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Previously on L .A. Law.

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As of this morning, I've signed on with
Mackenzie Brackman for a two -month

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period, during which time I will perform
the duties as head of litigation and

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assure that clients' needs are met. And
I'm much better than this guy, Your

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Honor.

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Administrative notes.

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Effective today, Lela Mackenzie returns
as senior partner. I'm the executive

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managing partner, Roxanne Millman,
executive office administrator.

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New stationery will be out today,
bearing our new firm name, Mackenzie

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Chaney and Becker.

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Fear of intimacy.

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If anything, I want too much intimacy.

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Arnold, intimacy is the last thing you
want.

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I don't need to listen to this.

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You ever

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stop and think maybe he doesn't need
everybody pouncing on him, telling him

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get better? You ever stop and think
about that for a single second? Get some

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help, okay? Oh, yeah, right. It's me.
It's always me. Well, let me tell you

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something, Victor. It's you.

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Victor's gone away?

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Michael's going away.

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Benny, I know it hurts, but you have to
believe... You don't know. You don't

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know.

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You can't just walk away from people who
are trying to help you.

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It's still not too late to accept the
plea. Second degree, you probably get

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Could be out on parole in 12.

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But I didn't kill him. Suzanne, you
repeatedly threatened to kill him.

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fibers found on your clothing place you
at the scene.

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Their case is going pretty well so far,
and we don't know what we can do for

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you. You can stand up there and tell
those people how much I loved Michael.

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You can tell them how I cherished his
life more than I do my own, how it would

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be inconceivable for me to have
committed such a crime.

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He was the reason for my being. Make
them understand that.

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See, that kind of talk does not help us,
especially since they're portraying you

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as obsessed.

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Michael Walker was an angel worthy of
any obsession or delusion.

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I didn't kill him.

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The plea is rejected.

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You get me an acquittal.

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Let's move it. We have a busy day.

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First and foremost, people versus
Hamill. How goes it, Jack?

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Lousy. Police detective traced her to
the scene. We couldn't shake him. Widow

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testifies today.

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We also lost our expert shrink.

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Again? None of them will say
unequivocally that she's incapable of

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Oh, I wonder why. I don't believe we
agreed to defend her. We agreed to

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her because this is an extremely high
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the Ricky Davis trial, and our being
involved puts it out there that

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Brackman is still a firm for the big
cases. And I'm also not positive that

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guilty. Oh, come on. You've got to be
kidding. Come on. She may be crazy, but

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the evidence is still circumstantial.

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Excellent, Benny.

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You've been doing an excellent job since
your return.

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Keep up the good work.

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Next up, in -ray arbitrator Leland
McKenzie. What's this?

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I've agreed to judge some arbitrations.

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I'll probably try two, three matters a
month. I start today with a gospel

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who's suing the Hawks. For what? Well,
he contracted to sing the national

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before a playoff game, and they
evidently reneged him. There.

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Coming to me for justice.

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As well they might.

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Lastly, with the exodus of two partners
and an associate, we are looking to hire

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another body. Any candidates, let us
know. Again, Jack and continued good

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Thanks. That's all.

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We're adjourned. She is an innocent.

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You're so jaded. All right.

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And, sir, could you tell us what you saw
when you entered the rec room that

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night? I observed 14 of our senior
citizen residents dancing.

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They were not clothed.

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What else did you see, Mr. Mueller?

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Frogs. Frogs? Well, it was subsequently
brought to my attention that they were

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toads. They were hopping all over the
room. The defendant had one of the

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ones in his hand.

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And did you see the defendant doing
anything with this toad?

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Yes. I saw him lick it repeatedly.

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Do you have any idea why the defendant
was licking this toad?

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Certainly not.

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Your Honor, I offer the party's
stipulation that these were cane toads.

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I also offer the signed declaration of
James Illich, Assistant Commissioner of

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the Drug Enforcement Administration,
indicating that the cane toad produces a

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toxin called bufotinin, which is an
illegal hallucinogen, and that when

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these creatures can effect a mind
-altering euphoria. It's so prevalent in

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Australia that the government recently
had to classify toad slime as an illegal

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substance under its drug misuse act.

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Anything else, Miss Maynard?

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No, Your Honor. That's all I have.

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You didn't see my client dispense these
amphibians to the other people, did you?

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No. And you didn't see any of the other
senior citizens do any licking, did you?

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No, but they were experiencing some form
of euphoria.

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Is it your testimony that it would be
impossible for the residents of your

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to be happy without drug enhancement?

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That is not my testimony.

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Thank you, that's all.

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And ma 'am, could you tell the court,
when did you first discover that your

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husband was having an affair with the
defendant?

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Last summer, I received a videotape in
the mail sent by her. A videotape of

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what? Of her and Michael making love.

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And what did you do?

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I confronted my husband.

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He said it had been going on for a
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And then what happened? We both cried a
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We went into counseling to try to save
our marriage, and he told her that the

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affair was over. Move to strike,
hearsay.

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Overruled. And ma 'am, to your
knowledge, what happened after your

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off his relationship with the defendant?

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First she started calling, and if I'd
answer, she'd say that Michael belonged

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her, that it was their destiny that
they'd be together.

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And if Michael answered, she'd threaten
to kill him.

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And then she started showing up. At your
home? On the street. She'd park her car

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across the street from our house and
just sit there and watch.

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Sometimes she'd stay all night. I'd get
up to go to the bathroom and I'd look

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outside and see her red car.

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Did you notify the police?

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Yes, but they said they couldn't do
anything because she was parked on a

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way. They finally gave her a warning
after the doll came.

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What doll?

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She sent a doll to our house with a
picture of my husband pasted on the face

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part.

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There was an ice pick sticking through
the head and a note attached saying,

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Dearest Michael, thinking of you. Love,
Suzanne.

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Were you afraid of this woman?

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Yes, of course we were afraid. We were
scared to death.

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We had no idea what she might do.

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Okay, ma 'am, now turning your attention
to the night of January 22, 1990, could

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you please tell the court what happened?

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I went to bed around 10 o 'clock.

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Michael said he had work to do in his
office, that he'd be up late.

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I was asleep when the gunshot woke me.

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And I ran down the stairs.

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And he was on the floor.

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Your husband?

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Yes.

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There was a hole in his head.

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And there was blood everywhere.

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And Corey, our son Corey, was coming
down the steps, and I tried to stop him.

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didn't want to see his father like that.

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Ma 'am, did you see what happened that
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I didn't see what happened, but when
Corey told me that he saw the red car...

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Objection! Mrs. Walker, only tell us
what you saw and what you know.

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Well, we know. We all know that she
murdered Michael.

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Move to strike, Your Honor. Sustained.
The jury will disregard that last

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statement. I have nothing further.

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We will let the witness collect herself.

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Defense can begin cross -examination
tomorrow.

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I've been waylaid.

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That's what they'd done.

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Uh, this contract, Your Honor, obligates
the Hawks and their parent ownership to

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allow my client to perform the national
anthem before the game. See, we had no

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idea at the time of the deal as to how
he would sing it. Mr. Miller, you're a

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blues singer.

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And jazz, and gospel, and good.

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Yes, well, since you weren't even being
paid for this performance, can you tell

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me how you were harmed by not being
allowed to sing?

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Because it's an insult.

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They say I sing unpatriotic.

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That's it? You simply feel insulted?

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Come here.

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Let's talk.

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Come on.

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You see, I ain't educated.

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My face ain't pretty.

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I got two things, a big, big voice and
my image.

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Now, when they tell me I sing un
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That leaves me with just a voice, which
no one want to hear no more because I

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ain't got no image.

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It's a catch -20.

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Make a pardon?

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Catch 22.

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Basically, Your Honor, this was the
first playoff game. There was

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exposure. It was broadcast on cable.

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He was not only denied the economic
benefit of that exposure, but to be

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unbefitting to sing the national anthem,
it tarnished him. I think we offered to

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let him perform it. Only if I lip -sync
it. So many performers lip -sync

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national anthems. The Womp Man don't.

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Mr. Wayne?

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This contract is enforceable on its
face.

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You have your client here tomorrow.

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I want to hear from him why Womp Man
shouldn't sing live.

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That's all.

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We should have renewed our objection to
the doll.

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Prior bad acts, prejudicial. No, he just
would have overruled us again. We would

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have looked desperate to the jury.

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Which we are. We've got no alibi, no
physical evidence.

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We can't even come up with a decent
character witness.

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You know, we have to give him another
suspect.

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Show the jury it could have been
somebody else.

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Who? I don't know.

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The wife.

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Oh. She was in the house. She certainly
had opportunity.

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She had to be upset about the affair. We
can scratch out motive.

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All right. I don't like it any more than
you do, but we have to do what we can,

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even if it means... Come on, Jack.
There's a difference between a zealous

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defense and assassinating the character
of an innocent person. Do you know for a

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fact that the wife didn't do it? She
just lost her husband, for God's sake.

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are you going to stand up in court and
accuse her?

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We have to do whatever we can to get
Suzanne Hamlin acquittal.

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Now, I think we would come off more
sympathetic if you do it.

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Oh, no.

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No. This was your idea. You do it. We do
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I'll lead the charge.

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But if we go this route, we have to be
together.

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Well, then, Mr. Meade, what was going on
in the rec room that night?

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We were just dancing.

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It got hot, so we just decided to take
our clothes off, that's all.

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Because of the heat.

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Were you licking toads?

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Absolutely not.

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Mr. Mueller says he saw you.

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I was holding Cicero.

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That's my toad.

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And he was a little anxious because of
all the excitement, so I gave him a

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little kiss and told him to relax.

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I never licked him.

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Thank you, that's all.

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You were very upset when the home banned
alcoholic beverages last January,

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weren't you, Mr. Mead? Well, I filed a
complaint. Yes, I did.

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And when they refused to budge, you
switched from bourbon to the cane toad

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desperate means of getting a buzz.

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That's ridiculous.

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They're my loving pets.

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Then why did you abuse them?

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I what?

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Mr. Mueller, as well as two of the floor
orderlies, state that you would often

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yell at them.

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Sometimes they're little rascals. Oh,
come on, Mr. Meade.

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The toad will secrete more toxins when
it's threatened. You antagonize them so

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that you can get a bigger rush.

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Well, I'm shocked.

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I'm just an old man looking for a little
companionship any place I can get it.

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My God, they...

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They limit our visitation, they tell us
what to eat, they take all our money.

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Now they want to take my totes, my
little green friends.

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Your Honor, I need a moment.

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You ready?

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Ready as I'm ever going to be, I guess.

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Counsel, let's go.

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Okay, Mrs. Walker, we've got a lot of
ground to cover here, so I'm just going

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get right to it. First off... You never
saw my client at your house during the

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night of the murder, did you? I didn't
actually see her, but I... No, you

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didn't. And since her relationship with
your husband was over, I'd like you to

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tell us how it could be that she could
enter your house with no struggle or

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so much as an argument.

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Objection! She has no foundation... Your
Honor, this woman boldly shouted out

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her conclusion that she knew my client
did it. I'm sure that we are all

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interested in the reasons underlying
that conclusion.

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The witness will answer the question.

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I don't know how she got in.

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Perhaps she was never there.

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Objection! You said, ma 'am, that when
you learned of the affair, you

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your husband and he terminated the
relationship with Miss Hamill. Yeah.

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Well, it wasn't as simple as that, was
it?

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In fact, your husband continued to see
her for another month. On top of that,

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continued to lie to you. Isn't that
right?

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He was trying to break it off during
that month, but she wouldn't let him go.

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That's what he told you when you caught
him again?

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Yeah. How'd it make you feel, Mrs.
Walker?

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To learn that he'd been sleeping with
another woman for two years. To watch it

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on videotape. And then after catching
him once and hearing his cries of

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contrition, to find out he was doing it
again.

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Objection! This has no relevance.

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It has relevance, Your Honor. It's
loaded with relevance.

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The defense will show.

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This woman murdered Michael Walker. Oh,
this is ridiculous.

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Not so ridiculous.

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Are you telling me that the police did
not consider her a suspect?

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Objection! Mr. Sollers, don't address
the district attorney.

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Sorry, Your Honor, let me address her.

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The police took your fingerprints and
asked you to submit to a polygraph test.

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Did they not?

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Mr. Sollers, get up here right now.

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Knock it off.

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If you have facts, raise your facts.

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But you will not use the mere existence
of police questions to confer guilt on

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this witness.

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Step back.

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You told your marriage counselor you
didn't think you'd ever get by your

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for your husband, did you not?

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Objection! This is doctor -patient
privilege. She can waive the privilege,

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are you afraid she's going to spill all
your dirty little secrets? I object to

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this blatant intimidation. Well, excuse
my rudeness, but I have an innocent

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client being charged with a murder that
this woman committed.

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That's enough. Stop it. You're currently
under psychiatric care right now, are

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you not?

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Yes. You discuss your hatred for your
husband with this doctor, too?

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I never hated my husband. This is doctor
-patient privilege. Your questions are

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out of line.

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It was perfect for you, wasn't it,
Jeanette? You had my client making these

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public threats. She was known to be a
kook.

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You could get revenge in your own house.

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Everyone would still suspect her.

291
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Objection! That's sick!

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The adulterous bastard dies, and the
wacko slut goes to jail.

293
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Two birds, huh, Jeanette?

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Mr. Norman, that is enough.

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That's all I have.

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For now.

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Obviously, the grieving widow has a lot
to hide. We've said from the beginning

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this case wasn't as simple as the police
were saying. Now you're beginning to

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see why.

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What's in those psychiatric reports on
the wife? We'll never know, maybe,

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because of the privilege, but we're
going to do what we can to flush out all

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dark secrets and expose the truth. No
further comments this time.

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Okay, we dropped the accusation bomb.
Now what?

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Now what?

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Now we let it tick.

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Meantime, we concentrate on what they're
missing.

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No murder weapon. No real eyewitness.

308
00:18:14,871 --> 00:18:18,589
The fact that they didn't call the kid
shows they know his testimony is shaky.

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Fibers. The fibers, the repeated threats
that you'd kill him, and the overall

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assumption that you're a psychotic.
That's their case.

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Unfortunately, the only thing we have to
counter all that is you.

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I'm going to testify?

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I don't think we have any choice. Do
you?

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00:18:33,490 --> 00:18:35,560
No. All right, now listen to me.

315
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You are under obligation to speak the
truth up there.

316
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Is your truth going to incriminate you?
Of course not.

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My God, I loved Michael. I'll make them
see that.

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Yeah, Suzanne, as fond as you are of
your obsession, you're going to have to

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play that down.

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Distraught is great.

321
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Erratic is even okay, but obsessed or
possessed, and we've lost.

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I understand completely.

323
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You just try to be as honest and as real
as you can.

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If you explode up there, you're looking
at conviction.

325
00:19:06,150 --> 00:19:09,029
If you stay cold and unemotional, you're
looking at a conviction.

326
00:19:09,030 --> 00:19:12,729
I want to see vulnerability in a woman
who threatened to castrate her lover and

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shellac his testicles. I want to feel
empathy with a woman who could run an

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pick through a doll of a person's
likeness.

329
00:19:18,790 --> 00:19:23,549
I want to feel compassion for a woman
who would make a videotape of herself

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making love to a man and then send that
tape to the man's wife.

331
00:19:27,670 --> 00:19:31,520
You beginning to appreciate the enormous
challenge that lies ahead of you?

332
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Yes. If not, you tell me. You tell me
right now.

333
00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,010
I think we can still plead second
degree.

334
00:19:38,260 --> 00:19:39,440
I'm ready to testify.

335
00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:43,020
I'm anxious for them to know me.

336
00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,170
Okay, Miss Hamill.

337
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This trial is now in your hands.

338
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This country is incredibly sensitized
right now when it comes to patriotism.

339
00:19:59,530 --> 00:20:03,709
A bastardized version of the national
anthem can have real corporate

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00:20:03,710 --> 00:20:05,750
consequences. Oh, come on.

341
00:20:05,970 --> 00:20:07,020
Ask the Padres.

342
00:20:07,090 --> 00:20:09,090
What's wrong with Mr. Miller's version?

343
00:20:09,330 --> 00:20:14,170
It's extremely undisciplined. He also
has a slight saliva problem.

344
00:20:14,530 --> 00:20:18,549
Hmm? What do you mean? Let's just say
bombs aren't the only thing bursting

345
00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:19,990
through the air when he sings.

346
00:20:20,090 --> 00:20:23,930
There's a little moisture on the S
words. Otherwise, this is not a factor.

347
00:20:24,130 --> 00:20:25,510
And what about the free -ah?

348
00:20:25,890 --> 00:20:27,510
Objection. The what?

349
00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:28,860
The word free.

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He makes it sound like a four -syllable
word. Then he goes up into an octave

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00:20:32,990 --> 00:20:36,489
that could bring rain, which the people
in the loggias will think he's doing

352
00:20:36,490 --> 00:20:37,990
anyway because of all the spit.

353
00:20:38,190 --> 00:20:42,290
Oh, and so... Now, can't you modify your
pitch a little on free?

354
00:20:42,530 --> 00:20:43,710
It's my best note.

355
00:20:43,990 --> 00:20:48,630
It distorts the song. What do you know?
It's good music. All right, now look.

356
00:20:48,850 --> 00:20:52,510
I don't know whether your interpretation
is un -American or what.

357
00:20:53,050 --> 00:20:54,590
I just want to hear it.

358
00:20:54,990 --> 00:20:56,290
Tomorrow, you sing.

359
00:20:56,830 --> 00:20:59,250
I can't sing it in here. I need better
acoustics.

360
00:20:59,251 --> 00:21:02,429
All right, we'll do it in the conference
room. 11 o 'clock tomorrow.

361
00:21:02,430 --> 00:21:05,690
Everybody be here. Fine. Bring your
umbrellas. Oh, that's enough.

362
00:21:11,850 --> 00:21:14,110
I'm an American. I'm an American, my
ass.

363
00:21:15,270 --> 00:21:16,320
How's it going?

364
00:21:16,390 --> 00:21:17,440
Good.

365
00:21:18,170 --> 00:21:19,250
Name's Elliot Miller.

366
00:21:19,410 --> 00:21:20,870
My friends call me Womp Man.

367
00:21:21,470 --> 00:21:22,520
Benny Stolwitz.

368
00:21:22,870 --> 00:21:24,130
Nice to meet you, Benny.

369
00:21:24,430 --> 00:21:25,480
How you doing?

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00:21:26,070 --> 00:21:27,120
I'm depressed.

371
00:21:27,150 --> 00:21:28,650
Oh, you mean you got the blues?

372
00:21:28,651 --> 00:21:29,889
What do you mean?

373
00:21:29,890 --> 00:21:30,889
The blues.

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00:21:30,890 --> 00:21:31,940
That's what you got.

375
00:21:31,950 --> 00:21:33,000
That's what I sing.

376
00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:34,449
You sing?

377
00:21:34,450 --> 00:21:36,030
Anytime, anyplace, my friend.

378
00:21:36,230 --> 00:21:38,510
And it ain't unpatriotic, I tell you
that.

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00:21:38,930 --> 00:21:40,070
Can I hear you sing?

380
00:21:40,310 --> 00:21:44,769
Look, man, I'm mired in controversy
right now. And I don't do so good when

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00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:45,820
distracted.

382
00:21:46,590 --> 00:21:47,640
But I tell you what.

383
00:21:48,130 --> 00:21:52,150
When I'm through with my ordeal, I have
a little something for you.

384
00:21:52,430 --> 00:21:53,480
How about that?

385
00:21:54,170 --> 00:21:55,520
Okay. Okay.

386
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,180
They say I spit.

387
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,360
They don't know spit. I show you some
spit.

388
00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:08,140
I don't deny making the threats.

389
00:22:08,141 --> 00:22:12,339
I was a desperate woman doing anything
to cling to this relationship.

390
00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:16,250
But, Miss Hamill, threatening to kill
somebody, that goes beyond desperate.

391
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:17,680
I know. I was acting crazy.

392
00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:19,600
I sent the doll.

393
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,780
I was a total wreck.

394
00:22:22,781 --> 00:22:25,829
doing everything I could to break up
their marriage.

395
00:22:25,830 --> 00:22:27,930
But at the heart of all of it was love.

396
00:22:28,470 --> 00:22:29,570
I loved him.

397
00:22:29,870 --> 00:22:33,730
And the reason I couldn't let him go was
because I knew he loved me too.

398
00:22:34,150 --> 00:22:36,450
If he loved you, why did he leave you?

399
00:22:36,830 --> 00:22:38,450
That's just it. He never left me.

400
00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:40,310
He didn't leave you?

401
00:22:40,550 --> 00:22:42,070
Well, he tried to.

402
00:22:42,310 --> 00:22:45,490
We did break up. He did vow never to see
me again.

403
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:51,969
But then we'd get together, whether it
was to fight or to try to resolve it as

404
00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:55,460
friends. Or for him to tell me to stop
harassing him.

405
00:22:55,660 --> 00:23:00,780
Whatever the pretext of our meeting, it
would always end the same way.

406
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,740
And how was that?

407
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,340
We would make love.

408
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:10,639
So it's your testimony that Michael
Walker did not, in fact, leave you. It

409
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,140
testimony that he left many times, but
it always proved to be temporary.

410
00:23:15,141 --> 00:23:16,539
Meaning what?

411
00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:20,760
Meaning that on the afternoon of
Michael's murder, I did go to his house.

412
00:23:21,930 --> 00:23:23,370
And we made love again.

413
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:26,800
Settle down.

414
00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:32,769
The day that he was killed, you two had
intercourse? For over two and a half

415
00:23:32,770 --> 00:23:33,820
hours.

416
00:23:36,470 --> 00:23:39,910
And what happened after this session? He
told me it had to stop.

417
00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:41,290
And I said, I know.

418
00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:43,360
I know.

419
00:23:43,730 --> 00:23:47,849
But both of us knew it wouldn't. As long
as we continued to find ourselves in

420
00:23:47,850 --> 00:23:48,900
the same room.

421
00:23:50,110 --> 00:23:51,270
It would never stop.

422
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,460
And when you left him that day, was he
alive?

423
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:57,690
Barely.

424
00:23:59,620 --> 00:24:00,670
All right.

425
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,680
And Miss Hamill, did you go back again
that night?

426
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,000
No, I did not.

427
00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:08,670
Thank you.

428
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:09,860
I have nothing further.

429
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,920
Any witnesses who saw you at the house
that afternoon? It was an illicit

430
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,390
Mr. Blake. We were careful not to be
witnessed.

431
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,099
Miss Hamill, you expect us to believe
that while you were threatening to carve

432
00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:30,959
this man up, to puncture his heart with
an ice pick, that he would respond by

433
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,720
making love to you? I think he saw my
threats for what they were, Mr. Blake.

434
00:24:35,260 --> 00:24:40,079
Emotional cries for help. I think he was
flattered by how utterly dependent I

435
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,740
was on him. Move to strike that.

436
00:24:41,741 --> 00:24:42,839
All right.

437
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,599
You sent a mutilated doll to his house.
You told him, told him flat out that you

438
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,670
would murder him if he didn't... And
maybe I would have, Mr. Blake.

439
00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:56,020
God knows I was crazy enough at the
time. Maybe I would have killed him.

440
00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:58,800
But I didn't.

441
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,140
Because somebody else beat me to it.

442
00:25:23,820 --> 00:25:27,310
courtroom sent motionless, riveted by
Suzanne Hamill's testimony.

443
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,490
Even prosecutor Anthony Blake seemed
mesmerized by the defendant's account.

444
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,040
I swear to God, Stuart, as I listened to
her, I started to believe.

445
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:37,880
Maybe she is innocent.

446
00:25:37,881 --> 00:25:41,479
Oh, come on, honey. If she made love
with the guy that afternoon, why did she

447
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,659
wait until she got on the stand to tell
you about it?

448
00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:46,499
She said she was scared to admit to
anybody she was in the house the day of

449
00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:49,210
murder. She thought it would make her
look more guilty.

450
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,800
everyone by announcing his plans to call
the boy, Corey Walker, to the stand.

451
00:25:54,801 --> 00:25:56,939
They're putting a kid on the stand.

452
00:25:56,940 --> 00:26:00,250
They have to now. He's the only one they
have to contradict Suzanne.

453
00:26:01,980 --> 00:26:05,740
Boy, once in my life I would like to try
a case like this. Just once.

454
00:26:07,140 --> 00:26:10,960
Scary. You start out thinking about
guilt and innocence, right and wrong.

455
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,559
But with the press and the media,
suddenly the only thing that matters is

456
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:16,359
you win.

457
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,760
A person is murdered, a woman is
widowed.

458
00:26:19,150 --> 00:26:21,320
Little boy has to face the trauma of a
trial.

459
00:26:21,810 --> 00:26:24,590
Last night I'm praying, dear God, let me
win.

460
00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:26,160
Just let me win.

461
00:26:35,910 --> 00:26:39,849
Chester, I'd like to plead this out. I
think I can chop it down to misdemeanor

462
00:26:39,850 --> 00:26:41,710
possession, no jail. I'm innocent.

463
00:26:42,110 --> 00:26:43,450
You are not innocent.

464
00:26:43,451 --> 00:26:47,659
You were lying up there on the stand.
You don't raise these things as pets,

465
00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:51,210
the jury knows it. What, did they get
one witness to testify against me?

466
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,760
None of the residents came forward?

467
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,160
Because they all adore you.

468
00:26:55,260 --> 00:26:56,310
Let them convict.

469
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,960
I'll appeal it all the way to the
Supreme Court.

470
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,810
Look at me.

471
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,700
You're on the toad right now, aren't
you?

472
00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:07,680
What are you talking about?

473
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,280
You stay still.

474
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,800
What the hell are you doing? Now, put
that.

475
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,950
It's illegal search and seizure. Fourth
Amendment.

476
00:27:21,211 --> 00:27:23,259
It's Cicero.

477
00:27:23,260 --> 00:27:24,310
He got in there.

478
00:27:24,311 --> 00:27:28,119
This is a drug. It may have legs, it may
be cute, but it could make you sick. It

479
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:29,180
could even kill you.

480
00:27:29,181 --> 00:27:30,599
Damn it!

481
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,820
I can get you into a program, and I can
get you off with a probationary slap,

482
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,530
but I can't help you unless you want to
be helped.

483
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,350
This isn't funny anymore, do you hear
me?

484
00:27:43,690 --> 00:27:46,430
I'm going to get the DA and I'm going to
cut the deal.

485
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,990
I heard the noise from the gun that woke
me up.

486
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:17,340
Then I heard my mother run by my room,
going downstairs.

487
00:28:17,860 --> 00:28:19,060
And what did you do then?

488
00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:23,500
I got up, I ran to the window, and I saw
the red car. It was driving away.

489
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,250
And, Corey, had you ever seen this car
before?

490
00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:27,670
Yes.

491
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:28,930
It was her car.

492
00:28:28,931 --> 00:28:31,739
I'd seen her in it a lot when she'd park
across the street.

493
00:28:31,740 --> 00:28:35,940
And you're sure that this is the same
car that you saw that night?

494
00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:40,560
Yes. And, Corey, what did you do after
you saw the car?

495
00:28:41,930 --> 00:28:45,970
I ran downstairs and I saw my mother and
my father.

496
00:28:46,590 --> 00:28:51,829
Now, how much time elapsed between the
time you heard the gunshot and the time

497
00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:54,840
you heard your mother run by your room
and head downstairs?

498
00:28:55,550 --> 00:28:56,650
Maybe a few seconds.

499
00:28:56,970 --> 00:29:01,469
And between the time of the shot and the
time you heard your mother run down the

500
00:29:01,470 --> 00:29:03,880
stairs, did you hear anybody run up the
stairs?

501
00:29:04,690 --> 00:29:06,410
No. Thank you.

502
00:29:06,830 --> 00:29:08,070
I have nothing further.

503
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,130
Okay, Corey.

504
00:29:14,131 --> 00:29:18,639
You said you heard this big bang, and
then you heard your mother running down

505
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,290
the stairs. Did you hear anything else?
Any screams?

506
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:25,459
No. You heard nothing else except the
gun and your mother in the hallway. Is

507
00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:26,099
that right?

508
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:27,860
Yes. Well, then I'm curious.

509
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,460
Why'd you run to the window?

510
00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:31,560
You're hearing things in the house.

511
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,690
You ran to the window.

512
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,380
Well, I heard the car, too.

513
00:29:34,381 --> 00:29:37,499
Now, son, I just asked you if you heard
anything else, and you said no.

514
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:40,979
Now, did you forget that you heard the
car, or did you just forget to say that

515
00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:42,030
you heard the car?

516
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,160
Objection. Withdrawn.

517
00:29:43,161 --> 00:29:46,759
According to the police report, you gave
them a partial reading of a license

518
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:47,810
plate.

519
00:29:48,340 --> 00:29:53,199
5L3. You told them that the license
plate, the first three numbers were 5L3.

520
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,250
that right?

521
00:29:54,260 --> 00:29:59,920
Yes. For the record, my client's license
plate number is 5L3TPE.

522
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,619
Now, the survey of your house...
indicates that it's about 60 feet from

523
00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:09,170
window to the driveway where you saw the
car. Would that be about right?

524
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,570
I guess.

525
00:30:10,580 --> 00:30:16,219
Okay. Now, I'm going to hold up a
license plate, and I want you to read it

526
00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:17,270
us.

527
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:18,690
Oh.

528
00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:20,839
Would you take off your glasses, please?

529
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,939
Objection! You told the police that you
leave your glasses on the dresser,

530
00:30:23,940 --> 00:30:24,990
right? Yes.

531
00:30:25,140 --> 00:30:29,260
And you ran right to the window from the
bed, so you didn't have mine, did you?

532
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,890
No. Okay.

533
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:33,500
Would you take them off now, please?

534
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,260
Remove your glasses, son.

535
00:30:42,940 --> 00:30:44,420
Okay, read this for me, Corey.

536
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,130
I'm only 30 feet away, sitting in a
lighted room.

537
00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:54,020
You could read a license plate from 60
feet in the dark that night.

538
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:55,550
Go on.

539
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,160
You can't read it, can you?

540
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,730
No.

541
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,300
You can put your glasses on now, son.

542
00:31:09,301 --> 00:31:14,479
Didn't see any car that night. As a
matter of fact, you memorized my

543
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,239
license plate because you'd seen her
parked across the street so many times

544
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,190
before. This is argumentative. Mr.
Saunders, ask questions.

545
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,330
Okay.

546
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,010
My question.

547
00:31:24,011 --> 00:31:26,539
Corey, are you trying to protect your
mother?

548
00:31:26,540 --> 00:31:27,590
No.

549
00:31:28,140 --> 00:31:29,190
Okay, son.

550
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,290
Okay.

551
00:31:39,150 --> 00:31:45,549
That our flag was still there Oh, say

552
00:31:45,550 --> 00:31:52,129
does that star -spangled banner yet

553
00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:58,969
wave O

554
00:31:58,970 --> 00:32:04,550
'er the land of...

555
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,890
Yes, she made threats, ladies and
gentlemen.

556
00:32:53,891 --> 00:32:57,079
But Suzanne Hamill's not being charged
with making threats.

557
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,130
She's up on murder.

558
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,440
And for murder, there's no evidence.

559
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:01,910
No gun.

560
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,079
No witnesses, except Corey Walker, who
claims that he picked off that license

561
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:10,559
plate in the dark at 60 feet when we all
know, we all saw, that he doesn't have

562
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,300
the eyesight to substantiate that.

563
00:33:12,301 --> 00:33:16,739
And the fact that the district attorney
didn't even include Corey as part of his

564
00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:19,559
principal case tells you something about
his credibility.

565
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,610
The fibers.

566
00:33:20,611 --> 00:33:24,759
Well, Suzanne Hamill was in that house
that very day making love on the carpet,

567
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,110
so of course fibers were found on her
clothing.

568
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,540
And think about this.

569
00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:34,619
Through all the threats, all the
harassment, Michael Walker never pressed

570
00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:40,379
charges. He never even sought a
restraining order to keep her away

571
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:43,390
Suzanne Hamill told us, he didn't really
want her to go away.

572
00:33:43,391 --> 00:33:49,319
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen,
is definitely a crime of extraordinary

573
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:54,580
passion. Suzanne Hamill sits before you
today, very much guilty of the passion.

574
00:33:55,060 --> 00:33:56,720
Michael Walker had the passion.

575
00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:01,800
As for the crime, that belongs to
Jeanette.

576
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,079
She looked at her husband on the
videotape. Two years this had been going

577
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,719
heard of her anger and her hatred.

578
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,039
Doctor -patient privilege prevents us
from knowing the true scope of that

579
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,940
hatred. But when he went back...

580
00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:22,259
When Michael Walker went back to the
love of this woman, when it became clear

581
00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:24,430
that he couldn't escape his own
passions,

582
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,580
Jeanette couldn't cope.

583
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:32,500
And she probably knew, maybe from the
trace of Suzanne's perfume in the air,

584
00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,759
maybe from a fleeting look on Michael's
face, she probably knew what went on in

585
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,600
her house that very afternoon, but for
two and a half hours.

586
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Michael Walker had made passionate,
uncontrollable love to Suzanne Hamill.

587
00:34:50,020 --> 00:34:54,260
And that was never going to happen
again.

588
00:34:54,580 --> 00:34:56,260
Oh, no, ladies and gentlemen.

589
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,240
Jeanette was going to make sure that
that would never happen again.

590
00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:10,680
The defendant.

591
00:35:11,450 --> 00:35:14,410
Threatened to chop the victim up into
pieces.

592
00:35:15,590 --> 00:35:17,490
Vowed she would kill him.

593
00:35:17,890 --> 00:35:22,669
I don't think I have to take up your
valuable time getting you to believe

594
00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:26,370
sitting here is a mentally deranged
human being.

595
00:35:27,530 --> 00:35:32,769
There were no witnesses to support this
concoction that she was with the victim

596
00:35:32,770 --> 00:35:35,890
making love the afternoon of his murder.

597
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,919
No witnesses to support her claim that
she was home alone the night of the

598
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,860
murder. And what about the gun?

599
00:35:44,020 --> 00:35:47,580
Jeanette Walker never left the scene.

600
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,739
If she had been the shooter, then we
would have found the gun or the gloves

601
00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:56,960
had to have used because there was no
gunpowder residue on her hands.

602
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,240
Come on, ladies and gentlemen.

603
00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:02,520
Here we have...

604
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,120
a woman with no criminal or psychiatric
history.

605
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:12,779
And here we have a borderline psychotic,
self -admittedly obsessed with the

606
00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:18,479
victim, who repeatedly claimed she would
kill him, who sent a doll to his house

607
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,540
with an ice pick stabbed through it.

608
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,239
Round of applause for her performance on
the stand. Bigger round of applause for

609
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:30,290
her lawyers.

610
00:36:31,950 --> 00:36:37,869
But let's get this person locked up,
please, before she develops a crush on

611
00:36:37,870 --> 00:36:38,920
one of us.

612
00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:53,709
I've got nothing against accepting your
plea, Counsel, but I'm not going to do

613
00:36:53,710 --> 00:36:57,370
anything in the absence of your client
as well as the DA.

614
00:36:57,371 --> 00:37:01,299
My client will be here, Your Honor. He's
been very prompt for all his court

615
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:04,559
appointments. That's for the DA. He
won't be prompt today, Miss Lamb.

616
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,759
I'm afraid Mr. Mead won't be appearing.
What are you talking about?

617
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,280
He's in the hospital, officer.

618
00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:12,560
He was found in his room unconscious an
hour ago.

619
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,120
Next to him on the floor, the police
found this.

620
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,300
What is that?

621
00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:24,010
These dentures have been identified as
belonging to the defendant.

622
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,380
Obviously, Mr. Mead...

623
00:37:25,610 --> 00:37:29,630
Bit his toad, probably looking to get a
bigger secretion. It was almost fatal.

624
00:37:29,970 --> 00:37:34,249
I begged him to get help. Your Honor,
given the severity of this problem, the

625
00:37:34,250 --> 00:37:37,920
people can only agree to probation,
conditioned upon Mr. Meade entering

626
00:37:38,150 --> 00:37:39,770
Well, I have no objection to that.

627
00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:41,130
All right, so ordered.

628
00:37:41,550 --> 00:37:43,350
Is he all right? He's stabilized.

629
00:37:43,730 --> 00:37:45,510
The doctors say he'll make it.

630
00:37:45,890 --> 00:37:47,990
No such luck for the toad.

631
00:37:50,910 --> 00:37:51,960
You hear anything?

632
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,750
Just that they stayed in till 2 a .m.
last night before breaking.

633
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:57,800
They've got to be close.

634
00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,960
Wish I knew what that means.

635
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,439
As far as I know, the deliberations are
continuing. I know just as much as you

636
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,490
do.

637
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:10,350
No comment.

638
00:38:11,140 --> 00:38:17,359
I have no comment right now. All any of
us can do is wait. How long do they

639
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,410
usually take?

640
00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:22,410
Well, you never know. This one's close,
but it could be any minute.

641
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:26,180
I don't think they believe the boy, do
you?

642
00:38:26,190 --> 00:38:27,240
I don't know.

643
00:38:27,241 --> 00:38:30,129
We tripped him up, but he didn't really
come off as dishonest.

644
00:38:30,130 --> 00:38:31,330
No, he's a good boy.

645
00:38:32,790 --> 00:38:34,710
Had his father's eyes, you know.

646
00:38:35,510 --> 00:38:38,430
Something about him. I was watching him
as he testified.

647
00:38:40,390 --> 00:38:42,070
He doesn't belong with that woman.

648
00:38:42,750 --> 00:38:44,270
Excuse me? His mother.

649
00:38:44,570 --> 00:38:46,310
The connection wasn't there at all.

650
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,200
I bet Michael would prefer he be with
me.

651
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:53,330
Well, I'm not saying he will be with me,
Anne.

652
00:38:55,080 --> 00:39:01,519
I'm just saying... I felt some sort of
destiny

653
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:02,570
there.

654
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:04,700
Reminded me of Michael.

655
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,620
Jury's back. Let's go.

656
00:39:10,780 --> 00:39:14,140
Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached its
verdict?

657
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:16,400
Yes, we have, Your Honor. What say you?

658
00:39:16,860 --> 00:39:20,679
In the matter of the people versus
Suzanne Hamill on the charge of first

659
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,300
murder, we find the defendant not
guilty.

660
00:39:24,780 --> 00:39:27,680
All right.

661
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:29,940
All right, settle down.

662
00:39:29,941 --> 00:39:33,779
Members of the jury, your service is
completed. You are dismissed.

663
00:39:33,780 --> 00:39:35,980
The defendant is free to go.

664
00:39:36,350 --> 00:39:37,400
We're adjourned.

665
00:39:37,861 --> 00:39:39,309
All

666
00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:51,269
I

667
00:39:51,270 --> 00:39:54,400
know is it wasn't me. Miss Kelsey, could
we have your reaction?

668
00:39:54,630 --> 00:39:57,070
I have no comment. Mr. Seller speaks for
both of us.

669
00:40:00,610 --> 00:40:01,660
Mrs. Walker.

670
00:40:01,810 --> 00:40:02,860
Mrs. Walker.

671
00:40:03,050 --> 00:40:04,100
I'm sorry.

672
00:40:05,819 --> 00:40:06,899
Wait, Jeanette, wait.

673
00:40:08,260 --> 00:40:10,320
Suzanne was talking about Corey in a
way.

674
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,779
I think there might be some danger. What
are you talking about? She was rambling

675
00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:16,580
a little bit about Corey and destiny.

676
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,670
It might not mean anything. I don't
know.

677
00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:20,700
Mrs. Walker, can we have your reaction?

678
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:22,930
Don't hurt the jury.

679
00:40:23,420 --> 00:40:25,740
Mrs. Walker, were you shocked by the
verdict?

680
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:30,659
I must say, Mr. Hardin, except for the
occasional precipitation, I quite

681
00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:34,270
Mr. Miller's performance. And I'm
curious as to what you found offensive.

682
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,319
Oh, I personally don't think it's
offensive. I'm just worried about

683
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,270
-outs on our telecasts. Which sponsors
would be offended?

684
00:40:42,271 --> 00:40:44,959
Oh, I don't think the sponsors would be
offended.

685
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,570
It's just they're afraid that people out
there, they might be offended.

686
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:49,910
Ah, I see.

687
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:55,159
And you'd rather cater to an
unreasonable intolerance than stand

688
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:56,840
believe to be reasonable content.

689
00:40:57,140 --> 00:41:00,990
Well, we have to be concerned with the
sensibilities of the American public.

690
00:41:01,290 --> 00:41:03,700
And today's... You sound like a network
executive.

691
00:41:03,730 --> 00:41:07,489
I object to that. I'm certainly
enlightened enough to appreciate the

692
00:41:07,490 --> 00:41:12,089
content of Mr. Miller's rendition. But
Joe and Jane American aren't going to

693
00:41:12,090 --> 00:41:13,140
look at it that way.

694
00:41:13,141 --> 00:41:16,789
Well, I don't think Joe and Jane
American would appreciate the continued

695
00:41:16,790 --> 00:41:20,649
assumption by you and people like you
that you're more enlightened than they

696
00:41:20,650 --> 00:41:24,429
are. I don't think Joe and Jane would
appreciate you deciding what's

697
00:41:24,430 --> 00:41:26,250
for them and what's not. Oh.

698
00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:30,999
So if he wants to swear or use the
Lord's name in vain... Oh, this isn't

699
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,600
profanity. This is about you controlling
expression.

700
00:41:35,460 --> 00:41:38,890
And that's totally inconsistent with the
song you hired him to sing.

701
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:42,660
I'm ordering judgment in the amount of
$35 ,000.

702
00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:45,750
Now try to do something about that spit,
will you?

703
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,610
Well...

704
00:42:00,210 --> 00:42:01,290
Here's to the winners.

705
00:42:01,470 --> 00:42:02,570
We called the police.

706
00:42:02,890 --> 00:42:04,030
They won't do anything.

707
00:42:04,410 --> 00:42:06,090
She didn't make any overt threats.

708
00:42:06,650 --> 00:42:07,990
I just feel so helpless.

709
00:42:07,991 --> 00:42:09,769
There's nothing more you can do, honey.

710
00:42:09,770 --> 00:42:13,029
You've already violated attorney -client
privilege as it is. We just put a

711
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:14,890
psychotic killer back on the streets.

712
00:42:15,090 --> 00:42:18,340
I'm not going to lose any sleep over
attorney -client privilege.

713
00:42:18,990 --> 00:42:20,040
Okay.

714
00:42:31,370 --> 00:42:33,370
Cottage greens and black -eyed peas.

715
00:42:33,630 --> 00:42:37,830
Took my first bath in muddy waters.

716
00:42:38,310 --> 00:42:42,730
All of you mamas, better watch your
daughters.

717
00:42:43,810 --> 00:42:46,150
I'm a blues man.

718
00:42:49,150 --> 00:42:50,770
I'm a blues man.

719
00:43:05,130 --> 00:43:06,180
Apple blues.

720
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,250
I'm Ann Kelsey, the attorney handling
the case.

721
00:43:53,251 --> 00:43:59,159
Ann Kelsey, attorney. You might want to
hold off, counsel. Let me through,

722
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:00,210
please.

723
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:07,640
The victim, Suzanne Hamill, appears to
have two bullet wounds, both frontal.

724
00:44:08,540 --> 00:44:11,200
One in the forehead, one in the abdomen.

725
00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:12,740
Bill, the lawyer's here.

726
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:17,410
Where are they?

727
00:44:18,060 --> 00:44:19,110
In there.

728
00:44:19,540 --> 00:44:20,590
What are they?

729
00:44:20,740 --> 00:44:21,940
Close the doors, please.

730
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:26,970
What happened?

731
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,840
You agree to be our lawyer now, right?

732
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:31,350
This is privileged.

733
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:32,810
Yeah.

734
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:34,150
What happened?

735
00:44:36,580 --> 00:44:39,340
I called her, told her to come over.

736
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,640
And when she came in, I shot her.

737
00:44:50,410 --> 00:44:51,830
I was afraid she'd get us.

738
00:44:52,790 --> 00:44:54,070
He said there was danger.

739
00:44:56,490 --> 00:44:58,190
Did you know that he called her?

740
00:44:59,350 --> 00:45:00,400
No.

741
00:45:02,290 --> 00:45:03,850
Where did you get the gun?

742
00:45:04,170 --> 00:45:05,670
I bought it from a kid at school.

743
00:45:08,010 --> 00:45:12,330
I... Should I die?

744
00:45:13,590 --> 00:45:15,370
Yeah, honey, go ahead.

745
00:45:17,370 --> 00:45:18,970
I used it to kill Dad.

746
00:45:22,090 --> 00:45:23,830
I didn't know, Miss Kelsey.

747
00:45:24,530 --> 00:45:26,070
He just told me.

748
00:45:29,210 --> 00:45:34,190
Evidently, she was here that afternoon
and Corey saw them.

749
00:45:34,810 --> 00:45:35,860
Oh, God.

750
00:45:37,110 --> 00:45:38,160
Oh, God.

751
00:45:40,130 --> 00:45:42,470
I just got my own client killed.

752
00:45:43,370 --> 00:45:44,610
What are we going to do?

753
00:45:44,660 --> 00:45:49,210
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