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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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Rejection.
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You're whack.
That was two points,
and a foul.
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No way. My ball.
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Where you going?
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Haven. Get a real ball.
Gonna whoop your ass.
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Yo, junior.
Haven ain't open.
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One of the windows
got a broken latch.
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Mr. Chase will
whoop your ass.
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Mr. Chase showed me
the window.
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You turn on the lights,
somebody's gonna see.
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Relax. I get around
this place with
my eyes shut.
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What the hell?
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What? What happened?
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Hart! Get Reverend Young.
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Victim's Randall Chase.
He runs this place.
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Haven Center,
it's a youth outreach program.
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You I.D. him?
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Reverend over there did.
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He called it in, said
these two kids found Chase.
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Both of you were
inside the office?
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No. just me.
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I never seen
a dead body before.
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What were you doing in there
7:30 in the morning?
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Borrowing a basketball.
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So, what, you,
uh, broke through
this window, huh?
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Gate was already broken.
Mr. Chase said it was okay.
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And you didn't know
anybody was inside?
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No. The lights were off.
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You touch anything?
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No way. I cut
out of there fast.
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What've you got?
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Beaten to death.
No other wounds we can find.
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Multiple blows,
back and side of the head.
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I hope
it's autographed.
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Prints all over it.
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Some good news.
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So this guy won't
give up the cash,
gets his brains beat in.
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Get somebody in here who can
tell us if anything's missing.
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Well, the Reverend said
somebody named Charles Perry
worked with Chase.
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We sent a car
to pick him up.
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Opening's too small
for anybody bigger
than that kid.
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No other signs
of forced entry.
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Look at this.
"Welcome to Haven Center.
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"Today is the first day of
the rest of your life. "
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Yeah, for some of us.
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Computer's still here,
so is the stereo.
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We never keep
any serious cash
in the building.
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Yeah, all right. uh...
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You have any idea if
Mr. Chase was meeting
with anybody last night?
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Anybody. Nobody.
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Randy worked late
almost every day.
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You were his
number two man?
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I work data input
over in Queens,
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but I help out
here all I can.
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You got a lot of
volunteers here?
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Lot of people
are grateful to Randy.
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I used to run
with the noble boys.
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Randy straightened me out.
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Anybody not so grateful?
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Randy was getting
a lot of kids out of
the gangster life.
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Some of the bangers probably
weren't too happy about that.
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Who besides you
and Mr. Chase had keys?
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Just us.
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But Randy'd open the door
for the grim reaper and try
to talk him into a donation.
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Randy had
anti-drug programs,
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work training programs,
stay-in-school programs.
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Thanks to him,
we have a freshman
at Hanford University.
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All those good works
cost money.
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Everything was financed
with community donations.
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Our church provides
some staff.
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He have a beef
with anyone?
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Not that I know of.
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He was popular.
He had a way with people,
being from the streets.
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Who got him
off the street?
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You people did.
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Randy spent two years
upstate for assault.
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Woke him up.
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So he just walked away from
the gang life, no questions
asked, no hard feelings?
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That was nine years ago.
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It's a long time
to hold a grudge.
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Times have changed.
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So had Randy.
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The community is devastated.
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Now, the sooner you make
an arrest, the better it's
gonna be for everybody.
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When I say we're giving this
our highest priority,
councilman, I mean it.
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Now, is there
anything I can do?
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Anybody I need to
lean on at Police Plaza?
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If there's any leaning on
to do, I'll call you.
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You can be sure of it.
Thanks.
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Well, M.E. puts
the time of death
between 10:00 and 11:00.
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Says the first blow
did him in.
Never had a chance.
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And the lab found
blue polar fleece fibers
under his nails,
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probably from
the perp's jacket.
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You'll never guess
what this stuff is made from.
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Recycled plastic bottles.
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You pull his sheet?
Yeah.
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Knife fight nine years ago.
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The guy he cut now
umpires softball games
for Chase every summer.
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I heard that
about Randy Chase.
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He made amends
with everyone.
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Van Buren.
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Mmm-hmm.
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I'll let them know.
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That was Latent.
You're not gonna like it.
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Possession.
Possession with intent.
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Assault with a deadly
weapon, sexual assault.
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All these perps
handled the weapon?
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Those are just the ones
we could make.
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Tack on the partials
and anyone not in the system,
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you're looking at about
a dozen more.
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Come on.
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Hey, it's a softball bat.
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So how do you want to start?
Alphabetically or
according to time served?
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Until November, I played
softball with Randy and some
other local business people.
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What, users against dealers?
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No, it was Randy's way of
keeping us talking to him.
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Where were you
Wednesday night, Lionel?
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This Wednesday?
Was at my girlfriend's,
Serena Lester.
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What about these guys?
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Any of them have
a beef with Chase?
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Marcel Hoyt, second base.
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Reggie, what the hell
is his last name?
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Left field.
Good bat, no arm.
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Yeah, you're all
a bunch of choir boys,
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and Chase hit himself
in the head with the bat.
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Way we heard it,
he was getting in
the way of business.
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Look, Randy would come by
here all the time, you know,
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try and get me to go back
to school or get a real job.
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So I offered him a donation.
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Couple hundred dollars
to step off.
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He take it?
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He told me to take the money
and go buy kids' books
and bring them to the center.
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Next thing I know,
I'm spending Saturdays
painting over graffiti.
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Randy, man,
he's something else.
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Yeah, dead.
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So where do we find
your girlfriend, Serena?
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Is Lionel in trouble?
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I told him he's got
three months to get off
that street corner,
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or I'm through with him.
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No, we just need to know
where he was Wednesday night.
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He was with me.
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I got home from work
a little after 10:00.
He was already there.
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Anybody else see him there?
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No, why?
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He ever talk about
Randy Chase?
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Lionel had nothing
to do with that.
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He liked Randy.
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Well, somebody killed him.
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The guy Lionel touts for,
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Ricky Carter.
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Lionel said he wasn't
too happy with Randy
cutting into his trade.
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Carter hassled Lionel
about it all the time.
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I had no problem
with Randy Chase.
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Word on the street,
he was hassling your people.
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He was.
Everything's okay now.
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You mean since he's dead?
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Since we worked out
an arrangement.
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What kind
of arrangement?
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I went to him a few
months ago, told him to
lay off my people.
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He said those people
belonged to the community
and he was taking them back.
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Fighting words.
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I wasn't gonna fight him.
I offered him five grand
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to take his crusade
off my street.
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He take the money?
Not that time.
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When he came back last month
with his hand out.
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I haven't been
bothered since.
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Cost of doing business.
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$5,000?
No, I'd remember that.
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Maybe he made
the deposit himself.
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He would have given me
the bank receipt.
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Is it possible
he spent it on something
without telling you?
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No.
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Haven's a 501
non-profit.
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Every expense, every donation
gets documented.
Randy knew that.
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Did Haven have any
sudden money problems
in December?
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The center has
money problems every month.
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December wasn't that special.
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Maybe Randy had
the sudden money problem.
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Have you been through
any of his stuff yet?
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No. Nobody's been in here
since he was killed.
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This is how my brother lived.
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I don't understand.
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Everybody loved Randy.
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He had quite
a sweet tooth, huh?
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It was for my kids.
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I told him
they got enough sugar.
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He never listened.
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Six of everything.
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Six shirts. Six tees.
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He liked to keep
things simple.
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TV set's
about 10 years old.
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Look, we're not trying to
bring down your brother's
good name,
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but if he had any kind
of a bad habit
that got him killed,
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we need to know about it.
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He was never into drugs.
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He got angry with me
if I bought lottery tickets.
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Can you think why
he might've needed money?
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Any personal reasons,
maybe to help out a friend?
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No.
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I'm sorry. I can't help you.
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What do you want from me?
A receipt?
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I gave him the money!
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So where did it go?
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Maybe it went up his nose.
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The lab says Chase was clean.
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All I know is he said
he needed it fast.
I didn't ask why.
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Long as he left
my crew alone, I didn't care.
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He hasn't wavered
and he hasn't lawyered up.
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He might be giving it
to us straight.
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We checked out Chase.
There's no trace of the money.
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I can't believe he'd make
a deal with this hump.
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Well, talk to the local unis.
If Chase and Carter
were getting cozy,
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maybe they know
something about it.
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We haven't targeted
Ricky Carter for any
special attention.
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We just respond to
complaints from the neighbors.
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They call us,
we clean the corner.
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When I drove a patrol car,
we chose the corners.
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Well, I don't know what
the policy was before
power steering, detective,
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but nowadays,
we don't do nothing
until we get complaints.
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Randy Chase ever organize
those complaints?
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If Chase wanted to clean up
a corner, he'd get
a parade permit from us
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and just occupy the corner
with a few dozen citizens.
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Take back the streets.
That's right.
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Tough to sell dope when
half the neighborhood's
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standing on the same corner
yelling at your clients.
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How often would he do this?
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Once a month, maybe more.
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Since December?
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Uh...
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Chase applied for
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two permits.
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One for a Christmas day march,
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one for a week
before his demise.
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And?
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Those marches never came off.
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So the best guy in
the neighborhood
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made a deal with the worst guy
in the neighborhood.
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He must've been desperate.
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Takes Carter off the hook.
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And puts who on it?
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Van Buren.
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Uh, hello Councilman Clayton.
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00:11:22,815 --> 00:11:24,840
That money went somewhere.
Find it.
249
00:11:26,252 --> 00:11:28,277
Yes, I was just
about to call you.
250
00:11:28,487 --> 00:11:30,978
This call here
to Larry Johnson.
What's that?
251
00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:33,253
He owns a couple of
supermarkets here.
252
00:11:33,359 --> 00:11:36,419
Donates milk for our
daycare program
for teenage mothers.
253
00:11:36,896 --> 00:11:38,761
Are we gonna go through
every phone call?
254
00:11:38,831 --> 00:11:41,698
Well, make it easy on us.
Just pick out the ones
that don't belong.
255
00:11:41,767 --> 00:11:46,033
Like, uh, maybe somebody
Randy had a problem with
or an old girlfriend.
256
00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:50,633
He used to go with Rochelle
somebody, but she moved to
Seattle last year.
257
00:11:51,143 --> 00:11:52,542
Nobody serious since then.
258
00:11:52,611 --> 00:11:55,307
What about these calls
here to the city Buildings
Department?
259
00:11:56,615 --> 00:11:57,809
You own the building?
260
00:11:57,883 --> 00:11:59,145
The space was donated.
261
00:11:59,785 --> 00:12:01,685
Randy ever talk about
fixing the place up?
262
00:12:01,787 --> 00:12:04,051
Maybe he had some
code violations?
263
00:12:04,924 --> 00:12:05,913
He never said anything.
264
00:12:06,625 --> 00:12:08,957
But Randy liked to protect
people from bad news.
265
00:12:12,565 --> 00:12:14,533
I don't expect him back
this afternoon.
266
00:12:15,267 --> 00:12:16,825
Maybe if you come back
in the morning.
267
00:12:16,936 --> 00:12:20,167
Mr. Mills got
a lot of calls from
someone named Randy Chase.
268
00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:22,036
Did they have
any business together?
269
00:12:22,108 --> 00:12:24,406
Doesn't ring a bell,
and I'm good with names.
270
00:12:24,477 --> 00:12:27,742
Chase is from Haven Center
up in Harlem. 138th Street?
271
00:12:27,947 --> 00:12:30,211
Sorry. I can tell you
there have been no
building permits
272
00:12:30,282 --> 00:12:31,909
issued to a Haven Center.
273
00:12:31,984 --> 00:12:33,451
No site visits either.
274
00:12:33,719 --> 00:12:35,983
I process all of
Professor Mills' papers.
275
00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:37,146
Professor?
276
00:12:37,223 --> 00:12:38,713
He teaches at
Hanford University,
277
00:12:38,791 --> 00:12:40,520
Tuesday to Friday,
urban science.
278
00:12:40,926 --> 00:12:42,223
Today's Monday.
He's not here.
279
00:12:42,862 --> 00:12:45,228
Mondays he sits on their
board of admissions.
280
00:12:47,166 --> 00:12:49,361
Randy chase contacted me
sometime last spring.
281
00:12:49,468 --> 00:12:51,197
He have a student
applying to Hanford?
282
00:12:51,270 --> 00:12:53,704
Yes.
Kid named Jerome Warren.
283
00:12:53,906 --> 00:12:55,237
Chase really talked him up.
284
00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:58,039
How smart he was,
how motivated,
285
00:12:58,310 --> 00:12:59,743
his extra-curricular
activities.
286
00:12:59,812 --> 00:13:01,211
The kid need the PR?
287
00:13:01,514 --> 00:13:02,674
Kid was an A student.
288
00:13:03,149 --> 00:13:05,208
So-so S.A.T.s,
but it didn't matter.
289
00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,253
His background, Jerome was
a lock for admission
and a scholarship.
290
00:13:08,354 --> 00:13:10,049
Was he having
problems lately?
291
00:13:10,122 --> 00:13:11,680
Well, none that I'm aware of.
292
00:13:11,757 --> 00:13:13,486
So why was Chase
still calling you?
293
00:13:13,592 --> 00:13:14,650
He, uh...
294
00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:17,992
He had a few more kids
filling out applications
for next year.
295
00:13:18,063 --> 00:13:20,588
School is always
on the lookout for
quality minority applicants.
296
00:13:21,267 --> 00:13:23,531
Anything you need
to know, give me a call.
297
00:13:25,938 --> 00:13:28,736
You, uh... You catch
a vibe off of this guy?
298
00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:31,708
I caught the dilated pupils.
Guy's a junkie.
299
00:13:31,944 --> 00:13:35,573
I figure it took Chase
about 10 seconds
to read this professor.
300
00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:39,448
Mills has a habit to feed,
Chase had kids
to get into Hanford.
301
00:13:40,119 --> 00:13:42,587
Davis Mills is one of my
department's best lecturers.
302
00:13:42,721 --> 00:13:45,417
He consistently gets top
reviews from the students.
303
00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:47,459
Is Jerome Warren
one of his students?
304
00:13:49,628 --> 00:13:50,617
Jerome...
305
00:13:53,465 --> 00:13:54,955
He was, last semester.
306
00:13:55,434 --> 00:13:56,492
How did he do?
307
00:13:56,569 --> 00:13:59,037
I'm not sure
I can give you his grades.
308
00:13:59,104 --> 00:14:02,164
I'm sure if you call
your president's office,
he'll tell you you can.
309
00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:11,406
Jerome Warren got
an A minus on his finals.
310
00:14:12,218 --> 00:14:13,685
How about
the rest of the semester?
311
00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:19,950
We only enter final grades
in the transcripts.
312
00:14:23,896 --> 00:14:25,557
F on his midterm.
313
00:14:25,898 --> 00:14:27,559
The come-back kid.
314
00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:31,762
Mr. Chase told me he called
professor Mills last April
about my application.
315
00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:33,395
You know why they'd
still be talking?
316
00:14:34,006 --> 00:14:35,564
Mr. Chase didn't
say anything.
317
00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,172
Professor Mills, well,
318
00:14:37,309 --> 00:14:39,209
I don't have any of his
classes this semester.
319
00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:41,911
You see him on campus
last Wednesday night?
320
00:14:42,414 --> 00:14:44,314
The night Mr. Chase
was killed?
321
00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:46,749
Uh, I was stuck in chem lab
till past 10:00.
322
00:14:46,852 --> 00:14:47,910
Why?
323
00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:50,545
Well, we know you flunked
your midterms, Jerome.
324
00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:54,188
And Mr. Chase got in touch
with Professor Mills
right after that.
325
00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:56,820
So? I don't understand
what you're saying.
326
00:14:56,962 --> 00:14:58,862
Well, you aced
your finals Jerome,
327
00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:02,662
so we're thinking maybe
Mr. Chase got professor Mills
to give you a little boost.
328
00:15:03,702 --> 00:15:06,569
Oh! Oh, yeah.
329
00:15:07,106 --> 00:15:08,698
Black student in
an Ivy League school,
330
00:15:08,774 --> 00:15:11,208
somebody must be
carrying him, huh?
331
00:15:11,644 --> 00:15:13,009
I had the flu
for that midterm.
332
00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:14,739
I felt a lot better
in December.
333
00:15:14,813 --> 00:15:16,576
Urban science is
a prerequisite.
334
00:15:16,649 --> 00:15:19,516
If you fail that class,
you might lose
your scholarship, right?
335
00:15:19,818 --> 00:15:21,149
I wasn't going to fail.
336
00:15:21,287 --> 00:15:23,050
Still, Mr. Chase
would have been worried.
337
00:15:24,189 --> 00:15:26,680
Me and Mr. Chase hadn't
talked in a couple of weeks.
338
00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:30,295
Since he sent me to
speak to some eighth graders
at PS 82, okay?
339
00:15:30,796 --> 00:15:32,525
Can I go study now?
340
00:15:35,567 --> 00:15:37,364
Last Wednesday night?
341
00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:39,870
I was here.
So was Professor Mills.
342
00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:41,406
Coffee?
No, thanks.
343
00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:42,629
Was he here all night?
344
00:15:42,708 --> 00:15:43,834
That I couldn't say.
345
00:15:43,909 --> 00:15:45,706
I had a 9:30 reading.
346
00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,936
Professor Mills was here
when I left.
347
00:15:48,213 --> 00:15:49,407
Who else was here?
348
00:15:49,481 --> 00:15:52,473
Professor Wine was,
he lives out on the island,
349
00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:54,712
probably won't be in
for a couple of hours.
350
00:15:55,187 --> 00:15:56,711
Cameron should
be able to help you.
351
00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:58,950
She got here
about 8:30 that night.
352
00:15:59,024 --> 00:16:00,082
Had a late chem lab.
353
00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:02,491
A chemistry professor
was here?
354
00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:04,219
She teach freshman classes?
355
00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:05,592
Yes, why?
356
00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:09,764
Mills was in the faculty
lounge till a little
after 11:00.
357
00:16:09,868 --> 00:16:11,733
We were told you had
a chem lab that night.
358
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:13,601
Yes. But it got out
around 9:00.
359
00:16:13,672 --> 00:16:15,367
Jerome Warren in your class?
Uh-huh.
360
00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:18,342
He got some odd lab results
neither one of us
could figure out.
361
00:16:18,510 --> 00:16:21,411
I told him to rerun
the sequence and then
I went into the lounge.
362
00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,244
As far as you know,
was Jerome here all night?
363
00:16:24,383 --> 00:16:26,578
He wasn't. I got back here
around midnight.
364
00:16:26,685 --> 00:16:28,346
The equipment was
just sitting here.
365
00:16:28,420 --> 00:16:29,614
He hadn't done
anything with it.
366
00:16:29,688 --> 00:16:31,155
He probably left
two minutes after I did.
367
00:16:31,223 --> 00:16:32,451
You have any of his
papers here?
368
00:16:32,524 --> 00:16:33,616
Yeah.
369
00:16:33,859 --> 00:16:35,918
Maybe Latent can match up
something to the bat.
370
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,355
Why you gotta bother me here?
You're embarrassing me.
371
00:16:40,432 --> 00:16:41,990
Maybe that's because
you lied to us.
372
00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:43,759
Nice jacket, Jerome.
373
00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:46,802
You know what this
polar fleece is made out of?
374
00:16:46,872 --> 00:16:49,067
Terephthalic acid.
What's going on?
375
00:16:49,508 --> 00:16:50,907
Is It yours?
376
00:16:52,478 --> 00:16:53,968
I don't have to answer
any of your questions.
377
00:16:54,046 --> 00:16:56,412
That's right. You have
the right to remain silent.
378
00:16:56,548 --> 00:16:58,345
You also have the right
to an attorney.
379
00:16:58,550 --> 00:17:01,348
Because you're under arrest
for the murder of
Randall Chase.
380
00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:04,253
If you cannot afford
an attorney,
one will be provided for you.
381
00:17:04,390 --> 00:17:05,448
You understand these rights?
382
00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:10,653
This thing's a hand grenade
with the pin pulled.
383
00:17:10,829 --> 00:17:13,559
Councilman Clayton
is rolling it our way.
384
00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:16,530
Post ran an interview
with the kid's mother.
385
00:17:16,602 --> 00:17:19,127
She's got my sympathy,
and I know he's guilty.
386
00:17:19,304 --> 00:17:21,932
Either strengthen
your case or drop it.
387
00:17:22,241 --> 00:17:24,641
Fibers and prints
don't lie, Adam.
388
00:17:25,144 --> 00:17:27,135
Prints on a softball bat?
389
00:17:27,479 --> 00:17:30,277
Fibers from a mass-marketed
winter jacket?
390
00:17:30,649 --> 00:17:33,117
Jerome was seen coming home
the night of the murder
391
00:17:33,318 --> 00:17:36,845
at 1:00 in the morning,
agitated and wearing
that jacket.
392
00:17:38,357 --> 00:17:41,622
Jerome Warren killed the man
who gave him a future.
393
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:44,024
Unless you can tell me why,
394
00:17:44,763 --> 00:17:49,530
you can have all the forensic
evidence in the world,
you'll never get a conviction.
395
00:17:49,601 --> 00:17:50,932
Next case.
396
00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:55,263
Jerome was smart,
hard-working,
397
00:17:55,607 --> 00:17:58,770
never in any trouble.
Everybody was proud of him.
398
00:17:59,611 --> 00:18:02,739
Did he have much to do
with Mr. Chase after
he started Hanford?
399
00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,312
Randy'd have him come
uptown every few weeks,
400
00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:09,018
speak to junior high students
or some other group.
401
00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,989
How did they get along?
402
00:18:12,124 --> 00:18:15,116
They were a great team.
They really could work a room.
403
00:18:15,794 --> 00:18:17,819
Inspire the kids
to stay in school.
404
00:18:18,864 --> 00:18:20,798
Inspire the parents
to donate their time.
405
00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:23,557
And everything was okay
between them?
406
00:18:23,669 --> 00:18:25,796
No animosity,
no difficulties?
407
00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:26,928
No.
408
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:33,109
Look, Jerome's the first kid
from this neighborhood to go
to an Ivy League school.
409
00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:35,940
Now I've got to shepherd along
the next group.
410
00:18:36,014 --> 00:18:38,312
Gonna be hard enough
without Randy.
411
00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:41,011
But if Jerome goes down
for his murder...
412
00:18:42,688 --> 00:18:44,713
You've got this all wrong.
413
00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:49,820
I didn't know a lot of people
like Jerome growing up.
414
00:18:49,995 --> 00:18:51,326
I thought he was pretty cool,
415
00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:53,862
coming from that environment,
getting admitted here.
416
00:18:53,932 --> 00:18:55,263
You become friends?
417
00:18:55,334 --> 00:18:57,234
We hung around
at the beginning.
418
00:18:58,170 --> 00:18:59,501
It didn't last?
419
00:18:59,571 --> 00:19:00,799
We didn't have much in common.
420
00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:03,535
Plus, his mood sort of
changed midterm.
421
00:19:03,609 --> 00:19:05,008
Changed how?
422
00:19:05,110 --> 00:19:06,634
Well, he shut down.
423
00:19:06,712 --> 00:19:09,704
He pretty much
stopped talking to me,
threw himself into school.
424
00:19:09,882 --> 00:19:12,749
All he did was study or...
Or surf the web
on my computer.
425
00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:15,083
Did he ever mention
Randy Chase?
426
00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:16,276
No.
427
00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:19,117
Uh, the guy called here
sometimes, but I never
actually met him.
428
00:19:19,725 --> 00:19:21,124
Anyone he might
have opened up to,
429
00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:23,627
a student counselor,
maybe a girlfriend?
430
00:19:23,695 --> 00:19:25,663
He didn't seem to have
any friends around here.
431
00:19:25,731 --> 00:19:28,894
Like I said, all he did
was study, especially
after midterms.
432
00:19:29,067 --> 00:19:32,127
He bombed out on every course
except chemistry.
433
00:19:33,238 --> 00:19:34,705
Every course?
434
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,935
But he got straight As
on his finals.
435
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:40,274
I know he got a tutor.
Check with student services.
436
00:19:40,546 --> 00:19:43,276
He needed four tutors,
one for every course.
437
00:19:43,749 --> 00:19:46,149
But he was too proud to admit
that he needed the help.
438
00:19:46,218 --> 00:19:47,583
What was his problem?
439
00:19:47,653 --> 00:19:49,951
Jerome wasn't ready
for university, period.
440
00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:51,784
He didn't know the basics.
441
00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:53,480
He couldn't find
Europe on a map.
442
00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:55,993
He didn't know what
the stock exchange was.
443
00:19:56,061 --> 00:19:58,154
That high school of his
might've graduated him,
444
00:19:58,297 --> 00:19:59,924
but they certainly
did not educate him.
445
00:20:00,165 --> 00:20:01,689
So it's his school's fault?
446
00:20:02,634 --> 00:20:04,363
He told me about Du Bois High.
447
00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:07,167
Half the library shelves
are empty.
448
00:20:07,239 --> 00:20:10,231
Said they have
an Encyclopedia Britannica
from 1986
449
00:20:10,309 --> 00:20:12,243
with the letters
D, P and R missing.
450
00:20:12,778 --> 00:20:15,440
Even if a kid wants to learn,
how's he supposed to?
451
00:20:15,514 --> 00:20:17,607
Well, he did ace
his finals last month.
452
00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:19,510
I don't know how.
453
00:20:19,751 --> 00:20:21,810
Hard work,
a brilliant tutor?
454
00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:23,149
Right.
455
00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:26,350
Jerome came in
at least four years
behind everyone else.
456
00:20:26,425 --> 00:20:28,620
There is no way he could've
earned those grades.
457
00:20:28,961 --> 00:20:30,189
That leaves cheating.
458
00:20:30,262 --> 00:20:31,695
I don't see
any other explanation.
459
00:20:32,864 --> 00:20:34,764
If the tutor's right,
this kid had to cheat
460
00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:36,698
on almost every course,
every test.
461
00:20:37,936 --> 00:20:39,870
Chase couldn't have bribed
all the professors.
462
00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:44,002
Maybe Jerome bought
the term papers
and test results.
463
00:20:44,076 --> 00:20:47,978
If Chase was tired of paying,
it could be why
Jerome killed him.
464
00:20:48,313 --> 00:20:50,838
We need to prove
he was buying tests.
465
00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:53,309
Well, maybe he shops
where I shop.
466
00:20:53,385 --> 00:20:55,876
His roommate says
he surfed the web.
467
00:20:56,588 --> 00:20:59,955
You're wrong.
I don't have anything to do
with selling exams.
468
00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:01,754
This your web page?
469
00:21:02,861 --> 00:21:05,261
Oh, anybody can print this
off the net.
470
00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:08,265
I found this in the cache
of the computer
Jerome Warren was using.
471
00:21:08,333 --> 00:21:10,733
I can use it to prove
a direct contact between
you and him.
472
00:21:10,836 --> 00:21:12,531
Oh, you can't do that.
473
00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:14,333
I'm here, aren't I?
474
00:21:14,506 --> 00:21:17,339
Well, you're asking me
to admit to a crime?
475
00:21:17,476 --> 00:21:20,707
I'm going to find out
about all of this
one way or another.
476
00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:23,942
You make it easy on me,
I'll make it easy on you.
477
00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:28,514
Hypothetically?
478
00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:33,720
Test Q&A all go through
the university print shop.
479
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,228
And you have a friend
that works there?
Maybe a girlfriend?
480
00:21:38,664 --> 00:21:40,723
Yeah, maybe.
481
00:21:42,401 --> 00:21:44,198
Here's the best part.
482
00:21:47,739 --> 00:21:50,640
They only let you take
pencils into the tests.
483
00:21:50,742 --> 00:21:53,336
You know, hard to
sneak in a crib sheet.
484
00:21:53,412 --> 00:21:54,572
Take a look.
485
00:21:57,182 --> 00:21:58,581
D- B-A-B.
486
00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:01,881
Yeah. Second year
organic chemistry test
up at Columbia.
487
00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:04,884
I got the idea last summer
writing tourists' names
488
00:22:04,956 --> 00:22:06,787
on a grain of rice
at the seaport.
489
00:22:07,192 --> 00:22:09,092
You know, six bucks a pop.
490
00:22:09,528 --> 00:22:11,086
What's this sell for?
491
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:12,994
Um, just about
100 grains of rice.
492
00:22:13,365 --> 00:22:14,696
Hypothetically.
493
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,491
And hypothetically, did you
494
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:20,695
sell any pencils
to Jerome Warren?
495
00:22:23,809 --> 00:22:25,299
Uh, never seen him before.
496
00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:29,071
The only black guy
I might have sold to,
497
00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:33,546
way too old to be a student.
Came in December.
Haggled over price.
498
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,211
He haggled?
499
00:22:35,287 --> 00:22:39,553
Yeah. he wanted four sets of
answers and three term papers
for five thousand bucks.
500
00:22:41,727 --> 00:22:42,853
This guy?
501
00:22:43,762 --> 00:22:45,389
Oh, yeah. There you go.
502
00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:47,855
Hypothetically.
503
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,592
Jerome's grades.
504
00:22:51,002 --> 00:22:53,664
His early tests were dismal,
except in chemistry.
505
00:22:53,739 --> 00:22:55,639
Apparently, he was actually
earning that A.
506
00:22:56,174 --> 00:22:59,575
And then in December,
he aces everything,
including three term papers.
507
00:23:00,078 --> 00:23:02,979
So why kill the hand
that feeds you?
508
00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:05,413
His last history paper,
he got an incomplete.
509
00:23:06,151 --> 00:23:08,483
Chase must've
turned off the tap.
510
00:23:08,754 --> 00:23:10,619
No more magic pencils.
511
00:23:11,089 --> 00:23:12,954
So Jerome, in anger,
murdered him.
512
00:23:15,494 --> 00:23:16,859
Carmichael.
513
00:23:17,429 --> 00:23:19,454
Thanks, we'll be right up.
514
00:23:21,032 --> 00:23:23,660
Good news. They just arrested
Randy Chase's murderer.
515
00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:27,862
I thought we already had.
516
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,167
It's not every day
I get the big collar.
517
00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:33,734
You know, we already have
a suspect, Jerome Warren.
518
00:23:33,912 --> 00:23:36,107
I also know you haven't
indicted him yet.
519
00:23:36,181 --> 00:23:37,842
Has Kendry made
any admission?
520
00:23:37,983 --> 00:23:39,382
If he's smart,
he will.
521
00:23:39,751 --> 00:23:43,050
Eyewitness saw somebody
sneaking out of Haven
the night of the murder.
522
00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:44,913
He picked out Kendry's mug.
523
00:23:45,157 --> 00:23:47,022
Where is this witness?
524
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,290
You've been sitting
on this information for
three weeks, Mr. Lamaine?
525
00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:56,229
I don't like
dealing with cops.
526
00:23:56,301 --> 00:23:57,893
What
changed your mind?
527
00:23:57,969 --> 00:24:01,427
Councilman Clayton
was speaking at
the community center.
528
00:24:01,907 --> 00:24:06,640
He said you were trying to
put this on a college student
from the neighborhood.
529
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,646
He said if people
knew anything,
they have to step up.
530
00:24:11,049 --> 00:24:14,018
So you decided to put it on
the local drug dealer?
531
00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:15,313
Wasn't like that.
532
00:24:15,387 --> 00:24:17,685
I saw Kendry sneaking
out of Haven.
533
00:24:17,756 --> 00:24:19,280
What time?
534
00:24:19,357 --> 00:24:21,951
10:44.
I checked my watch.
535
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:23,856
You just happened
to be walking by?
536
00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:26,921
I was going home
from the subway.
537
00:24:27,265 --> 00:24:29,290
You saw him
from across the street?
538
00:24:29,367 --> 00:24:30,834
That's right.
At night?
539
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:33,460
It was Kendry.
540
00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:37,275
There's a street lamp
practically on top of
Haven Center.
541
00:24:38,844 --> 00:24:41,404
That lamp was reported broken
two nights before the murder.
542
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,880
It took Con Ed
five days to replace it.
543
00:24:46,418 --> 00:24:49,979
I could see Kendry because
the lights were on
in the center.
544
00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:51,818
They're real bright.
545
00:24:55,227 --> 00:24:58,958
The kids who found
Chase's body said Haven
Center's lights were off.
546
00:25:00,265 --> 00:25:02,631
Mr. Lamaine
did not see Lionel Kendry.
547
00:25:04,469 --> 00:25:07,768
Jerome Warren couldn't
have committed this crime,
Mr. McCoy.
548
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,936
He's a bright, young
college student, not a thug.
549
00:25:13,879 --> 00:25:18,248
I'm sure Mr. Lamaine thinks
he was doing the right thing,
but he's mistaken.
550
00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:22,150
Maybe Mr. Lamaine
made a mistake.
551
00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:24,981
Maybe the officers
made a mistake.
552
00:25:25,056 --> 00:25:28,048
Your faith in Jerome Warren
is misplaced, sir.
553
00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:30,558
He's not a role model.
554
00:25:30,962 --> 00:25:33,192
He killed the man
who tried to help him.
555
00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:37,966
Mr. McCoy,
556
00:25:38,570 --> 00:25:43,234
how many of your brothers
and sisters and friends
attended college before you?
557
00:25:44,476 --> 00:25:46,068
Jerome had none.
558
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:50,606
His brothers and sisters
now have a role model.
559
00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:53,116
I'm sure he's innocent.
560
00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:56,778
And Randy Chase's
good works will go on.
561
00:26:07,632 --> 00:26:10,294
Just got off the phone
with Councilman Clayton.
562
00:26:10,368 --> 00:26:13,929
They're holding a rally
for Jerome Warren
in Marcus Garvey Park.
563
00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,874
How can Clayton
really believe
Jerome's innocent?
564
00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:20,537
Because he's concerned
with the welfare
of his constituents.
565
00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:21,909
That's his job.
566
00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:24,847
Is it ours
to base prosecutions
on political whim?
567
00:26:25,784 --> 00:26:27,684
We go forward and lose,
568
00:26:28,353 --> 00:26:30,287
it's the worst
of both worlds.
569
00:26:30,355 --> 00:26:32,255
Make a deal
or dismiss the charges.
570
00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:33,814
Randy Chase was
murdered
571
00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:36,326
because he stopped financing
Jerome's cheating.
572
00:26:36,394 --> 00:26:39,261
I don't care how big
a hero this kid is,
573
00:26:39,331 --> 00:26:40,491
we can't blink.
574
00:26:40,565 --> 00:26:42,658
Jerome's lawyer is
gonna have a field day.
575
00:26:42,734 --> 00:26:43,860
It doesn't matter
how strong your cross,
576
00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:46,369
this eyewitness hands
the jury reasonable doubt.
577
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,736
Consider yourself lucky
to get a hung jury.
578
00:26:48,807 --> 00:26:52,971
If you do, we are not
about to retry this case!
579
00:26:54,212 --> 00:26:56,305
Then Mr. Lamaine
never takes the stand.
580
00:26:56,381 --> 00:26:58,474
Because you don't
believe him?
581
00:26:59,084 --> 00:27:00,517
Because he's lying.
582
00:27:02,187 --> 00:27:03,518
Good luck.
583
00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:08,083
He didn't stop, he just
turned down the avenue
and walked off.
584
00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:11,060
And you're
absolutely certain it was
Lionel Kendry?
585
00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:12,391
Yes, Judge.
586
00:27:13,698 --> 00:27:14,824
Thank you, Mr. Lamaine.
587
00:27:15,367 --> 00:27:16,356
You may leave now.
588
00:27:26,845 --> 00:27:31,339
One of the two boys who found
Randy Chase's body
tripped over it in the dark.
589
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:33,849
Children who had
no compunction about
breaking and entering.
590
00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:36,443
They'd never have risked it
if the lights had been on.
591
00:27:36,521 --> 00:27:38,182
I have a right to call
this witness, Judge.
592
00:27:38,256 --> 00:27:41,316
If Mr. McCoy thinks
he's less than truthful,
he's got a cross examination.
593
00:27:41,393 --> 00:27:42,690
We all know he's lying.
594
00:27:42,761 --> 00:27:45,628
If he takes the stand,
Mr. Winter will be
suborning perjury.
595
00:27:45,697 --> 00:27:47,961
I have no direct
knowledge of a lie.
596
00:27:48,033 --> 00:27:49,694
A lawyer's answer.
597
00:27:50,335 --> 00:27:54,465
Mr. Winter,
do you have anything else
that implicates Mr. Kendry?
598
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:56,140
Not at this time,
Your Honor.
599
00:27:56,207 --> 00:27:59,836
Well, until you do,
I'm going to have to find
as a matter of law
600
00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:02,807
that Mr. Lamaine is
not a credible witness.
601
00:28:02,881 --> 00:28:05,315
You have your exception,
Counselor.
602
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,119
Uh, given
Your Honor's ruling,
603
00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:12,982
I ask leave to argue
mitigating circumstances.
604
00:28:13,758 --> 00:28:15,316
What mitigating
circumstances?
605
00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:16,860
Extreme
emotional disturbance.
606
00:28:16,928 --> 00:28:18,589
Given my client's
state of mind,
607
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:20,557
this just isn't murder two.
608
00:28:20,832 --> 00:28:23,323
You're admitting
he killed Randy Chase?
609
00:28:23,401 --> 00:28:24,959
Will he take a plea
on man one?
610
00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:26,501
Assault one, minimum jail.
611
00:28:26,571 --> 00:28:27,799
Forget it.
612
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:31,501
Unless Mr. Warren takes
the stand, there's no proof
of emotional disturbance.
613
00:28:31,576 --> 00:28:32,873
You can't tell me
how to try my case.
614
00:28:32,944 --> 00:28:34,343
Then allow me.
615
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:39,343
Mr. Winter, you can make
a stab at the defense of
extreme emotional disturbance.
616
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:40,714
Your Honor.
617
00:28:40,785 --> 00:28:42,810
But I warn you, Counselor,
618
00:28:43,021 --> 00:28:46,184
unless I see proof of
your client's mental state,
619
00:28:46,324 --> 00:28:48,724
I will not submit the charge
of manslaughter to the jury.
620
00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:50,727
My client takes the stand,
admits the killing
621
00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:52,729
on the chance that
you'll charge manslaughter?
622
00:28:53,198 --> 00:28:54,961
Your call, Counselor.
623
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,529
What choice do I have?
624
00:29:04,676 --> 00:29:07,839
Randy chase believed
in his work at Haven Center.
625
00:29:08,379 --> 00:29:11,837
He believed Jerome represented
everything the center could do
for the community,
626
00:29:12,884 --> 00:29:13,873
for the kids.
627
00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:17,619
What, if anything, did he
expect in return from Jerome?
628
00:29:18,523 --> 00:29:19,888
To succeed.
629
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,518
To graduate with
a top-notch education.
630
00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:25,026
Thank you.
631
00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:27,261
Mr. Perry,
632
00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:31,127
did you ever hear Randy Chase
refer to Jerome Warren
as "The Show"?
633
00:29:32,303 --> 00:29:33,395
I did.
634
00:29:33,471 --> 00:29:36,065
Can you explain
what he meant by that?
635
00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:38,972
Randy would have Jerome
talk at functions,
636
00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:41,210
social events, schools.
637
00:29:41,513 --> 00:29:42,605
Jerome was a good speaker.
638
00:29:42,981 --> 00:29:44,039
People were impressed.
639
00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:45,878
When you say social events
and functions,
640
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,248
you mean fund-raising
opportunities, don't you?
641
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:49,411
Not necessarily.
642
00:29:49,487 --> 00:29:50,647
But mostly.
643
00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:53,823
Randy Chase used Jerome Warren
as a fund-raising tool,
didn't he?
644
00:29:53,925 --> 00:29:54,914
That's not all he got.
645
00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:58,622
Some of these fund-raising
events took place at night,
didn't they?
646
00:29:58,696 --> 00:30:00,493
Yes.
When Jerome
should've been studying.
647
00:30:00,832 --> 00:30:02,629
Objection.
Sustained.
648
00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:03,792
To the best
of your knowledge,
649
00:30:03,868 --> 00:30:06,735
did my client ever complain
to Randy Chase about
attending these events?
650
00:30:07,138 --> 00:30:08,127
A couple of times.
651
00:30:08,907 --> 00:30:12,001
But Randy explained to him
if they wanted more kids
like Jerome,
652
00:30:12,277 --> 00:30:13,642
they couldn't do it
without the money.
653
00:30:14,412 --> 00:30:15,572
I see.
654
00:30:15,914 --> 00:30:18,280
You attended night classes
at a state school, didn't you?
655
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:19,875
Yes.
656
00:30:20,251 --> 00:30:21,843
You got a good paying job?
657
00:30:22,587 --> 00:30:23,611
Yes.
658
00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:27,419
Were you admitted to the state
university or hired for your
job under any kind of program?
659
00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:29,283
Program?
660
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,228
Affirmative action program,
set-asides, quotas,
preferences.
661
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:34,287
Whatever you like
to call it.
662
00:30:34,365 --> 00:30:35,389
No.
663
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,227
You succeeded
on your own merits?
664
00:30:38,303 --> 00:30:40,271
Objection.
Withdrawn.
665
00:30:42,073 --> 00:30:43,734
No more questions.
666
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:49,842
Jerome used to run home
667
00:30:50,114 --> 00:30:51,843
to show me his report cards.
668
00:30:52,650 --> 00:30:54,015
Excellents.
669
00:30:54,886 --> 00:30:56,717
He just loved to learn.
670
00:30:57,455 --> 00:30:59,480
What happened after
he met Randy Chase?
671
00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:02,251
He helped fill
the hole left when
672
00:31:02,627 --> 00:31:04,652
Jerome's father died
five years ago.
673
00:31:05,296 --> 00:31:07,730
He helped Jerome
see the possibilities
in his life.
674
00:31:08,099 --> 00:31:10,226
He told him he could get him
into an Ivy League school.
675
00:31:10,568 --> 00:31:12,263
Did you think
this was a realistic plan?
676
00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:13,998
Well...
677
00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:15,863
Mr. Chase explained that
678
00:31:16,174 --> 00:31:18,369
Jerome had a good chance
of being accepted
679
00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:21,341
under affirmative action,
and of getting
a scholarship.
680
00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:24,005
And, with a little bit of
hard work, he could do well.
681
00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:27,044
Jerome was
very excited about it.
682
00:31:27,118 --> 00:31:30,315
Did things change
after Jerome started
at Hanford?
683
00:31:32,123 --> 00:31:33,590
Jerome changed.
684
00:31:33,992 --> 00:31:35,584
He grew distant.
685
00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:39,721
I wanted to come visit him
at his school, but he
kept putting me off.
686
00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:41,558
You know what
the problem was?
687
00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:43,633
I know he failed
some midterms.
688
00:31:43,935 --> 00:31:46,802
He had never had
trouble before,
and I told him that
689
00:31:47,005 --> 00:31:49,940
college was supposed
to be tough, he just
had to keep plugging.
690
00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:51,942
Did Randy Chase speak to you
about your son's troubles?
691
00:31:52,343 --> 00:31:53,401
Yes, he...
692
00:31:53,978 --> 00:31:55,741
He knew Jerome's
spirits were down,
693
00:31:56,047 --> 00:31:58,038
but he told me we couldn't
let him drop out.
694
00:31:58,116 --> 00:32:01,142
We had to do everything
we could to keep
Jerome in school.
695
00:32:01,219 --> 00:32:03,449
Did you say anything
to Jerome?
696
00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,623
Yes. I told him
all he could do was his best.
697
00:32:08,126 --> 00:32:11,721
And when he got As
at Christmas, I thought
everything was better.
698
00:32:11,796 --> 00:32:13,457
Was it?
No.
699
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:16,596
No. Things got worse.
700
00:32:19,304 --> 00:32:21,272
He stopped coming home
on weekends.
701
00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:24,707
Said he was ashamed of us.
702
00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:27,878
He was ashamed of
where he came from.
703
00:32:30,048 --> 00:32:31,675
I didn't know what was
happening with my son.
704
00:32:31,749 --> 00:32:33,717
I was just watching him
fall apart.
705
00:32:35,053 --> 00:32:37,385
All his dreams
just falling apart.
706
00:32:43,227 --> 00:32:47,823
We still haven't turned up
any witnesses to any arguments
between Chase and Jerome.
707
00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:50,333
Looks like Winter's off
on a whole new tack anyway.
708
00:32:50,501 --> 00:32:52,799
What's he peddling,
that because of
affirmative action,
709
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:54,497
the kid was in
over his head at Hanford?
710
00:32:54,572 --> 00:32:56,039
That seems to be
where he's going.
711
00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:57,574
It's smart tactics.
712
00:32:57,909 --> 00:33:00,104
If the jury's at all
representative of
the general public,
713
00:33:00,178 --> 00:33:03,477
Winter can count on at least
three or four people who
don't like affirmative action.
714
00:33:03,548 --> 00:33:06,244
Just be glad Winter didn't
question you about
affirmative action
715
00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:08,046
when you testified.
716
00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:10,610
He wouldn't have gotten
any complaints from me.
717
00:33:10,688 --> 00:33:13,748
It started after I came in,
it'll still be there
when I get out.
718
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:16,020
And you wouldn't have
liked my answers.
719
00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:17,652
When I applied
to the department,
720
00:33:17,729 --> 00:33:21,187
when the questionnaire
asked for my race,
I put none of the above.
721
00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:23,796
Well, I'd like to think
I got where I am
based on merit.
722
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:25,128
So would I.
723
00:33:25,236 --> 00:33:29,366
But I've got 2,000
pages of legal documents
that prove the contrary.
724
00:33:30,141 --> 00:33:34,339
If this kid walks
because of this defense,
it's gonna have repercussions.
725
00:33:34,612 --> 00:33:37,604
Can't you plead him out,
stop his lawyer
from playing this card?
726
00:33:37,715 --> 00:33:40,411
They want assault one,
minimum time.
727
00:33:41,285 --> 00:33:42,650
It's unacceptable.
728
00:33:43,187 --> 00:33:44,586
Rock and a hard place.
729
00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:50,394
As a member of
Hanford University's
board of admissions,
730
00:33:50,661 --> 00:33:53,391
Jerome Warren's application
came under my review.
731
00:33:53,598 --> 00:33:56,829
He was an ideal candidate,
under Hanford's
current guidelines.
732
00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,265
Despite his low
S.A.T. scores?
733
00:33:59,337 --> 00:34:01,965
Yes, under Hanford's
current guidelines
734
00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:04,797
and commitment to
affirmative action.
735
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,468
Did you yourself
736
00:34:06,778 --> 00:34:10,077
form any opinion about
my client's suitability
as a Hanford student?
737
00:34:10,148 --> 00:34:11,206
Yes.
738
00:34:11,482 --> 00:34:14,576
I felt he was completely
unsuited for the academic
rigors of Hanford.
739
00:34:14,652 --> 00:34:15,641
Why?
740
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,881
Objection, relevance.
Overruled.
741
00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:20,287
You may answer,
Professor Howard.
742
00:34:20,591 --> 00:34:23,560
He lacked the basic
general knowledge
and experience
743
00:34:23,628 --> 00:34:25,960
that most of our students
come equipped with.
744
00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:29,727
His high school and his
environment simply
did not prepare him
745
00:34:29,801 --> 00:34:32,395
for the demands of an
Ivy League institution.
It's tragic.
746
00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:34,370
As a tenured professor
of sociology, you've studied
747
00:34:34,439 --> 00:34:36,600
affirmative action programs
at Ivy League schools.
748
00:34:36,674 --> 00:34:38,574
Yes, I've written several
papers on the subject.
749
00:34:38,676 --> 00:34:40,610
Have you formed an opinion
as to the performance
750
00:34:40,678 --> 00:34:43,272
of inner-city
minority students admitted
under such programs?
751
00:34:43,347 --> 00:34:47,511
Affirmative action sets up
unrealistic expectations
that can never be met.
752
00:34:47,585 --> 00:34:50,782
These students face
immense pressure to succeed
753
00:34:50,855 --> 00:34:53,722
and almost impossible
odds of doing so.
754
00:34:53,791 --> 00:34:57,386
As a result,
they often suffer depression,
755
00:34:57,462 --> 00:35:00,124
loss of self-esteem,
substance abuse.
756
00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:03,497
Doesn't Hanford University
offer mentoring programs
to help these students?
757
00:35:03,568 --> 00:35:04,694
These are token remedies.
758
00:35:05,303 --> 00:35:08,864
Hanford is primarily concerned
with how many minority
students it can admit,
759
00:35:08,973 --> 00:35:10,304
not how many graduate.
760
00:35:11,042 --> 00:35:12,373
Thank you.
761
00:35:14,245 --> 00:35:16,440
Professor Howard,
you're on record as being
762
00:35:16,514 --> 00:35:18,345
opposed to affirmative action,
isn't that right?
763
00:35:18,416 --> 00:35:19,405
Yes.
764
00:35:19,484 --> 00:35:22,214
It's outlived its usefulness.
After 30 years of it,
765
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:24,083
I believe the
playing field is level.
766
00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:28,315
People's 42.
This study by
767
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,323
the California state
university system shows
768
00:35:31,395 --> 00:35:34,626
that after voters banned
affirmative action there,
769
00:35:34,699 --> 00:35:38,032
minority enrollment dropped
by 40 to 60%%.
770
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,104
Everyone was given
equal opportunity.
771
00:35:40,204 --> 00:35:41,762
I'm not finished, Professor.
772
00:35:41,939 --> 00:35:45,705
U.C. Berkeley turned away
800 African American students
773
00:35:46,077 --> 00:35:50,036
with 4.0 grade
point averages
and S.A.T. scores
774
00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:51,781
of 1,200 or better.
775
00:35:52,049 --> 00:35:54,882
And you're telling us that
the playing field is level?
776
00:35:54,952 --> 00:35:56,385
I'm not familiar
with this study.
777
00:36:01,125 --> 00:36:02,524
People's 43.
778
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,758
This is the Bowen-Bok study
on affirmative action.
779
00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:07,730
Are you familiar with
this one, Professor?
780
00:36:07,798 --> 00:36:08,856
Yes.
781
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:11,568
Would you mind reading
the highlighted passage?
782
00:36:12,703 --> 00:36:15,467
"After graduation,
black students earn
advanced degrees
783
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:17,735
"at rates identical
to white students.
784
00:36:17,975 --> 00:36:21,843
"Blacks graduating from
elite schools earned
70 to 85%%
785
00:36:21,913 --> 00:36:24,711
"more than did
black graduates generally. "
786
00:36:25,449 --> 00:36:27,440
Isn't that a good thing,
Professor?
787
00:36:27,618 --> 00:36:29,415
That study also showed
788
00:36:29,654 --> 00:36:33,090
that blacks at
elite universities
received lower grades
789
00:36:33,157 --> 00:36:36,388
and graduated at a lower rate
than their white classmates.
790
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,258
But don't they
deserve that chance,
to fail or succeed?
791
00:36:40,831 --> 00:36:42,162
Well, yes.
792
00:36:42,233 --> 00:36:43,632
Do you know if these students
793
00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:46,966
suffer depression,
loss of self-esteem,
794
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:48,767
substance abuse
to a greater extent
795
00:36:48,839 --> 00:36:52,172
than black teenagers
who don't attend
Ivy League schools?
796
00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:53,835
I didn't study
those students.
797
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:56,339
Do you know if Jerome Warren
798
00:36:56,414 --> 00:36:59,144
felt more discouraged
about his academic failure
799
00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:01,412
than any other driven,
ambitious student?
800
00:37:01,586 --> 00:37:04,077
No. Again, mine was
a statistical analysis...
801
00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:07,682
Do you know if he would've
felt more or less stress
802
00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:10,454
if he had enrolled in
a community college,
or dropped out
803
00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:12,358
and taken a minimum wage job?
804
00:37:13,197 --> 00:37:14,221
No.
805
00:37:14,298 --> 00:37:15,890
Do you think he would've been
happier if he'd settled for
806
00:37:15,967 --> 00:37:18,492
flipping burgers at the local
fast food restaurant?
807
00:37:19,003 --> 00:37:20,027
I don't know.
808
00:37:20,538 --> 00:37:24,030
Professor Howard, how much
time have you spent
talking with Jerome Warren?
809
00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:25,740
Well, I've never
actually met him.
810
00:37:25,943 --> 00:37:29,572
So apart from statistical
generalities about
affirmative action,
811
00:37:29,647 --> 00:37:31,638
you don't really have
anything specific
812
00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:34,480
to tell us about Jerome Warren
as an individual, do you?
813
00:37:35,052 --> 00:37:36,076
No.
814
00:37:37,488 --> 00:37:40,252
Your Honor, I move to strike
this witness's
entire testimony
815
00:37:40,324 --> 00:37:42,121
as irrelevant
and inflammatory.
816
00:37:42,226 --> 00:37:45,252
Affirmative action is what
put my client in harm's way.
817
00:37:45,329 --> 00:37:49,527
Counsel is trying to exploit
what he perceives as a bias
against affirmative action.
818
00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:51,396
I agree, Mr. McCoy.
819
00:37:51,869 --> 00:37:53,234
Mr. Winter,
820
00:37:53,337 --> 00:37:56,238
this is a murder trial,
not a political debate.
821
00:37:56,307 --> 00:37:57,865
The testimony is out.
822
00:38:00,678 --> 00:38:03,442
Back to basics.
A kid with a bat.
823
00:38:03,614 --> 00:38:07,812
Not quite. All the jury
instructions in the world
can't un-ring the bell.
824
00:38:08,819 --> 00:38:11,652
Well, you get one last chance.
Jerome's up next.
825
00:38:11,722 --> 00:38:13,656
He thought he was
under pressure before...
826
00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:16,822
I'm not so sure
this is worse.
827
00:38:20,731 --> 00:38:24,531
I'd been to
the Statue of Liberty
on a school trip once.
828
00:38:25,403 --> 00:38:27,564
I'd been to the Museum
of Natural History,
829
00:38:27,938 --> 00:38:29,235
the movie theater
in Times Square.
830
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,468
Other than that, I've
never been out of Harlem.
831
00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:35,239
The kids at Hanford,
they'd traveled to places
I never even heard of.
832
00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:36,337
They just...
833
00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:39,042
They knew stuff,
and I felt like a little kid.
834
00:38:39,116 --> 00:38:41,084
How'd you
do in class?
835
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:45,589
In American lit Professor
Veysey told us we're going
after the great white whale.
836
00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:47,419
I didn't... I didn't know
what he was talking about.
837
00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:50,860
I had to explain how
I hadn't read Moby Dick.
838
00:38:51,796 --> 00:38:53,286
Hadn't even heard of it.
839
00:38:53,364 --> 00:38:55,559
Professor Veysey
gave me this look, like...
840
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:57,032
Like he felt sorry for me.
841
00:38:57,101 --> 00:38:58,762
At what point did you
decide to cheat?
842
00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:00,770
That was Mr. Chase's idea.
843
00:39:01,305 --> 00:39:03,136
I told him I was worried
that I might flunk out.
844
00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:04,572
But you went along with him,
didn't you?
845
00:39:04,642 --> 00:39:05,768
I didn't want to.
846
00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:08,209
I told him that I...
I would just try harder.
847
00:39:08,279 --> 00:39:09,837
But he said
that wasn't good enough.
848
00:39:10,614 --> 00:39:12,343
He said he needed me
acing everything.
849
00:39:12,416 --> 00:39:14,976
That... That it looked
good for fund-raising
850
00:39:17,288 --> 00:39:20,223
Mr. Chase kept telling me
I was a role model.
851
00:39:20,925 --> 00:39:22,324
"For what?" I kept thinking.
852
00:39:22,727 --> 00:39:24,251
Lying and cheating?
853
00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:25,960
You could have dropped out.
854
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:27,292
Could've transferred
to another school.
855
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:30,061
I wanted to.
I'd been telling
Mr. Chase for months.
856
00:39:30,134 --> 00:39:32,728
I got a transfer application
to city college.
857
00:39:32,803 --> 00:39:34,600
Mr. Chase told me,
"Quit bitching. "
858
00:39:34,839 --> 00:39:36,636
I was getting
an Ivy League degree.
859
00:39:37,241 --> 00:39:39,709
I didn't want the degree.
I wanted an education.
860
00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:41,875
What happened
that Wednesday night?
861
00:39:42,646 --> 00:39:46,104
Mr. Chase wanted me
to speak with some kids
at the boys and girls club.
862
00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:49,644
I went to tell him no,
I'd decided to drop out.
863
00:39:49,787 --> 00:39:51,277
He told me don't be stupid,
864
00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:55,121
that he could get some
more money to buy some more
tests and papers.
865
00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:58,491
I told him I couldn't
face myself if I
cheated again.
866
00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:00,120
What did Mr. Chase do?
867
00:40:00,197 --> 00:40:01,687
He grabbed me,
868
00:40:02,032 --> 00:40:03,693
he got in my face.
869
00:40:05,035 --> 00:40:07,128
He told me I had no choice.
870
00:40:08,472 --> 00:40:10,702
That I owed it
to my community.
871
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,205
He told me I was
nothing to him if I quit.
872
00:40:17,648 --> 00:40:19,513
But I couldn't go back.
873
00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:21,749
I just couldn't.
874
00:40:26,323 --> 00:40:28,553
So I grabbed
a baseball bat.
875
00:40:30,961 --> 00:40:34,089
And I don't
remember what happened.
876
00:40:36,033 --> 00:40:39,867
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I loved Mr. Chase.
I did! But...
877
00:40:40,171 --> 00:40:44,665
But I wasn't good enough,
I just... I couldn't
carry the weight.
878
00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,510
Is it your testimony,
Mr. Warren,
879
00:40:55,586 --> 00:40:57,952
that the cheating
was Mr. Chase's idea?
880
00:40:58,055 --> 00:40:59,113
Yes.
881
00:40:59,523 --> 00:41:02,356
And that it was you
who wanted it to stop?
882
00:41:02,426 --> 00:41:03,620
Yes.
Why?
883
00:41:04,562 --> 00:41:07,725
Weren't you the one who
would reap the benefits
of a Hanford degree?
884
00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:10,494
It wouldn't mean anything
if I stole it.
885
00:41:14,605 --> 00:41:16,971
You couldn't make Mr. Chase
understand that, could you?
886
00:41:17,041 --> 00:41:18,065
No.
887
00:41:18,609 --> 00:41:21,976
He was using you,
you wanted it to stop.
888
00:41:22,046 --> 00:41:24,879
They were all using me.
Hanford, everybody!
889
00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:27,813
But you didn't
kill everybody.
890
00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:29,244
You killed Randy Chase.
891
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,421
But I didn't mean to.
I just snapped.
892
00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:37,391
The medical examiner
testified that you
struck him three times.
893
00:41:38,796 --> 00:41:42,698
She testified that the
last two blows were delivered
while he was lying face down.
894
00:41:43,033 --> 00:41:44,193
I don't remember.
895
00:41:44,435 --> 00:41:46,403
You meant to kill him,
didn't you?
No!
896
00:41:46,470 --> 00:41:47,630
Thanks to him.
897
00:41:47,705 --> 00:41:49,332
You'd been
humiliated at Hanford,
898
00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:51,839
you'd been made to feel
stupid and inadequate.
899
00:41:51,909 --> 00:41:53,274
I just wasn't ready.
900
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,904
Thanks to him, you found out
you didn't have the
guts to tough it out!
901
00:41:55,980 --> 00:41:57,277
No, you don't understand!
902
00:41:57,348 --> 00:41:59,839
That's why you were
angry at him. That's why
you wanted him dead.
903
00:41:59,917 --> 00:42:01,043
He wouldn't leave me alone.
904
00:42:01,118 --> 00:42:02,107
So you killed him!
905
00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:04,187
I wanted him
off my back, okay?
906
00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:08,086
I wanted them all
off my back!
907
00:42:18,669 --> 00:42:20,330
No more questions.
908
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:36,349
Jerome Warren's lawyer
wants to talk about a plea.
909
00:42:37,054 --> 00:42:39,113
Why should we
offer them anything?
910
00:42:39,189 --> 00:42:42,056
Jerome as good as said it,
he wanted to kill Randy Chase.
911
00:42:42,793 --> 00:42:44,021
It's murder two.
912
00:42:44,628 --> 00:42:46,220
The jury may have seen
what you saw,
913
00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:48,697
but they might
choose to ignore it
914
00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:51,067
and give him
assault one or less.
915
00:42:52,703 --> 00:42:54,330
I'm offering him
a plea on man one.
916
00:42:54,939 --> 00:42:56,099
Why?
917
00:42:56,273 --> 00:42:59,504
Wait, what is this,
affirmative action
for murderers?
918
00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:03,343
It was murder two when
I thought Chase wouldn't pay
for any more exams.
919
00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:05,814
And now you believe
Jerome Warren?
920
00:43:08,218 --> 00:43:09,276
Yes.
921
00:43:13,724 --> 00:43:15,521
Man one,
he serves six to 12.
922
00:43:15,659 --> 00:43:17,593
Assault one,
three years.
923
00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:19,562
You're pushing your luck.
924
00:43:19,630 --> 00:43:20,790
Maybe.
925
00:43:21,398 --> 00:43:23,457
But the jury likes this kid.
How lucky do you feel?
926
00:43:23,534 --> 00:43:26,059
I'm not going to overlook
what he did to Randy Chase.
927
00:43:26,136 --> 00:43:29,435
Then I guess
I wasted a phone call.
If you'll excuse us.
928
00:43:29,707 --> 00:43:30,935
I have a summation to make.
929
00:43:31,008 --> 00:43:32,339
Six years?
930
00:43:34,178 --> 00:43:35,668
Six to 12.
931
00:43:35,846 --> 00:43:37,711
Jerome, you don't
have to take it.
932
00:43:42,052 --> 00:43:44,714
No. I have to.
933
00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:49,558
I know what I did.
934
00:43:54,598 --> 00:43:56,327
I'll take the deal.
935
00:43:58,402 --> 00:43:59,460
Jerome Warren.
936
00:44:00,104 --> 00:44:03,403
You have pled guilty to
a charge of manslaughter
in the first degree.
937
00:44:03,974 --> 00:44:06,067
Pursuant to the negotiated
plea agreement,
938
00:44:06,543 --> 00:44:09,944
this court hereby
sentences you to a term
no less than six years
939
00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:12,505
and not more than
12 years imprisonment
940
00:44:13,117 --> 00:44:16,644
in a facility to be
determined by the
Department of Correction.
941
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:17,778
We're adjourned.
942
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,326
Admit it.
943
00:44:31,402 --> 00:44:33,063
You just didn't
trust that jury.
944
00:44:33,170 --> 00:44:36,435
I wanted closure.
This case is an open wound.
945
00:44:38,008 --> 00:44:41,409
Two good people
doing the wrong thing
for the right reasons.
946
00:44:41,745 --> 00:44:45,010
Well, I hope
this wasn't another
one of those times.