1 00:00:02,689 --> 00:00:04,110 Previously on L .A. Law. 2 00:00:04,330 --> 00:00:05,330 Abigail Perkins? 3 00:00:05,450 --> 00:00:09,690 Yes? I'd like you to leave everything exactly the way it is, please. Stand up. 4 00:00:09,730 --> 00:00:10,830 Put your hands on your head. 5 00:00:11,070 --> 00:00:14,750 What? I have a warrant for your arrest, ma 'am. You're being charged with 6 00:00:14,750 --> 00:00:18,350 engaging in a monetary transaction involving criminally derived proceeds. 7 00:00:19,670 --> 00:00:23,970 Grace, when we first met, we had passion. 8 00:00:24,730 --> 00:00:26,110 I want to know where that went. 9 00:00:27,030 --> 00:00:28,030 I don't know. 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,860 I know this will cause you devastating pain. 11 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:36,160 Oh, no. 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,260 I hereby find the circumstances of Tammy Harris's life too significantly 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:44,160 changed, making reasonable the withdrawal of her consent. 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,260 Your Honor, could we at least have another day to say goodbye? 15 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:52,620 You have to say your goodbye now. 16 00:01:03,660 --> 00:01:04,660 Bye, honey. 17 00:01:18,980 --> 00:01:20,060 What's this, a wife? 18 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,940 I thought maybe we could get away. 19 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:24,600 Would you file the appeal? 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:29,420 No. Victor will let us know if anything happens. In the meantime... Stuart, I 21 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:30,420 have to stay here. 22 00:01:33,309 --> 00:01:35,190 It's over, Ann. Stuart. It's over. 23 00:01:36,810 --> 00:01:40,610 Even if the appeals court finds abuse of discretion, they are not going to move 24 00:01:40,610 --> 00:01:41,610 the baby again. 25 00:01:45,050 --> 00:01:47,710 So we just give up? Is that the... We're gone. 26 00:01:49,450 --> 00:01:50,450 Gone. 27 00:01:51,170 --> 00:01:52,630 And we have to accept it. 28 00:01:53,430 --> 00:01:57,690 And we have to try to get on with the rest of our life. Please don't push me 29 00:01:57,690 --> 00:01:58,690 this, Stuart. 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,160 She was our whole life for three months. Don't ask me to just let go of her. 31 00:02:08,060 --> 00:02:09,320 What if Tammy calls? 32 00:02:09,580 --> 00:02:11,080 She's not going to call. You don't know that. 33 00:02:11,780 --> 00:02:13,120 She's unstable. 34 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,400 First she didn't want the baby, then she wanted the baby. Yeah. 35 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,640 I know you need time, but I don't think Tammy Harris is going to change her 36 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:26,640 mind. 37 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:28,600 I have to let it go. 38 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,600 For me. 39 00:02:36,750 --> 00:02:38,510 Are we ever going to survive this, Stuart? 40 00:02:39,690 --> 00:02:41,470 I don't think we have all that much choice. 41 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,840 Vincent Kyle might have been homeless, but he was still part of the community. 42 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:51,300 To those of you who see the homeless as also faithless, nameless, and worthless, 43 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,920 you should at least know this. 44 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,840 They grieve for their own the same as anyone else, and they also demand 45 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:02,180 At this trial, there will be 12 of the defendant's peers in that jury box. 46 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:07,280 Well, I'm here to tell you that there will be 12 of the victim's peers in the 47 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:09,370 courtroom. and they will be watching. 48 00:05:09,590 --> 00:05:13,450 Feeling any pressure, Ms. Van Owen? When a man's been killed for going through a 49 00:05:13,450 --> 00:05:15,410 garbage can, I don't need any pressure. 50 00:05:16,330 --> 00:05:20,410 The life of a homeless person means as much as the life of any other human 51 00:05:20,410 --> 00:05:25,370 being. Well, thank you, ma 'am. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We can do 52 00:05:25,370 --> 00:05:27,810 without the nonsense today, Leonard. Come on, Father. 53 00:05:28,250 --> 00:05:31,070 I think we ought to show a little gratitude around here. 54 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:35,390 I mean, we get a meal, we get to be on television, and hey, if somebody kills 55 00:05:35,390 --> 00:05:37,930 one of us... They actually arrest him. 56 00:05:38,150 --> 00:05:39,690 I'm not asking for gratitude. 57 00:05:40,110 --> 00:05:42,690 Like hell you aren't. You think you're some kind of saint. 58 00:05:43,290 --> 00:05:45,290 I'm just doing my job, sir. 59 00:05:45,530 --> 00:05:49,770 Oh, don't be so modest. You're the champion of the downtrodden, concerned, 60 00:05:50,130 --> 00:05:53,050 compassionate Joan of Arc on the nightly news. 61 00:05:53,470 --> 00:05:54,470 That's enough, Leonard. 62 00:05:54,530 --> 00:05:56,250 I'm not doing this for the news. 63 00:05:56,610 --> 00:05:57,890 Well, there's the TV cameras. 64 00:05:58,430 --> 00:06:01,010 And as soon as they turn them off, you get back in your little sports car and 65 00:06:01,010 --> 00:06:04,330 you drive home as fast as you can. And let one of us come anywhere near your 66 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:08,370 house and you kill us just as quick as that guy who's on trial. I am 67 00:06:08,370 --> 00:06:11,110 this man because I believe he belongs in prison. 68 00:06:11,430 --> 00:06:13,970 Nobody goes to prison for killing one of us. 69 00:06:14,310 --> 00:06:15,350 We'll see about that. 70 00:06:19,350 --> 00:06:21,250 Just like stepping on a bug, lady. 71 00:06:22,570 --> 00:06:23,950 It don't mean nothing. 72 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,980 On a potentially bright note, I'm meeting with the CEO of Hackett 73 00:06:35,980 --> 00:06:37,440 Corporation this afternoon. 74 00:06:37,740 --> 00:06:41,380 They're looking for new general counsel, and if I'm successful in setting the 75 00:06:41,380 --> 00:06:45,660 hook, this could mean an annual billing revenue in excess of $600 ,000. 76 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:48,460 Good luck. Go get him, Dougie. Thank you. 77 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:49,880 Hurrying along. 78 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,240 Meyer versus Meyer. 79 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,340 Yeah, Dave Meyer is coming in this morning undoubtedly to try and talk me 80 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:57,240 talking Roxanne into taking him back. 81 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,980 Is he represented by counsel? 82 00:06:59,380 --> 00:07:01,040 Uh, not yet as far as I know. 83 00:07:01,530 --> 00:07:03,030 And what about the Davosky divorce? 84 00:07:03,410 --> 00:07:05,310 Mr. Davosky keeps calling me. 85 00:07:06,030 --> 00:07:09,310 I'll get to it as soon as I can, Douglas. I'm a little backed up. I 86 00:07:09,310 --> 00:07:12,530 have a new associate by now. Perhaps if you'd contribute to the interviewing 87 00:07:12,530 --> 00:07:16,090 process, we would. I thought Dorothy and Diana were going to solve the manpower 88 00:07:16,090 --> 00:07:21,350 crisis. I'm swamped as it is. And Diana Moses is a part -time clerk, not a full 89 00:07:21,350 --> 00:07:25,030 -time associate, plus which I notice she herself has now become a client. 90 00:07:25,510 --> 00:07:28,210 She's divorcing her husband, and I opened up the file for administrative 91 00:07:28,210 --> 00:07:30,560 convenience. It's real simple. She'll be doing it herself. 92 00:07:30,820 --> 00:07:34,020 Fine. So we pay her to do her work instead of ours. 93 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:36,540 She'll do the work, Doc, but don't worry. Why should I worry? 94 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,080 Arnie spends his days representing Roxanne, pro bono. 95 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,100 Diana Moses will represent herself, pro bono. 96 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:47,660 Michael's gonna represent Abby, I assume, pro bono. By the way, Mike, 97 00:07:47,660 --> 00:07:51,180 deal on that? Money laundering. She's being charged with knowingly accepting 98 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:52,180 drug money. 99 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,300 With all the time we spend representing each other, it's a small wonder anybody 100 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,000 has time for paying clients. 101 00:07:57,300 --> 00:07:59,820 All right, Douglas, you've made your point over and over again. 102 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:02,720 No, actually, you left out the most important point of all. 103 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,760 You forgot how Victor represented Ann and me pro bono last week and how Arnie 104 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,180 did all the legwork with the baby broker. 105 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,160 I have no quarrel with that. 106 00:08:11,380 --> 00:08:14,240 I know you don't, Douglas, which brings up the point that I want to make. 107 00:08:15,620 --> 00:08:18,500 Ann and I would like to thank you all for your support. 108 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:20,540 It's one thing to offer compassion. 109 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:26,200 But you people, each in your own way, actually managed to provide it somehow. 110 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:28,440 And we'll never forget it. 111 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:34,159 Okay. 112 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,740 I guess we're adjourned. 113 00:08:48,660 --> 00:08:49,660 He's in there. 114 00:08:50,140 --> 00:08:51,340 Did you talk to him? Did he say anything? 115 00:08:51,660 --> 00:08:54,560 He wouldn't talk to me. He just said, tell Arnie I'm here. 116 00:08:55,580 --> 00:08:56,580 Oh, boy. 117 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,440 Dave, we've had some happy visits, Arnie. 118 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:06,580 It's fair to say this will not be one of them. You know, until this thing is 119 00:09:06,580 --> 00:09:09,060 settled, you and I really shouldn't be talking unless you have a lawyer 120 00:09:09,660 --> 00:09:11,100 I thought you were my friend. 121 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,480 Oh, come on, Dave. I don't have many friends. I know a lot of people, yes, 122 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:16,520 don't have many friends. 123 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,630 I am your friend. I care about what happens to you. You don't give a rat's 124 00:09:20,630 --> 00:09:21,890 about what happened to me. 125 00:09:22,130 --> 00:09:23,049 That's not true. 126 00:09:23,050 --> 00:09:26,790 Look, there's someone lying in the gutter. Never mind. It's only Dave. 127 00:09:27,090 --> 00:09:31,290 Stop the car. You ran over him. Never mind. It's only Dave. You're not the 128 00:09:31,290 --> 00:09:32,290 one involved here. 129 00:09:33,050 --> 00:09:34,290 Roxanne is also devastated. 130 00:09:34,650 --> 00:09:36,450 Now, she's come to me for support. What should I do? 131 00:09:36,890 --> 00:09:37,890 Send her away? 132 00:09:37,910 --> 00:09:38,910 Yes. 133 00:09:40,390 --> 00:09:42,030 There are some things you don't do. 134 00:09:42,890 --> 00:09:47,010 You don't sell solid cakes of insecticide as teething biscuits, and 135 00:09:47,010 --> 00:09:48,010 betray your friends. 136 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,400 That's not the way I see it. 137 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,600 Now, your wife wants out. It can either be amicable or it can be bloody. 138 00:09:56,380 --> 00:09:57,380 Trust me on this. 139 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,860 You join forces with that faithless Herod, and it's going to be as bloody as 140 00:10:01,860 --> 00:10:02,860 Battle of Bull Run. 141 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,700 They're saying I had to know that Weiland was paying me with drug money. 142 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,700 charge, just laundering. So, no indictment yet, right? The grand jury 143 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:18,010 Thursday. This is so unfair. 144 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:19,230 I did nothing illegal. 145 00:10:19,790 --> 00:10:22,490 Well, I think it sounds more like politics than anything else. 146 00:10:23,390 --> 00:10:25,150 How much money did you get from Weiland? 147 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:26,730 Altogether, about $70 ,000. 148 00:10:28,410 --> 00:10:29,410 In a month? 149 00:10:29,470 --> 00:10:31,830 I went by the book, Mike. Everything was on the up and up. 150 00:10:33,750 --> 00:10:35,570 I think we've got a good chance of suppressing. 151 00:10:35,850 --> 00:10:37,150 Wiretap looks very shaky. 152 00:10:37,890 --> 00:10:38,890 And I know clarity. 153 00:10:39,090 --> 00:10:40,350 I set up a meeting for tomorrow. 154 00:10:40,710 --> 00:10:42,090 Maybe we can work something out. 155 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:43,259 No way. 156 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:46,200 He's looking for a trophy to hang on his wall. If it can't be Weiland's head, 157 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:47,079 he's gonna get mine. 158 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,760 Well, just the fame his case thinks. It's worth a shot trying to talk him 159 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,639 from his perch. 160 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:52,740 Yeah, I'll say it's worth it. 161 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,180 I could be looking at disbarment here. 162 00:10:56,260 --> 00:10:57,560 I could go to prison, Mike. 163 00:10:58,380 --> 00:10:59,380 Hang in there, Abby. 164 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,000 We're gonna pull out all the stops on this one. 165 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,200 Thank you, Michael. 166 00:11:05,020 --> 00:11:06,020 Thanks. 167 00:11:13,070 --> 00:11:18,010 Mr. Broder, what were you and Vincent Kyle doing that night? 168 00:11:18,730 --> 00:11:20,770 We were going through garbage cans. 169 00:11:21,350 --> 00:11:22,850 What were you looking for? 170 00:11:23,150 --> 00:11:26,530 Food. But it was pouring rain that night. We were hungry. 171 00:11:28,110 --> 00:11:30,310 Did you go through the defendant's garbage? 172 00:11:30,670 --> 00:11:35,610 Yes. Would you describe your encounter with the defendant, Mr. Broder? He came 173 00:11:35,610 --> 00:11:38,570 out and told us to get away or he was going to call the cops. 174 00:11:38,950 --> 00:11:40,110 And what did you do? 175 00:11:40,690 --> 00:11:43,090 Vincent asked him how come we couldn't have his garbage. 176 00:11:45,070 --> 00:11:49,870 What was his response to this, sir? He just went back in through the gate, and 177 00:11:49,870 --> 00:11:52,870 he came out in a little while, and he had a gun in his hand, and he pointed it 178 00:11:52,870 --> 00:11:59,670 at Vincent, and he said, Get the... Get the F away from my house. 179 00:12:00,290 --> 00:12:05,070 Vincent bent down to pick up this pair of sneakers he'd found, and that's when 180 00:12:05,070 --> 00:12:06,170 that man shot him. 181 00:12:06,410 --> 00:12:07,470 And what did you do? 182 00:12:08,010 --> 00:12:09,010 I ran. 183 00:12:09,090 --> 00:12:10,090 Thank you, sir. 184 00:12:11,839 --> 00:12:13,640 I have nothing further, Your Honor. 185 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,900 Where did you sleep last night, Mr. Broder? 186 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:18,840 Objection. Offered to impeach. 187 00:12:19,220 --> 00:12:20,220 Overruled. 188 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,020 I got a room downtown. 189 00:12:23,780 --> 00:12:24,860 Who paid for it? 190 00:12:25,260 --> 00:12:26,260 Ms. Van Horn. 191 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,320 Did she pay for that new jacket you're wearing? 192 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,860 Yes. Did she pay for the new shoes? 193 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:35,440 Yes. Did you really think it'd lie for a pair of shoes? 194 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,740 Or did you just enjoy shaming him? 195 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,200 He's down, Father. 196 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:41,399 Tell us. 197 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,380 Did you ever know Vincent to be a violent man? 198 00:12:44,860 --> 00:12:46,260 Vincent took care of me. 199 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:50,260 He used to cut my hair. He made me brush my teeth. 200 00:12:51,180 --> 00:12:56,580 When I had pneumonia, he got me a blanket and he stayed up all night so 201 00:12:56,580 --> 00:12:57,399 bother me. 202 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,920 He also had a knife with him the night you two went to Richard Jeffrey's house, 203 00:13:01,020 --> 00:13:04,720 didn't he? He had everything he owned with him. Was he holding a knife when 204 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,220 Richard Jeffrey shot him? Vincent wouldn't threaten a guy with a gun in 205 00:13:09,220 --> 00:13:11,330 hand. You sure about that? Yes. 206 00:13:11,870 --> 00:13:13,290 Vincent didn't want to die. 207 00:13:13,590 --> 00:13:14,590 Is that right? 208 00:13:15,510 --> 00:13:16,950 Tell us, Mr. Broder. 209 00:13:17,750 --> 00:13:20,190 Did Vincent ever attempt suicide? 210 00:13:21,050 --> 00:13:25,130 Objection. Overruled. He attempted suicide last Christmas, didn't he? 211 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,620 Yes. And he was kept under observation at Camarillo State for six weeks 212 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:32,760 following that, wasn't he? Your Honor, this line of questioning is inflammatory 213 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,760 and irrelevant. 214 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:36,300 A history of psychotic behavior is irrelevant? 215 00:13:36,660 --> 00:13:39,060 He stayed in the hospital so he could sleep. 216 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,280 So he could sleep? 217 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,440 Yes. When you sleep outside during the night, the crackheads rob you and during 218 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,900 the day, the cops chase you. 219 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:48,520 Vincent was tired. 220 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,960 He was crazy, Mr. Broder, not tired. No, no. He was dangerously crazy. 221 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,380 You live on those streets for six and a half years. 222 00:13:57,620 --> 00:13:59,340 You see how crazy that makes you? 223 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:05,580 No further questions. 224 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:14,580 Okay, Mr. Brackman, better get your people in. 225 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:15,659 We're in. 226 00:14:15,660 --> 00:14:16,660 Just the two of you? 227 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,800 How many people did the other firms bring? 228 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,740 Bundy, Speck sent four partners. 229 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:22,500 You'll be fine. 230 00:14:24,970 --> 00:14:25,970 Packet development. 231 00:14:28,470 --> 00:14:29,650 Benny. Yeah? 232 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:32,290 I want you to sit next to me in the meeting, okay? 233 00:14:32,690 --> 00:14:33,790 Like a lawyer. 234 00:14:35,690 --> 00:14:37,890 I don't know. It'll be fine. 235 00:14:38,130 --> 00:14:41,390 Sit next to me. Just take a yellow pad and write. 236 00:14:41,690 --> 00:14:43,370 Don't talk. Don't look around. 237 00:14:43,590 --> 00:14:46,110 Just look down at the pad and write. 238 00:14:46,390 --> 00:14:47,390 Mr. Brackman? 239 00:14:48,090 --> 00:14:49,090 Put these on. 240 00:14:55,719 --> 00:14:56,719 Great. 241 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,120 And get rid of the gum. 242 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,680 Head down. 243 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:09,120 Right. 244 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,080 Mackenzie Brackman may not be all things to all men, but we think our strength 245 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,840 and your needs make a very nice fit. 246 00:15:18,220 --> 00:15:21,700 I think it's only fair to express my concern about no Bay Area office. 247 00:15:22,260 --> 00:15:23,500 That's what airlines are for. 248 00:15:24,260 --> 00:15:28,120 Look. We're severing our ties with Gacy Whitman because I want to be able to 249 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,500 pick up the phone and talk to my attorneys. I don't want to wait three 250 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:32,500 a return call. 251 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:33,379 Of course not. 252 00:15:33,380 --> 00:15:35,080 What's going to make this work is compatibility. 253 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,320 Because if you don't like the way I do business, if you're constantly having to 254 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,680 be the bearer of bad news, it's going to affect your commitment to us. 255 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:46,260 Rest assured, Leo, that our professional obligation... What does your associate 256 00:15:46,260 --> 00:15:47,260 think? 257 00:15:51,140 --> 00:15:52,140 You. 258 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:03,320 You've heard all this how would you assess this match in terms of 259 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:16,740 I Don't know I Don't know either Ben, but I appreciate the candor 260 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:23,420 For once a lawyer doesn't bluff an answer when he doesn't have one Thank 261 00:16:38,659 --> 00:16:42,720 Arnie, look at this. Dave's bringing an expedited motion to disqualify you. He 262 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,540 says you have a conflict of interest. 263 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,540 He's got Sheldon Gans representing him. 264 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,500 Big Dave's not fooling around here, Rox. 265 00:16:50,020 --> 00:16:51,920 What happens if he wins this motion? 266 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,200 Means nobody in this firm can represent you. You'll have to go outside for 267 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:57,200 counsel. 268 00:16:57,660 --> 00:17:01,080 And there aren't too many out there as good as Sheldon Gans. I promise. 269 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,619 I've got the credit card bill in front of me. 270 00:17:08,270 --> 00:17:09,270 $1 ,200. 271 00:17:09,829 --> 00:17:11,010 Daryl, for God's sake. 272 00:17:12,770 --> 00:17:13,770 Hang on. 273 00:17:13,990 --> 00:17:14,990 I'm sorry, Victor. 274 00:17:15,089 --> 00:17:16,270 No, I'm sorry. I didn't want to interrupt. 275 00:17:16,490 --> 00:17:17,490 This isn't work. 276 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:19,569 Interrupt. Okay, here's the order. 277 00:17:19,770 --> 00:17:21,770 It's Mike's research, it's mine, then mine. 278 00:17:22,270 --> 00:17:24,150 Just check with me before you do my stuff, okay? 279 00:17:24,810 --> 00:17:26,010 Michael, then you, then you. 280 00:17:26,450 --> 00:17:27,530 Bye. Bye. 281 00:17:28,089 --> 00:17:29,090 Sorry, Daryl. 282 00:17:29,970 --> 00:17:31,450 Daryl? Hello? 283 00:17:37,230 --> 00:17:38,230 You heard. 284 00:17:40,390 --> 00:17:44,110 All these agreements we made, this talk about being good to each other, and he 285 00:17:44,110 --> 00:17:46,910 runs off to Mexico with somebody on my credit card. 286 00:17:47,190 --> 00:17:48,190 You sure? 287 00:17:49,890 --> 00:17:52,050 She's an ER nurse at the theater. 288 00:17:52,850 --> 00:17:54,410 I'm sorry. 289 00:17:55,510 --> 00:17:57,370 Jonathan, when you offered help, were you serious? 290 00:17:58,530 --> 00:17:59,530 Very serious. 291 00:18:00,770 --> 00:18:01,770 Help. 292 00:18:13,140 --> 00:18:17,000 Not up to me, Michael, if the grand jury wants to return an indictment. You're 293 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,080 the one pushing this, Terry, not the grand jury. Because your client broke 294 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:21,220 law. Give me a break. 295 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:24,420 Come on, we all know what's going on here. You're mad as hell because you 296 00:18:24,420 --> 00:18:27,360 Weiland and you're taking it out on Abby. If she's innocent, she's got 297 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:28,279 to worry about. 298 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,920 Innocent or not, this puts a big stain on her reputation, which... She should 299 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,060 have thought about reputation before defending dirtbags like Weiland. 300 00:18:35,260 --> 00:18:39,080 You want to fry Weiland, go after Weiland, but attacking her is 301 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,720 and you damn well know it. What is unprofessional is your waltzing in here 302 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,980 the guise of friendship to climb up my back for a dismissal. You think I'm 303 00:18:46,980 --> 00:18:50,300 climbing on you now, Terry. This thing goes to trial. My footprints will be up 304 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:51,300 and down your head. 305 00:18:51,980 --> 00:18:53,300 Grand jury meets tomorrow. 306 00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:55,740 I'll let you know how it turns out. 307 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:57,360 Let me testify. 308 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,220 Abby, I don't need to let you do anything. 309 00:19:00,660 --> 00:19:02,420 You want to tell your story? Let me tell mine. 310 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,000 Or you're afraid they're going to see through you like a storefront window. 311 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,260 You want to testify, Counselor? I will roll out the red carpet. 312 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:11,460 Two o 'clock. 313 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:13,200 Don't be late. 314 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,580 I wouldn't testify, Abby. If I don't, there's no avoiding the indictment. 315 00:19:20,580 --> 00:19:23,200 so. But the main thing we have to do is avoid a conviction. 316 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,540 We've got to look down the road. 317 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,140 They will not convict me, Mike. 318 00:19:27,490 --> 00:19:30,370 Oh, just the same. You're testifying for the grand jury, hands him free 319 00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:32,230 discovery. He'll be better prepared for you at trial. 320 00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:34,270 I'll take my chances. 321 00:19:34,650 --> 00:19:35,950 I can't go in there with you, you know. 322 00:19:36,470 --> 00:19:37,670 Grand jury's closed to counsel. 323 00:19:38,550 --> 00:19:40,130 I'm just going to have to beat him all by myself. 324 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:50,070 May I talk with you a second, Father? 325 00:19:50,590 --> 00:19:51,590 Sit down. 326 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,460 I found that juries tend to get a little spooked with outbursts in the court. 327 00:19:58,980 --> 00:20:01,260 You want me to mind my P's and Q's? 328 00:20:01,460 --> 00:20:04,440 I just think that disrupting the courtroom can work against us. 329 00:20:04,660 --> 00:20:08,240 We disrupt the courtroom just by showing up. Courtrooms are public places. 330 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:12,640 These people aren't part of the public, Ms. Van Elwyn. Then at least let's not 331 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:13,640 make it any worse. 332 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:15,560 No promises, but I'll try. 333 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:16,800 Thank you. 334 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:19,840 Excuse me, are these people here with you? 335 00:20:21,929 --> 00:20:25,270 Why? We can't have them taking up all these tables here at lunchtime. These 336 00:20:25,270 --> 00:20:29,030 people are attending a trial upstairs, sir. They can't sit over a cup of coffee 337 00:20:29,030 --> 00:20:30,030 for 45 minutes. 338 00:20:30,290 --> 00:20:31,290 Then buy them lunch. 339 00:20:31,770 --> 00:20:32,950 I should buy them lunch. 340 00:20:33,990 --> 00:20:36,750 Very simple. Either they're out of here in five minutes, or I'm calling the 341 00:20:36,750 --> 00:20:37,750 cops. 342 00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:47,530 I thought we'd go over a few specifics of an agreement, and then, if you have 343 00:20:47,530 --> 00:20:49,750 the time, I'd like you to meet the other partners. 344 00:20:50,190 --> 00:20:51,190 Fine. 345 00:20:51,310 --> 00:20:53,030 Will Ben be joining us? 346 00:20:53,470 --> 00:20:56,390 Ben? No, he's unavailable. 347 00:20:57,610 --> 00:20:58,610 Well, make him available. 348 00:20:58,830 --> 00:20:59,870 I'd like him at this meeting. 349 00:21:02,210 --> 00:21:07,390 Mr. Hackett, Ben is Benny. 350 00:21:07,650 --> 00:21:10,490 Benny Stolwitz. He's not an associate. 351 00:21:11,130 --> 00:21:14,270 He's the firm's messenger, and he's retarded. 352 00:21:14,790 --> 00:21:18,230 I asked him to sit in with me at our first meeting because we didn't have an 353 00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:19,350 associate who could come. 354 00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:23,320 I assure you that we are in the process of finding another associate, and in 355 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,460 fact, our ability to serve Hackett Development would not be affected in any 356 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:29,720 because the partners will... That man is retarded? 357 00:21:30,260 --> 00:21:31,260 Yes. 358 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,800 I regret very much... I want to talk to him. 359 00:21:37,980 --> 00:21:38,980 Benny! 360 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:45,960 Yes, sir? Mr. Brackman told me that you're not a lawyer, that you work here 361 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,960 messenger for the firm. 362 00:21:48,460 --> 00:21:49,460 Yeah, yeah. 363 00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:53,700 I'm sorry. 364 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Don't be sorry. 365 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:00,400 You're not mad at me? Of course not. 366 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,720 Tell me, Benny, do you like working here? 367 00:22:04,660 --> 00:22:05,660 Yeah. 368 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,760 Besides the mail, what else do you do? 369 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:13,060 I get donuts and I file stuff. 370 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:15,360 I go to the cleaners a lot for Arnie. 371 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 But I like delivering the mail the best. 372 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:19,700 Benny. 373 00:22:21,260 --> 00:22:22,720 I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 374 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:25,100 I have a daughter named Alice. 375 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,360 And she's also retarded. 376 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,580 Would you be willing to talk to her about your job? 377 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:34,900 What do you mean? 378 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:36,320 Well, just say what you did to me. 379 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,320 Alice is scared of people. She doesn't like to leave the house. 380 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:42,120 Oh. 381 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:44,100 When she was a little girl, she got lost. 382 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,420 and we couldn't find her for days. 383 00:22:46,820 --> 00:22:47,820 It was terrible. 384 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,080 But that was a long time ago. 385 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:55,040 She's grown up now, and I would like her to come to work in my office, but she's 386 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,040 afraid. 387 00:22:56,220 --> 00:22:58,900 I get scared when I get lost, too. 388 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,440 Would you talk to her? 389 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:04,180 Tell her about your job, about how you get from place to place by yourself, 390 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,660 about the mail, and about your friends. 391 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:11,220 I don't know. 392 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,420 I'm not so good at explaining things. 393 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,000 Besides, I'm real busy all the time. 394 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,860 Well, would you at least think about it? 395 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,240 Okay. 396 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,780 But I gotta get back to work. 397 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:39,640 Mr. Jeffries, we've heard Henry Broder's version of what happened that night. 398 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,180 I'd like for you now to give us yours. 399 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,220 I heard someone going through my garbage. 400 00:23:43,620 --> 00:23:48,140 I went outside and asked Mr. Broder and his friend Mr. Kyle not to. I didn't 401 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:51,040 think I was being disrespectful or impolite. 402 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,760 I just told them I was concerned about rodents and I wanted my garbage to be 403 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,519 left sealed. 404 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,520 And what was their response? 405 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,580 I guess they thought I had insulted them. 406 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,220 Objection. This witness is in no position to know what they thought. 407 00:24:02,780 --> 00:24:06,900 Sustained. But what did they say, Mr. Jeffries? I don't remember his exact 408 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:11,700 words. But Mr. Kyle said something like, if it's in the alley... It's ours. 409 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:15,740 Then he said some other threatening stuff. He had a knife in his hand the 410 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:17,140 time. What did you do? 411 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:18,700 I beat it back into the house. 412 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:19,960 Did you call the police? 413 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,000 Yes, I did. I told them there were two transients going through my garbage, 414 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,100 they threatened me. They refused to leave. 415 00:24:27,420 --> 00:24:30,960 I was told it was a low -priority call and that they would get to it when they 416 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,720 could. Your Honor, I have here a transcript of that phone call. 417 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:38,580 I ask that it be admitted into evidence as defense exhibit number one. 418 00:24:39,330 --> 00:24:42,090 Ordered. You didn't stay in the house, did you, sir? 419 00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:46,870 My wife and I were going out to dinner. I didn't feel safe leaving the kids home 420 00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:50,590 alone. I went outside with the gun just to scare them away. 421 00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:52,030 And what happened? 422 00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:53,410 They didn't scare. 423 00:24:54,150 --> 00:24:57,870 This guy, Vincent, stared at me with this knife in his hand. 424 00:24:58,150 --> 00:25:03,530 He crouched down and came toward me with this crazed look on his face. Objection 425 00:25:03,530 --> 00:25:04,530 to that characterization. 426 00:25:05,110 --> 00:25:07,610 Sustained. I yelled at him to stay back. 427 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:10,450 But he just kept coming at me. 428 00:25:11,590 --> 00:25:13,710 I had to shoot him. He would have killed me. 429 00:25:15,090 --> 00:25:16,490 I have no further questions. 430 00:25:19,730 --> 00:25:24,830 So you were afraid they'd break into your house, but you killed him in the 431 00:25:24,830 --> 00:25:27,130 alley. I didn't want to wait until they got inside. 432 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:29,840 What made you think that they would have? 433 00:25:30,140 --> 00:25:32,520 The way they cursed at me. The look on their faces. 434 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,020 The look on their faces. That's not the only time the look on their faces got to 435 00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:38,320 you, was it, Mr. Jeffries? 436 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:39,940 Objection. Overruled. 437 00:25:41,020 --> 00:25:44,780 You've lodged more than 15 complaints with the police department about 438 00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,180 transients in your neighborhood, haven't you? 439 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:49,660 My daughters were afraid to play in the yard. 440 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,780 You complained about them being in front of your office. 441 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:55,280 They sleep in the doorway. What does this have to do with anything, Your 442 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,280 I submit that the defendant wasn't defending himself that night in the 443 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,080 There was nothing to defend himself from. Richard Jeffries was obsessed with 444 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,680 driving the homeless out of his neighborhood. He shot Vince and Kyle to 445 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,860 them go away. 446 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,680 Objection! My family was in that house. 447 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,920 Look out here, Mr. Jeffries, just across from your family. 448 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:19,100 Objection! Tell us, how would you make them go away? 449 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:21,200 Ms. Van Owen, that's enough. 450 00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:23,520 I have nothing further. 451 00:26:39,790 --> 00:26:43,110 He said business dealings with my client, they're partners, he can't 452 00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:46,210 I'm not betraying that partnership, nor am I breaking any duty owed to David 453 00:26:46,210 --> 00:26:50,310 Meyer. Mr. Becker has a warped sense of duty, Your Honor. He's had direct access 454 00:26:50,310 --> 00:26:54,170 to my client's financial affairs, as well as to privileged interspousal 455 00:26:54,170 --> 00:26:55,530 communications between the parties. 456 00:26:55,770 --> 00:26:58,250 The only thing warped here is Mr. Gans' sense of the law. 457 00:26:58,590 --> 00:27:01,450 The fact that David Meyer shared those communications with me automatically 458 00:27:01,450 --> 00:27:05,190 waives the privilege. Frankly, Mr. Becker, I'm more concerned about her. 459 00:27:05,850 --> 00:27:09,270 Now, how can I trust you to fight her battles against a man you're partners 460 00:27:09,270 --> 00:27:11,980 with? She's fully aware of this partnership. She wants me as her lawyer. 461 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:16,540 Moreover, my professional responsibility is beyond reproach. You're not looking 462 00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:18,280 at some sleazy blockmeister here. 463 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,940 This business venture was some sort of video thing. That's correct. 464 00:27:22,180 --> 00:27:23,660 Arnold Becker's home guide to divorce. 465 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,600 With all due respect to the presumption of dignity this video gives him, his 466 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,660 participation here is both undignified and unethical. This man has no 467 00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:35,940 to comment on dignity or ethics or any other concept that's foreign to him. 468 00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:36,779 All right. 469 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:37,780 I've heard enough. 470 00:27:38,179 --> 00:27:40,460 Mr. Becker, you have no business being in the middle of this. 471 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,680 Mr. Meyer is your business partner. 472 00:27:42,940 --> 00:27:46,620 You have a fiduciary responsibility to act in his best interest. 473 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:48,720 You could even be a witness to this thing. 474 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,500 And it is totally irresponsible for you to be representing the wife. 475 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,740 It's her choice. It's what she wants. I don't care. 476 00:27:56,180 --> 00:27:59,880 Now, I will let you participate in discovery and settlement negotiations. 477 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,220 But if this thing goes to trial, you're out. And furthermore, I want you, not 478 00:28:04,220 --> 00:28:06,320 your client, but you to pay the cost of this motion. 479 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,800 Now, that's all. 480 00:28:07,870 --> 00:28:10,790 We're adjourned. I want it on the record that my client is being denied the 481 00:28:10,790 --> 00:28:11,950 representation of her choice. 482 00:28:12,410 --> 00:28:13,730 She can go rent her video. 483 00:28:15,470 --> 00:28:16,470 Thanks. 484 00:28:19,390 --> 00:28:22,430 David? If you have anything to say, speak with my attorney. 485 00:28:28,210 --> 00:28:32,790 Benny, I wanted to tell you what a good impression you made on Leo Hackett. 486 00:28:33,490 --> 00:28:37,110 The only reason we're still in the running for his business is because of 487 00:28:37,930 --> 00:28:39,330 Did he tell you about his daughter? 488 00:28:40,490 --> 00:28:43,110 Yeah. He'd really like you to talk to her. 489 00:28:43,730 --> 00:28:46,870 He said I could think about it. 490 00:28:47,570 --> 00:28:51,890 I understand your reluctance, but I want you to know how helpful it would be to 491 00:28:51,890 --> 00:28:52,890 the firm. 492 00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:55,570 It would also be a very nice thing to do for her. 493 00:28:56,110 --> 00:28:57,650 And we'd give you the day off. 494 00:28:58,230 --> 00:28:59,510 Say, tomorrow? 495 00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:06,830 I would consider it a personal favor if you'd say yes. 496 00:29:11,370 --> 00:29:12,670 Okay, I'll try. 497 00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:15,250 Good man. 498 00:29:27,310 --> 00:29:31,330 And during the last five weeks, Mr. Weiland retained you to represent 12 499 00:29:31,330 --> 00:29:33,710 different drug trafficking defendants. Is that right? 500 00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:37,510 Including Mr. Weiland, there were 12, yes. And in consideration for which, he 501 00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:40,750 paid you $72 ,000 in cash, did he not? 502 00:29:41,130 --> 00:29:41,929 That's correct. 503 00:29:41,930 --> 00:29:45,090 Well, now, tell me, Miss Perkins, from where did you think Mr. Weiland got this 504 00:29:45,090 --> 00:29:48,350 money? I didn't know, Mr. Flaherty. Did you ever ask him where he got it? No, I 505 00:29:48,350 --> 00:29:52,370 didn't. Because you know, like we all know, that that money is the proceeds of 506 00:29:52,370 --> 00:29:53,370 drug transactions. 507 00:29:53,730 --> 00:29:56,990 It's not incumbent upon the attorney to ascertain the source from which a client 508 00:29:56,990 --> 00:30:00,790 pays his fee. No, no, it isn't, but you knew the source. You knew it was drug 509 00:30:00,790 --> 00:30:04,510 money when you took it. No, I didn't know that, and I still don't. Come on, 510 00:30:04,530 --> 00:30:06,950 Counselor, you're a sharp woman. Can't you put it all together? 511 00:30:07,250 --> 00:30:08,730 Why don't you tell us how you put it all together? 512 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,020 The only reason you know the $72 ,000 amount is because that's the amount that 513 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:15,960 reported to the federal government for tax withholding purposes. Well, thank 514 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,760 you. Thank you, Counselor. I never tried to cover up anything, Mr. Flaherty. 515 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,940 Quiet, Ms. Perkins. What are you trying to cover up now? I said be quiet. Excuse 516 00:30:21,940 --> 00:30:22,940 me. 517 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,780 I'd like to let the witness make her statement. 518 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:26,060 Thank you. 519 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,960 There are a few things that Mr. Flaherty forgot to tell you. 520 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,820 He forgot to tell you that I've never tried to conceal anything. 521 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,180 He forgot to tell you that my representation of those 12 defendants 522 00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:39,340 completely within the bounds of the law. 523 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,180 And you know what else he forgot to mention? 524 00:30:42,540 --> 00:30:47,360 11 of those 12 people were never convicted because the prosecution could 525 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:48,420 make its case. 526 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,940 So what that means, ladies and gentlemen, is when he stands here today 527 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:56,960 tells you that these 12 people were drug traffickers, he's asking you to believe 528 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,900 something that he was unable to prove in a court of law. 529 00:31:01,410 --> 00:31:05,330 And the reason he's coming after me is exactly because he could not get them. 530 00:31:06,410 --> 00:31:07,410 So he's angry. 531 00:31:07,890 --> 00:31:12,390 He's angry and he's upset because I successfully defended people that he 532 00:31:12,390 --> 00:31:13,390 to convict. 533 00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:17,430 And he's angry because I put a big dent in his track record two years before he 534 00:31:17,430 --> 00:31:18,430 runs for lieutenant governor. 535 00:31:18,550 --> 00:31:20,950 Very good, Miss Perkins. So what are you going to do if you can't get me, Mr. 536 00:31:21,030 --> 00:31:23,870 Flaherty? Go after this jury next? Miss Perkins. Run them through the computer 537 00:31:23,870 --> 00:31:27,350 for old parking tickets? Quiet now, or I will put you up for contempt. 538 00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:32,920 Now, that was a very nice little song, Miss Perkins, but you never answered my 539 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,460 question. From where did you think Mr. 540 00:31:35,660 --> 00:31:36,660 Weiland's money came? 541 00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:40,020 I answered your question. I told you I didn't know. 542 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,640 Now, why don't you tell us, if you're so sure that my clients are criminals, why 543 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,920 you can't prosecute them? I will prosecute them. 544 00:31:46,140 --> 00:31:47,840 After you get their attorney out of the way, right? 545 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,220 You live on the same street as the defendant, is that right, Miss Mack? 546 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,000 Yes. Did you ever know him to be a violent man? 547 00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:02,340 Absolutely not. How about those two men who were going through his garbage? 548 00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:03,760 Had you ever seen them before? 549 00:32:04,220 --> 00:32:07,860 Sure, I'd seen them. Will you tell the court what you had seen them doing? 550 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,280 Besides going through the garbage? 551 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:12,000 I'd seen them drinking. 552 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,800 I'd seen them fighting. 553 00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:15,940 I'd seen them urinating on the street. 554 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,520 They are homeless. Where are they supposed to urinate? 555 00:32:18,780 --> 00:32:20,880 Order. Where are they supposed to urinate? 556 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:22,100 Father, that's enough. 557 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,640 Were you ever accosted by these men, Ms. Mack? 558 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,500 Every single day, there was a whole group of them. 559 00:32:29,260 --> 00:32:32,680 They'd come up to me in the street and ask for money, except they weren't 560 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:33,680 asking. 561 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,080 They'd glare at me. 562 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,480 They'd glare at my kids. 563 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,460 The only way to deal with it is just never make eye contact and never break 564 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,340 stride. Some would say that's not a very charitable approach. 565 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,600 I'll choose my own charity, thank you. 566 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,280 We're not talking about mothers with children. 567 00:32:50,910 --> 00:32:53,010 We're not talking about elderly people. 568 00:32:53,270 --> 00:32:54,930 These are able -bodied men. 569 00:32:55,230 --> 00:32:56,230 But they're homeless. 570 00:32:56,450 --> 00:32:59,310 We'd be homeless, too, if we spent all day drinking and taking dope. 571 00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:00,510 Move to strike. 572 00:33:01,210 --> 00:33:02,210 Sustained and stricken. 573 00:33:02,650 --> 00:33:04,090 Were you frightened of them? 574 00:33:04,290 --> 00:33:05,290 You bet I was. 575 00:33:05,830 --> 00:33:10,250 I'll never forget going outside one morning and seeing one of them tearing 576 00:33:10,250 --> 00:33:11,310 garden across the street. 577 00:33:12,050 --> 00:33:16,710 He was stomping on the flowers and throwing dirt at people as they walked 578 00:33:17,030 --> 00:33:19,610 How can you not be frightened of a person like this? 579 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,400 Thank you. I have no further questions. 580 00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:28,800 Mrs. Mack, if you made it a point of never making eye contact with these men, 581 00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:33,860 how is it you're sure Vincent Kyle was one of them? I saw him going through my 582 00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:36,180 garbage, too. Did you ever ask him not to? 583 00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:38,840 I don't have the nerve for that. 584 00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:40,960 I also don't have a gun. 585 00:33:41,540 --> 00:33:44,900 Would you use a gun to keep a man out of your garbage? 586 00:33:45,420 --> 00:33:46,840 I'd use a gun to protect myself. 587 00:33:47,180 --> 00:33:49,080 How about you drive him out of your neighborhood? 588 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,840 It's not our neighborhood anymore. 589 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:52,640 It's theirs. 590 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,100 What theirs, Mrs. Mack? 591 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,020 All the garbage you let them eat? 592 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,420 Objection. How dare you sit in judgment of me? How dare you pretend to know a 593 00:34:01,420 --> 00:34:03,380 man whom you've never met? To you? 594 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:04,980 They're just carcasses. 595 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,100 Load them on a truck and haul them out. These people scare me to death. 596 00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:11,460 What do I do about that? 597 00:34:12,139 --> 00:34:16,560 What do I tell my kids when they ask me why they can't play in the park anymore? 598 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,800 What do I tell them when they ask me why there are men picking through our 599 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,738 garbage cans? 600 00:34:21,739 --> 00:34:25,159 Tell them there's four people in the world. Father Higuera. Tell them not 601 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,380 everybody's lucky enough to have a roof over their heads. 602 00:34:27,659 --> 00:34:29,320 Will the court officer remove that man? 603 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,139 Tell them not everybody's lucky enough to eat every day. 604 00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:34,380 Not everybody can go to a doctor when they're sick. 605 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,960 Just tell them the truth, that's all. Just tell them the truth. 606 00:34:42,030 --> 00:34:45,630 Should Richard Jeffries have permitted those two men to pick through his 607 00:34:45,630 --> 00:34:46,630 garbage? 608 00:34:46,750 --> 00:34:47,870 That's not the issue. 609 00:34:48,929 --> 00:34:51,409 Should he have asked the men for a bowl of beef stew? 610 00:34:52,130 --> 00:34:57,670 That's not the issue. The only issue is whether Richard Jeffries could have 611 00:34:57,670 --> 00:35:01,690 reasonably believed that Vincent Kyle was about to attack him. 612 00:35:02,830 --> 00:35:08,310 For six and a half years, Vincent Kyle had been sleeping on the street. 613 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,900 For six and a half years, he'd been chased away by cops, by shopkeepers. 614 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,920 He'd been shunned by anyone less wretched than himself. 615 00:35:19,020 --> 00:35:25,920 He was sifting through soiled diapers, maggots, and putrid 616 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,660 meat in the pouring rain, looking for food. 617 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,460 He was staring at Richard Jeffries with a knife in his hand. 618 00:35:34,860 --> 00:35:37,280 He was staring at the warm... 619 00:35:37,870 --> 00:35:42,210 dry house in which Richard Jeffries lived. 620 00:35:44,050 --> 00:35:48,750 The district attorney maintains that my client had nothing to be afraid of. 621 00:35:50,470 --> 00:35:56,570 Before you send him to prison, imagine if Vincent Kyle 622 00:35:56,570 --> 00:35:59,310 had been staring at you. 623 00:36:09,450 --> 00:36:15,870 What kind of person eats out of garbage cans or keeps all their worldly goods in 624 00:36:15,870 --> 00:36:18,430 a shopping cart they push around in the rain? 625 00:36:19,430 --> 00:36:26,110 Richard Jeffries remembers when people like that could only be found on 626 00:36:26,110 --> 00:36:30,690 Skid Row. They were called bums, derelicts, hobos. 627 00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:33,830 Now they're the homeless. 628 00:36:34,490 --> 00:36:38,070 Children call them the dirty people. And now... 629 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,880 They are everywhere. 630 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:45,940 He sees them near his office, near his gym, outside of restaurants and 631 00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:51,540 supermarkets. They skulk by with their matted hair and filthy clothes. They 632 00:36:51,540 --> 00:36:55,660 smell worse than any human being he's ever known. In fact, to the defendant, 633 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,040 they weren't human at all. 634 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,900 They were more like a pack of rabid dogs that just kept growing. 635 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:09,260 A blight of vermin and disease and madness that had invaded his perfect 636 00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:17,160 Richard Jeffries could never wind up homeless. You or I could never wind up 637 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,160 homeless. 638 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:23,520 The homeless did something wrong to get that way. We don't owe them anything. 639 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,980 Not a dry place to sleep. Not even the right to eat out of garbage cans. 640 00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:32,940 And it just makes it a lot easier to think about them. 641 00:37:33,530 --> 00:37:34,530 That way. 642 00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:42,470 The only trouble is, once we do, once we can look at people 643 00:37:42,470 --> 00:37:47,950 living in such misery, no matter what the reason, and feel nothing, 644 00:37:48,190 --> 00:37:51,750 then it is us who have ceased to be human. 645 00:37:54,410 --> 00:37:57,550 Vincent Kyle got too close to Richard Jeffrey's world. 646 00:37:58,250 --> 00:38:01,350 But that is not something he deserved to die for. 647 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,040 It is not something that allowed Richard Jeffries to kill him. 648 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,260 Tell Richard Jeffries that. 649 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,360 Tell them. 650 00:38:22,820 --> 00:38:23,820 Arnie? 651 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:28,500 I've been thinking. 652 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,040 I don't want to make a war of this. 653 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,740 Hey, kiddo, your husband's already declared war. Your only choice is to 654 00:38:35,740 --> 00:38:38,460 surrender. Well, then maybe I should surrender. 655 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,960 I mean, I don't want his money. We've been married less than a year. I'm not 656 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,000 entitled to it. 657 00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:45,700 The law says that you are. 658 00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:47,320 I don't care about the law. 659 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,100 I still have to live with myself after this is over. 660 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,540 Look, that's very admirable, Rox. 661 00:38:55,260 --> 00:38:59,580 But pride isn't going to pay your rent, besides which you earned a percentage of 662 00:38:59,580 --> 00:39:00,580 that video money. 663 00:39:00,890 --> 00:39:01,950 You brokered the deal. 664 00:39:02,410 --> 00:39:05,150 You'd be getting a chunk of it even if you weren't married to him. Why should 665 00:39:05,150 --> 00:39:06,510 you forfeit it just because you were? 666 00:39:08,250 --> 00:39:09,930 I never thought of it like that. 667 00:39:10,270 --> 00:39:11,950 It's my job to think of it like that. 668 00:39:12,730 --> 00:39:16,390 As your lawyer, which I still am, and as your friend, which I'll always be, I'm 669 00:39:16,390 --> 00:39:17,710 telling you we have to fight. 670 00:39:18,410 --> 00:39:21,550 Sheldon Ganz is going to try and crush you, and your only shot at a fair 671 00:39:21,550 --> 00:39:24,470 settlement here is for me to try and crush Dave. 672 00:39:26,570 --> 00:39:28,530 I just want to be free of all this. 673 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:30,360 Being alone isn't being free. 674 00:39:31,220 --> 00:39:34,900 Being alone with two million bucks, that's being free. 675 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,740 17 on the other side. 676 00:39:40,220 --> 00:39:41,220 Lehman? 677 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,980 Abby. Well, fresh off the victory trail. 678 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,980 Michael Polgan? Oh, he's been telling everybody. 679 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:49,620 As well he should. 680 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,660 You know how unusual it is for a grand jury not to indict? 681 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,200 What did you say in there? 682 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:56,540 I don't know, but it worked. 683 00:39:58,069 --> 00:39:59,069 And the money? 684 00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:01,190 It looks like I get to keep it. No forfeiture. 685 00:40:01,510 --> 00:40:02,510 Well, 686 00:40:02,750 --> 00:40:03,750 congratulations. 687 00:40:04,030 --> 00:40:04,888 Thank you. 688 00:40:04,890 --> 00:40:07,690 And thanks for letting me borrow Mike. I would have been lost without him. Well, 689 00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:10,210 the people in this firm feel very strongly about you, Abby. 690 00:40:10,750 --> 00:40:13,670 Which brings me to the reason why I asked to see you. 691 00:40:15,150 --> 00:40:16,350 We'd like you to come back. 692 00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:20,290 Excuse me? We've been interviewing would -be associates for three months. Not 693 00:40:20,290 --> 00:40:22,010 one more qualified than you. 694 00:40:22,510 --> 00:40:25,190 I'm flattered, Leland, but I left here for a reason. 695 00:40:25,650 --> 00:40:30,230 Yeah. Yeah, you left because you weren't considered partnership material. You 696 00:40:30,230 --> 00:40:34,870 left because, however much we liked you, we didn't think you were tough enough. 697 00:40:34,930 --> 00:40:36,170 Well, we've been watching you. 698 00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:39,450 Daring to do what most lawyers wouldn't even try. 699 00:40:40,090 --> 00:40:41,510 And succeeding at it. 700 00:40:42,310 --> 00:40:43,310 Yeah. 701 00:40:43,890 --> 00:40:45,190 Yeah, you're tough enough. 702 00:40:45,870 --> 00:40:49,970 And you are exactly what this firm is looking to build its future with. 703 00:40:50,730 --> 00:40:52,270 I have my own practice now. 704 00:40:52,530 --> 00:40:53,530 I'll bring it with you. 705 00:40:54,030 --> 00:40:57,750 There would be some objection to drug defense work, but I suspect that's not 706 00:40:57,750 --> 00:40:58,750 what you want anyway. 707 00:41:00,670 --> 00:41:04,570 Now, Abby, I know, I know. It's exciting to be out on your own. But there's a 708 00:41:04,570 --> 00:41:06,970 lot to be said for going to work with people, too. 709 00:41:07,870 --> 00:41:10,910 Especially people who care about you as much as we do. 710 00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:15,210 I don't know exactly what to say. 711 00:41:15,850 --> 00:41:17,270 Let me see you think about it. 712 00:41:18,450 --> 00:41:20,090 Okay. I will. 713 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:35,240 Afternoon, sir. 714 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:36,700 Hi. 715 00:41:37,180 --> 00:41:38,180 Pretty, isn't she? 716 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:42,640 The car. 717 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:44,960 Oh. 718 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:48,340 It's like the most beautiful car I ever saw. 719 00:41:48,660 --> 00:41:49,660 Benny. 720 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,200 Nice to see you, Benny. 721 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:53,640 Come on in. 722 00:41:57,180 --> 00:41:58,360 You're right on time. 723 00:41:58,620 --> 00:41:59,820 I like that in a person. 724 00:42:00,220 --> 00:42:01,540 I took the Wilshire bus. 725 00:42:04,799 --> 00:42:06,500 Alice, meet Benny Stolwitz. 726 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,280 He came all the way here on the bus by himself to visit you. 727 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:15,160 Benny, this is my daughter, Alice. 728 00:42:17,780 --> 00:42:18,780 Hi. 729 00:42:23,820 --> 00:42:26,100 Why don't I leave you two to get acquainted? 730 00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:38,500 Your father, he wanted me to tell you about my job at Mackenzie Brackman. 731 00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,420 I deliver the mail. 732 00:42:43,140 --> 00:42:44,460 I don't want a job. 733 00:42:46,180 --> 00:42:48,900 You'd like it where I work? I have lots of friends. 734 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,740 I don't need lots of friends. 735 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,620 I have Edward. 736 00:42:53,460 --> 00:42:54,460 Who's Edward? 737 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:55,560 He's my friend. 738 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:58,480 Edward drives the car. I go places with Edward. 739 00:42:59,260 --> 00:43:00,260 In the car. 740 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,440 Whoa. 741 00:43:02,670 --> 00:43:04,290 I go places by myself. 742 00:43:04,870 --> 00:43:06,710 Sometimes I will let me drive. 743 00:43:07,150 --> 00:43:08,490 You can drive? 744 00:43:12,250 --> 00:43:14,330 You can drive? 745 00:43:14,750 --> 00:43:16,350 You want to see me do it? 746 00:43:16,690 --> 00:43:17,690 Yeah. 747 00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:30,710 Will the defendant rise? 748 00:43:33,930 --> 00:43:35,570 Has the jury reached a verdict? 749 00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:39,750 We have, Your Honor. What say you? We find the defendant not guilty. 750 00:43:40,570 --> 00:43:41,570 Not guilty? 751 00:43:42,170 --> 00:43:43,170 Thank God. 752 00:43:43,870 --> 00:43:47,550 Thank God. Don't go thanking God. He had nothing to do with it. That'll be 753 00:43:47,550 --> 00:43:51,650 enough. Your Honor, I want the jury... Father Higuera, didn't you think Vincent 754 00:43:51,650 --> 00:43:52,650 had some value? 755 00:43:52,990 --> 00:43:54,530 Didn't you think this was a life? 756 00:43:54,910 --> 00:43:56,190 Didn't he account for anything? 757 00:43:56,430 --> 00:43:59,630 Anything? My country... 758 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,340 Sweet land of liberty. 759 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:12,880 I want order in this courtroom. 760 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:07,460 Ready. Drive carefully. 761 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,180 See? I can do it. 762 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:27,120 I always wanted to drive my mom's car, but she wouldn't let me. 763 00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:34,080 You could drive this one. 764 00:45:37,259 --> 00:45:40,300 No, I couldn't. It's easy. 765 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:41,800 See down there? 766 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,980 That pedal makes it go, and the other one makes it stop. 767 00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:52,840 Will Edward be mad at me? 768 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,280 Edward is my friend. 769 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:55,840 Come on. 770 00:46:19,180 --> 00:46:20,180 You have to do this.