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the people are represented
the people are represented

by two separate
yet equally important groups:

the police,
who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys,
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

He's got it in for me
is all I'm saying.

He don't got it in for you.

He's starting to make
me look bad to Hector.

Hector's
smart enough

to see Alex is just talking trash.

All due respect to Hector,
I got my doubts.

Just once I'd like
to come in here

without some jerkweed
causing a dust-up.

Yeah, this stuff's getting old.

Holy...

This guy's hurt bad.

Get some help.

Somebody call 911.

35 years my family
owns this place.

Plenty of fights,
but nobody ever got killed.

You see what happened?

I hear shouts, I look over,

I saw one guy swing a bottle
and the other guy goes down.

The guy who was swinging,
what did he look like?

Kind of average.

Height? Weight? Age?

Middle-aged.

Brown hair.

Inch or two shy
of six feet, maybe.

You know, average.

Any of you seen this average dude in here
before?

Nope. First timers,
the two of 'em.

The other guy, the one who got
his head cracked?

I could swear I've seen
him somewhere before.

Me, too.

But not in here?

Nah.

Anybody see how
it started?

It-it was like all
of a sudden,

you know out of the blue.

This one guy starts bashing
the other guy's head in.

I tried to tackle him, but...

And that's how
you got the eye?

He was a lot stronger
than he looked.

All right. Be sure

to give your home number
to the officer.

So, what do we got?

Depressed skull fracture.

Glass shards in the wound.

Victim was struck
with a blunt object.

Yeah, a liquor bottle.

Your murder weapon.

Or what's left of it.

Well, maybe Latent
can get a print anyway.

Have CSU gather as much
of that as they can.

You'd be better off
with all the king's horses

and all the king's men.

Brendan Donner.

I thought he looked familiar.

Not to me.

I'm drawing a blank. Who is he?

Public enemy number one.

At least in this city.

League championship series,

this dude goes
for a foul ball,

cost us the game
and the pennant.

We're talking
about baseball?

Yeah. Instead
of being the third out,

the batter draws a walk.

Next guy up hits
a two-run homer,

and it's wait till next year,
again.

Looks like somebody was pissed
off about waiting.

Wait a minute.

You're telling me
this guy got killed

cause he reached
for a foul ball?

And the suspect list is the
greater New York phone book.

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I can't believe somebody

killed him
over a stupid game.

We're not sure yet

that that's why your husband
was murdered, Mrs. Donner.

But it's a pretty
good bet, right?

I mean, what other reason
could there be?

People treated Brendan like
he was Osama Bin Laden.

As if any one of them
wouldn't have tried

to catch that damn ball.

Did you take any
of those threats

more seriously
than others?

I mean, is there anyone
in particular

we should be looking at?

Just half of New York.

Poor Brendan.

He was obsessed.

He read every letter,
surfed the Internet,

watched all the talk shows...

I'm telling you something,

that game ruined our lives.

We'd like to look through your
husband's things if we could.

We separated

four months ago.

He moved out.

Said there was no reason
why I should take

the brunt for what he did.

Sorry.

We're going to need to get
into his new place.

The papers should publish
separate listings

for the soon-to-be-divorced.

"Available: crappy studio
apartment

"with view of airshaft.

"Emphasis on shaft.

Also excellent for sleepless
nights and drinking binges."

And reading
your hate mail.

"Dear Jagoff.

"I've been replaying the game
in my mind

"and I still don't know
what the hell you were thinking,

you dumb ass son of a bitch."

That's quality bedtime reading.

His wife said
he was obsessed.

There's no forwarding labels
on these.

They were sent here.

Wonder how they got
his new address so quick?

Maybe he can tell us.

Special Agent
Jeffery Bowerman.

FBI.

Donner was getting death threats
from all over the country.

People mailing him dead rats,
dog crap, you name it.

When you care enough
to send the very worst.

The worst was the envelope
full of white powder.

We were wondering why the FBI
was involved in this.

Standard procedure for all cases involving
a suspected biological contaminant.

Which this wasn't.

Baking soda isn't lethal.

You never met my ex-wife.

Well, we went ahead
and seized

all the letters, cards and
packages anyway, cataloged 'em.

Wow, a lot of people

with too much time on
their hands, huh?

We've got audio, too.

I tapped Donner's phone
just to be safe.

For a case like this?

I felt sorry for him.

I wanted to go the extra
mile, help the guy out.

You bet the other team.

Made out like a bandit.

Donner may've been a schmuck
to you guys,

but he was a hero to us.

Sketch artist came up with
a composite of our suspect.

Could be anybody.

How're you doing?

I'm reading Donner's
hate mail.

Ed's listening to it.

Anything interesting?

They either want to dump him in the East
River,

throw him off a building
or run him over with a car.

Not much originality.

What would you
have done to him?

Who, me?

Please. I remember
how mad you were

after that game.

And I don't recall
any tears from "Who, me?"

when the tabloids published

Donner's address
and phone number.

Okay, maybe that was
a little bit over the line,

but the idiot did earn
himself a little grief.

He tried to catch a ball.

Which was still

in play.

Any real New York fan would've
kept his hands in his pockets.

Hey, I got something.

This is from two weeks ago.

You think I don't know where you
live, Donner?

You better be watching your
back, Donner,

'cause one day soon I'm coming
up behind you

and bash your thick head
until you're dead,

you moron...

The FBI traced that call
to a Ted Enwright.

Sounds promising.

And the genius called
from his home phone.

We lost half our pitchers
to free agency.

Then there's that
whole steroid thing.

Who knows how that's going
to play out?

Let's face it.

Last year was our best
shot and Donner blew it.

So after stewing
about this all winter,

you decided it was time
for some payback?

Hey, all I did
was get drunk one night

and make a phone call.

Yeah, and a couple
of nights later,

Donner gets drunk and
he gets his head smashed in,

as you promised.

Come on.
That was just talk.

How'd you get
his phone number?

I read it
in the papers.

No, his new number.

On the net.

Everything's on the net.

Come on, it's all up
on that Web site--

www.getdonner.com.

You've got to be kidding me.

We don't have that much
imagination.

Six months after the fact,

the website still gets
30,000 hits a day.

Most of the stuff is harmless.

You know, stupid Donner jokes
and whatnot,

but check it out,
they have a message board.

"Hey, fellow Donner haters.

"Think I just saw Donner shoving
his stuff

"in the back of a moving van.

Guess his old lady hates him
as much as the rest of us."

Now, this entry started
a landslide.

People started writing in

whenever they saw
Donner on the street,

or in the subway.

They called it "Donner Watch."

Which is how they knew where
to keep sending

all the hate mail.

I never thought
I'd hear myself say this,

but I'm actually starting to
feel real sorry for this dude.

Hey, we were one out away
from the World Series.

Yo.

All right. All right,
we'll be there.

It's the crime lab.

They got prints.

If I were you guys,

I'd steer clear of Latent
for a while.

Why, they didn't see
the challenge

in lifting prints off
a broken bottle?

Any prints shattered
along with the glass,

so they're fragmented like
a jigsaw puzzle.

You guys like jigsaw puzzles?

I love jigsaw puzzles.

Want to know
how I solved this one?

That's why we're here.

I bought a bottle of the same brand of
scotch,

filled it with plaster,
then broke it,

leaving a perfect mold.

Then I took the glass
from the crime scene

and glued it on that mold,

putting each piece
in its proper place.

Voilà.

Just like a jigsaw puzzle.

With the bottle now
reconstituted...

You could lift the prints.

Two sets.
I ran them through BCI.

The first belonged
to a Rooney, James.

The bartender.

And owner.

His prints are on file from when
he applied for a liquor license.

What about the second set?

BCI kicked back
a Grimes, Walter.

Walter Grimes?

Uh-huh. Here's
the best part...

Yeah, convicted
of murder second degree

in the killing
of a young girl.

Drew 25 to life
at Green Haven.

Yeah. How'd you know?

He reads the front page

of the Times.

Walter Grimes was released from prison
three months ago.

Walter Grimes.
Born Poughkeepsie, 1964.

Arrested '83, convicted '84.

Second-degree murder.

Victim was Leeanne Testa, 15.

Stabbed to death.

A year ago,

when Grimes finally got
a court order

to test the DNA,

it turned out the blood
that the cops found

on the knife in his apartment
wasn't Leeanne Testa's.

Property still have
the evidence?

ME's office.

This is pre-DNA.

They tested it
for serology.

After the trial, it went to the Medical
Examiner's

and never made it back

to the police lab.

It's lucky for Grimes.

The police lab would've
destroyed it

after he got convicted.

So, Grimes didn't kill Testa.

Good for him.

Question is,
did he kill Brendan Donner?

Grimes's prints
are a 12-point match

to the ones on
that liquor bottle.

There are eight people
in that bar

who ID'd him
from a photo array.

They all saw him bash
Donner's skull in.

I'll get an arrest warrant.

We have any idea
where Mr. Grimes is now?

Department of Corrections
can't compel him

to give an address

because he was exonerated,
not paroled.

Grimes's a jailhouse lawyer
or did he have some help?

Rodney Fallon-- the New York Exoneration
Project.

I'm sure
Mr. Fallon keeps in touch

with his success stories.

So far, the New York Exoneration Project
has gotten

almost 50 innocent
people released,

and we're looking at hundreds of other
cases.

And I'll bet each and every one of them
didn't do it.

Obviously, they're
not all innocent.

But if even
a single one is,

don't you think
it's our obligation

to see to it that
they don't spend

a minute longer in jail?

I'll bet you can count
the number of guys in jail

who are genuinely innocent
on one hand.

You know how many felonies
the average criminal commits

before he gets caught,
let alone convicted?

I'm well aware of
the police statistics.

It's about the same
as the number of times

you speed on the Thruway
without getting a ticket.

So what're you're
saying, Detective,

we shouldn't try
to exonerate defendants

who were wrongly
convicted?

Yeah, sure we should try,

but just don't tell me
they're all innocent.

Gentlemen, can we talk
about Walter Grimes, please?

An outright travesty
of justice.

His lawyer was a 25-year-old
legal aid attorney

trying his third case.

Oh, he caught a bad break.

That alone should've
got him a new trial.

DNA proved he didn't kill
Leeanne Testa.

Which won't
happen this time.

Look, we may not have DNA,

but we got your client's
fingerprints on the bottle

he used to fracture
Brendan Donner's skull.

We don't know
what happened that night.

Maybe Walter
was defending himself.

Why don't we ask him ourselves?

Yeah, where we can find him?

We've got a warrant
for his arrest.

I'd rather you didn't speak

to Walter if I'm not present.

What, are you still
his lawyer?

If you have a warrant, I am.

Then you should know
you have an obligation

to surrender your client.

I know what my obligations are.

Then you won't mind

giving us his address.

Open up!

Hey, did you hear that?

I don't hear
nothing.

Yeah, it sounded like
a plaintive cry for help

coming from this apartment.

Open the door.

You say so.

Mr. Grimes?

He's ain't here.

Hey, Ed, you always leave
your phone book out?

Only if I've
been using it.

Yeah.

It's an old P.I. trick.

If you had it open
to a certain page,

it bends the spine.

It'll open there.

Hotels. Some cheaper
than others.

Where do we start?

At the bottom and
work our way up, I guess.

Oh, yeah, I remember this guy.

He was here.
Was?

Checked out
earlier today.

About 4:00
this afternoon.

Six hours ago.

Now, that's a hell
of a coincidence.

No wonder Fallon gave up
Grimes' address so easy.

Yeah, he knew Grimes
wasn't going to be home,

and he drops a dime
to his favorite client

as soon as we're out
the door. Lawyers.

This is me
being surprised.

You asked me where Walter lived,

I gave you
his primary residence.

Hey, man, don't get smart
with us!

I wouldn't dream of it.

You couldn't keep up.

All right, let's all just
take it down a notch.

Mr. Fallon, this is way past
zealous representation here.

I can't tell you where he went.

It's arguably privileged
information.

Well, consider it negotiating
a fugitive's peaceful surrender.

I'll get him to come in.

Not a chance.
I have no idea

what he's capable of
if he feels threatened.

I can do this.

He trusts me.

All right.
You've got two hours.

Either we're going
to arrest him for murder

or you for hindering
prosecution.

He'll be here, I promise.

Tell me you didn't just agree

to what I think
you just agreed to.

Please.

I'm starting to get a bad feeling
about this.

How long's Fallon been in there?

45 minutes.

It's long enough
to either talk Grimes down

or book him
a flight to Brazil.

That's right.
Let's go.

Mr. Fallon.

Looks like you put up
a hell of a fight.

Where's your client?

And the first words out
of your mouth

better not be "privileged."

He's not here.

I can see that.
So where is he?

You said you weren't going to interfere.

You said you were gonna bring
Grimes in.

Looks like we both failed
on our promises.

I tried to convince him
to turn himself in

to the authorities
for his own good,

but he was in no mood
to go back to prison.

How long
has he been gone?

Oh, ten minutes.

Did he say
where he was going?

And don't forget what we said about that
word "privilege."

He took my wallet.

Said he needed to get
to his cousin's in Providence.

Hey! Police!
Don't move!

Grimes, hold it right there!

Stop right there!

Grimes!

Take it easy.
All right.

I'm not going back there!
I'm not going back there.

I'll die before I go back there!

Just let the lady go.

Keep away from me.

Let's talk this over.

Look, no gun, okay?

Look, I know

you were
innocent before.

I just want to talk to you.

Let the lady go, please.

All right?

Just let her go
and we can talk.

It's over, man.
Let her go, Grimes, now!

I can't go back there.

I can't.

Judge Hinkle
didn't think twice

about remanding Grimes.

After holding
a woman hostage,

I should hope not.

Rodney Fallon.

Pleasure.

I don't think
Mr. Grimes is eligible

for the Exoneration
Project's services

this time,
Mr. Fallon.

Well, I don't see
why he wouldn't be.

Walter is innocent.

Then can he

explain his fingerprints
on the murder weapon

and the eyewitnesses
at the bar?

Or his behavior

when he saw two
NYPD detectives?

Taking a hostage isn't exactly
consistent with innocence.

Well, that depends on
how you define innocence.

I'd define
an innocent person

as someone who didn't
commit the crime.

Or someone whom
the law recognizes

should not be held responsible
for his actions.

A defendant can't be convicted

if he didn't act with
mens rea-- criminal intent.

He brained a man
with a liquor bottle.

Walter Grimes was convicted
of a crime he didn't commit.

If he hadn't gone
to prison for 20 years,

as an innocent man,

he never would have
attacked Brendan Donner.

What are you saying,
prison made him do it?

It certainly

changed him...
profoundly.

He absolutely wasn't
the same man

when he
came out.

I'm sorry the system
failed you, Mr. Grimes,

but a wrongful conviction

does not earn anyone
a free pass on murder.

You're sorry?

How about

before rushing
to judgment-- again--

you at least

have your shrink evaluate him?

There's no reason
to be anxious.

We're just having
a conversation.

I ain't anxious.

What makes you think
I'm anxious?

Do you know
why you're here?

My lawyer says because of what
happened to me in prison,

I lose control.

What do you think?

I spent 20 years

in prison for something
that I didn't do.

I don't have control
over nothing!

How can I lose
what I don't have?

You're talking about
Leeanne Testa's murder.

Of course that's what
I'm talking about.

The police said
I killed that girl.

I'd never even met her.

They found
a bloody

knife in your apartment
with your fingerprints on it.

They planted that knife.

The police?

Yeah, the police.
I had an alibi.

They didn't believe me.

But this time,
you did kill someone.

You killed Brendan Donner.

He laid hands on me.

And that justified
killing him?

I bumped into him by accident,

but this guy,
he gets all freaky on me--

in my face--

telling me the whole
world's against him.

And you thought hitting
him with a bottle

was an appropriate response?

I didn't think about it.

He grabbed me.

A guy comes at you,
you don't think twice,

you just put him down.

You stop to think about
what to do, you're dead.

Walter Grimes is legally sane.

But?

But I'm sure his lawyer
can find experts

who will say that his
experience in prison

so programmed him,
that he lacked

the ability to appreciate
that his conduct was wrong.

It turned him
into a killer?

Well, they'll argue that
he couldn't differentiate

between his old environment
and his new one.

He couldn't tell
the difference

between
Rooney's Tavern

and the exercise yard
at Green Haven?

Exactly.

The defense will get
a gaggle of psychiatrists

to say that Grimes
lacked the ability

to curtail
a lethal instinct

developed by two
decades in prison.

I'd feel sorry for a man

who lost that
much of his life

on a wrongful conviction.

If Fallon gets this
in front of a jury,

you could have a problem.

You're moving to preclude

this defense, Mr. McCoy?

Your Honor, it's ridiculous.

Under Mr. Fallon's theory,

every ex-con would have
a defense for murder.

But we're not
talking about

men who were criminals
before going to prison.

We're talking about a man
who was completely innocent

before being sent
to Green Haven

and was profoundly,
and irrevocably changed,

and not for the better
by the experience.

And prison erased

his sense of
right and wrong?

In a manner of
speaking, yes.

It maimed him.

It dehumanized him.

It replaced traditional notions
of right and wrong

with a kill-or-
be-killed reflex

that led tragically
to Brendan Donner's death.

That doesn't meet

the New York standard,
Your Honor.

Either Mr. Grimes didn't know
what he was doing was wrong,

or he didn't understand
the nature of his behavior.

Simply reacting
to a perceived threat

because he thought he was in

a hostile environment
doesn't cut it.

He wasn't in prison.
He was in a bar, Your Honor.

He completely overreacted.

Exactly.

Walter Grimes
completely overreacted

because of how his prison
experience shaped him.

You have an expert

who will back your theory,
Mr. Fallon?

I've got five of
them, Your Honor.

Fax their CVs over to me.

If they're credible,

I'm inclined
to let this go to a jury.

You don't think that
there might be something

to Grimes's defense?

People adapt to their
environment,

in or out of prison.

He knew
where he was

and how he was
supposed to act.

How do we know he
wasn't a bad apple

before rotting in
prison for 20 years?

Fallon's already conceded
this defense only applies

if Grimes was
a law-abiding citizen

before being shipped off
to Green Haven.

Leeanne Testa's murder
was his first arrest.

How old was he
at that time?

Nineteen.

Well, if he had committed
any prior crimes,

it might have been
as a juvenile.

And those records
would be sealed.

I'm sure that under
the circumstances,

you could convince
a judge

to unseal
those records.

If there are any.

What prosecutor wouldn't love

a peek at a defendant's
juvie record?

But if I unsealed it
in every case,

seal would
have no meaning.

This isn't
a typical case.

Mr. Grimes's defense

put his juvenile record
directly at issue.

He claims he had no
criminal tendencies

before he went
to prison.

So you want to look
at his juvenile record,

assuming
that he has one,

to determine
if that's true.

I'll tell you what--
I'll review

the file in camera.

If I find
anything relevant,

I'll make it
available to you.

Agreed?

Thank you, Your Honor.

Jackpot.

Grimes fits the textbook
definition of a bad seed.

Arrests for school
ground assault,

menacing,
auto stripping,

possession
of stolen property.

But no convictions.

The system kept
cutting him loose.

The closest he ever came

was a liquor store
robbery when he was 15.

He threatened
the owner with a gun.

Why did
the ADA kick it?

I don't know, but it makes
one thing pretty clear.

Even if Grimes didn't
kill Leanne Testa...

He was hardly
an innocent man.

Sure, I remember.

Guy sticks a gun in my face,

I'm going
to forget that?

According to his
juvenile records,

the police arrested
a young man

named Walter Grimes.

You're talking about
that white kid, right?

He would've been
about 15 at the time.

He didn't do it.

As far as I know,

they never caught
he kid that did.

But the police
arrested him.

I told the officer--

Daniels,
his name was Daniels--

I told Daniels
the little pachuco

who held me up
was Hispanic.

Daniels didn't believe me,
but I saw what I saw.

Are you sure?

Sure I'm sure.

How come Officer
Daniels believe you?

How come he arrested
Walter Grimes?

You'd have to ask him.

You're talking about a case

that was, like, 25 years ago.

I know cops who
remember every suspect

they ever
interrogated.

Walter Grimes?

Yeah, that's right.

Real punk, absolute
white trash.

This about that guy
he killed in a bar?

That's right.

See, that's what you get
when you let a guy

like Grimes
loose on society.

He was exonerated.

Whatever.

I'm looking into
all of his priors.

If Grimes did this
liquor store robbery,

it would actually help
a case that we're prosecuting,

but the store owner
says that he didn't.

What can I tell you?
The old guy was wrong.

But Grimes is white.

The store owner said that
the robber was Latino.

Look, the old man was so scared,
he pissed himself.

All he saw
was the gun, if that.

Grimes the guy who held
him up, I have no doubt.

Except your gut

isn't admissible, Detective.

Which is why
the DA

kicked
the robbery charge.

Grimes did it.

And it wasn't his first
stickup, either.

That kid was born
to go to jail.

Have a good day.

So we know Grimes wasn't

the choir boy
his lawyer's been

saying he was, but
we can't prove it?

That's
what it looks like.

What about the knife?

The one found
at Grimes's apartment.

DNA confirmed that
the blood on it

wasn't Leeanne Testa's.

But it was someone's.

Let's see if we can
find out whose.

I'll have
Briscoe and Green

contact the primary
on the Testa case.

We got an anonymous tip about the
Testa case,

judge signed a search warrant.

Off an anonymous
tip?

Back in '84, we had a couple
political appointees.

They let us take a few more

procedural short cuts
than they do now.

Ah, the Reagan years.

Anyway, I went in
with my partner

and a team of five blues.

We searched
from ceiling to cellar.

Yeah, you found
the knife.

Wrapped in a dishrag.

It was hidden under a loose
floorboard in his closet.

But the blood on the knife
wasn't Leeanne Testa's.

Hell of a thing--
this Fallon guy...

Yeah, the Exoneration
Project.

Got a court order,

did family DNA
against the knife,

proved it wasn't
Testa's.

Grimes always said
the knife was planted.

Well, 'course
he'd say that.

Who knows? He probably
killed somebody else.

Yeah,
that's why

we need to run that
knife past forensics,

see if it matches
any open cases.

Well, after Fallon
had it tested,

it went back
to the ME's office.

Ought to still be there.

So that day,

when you found the knife

in Grimes' apartment,
anything strike you as fishy?

Well, I didn't
actually find it.

Some uniform, got his
shield a few years back.

Reynolds, Daniels,
something like that.

Not Kenny Daniels?

Yeah, Kenny Daniels,
that's it-- you know him?

We were at the same house
for a while, the 2-9?

I ain't seen him in years.

He the kind of cop
that would plant evidence?

Not the Kenny
Daniels I knew.

He was a stickler. By the book.

He drove me crazy.
Thought I was a cowboy.

He'd always say, "Dot your I's,
cross your T's."

People change.

This is great, Ed.

What is it, eight or
ten years since I seen you,

not even a phone call?

Now you're on my doorstep,
making accusations?

Just questions, Kenny.

Not accusations.
Just questions.

These the sort of "questions"

I should have my PBA delegate
present for?

Look, I spoke
to the DA's office.

You arrested Grimes for
a liquor store robbery

that the owner
swears up and down

that the kid didn't commit.

Mr. Magoo?

That old man was so blind,

he couldn't tell his ass
from his elbow.

Grimes did that robbery,
Ed, trust me.

Okay, but then
you find

a knife that puts the same guy
away for a murder

that he absolutely
did not commit.

He goes to jail for 20 years.

What?
What is it, man?

You couldn't
get him

on the liquor store robbery,

so you framed him
for Leeanne Testa's murder?

The liquor store had nothing to
do with it.

How do you think Grimes' prints
got on that knife?

What do you think,
I'm some kind of magician?

I don't know, man.

You tell me.

Her name was Julie Sayer.

She was 16, going on 12.

You know, innocent.

The knife I found
in Grimes' apartment.

It was his
all right,

but he didn't
use it on Leeanne Testa.

He used it on Julie Sayer.

Slit her throat with it.

There was no DNA testing
back then.

Same type, O positive,

so everyone assumed
it was Leeanne's blood.

Well, if Grimes killed
Julie Sayer,

why didn't you
collar him for it?

I did.

Grimes was a creep.

I had witnesses who put him
with the girl that morning.

I brought him in, he started

running his mouth,
talking trash.

He even took a swing at me.

You didn't beat
the dude down, did you?

Only time I ever
lost it like that.

All I could see was that
that dead girl

lying there
with her throat cut.

Did Grimes give it up?

Oh, yeah, he told me
how he killed Julie.

Told me how he hid
the knife in a storm drain.

Told me exactly
where to find it.

But what,
the bust wasn't any good?

Lieu took
one look at him,

one look at my knuckles,

he told me I had
to kick him loose.

He told you to 86 the arrest.

Try to find another way
to make the case.

But if the confession
was inadmissible, then...

The knife
was, too.

There wasn't going to be

any justice for Julie Sayer.

I let Grimes go,

fished the knife
out of the storm drain,

saved it for a rainy day.

Then Leeanne Testa
gets stabbed.

Wound patterns were consistent
with Grimes' knife.

Blood type
the same as Julie's.

Pieces fell into place.

You call in

an anonymous tip,
and then you "find"

the knife
in Grimes' apartment.

Why not?
Grimes was guilty.

He was a murderer.

He was going to walk on
the murder of Julie Sayer!

He was going to walk
because of me!

It was eating me up, Ed.

I had to make
it right.

I had to balance

the scales.

At least he didn't
frame an innocent man.

No, he framed a guilty one.

The way he sees it,
he kept Grimes

from falling through
the cracks in the system.

Well, somebody

should tell him not to do

the system any more favors.

Regardless of his motivation,

this is the worst kind
of police misconduct.

Now, any appellate court
would find that this

"shocks the conscience"
and so should we.

Agreed,
but he's all we've got.

Where's this lieutenant
of his now?

In the cemetery.

He had a heart attack
six years ago.

So no one but Daniels

can say that Grimes
killed Julie Sayer.

No, but if we could

prove he did, Fallon's
defense strategy

on the Donner murder
goes out the window.

Grimes was
a murderer

before he was ever shipped
off to Green Haven.

All right, we'll try him
on the Sayer murder first.

Only Grimes's
confession

is no more admissible today
than it was 20 years ago.

But, today,
DNA analysis

will confirm that the blood
on the knife is Julie Sayer's.

Oh, you know what Fallon's
going to say about that.

People versus Walter Grimes.

Murder in the Second Degree.

How do you plead,
Mr. Grimes?

My client pleads
not guilty, Your Honor.

People on bail?

The People seek remand.

Mr. Grimes is accused of
murdering a teenage girl,

stabbing her to death.

Your Honor,
this crime

took place more
than 20 years ago.

Mr. Grimes is also a suspect
in a recent bar killing.

Let the state try him
on that charge, then.

We intend to.

Their physical evidence
in this matter, Your Honor,

the murder of Julie Sayer,
the state has already used

to convict my client
of another crime,

for which he's subsequently

been exonerated.

Is this true, Miss Southerlyn?

That same DNA evidence,
Your Honor,

now accurately identifies

which victim
Mr. Grimes killed.

Their star witness
is the officer

who planted the knife
and framed

my client
in the first case.

Enough.

Someone else can sort through

the evidentiary issues,
thank God.

Since the People seem to have

an ongoing interest
in Mr. Grimes' whereabouts

after this matter
is concluded,

I'm going to remand
the defendant.

Your Honor...
That's it.

Sorry, Mr. Fallon.
Better luck next time.

Next case.

The knife was planted
in my client's apartment.

By a police
officer.

The chain of custody
remained intact.

This is outrageous.

I can't believe
you can stand there

and say that to me
with a straight face.

You're forgetting how
that officer found the knife

in the storm drain
in the first place.

Your client told
him where it was.

He beat it out of him.

An improperly
obtained confession.

The knife is poisonous fruit.

You're assuming
that the police

wouldn't have found it
without Grimes's confession.

They canvassed

all over the city.

They would've never
found it and you know it.

Let's see what
a judge thinks.

In the meantime, consider this
your notice of our lab work.

We exhumed
her body

and extracted DNA
from her bones.

The blood on the knife
was Julie Sayer's.

DNA's a double-edged
sword, counselor.

DNA is persuasive,
only if it's admissible.

My motion
to suppress the knife.

Was he right?

About the DNA?

About the search--
Fallon just said

the police looked high
and low for the knife.

That's right.

Let's get the case's
primary on the phone.

Julie Sayer was 16. Pretty.

On the front page
of the Post for weeks.

Bet your ass, we tore
the city apart.

Do you remember searching
on 190th Street

between Autobahn
and Amsterdam?

Where it happened.

We turned that
neighborhood upside down.

Storm drains?

We searched them all.

From Washington Heights
to Inwood.

Would you be willing
to sign an affidavit?

What, that we searched
the storm drains?

Every one
in the area.

With a flashlight
and a fine-tooth comb.

And didn't find a thing.

First the People concede
that Detective Daniels,

who was then Officer Daniels,

questioned my client
without counsel present

in clear violation of his
Sixth Amendment rights.

And then they concede
he assaulted my client

to obtain a confession

in violation of his
Fifth Amendment rights,

used that illegal confession
to seize the knife

in violation of my client's
Fourth Amendment rights,

and as if that
wasn't enough,

they freely admit he
then planted the knife

to frame my client for
a crime he didn't commit

in violation of,
at the very least,

his Fourteenth
Amendment rights.

Are there any amendments
the People haven't violated?

And now, now in
what has to be

the single greatest
demonstration

of legal chutzpah in
the history of jurisprudence,

he contends the knife
shouldn't be suppressed.

Mr. McCoy,
is this true?

Every word,
Your Honor.

Then how can you
argue in support

of the knife's
admission?

Because of the inevitable
discovery doctrine.

The knife is admissible
if the police would have

eventually discovered it
without the impropriety.

How is that possible?

They only found the knife

because
Officer Daniels

planted it
in my client's home.

You said it yourself.

The police
canvassed the area

where the knife was
originally hidden.

I have
an affidavit

from Detective
Johnson,

the primary
on the case,

who searched the storm drain

where Grimes
had hidden the knife.

But it wasn't there
to be found.

Because
Officer Daniels

had already removed it.

Under inevitable discovery,
the issue is:

What would have happened

but for Officer Daniels'
wrongful conduct?

The knife would have been
in that storm drain

for Detective Johnson to find.

Exactly.

Oh, this is outrageous.

You're basically saying
that Daniels's

illegal conduct makes
the knife admissible.

It isn't
that I don't

see the irony,

but the evidence
is admissible.

He's got you, Mr. Fallon.

Look, Mr. Grimes' confession
remains inadmissible,

but the knife comes in.

Don't pop those champagne corks
yet.

No amount of fancy
footwork

is going to change
the fact

that your sponsoring
witness is Kenny Daniels.

I hate using him, but
what choice do we have?

A cop who admits he
framed a guilty man

for another crime,
which he didn't commit.

In service
of the greater good.

That's what you'll
tell the jury.

What Fallon will tell
them is that Daniels

is a vigilante with
an ax to grind.

Which is exactly what we
need to prepare him for.

If I hadn't done what I did,
Grimes was going to walk.

Why are you making me out
to be the bad guy?

Because you crossed
the line, Detective.

And because that's
what Rodney Fallon

will do when
you take the stand.

He's not the first
shyster I've taken on.

I can handle him.

Let's hope
he's the only

whose client's
been framed by you.

Okay. I deserve that.

Grimes killed Julie Sayer.

He admitted it.

And because I screwed up,
he was going walk.

That's a mistake
I couldn't live with,

and I'm not going
to apologize for fixing it!

If you don't,

he may walk on Julie's
murder a second time.

If the jury sees you as
some kind of a vigilante

with no qualms about
framing someone

or planting evidence,

they won't listen
to a word you say.

I screwed up 20 years ago,
but by making it right,

it's the best thing
I've ever done.

You really want me to say
I feel sorry when I don't?

You're a police officer

and you put yourself
above the law!

I can't believe you have
no regrets about that.

Yeah, I have some regrets.

That I gave him a beating
and I screwed up the case.

What, do you want
me to lie?

I want you to acknowledge
what it is

I know you must be feeling.

And that's what?

Guilt.

Guilt about what?

Guilt at having been
so arrogant

as to put yourself
above the law.

Planting the knife was wrong.

What I did was wrong.

I was trying to do right,

but now I see the ends
didn't justify the means.

I'm sure you understand

people may view whatever
testimony you'd offer

against Walter Grimes with a
certain amount of skepticism.

I made one mistake
20 years ago.

And since then?

I've told the truth
and played by the rules.

Have you?

Yes.

"One mistake."

You admit you framed my client

for the murder
of Leeanne Testa.

I admit to framing him
for one murder

because he committed another.

The one he's on trial for here.

You don't get to be

judge and jury this
time, Mr. Daniels.

He confessed to me
that he killed Julie Sayer.

A confession you beat
out of him.

Which mistake do you regret--

beating my client or planting
evidence against him?

Both.

So that's
two mistakes.

Tell me, is there anyone
who can corroborate your story?

Just your client.

My client maintains
his innocence,

which means we're
left with your word.

Then you're left with my word,
and I'm telling the truth.

But I don't believe
you, Mr. Daniels.

You've been obsessed

with getting my client
for decades.

Since he was a kid, haven't you? No.

You arrested him
for a liquor store robbery

that was committed
by someone else.

I stand by that arrest.

Even though
the owner said

the robber
was Latino?

And then, on
another occasion,

you assaulted
Mr. Grimes.

He was a suspect.

He attacked me, Counselor,

and I defended myself.

He was in your custody
and you beat him bloody.

Like I said, I regret that.

Then you framed him
for Leeanne Testa's murder.

And I've got nothing
to gain by admitting it.

In fact, I'm throwing away
my career and my pension.

Your career and pension mean
nothing to you, do they?

Not compared to your vendetta
against Walter Grimes.

Enjoy the show?

You held up okay.

What are you doing here?

It's my case.

Thought maybe
you came to gloat.

Now, why would I do that?
We're friends.

I thought we were.

Don't try to turn this
around on me, Kenny.

You put yourself
in this circus.

DA's could've made their
case on that bar room fight

without dredging this up

and dragging me
into the middle of it.

We had no choice. You did.

You could have let it go, Ed.

You don't want justice
for Julie Sayer?

I already had justice
for Julie Sayer.

I don't know what I ever did to
him,

but he's had it in
for me since I was kid.

He was the cop on the beat
in our neighborhood

and he always hated me.

He's had it in for me
since day one.

Detective Daniels
seems to think

you were an incorrigible
criminal

who should be taken
off the street.

Look, I never
said I was a saint,

but the things he said
I did, I didn't do.

But in respect
to Julie Sayer's murder,

your fingerprints
are on the knife,

along with her blood.

It's, it's my knife.

I never denied that.

Of course it's going to have

my prints on it.

And Julie Sayer's blood?

Daniels is police, right?

He could get as much
of her blood as he wanted.

There's nothing

this guy won't
do to burn me.

Nothing.

You sound paranoid,
Mr. Grimes.

It ain't paranoia if someone's
really out to get you.

This Daniels is.

Yet you admit
you don't know why.

You'd have to ask him.

No, I'm asking you.

I don't know.

Maybe he's crazy.

So you're saying
Detective Daniels somehow

manufactured the bloody knife
evidence in this case?

Come on, he framed
me before.

I spent 20 years
in prison

for killing a person I
never even laid eyes on.

That's irrelevant, Mr. Grimes.

20 years of my life
is irrelevant?

Your fingerprints
are on the knife.

Julie Sayer's blood
is on the knife.

How did all that get there?

Objection.

Daniels put it there.

How did Detective Daniels
get your knife?

It is not incumbent upon the
defendant

to prove how Detective Daniels
did anything.

He's making all these
assertions,

he must have some idea.

I don't know how.

He framed me, okay?

I never killed anybody.

You didn't you kill
Brendan Donner three months...

Objection, Your Honor.
Objection!

after being released
from prison by smashing

his head in
with a liquor bottle?

This is outrageous.

Accusing him of murder?

The defendant
denied it.

I have every right to
attack his credibility.

He hasn't been
convicted in that case.

He hasn't
even been tried.

But he did raise a not
responsible defense.

Which is an admission that
he killed Brendan Donner.

And if the defendant
denies that,

I'll put Dr. Olivet on
the stand to impeach him.

You goaded him
into the denial

so you could bring in
the other case

to poison the minds
of the jury.

They call that
cross-examination, Mr. Fallon.

Sorry, Counsel,
your client opened the door

and put out the welcome mat.

If I were you, I'd talk
to Mr. McCoy about a plea.

Forget it, McCoy.

I'll argue that Grimes
killed Donner because

Daniels's vendetta against him
turned him into a murderer.

You don't have to posture,
Mr. Fallon.

Your client's not here.

I don't have to posture

because I still have
Kenny Daniels to vilify.

Which means nothing,
unless you can

paint Grimes
as the victim here.

A victim
is exactly what he is.

A victim of police misconduct,

a victim of the entire
criminal justice system.

The jury's not here either,

so let's not pretend
we don't know

the crimes your client committed
as a juvenile.

Let's not pretend
he didn't kill Julie Sayer.

And let's not pretend Daniels
wasn't out there

playing judge and jury.

Detective Daniels is not
on trial here, Grimes is.

And Grimes is the one
who slit a woman's throat.

Grimes is the one
who crushed a man's head.

You seem to forget that,

but I'm going to make sure
the jury remembers.

They're going
to want someone to pay.

Trust me, it won't
be Kenny Daniels.

20 years in prison almost killed
Walter Grimes.

I'll give him credit
for those 20 years.

If he allocutes.

I killed Julie Sayer.

I knew her
from around.

I had the hots
for her.

But she...

Doesn't matter
why I did it.

I just...

I followed her one night.

I grabbed her, she said no.

I stabbed her, that's it.

There's nothing more to say.

Mr. Grimes,

since you're
pleading guilty

to murder in
the second degree

with a sentence of
25 years to life,

and since the terms
of your plea agreement

are that in exchange
for this allocution,

you are to be given credit

for the 20 years
you served in Green Haven,

your remaining
sentence

on the murder of Julie Sayer
is five years.

I understand, Your Honor.

And the parties

have also reached a plea

with respect to the murder
of Brendan Donner?

We have.

The defendant has waived
his right to trial

and will plead guilty
to first degree manslaughter.

I'm accepting
the defendant's

plea and imposing a sentence
of seven-and-a-half

to 15 years to be served
consecutively

with the aforementioned
five.

I don't need company.

Maybe I do.

Irish,

rocks on the side.

He pled out.

All's well that ends well.

So how's it end for you?

I've been encouraged
to take an early retirement.

Well...

um...

I'm sorry.

Don't be.
I did what I had to do.