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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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Frank and Count Basie at The Sands.
That'll set the mood.
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Then what are you going to do?
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Yeah. Hot oil?
That sounds good.
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Yeah, that'll definitely get
little Johnny's attention.
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Wait, wait.
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Advanced Studies.
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Hello again, Mr. Aronson.
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I was just on my way out.
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No, I wouldn't leave if your wife
was still here, but she's not.
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Okay, okay.
I got your number.
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I'll take a quick look,
I'll call you back. Bye-bye.
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Hello, Jackie? Listen, there's
something I got to do, okay, baby?
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I'll be right back.
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Keep the coffee
percolating. Bye.
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Mrs. Aronson?
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Mrs. Aronson?
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Mrs. Aronson!
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The school custodian, Johnny Cobb,
says he found her about 9:30.
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Any other witnesses?
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Nobody else was
in the building.
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The front doors were locked,
the alarm was set.
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I saw her around 7:00,
she was grading papers,
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she told me she
was leaving soon.
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And the first time her husband
called, you checked the classroom?
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That was just
a little after 9:00.
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I walked by the room, the lights
were out, so I didn't look in.
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I called him back,
I told him she wasn't here.
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But the second time,
you looked in.
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The second time I tried
the door, it was open.
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She always locks up
after herself.
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She often work late?
Yeah.
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Damn shame, you know, a young woman
like that, she's a good person.
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Yeah, they usually are,
Mr. Cobb. Thank you.
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Thought you were
going to call in sick.
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Can't afford to give up the
sick days before Christmas.
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Okay, so when I get your cold,
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is your wife going to
make me chicken soup?
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Say hello to Sarah Aronson, 28,
taught art and art history,
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and according to
Detective Bailey,
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she's been history
for about two hours.
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Give or take.
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Strangled with the strap
from her handbag.
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Perp left behind cash,
cards, the whole caboodle.
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Well, maybe he got
what he came for.
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It must have been
the lmmaculate Conception.
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Panties are intact,
no fluids anywhere.
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Yeah, unless you count
all that red stuff.
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No wounds on her I can see,
blood's got to be the perp's.
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Anything she might've
used as a weapon?
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Yeah, we found
a piece of chalk.
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Bag her as soon
as you're ready.
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Did you take art
in high school, Rey?
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Physics.
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An art teacher,
who'd she ever hurt?
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Yeah, an algebra teacher,
I could understand.
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This was Sarah's third year
at Advanced Studies.
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She was involved in every
aspect of school life.
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Coached girls volleyball, headed
the community outreach group.
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Do you have any idea
who could have done this?
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Some neighborhood scum.
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We had a couple of
break-ins last year.
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They stole some computers,
vandalized classrooms.
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Your people did
a quick inventory,
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nothing was stolen,
nothing was vandalized.
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And there's no sign
of any break-in.
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I can't believe anyone
here would do this.
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Two thousand high school kids, and
every one of them's an angel?
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We recruit our students
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from among the highest
achievers in the city.
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They take a battery of tests to
get here, these aren't hoodlums.
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Well, Dr. Sabloff, somebody got out
without setting off the alarm.
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How many people have
a key to disarm it?
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Faculty, some of the staff.
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Look, you're barking up
the wrong tree here.
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Whoever did this could have
taken Sarah's key to get out.
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Sarah told me she was having
dinner with another teacher,
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Lana Halstead.
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She was supposed to
be home around 9:00.
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When can I bring her back?
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I've got to arrange the
funeral before the Sabbath.
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We'll tell the coroner
to try to speed it up.
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Mr. Aronson, if your wife was
having dinner with a friend,
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then why did you
call the school?
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Well, when Sarah wasn't home by
9:00, I called Ms. Halstead.
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She said that
Sarah never showed up.
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She thought maybe she was still
grading papers at the school.
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And what did you think?
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Mr. Aronson, is it possible
that she was seeing somebody?
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No.
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No.
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But something was going on.
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For two weeks now, there were
calls, lots of hang-ups.
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Once a man called,
asked for Sarah,
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and they wouldn't
leave a message.
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Well, what did she say
about these calls?
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She just thought I was making
a big deal about nothing.
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Can you think of anyone who
could have made these calls?
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No.
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Sarah and I were supposed
to have dinner together,
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I was not covering for her.
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Ms. Halstead, you might think
you're helping your friend here.
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I am not lying.
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Sarah was not the type
to have an affair.
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My experience is it's an
equal-opportunity character flaw.
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Sarah and I were close.
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If she were seeing somebody,
I'm sure that I would know.
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Well, her husband said they
got some strange phone calls,
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at least one of
them from a man.
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Ms. Halstead?
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She hinted that she was having a problem
with one of the other teachers.
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This problem have a name?
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Richard Kovax, Advanced Math.
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He was her mentor,
her first year here.
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Is that all he was?
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Well, maybe not in
Richard's imagination.
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Richard's been with
the school for 18 years,
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and anytime they need money for
some kind of special project,
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he's the one they send to
speak to these foundations.
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So that kind of thing breeds a
certain amount of arrogance.
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I got along very well
with Sarah. I liked her.
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If she had a problem with
that, she never told me.
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Then why would she want to talk
about you with Ms. Halstead?
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Beats me. I may not
be God's gift to women,
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but I'm not surprised I'm a topic
among the female staff here.
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Well, we got the impression that your
animal magnetism wasn't on the agenda.
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Look, Sarah was
an exciting intellectual
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and a fine artist
in her own right.
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I showed her
a little more attention.
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If she mistook that
for something deeper...
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Or more sinister?
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Did you ever call her
at home, Richard?
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Don't bother saying no, 'cause we
have other ways of finding out.
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I might've called her last week
to discuss the outreach program.
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And last night around 7:30?
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I was at the Morningside Gym, warming
up for my session with my trainer.
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I was there till
just after 10:00.
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He has a regular time,
8:00, three nights a week.
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Uh-huh. And what time did
you get here Wednesday?
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7:00. Then I went straight into
the whirlpool to work on my knee.
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I didn't see Richard
till about 7:50.
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He was warming up
on the treadmill.
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Did you notice any cuts
or bruises on him?
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No, but he usually
wears a sweatshirt.
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See, he had a bypass
about two years ago,
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he really doesn't want
people to see the scar.
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How about his mood?
Anything unusual that night?
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No, same as it's been for
the last couple of weeks.
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Lousy.
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He had the Christmas blues
a few weeks early, huh?
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Well, you ask me, he got the three
strikes from his girlfriend.
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They used to come in together,
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but she called me about two weeks
ago, wanted to change her time.
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Two weeks ago,
right around the same time
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Aronson started getting
the phone calls.
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You get that girlfriend's number,
we're going to need it, all right?
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I'm not exactly shocked
you're here.
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I knew sooner or later it
would catch up to Richard,
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I just didn't expect
it would be this fast.
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What would catch up to him?
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The second coming
of Classanova.
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Believe me, I thought of
calling the police myself.
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So what happened?
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Did he run off
with her to Vegas?
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You're saying he was involved
with one of his students?
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I was at his place on Sunday,
a couple of weeks ago.
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He went out to get the paper.
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The phone rang, I heard the
message on the machine.
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It sounded like a young girl.
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What was the message?
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She was sorry she'd
gotten him in trouble.
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She said it wasn't her fault,
she tried keeping it a secret,
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but something about
a Mrs. Aronson,
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and the girl left
her name. Mattie.
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What did Kovax say about it?
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He told me I was
jumping to conclusions.
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Right.
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I know I didn't phone my high school
teachers at home on Sunday mornings.
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I got my things and left.
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My money's on the girlfriend.
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She wouldn't have walked unless
there was something to it.
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Oh, yeah? Well,
take it from the old bull,
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women can walk because you leave
the cap off the toothpaste.
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Besides, this Mattie
could be 90 years old.
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I got the work-up on the
blood from the scene.
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The perp's male,
most likely Caucasian.
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So far that's me.
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Well, you better cut out
your morning donut.
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The PCR tests indicate our
perp's predisposed to diabetes.
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Well, if Kovax had a bypass, maybe
that wasn't his only health problem.
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Yeah, I'm still here.
Yeah, go ahead.
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Right. Can you give me
the address?
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Okay, thank you very much.
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Kovax has a Mattie Braverman
in his 11th grade class.
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Lennie, what kind of trouble does a
grown man get in over a 16-year-old?
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Come on.
Well, let's ask him.
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Uh-uh. Ask the girl first,
might save us some apologies.
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The love life of
a 16-year-old girl?
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Sounds like your department.
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Have a seat, Mattie.
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I told your mother
it wouldn't take long.
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I don't mind
looking at some photos,
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but I really doubt
I'll recognize anybody.
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I really didn't notice who was hanging
around the school last Wednesday.
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I didn't bring you down
here to look at mug shots,
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but I do want to know about your
relationship with Richard Kovax.
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He's just my teacher,
what do you mean?
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You called him at home.
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One of his friends
heard your message.
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I don't even know his number.
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Mattie, we can look
at your phone records.
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We can prove you made the call,
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so don't lie or I promise you,
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you will be in serious trouble.
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All right,
I better get your mother.
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This is a murder investigation,
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and you're a material witness.
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The less you cooperate,
the worse it gets.
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Wait.
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Don't bring my mother in here.
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The call wasn't about
what you think.
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I wasn't sleeping
with Mr. Kovax.
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Then what was the call about?
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Mrs. Aronson was my advisor.
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She called me in
a couple of weeks ago
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because I was getting
A's in Advanced Math.
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She knew I wasn't
a math genius.
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Last year, I was
getting C's and D's.
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She wanted to know
what the deal was.
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And what did you tell her?
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She was like you.
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She thought I was slutting Mr.
Kovax for good grades.
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She said she was gonna go to the administration.
I said it wasn't true.
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I was buying grades
from Mr. Kovax.
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Excuse me?
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I was giving him
$300 a semester.
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I had to, to bring up my GPA,
or forget about Vassar.
242
00:12:17,256 --> 00:12:18,780
I'm not the only one, you know.
243
00:12:18,858 --> 00:12:21,587
I can name at least six
other students in my class.
244
00:12:25,263 --> 00:12:27,595
She said she was going
to speak to Mr. Kovax.
245
00:12:28,566 --> 00:12:30,693
I've been Teacher of the
Year, five years running.
246
00:12:30,769 --> 00:12:32,259
I know how to
motivate these kids.
247
00:12:32,337 --> 00:12:34,430
You know how to
pick their pockets.
248
00:12:34,506 --> 00:12:37,873
We talked to some of Mattie's friends,
they all tell the same story.
249
00:12:37,942 --> 00:12:40,638
Seven kids,
three bills each a semester,
250
00:12:40,712 --> 00:12:44,078
that's over $4,000 a year, not
counting the kids we don't know about.
251
00:12:45,783 --> 00:12:47,717
I think I should
talk to a lawyer.
252
00:12:47,785 --> 00:12:51,482
You say the word,
we'll let you make a call
253
00:12:51,555 --> 00:12:55,047
right after we book you for
bribe-receiving and murder.
254
00:12:57,227 --> 00:12:58,592
That's absolutely crazy.
255
00:12:58,662 --> 00:13:00,493
I left that school at 6:30.
256
00:13:00,564 --> 00:13:01,895
Dr. Sabloff saw me leave,
ask him.
257
00:13:01,965 --> 00:13:04,626
We did. That just means
you came back later.
258
00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:06,134
You're dead meat, Richard.
259
00:13:06,202 --> 00:13:08,295
You left your blood
all over that classroom.
260
00:13:08,371 --> 00:13:09,770
What'd she do,
smack you in the nose
261
00:13:09,839 --> 00:13:10,931
while you were strangling her?
262
00:13:11,007 --> 00:13:14,101
Look, I'm an O negative.
You check, it can't be my blood.
263
00:13:16,312 --> 00:13:18,337
Thanks for your
cooperation, Richard.
264
00:13:18,414 --> 00:13:19,813
It's my duty to inform you
265
00:13:19,882 --> 00:13:23,112
that your blood type matches
the type found at the scene.
266
00:13:23,185 --> 00:13:24,243
But that's impossible.
267
00:13:24,319 --> 00:13:25,343
Stand up, Mr. Kovax.
268
00:13:25,420 --> 00:13:28,116
Wait, would you let me explain?
269
00:13:28,190 --> 00:13:29,452
What, you don't want
a lawyer anymore?
270
00:13:29,524 --> 00:13:31,958
No, I want to clear this up.
271
00:13:36,898 --> 00:13:38,763
Sarah found out
what I was doing,
272
00:13:40,202 --> 00:13:42,329
but I made a deal with her,
I stopped taking the money.
273
00:13:42,404 --> 00:13:43,735
And did you stop
taking their money?
274
00:13:43,805 --> 00:13:44,896
Yes.
275
00:13:48,342 --> 00:13:51,869
I told the students the deal
was off, and I told them why.
276
00:13:53,314 --> 00:13:56,283
You told them that Sarah Aronson
was the one who pulled the plug?
277
00:13:56,350 --> 00:13:57,783
Maybe I shouldn't have.
278
00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:02,184
A few days ago, Sarah told
me she'd gotten threats,
279
00:14:02,256 --> 00:14:04,417
anonymous notes
left on her desk.
280
00:14:05,558 --> 00:14:07,116
She wanted to know
who was responsible.
281
00:14:07,193 --> 00:14:08,683
I told her I didn't know.
282
00:14:08,762 --> 00:14:12,823
I teach seven classes, it could
have been any one of 30 kids,
283
00:14:12,899 --> 00:14:15,265
but I swear to God,
I didn't kill her.
284
00:14:15,335 --> 00:14:17,565
Well,
we believe you, Mr. Kovax.
285
00:14:18,772 --> 00:14:20,672
Turns out,
we got everything mixed up.
286
00:14:20,740 --> 00:14:23,004
Your blood type
doesn't match, after all.
287
00:14:27,379 --> 00:14:30,542
She kept a locker in here to
change for volleyball practice.
288
00:14:30,616 --> 00:14:32,447
This one's yours, Lennie.
I did her desk.
289
00:14:32,518 --> 00:14:34,315
Great. Smelly socks.
I can't wait.
290
00:14:34,386 --> 00:14:36,354
This one, number 12.
291
00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:49,423
Hmm.
292
00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:50,762
This is cute.
293
00:14:51,769 --> 00:14:54,829
"Open your big mouth,
Jew bitch, and you'll die."
294
00:14:54,906 --> 00:14:58,103
"Hitler was right, burn with
the rest of the mud people."
295
00:15:08,018 --> 00:15:10,748
I met Mrs. Aronson last year.
296
00:15:10,821 --> 00:15:13,312
She brought her students to
the Met to see our collection
297
00:15:13,390 --> 00:15:15,381
of da Vinci drawings.
298
00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:18,621
She had some very talented
young artists in her group,
299
00:15:18,695 --> 00:15:21,630
very strong on technique.
300
00:15:21,698 --> 00:15:23,598
As for subject matter,
301
00:15:23,667 --> 00:15:27,000
well, the sooner they stop listening
to heavy metal, the better.
302
00:15:27,070 --> 00:15:30,095
Well, what about the kid who was listening
to Deutschland über alles?
303
00:15:30,172 --> 00:15:31,469
Is he one of hers?
304
00:15:31,540 --> 00:15:34,407
Well, this drawing was done
in freehand calligraphy,
305
00:15:34,476 --> 00:15:39,436
meaning each figure was outlined
with one continuous line.
306
00:15:39,515 --> 00:15:43,315
Definitely inspired
by Japanese sumi-e painting.
307
00:15:44,086 --> 00:15:45,951
Very much like this one.
308
00:15:46,856 --> 00:15:49,221
What's particularly interesting
309
00:15:49,290 --> 00:15:53,249
are the folds in
this dress and this.
310
00:15:53,328 --> 00:15:57,287
See how the shadows are suggested
by the thickness of the line?
311
00:15:58,132 --> 00:16:00,566
The same hand drew
both of these.
312
00:16:04,372 --> 00:16:06,203
Edward Camarillo.
313
00:16:06,908 --> 00:16:10,104
Yeah, I drew an angel
for a school project.
314
00:16:10,177 --> 00:16:12,236
Is that some kind of violation
of church and state?
315
00:16:12,312 --> 00:16:13,939
I'll show you a violation.
316
00:16:15,382 --> 00:16:19,011
This is your work, Eddie,
your special style.
317
00:16:19,086 --> 00:16:20,280
Are you asking me a question?
318
00:16:20,354 --> 00:16:22,845
Everything in here's
a question, wiseass.
319
00:16:22,923 --> 00:16:24,356
Look, I didn't draw this, okay?
320
00:16:24,424 --> 00:16:25,789
Somebody ripped me off.
321
00:16:25,859 --> 00:16:26,985
And I never sweated Mrs. A.
322
00:16:27,094 --> 00:16:29,790
Oh! Even when she
squirted on your parade?
323
00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:33,855
Yeah, Richard Kovax told us you
were buying grades from him.
324
00:16:33,933 --> 00:16:36,367
Kovax is lying.
I earned my grades in math.
325
00:16:36,435 --> 00:16:38,733
Oh, yeah? How about
a little pop quiz, Eddie?
326
00:16:38,804 --> 00:16:40,465
Let's see, you're 18.
327
00:16:40,539 --> 00:16:44,669
Why don't we add 25 to that, 'cause
that's the going rate for murder.
328
00:16:46,846 --> 00:16:50,145
You better watch who you're
cracking off to, you little punk.
329
00:16:50,216 --> 00:16:53,742
Now, we match your prints to the
prints on this drawing, it's over.
330
00:16:53,818 --> 00:16:56,810
So you talk now, or you're going
to be grabbing your ankles
331
00:16:56,888 --> 00:16:59,982
for some real tough guys
down in Sing Sing.
332
00:17:01,893 --> 00:17:04,361
Look, I didn't do this stuff,
I swear, okay?
333
00:17:04,429 --> 00:17:06,556
And I don't know who did.
334
00:17:06,631 --> 00:17:09,532
A lot of people were
pissed off at Mrs. A.
335
00:17:09,601 --> 00:17:11,899
And I didn't kill her,
you can ask my pops.
336
00:17:11,970 --> 00:17:14,437
I was working in
his store that night.
337
00:17:14,505 --> 00:17:17,599
The old man owns a shoe
repair place up on Amsterdam,
338
00:17:17,675 --> 00:17:19,336
kid works the counter
till 8:00.
339
00:17:19,410 --> 00:17:21,776
Checked with some of the
customers, he was there.
340
00:17:21,845 --> 00:17:24,746
We showed his folks
the drawing he sent Aronson.
341
00:17:24,815 --> 00:17:26,680
It didn't go over in a big way.
342
00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:28,479
Got to admit it's
a little out of character.
343
00:17:28,552 --> 00:17:30,918
His mother lent us
his high-school year book.
344
00:17:30,988 --> 00:17:34,514
Junior Honors Graphic Design,
American History Medal,
345
00:17:34,590 --> 00:17:38,549
Dean's List, Media Center
and a letter in wrestling.
346
00:17:38,628 --> 00:17:40,823
Doesn't impress me
as much as his alibi.
347
00:17:40,897 --> 00:17:41,921
Hey, Rey?
348
00:17:43,099 --> 00:17:46,364
This favorite quote
of his, L-A-L,
349
00:17:46,436 --> 00:17:48,404
what is that,
something in español?
350
00:17:48,471 --> 00:17:49,870
I never heard of it.
351
00:17:52,141 --> 00:17:55,837
Look at this kid, Ashton.
His quote's K-l-L.
352
00:17:55,911 --> 00:17:57,742
He's on the
wrestling team, too.
353
00:17:57,813 --> 00:17:59,337
Wait a minute.
354
00:18:00,248 --> 00:18:02,239
Here's somebody
with a K-E-S.
355
00:18:02,317 --> 00:18:04,251
Niels, another wrestler.
356
00:18:06,621 --> 00:18:10,022
Same as this one,
Hastings. He's got L-K-I.
357
00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:13,791
Give me those letters again.
358
00:18:14,596 --> 00:18:16,062
L-K-I,
359
00:18:17,531 --> 00:18:19,192
K-E-S,
360
00:18:20,634 --> 00:18:23,967
K-l-L and L-A-L.
361
00:18:26,173 --> 00:18:28,038
A secret code for wrestlers?
362
00:18:28,109 --> 00:18:30,339
Maybe we get
Vanna White in here.
363
00:18:30,411 --> 00:18:32,276
Could be all one message.
364
00:18:32,346 --> 00:18:35,247
Try in alphabetical
order by the kids' names.
365
00:18:35,316 --> 00:18:39,342
First one is Ashton.
He's got K-l-L.
366
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,981
Yeah, then there's
Camarillo, L-A-L.
367
00:18:46,059 --> 00:18:47,253
Next.
368
00:18:48,661 --> 00:18:51,459
Matt Hastings, L-K-I.
369
00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:06,501
Hey, it was a joke,
370
00:19:06,578 --> 00:19:08,443
just to see if the geeks
at the yearbook were awake.
371
00:19:08,514 --> 00:19:11,449
Well, we were wide awake.
We know all about your deal with Kovax.
372
00:19:11,517 --> 00:19:14,008
Yeah, and we know about
the notes Aronson got.
373
00:19:14,086 --> 00:19:16,111
Were those supposed
to be a joke, too?
374
00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:17,621
Look, we're sorry she's dead,
375
00:19:17,689 --> 00:19:19,087
but we don't know what
you're talking about.
376
00:19:19,157 --> 00:19:21,785
Right. We're all sorry.
377
00:19:21,859 --> 00:19:24,384
We have to take a shower
before our next class.
378
00:19:24,462 --> 00:19:25,451
Is that okay?
379
00:19:25,530 --> 00:19:27,794
Sure, make sure
you scrub real hard.
380
00:19:30,234 --> 00:19:31,667
We weren't out to hurt anybody,
381
00:19:31,736 --> 00:19:33,328
besides it's free speech,
it's protected.
382
00:19:33,404 --> 00:19:35,372
That doesn't cover
death threats, Matt.
383
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,738
I'm talking about the yearbook,
I never threatened anybody.
384
00:19:37,809 --> 00:19:40,971
Oh, yeah. "Kill all kikes.
" I guess you meant that in a nice way.
385
00:19:41,044 --> 00:19:42,671
Look, it was a joke.
386
00:19:42,779 --> 00:19:44,542
Ezra Pound made
fun of the Jews.
387
00:19:44,614 --> 00:19:46,411
And Hemingway in
The Sun Also Rises.
388
00:19:46,483 --> 00:19:49,008
Why do you think he gave
the fool the name of Cohn?
389
00:19:49,086 --> 00:19:51,646
Just because I made
fun of them, so what?
390
00:19:51,721 --> 00:19:53,814
Can I go now, please?
391
00:19:57,461 --> 00:19:58,985
They thought this was funny?
392
00:19:59,062 --> 00:20:02,792
Yeah, Hastings gave us a comparative
lit course on their sense of humor.
393
00:20:02,865 --> 00:20:06,494
According to Richard Kovax, all
four were buying grades from him.
394
00:20:06,569 --> 00:20:08,560
Camarillo has an alibi
for the night of the murder,
395
00:20:08,637 --> 00:20:10,867
but we think the other three
are viable suspects.
396
00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:13,238
I didn't think
it was relevant before,
397
00:20:13,309 --> 00:20:15,971
but I came by the school
one evening a month ago.
398
00:20:16,045 --> 00:20:18,673
I saw Matt Hastings
coming out the front door.
399
00:20:18,747 --> 00:20:21,579
He told me he was working
on a chemistry project.
400
00:20:21,649 --> 00:20:24,015
He said he'd gotten the key for
the alarm from Ms. Miller.
401
00:20:24,085 --> 00:20:25,916
You checked this out with her?
402
00:20:25,987 --> 00:20:27,420
She denied giving him the key.
403
00:20:27,489 --> 00:20:28,786
So the kid was lying.
404
00:20:28,857 --> 00:20:31,018
I didn't think so at the time.
405
00:20:31,092 --> 00:20:34,289
I assumed she was covering up
to avoid being reprimanded.
406
00:20:34,362 --> 00:20:36,387
You took a student's word
over hers?
407
00:20:36,464 --> 00:20:38,125
Not just any student.
408
00:20:38,199 --> 00:20:40,929
Matt Hastings was in
the top one percentile,
409
00:20:41,002 --> 00:20:42,798
he was class president
last year.
410
00:20:42,870 --> 00:20:45,270
There was talk of
making him valedictorian.
411
00:20:47,274 --> 00:20:49,208
I never suspected this.
412
00:20:50,210 --> 00:20:51,905
We did handsprings
for the judge.
413
00:20:51,979 --> 00:20:53,879
He still wouldn't sign off
on a search warrant.
414
00:20:53,947 --> 00:20:55,471
You lifted fingerprints
from the notes?
415
00:20:55,549 --> 00:20:57,949
Doesn't help. None of these
kids has ever been printed.
416
00:20:58,018 --> 00:21:00,145
In other words, we're stuck.
We've got the blood at the scene,
417
00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:03,211
but we can't force
Hastings to give us a sample.
418
00:21:03,289 --> 00:21:06,281
The M.E. Found a
predisposition to diabetes.
419
00:21:07,193 --> 00:21:10,424
Diabetes can be detected by
looking for high sugar in urine.
420
00:21:10,496 --> 00:21:13,090
We still need a warrant to
make this punk pee in a cup.
421
00:21:13,166 --> 00:21:14,724
The school doesn't.
422
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,563
Hastings is a wrestler.
423
00:21:16,636 --> 00:21:20,128
We ask them to conduct a drug
test of the wrestling team.
424
00:21:20,206 --> 00:21:21,969
And that gets us around it?
425
00:21:22,041 --> 00:21:25,203
The Supreme Court said so in the
Vernonia ruling a few months ago.
426
00:21:25,277 --> 00:21:28,713
That allows the testing of high
school athletes without a warrant.
427
00:21:38,557 --> 00:21:40,616
Hastings, Matthew.
That's him.
428
00:21:40,692 --> 00:21:42,216
Let me see the number
on that one.
429
00:21:42,294 --> 00:21:44,693
As our lawyer, this should
make you very uncomfortable.
430
00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:46,229
These children have rights.
431
00:21:46,297 --> 00:21:48,026
Board of Education
gave it their blessing.
432
00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,998
This is strictly by the book.
433
00:21:54,772 --> 00:21:56,967
Well, we ran a full screen
on all the students.
434
00:21:57,041 --> 00:21:59,168
As high schools go,
this one's very clean.
435
00:21:59,243 --> 00:22:02,269
Only two positives.
One for THC and one for alcohol.
436
00:22:02,346 --> 00:22:03,608
We're looking for sugar.
437
00:22:03,681 --> 00:22:04,874
Sugar?
438
00:22:04,948 --> 00:22:07,883
My mother warned me, one day the
sugar police would show up.
439
00:22:07,951 --> 00:22:10,886
Yeah, well, we finally got here.
So, did you find any?
440
00:22:10,954 --> 00:22:13,184
Actually, whenever we get
a positive read for alcohol,
441
00:22:13,256 --> 00:22:16,054
we run another test to determine
if the source is external.
442
00:22:16,125 --> 00:22:17,422
As in a glass of wine?
443
00:22:17,493 --> 00:22:20,018
Correct. Otherwise,
the source could be internal.
444
00:22:20,096 --> 00:22:22,496
If there's yeast in the urine
and an abundance of sugar,
445
00:22:22,565 --> 00:22:24,965
presto, body works
like a still.
446
00:22:25,034 --> 00:22:27,524
Here we go.
The dip-stick is number 16.
447
00:22:27,603 --> 00:22:30,697
"Presence of alcohol due to an
abnormal high-sugar count."
448
00:22:30,772 --> 00:22:32,933
Kid's a diabetic,
and I bet he doesn't know it.
449
00:22:33,008 --> 00:22:35,476
Number 16. Matt Hastings.
450
00:22:36,745 --> 00:22:39,043
Tell me what he did,
I have a right to know!
451
00:22:39,114 --> 00:22:40,445
You stay
out of the way, Mr. Hastings.
452
00:22:40,515 --> 00:22:41,641
Matt,
be careful!
453
00:22:41,717 --> 00:22:42,741
Stand up.
454
00:22:43,919 --> 00:22:45,011
Put your hands up.
455
00:22:45,087 --> 00:22:46,644
All right, turn that crap off.
456
00:22:47,822 --> 00:22:49,255
Matt Hastings,
you're under arrest
457
00:22:49,323 --> 00:22:51,052
for the murder
of Sarah Aronson.
458
00:22:51,125 --> 00:22:53,184
You have the right to
remain silent. Dad!
459
00:22:53,261 --> 00:22:56,162
Anything you do say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
460
00:22:57,865 --> 00:22:59,162
You know, Jack,
461
00:22:59,233 --> 00:23:02,634
I half expected to look out your
window and see Tiananmen Square.
462
00:23:02,703 --> 00:23:05,228
Here, we don't put people,
much less children,
463
00:23:05,306 --> 00:23:07,273
behind bars for their thoughts.
464
00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:10,300
He's a political prisoner?
465
00:23:11,044 --> 00:23:14,172
Alice, please, Bill Kunstler
is spinning in his grave.
466
00:23:14,247 --> 00:23:18,741
You had a suspect.
In fact, you had two, Kovax and Camarillo.
467
00:23:18,818 --> 00:23:20,752
Why go after my client?
468
00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:23,584
Simple. He expressed a point
of view you didn't like.
469
00:23:23,657 --> 00:23:26,490
His crime wasn't
about his point of view.
470
00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:28,583
It was about
pumping up his grades,
471
00:23:28,661 --> 00:23:30,288
and Sarah Aronson
got in the way.
472
00:23:30,362 --> 00:23:32,830
So I'd have to work
a little harder, big deal.
473
00:23:32,898 --> 00:23:35,696
The only reason I paid Kovax is I got lazy.
Matt...
474
00:23:35,768 --> 00:23:38,134
No, really. Check my math scores
for the past three years.
475
00:23:38,203 --> 00:23:40,797
A's and A minuses, same as all my courses.
That's enough.
476
00:23:40,873 --> 00:23:43,967
Mr. McCoy,
Matt didn't kill anybody.
477
00:23:44,043 --> 00:23:45,601
He was at home with me.
478
00:23:45,678 --> 00:23:49,738
If he were my son, Mr.
Hastings, I'd probably say the same thing.
479
00:23:50,581 --> 00:23:53,607
Now, if he tells me
others were involved,
480
00:23:53,685 --> 00:23:56,051
I might convince a judge
to go easy on him.
481
00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,212
Did I ask for a handout?
482
00:23:57,288 --> 00:23:58,312
You should.
483
00:23:58,389 --> 00:24:00,653
We found his fingerprints
on one of the notes.
484
00:24:00,725 --> 00:24:03,250
I was just trying
to scare her off.
485
00:24:03,328 --> 00:24:06,195
We matched his blood
to the blood on the scene,
486
00:24:06,264 --> 00:24:09,756
and his principal told us
he has a key to the school.
487
00:24:09,834 --> 00:24:11,630
He knows I borrowed
it from Ms. Miller.
488
00:24:11,702 --> 00:24:13,397
She told him you didn't.
489
00:24:13,470 --> 00:24:14,960
If you're going to kill people,
490
00:24:15,038 --> 00:24:17,598
you shouldn't advertise
the fact in your yearbook.
491
00:24:17,674 --> 00:24:20,199
A dumb prank,
that's all it was.
492
00:24:20,277 --> 00:24:23,178
Not half as egregious as
violating the Fourth Amendment,
493
00:24:23,246 --> 00:24:27,239
which you did when you stuck a jar
of his fluids under a microscope.
494
00:24:27,317 --> 00:24:29,649
Motion to suppress
the drug-test results,
495
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,778
trampling on
the rights of a minor.
496
00:24:31,854 --> 00:24:33,412
How low can you get?
497
00:24:37,293 --> 00:24:38,692
In Vernonia,
498
00:24:38,761 --> 00:24:41,229
the Supreme Court
allowed drug testing to
499
00:24:41,297 --> 00:24:43,697
combat illegal drug
use in public schools.
500
00:24:43,766 --> 00:24:48,135
It did not intend the test as a
subterfuge to identify murder suspects.
501
00:24:48,204 --> 00:24:51,002
This was a properly conducted
search for illegal drugs.
502
00:24:51,073 --> 00:24:54,098
They were looking for drugs, but
they came up with diabetes?
503
00:24:54,175 --> 00:24:57,542
The predisposition for diabetes
was in plain view, Your Honor.
504
00:24:57,612 --> 00:24:59,307
Under a microscope.
505
00:24:59,381 --> 00:25:02,509
The defendant tested
positive for alcohol.
506
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:06,179
The lab ran a routine test to
find the source of the alcohol.
507
00:25:06,254 --> 00:25:08,882
That's how they found
he had a high-sugar level.
508
00:25:08,957 --> 00:25:10,857
Sounds like plain view
to me, Ms. Marsdale.
509
00:25:10,925 --> 00:25:14,655
Your Honor, the Vernonia
ruling sanctioned random testing.
510
00:25:14,728 --> 00:25:17,196
There was nothing
random about this test.
511
00:25:17,264 --> 00:25:20,290
I refer to Exhibit C of
the moving affidavits,
512
00:25:20,367 --> 00:25:24,064
the statement by the lab technician
who conducted the tests.
513
00:25:24,138 --> 00:25:25,969
When the samples
were collected,
514
00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:29,031
the officers singled
out which individual
515
00:25:29,109 --> 00:25:31,509
they were interested in,
namely, my client.
516
00:25:31,578 --> 00:25:32,977
You dispute this,
Mr. McCoy?
517
00:25:33,046 --> 00:25:35,878
The officers simply asked for
the identification number
518
00:25:35,948 --> 00:25:37,438
of Mr. Hastings' specimen.
519
00:25:37,517 --> 00:25:40,418
There was no intent to corrupt
the testing procedure.
520
00:25:40,486 --> 00:25:41,714
I don't care
about their intent.
521
00:25:41,788 --> 00:25:44,586
You pushed the envelope
too far, Mr. McCoy.
522
00:25:44,657 --> 00:25:47,455
I'm granting the motion.
The test results are out.
523
00:25:47,527 --> 00:25:50,257
Your Honor, since the results
led to my client being charged
524
00:25:50,329 --> 00:25:52,092
and to further evidence
being collected, may I...
525
00:25:52,165 --> 00:25:55,429
Yes, it's all out.
The charges are dismissed.
526
00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:59,527
These officers.
A couple of Chatty Cathys.
527
00:26:02,541 --> 00:26:04,907
They were looking at the
bottom of the bag, Adam.
528
00:26:04,976 --> 00:26:06,841
The drug test was all
we had to go with.
529
00:26:06,912 --> 00:26:09,278
Still have the threats,
still have motive.
530
00:26:09,347 --> 00:26:11,212
Build the house again.
Right.
531
00:26:11,283 --> 00:26:13,751
The yearbook and the threats might
have been juvenile hyperbole,
532
00:26:13,819 --> 00:26:16,309
but not what the police
found in his room.
533
00:26:16,387 --> 00:26:18,878
Issues of Aryan Times
magazine,
534
00:26:18,956 --> 00:26:22,119
racist literature downloaded
from the Internet,
535
00:26:22,193 --> 00:26:23,751
White Power music.
536
00:26:23,828 --> 00:26:25,853
Let me guess. Wagner.
537
00:26:25,930 --> 00:26:28,694
Yeah, you won't be
hearing this at the Met.
538
00:26:28,766 --> 00:26:31,132
"Jew Boy, better start running,
539
00:26:31,202 --> 00:26:34,137
"rat-faced bastard,
our time is coming."
540
00:26:34,205 --> 00:26:37,264
I'm shocked we have things
like this in a free society.
541
00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:39,399
This kid have an alibi?
542
00:26:39,476 --> 00:26:40,966
Home with his father.
543
00:26:41,044 --> 00:26:42,909
What's his father's alibi?
544
00:26:46,749 --> 00:26:49,741
I was doing home care
in Kew Gardens that night.
545
00:26:49,819 --> 00:26:51,684
I came back
just before 11:00.
546
00:26:51,754 --> 00:26:55,451
Joe was watching the news and Matt
was in his room, on the computer.
547
00:26:55,525 --> 00:26:57,355
And your daughter,
where was she?
548
00:26:57,426 --> 00:26:59,656
Carlie had a sleepover
at a friend's house.
549
00:26:59,728 --> 00:27:01,218
But you're sure Matt
was home all night?
550
00:27:01,296 --> 00:27:04,561
Yes, my husband told me,
and I know my own son.
551
00:27:05,167 --> 00:27:06,930
He's nothing like
they say in the papers.
552
00:27:07,002 --> 00:27:09,766
Those people think
we're all anti-Semites.
553
00:27:09,838 --> 00:27:11,703
Those people?
554
00:27:11,773 --> 00:27:14,765
You know very well what I'm
talking about, Ms. Kincaid.
555
00:27:14,843 --> 00:27:17,902
It's clear what your son was
talking about in the yearbook.
556
00:27:19,413 --> 00:27:21,813
He was just trying to get
a rise out of people.
557
00:27:21,883 --> 00:27:23,646
I mean, look at that school.
558
00:27:23,718 --> 00:27:26,516
How do you think he feels?
He's a minority.
559
00:27:26,587 --> 00:27:29,454
What about the hate
literature found in his room?
560
00:27:29,524 --> 00:27:30,684
Who was that aimed at?
561
00:27:30,758 --> 00:27:34,159
Matt reads a lot.
It's just a curiosity.
562
00:27:34,228 --> 00:27:36,560
He doesn't have
a problem with Jews.
563
00:27:36,631 --> 00:27:39,190
For God's sake,
he was seeing a Jewish girl.
564
00:27:39,766 --> 00:27:42,166
Do I think he's
an anti-Semite?
565
00:27:42,235 --> 00:27:44,567
When he was with me,
Matt admired Jews.
566
00:27:44,638 --> 00:27:47,436
He was always going on
how intelligent we were.
567
00:27:47,507 --> 00:27:50,533
The first couple of months,
it was kind of flattering.
568
00:27:50,610 --> 00:27:52,202
And then?
569
00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:54,406
Then some of the stuff he told
other people got back to me.
570
00:27:54,481 --> 00:27:56,472
Like, how he was
just with me because
571
00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,518
he thought it was
good for his image.
572
00:27:58,585 --> 00:28:00,074
You're smart and attractive.
573
00:28:00,152 --> 00:28:02,848
It could have been some
male chest-thumping.
574
00:28:02,922 --> 00:28:06,551
It wasn't that.
It was because I was Jewish.
575
00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:10,117
He thought it would help him get over
with the other Jewish kids at school.
576
00:28:10,195 --> 00:28:12,254
So that was important to him?
577
00:28:12,331 --> 00:28:13,696
Well, yeah.
578
00:28:13,766 --> 00:28:16,496
It is if you want to become class
president and a bunch of other stuff
579
00:28:16,569 --> 00:28:20,130
that looks good on a college
application, and it worked.
580
00:28:21,139 --> 00:28:24,939
Last month, he got early admission
to Princeton, full scholarship.
581
00:28:25,009 --> 00:28:26,533
Thanks to you.
582
00:28:26,611 --> 00:28:28,476
Is that why you guys broke up?
583
00:28:28,546 --> 00:28:32,642
Yeah. Of course,
he denied using me.
584
00:28:32,717 --> 00:28:35,709
He blamed all the other Jewish
kids for telling lies about him.
585
00:28:35,787 --> 00:28:37,618
He said that they
were just jealous.
586
00:28:37,689 --> 00:28:39,657
It was just so typical
of him, you know.
587
00:28:39,724 --> 00:28:42,624
He never took responsibility
for anything.
588
00:28:42,693 --> 00:28:44,957
Loren, you never answered
my first question.
589
00:28:45,028 --> 00:28:49,294
Is he an anti-Semite, or is it like
his mom says, it's just an act?
590
00:28:50,567 --> 00:28:52,762
No, it's no act.
591
00:28:52,836 --> 00:28:56,294
I mean, I know where he gets
it from, it's his parents.
592
00:28:56,373 --> 00:29:00,935
Like, one time his dad started asking
about this family, the Abramsons.
593
00:29:01,011 --> 00:29:04,343
Like, all us Jews were supposed
to know each other or something.
594
00:29:04,413 --> 00:29:06,506
He said that they cheated him
out of his printing business,
595
00:29:06,582 --> 00:29:10,382
and that it was their fault he couldn't
afford to send Matt to prep school.
596
00:29:10,453 --> 00:29:13,115
It was just stupid.
597
00:29:13,189 --> 00:29:17,216
Even though I know how Matt
feels about Jewish people,
598
00:29:17,293 --> 00:29:20,729
I just can't believe he could
have killed Mrs. Aronson.
599
00:29:20,796 --> 00:29:24,697
Niels and Ashton, I mean, I could
totally imagine them doing it.
600
00:29:24,766 --> 00:29:26,233
Those guys are scary.
601
00:29:26,301 --> 00:29:28,428
What about Eddie Camarillo?
602
00:29:29,204 --> 00:29:30,398
He just follows Matt around.
603
00:29:30,472 --> 00:29:31,996
I mean, they've been friends
since freshman year.
604
00:29:32,073 --> 00:29:34,007
They do crazy stuff together.
605
00:29:34,075 --> 00:29:37,238
They used to break into the school on
Saturdays to lift weights and stuff.
606
00:29:37,312 --> 00:29:39,473
How'd they get past
the alarm system?
607
00:29:42,017 --> 00:29:46,851
Well, Eddie had a key made on
the machine at his dad's store.
608
00:29:47,888 --> 00:29:49,788
You gave him the key, Eddie.
609
00:29:49,857 --> 00:29:52,724
That's how he got out,
after he killed Mrs. Aronson.
610
00:29:52,793 --> 00:29:55,591
That's not true.
I don't have a key.
611
00:29:55,663 --> 00:29:57,460
Our witness says you do.
612
00:29:57,531 --> 00:29:59,522
That makes you
an accomplice to murder.
613
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,966
And whatever plans you had
for the next 20 years,
614
00:30:02,036 --> 00:30:03,594
you better put them on hold.
615
00:30:03,671 --> 00:30:06,764
Now you serve up Matt Hastings,
your future gets a little brighter.
616
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,534
I can't.
I'm down with him.
617
00:30:08,608 --> 00:30:09,802
Hey.
618
00:30:10,176 --> 00:30:12,167
Be down with this.
619
00:30:12,245 --> 00:30:15,408
When Hastings talks about the mud
people, who you think that is?
620
00:30:16,883 --> 00:30:19,078
That's you, Eddie.
That's you and me.
621
00:30:19,152 --> 00:30:20,414
We're the mud people.
622
00:30:20,486 --> 00:30:21,475
You're wrong.
623
00:30:21,554 --> 00:30:24,751
My people come from pure Spanish
blood, white Christian blood.
624
00:30:24,824 --> 00:30:26,154
Come on.
625
00:30:26,224 --> 00:30:28,317
After they're done
with the Jews, the blacks,
626
00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:30,452
the Asians, the Arabs,
who's next?
627
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:33,965
Sooner or later, the mailman comes
to your gate, hermano.
628
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,075
Mrs. Aronson
recognized my drawing.
629
00:30:47,211 --> 00:30:48,769
She called me in.
630
00:30:48,846 --> 00:30:51,474
She said she'd give us a
chance to turn ourselves in.
631
00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:55,446
Matt said he'd lose
his scholarship.
632
00:30:55,519 --> 00:30:57,749
He said he was
going to talk to her.
633
00:31:00,458 --> 00:31:02,289
So I gave him my key.
634
00:31:05,863 --> 00:31:07,989
I never thought
he was going to hurt her.
635
00:31:09,999 --> 00:31:11,432
Pick him up.
636
00:31:14,003 --> 00:31:16,437
I'll never doubt
the law of averages again.
637
00:31:16,506 --> 00:31:18,997
Arrest someone often enough and
sooner or later, it'll stick.
638
00:31:19,075 --> 00:31:21,908
It had more to do with the
law of inevitability.
639
00:31:21,978 --> 00:31:23,878
Once we had
Camarillo's testimony,
640
00:31:23,947 --> 00:31:27,075
Judge Busey had no choice but to
re-admit all the other evidence.
641
00:31:27,150 --> 00:31:28,673
But I'm a gracious
winner, Alice.
642
00:31:28,751 --> 00:31:31,720
If you want to discuss
a plea, I'm all ears.
643
00:31:31,987 --> 00:31:34,012
Sorry to get your
testosterone bubbling,
644
00:31:34,089 --> 00:31:36,250
Jack, but this is
just a courtesy call.
645
00:31:36,325 --> 00:31:40,227
Roy Payne, Jack McCoy,
Claire Kincaid.
646
00:31:40,295 --> 00:31:42,820
Roy will be heading
the defense.
647
00:31:42,898 --> 00:31:44,263
Roy Payne?
648
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:47,234
You recruited a Klan lawyer.
649
00:31:47,302 --> 00:31:49,861
I don't belong to
the Klan, Mr. McCoy.
650
00:31:49,937 --> 00:31:53,532
Wrote a few briefs in support of
their march in Skokie, that's all.
651
00:31:54,742 --> 00:31:57,404
Lt'll take more than briefs to
get this boy out of the woods.
652
00:31:57,478 --> 00:31:58,570
Well, I doubt it.
653
00:31:58,646 --> 00:32:01,137
Our client's the innocent victim
of a pernicious conspiracy
654
00:32:01,215 --> 00:32:03,843
to frame him and protect
the real murderer.
655
00:32:03,918 --> 00:32:05,317
And who would that be?
656
00:32:05,386 --> 00:32:06,876
Richard Kovax.
657
00:32:07,088 --> 00:32:10,784
The Jews got together to protect
him, and I'll prove it.
658
00:32:10,857 --> 00:32:13,758
If a judge will stop laughing
long enough to let you.
659
00:32:17,631 --> 00:32:20,122
We're completely
within our rights, Your Honor.
660
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,761
Moreover, as defense counsel, we
have an absolute duty to our client
661
00:32:23,837 --> 00:32:26,397
to present an alternate theory
to the crime, if one exists.
662
00:32:26,473 --> 00:32:29,533
A credible theory,
not paranoid fantasies.
663
00:32:29,609 --> 00:32:32,975
They can't offer a shred of
evidence to support this claim.
664
00:32:33,045 --> 00:32:35,036
Well, we have evidence,
Your Honor.
665
00:32:35,114 --> 00:32:37,947
A Jewish detective led
the investigation.
666
00:32:38,017 --> 00:32:42,283
A Jewish teacher was inexplicably
dismissed as a prime suspect.
667
00:32:42,354 --> 00:32:45,653
Another Jewish teacher lied
to implicate my client.
668
00:32:45,724 --> 00:32:49,057
A Jewish forensic technician allowed
evidence to be contaminated.
669
00:32:49,128 --> 00:32:51,119
I get the idea, Mr. Payne.
670
00:32:51,197 --> 00:32:54,632
Your Honor, it's obvious this
defense serves only one purpose,
671
00:32:54,699 --> 00:32:57,930
to confuse and inflame the jury.
It's offensive.
672
00:32:58,002 --> 00:33:02,962
Yes, it is, Mr.
McCoy, but your objection is premature.
673
00:33:03,041 --> 00:33:06,101
I'll weigh their evidence before
it's presented to the jury.
674
00:33:06,177 --> 00:33:08,475
If they can't give me
an offer of proof,
675
00:33:08,546 --> 00:33:10,571
then you'll have your remedies.
676
00:33:10,648 --> 00:33:13,207
Jury selection will
begin tomorrow morning.
677
00:33:13,750 --> 00:33:16,776
It's the golden age of
conspiracy theories, Mr. McCoy.
678
00:33:16,854 --> 00:33:18,048
People love them.
679
00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:20,351
They help them make sense
of an irrational world.
680
00:33:20,424 --> 00:33:23,257
It's theories like yours
that make it irrational.
681
00:33:23,327 --> 00:33:25,022
You know you have
nothing to back it up.
682
00:33:25,095 --> 00:33:26,756
I've got reasonable doubt.
683
00:33:26,830 --> 00:33:28,889
You go outside
with me right now,
684
00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:32,333
we'll ask 12 people on the street
what they think about Jews,
685
00:33:32,402 --> 00:33:34,266
and all I need's one.
686
00:33:41,444 --> 00:33:43,412
Mr. Carson,
687
00:33:43,479 --> 00:33:46,471
have you ever used a racial epithet
to describe a Jewish person?
688
00:33:46,549 --> 00:33:48,779
Maybe, but never
to somebody's face.
689
00:33:48,851 --> 00:33:50,682
I respect the Jewish people.
690
00:33:50,753 --> 00:33:53,119
Thank you.
We're done, Your Honor.
691
00:33:55,790 --> 00:33:58,520
Do you have any Jewish friends, Mr.
Carson?
692
00:33:58,593 --> 00:34:00,959
No, but my landlord is Jewish.
693
00:34:03,331 --> 00:34:04,855
And Mr. Baron?
694
00:34:05,901 --> 00:34:09,393
Have you ever been the victim
of a racially-motivated attack?
695
00:34:09,471 --> 00:34:11,939
No, I haven't.
Thank God.
696
00:34:12,007 --> 00:34:13,998
Amen, Mr. Baron.
697
00:34:15,976 --> 00:34:17,341
Just one more thing.
698
00:34:17,411 --> 00:34:18,708
By any chance, are you Jewish?
699
00:34:18,779 --> 00:34:19,837
Objection, Your Honor!
700
00:34:19,914 --> 00:34:21,472
In my chambers.
701
00:34:22,082 --> 00:34:24,676
He has no business
asking the question.
702
00:34:24,752 --> 00:34:27,778
A juror cannot be excluded
because of his race or religion.
703
00:34:27,855 --> 00:34:29,550
He can if he's biased.
704
00:34:29,623 --> 00:34:33,684
My client has a right to know if Jewish
jurors can set aside their bias.
705
00:34:33,761 --> 00:34:35,524
I simply want to put them
under heightened scrutiny.
706
00:34:35,596 --> 00:34:37,563
Mr. Payne simply
wants to exclude them.
707
00:34:37,630 --> 00:34:39,894
That's unconstitutional, even
for peremptory challenges.
708
00:34:39,966 --> 00:34:41,593
If I find some unbiased Jews,
709
00:34:41,668 --> 00:34:44,728
then by all means
they're welcome to stay.
710
00:34:44,804 --> 00:34:46,965
Anyway, this issue
won't come up very often.
711
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,339
Most of them are smart enough to
avoid jury duty in the first place.
712
00:34:50,410 --> 00:34:51,934
Mr. Payne, that is enough.
713
00:34:53,346 --> 00:34:57,509
Mr. McCoy, as odious as I find Mr.
Payne's position,
714
00:34:57,582 --> 00:35:01,484
bias is a relevant factor
in jury selection.
715
00:35:01,553 --> 00:35:03,578
I'll allow his questions.
716
00:35:06,858 --> 00:35:08,883
Payne's already
in the win column.
717
00:35:08,961 --> 00:35:12,226
He's made the justice system
complicit in his client's bigotry.
718
00:35:12,297 --> 00:35:14,162
You mean his own.
719
00:35:14,232 --> 00:35:17,326
Only difference between Payne
and Hastings is a law degree.
720
00:35:17,402 --> 00:35:20,529
Turn back the clock, he'd be drafting
the house rules at Auschwitz.
721
00:35:20,604 --> 00:35:22,231
Get off the soapbox.
722
00:35:22,306 --> 00:35:24,536
You're trying a murderer,
not an anti-Semite.
723
00:35:24,608 --> 00:35:25,632
He's a lot of both.
724
00:35:25,710 --> 00:35:27,735
Well, I couldn't care less.
725
00:35:27,812 --> 00:35:30,781
I don't want this turning into a
farce about who said the K word.
726
00:35:30,848 --> 00:35:32,679
Hastings said it,
and I believe he meant it.
727
00:35:32,750 --> 00:35:34,513
He was probably saying it
when he killed her.
728
00:35:34,585 --> 00:35:38,077
The woman who was lowering the
boom on his Princeton scholarship.
729
00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:41,021
He would have killed her
if her name was McGinty.
730
00:35:41,091 --> 00:35:42,922
Make sure the jury knows it.
731
00:35:46,663 --> 00:35:48,722
When we performed
the RFLP tests
732
00:35:48,798 --> 00:35:51,028
on the blood swatches
taken from the scene
733
00:35:51,101 --> 00:35:53,433
and the blood taken
from the defendant,
734
00:35:53,503 --> 00:35:56,404
we found that genetic codes
in both samples matched.
735
00:35:58,708 --> 00:36:01,904
What are the odds that the blood
you found came from someone else?
736
00:36:01,977 --> 00:36:04,275
With this precise match?
One in a million.
737
00:36:09,952 --> 00:36:11,351
Mr. Rosen,
738
00:36:12,554 --> 00:36:14,681
was the RFLP test
first performed
739
00:36:14,757 --> 00:36:17,157
on the blood swatches
from the crime scene
740
00:36:17,226 --> 00:36:20,661
before or after my client
had been arrested?
741
00:36:20,728 --> 00:36:22,252
I'll have to check.
742
00:36:24,399 --> 00:36:26,128
I'm looking at the dates.
743
00:36:27,301 --> 00:36:29,132
It was after he was arrested,
744
00:36:29,203 --> 00:36:33,367
once a blood sample was collected
from him at Central Booking Station.
745
00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:36,171
Who brought
the blood sample to your lab?
746
00:36:36,244 --> 00:36:38,405
Detective Briscoe
signed the evidence sheet.
747
00:36:38,479 --> 00:36:41,845
And were the blood swatches from
the crime scene kept in your lab,
748
00:36:41,915 --> 00:36:44,315
under lock and key,
24 hours a day?
749
00:36:44,384 --> 00:36:45,874
No, not when someone's
there working.
750
00:36:45,952 --> 00:36:49,444
Then is it possible Detective
Briscoe could have had access
751
00:36:49,523 --> 00:36:51,582
to the blood swatches
from the crime scene
752
00:36:51,658 --> 00:36:54,286
before you performed
the RFLP test?
753
00:36:54,961 --> 00:36:56,826
Anything's possible.
754
00:36:56,897 --> 00:37:00,492
Thank you, Mr. Rosen.
No more questions.
755
00:37:02,134 --> 00:37:04,728
After we collected the
blood sample from the defendant,
756
00:37:04,804 --> 00:37:07,534
I accompanied
Detective Briscoe to the lab.
757
00:37:08,407 --> 00:37:10,568
He signed the evidence sheet
758
00:37:10,643 --> 00:37:14,044
and gave the sample to the
lab technician, Mr. Rosen.
759
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,438
Thank you, Detective.
760
00:37:18,517 --> 00:37:23,215
Detective Curtis, when you accompanied
Detective Briscoe to the lab,
761
00:37:23,288 --> 00:37:24,778
were you with him
the whole time?
762
00:37:24,856 --> 00:37:25,880
Yes.
763
00:37:25,957 --> 00:37:27,584
You didn't go to the washroom?
764
00:37:27,659 --> 00:37:29,092
Didn't make a phone call?
765
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,755
You were literally joined at
the hip to Detective Briscoe.
766
00:37:32,831 --> 00:37:34,662
Is that your testimony?
767
00:37:34,732 --> 00:37:37,997
No, I called our precinct from
the lab to report our location.
768
00:37:38,069 --> 00:37:39,127
That took about a minute.
769
00:37:39,204 --> 00:37:40,728
So there was
a moment at the lab
770
00:37:40,805 --> 00:37:43,773
when you and Detective Briscoe
were separated. True?
771
00:37:46,577 --> 00:37:47,669
Yes.
772
00:37:47,744 --> 00:37:53,011
All right, following your interrogation
of Richard Kovax at the precinct,
773
00:37:53,083 --> 00:37:57,486
were you convinced he was no
longer a suspect in this crime?
774
00:37:57,554 --> 00:37:59,454
No, not entirely.
775
00:37:59,523 --> 00:38:01,286
Why is that?
He had a good motive,
776
00:38:01,358 --> 00:38:03,724
and he had a window of
opportunity to commit the crime.
777
00:38:03,794 --> 00:38:08,230
Did you have a conversation with
Detective Briscoe about Mr. Kovax?
778
00:38:08,297 --> 00:38:09,286
Yes.
779
00:38:09,365 --> 00:38:11,299
And following
this conversation,
780
00:38:11,367 --> 00:38:13,858
did you then start looking
for other suspects?
781
00:38:15,037 --> 00:38:16,732
Yes.
So is it fair to say
782
00:38:16,806 --> 00:38:18,637
you were overruled by
your senior partner?
783
00:38:18,708 --> 00:38:20,175
Objection!
784
00:38:20,243 --> 00:38:21,471
Withdrawn.
785
00:38:23,012 --> 00:38:25,071
Just one last question.
786
00:38:25,148 --> 00:38:28,639
To your knowledge,
is Detective Briscoe Jewish?
787
00:38:28,717 --> 00:38:30,708
I don't know.
I never bothered asking.
788
00:38:35,490 --> 00:38:39,517
Mr. Kovax spoke to a number of
foundations on behalf of the school.
789
00:38:39,594 --> 00:38:40,686
He had a knack for it.
790
00:38:40,762 --> 00:38:44,425
In your opinion, how much money
did he raise for the school?
791
00:38:44,499 --> 00:38:46,625
I'm not sure I can
give you an estimate.
792
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:48,133
Permission to treat as hostile.
793
00:38:48,202 --> 00:38:49,396
Go ahead.
794
00:38:50,638 --> 00:38:54,096
Dr. Sabloff, isn't it true,
in the past 10 years,
795
00:38:54,175 --> 00:38:57,406
your school's received
nearly $3,000,000
796
00:38:57,478 --> 00:39:00,413
from the foundations
Mr. Kovax visited?
797
00:39:00,481 --> 00:39:01,846
That's a fair estimate.
798
00:39:01,916 --> 00:39:04,282
Teacher of the Year,
top fund-raiser,
799
00:39:04,351 --> 00:39:07,649
a very valuable asset
to your school, isn't he?
800
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,085
Yes, he was.
801
00:39:09,155 --> 00:39:12,147
Did you communicate as much
to Detective Briscoe?
802
00:39:13,092 --> 00:39:14,957
I suppose I did.
803
00:39:15,028 --> 00:39:17,258
Did there come a time
when he called you
804
00:39:17,330 --> 00:39:21,357
to inquire about the whereabouts of Mr.
Kovax on the night of the murder?
805
00:39:21,434 --> 00:39:23,402
Yes, I remember that call.
806
00:39:23,469 --> 00:39:28,269
And that's when you learned your top
fund-raiser was a murder suspect.
807
00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:31,173
Yes, from Detective Briscoe.
808
00:39:31,243 --> 00:39:34,371
Look, isn't that when
you concocted this alibi
809
00:39:34,446 --> 00:39:37,711
that you saw Mr. Kovax leave the
school an hour before the murder?
810
00:39:37,783 --> 00:39:39,648
It wasn't a concoction,
it was the truth.
811
00:39:39,718 --> 00:39:40,946
And then, a short time later,
812
00:39:41,019 --> 00:39:44,614
didn't you suddenly remember my
client had a key to the school?
813
00:39:44,690 --> 00:39:46,453
I didn't suddenly
remember anything.
814
00:39:46,525 --> 00:39:48,254
Well, you didn't
mention it the first time
815
00:39:48,327 --> 00:39:49,657
you talked to
the police, did you?
816
00:39:49,727 --> 00:39:52,389
Because I couldn't imagine that
one of my students was involved.
817
00:39:52,463 --> 00:39:55,227
But you could, once you
and Detective Briscoe
818
00:39:55,299 --> 00:39:58,666
saw my client's message in the
yearbook, isn't that right?
819
00:39:58,736 --> 00:40:00,567
Well, yes.
As a Jew,
820
00:40:00,638 --> 00:40:03,300
your passions were so
inflamed by that message,
821
00:40:03,374 --> 00:40:06,434
you made up a lie to implicate
my client, isn't that true?
822
00:40:06,510 --> 00:40:07,534
No, that's absurd.
823
00:40:07,612 --> 00:40:10,102
Just as you lied when you
and Detective Briscoe
824
00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:12,239
cooked up an alibi
for Richard Kovax.
825
00:40:12,315 --> 00:40:13,339
Absolutely not.
826
00:40:13,416 --> 00:40:16,249
Jews don't conspire with each another
to protect Jewish criminals.
827
00:40:16,319 --> 00:40:17,308
It's ridiculous.
828
00:40:17,387 --> 00:40:18,615
Oh, is it?
829
00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:22,391
Dr. Sabloff, are you familiar
with Jonathan Pollard,
830
00:40:22,459 --> 00:40:24,984
the American Jew
convicted of spying
831
00:40:25,061 --> 00:40:27,052
on our government for
the state of Israel?
832
00:40:27,130 --> 00:40:28,154
Objection! Relevance!
833
00:40:28,231 --> 00:40:29,789
Are you aware there
are massive campaigns
834
00:40:29,866 --> 00:40:32,163
by American Jewish
organizations to free him?
835
00:40:32,234 --> 00:40:33,599
Your Honor!
Objection sustained.
836
00:40:33,669 --> 00:40:36,069
Mr. Payne, find another
line of questioning.
837
00:40:36,138 --> 00:40:38,868
I have no more questions
for this witness, Your Honor.
838
00:40:42,845 --> 00:40:48,374
Dr. Sabloff, did you conspire
with anyone or lie to the police
839
00:40:48,450 --> 00:40:50,782
to falsely implicate
the defendant?
840
00:40:50,853 --> 00:40:51,910
No.
841
00:40:51,986 --> 00:40:54,784
Is Mr. Kovax still raising
money for your school?
842
00:40:54,856 --> 00:40:58,451
No, he was fired as soon as we
discovered he was selling grades.
843
00:41:00,828 --> 00:41:02,625
Hey, Counselor!
Yeah?
844
00:41:02,697 --> 00:41:06,224
Just out of curiosity, when
can I expect the cavalry?
845
00:41:06,301 --> 00:41:08,667
Detective, I know
it's unpleasant,
846
00:41:08,736 --> 00:41:09,862
but this can't be
the first time
847
00:41:09,937 --> 00:41:12,269
that a defense attorney's
questioned your credibility.
848
00:41:12,339 --> 00:41:14,170
You mean being accused
of planting evidence?
849
00:41:14,241 --> 00:41:16,971
No, after 25 years on the
force, that I'm used to.
850
00:41:17,044 --> 00:41:18,477
What I resent is
the implication
851
00:41:18,545 --> 00:41:22,481
that anything, besides my badge,
dictates the way I do my job.
852
00:41:22,549 --> 00:41:24,574
Put me on the stand, I want
to set the record straight.
853
00:41:24,651 --> 00:41:26,175
No, I'm not making you
the issue.
854
00:41:26,253 --> 00:41:28,278
Hey, 12 people in there
already think I am.
855
00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:31,483
I repeat, Detective, this trial's
not about you. I'm sorry.
856
00:41:31,558 --> 00:41:35,391
Sure. Oh, by the way, this
whole Jewish conspiracy?
857
00:41:35,461 --> 00:41:39,625
Yes, my father was, my mother
isn't, and I was raised Catholic,
858
00:41:39,699 --> 00:41:42,065
but like you say,
it's not about me.
859
00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:50,167
At first it didn't bother
me most of the kids were Jewish.
860
00:41:50,242 --> 00:41:53,336
We were all there to learn
and get into good colleges.
861
00:41:53,412 --> 00:41:56,278
We were equals, but they
didn't see it that way.
862
00:41:56,348 --> 00:41:59,511
Yeah. Can you
explain that, Matt?
863
00:41:59,584 --> 00:42:01,518
They called me a goy.
864
00:42:01,586 --> 00:42:03,611
It was a put-down
because I was Christian.
865
00:42:04,489 --> 00:42:07,481
They always acted like
they knew more than I did.
866
00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:11,120
They were never interested
in my opinions about anything.
867
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,790
It wasn't just the students.
868
00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:16,697
By all rights, I should have been
the captain of the wrestling team.
869
00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:18,132
Who did they pick?
870
00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:19,829
Stan Shatenstein.
871
00:42:21,472 --> 00:42:23,838
Did you make an effort
to get along with them?
872
00:42:23,907 --> 00:42:27,900
Yes. Last year, I went
out with a Jewish girl.
873
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,913
Loren Nadel.
874
00:42:31,548 --> 00:42:34,642
I liked her.
I thought she liked me.
875
00:42:35,686 --> 00:42:37,050
Then she broke up
with me because of
876
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,918
what some Jewish
kids told her about me.
877
00:42:39,989 --> 00:42:42,287
See, I don't have
a problem with Jews.
878
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,092
They have a problem with me.
879
00:42:46,162 --> 00:42:47,925
Thank you, Matt.
880
00:42:50,867 --> 00:42:51,993
Matt.
881
00:42:54,771 --> 00:42:59,571
I'd like you to read out loud
from People's Exhibit 29.
882
00:43:02,244 --> 00:43:04,007
"Kill all kikes."
883
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,544
Can you explain what you meant
884
00:43:07,616 --> 00:43:10,084
when you put that message
in your yearbook?
885
00:43:10,152 --> 00:43:11,949
Nothing. It was a joke.
886
00:43:12,020 --> 00:43:13,510
It wasn't even my idea.
887
00:43:13,588 --> 00:43:14,748
Whose idea was it?
888
00:43:14,823 --> 00:43:16,757
Rick Niels and Randy Ashton.
889
00:43:16,825 --> 00:43:18,348
I just went along.
890
00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:21,792
So you're not to blame,
891
00:43:21,862 --> 00:43:23,625
is that what you're saying?
Yes.
892
00:43:23,697 --> 00:43:25,096
And what about
the death threats?
893
00:43:25,166 --> 00:43:26,394
Ashton's idea.
894
00:43:26,467 --> 00:43:27,866
Also not your fault.
895
00:43:27,935 --> 00:43:29,232
That's right.
896
00:43:31,705 --> 00:43:34,970
And what about the
scholarship to Princeton?
897
00:43:35,042 --> 00:43:36,441
Who gets credit for that?
898
00:43:36,510 --> 00:43:37,602
Objection.
899
00:43:37,678 --> 00:43:38,837
Withdrawn.
900
00:43:41,181 --> 00:43:42,944
When you learned Sarah Aronson
901
00:43:43,016 --> 00:43:44,813
knew you had sent
the death threats,
902
00:43:44,884 --> 00:43:46,146
what went through your mind?
903
00:43:46,219 --> 00:43:47,516
Nothing.
I didn't know.
904
00:43:47,587 --> 00:43:50,886
Weren't you worried about
losing your scholarship? No.
905
00:43:50,957 --> 00:43:53,858
Didn't you think you'd wind
up in some community college?
906
00:43:53,927 --> 00:43:55,258
That would never happen.
907
00:43:55,328 --> 00:43:57,990
Do you know where Michael
Tobis is going next year?
908
00:43:58,064 --> 00:43:59,826
No.
He's going to Brown.
909
00:44:00,933 --> 00:44:03,458
Do you know where
John Pesner is going?
910
00:44:03,535 --> 00:44:04,900
I heard he got
accepted to Harvard.
911
00:44:04,970 --> 00:44:07,268
How about Gary Chaikin?
Yale.
912
00:44:07,339 --> 00:44:10,570
So most of the Jews in your class
were going to lvy League schools.
913
00:44:10,642 --> 00:44:12,667
Isn't that right?
Yes.
914
00:44:12,744 --> 00:44:15,008
And where did you think you'd be?
I don't know.
915
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,241
Well, you wouldn't be
at Princeton, would you?
916
00:44:17,316 --> 00:44:18,408
I didn't think about that.
917
00:44:18,484 --> 00:44:20,644
And this time, you couldn't
blame anybody else, could you?
918
00:44:20,718 --> 00:44:23,551
Not your friends,
not Sarah Aronson,
919
00:44:23,621 --> 00:44:25,782
not some Jewish
conspiracy. You!
920
00:44:25,857 --> 00:44:27,950
Your fault.
You bought grades.
921
00:44:28,025 --> 00:44:29,686
You sent death threats.
No!
922
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,354
In fact, it's your fault that you're
on trial for murder today, isn't it?
923
00:44:32,430 --> 00:44:33,488
No, I'm being framed!
924
00:44:33,564 --> 00:44:34,622
By who?
925
00:44:38,503 --> 00:44:42,598
The same Jews that stole
your father's business away?
926
00:44:42,672 --> 00:44:43,696
Objection.
927
00:44:43,773 --> 00:44:47,231
In fact, it's your stupidity
that got you into this trouble,
928
00:44:47,310 --> 00:44:48,937
isn't that right?
Mr. McCoy...
929
00:44:49,012 --> 00:44:52,743
Sarah Aronson doesn't have
a damn thing to do with it.
930
00:44:52,816 --> 00:44:54,716
She's not responsible
for your failure.
931
00:44:54,784 --> 00:44:57,685
No! It was her fault!
932
00:44:57,754 --> 00:44:59,745
That kike was
going to ruin my life!
933
00:44:59,823 --> 00:45:02,814
As in the kikes you
joked about killing.
934
00:45:10,432 --> 00:45:11,490
No.
935
00:45:16,071 --> 00:45:17,629
No further questions.
936
00:45:30,385 --> 00:45:33,821
I've sent you back four times
to continue deliberations.
937
00:45:33,888 --> 00:45:35,617
I'm inclined to do it again.
938
00:45:35,690 --> 00:45:38,989
Are you absolutely sure you're
unable to reach a verdict?
939
00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:41,722
Yes, Your Honor, we are.
940
00:45:41,796 --> 00:45:44,662
Would any further deliberations
break this deadlock?
941
00:45:45,933 --> 00:45:47,628
No, Your Honor.
942
00:45:47,701 --> 00:45:50,636
I have no choice but
to declare a mistrial.
943
00:45:50,704 --> 00:45:52,729
The jury's dismissed.
944
00:45:52,806 --> 00:45:56,640
Counsel has until next Monday
to agree to a new trial date.
945
00:46:10,189 --> 00:46:11,781
I spoke to Alice Marsdale.
946
00:46:11,857 --> 00:46:14,087
She's willing to
discuss a plea.
947
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,958
Payne's not available
for another trial.
948
00:46:17,029 --> 00:46:21,398
He got his headlines, he's hitting
the Klan lecture circuit.
949
00:46:25,171 --> 00:46:27,161
CNN interviewed
one of the jurors.
950
00:46:27,238 --> 00:46:29,172
The vote was 11
to one to convict.
951
00:46:31,810 --> 00:46:33,300
One hold-out.
952
00:46:34,713 --> 00:46:36,146
I wonder which one.
953
00:46:37,048 --> 00:46:39,243
Well, whoever it is,
they blended right in.
954
00:46:39,317 --> 00:46:42,912
What else is new?
Next case.