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In the criminal justice system,
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the people are represented by two separate
yet equally important groups,
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the police, who investigate crime,
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and the district attorneys,
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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The most important
thing is to stay calm.
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Easy for you to say. If I
screw up, someone could die.
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Eighty-six percent of incomings
are non-emergencies.
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911 Operator.
This call is being recorded.
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Help! Help! I need help!
What?
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My wife isn't breathing.
I'm sorry, sir. I can't understand.
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Please...
Please send ambulance!
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His accent.
I can't understand his accent.
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Sir, where are you?
Uh, wait...
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Jay... Jay and Staple... Jay and Staple!
Sir, listen to me.
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Stay with your wife. We have an
ambulance on the way.
Tamiko, please!
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Couple of Japanese
tourists got shot and robbed
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Wife took one in the face. Husband tried to wrestle
the guy for the gun got blasted in the arm.
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You get a description of the perp?
Black male, between 20 and 30.
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That's it? Height, weight?
He was rambling in Japanese.
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He's in shock.
Yeah, I would be too.
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What'd the shooter make off with?
Wife's purse, cash and jewelry.
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Where'd it go down?
Over there.
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C.S.U. on the way?
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Should be here any minute.
I found a couple of casings.
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Looks like a .22.
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If we get lucky,
maybe we'll find the slugs.
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We might find the one
that winged the husband.
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The other's still in the wife's skull. No exit wound.
That'll wreck your vacation.
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The bullet entered her right cheek at point blank range,
just below the eye, then ricocheted around the brain.
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Is she gonna make it?
The damage is extensive.
We'll know more the next few days.
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What about her husband's condition?
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Bullet went through his upper arm. just missed the
brachial artery. He should be okay. Lucky guy.
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Any chance we could speak to him?
Keep it brief. I'll get you the room number.
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You'll contact us
if Mrs. Yoshida comes out of it?
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Frankly, that's a big “if.”
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Tamiko wanted to see Ground Zero,
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so we went there first.
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I don't know how, but suddenly we are lost.
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We stop to look at map...
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I'm sorry.
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Mr. Yoshida, I know this is difficult for you,
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but we need you to tell us
exactly what happened.
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Street was empty.
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Suddenly, a man comes over.
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He ask, what time is it?
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I look at my watch...
10 minutes past 11:00.
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I look up. I see he is pointing gun.
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Can you describe him?
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Black man.
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Big. Black hat.
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What kind of hat?
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Soft, you pull down.
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Like a stocking cap?
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Anni uh, baggy black,
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like clothes you wear to exercise.
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Can you say how tall he was?
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About two meter.
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Like you.
So what happened after he pulled the gun?
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I give him money,
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but he said he wanted her necklace.
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Tamiko, her English is no good.
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She was confused.
Her brain freeze.
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I told her...
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I told her to give it to him,
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but she couldn't remove...
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Uh, the clasp?
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I see his face getting very mad.
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Then bang! Tamiko fall.
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He pull the necklace off.
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So much blood everywhere.
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I tried to take the gun.
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We fight, then bang!
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My arm, here, hurt so much.
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Then he ran away.
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Did you see where?
I don't know.
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There was a van.
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I think a red van.
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I was holding Tamiko
to see if she was breathing.
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Then I hear him drive off.
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My wife was always afraid
to come to United States.
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So many guns, so much violence.
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I told her she could not live
like a flower in a bubble.
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I told her New York was great city.
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A great city.
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The husband's a club owner in Tokyo.
Wife's a model
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Apparently they're fairly well
known over there. Celebrities.
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They here on business?
Mm-mmm. Vacation. It was the wife's first time.
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They decided to pay a visit to Ground Zero,
got lost on the way back to the hotel.
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Welcome to the Big Apple.
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She had a little over a grand in her purse.
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Nice clothes, expensive jewelry.
Invitation for a robbery.
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What do we have so far?
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Well, we got a sketch artist to work
up a description with the husband.
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It's kinda vague.
The husband was in shock.
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Well, circulate it citywide.
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We're pulling files on similar M.O.'s
with that general description.
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What about that red van? Any make or model?
No specifics.
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And there were
no other witnesses?
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It's a commercial district, downtown on a Sunday.
The place ain't exactly hoppin'.
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Makes you wonder
what the perp was doing there.
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You think that he followed them?
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Innocent tourist gunned down in the street?
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That's shades of Miami
in the '90s.
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I remember that. What, like, 12
tourists got killed in a single year?
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Let's hope the press
doesn't run with that ball.
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Well, if he was trolling for tourists,
maybe someone saw him along the way.
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We'll retrace their steps
first thing in the morning.
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Excellent.
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I heard about those poor Japanese tourists.
It's a damn shame.
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This the guy?
Yeah. Witness described
him as between 20 and 30 years old.
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You say that he might be local?
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'Cause I'm out on the streets every day with
Perry here, and the face doesn't ring a bell.
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The crime took place right over there,
Sunday morning, around 11:00 a.m.
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Oh, 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning...
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I was uptown having Perry groomed.
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Sorry.
Thanks, anyway.
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Good luck.
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Hey. Let me guess. You got a full
description and the dude's license plate.
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They're closed on Sundays.
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But the manager told me there's a building
maintenance company a couple of blocks from here.
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Guess what they drive.
Red vans?
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We do maintenance and renovation. Mostly office buildings.
Weekends are our busiest time.
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We're looking for a black driver
between 20 and 30 years old.
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He would've got on the road
around 11:00 a.m. Sunday morning.
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What's this all about?
A couple of tourists were shot near here.
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Yeah, I heard about that.
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One of them described the assailant
as a black man driving a red van.
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So you think it's one of my men.
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You're crazy.
Look, man, we're just running
down the leads we got right now.
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I got guys been with this outfit goin' on 10
years, never had no trouble with any of 'em.
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Then you won't mind if we go
inside and ask a few questions.
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I loaded up,
left here around 11:00 a.m.
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10:58, to be exact.
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You didn't happen to notice an Asian couple
a few blocks north of here, did you?
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My stop was in Brooklyn. Headed south
from here on the West Side Highway.
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What'd you say your name was?
Carlisle Davis.
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Carlisle Davis.
What time did you leave?
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I'm not sure. They were having trouble loading the
driver in front of me. Held me up a few minutes.
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Says you clocked out
of the loading dock at 11:20.
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Gentlemen, appreciate your time.
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Uh, the driver ahead of you that they were
having trouble with... what was his name?
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Tom Walker.
I don't see his card here.
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We got him
out of the dock okay.
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But he called in later
with engine trouble.
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Says he left at 11:07.
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Where was he headed?
The Bronx.
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Right time,
right direction.
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I heard the siren behind me.
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I just figured it was a speedin' thing.
I don't know anything about a shootin'.
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A speeding thing?
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Jerk in a Lexus
cut me off on Hudson.
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He must have been doing 90.
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And where were you headed?
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To the Bronx.
Some bank building.
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But you never made it.
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Tsk-tsk.
Had engine trouble along the way.
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Gee, it sounds like
it just wasn't your day.
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Stopped at a garage
over on 10th.
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West 40s.
All right. We need a name.
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It was one of those
chain places.
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You got a receipt?
Yeah, I think so.
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But, uh... “But, uh" what?
You misplaced it?
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Come on, Tom. If you're gonna lie,
at least be a little creative.
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I'm not lying.
Then give us the name of the garage.
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We'll call over there
and confirm your story.
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Okay. I didn't have engine trouble.
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I been working double shifts for three weeks.
I needed to take a little personal time.
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So you lied to your boss.
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It was my lady's birthday.
I went over there to drop off her present.
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Really? What'd you get her?
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Vacuum cleaner.
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And they say romance is dead.
Hey, I asked her what she want.
That's what she said.
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All right.
We need her name and a number.
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Does my boss
have to know about this?
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Your boss is the least
of your problems now.
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And all this time I been
buying my girl jewelry and lingerie.
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Anybody stupid enough to buy their girlfriend
a vacuum cleaner for her birthday...
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Listen, the hospital pronounced
Tamiko Yoshida 30 minutes ago.
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Damn.
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Well, we're gonna go try the girlfriend
to see if Walker's story holds up.
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That can wait.
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Right now we've got a suspect
who fits the description...
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driving a red van
two blocks from the crime scene.
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Let's put him in a lineup,
see if Mr. Yoshida can I.D. him.
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And, Ed, make sure to give Mr. Yoshida
condolences from the city of New York.
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Detectives.
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This is Akiko Shindo. She's writing an
article about Tamiko for the Tokyo Sun.
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Sorry to interrupt.
Not at all. I was just leaving.
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It's a big story in Japan.
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My wife was very popular.
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Sir, my partner and I would like to express
condolences on behalf of the city of New York.
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We're really sorry for your loss.
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Just find the man who did this.
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Actually, that's the reason we're here.
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We have a suspect in custody.
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Already you found the man
who shot my wife?
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We'd like you to come down to the
station to see if you can identify him.
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Right now?
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I was making arrangements
for my wife's...
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We know this is
a bad time for you, but...
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I'm sorry but, uh,
it's all happening so fast.
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We can give you
a ride if you like.
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Okay. I'll go with you now.
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So, you recognize
anybody there, Mr. Yoshida?
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I don't want to make mistake.
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We don't want you to make a mistake
either, so take your time.
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Very confusing.
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Angle was different.
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Everybody turn to the left.
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not so good with faces.
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It all happened so fast.
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Now turn to the right.
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I'm sorry. I cannot be sure.
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Well, the lineup
Just went down in flames.
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Walker's story checks out. He's not our guy.
Cut him loose.
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Lieutenant.
Wait.
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Councilman Murphy's on line two.
He says he'll wait. Fine.
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I got everyone from the Neighborhood Watch
to the mayor breathing down my neck.
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His Honor's involved?
The story was picked up
by the national press, CNN.
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The problem is if it isn't Walker,
we're staring at a blank wall.
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Then fill in the damn blanks.
It's gotta be something somewhere.
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This guy Walker... didn't he mention
something about a car speeding on Hudson?
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A sedan.
We're looking for a red van.
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The husband said
he saw the perp drive off in it.
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“There was a van.
I think a red van.
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I was holding Tamiko to see if she was
breathing, and I hear him drive off."
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“I hear him drive off."
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Well, then he didn't actually see
the guy get in the van?
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Yes?
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Thank you.
So, this speeding car...
you thinking perp or witness?
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Either would do at this point.
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Japanese ministry
just issued a travelers' advisory.
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"In light of recent criminal violence,
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“the ministry
urges all Japanese citizens...
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00:13:37,185 --> 00:13:41,426
to defer all nonessential travel
to New York, New York, U.S.A."
238
00:13:47,122 --> 00:13:49,067
The crime scene's here.
239
00:13:49,123 --> 00:13:52,068
The Lexus speeds by Walker on
Hudson, heading north towards...
240
00:13:52,124 --> 00:13:54,069
The Holland Tunnel. It's three blocks away.
241
00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:57,730
Now with Sunday morning traffic,
he could be in Jersey in minutes.
242
00:13:57,794 --> 00:13:59,965
The tunnel has security cams.
243
00:14:02,028 --> 00:14:03,973
You said Holland Tunnel, right?
244
00:14:04,029 --> 00:14:07,236
Yeah. Sunday morning
between 11:10 and 11:20.
245
00:14:07,297 --> 00:14:09,242
Jersey-bound Lexus.
246
00:14:09,298 --> 00:14:11,299
Okay.
247
00:14:12,966 --> 00:14:14,910
Here's the tunnel.
248
00:14:14,966 --> 00:14:19,413
We don't have video at that location, but I
can give you still images. Whatever you got.
249
00:14:19,469 --> 00:14:21,913
How many cars you think
we gotta look through here?
250
00:14:21,969 --> 00:14:25,471
Sunday morning, 10-minute period...
about 200.
251
00:14:25,538 --> 00:14:27,483
Two hundred?
Two hundred?
252
00:14:27,539 --> 00:14:30,484
Hey, you're lucky
it wasn't rush hour.
253
00:14:36,142 --> 00:14:38,519
So, Mr. Ito,
we understand you own a Lexus.
254
00:14:38,577 --> 00:14:40,521
That's right.
255
00:14:40,577 --> 00:14:43,523
Did you take the car into Manhattan
this past Sunday?
No, we stayed home.
256
00:14:43,579 --> 00:14:46,524
Did anybody else drive the car?
257
00:14:46,580 --> 00:14:49,024
Our grandson borrowed it.
258
00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,287
We don't use the car a lot.
Sometimes Bobby borrows it.
259
00:14:52,348 --> 00:14:54,293
When did he
bring it back to you?
260
00:14:54,349 --> 00:14:57,295
Monday. He even
took it to the car wash.
261
00:14:57,350 --> 00:14:59,420
Is this your grandson?
262
00:15:00,752 --> 00:15:03,698
Looks like he's running out
of room for those tattoos.
263
00:15:03,754 --> 00:15:08,063
To the younger generation, it's fashionable.
Body art. Self-expression.
264
00:15:08,122 --> 00:15:11,226
Did your grandson
drive the car into Manhattan?
265
00:15:11,290 --> 00:15:13,895
He went to Trenton,
not Manhattan.
266
00:15:13,958 --> 00:15:17,494
I don't understand why
you are asking all these questions.
267
00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,505
This is just a routine follow-up
to a stolen car,
268
00:15:20,561 --> 00:15:23,506
but since you've cleared everything up,
we're gonna be on our way.
269
00:15:23,562 --> 00:15:25,802
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
270
00:15:27,063 --> 00:15:30,008
So, you wanna tell me what the
bum's rush was all about?
271
00:15:30,064 --> 00:15:33,509
You check out the tats on the grandson?
Yeah, the grandma said that's body art.
272
00:15:33,566 --> 00:15:35,511
That's yakuza insignia.
Yakuza?
273
00:15:35,567 --> 00:15:37,773
Yeah, Japanese gangsters.
Yeah, I know what yakuza are.
274
00:15:37,835 --> 00:15:40,211
But how does a kid from New Jersey
get hooked up with them?
275
00:15:40,268 --> 00:15:43,907
In the '80s, they had a foothold in Hawaii
selling crystal meth and guns.
276
00:15:43,970 --> 00:15:47,438
Then they got into gambling and
prostitution in Vegas and California.
277
00:15:47,505 --> 00:15:50,950
Over the past few years, they've built up
a small presence here on the East Coast.
278
00:15:51,006 --> 00:15:54,451
Did you ever have any run-ins with
them when you were with the gang unit?
279
00:15:54,508 --> 00:15:57,976
Uh-uh. They were pretty much
under the radar back then.
280
00:15:58,043 --> 00:16:00,988
And we can connect Bobby Ito
to yakuza how?
281
00:16:01,044 --> 00:16:02,989
Take a look at his sheet.
282
00:16:03,045 --> 00:16:05,489
Robbery, assault,
narcotics, possession.
283
00:16:05,545 --> 00:16:08,150
His last bust
was a drug deal in '02.
284
00:16:08,213 --> 00:16:11,658
He was collared along with two
known yakuza members from Japan.
285
00:16:11,715 --> 00:16:13,715
And where is young Mr. Ito now?
286
00:16:13,782 --> 00:16:16,557
His super says that he hasn't
been in his apartment since Sunday.
287
00:16:16,617 --> 00:16:18,562
We have a detail
staking out his place.
288
00:16:18,618 --> 00:16:22,063
Japanese victims, Japanese gang
member speeding away from the scene.
289
00:16:22,119 --> 00:16:24,529
It'd have to be
an awfully big coincidence.
290
00:16:24,587 --> 00:16:28,761
We're still working on the details, but Mr. Yoshida's
nightclub in Tokyo... it's in the Ginza district,
291
00:16:28,822 --> 00:16:30,766
which is yakuza territory.
292
00:16:30,822 --> 00:16:33,267
So, yakuza tries to take him out,
293
00:16:33,324 --> 00:16:36,769
and Yoshida fingers a fictitious
black assailant as the shooter.
294
00:16:36,825 --> 00:16:40,566
Which gets him off the hook. He's
certainly not gonna testify against them.
295
00:16:40,627 --> 00:16:43,572
I don't think they have witness
protection in Japan.
296
00:16:43,628 --> 00:16:45,573
Hello?
297
00:16:45,629 --> 00:16:48,574
Listen, can you hold onto him if he tries to leave?
We'll be right there.
298
00:16:48,630 --> 00:16:50,199
All right, man, thanks.
299
00:16:50,264 --> 00:16:53,266
Bobby Ito just showed up
at his apartment.
300
00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,877
Bobby Ito?
New York City police.
301
00:17:01,869 --> 00:17:04,905
Hey! Hey, hey!
Hold it right there! Hold it!
302
00:17:06,670 --> 00:17:09,616
Taking a little trip somewhere?
Going to visit my cousin in L.A.
303
00:17:09,672 --> 00:17:12,617
Yeah? You got a taxi waiting for you
down at the bottom of the fire escape?
304
00:17:12,673 --> 00:17:14,618
Hey, Ed, look at this.
A .22.
305
00:17:14,674 --> 00:17:16,618
That's not mine.
You guys planted it.
306
00:17:16,674 --> 00:17:20,245
You know, that's really original.
I never heard that before.
307
00:17:20,309 --> 00:17:23,754
You said you were home all
day on Sunday. What'd you do?
308
00:17:23,811 --> 00:17:25,756
Watched TV, slept.
309
00:17:25,812 --> 00:17:29,758
That's funny, 'cause the cameras at the Holland Tunnel
put you three blocks away from the crime scene...
310
00:17:29,814 --> 00:17:31,759
minutes after the shooting.
311
00:17:31,814 --> 00:17:33,815
It wasn't me.
312
00:17:35,649 --> 00:17:37,594
I don't know who this is.
313
00:17:37,650 --> 00:17:41,687
That's the woman you gunned down. She died yesterday.
I didn't shoot anybody.
314
00:17:41,752 --> 00:17:45,197
You should have made sure her husband was dead too.
Now he's gonna be able to identify you.
315
00:17:45,254 --> 00:17:47,198
No, he won't,
'cause I wasn't there.
316
00:17:47,254 --> 00:17:50,495
They had to wait until she was dead
to mg the slug out of her skull.
317
00:17:50,555 --> 00:17:53,763
Turns out it was from
a .22 Smith &Wesson.
318
00:17:53,824 --> 00:17:56,769
Same kind of gun you were trying
to jump out of the window with.
319
00:17:56,825 --> 00:18:00,202
Lennie, how long do you think it's gonna
take before Ballistics makes a match?
320
00:18:00,260 --> 00:18:03,637
You know, it'd be a lot better for you
if you came clean now.
321
00:18:07,929 --> 00:18:10,238
Look, we know the man you shot...
322
00:18:10,297 --> 00:18:12,242
has ties with the yakuza in Japan.
323
00:18:12,298 --> 00:18:15,903
So, if they're behind this,
we can tell the D.A. that.
324
00:18:15,965 --> 00:18:17,966
Maybe get you a deal.
325
00:18:20,901 --> 00:18:22,845
I can't talk about that.
326
00:18:22,902 --> 00:18:25,848
You can't talk about it,
or you don't want to talk about it?
327
00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:28,906
Which is it, Bobby? Cause
there's a world of difference.
328
00:18:33,806 --> 00:18:35,876
I want a lawyer.
329
00:18:38,475 --> 00:18:40,420
You're making a big mistake, man.
330
00:18:40,476 --> 00:18:42,477
Wouldn't be the first.
331
00:18:47,712 --> 00:18:49,657
Ito lawyered up.
Yakuza's got him running scared.
332
00:18:49,713 --> 00:18:51,657
Look who's back in Tokyo.
333
00:18:51,713 --> 00:18:55,784
New York is a jungle,
and its inhabitants are animals.
334
00:18:55,849 --> 00:18:59,294
I blame the gun-crazy
U.S. culture for my wife's death.
335
00:18:59,350 --> 00:19:01,828
The city of New York must pay
336
00:19:01,884 --> 00:19:05,057
Too bad Yoshida didn't stick around
to see the guy who did it pay.
337
00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:10,293
Tamiko was proud of Japan.
This would never happen in a civilized country like Japan.
338
00:19:14,156 --> 00:19:16,032
My client's
being railroaded.
339
00:19:16,090 --> 00:19:20,036
The police recovered
the murder weapon at his apartment.
We can put him at the scene.
340
00:19:20,092 --> 00:19:22,037
I'm familiar
with the evidence.
341
00:19:22,093 --> 00:19:24,867
Then why did you ask
for this meeting?
342
00:19:24,927 --> 00:19:28,065
My client has some information
which I think you'll find
rather interesting.
343
00:19:28,129 --> 00:19:30,233
What kind of information?
344
00:19:30,297 --> 00:19:35,039
The kind that could get him
a reduced sentence...
say, uh, 15 to life?
345
00:19:35,098 --> 00:19:38,543
We don't have time for games,
Mr. Lawford.
346
00:19:40,601 --> 00:19:43,876
Hiroji Yoshida paid my client
to murder his wife.
347
00:19:45,002 --> 00:19:48,743
He contacted Mr. Ito
through a mutual friend in Tokyo.
348
00:19:48,804 --> 00:19:51,373
Blame it on the husband.
I like that. It's got a nice ring.
349
00:19:51,438 --> 00:19:53,383
Especially since he's not here
to contradict you.
350
00:19:53,439 --> 00:19:55,145
No, it's the truth, man.
351
00:19:55,206 --> 00:19:57,151
Can you prove it?
352
00:19:57,208 --> 00:19:59,153
Two days before the shooting,
353
00:19:59,208 --> 00:20:02,153
my client met Yoshida
at a diner near his hotel.
354
00:20:02,209 --> 00:20:06,313
They went over the details.
Yoshida gave him five grand
for the job.
355
00:20:06,377 --> 00:20:10,016
The police found $300 on you
when you were arrested
Where's the rest of the money?
356
00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:12,024
Spent it.
357
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,820
Did Mr. Yoshida happen to mention
why he wanted his wife dead?
358
00:20:14,881 --> 00:20:18,349
I didn't ask. I just did the job.
We don't have all the particulars.
359
00:20:18,416 --> 00:20:20,361
But word on the street is...
360
00:20:20,417 --> 00:20:23,555
Yoshida owed big-time
to one of the oyabun in Tokyo.
361
00:20:23,618 --> 00:20:26,893
Analogous to
one of the Mafia bosses.
362
00:20:26,953 --> 00:20:29,228
He's into gambling, Yoshida.
363
00:20:30,487 --> 00:20:32,432
How much did Yoshida
owe the yakuza?
364
00:20:32,488 --> 00:20:35,058
A hundred million yen.
365
00:20:35,122 --> 00:20:39,899
- I left my currency converter
back at the office.
- A million bucks, give or take.
366
00:20:44,060 --> 00:20:46,335
He's the one who got shot, right?
367
00:20:46,394 --> 00:20:49,999
I saw his face on the news and I was, like
“Hey, I served that guy pancakes.”
368
00:20:50,063 --> 00:20:53,008
When was he here?
A few days before the shooting.
369
00:20:53,064 --> 00:20:56,669
I'm not usually into Japanese guys,
but he was really cute.
370
00:20:56,732 --> 00:20:59,006
Not to mention a huge flirt.
371
00:20:59,066 --> 00:21:03,012
It's always the married ones, right?
He told you he was married?
372
00:21:03,068 --> 00:21:07,014
I saw him take a woman's picture
out of his wallet and show it
to the other Japanese guy.
373
00:21:07,070 --> 00:21:10,015
Figured it had to be his wife or girlfriend.
374
00:21:10,071 --> 00:21:12,016
Either way, he was off-limits.
375
00:21:12,072 --> 00:21:15,517
What did this other guy look like?
Young Japanese-American guy.
376
00:21:15,573 --> 00:21:17,517
Kinda scary looking, actually.
377
00:21:17,573 --> 00:21:21,018
He had all these tattoos
all over his arms, wall-to-wall.
378
00:21:21,075 --> 00:21:24,350
What's this about, anyway?
I thought the police
were after a black guy.
379
00:21:24,409 --> 00:21:27,685
Ms. Chen, do you mind
coming down to the precinct
to view a lineup?
380
00:21:27,744 --> 00:21:30,087
Sure. No problem.
381
00:21:30,145 --> 00:21:32,385
I'm off at 2:00.
382
00:21:32,447 --> 00:21:37,189
A waitress at the diner confirmed
that she saw Ito and Yoshida
eating breakfast together.
383
00:21:37,248 --> 00:21:40,125
She's sure it was Ito?
She just picked him out of a lineup.
384
00:21:40,183 --> 00:21:42,628
Independent corroboration
that Ito and Yoshida met.
385
00:21:42,684 --> 00:21:44,958
That's enough to prove conspiracy.
Motive?
386
00:21:45,018 --> 00:21:48,964
The New York City Coroner
just got a request for Tamiko Yoshida's
death certificate...
387
00:21:49,020 --> 00:21:50,965
from Nippon Life Insurance
in Tokyo.
388
00:21:51,021 --> 00:21:54,091
They needed it to pay out
the $3 million policy...
389
00:21:54,155 --> 00:21:57,600
her husband took out on her
four months before the murder.
390
00:21:57,657 --> 00:22:00,101
So he could pay off
his gambling debt.
391
00:22:00,157 --> 00:22:02,602
Ain't love grand?
392
00:22:02,659 --> 00:22:06,628
Make a deal with this Ito character
and get over to the Japanese consulate
to talk extradition.
393
00:22:06,694 --> 00:22:09,866
Isn't there a risk
that they'll tip off Yoshida
or leak the story to the media?
394
00:22:09,929 --> 00:22:12,931
Tell the consul
I'm relying on his discretion.
395
00:22:16,865 --> 00:22:21,311
You will excuse me if your theory
is a bit difficult to digest, Mr. McCoy
396
00:22:21,367 --> 00:22:24,312
Actually, it's a more than a theory
at this point.
397
00:22:24,368 --> 00:22:26,870
I came here to discuss
the possibility...
398
00:22:26,936 --> 00:22:29,881
of extraditing Mr. Yoshida
to the United States.
399
00:22:29,937 --> 00:22:32,882
Where he will be tried
for the murder of his wife.
400
00:22:32,938 --> 00:22:34,883
Presumably, yes.
401
00:22:34,939 --> 00:22:39,214
And this request comes
personally from Mr. Branch?
Yes, it does.
402
00:22:40,741 --> 00:22:44,243
I do not know how familiar you are
with Japanese law.
403
00:22:44,309 --> 00:22:49,120
I know when a Japanese national
commits a crime overseas
he can be tried in japan.
404
00:22:49,177 --> 00:22:52,645
So why go through all the trouble
and expense of extradition?
405
00:22:52,712 --> 00:22:55,123
Because this is a circumstantial case,
406
00:22:55,180 --> 00:23:00,092
and Japanese courts
give more weight to physical evidence
than American courts.
407
00:23:00,149 --> 00:23:05,152
Also, Japan has no law against
merely conspiring to commit a crime.
408
00:23:05,218 --> 00:23:08,993
Well, I respect your position.
409
00:23:10,186 --> 00:23:12,131
And?
410
00:23:12,187 --> 00:23:17,793
And I am certain a satisfactory solution
will be arrived upon... in time.
411
00:23:19,624 --> 00:23:21,568
Allow me to translate.
412
00:23:21,624 --> 00:23:24,570
Yoshida's ours,
and there's no way in hell
we're gonna cooperate with you.
413
00:23:24,626 --> 00:23:27,969
The Japanese don't have
a close relationship
to the word “No.”
414
00:23:28,028 --> 00:23:30,597
Problem is,
if he's acquitted in japan,
415
00:23:30,662 --> 00:23:34,233
the double jeopardy provision
of the U.S.- Japan extradition treaty...
416
00:23:34,296 --> 00:23:37,241
prevents us from getting
a shot at him when they're through.
417
00:23:37,297 --> 00:23:40,742
I don't want us
to have a shot at him.
I want us to have the shot.
418
00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:43,108
We may not have a choice,
Arthur.
419
00:23:43,167 --> 00:23:46,442
Damn it!
What this man did is outrageous.
420
00:23:46,502 --> 00:23:51,244
He picks our city... my city...
to murder his wife in;
then he turns around and blames it on us.
421
00:23:51,303 --> 00:23:57,012
I'm angry, too, but unless you have
the 82nd Airborne on your payroll,
I don't see how we're gonna get him.
422
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,742
We hoist him on his own petard.
423
00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:06,280
The press.
Yoshida's a national hero in Japan.
424
00:24:06,343 --> 00:24:10,686
We announce that we've
apprehended his wife's killer
and need him to make an I.D.
425
00:24:10,744 --> 00:24:13,690
The Japanese public'll
be expecting him
to jump on the next plane.
426
00:24:13,746 --> 00:24:16,190
To honor his wife's memory.
427
00:24:16,247 --> 00:24:20,250
I just love it when I get
a flash of good, old-fashioned
American ingenuity.
428
00:24:21,749 --> 00:24:25,285
The New York City Police Department
today apprehended a suspect...
429
00:24:25,351 --> 00:24:28,660
in the shooting death
of Tamiko Yoshida.
430
00:24:28,719 --> 00:24:30,823
Yes, sir. You.
431
00:24:30,887 --> 00:24:33,923
Uh, what can you tell us
about the suspect?
432
00:24:33,988 --> 00:24:35,933
This composite sketch...
433
00:24:35,989 --> 00:24:39,729
was based upon a description
given to us by Mr. Yoshida.
434
00:24:39,790 --> 00:24:42,736
We're withholding
the name of the suspect
for the time being.
435
00:24:42,792 --> 00:24:45,031
Mr. Branch!. Mr. Branch!
Yes.
436
00:24:45,092 --> 00:24:47,037
What evidence
do you have against him?
437
00:24:47,093 --> 00:24:49,333
We have physical evidence
tying him to the crime,
438
00:24:49,394 --> 00:24:52,669
the motive of which
appears to have been robbery.
439
00:24:52,729 --> 00:24:55,333
But, of course,
we're also very hopeful...
440
00:24:55,396 --> 00:25:00,342
that Hiroji Yoshida,
the victim's husband,
as the only eyewitness,
441
00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:04,969
will be able to return to New York
immediately to identify the suspect
as the assailant
442
00:25:05,033 --> 00:25:06,978
Mr. Branch! Mr. Branch!
443
00:25:07,034 --> 00:25:09,980
Let me take this opportunity also
to say this.
444
00:25:10,036 --> 00:25:15,141
The City of New York is deeply saddened
by the murder of Mrs. Yoshida,
445
00:25:15,204 --> 00:25:19,446
and we're very much looking forward
to the return to New York of Mr. Yoshida...
446
00:25:19,506 --> 00:25:24,452
and hope that this will be
the beginning of the redress
of this grave wrong...
447
00:25:24,508 --> 00:25:27,715
and to ensure that justice
is done in this case.
448
00:25:27,776 --> 00:25:30,278
Thank you all very much.
449
00:25:32,178 --> 00:25:34,123
Mr. Branch,
may I have a word?
450
00:25:34,179 --> 00:25:37,125
Of course, Lieutenant.
What can I do for you?
451
00:25:37,181 --> 00:25:39,056
With all due respect, sir,
452
00:25:39,114 --> 00:25:41,115
I find this approach
troubling.
453
00:25:42,116 --> 00:25:44,060
It's okay.
454
00:25:44,116 --> 00:25:47,561
We're out of options.
We gotta get this guy back here
to answer for what he did.
455
00:25:47,617 --> 00:25:51,620
I understand that, sir.
But let me ask you something.
456
00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:57,627
Have you ever been stopped
for driving in the wrong neighborhood?
457
00:25:58,689 --> 00:26:00,827
No.
Well, I have.
458
00:26:00,890 --> 00:26:05,859
And what the public just saw
was another black face
connected to a terrible crime.
459
00:26:05,926 --> 00:26:09,371
I hear what you're saying, Lieutenant,
but I really think that this will work.
460
00:26:09,427 --> 00:26:12,837
The truth will come out,
and everybody will know
that he lied about what happened.
461
00:26:12,894 --> 00:26:14,634
And if it doesn't?
462
00:26:14,695 --> 00:26:19,698
Well, I guess the people of New York
will get a chance to weigh in on that
next election.
463
00:26:29,702 --> 00:26:32,146
Mr. Yoshida.
Mr. Yoshida. Mr. Yoshida.
464
00:26:32,203 --> 00:26:35,978
What was your reaction
when you heard police had apprehended
a suspect in your wife's death?
465
00:26:36,038 --> 00:26:38,744
Relief. Also sadness.
466
00:26:38,805 --> 00:26:43,252
Nothing can bring Tamiko back,
but I'm glad the man who did this
will pay for his crime.
467
00:26:43,308 --> 00:26:45,252
Yeah, so are we.
Detectives.
468
00:26:45,308 --> 00:26:47,753
We wanted to
welcome you back personally.
469
00:26:47,809 --> 00:26:51,254
Yeah. We brought you a gift
from the city of New York.
You like jewelry?
470
00:26:51,311 --> 00:26:53,256
I don't understand.
Bracelets.
471
00:26:53,312 --> 00:26:56,757
Hiroji Yoshida, you're under arrest for
the murder of Tamiko Yoshida.
472
00:26:56,813 --> 00:27:00,088
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can be used against you
in a court of law.
473
00:27:00,148 --> 00:27:02,319
You have the right
to an attorney.
474
00:27:04,483 --> 00:27:06,655
Docket ending 972.
475
00:27:06,717 --> 00:27:09,662
People of the State of New York
v. Hiroji Yoshida.
476
00:27:09,718 --> 00:27:12,890
Charge is murder in the first degree
and conspiracy in the second degree.
477
00:27:12,953 --> 00:27:14,898
How do you plead?
478
00:27:14,954 --> 00:27:16,899
Not guilty, ma'am.
Ms. Southerlyn?
479
00:27:16,955 --> 00:27:20,900
The defendant hired a hit man
to shoot his wife while they were
sightseeing here in Manhattan.
480
00:27:20,956 --> 00:27:23,902
The People cooked up
that little fantasy, Your Honor.
481
00:27:23,958 --> 00:27:27,835
The truth is Mr. and Mrs. Yoshida
were both victims
of a brutal armed robbery.
482
00:27:27,892 --> 00:27:31,997
The People seek remand.
The defendant is a foreign national
with absolutely no ties to this jurisdiction.
483
00:27:32,061 --> 00:27:35,802
He's a flight risk.
Your Honor, my client
shouldn't even be in this jurisdiction.
484
00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:39,899
He was lured here from Japan
through fraudulent conduct
on the part of the district attorney's office.
485
00:27:39,964 --> 00:27:41,806
After he fled the United States.
486
00:27:41,865 --> 00:27:45,333
He wasn't fleeing.
He was simply returning home
to bury his wife's ashes.
487
00:27:45,399 --> 00:27:48,674
Sounds like an argument between
the U.S. and Japanese governments.
488
00:27:48,734 --> 00:27:51,679
Also sounds completely irrelevant
to these proceedings.
489
00:27:51,735 --> 00:27:54,578
Defendant is remanded.
490
00:27:54,637 --> 00:27:59,776
No matter how you spin it, counselors,
this little deception is a new low,
even for your office.
491
00:27:59,838 --> 00:28:03,943
I can cite case after case
permitting law enforcement to use trickery
to obtain confessions.
492
00:28:04,007 --> 00:28:05,952
Why not to compel presence?
493
00:28:06,008 --> 00:28:09,953
Because you can't use trickery
to do an end run
around extradition treaties.
494
00:28:10,009 --> 00:28:15,251
You not only duped my client,
you also misled every person who viewed
that so-called press conference.
495
00:28:15,311 --> 00:28:18,257
I don't need a lecture on morality
from you, Mr. Olson.
496
00:28:18,313 --> 00:28:21,155
We're here because your client
killed his wife.
497
00:28:21,214 --> 00:28:23,523
I did not kill my wife
No.
498
00:28:23,581 --> 00:28:26,527
- You paid someone else to do it.
- That is a lie.
499
00:28:26,583 --> 00:28:30,687
If your case hinges on the testimony
of a career criminal
who cut a deal to save his own skin...
500
00:28:30,751 --> 00:28:34,754
We have an eyewitness
who can put the shooter, Bobby Ito,
with Mr. Yoshida.
501
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:38,996
A witness?
502
00:28:39,054 --> 00:28:43,125
She saw them
eating together at a restaurant
two days before the murder.
503
00:28:43,190 --> 00:28:47,795
Two men sharing a meal
I'm sure Mr. Yoshida has
a perfectly viable explanation.
504
00:28:47,858 --> 00:28:51,360
Can he also explain why he purchased
a $3 million life insurance policy on his wife...
505
00:28:51,427 --> 00:28:54,429
just a few months
before her death?
506
00:29:06,232 --> 00:29:11,076
I, uh, obviously haven't had
enough time to review
all the details with my client.
507
00:29:12,202 --> 00:29:14,147
I'll see you in court.
508
00:29:14,203 --> 00:29:16,374
The question is, which court?
509
00:29:16,436 --> 00:29:18,437
Motion to change venue.
510
00:29:24,407 --> 00:29:28,147
Your Honor, my client
cannot possibly receive a fair trial
in any of the five boroughs.
511
00:29:28,208 --> 00:29:30,153
Public opinion
is clearly against him.
512
00:29:30,209 --> 00:29:35,781
Mr. Yoshida stages a murder,
fabricates a story, blames the city,
enflames public opinion,
513
00:29:35,845 --> 00:29:40,052
and now he raises the possible back/ash
as a basis for change of venue?
514
00:29:40,113 --> 00:29:44,218
The point is, my jury pool
is made up of the very people
he bad-mouthed.
515
00:29:44,282 --> 00:29:48,160
Mr. Olson, where would you
propose I move this case,
were I so inclined?
516
00:29:48,217 --> 00:29:50,161
Any location
other than New York City.
517
00:29:50,217 --> 00:29:52,162
Upstate someplace.
518
00:29:52,218 --> 00:29:55,789
Where they share Mr. Yoshida's
low opinion of New York City.
519
00:29:55,853 --> 00:29:58,957
Counselor, relax.
It wasn't just a hypothetical.
520
00:30:00,721 --> 00:30:04,462
Change of venue is reserved for cases
that present a bias so pervasive...
521
00:30:04,523 --> 00:30:08,367
that it cannot be overcome
in the normal process of jury selection.
522
00:30:08,425 --> 00:30:10,869
Your Honor,
my client is presumed innocent,
523
00:30:10,926 --> 00:30:13,337
and as such is entitled
to an unbiased jury.
524
00:30:14,527 --> 00:30:17,529
That's what voir dire is for.
525
00:30:20,130 --> 00:30:24,337
Mr. Roberts, have you heard
anything about this case
before today?
526
00:30:24,398 --> 00:30:26,343
Of course.
On the news.
527
00:30:26,399 --> 00:30:31,175
Based on what you've heard or read,
have you formed an opinion
about the facts in this case?
528
00:30:31,234 --> 00:30:34,236
My wife says I don't have
much of an opinion
about anything.
529
00:30:35,770 --> 00:30:39,306
If the evidence against the defendant
proved his case beyond a reasonable doubt,
530
00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:41,747
would you have any problem
voting guilty in the jury room?
531
00:30:41,805 --> 00:30:43,806
Not one bit.
Thank you.
532
00:30:44,973 --> 00:30:47,578
How about you,
Mrs. Nickerson?
533
00:30:47,641 --> 00:30:51,143
Have you read or seen anything
on the news about this case?
534
00:30:51,209 --> 00:30:53,279
Yes, I heard about it.
Poor woman.
535
00:30:53,343 --> 00:30:57,721
Mrs. Nickerson, do you think
you'd be able to weigh
the evidence impartially...
536
00:30:57,779 --> 00:30:59,723
and make a determination...
537
00:30:59,779 --> 00:31:02,850
not whether Mr. Yoshida
accused a black man of killing his wife,
538
00:31:02,914 --> 00:31:05,153
but whether he hired
a hit man to do it?
539
00:31:05,215 --> 00:31:08,319
Innocent until proven guilty.
540
00:31:08,382 --> 00:31:12,157
But I would like to know
why he accused a black man
in the first place.
541
00:31:12,218 --> 00:31:14,424
Mm-hmm. Thank you.
542
00:31:16,386 --> 00:31:19,331
Ms. Talbot, have you
followed this case in the press?
543
00:31:19,387 --> 00:31:20,888
Yes.
544
00:31:20,955 --> 00:31:25,095
Based on what you've seen or read,
have you formed an opinion about it?
545
00:31:25,156 --> 00:31:27,658
No. I try not to prejudge.
546
00:31:27,724 --> 00:31:29,669
Thank you.
547
00:31:29,725 --> 00:31:32,067
No further questions,
Your Honor.
548
00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:39,830
Mr. Roberts, you said
you'd heard about this case.
549
00:31:39,896 --> 00:31:41,841
What did you hear, exactly?
550
00:31:41,897 --> 00:31:47,037
When it happened,
I heard on the news that he said
a black guy did it.
551
00:31:47,099 --> 00:31:51,272
- How did that make you feel?
- Like I was glad I was in Queens that day.
552
00:31:51,334 --> 00:31:53,677
I'll bet it did.
Thank you.
553
00:31:55,236 --> 00:31:59,704
Mrs. Nickerson, were you surprised
to hear that Mr. Yoshida
had been arrested in this case?
554
00:31:59,770 --> 00:32:02,772
Surprised?
I suppose so, yes.
555
00:32:02,838 --> 00:32:06,943
But it wasn't the first time you'd heard
about a black man being accused
of a crime he didn't commit.
556
00:32:07,007 --> 00:32:08,952
Unfortunately, no.
557
00:32:09,008 --> 00:32:13,249
Susan Smith did the same thing.
So did that fella up in Boston.
558
00:32:13,309 --> 00:32:15,254
Charles Stuart?
Mmm.
559
00:32:15,310 --> 00:32:17,346
Would you say
you felt a bit weary?
560
00:32:18,845 --> 00:32:21,790
That would be a good description
of howl felt, yes.
561
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,050
Mrs. Lovell, what about you?
562
00:32:26,115 --> 00:32:28,457
Have you read or heard
about this case?
No.
563
00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:31,926
Actually, I haven't.
I hate the news. It's depressing.
564
00:32:31,984 --> 00:32:34,361
But you've gathered
from listening here today...
565
00:32:34,418 --> 00:32:39,057
that Mr. Yoshida has blamed
a black man for killing his wife.
566
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,065
Yes, that's what it sounds like.
567
00:32:41,121 --> 00:32:43,963
You said you find the news
“depressing.”
568
00:32:44,022 --> 00:32:46,728
Racism, violence, politicians lying.
569
00:32:46,789 --> 00:32:50,064
I'd rather watch the Discovery Channel.
Thank you.
570
00:32:51,791 --> 00:32:53,792
No further questions,
Your Honor.
571
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,598
Mr. McCoy, do you have
any challenges for cause?
572
00:32:59,061 --> 00:33:01,540
Juror Number One,
573
00:33:01,596 --> 00:33:03,541
Juror Number Five...
574
00:33:03,596 --> 00:33:06,098
and Juror Number Nine.
575
00:33:06,164 --> 00:33:08,733
Mr. Olson do you have
any challenges for cause?
576
00:33:10,033 --> 00:33:13,604
Juror Number Four,
Juror Number Six...
577
00:33:13,668 --> 00:33:15,976
and Juror Number Eight.
578
00:33:20,471 --> 00:33:22,813
Your Honor,
may we approach the bench?
579
00:33:22,871 --> 00:33:24,872
Approach,
580
00:33:26,539 --> 00:33:29,484
Your Honor, the People have
a reverse Batson application.
581
00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:33,953
Mr. Olson has excluded
all the African-American jurors
seated on the panel.
582
00:33:34,010 --> 00:33:36,682
And Mr. McCoy
has excluded the only Asian.
583
00:33:36,744 --> 00:33:41,087
I think it was obvious to this court
that Juror Number Nine had
a poor grasp of the English language.
584
00:33:41,145 --> 00:33:44,125
That was the basis of my challenge.
Of course it was.
585
00:33:44,180 --> 00:33:46,180
Let's discuss this in chambers.
586
00:33:47,215 --> 00:33:50,751
The media has stirred up
all kinds of racial resentment
against Mr. Yoshida,
587
00:33:50,816 --> 00:33:55,023
which I believe has necessarily
influenced the impartiality
of the jurors I've challenged.
588
00:33:55,084 --> 00:33:59,587
In other words, these black jurors are lying
when they say they can consider
the evidence on the merits.
589
00:33:59,653 --> 00:34:02,098
Not lying, Jack.
Kidding themselves.
590
00:34:02,154 --> 00:34:05,429
The fundamental question is,
can my client receive a fair trial...
591
00:34:05,489 --> 00:34:10,094
from jurors whose prejudices
have been inflamed by
the media coverage of this case?
592
00:34:10,157 --> 00:34:12,102
Interesting point.
593
00:34:12,158 --> 00:34:14,103
Is this court prepared to rule...
594
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,570
that the courts
can assume a person's bias
based on their skin color?
595
00:34:17,627 --> 00:34:20,265
No, but this court
is prepared to rule...
596
00:34:20,328 --> 00:34:22,273
that in a case...
597
00:34:22,329 --> 00:34:26,241
where a potential juror
likens the defendant to Susan Smith...
598
00:34:26,297 --> 00:34:30,242
and another states he's glad
he was in Queens that day,
599
00:34:30,299 --> 00:34:33,744
there's a genuine issue
of whether they can be fair,
regardless of their skin color.
600
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,745
Where does it stop?
601
00:34:35,801 --> 00:34:39,576
If counsel has his way,
there couldn't be a single
person of color on this jury.
602
00:34:39,636 --> 00:34:45,208
My primary concern
is not only with Batson,
but with fundamental fairness.
603
00:34:45,272 --> 00:34:47,910
Defense challenges for cause
will stand.
604
00:34:53,208 --> 00:34:56,153
I served him breakfast
at a diner where I waitress.
605
00:34:56,209 --> 00:34:59,484
I remember the tattoos on his arms.
Was Mr. Ito alone?
606
00:34:59,544 --> 00:35:01,420
He was with Mr. Yoshida.
607
00:35:01,478 --> 00:35:04,355
I saw Mr. Yoshida give him
a photograph of a woman.
608
00:35:04,413 --> 00:35:06,414
Did you get a good look
at this photograph?
609
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,686
Close enough to see that
she was a young Asian woman.
610
00:35:08,748 --> 00:35:10,693
Very pretty.
611
00:35:10,749 --> 00:35:13,250
Thank you, Ms. Chen.
612
00:35:15,984 --> 00:35:18,020
Ms. Chen,
613
00:35:18,085 --> 00:35:20,325
would it be fair to say that...
614
00:35:20,386 --> 00:35:24,763
you've waited on thousands of people
in the time you've worked at the diner?
615
00:35:24,821 --> 00:35:27,323
Yes.
Yet all these many months later,
616
00:35:27,389 --> 00:35:29,765
you clearly remember
Mr. Yoshida.
617
00:35:29,823 --> 00:35:34,531
- He must have made quite an impression.
- I saw him on the news a few days later.
618
00:35:34,592 --> 00:35:37,093
Have you ever met anyone who was on TV?
No, I haven't.
619
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,332
Isn't it possible
that you got mixed up,
620
00:35:39,394 --> 00:35:42,339
that Mr. Yoshida's face looked familiar
not from the diner,
621
00:35:42,395 --> 00:35:45,567
but from the extensive news coverage
this case received?
622
00:35:45,630 --> 00:35:47,631
I don't think so.
623
00:35:47,698 --> 00:35:51,542
May I remind you, Ms. Chen
that a man's life is at stake.
624
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,602
Are you 100% sure
that you're not mistaken?
625
00:35:57,969 --> 00:36:01,779
I don't think any of us
can ever be 100% sure of anything.
626
00:36:04,104 --> 00:36:06,049
Thank you.
627
00:36:06,105 --> 00:36:08,106
No further questions.
628
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,180
Mr. Ito, how old were you...
629
00:36:12,241 --> 00:36:16,881
when you first became a member
of the Japanese criminal organization
known as the yakuza?
630
00:36:16,943 --> 00:36:19,820
I was 13, after my father died.
631
00:36:19,877 --> 00:36:24,721
Mr. Ito, you have tattoos
covering your entire upper body.
Isn't that correct?
632
00:36:24,779 --> 00:36:26,951
Correct. Body murals.
633
00:36:27,014 --> 00:36:30,016
Could you show the court...
634
00:36:30,082 --> 00:36:32,152
your forearms, please?
635
00:36:37,185 --> 00:36:40,221
What is the significance
of these body murals?
636
00:36:40,286 --> 00:36:42,662
They show which clan
I belong to in yakuza.
637
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:44,721
It's an old tradition.
638
00:36:46,488 --> 00:36:50,628
Can you tell us the first time
you had contact with Mr. Yoshida?
639
00:36:50,690 --> 00:36:52,691
A yakuza in Japan called me.
640
00:36:53,992 --> 00:36:58,460
He said there was a man in Tokyo
who would contact me
about doing a job for him.
641
00:36:58,526 --> 00:37:01,198
A few weeks later,
Mr. Yoshida called me.
642
00:37:01,260 --> 00:37:03,205
When did you actually meet Yoshida?
At the diner.
643
00:37:03,261 --> 00:37:05,103
Two days before the shooting?
Right.
644
00:37:05,162 --> 00:37:06,970
What was the purpose
of that meeting?
645
00:37:07,030 --> 00:37:09,975
Mr. Yoshida wanted me to kill his wife
and make it look like a robbery.
646
00:37:10,031 --> 00:37:12,340
He told me to shoot her in the head,
him in the arm.
647
00:37:12,399 --> 00:37:15,708
To kill her and not him.
648
00:37:15,767 --> 00:37:17,712
That's right.
649
00:37:17,768 --> 00:37:20,508
Did you two discuss
a location for this shooting?
650
00:37:20,569 --> 00:37:24,709
I suggested the spot.
Sundays it's deserted, no witnesses.
651
00:37:24,771 --> 00:37:28,875
Did Mr. Yoshida say why
he had chosen New York City...
652
00:37:28,939 --> 00:37:31,714
over, say, Tokyo
to kill his wife?
653
00:37:31,773 --> 00:37:36,516
He said that black people
commit so much crime in New York
the police can't keep up.
654
00:37:38,310 --> 00:37:41,312
Thank you.
Nothing further.
655
00:37:45,445 --> 00:37:48,391
Let's put our cards
on the table, Mr. Ito.
656
00:37:48,447 --> 00:37:50,392
Murder for hire.
657
00:37:50,447 --> 00:37:53,892
- You could have been indicted
in this case for first-degree murder.
- That's right.
658
00:37:53,949 --> 00:37:57,417
But instead, you plead guilty
to a reduced charge
of second-degree murder.
659
00:37:57,484 --> 00:37:59,588
Yeah.
And agreed to testify
against Mr. Yoshida.
660
00:38:01,252 --> 00:38:04,424
This isn't your first time
in a courtroom, is it?
No.
661
00:38:04,487 --> 00:38:07,365
In fact, you have
three prior criminal convictions,
662
00:38:07,421 --> 00:38:10,264
all involving illegal activities
tied to the yakuza,
663
00:38:10,323 --> 00:38:12,268
a known criminal organization.
664
00:38:12,324 --> 00:38:14,166
If you say so.
665
00:38:14,224 --> 00:38:16,169
No, Mr. Ito.
666
00:38:16,225 --> 00:38:20,467
The People of the States
of New York and New Jersey say so.
667
00:38:26,496 --> 00:38:31,034
Mr. Yoshida, can you tell the court
who shot you and your wife?
668
00:38:31,098 --> 00:38:33,042
Mr. Ito.
669
00:38:33,098 --> 00:38:36,543
And you're sure about this?
Tamiko and I were sightseeing.
670
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,772
We stop to look at map, Mr. Ito appear.
671
00:38:39,834 --> 00:38:42,109
He said he had a message from Tokyo.
672
00:38:42,169 --> 00:38:44,170
Then he shoot us.
673
00:38:44,237 --> 00:38:47,444
Why did you tell the police
a black man did it?
674
00:38:48,805 --> 00:38:50,750
I'm very sorry about that.
675
00:38:50,806 --> 00:38:52,751
I was scared.
676
00:38:52,807 --> 00:38:56,412
I know if I say it was a yakuza
they would kill me.
677
00:38:56,475 --> 00:39:00,750
So you lied because you were afraid
of reprisals from the yakuza?
678
00:39:00,810 --> 00:39:02,755
Yes.
679
00:39:02,811 --> 00:39:07,382
When Mr. Ito told you
that he had a message from Tokyo,
what did you understand him to mean?
680
00:39:07,446 --> 00:39:10,391
My nightclub in Tokyo is a big success.
681
00:39:10,447 --> 00:39:13,017
Big profit.
Yakuza wanted a percentage.
682
00:39:13,082 --> 00:39:15,856
I said no.
Tamiko was a warning.
683
00:39:15,916 --> 00:39:18,122
Why didn't they just shoot you?
684
00:39:18,184 --> 00:39:22,095
If I was dead,
I could not run the business
and make money for them.
685
00:39:22,152 --> 00:39:26,030
Before the morning of the shooting,
had you ever seen Mr. Ito before?
Never.
686
00:39:26,087 --> 00:39:29,032
Then how do you explain
the testimony of the waitress?
687
00:39:29,088 --> 00:39:31,033
People make mistake.
688
00:39:31,089 --> 00:39:35,694
She's Chinese. Maybe she think
all Japanese people look alike.
689
00:39:36,758 --> 00:39:38,759
Mr. Yoshida,
690
00:39:39,759 --> 00:39:42,398
did you hire Bobby Ito
to kill your wife?
691
00:39:43,761 --> 00:39:45,762
I did not.
692
00:39:47,896 --> 00:39:50,899
I loved Tamiko with all my heart.
693
00:39:53,932 --> 00:39:55,933
I still do.
694
00:39:57,500 --> 00:39:59,308
Nothing further.
695
00:40:01,102 --> 00:40:04,047
You say your nightclub in Tokyo
is very profitable.
696
00:40:04,103 --> 00:40:07,048
What's the state
of your personal finances?
697
00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:09,583
I put my money
back into my business.
698
00:40:09,638 --> 00:40:11,742
Do you owe anyone money?
The bank.
699
00:40:11,806 --> 00:40:13,546
What about the yakuza?
Objection.
700
00:40:13,606 --> 00:40:15,084
Sustained.
701
00:40:15,140 --> 00:40:18,085
Your wife was only 28 years old
when she was murdered.
702
00:40:18,141 --> 00:40:20,620
Yes.
How would you
describe her health?
703
00:40:20,676 --> 00:40:22,450
She was healthy.
704
00:40:22,510 --> 00:40:25,079
Your Honor, People's exhibit 14.
705
00:40:25,144 --> 00:40:28,988
This is a life insurance policy
from Nippon Life that you took out
four months before the murder.
706
00:40:29,046 --> 00:40:31,047
Do you recognize it?
707
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:34,292
Life insurance for Tamiko.
708
00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:38,794
The equivalent of $3 million
for a young, healthy woman?
709
00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:42,227
She asked for it.
She was a very successful woman.
710
00:40:42,285 --> 00:40:45,560
So you didn't take out that policy
to pay off a gambling debt to the yakuza?
711
00:40:45,619 --> 00:40:48,497
- Objection! Speculation.
- Sustained.
712
00:40:48,555 --> 00:40:50,499
Mr. Yoshida,
713
00:40:50,555 --> 00:40:53,501
you've just admitted
that you lied to the police.
714
00:40:53,557 --> 00:40:55,501
Why should we believe you now?
715
00:40:55,557 --> 00:40:57,502
Because I am telling the truth.
716
00:40:57,558 --> 00:40:59,332
I loved my wife.
717
00:40:59,392 --> 00:41:01,337
You told the police a lie.
718
00:41:01,393 --> 00:41:04,031
You continued to tell that lie.
719
00:41:04,094 --> 00:41:06,767
You got up in front of news cameras,
720
00:41:06,829 --> 00:41:10,104
feigning outrage
against the city of New York.
721
00:41:10,163 --> 00:41:14,336
- I am telling the truth now.
- Only after being tricked
into coming back from Japan.
722
00:41:14,398 --> 00:41:17,969
Yakuza killed my wife
as a warning to me.
That was the truth.
723
00:41:18,033 --> 00:41:23,002
And now that
you're being charged with murder,
you're interested in the truth?
724
00:41:23,068 --> 00:41:25,069
Nothing further.
725
00:41:37,341 --> 00:41:41,809
I guess you won't be joining us
for the bar association gala tonight.
726
00:41:42,943 --> 00:41:44,888
I'm hoping for a verdict.
727
00:41:44,944 --> 00:41:47,116
You said that two days ago.
728
00:41:47,178 --> 00:41:49,623
Olson called.
729
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,749
They're willing to plead
to murder two.
730
00:41:51,813 --> 00:41:56,021
Yeah? Well, tell him
he's got a better chance
of catching a bat in a fly trap.
731
00:41:56,082 --> 00:41:58,356
We might have a hung jury, Arthur.
732
00:41:58,416 --> 00:42:02,954
The man made a cynical
and heartless decision
to murder his wife for money
733
00:42:03,018 --> 00:42:06,486
The fact that he tried
to exploit racial divisions
makes it even more heinous.
734
00:42:07,887 --> 00:42:09,832
I agree.
735
00:42:09,888 --> 00:42:12,162
I have faith in this jury...
736
00:42:12,222 --> 00:42:14,792
and the good sense
of New Yorkers.
737
00:42:35,931 --> 00:42:39,604
Ha ve you reached a verdict
in the death of Tamiko Yoshida?
738
00:42:39,666 --> 00:42:41,872
We have, Your Honor.
739
00:42:41,934 --> 00:42:44,879
On the first count of the indictment,
murder in the first degree, how do you
find the defendant, Hiroji Yoshida?
740
00:42:44,935 --> 00:42:47,504
We find the defendant guilty.
741
00:42:47,569 --> 00:42:51,481
And on the second count,
conspiracy in the second degree,
how do you find the defendant?
742
00:42:51,538 --> 00:42:53,949
We find the defendant guilty
743
00:42:54,006 --> 00:42:57,474
Jury is dismissed
with the thanks of the court.
744
00:42:57,541 --> 00:42:59,644
Short date for sentence.
745
00:43:05,377 --> 00:43:08,322
Seems kind of fitting
after trashing this country,
746
00:43:08,378 --> 00:43:11,823
Mr. Yoshida will probably get to
spend the rest of his life here.
747
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,325
We got the right guy,
but Arthur was playing with fire.
748
00:43:15,381 --> 00:43:18,519
When we arrested Yoshida,
the truth came out.
749
00:43:18,582 --> 00:43:22,528
You know how newspaper retractions
are always on an inside page...
750
00:43:22,584 --> 00:43:24,529
in small print?
751
00:43:24,585 --> 00:43:28,530
You ever wonder how many people
see the front page story...
752
00:43:28,586 --> 00:43:31,088
and miss the follow-up correction?