --> 01:11:38,623 when I weigh all my options... 991 01:11:40,330 --> 01:11:43,458 the least amount of paperwork for me to do is... 992 01:11:43,566 --> 01:11:46,057 if I just blow your fucking head off. 993 01:12:06,923 --> 01:12:09,084 Gotta hand it to you, Flowers. 994 01:12:09,192 --> 01:12:12,161 If you're gonna hide, you might as well hide under a Cadillac. 995 01:12:19,102 --> 01:12:21,832 His name is Flowers. He's a car thief. He's one of the best. 996 01:12:21,938 --> 01:12:24,978 He's been stealing foreign cars for a ring that ships them across the border. 997 01:12:25,008 --> 01:12:28,774 They got a really fine operation. He gets an order for a blue BMW coupe... 998 01:12:28,878 --> 01:12:30,778 Flowers steals 'em for him. 999 01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:32,848 And there's no speculation in the deal, either. 1000 01:12:32,949 --> 01:12:35,474 He gets them the year, make and model that they want. 1001 01:12:35,585 --> 01:12:39,043 He also does some domestic work for a few of our local cuties. 1002 01:12:39,155 --> 01:12:42,556 If they're gonna do a really nasty job, they order a car from Flowers. 1003 01:12:42,659 --> 01:12:44,650 We've been watching him for a couple of weeks... 1004 01:12:44,761 --> 01:12:48,253 and we staked out a garage he's particularly fond of. 1005 01:12:48,365 --> 01:12:51,357 Just like fish in a barrel. He's served two stretches already... 1006 01:12:51,468 --> 01:12:53,800 and he's shitting a brick about being a three-time loser. 1007 01:13:04,914 --> 01:13:07,883 Flowers, this is Detective Lowes. 1008 01:13:07,984 --> 01:13:09,884 - Pleased to meet you. - Hi. 1009 01:13:09,986 --> 01:13:12,978 This is not a good bust for you, my man. Not good at all. 1010 01:13:13,089 --> 01:13:16,081 I know, I know. I'll deal, I told you that. What you want? 1011 01:13:16,192 --> 01:13:18,285 Three-time loser, that's real bad. 1012 01:13:18,395 --> 01:13:20,295 You're really good at what you do, aren't you? 1013 01:13:20,397 --> 01:13:23,230 The best. Shit, anyone can open a domestic. 1014 01:13:23,333 --> 01:13:27,099 The GM's, they're a fucking invitation. Now the Germans, they make some fine cars. 1015 01:13:27,203 --> 01:13:30,400 - I can get you anything you want. - That's not exactly what we had in mind. 1016 01:13:32,075 --> 01:13:36,307 - Three-time loser. - I told you I'd deal.! You want names? 1017 01:13:36,413 --> 01:13:39,075 I'll give you any damn name you want. And it's a big deal too. 1018 01:13:39,182 --> 01:13:41,844 It goes through Mexico and then back through Texas. 1019 01:13:41,951 --> 01:13:44,943 - It's a good bust. - You're gonna have to do better than that. 1020 01:13:45,054 --> 01:13:49,184 Your partner was a real tough guy. Like a rock. 1021 01:13:49,292 --> 01:13:51,522 He gave us more names and dates than we knew what to do with. 1022 01:13:51,628 --> 01:13:54,495 He talked so fast we needed more than one stenographer in here. 1023 01:13:54,597 --> 01:13:56,098 Well, what the fuck do you want? 1024 01:13:56,099 --> 01:13:57,157 Well, what the fuck do you want? 1025 01:13:57,267 --> 01:14:00,964 Tell Detective Lowes what you told me before about the van. 1026 01:14:01,070 --> 01:14:04,699 - The van? - The van. 1027 01:14:04,808 --> 01:14:09,472 Oh, sure, I'll give you that, but what do I get? 1028 01:14:11,181 --> 01:14:13,581 If it leads to an arrest, you might get a break... 1029 01:14:13,683 --> 01:14:16,243 because grand theft auto is a lot of paperwork. 1030 01:14:16,352 --> 01:14:19,321 And you know I don't like to do paperwork. 1031 01:14:19,422 --> 01:14:22,357 W-Well, what do you mean I might get? 1032 01:14:22,459 --> 01:14:25,758 I mean if you don't start doing something good... 1033 01:14:25,862 --> 01:14:30,356 you're gonna get so much hard time that when you get out there won't be any cars. 1034 01:14:30,467 --> 01:14:33,834 People will be getting around. 1035 01:14:33,937 --> 01:14:37,964 Okay. Okay, the van. A blue van. 1036 01:14:38,074 --> 01:14:41,009 I stole it for these three dudes who needed it for a few hours. 1037 01:14:41,110 --> 01:14:44,102 The deal was I pick it up for them... 1038 01:14:44,214 --> 01:14:46,739 and then I bring it back to where I got it... 1039 01:14:46,850 --> 01:14:49,478 so nobody, not even the owner, knew it was copped. 1040 01:14:49,586 --> 01:14:51,884 This was a while ago. I got them this van... 1041 01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:54,548 and then I waited at a bar until they brought it back to me. 1042 01:14:54,657 --> 01:14:56,989 And then I returned it to where I copped it from. 1043 01:14:57,093 --> 01:15:00,927 There was... There was some blood in the back... 1044 01:15:01,030 --> 01:15:03,590 and mud on the tires like they were driving through the park. 1045 01:15:03,700 --> 01:15:07,966 And there was this little kid's shoe or something. I really didn't look too close. 1046 01:15:09,272 --> 01:15:11,172 Hey, I didn't know they was gonna kill some kid. 1047 01:15:11,274 --> 01:15:15,233 I just got them this car and I brought it back. That's all, and I swear to God. 1048 01:15:17,146 --> 01:15:21,674 Flowers, this is very important. 1049 01:15:21,784 --> 01:15:24,912 - Who were these guys? - They're loony tunes, man. 1050 01:15:25,021 --> 01:15:27,114 Three black dudes. They're into porno. 1051 01:15:27,223 --> 01:15:32,490 They snatch kids and use 'em in, you know, flicks and shit like that. 1052 01:15:32,595 --> 01:15:34,790 I want to find these three. 1053 01:15:34,898 --> 01:15:38,231 I really and truly want to find them. 1054 01:15:38,334 --> 01:15:43,738 I want to give 'em to you, 'cause I swear to God I didn't know what was goin' down. 1055 01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:46,866 We believe you. 1056 01:15:49,012 --> 01:15:51,071 Do we have a deal? 1057 01:16:15,939 --> 01:16:18,533 - Hello. - Hello. 1058 01:16:20,376 --> 01:16:23,709 - I hate these things. - Don't be so stuffy. The food's free. 1059 01:16:23,813 --> 01:16:25,747 I don't know what the hell I'm doing at a party for Walden. 1060 01:16:25,848 --> 01:16:27,748 Ellen wanted you to meet him. Can't hurt. 1061 01:16:27,850 --> 01:16:29,750 That guy has been running around the state like a lunatic... 1062 01:16:29,852 --> 01:16:31,752 giving speeches on how we've been coddling criminals. 1063 01:16:31,854 --> 01:16:34,254 - I don't want to meet him. - Well, we're here. 1064 01:16:34,357 --> 01:16:36,689 And he's there, so you might as well stop complaining and get it over with. 1065 01:16:36,793 --> 01:16:39,421 - He's where? - Right there. 1066 01:16:39,529 --> 01:16:44,489 - You go ahead. - No way. I promised Ellen. 1067 01:16:44,601 --> 01:16:49,061 Besides, I like people to see you. You're fairly cute, for a judge. 1068 01:16:49,172 --> 01:16:51,106 - Emily. - Oh, Mrs. Cummins, hello. 1069 01:16:51,207 --> 01:16:53,175 - I'm so glad you could come. - Thank you. 1070 01:16:53,276 --> 01:16:55,403 - And, Steven. How nice. - Hi. Hello. Thank you. 1071 01:16:55,511 --> 01:16:58,173 I would like to present State Senator Walden. 1072 01:16:58,281 --> 01:17:01,478 This is Steven and Emily Hardin. They're very nice people. 1073 01:17:01,584 --> 01:17:05,816 - Are you Hardin of the superior court? - Yes, I am. 1074 01:17:05,922 --> 01:17:08,686 - Nice to meet you. - It's a pleasure. 1075 01:17:08,791 --> 01:17:12,227 Well, why don't you two go get something to eat and enjoy yourselves... 1076 01:17:12,328 --> 01:17:14,762 while I show the senator off to everybody. 1077 01:17:14,864 --> 01:17:17,355 - Thank you. - Go have some fun. 1078 01:17:19,402 --> 01:17:22,200 Well, you had him eating right out of the palm of your hand. 1079 01:17:22,305 --> 01:17:24,466 - Can we go now? - No. 1080 01:17:28,845 --> 01:17:30,745 - Emily! - Janet! Hi. 1081 01:17:30,847 --> 01:17:32,747 - See you later. - Bye. 1082 01:17:32,849 --> 01:17:34,749 - I've been trying to reach you all afternoon. - Steve. 1083 01:17:34,851 --> 01:17:36,751 I spent two and a half hours in a dentist's office... 1084 01:17:36,853 --> 01:17:38,773 listening to Muzak and reading Junior Scholastic. 1085 01:17:38,855 --> 01:17:42,723 - You look a little tired. - Yeah, I am. A little bit. 1086 01:17:42,825 --> 01:17:45,487 Well, maybe we should get away for a few days, just the four of us. 1087 01:17:45,595 --> 01:17:47,495 Make fools of ourselves like the last time. 1088 01:17:47,597 --> 01:17:49,690 That sounds good. That'd be nice. 1089 01:17:49,799 --> 01:17:53,166 Well, you must be feeling pretty relieved right now. 1090 01:17:53,269 --> 01:17:56,329 Well, you know, with what just happened with those child murderers. 1091 01:17:58,441 --> 01:18:01,706 - What are you what are talking about? - It was on the news. 1092 01:18:01,811 --> 01:18:05,042 Well, those two guys who everybody thought killed all those children... 1093 01:18:05,148 --> 01:18:08,345 the ones you let go and everybody criticized you for it, don't you remember? 1094 01:18:08,451 --> 01:18:13,013 Well, the cops just arrested three other men and these guys really did it. 1095 01:18:13,122 --> 01:18:15,852 It was just on the news. 1096 01:18:15,958 --> 01:18:19,223 When did th... When did this when did this happen? 1097 01:18:19,328 --> 01:18:21,125 Just now. I thought you knew. 1098 01:18:21,230 --> 01:18:25,599 Well, anyway, you come out smelling like a rose. 1099 01:18:27,003 --> 01:18:29,597 Are you all right? 1100 01:18:29,706 --> 01:18:32,436 Yeah, I'm fine. Excuse me one moment. 1101 01:18:41,918 --> 01:18:43,818 It's the middle of the goddamn infield that matters. 1102 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:47,515 Don't give me first baseman. No, you plug up the middle of the infield. 1103 01:18:47,623 --> 01:18:51,423 You play... You play first base because you can't throw more than 60 feet. 1104 01:18:51,527 --> 01:18:53,567 - Hello, kiddo. Do you know George Tillis? - Hi. No. 1105 01:18:53,596 --> 01:18:55,791 - Hi. How are you? - He's with the Attorney General's office. 1106 01:18:55,898 --> 01:18:59,061 Doesn't know beans about the game of baseball. 1107 01:18:59,168 --> 01:19:01,796 - I got to talk to you. - Sure, I'll be around tomorrow. 1108 01:19:01,904 --> 01:19:04,498 Listen, you name me one team that made it without a strong middle infield. 1109 01:19:04,607 --> 01:19:08,668 - I have to talk to you right now. Excuse us. - What's the problem? 1110 01:19:08,778 --> 01:19:11,804 Sorry. 1111 01:19:11,914 --> 01:19:15,475 - What's the matter? - Did you hear? 1112 01:19:15,585 --> 01:19:19,487 - About what? - Monk and Cooms. They're innocent. 1113 01:19:19,589 --> 01:19:21,489 We've got to stop him. 1114 01:19:21,591 --> 01:19:24,253 Hold on. Where'd you hear about this? 1115 01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,260 Three other guys were just arrested. 1116 01:19:26,362 --> 01:19:28,830 Now you got to get the group together right now. 1117 01:19:32,668 --> 01:19:36,001 In the first place, calm down. 1118 01:19:36,105 --> 01:19:38,665 In the second place, how do you know these guys they arrested are guilty? 1119 01:19:38,775 --> 01:19:41,243 Just stop the bullshit, all right? 1120 01:19:41,344 --> 01:19:45,906 I'll gather the information on the three guys. You just get everybody together. 1121 01:19:46,015 --> 01:19:48,950 It's not as easy as you think. 1122 01:19:49,051 --> 01:19:50,951 - What? - It might take a while. 1123 01:19:51,053 --> 01:19:53,021 What are you talking about, a while? You hear what I'm saying? 1124 01:19:53,122 --> 01:19:56,091 It's just not as easy as you think. Maybe by tomorrow. 1125 01:19:56,192 --> 01:19:58,558 - Well, I can't promise anything. - Tonight. 1126 01:20:00,062 --> 01:20:02,690 I'll try. 1127 01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:05,995 The detective's name is Harry Lowes. 1128 01:20:06,102 --> 01:20:09,230 He obtained the warrant on the testimony of an informant. 1129 01:20:09,338 --> 01:20:11,602 The suspects were arrested early in the morning... 1130 01:20:11,707 --> 01:20:15,473 apparently in the act of making a pornographic film involving children. 1131 01:20:15,578 --> 01:20:20,242 There is a lot of physical evidence linking them to the murdered children... 1132 01:20:20,349 --> 01:20:24,911 including film on them and some clothing. 1133 01:20:25,021 --> 01:20:29,458 One of the three is willing to testify against the others if he's granted immunity. 1134 01:20:31,727 --> 01:20:34,218 It looks... It looks very solid. 1135 01:20:38,534 --> 01:20:41,059 Well, will somebody say something for Christ's sakes? 1136 01:20:43,739 --> 01:20:46,207 How do we know for sure these men are guilty? 1137 01:20:47,410 --> 01:20:49,344 Well, what does it matter? 1138 01:20:49,445 --> 01:20:52,642 There's certainly more than a reasonable doubt about Monk and Cooms. 1139 01:20:56,152 --> 01:20:58,552 What is it? There's something everybody else knows that I don't. 1140 01:20:58,654 --> 01:21:02,283 You keep looking at me like I'm speaking some kind of foreign language. 1141 01:21:02,391 --> 01:21:05,417 What exactly do you want us to do? 1142 01:21:05,528 --> 01:21:08,725 What do I... What do I want? 1143 01:21:10,566 --> 01:21:12,466 Am I the crazy person in this room? 1144 01:21:12,568 --> 01:21:16,504 We have to do something about Monk and Cooms, and we have to do it now. 1145 01:21:16,606 --> 01:21:19,200 - That's what I want! - It's not as simple as that. 1146 01:21:19,308 --> 01:21:24,803 I think the phrase everyone is searching for is, "We can't." 1147 01:21:24,914 --> 01:21:28,816 Don't look at me like someone just took your crayons away. We can't. 1148 01:21:28,918 --> 01:21:31,045 I wish we could. 1149 01:21:32,388 --> 01:21:35,824 Do you understand how risky this whole business is? 1150 01:21:35,925 --> 01:21:39,486 Do you know how vulnerable we are? Do you? 1151 01:21:39,595 --> 01:21:42,962 Machinery has been set in motion that simply can't be stopped. 1152 01:21:43,065 --> 01:21:46,330 We don't know who the person is. We can't. 1153 01:21:46,435 --> 01:21:48,335 And he can't know who we are. 1154 01:21:48,437 --> 01:21:52,203 I know this is not what you want to hear. Hell, it's not what we want, either. 1155 01:21:52,308 --> 01:21:56,904 - We're in a corner. There is nothing we can do. - That's not good enough. 1156 01:21:58,881 --> 01:22:03,318 We've tried to provide as many safeguards against something like this as possible. 1157 01:22:03,419 --> 01:22:07,515 There's always a risk of mistake. We have to weigh that risk against what we have all... 1158 01:22:07,623 --> 01:22:10,820 dedicated ourselves to accomplish. 1159 01:22:10,927 --> 01:22:15,193 - We think it's worth it. - These guys are not guilty. 1160 01:22:15,298 --> 01:22:17,926 It's not worth it. Nothing is worth it! 1161 01:22:18,034 --> 01:22:19,934 Who the hell do you think you are... 1162 01:22:20,036 --> 01:22:22,504 coming on like the captain of the high school debating team? 1163 01:22:22,605 --> 01:22:24,505 "It's better that 10 guilty men go free... 1164 01:22:24,607 --> 01:22:26,700 rather than one innocent man go to the gas chamber." 1165 01:22:26,809 --> 01:22:29,869 That's wonderful! You'll win trophies with that one. 1166 01:22:29,979 --> 01:22:33,346 The only trouble is it doesn't work out that way. 1167 01:22:33,449 --> 01:22:37,442 The 10 guilty men who go free will, in all probability, kill again. 1168 01:22:37,553 --> 01:22:41,580 And so what you have then is at least 10 more innocent people who will be killed. 1169 01:22:41,691 --> 01:22:44,592 You start multiplying the numbers and you tell me what you come up with. 1170 01:22:44,694 --> 01:22:47,629 - This is insanity. - Where is it written that you're. 1171 01:22:47,730 --> 01:22:50,995 Who gave you the crusade franchise? Tell me that. 1172 01:22:51,100 --> 01:22:55,833 We're all here because we're terrified about what's happening. 1173 01:22:55,938 --> 01:22:59,999 We're taking the risks. We don't like it any more than you do. 1174 01:23:00,109 --> 01:23:02,009 We're sick about this, just like you. 1175 01:23:02,111 --> 01:23:06,013 We have families, just like you. We eat cereal for breakfast, just like you. 1176 01:23:06,115 --> 01:23:09,983 We all agreed to sit at this table and be part of what goes on here... 1177 01:23:10,086 --> 01:23:12,247 including the pain that it brings. 1178 01:23:12,355 --> 01:23:14,516 You're like some bomber pilot... 1179 01:23:14,623 --> 01:23:16,591 who will wear the leather jacket and drop the bombs... 1180 01:23:16,692 --> 01:23:18,626 as long as he doesn't have to see where they hit. 1181 01:23:18,728 --> 01:23:21,060 Well, that's too goddamn bad. 1182 01:23:22,965 --> 01:23:25,695 We cannot let this happen. 1183 01:23:25,801 --> 01:23:28,531 There is nothing we can do. 1184 01:23:36,278 --> 01:23:38,644 Well, I don't have the answers... 1185 01:23:38,748 --> 01:23:41,808 and I certainly don't know how all the pieces fit together. 1186 01:23:44,553 --> 01:23:46,578 But there's clearly something wrong here. 1187 01:23:46,689 --> 01:23:50,250 And I'm responsible for it and I'm not gonna let this happen. 1188 01:23:50,359 --> 01:23:52,452 I'm sorry. It's out of our hands. 1189 01:23:52,561 --> 01:23:55,359 - It's not out of mine. - Don't talk foolish. 1190 01:23:56,866 --> 01:23:58,959 Where are you going? 1191 01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:06,931 I can't help feeling we've become them. 1192 01:24:36,172 --> 01:24:39,232 - Detective Lowes? - That's me. 1193 01:24:39,341 --> 01:24:42,970 - Can I talk to you for a minute? - Sit down. 1194 01:24:43,079 --> 01:24:46,378 - Thank you. - Want a beer? 1195 01:24:46,482 --> 01:24:49,417 No. I'd like to ask you a couple of questions... 1196 01:24:49,518 --> 01:24:51,748 about the arrest of these child murderers. 1197 01:24:51,854 --> 01:24:55,255 Well, I didn't figure you came down here to watch people eat. 1198 01:24:55,357 --> 01:24:57,655 - Is it a good arrest? - Are you a reporter? 1199 01:25:00,029 --> 01:25:02,691 No. 1200 01:25:02,798 --> 01:25:05,824 You wanna play hot and cold? Okay. 1201 01:25:07,436 --> 01:25:10,428 You don't look like you're from Internal Affairs. 1202 01:25:10,539 --> 01:25:12,939 - Your clothes look too good. - Does it really matter? 1203 01:25:13,042 --> 01:25:16,011 You're damn right it does. Are you kidding me? 1204 01:25:18,147 --> 01:25:22,379 You're the damn judge. 1205 01:25:23,752 --> 01:25:26,380 - You're Hardin. - Detective, is it a good arrest? 1206 01:25:26,489 --> 01:25:28,514 What are you up to? 1207 01:25:32,128 --> 01:25:36,121 Yes, it's good. We've got a lot of physical evidence. 1208 01:25:36,232 --> 01:25:40,396 Plus, we've got a full confession from one of them. They did it. 1209 01:25:40,503 --> 01:25:44,166 It takes a certain kind of species to do what they did. 1210 01:25:44,273 --> 01:25:46,173 - I know. - You do? 1211 01:25:46,275 --> 01:25:49,472 Well, would you mind not letting them go for a change? 1212 01:25:49,578 --> 01:25:52,012 I mean, it gets to be a real pain after a while. 1213 01:25:52,114 --> 01:25:55,083 They kill people, I chase them and you let them right back on the street again. 1214 01:25:55,184 --> 01:25:59,348 I got to admit it keeps a lot of us employed, but it gets to be a pain after a while. 1215 01:25:59,455 --> 01:26:02,424 So what about the other guys, Monk and Cooms? 1216 01:26:02,525 --> 01:26:04,493 I mean, you were sure they were guilty when they were released. 1217 01:26:04,593 --> 01:26:07,255 - Oh, that's cute. - You were sure. 1218 01:26:07,363 --> 01:26:11,527 Yeah, I was. Listen, you're dealing with a plodder here. 1219 01:26:11,634 --> 01:26:15,263 I have no family. God knows I'm not good-looking enough to have pretty women. 1220 01:26:15,371 --> 01:26:18,966 I'm never anxious to get back to that apartment I live in on Highland. 1221 01:26:19,074 --> 01:26:21,838 So I happen to stick with something until I get an answer. 1222 01:26:21,944 --> 01:26:27,348 Not because I think I'm a hot shit, but because I got nothing else better to do. 1223 01:26:27,449 --> 01:26:29,349 Listen, I wanted those two guys. 1224 01:26:29,451 --> 01:26:31,715 I thought they did it. I wanted to bust 'em. 1225 01:26:31,820 --> 01:26:34,618 Then it turns out that some other lice crawls out from under a rock... 1226 01:26:34,723 --> 01:26:36,816 and they prove to be the guilty ones. 1227 01:26:36,926 --> 01:26:39,190 But those first two, I would have got 'em. 1228 01:26:39,295 --> 01:26:43,425 It might have taken a little while, but I would have got 'em. 1229 01:26:43,532 --> 01:26:46,592 Otherwise, it didn't make much difference. 1230 01:26:46,702 --> 01:26:48,602 That's all I got is time. 1231 01:26:48,704 --> 01:26:52,162 That's the advantage of a plodder. 1232 01:26:52,274 --> 01:26:56,870 We're not fast. We're just persistent. 1233 01:26:56,979 --> 01:27:00,176 Now you mind telling me what the hell you're doing down here? 1234 01:27:02,051 --> 01:27:04,110 I... I really don't know. 1235 01:27:04,220 --> 01:27:07,155 I just I want to get some information on Monk and Cooms. 1236 01:27:07,256 --> 01:27:09,315 - Why? - For myself. 1237 01:27:11,227 --> 01:27:16,358 You know, after about three beers, I start to get pissed. 1238 01:27:16,465 --> 01:27:19,229 And I'm way past the fourth one. 1239 01:27:19,335 --> 01:27:21,326 So you won't mind, Your Honor, if I tell you... 1240 01:27:21,437 --> 01:27:23,496 that you happen to be lying through your judicial teeth. 1241 01:27:23,606 --> 01:27:27,235 Something is happening, you're not telling me what it is. 1242 01:27:27,343 --> 01:27:30,574 - Nothing. Believe me. - Why? 1243 01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,615 Because I need you to. 1244 01:27:37,286 --> 01:27:39,311 Okay. We'll do it your way. 1245 01:27:39,421 --> 01:27:41,855 - What do you want to know? - Where are they? 1246 01:27:41,957 --> 01:27:47,486 There are lots of places. They don't have any regular apartment or anything like that. 1247 01:27:47,596 --> 01:27:51,930 They seem to hang around an abandoned warehouse downtown. 1248 01:27:52,034 --> 01:27:54,025 I don't know what they're doing up there... 1249 01:27:54,136 --> 01:27:57,537 and, to tell you truth, I don't want to know. 1250 01:28:00,276 --> 01:28:05,373 On Spring Street. You mean a specific address? 1251 01:28:05,481 --> 01:28:09,781 2420. An old abandoned building. 1252 01:28:11,453 --> 01:28:15,355 I mean, you're not planning on... on visiting them, are you? 1253 01:28:15,457 --> 01:28:18,051 Oh, of course not. 1254 01:28:21,530 --> 01:28:24,931 Well, I thank you for your time and your patience. 1255 01:28:25,034 --> 01:28:27,662 - I appreciate it. - Like I said, that's all I got is time. 1256 01:28:40,316 --> 01:28:43,444 Hey, kiddo! Past your bedtime. 1257 01:28:43,552 --> 01:28:46,715 - What do you want? - I'm looking for you. 1258 01:28:46,822 --> 01:28:50,258 Why the hell else would anybody be here at this hour of the night? 1259 01:28:59,335 --> 01:29:01,326 Well, here I am. 1260 01:29:02,805 --> 01:29:05,273 I'm worried about you. 1261 01:29:05,374 --> 01:29:08,002 Really? 1262 01:29:08,110 --> 01:29:10,078 Why? 1263 01:29:11,380 --> 01:29:13,575 I wanna know what you're gonna do. 1264 01:29:15,084 --> 01:29:18,076 I'm not sure yet. But I gotta do something. You know that. 1265 01:29:18,187 --> 01:29:21,714 Well, I'm sure you think you have to dust off your armor... 1266 01:29:21,824 --> 01:29:24,384 and go clanking off to the Crusades. 1267 01:29:24,493 --> 01:29:28,452 I also know it's not quite as simple as that. 1268 01:29:28,564 --> 01:29:32,466 - Do you realize what you're risking? - You tell me. 1269 01:29:32,568 --> 01:29:36,595 You might just expose everything and everybody along with it. 1270 01:29:36,705 --> 01:29:39,435 Well, I'll try not to do that. 1271 01:29:39,541 --> 01:29:43,341 You're mighty quick to risk everyone else's future, I must say. 1272 01:29:43,445 --> 01:29:45,413 That's very brave of you. 1273 01:29:46,749 --> 01:29:49,946 You know, you're not exactly squeaky clean yourself. 1274 01:29:50,052 --> 01:29:53,317 I mean, you're in this as deep as the rest of us. 1275 01:29:55,023 --> 01:29:58,254 - It's getting late. - What about what we've all been trying to do? 1276 01:29:58,360 --> 01:30:02,319 What we have been doing? Is this worth throwing it all away? 1277 01:30:02,431 --> 01:30:06,492 So it's not your ass you're worried about, it's your cause? 1278 01:30:06,602 --> 01:30:09,833 There's a lot of nobility in this room. Must be the paneling. 1279 01:30:09,938 --> 01:30:13,772 I'm talking about all of us, our lives and our work... 1280 01:30:13,876 --> 01:30:17,312 as opposed to two guys, who, if they're not guilty 1281 01:30:17,413 --> 01:30:19,381 are certainly guilty of God knows how many others. 1282 01:30:19,481 --> 01:30:23,440 The issue here is this one particular crime, and they're not guilty of it. 1283 01:30:24,953 --> 01:30:27,217 Do you think the group is just gonna sit around... 1284 01:30:27,322 --> 01:30:30,314 let you blow this whole thing wide open, do you? 1285 01:30:33,529 --> 01:30:35,724 They can't. 1286 01:30:36,899 --> 01:30:38,867 They can't. 1287 01:30:40,736 --> 01:30:42,761 What about you? 1288 01:30:46,475 --> 01:30:48,568 I'm easy to find. I'm in the book. 1289 01:30:51,713 --> 01:30:53,681 Don't do it, kiddo. 1290 01:31:29,485 --> 01:31:32,386 Seventeen David, officer needs help vicinity of Fifth and Grand. 1291 01:31:32,488 --> 01:31:34,513 Report your location, please. 1292 01:31:40,128 --> 01:31:44,394 Seventeen David's on Sixth Street. I'm on my way. 1293 01:31:44,500 --> 01:31:46,525 Roger, 17 David. 1294 01:36:43,231 --> 01:36:45,665 What the fuck you doing here, man? 1295 01:36:45,767 --> 01:36:48,600 The man's asking you a question. Who sent you here? 1296 01:36:48,703 --> 01:36:52,070 Nobody sent me here. I want to talk to you, that's all. 1297 01:36:52,174 --> 01:36:54,199 - He's trying to rip us off. - Trying to what? 1298 01:36:54,309 --> 01:36:57,301 You made a big mistake, man. 1299 01:36:57,412 --> 01:37:02,440 Listen! Listen to me! Just listen! Listen. 1300 01:37:02,551 --> 01:37:06,317 If I was trying to rip you off, would I come here alone? 1301 01:37:06,421 --> 01:37:08,582 - Unarmed? - Bring him in the light. 1302 01:37:13,228 --> 01:37:15,196 Come on. 1303 01:37:28,143 --> 01:37:30,611 You look familiar. 1304 01:37:30,712 --> 01:37:34,045 Hey, hey. You trying to trick us? 1305 01:37:34,149 --> 01:37:38,586 Shit. He's our judge, man. 1306 01:37:38,687 --> 01:37:42,179 We got ourselves a fucking judge. 1307 01:37:44,192 --> 01:37:48,720 I want to talk to you. That's all. 1308 01:37:48,830 --> 01:37:52,561 I don't care what you're doin'. It's none of my business. 1309 01:37:52,667 --> 01:37:54,567 Talk. 1310 01:37:54,669 --> 01:37:59,538 I want you to leave here. You got to get out now. 1311 01:38:01,142 --> 01:38:03,610 - What? - I'm gonna kick his ass. 1312 01:38:03,712 --> 01:38:05,577 No, listen to me! Just listen to me, will you? For Christ's sakes... 1313 01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:07,545 - I'm trying to protect you. - Protect us? 1314 01:38:07,649 --> 01:38:11,176 You're the one who needs protecting, my man! 1315 01:38:12,554 --> 01:38:14,681 Somebody's trying to kill you! 1316 01:38:16,925 --> 01:38:18,893 Who's trying to kill us? 1317 01:38:21,129 --> 01:38:23,029 I don't know. 1318 01:38:23,131 --> 01:38:26,191 Wh-What's it to you if someone's after us? Tell me that? 1319 01:38:26,301 --> 01:38:30,135 It's because he likes us, right? 1320 01:38:30,238 --> 01:38:32,638 You like us? 1321 01:38:34,709 --> 01:38:37,143 He likes us. 1322 01:38:37,245 --> 01:38:41,545 Look, you. We want some answers. 1323 01:38:41,650 --> 01:38:44,084 You sneak in here, a judge, man. 1324 01:38:44,185 --> 01:38:46,119 You tell us some people are trying to kill us. 1325 01:38:46,221 --> 01:38:50,487 Then you say you don't know who it is, and you won't say why you give a shit. 1326 01:38:50,592 --> 01:38:53,959 Now I gotta tell you, this man is not someone you should get mad. 1327 01:38:54,062 --> 01:38:57,463 I mean it. He'd as soon as kill you as eat a hamburger. 1328 01:38:57,565 --> 01:39:00,005 So you come up with the answers, and you come up with 'em now! 1329 01:39:01,369 --> 01:39:04,099 I don't know who's after you. Really, I don't. 1330 01:39:04,205 --> 01:39:07,174 But somebody is and I'm just trying to warn you. 1331 01:39:09,744 --> 01:39:11,678 It doesn't matter why. 1332 01:39:16,051 --> 01:39:19,452 - He's jiving us, man. - I think he is. 1333 01:39:50,418 --> 01:39:50,918 Ether. 1334 01:39:58,626 --> 01:40:00,594 Magnesium. 1335 01:40:02,197 --> 01:40:04,529 Cyanide. 1336 01:40:05,633 --> 01:40:08,101 You got a P.C.P. Lab. 1337 01:40:09,871 --> 01:40:11,702 No! 1338 01:40:13,341 --> 01:40:15,935 You're not gonna shoot that gun. 1339 01:40:16,044 --> 01:40:19,946 If I drop this in here, it's all over. 1340 01:40:20,048 --> 01:40:23,347 You tell him... You tell him to put the gun down. 1341 01:40:25,987 --> 01:40:27,955 Put it down. 1342 01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:42,900 Somebody is trying to kill you. 1343 01:40:43,004 --> 01:40:47,873 If you'd listen to me and get out of here... 1344 01:40:49,377 --> 01:40:51,811 you'll find out the reasons... 1345 01:40:51,913 --> 01:40:55,644 'cause I'm... I'm gonna expose all-all of it. 1346 01:40:55,750 --> 01:40:58,218 Everything. 1347 01:40:59,754 --> 01:41:03,588 I'm doing this for me, n-not for you. 1348 01:41:15,970 --> 01:41:18,063 I'm scared shitless, all right? 1349 01:41:19,741 --> 01:41:22,710 So you just... 1350 01:41:22,811 --> 01:41:24,836 - You just calm down. - We can talk. 1351 01:41:24,946 --> 01:41:29,110 - You calm down! - You just be... just be cool, okay, Judge? 1352 01:41:31,419 --> 01:41:33,910 Think about it. 1353 01:44:16,417 --> 01:44:19,011 Freeze! 1354 01:44:19,120 --> 01:44:21,088 Drop it.! 1355 01:45:15,310 --> 01:45:19,906 Warren Laws. Age: 22. Seven priors, one felony conviction. 1356 01:45:20,014 --> 01:45:25,748 Assault with a deadly weapon, August 28, 1979. Served two years. 1357 01:45:25,853 --> 01:45:29,118 December 8, 1981, at 4:00 a. M... 1358 01:45:29,223 --> 01:45:32,317 an all-night supermarket was held up. 1359 01:45:32,427 --> 01:45:36,659 The cashier told the gunman that she did not have any cash on hand. 1360 01:46:00,655 --> 01:46:03,624 On the grounds that transporting the suspect to the witnesses... 1361 01:46:03,725 --> 01:46:07,684 was a violation of his rights against unreasonable search and seizure. 1362 01:46:07,795 --> 01:46:11,253 Laws was released. Are there any questions? 1363 01:46:13,334 --> 01:46:15,325 I would like a verdict.