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...combination,
really controlling the pace...
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That's the thing
about these two fighters,
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they both have excellent footwork.
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Dad?
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What are you doing?
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You should be asleep, pal.
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I hear noise.
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That's just the TV.
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All right? Now close your eyes.
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I'm not tired.
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All right. I got business.
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All right? You stay in this bed.
You hear me?
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I see you out of this bed,
you and me got big problems.
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Yes, sir.
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All right.
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- What's happening, man?
- Yo, what's good, man?
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- What you need?
- Back up. Back up, man!
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- I'll take it all.
- Give me the roll!
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- Just give me the cash!
- Give me the roll!
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No, no. No!
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Your 10:00 a.m. is here.
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Dr. Harper came to see me yesterday.
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He has a rather daunting legal problem,
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and I immediately thought
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we're gonna need some more hands on deck.
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Well, before I sign on
for the big voyage,
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let's begin at the beginning.
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Why don't you tell me what's going on?
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I'm a pediatrician.
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I live in White Plains
just outside the city.
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I was in my offices here
in Midtown, seeing a patient,
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just after 11:00 yesterday morning,
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when the police showed up to arrest me.
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What for?
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The execution-style murder
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of a heroin dealer in the Bronx.
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Okay.
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By the way,
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I don't believe that I have been
in the Bronx in over a decade.
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I have never ever in my life done heroin.
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I'm not sure I'd know what it
was if it were in front of me.
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I've not fired a gun that shoots
anything bigger than a BB.
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And I was home with my wife and two girls
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when this... execution took place.
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Why do you think they arrested you?
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DNA evidence was recovered from
under the victim's fingernails,
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the result of a struggle with the killer.
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And?
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It appears to belong to Dr. Harper.
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How close a match?
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100%.
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Not a lot of wiggle room there.
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Our new client, Dr. Michael Harper,
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is out on $1 million bail
after having been arrested
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for the murder of Joseph Lowell,
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a heroin dealer who was killed
in his apartment in the Bronx.
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We only represent the best clients.
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No sign of a break-in,
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which suggests the perpetrator
was a known acquaintance.
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Additionally, he had just received a text
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from someone with an
untraceable burner phone.
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Joseph, the drug dealer,
was killed with his own gun,
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which was later discovered in the Hudson
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with no recoverable prints.
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So is Dr. Harper in fact
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a known acquaintance
of this Joseph Lowell?
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He claims to have never heard his name
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before the police showed up
at his medical practice.
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Okay, so if he's innocent,
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then how did his DNA end up
on this dead drug dealer?
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At the moment,
no one can answer that question,
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but Bull thinks
it may have something to do
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with the way the police
made their DNA match.
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What do you mean?
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After the police found
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what they suspected
was the murderer's DNA
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under the victim's fingernails,
they ran the sample
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through their internal database,
and they came up dry.
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I'm confused. Then how
did they make the match?
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They didn't, but it turns out
that one of these
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big for-profit genealogy companies did.
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Dr. Harper's wife had sent them
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some of her husband's DNA
as a birthday present.
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He's an only child, both his parents
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had passed two years ago,
and he's got no sons.
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He started talking to her
about how he felt
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he didn't really know where he came from,
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didn't really have a handle on his roots.
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That he was likely
the last of his family,
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but he really had no idea
who his family was.
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It seemed like the perfect gift.
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Wait. You're talking
about one of those places
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you send a cheek swab into
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to find out what country
your relatives came from?
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Is it even legal for them
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to turn over your private
information like that?
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I'm betting they had a search warrant.
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They sure did.
It was all on the up-and-up.
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Perfectly admissible in court.
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DNA? That's a, that's a tough one.
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Did you know that 95% of jurors
are willing to convict
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based on DNA evidence alone?
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Okay, so let's review.
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This man had no
relationship to the victim,
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had no criminal record,
no history of drug abuse,
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had no ties to the crime whatsoever.
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And where did he say he was
the night of the killing?
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Home with his family.
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Well, then there must have been
a mistake, right?
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Now all we have to do is prove it.
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Your posture should be relaxed.
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More than anything, we want
you to appear comfortable.
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You don't want to look
like you're trying too hard.
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The jury can almost always sense it.
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Trying too hard to what?
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Save my husband's life?
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Look, I know that this is difficult,
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but alibis from family members
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are the toughest to get a jury to trust.
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You'd be surprised,
the things that people say
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to protect their spouses.
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We were home, with our kids,
watching television in bed.
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If I had known I would have
to prove this in a trial...
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I'm sorry.
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He's a pediatrician.
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He makes kids feel better
when they're sick.
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He comforts them when they're scared.
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- That's who he is.
- Well, there you go.
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That's what the jury needs to know.
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That's what the jury needs to understand.
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You know I'm the one who sent
his DNA to that company.
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Michael had nothing to do with it.
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This... is my fault.
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- Mrs. Harper, you...
- It was a couple years ago.
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I'd completely forgotten about
it until I got that e-mail.
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E-mail?
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What do you know about
the Fourth Amendment?
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Uh, unreasonable search and seizure.
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It's one of my favorites.
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Why? You got a pop quiz coming
up in constitutional law?
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Michael's wife is the one
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that sent his DNA sample
to that genealogy company.
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- I know that.
- But did you know this?
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A few days before the arrest,
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she got an e-mail from the company.
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It said they had received
a duplicate sample
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and that they wanted to know
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if it was from her
or another family member.
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She just told you that?
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I'm like a human can opener.
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People spend time with me,
and they can't help themselves.
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All right.
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So where are you going with this?
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Well, we know the police were
at a dead end.
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They couldn't I.D. the DNA
from the crime scene
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using their databases.
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So they got a search warrant.
You heard Danny.
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But how did they get it?
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To get a search warrant,
you need probable cause.
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There's no way they could've
known that Michael's wife
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sent his DNA into that genealogy company,
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or any genealogy company,
for that matter.
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I know it sounds a little crazy,
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but what if, before they got
the search warrant,
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they sent a sample of this DNA
to the genealogy company...
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every genealogy company...
posing as a customer,
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all as part of an elaborate ruse
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to get one of these companies to verify
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they had a match in their system?
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That way, they can go
to a judge, and say,
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"We need a warrant
for this particular company."
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Pretty good.
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The website would've flagged it
as a duplicate match,
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alerted the original customer...
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And confirmed to the cops
that the killer's DNA
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was in their system,
without even realizing it.
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- Right.
- So you're thinking
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if we take this to a judge,
he or she might rule
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all this DNA evidence
collected inadmissible?
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It's worth a shot.
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Your Honor, this e-mail was sent
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to Mrs. Harper five days
prior to Michael's arrest,
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and three days prior to the
application for a search warrant.
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It's clearly a Fourth
Amendment violation.
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Uh, exactly how so?
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Well, the police contacted the website
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under an assumed identity,
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effectively tricking
them into participating
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in a law enforcement investigation
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without their knowledge.
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And the A.D.A. here signed off on it.
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Your Honor, using a ruse,
lying to a suspect
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to elicit information
relevant to a criminal case
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is absolutely legal here
in the state of New York.
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You didn't lie to a suspect, you
lied to a public corporation.
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It has no effect on the
legitimacy of the evidence.
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Doesn't say a whole hell
of a lot about the integrity
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of the D.A.'s office.
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Kind of hard not
to wonder what other rules
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- you'd be willing to break.
- Enough.
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Judge Volk, the defense requests
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that the court suppress all
evidence relating to this DNA
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since it was obtained
through what amounts to
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an illegal search and seizure.
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Your Honor, you mustn't
suppress that evidence.
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T-The government's entire case...
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Exactly! The government's
entire case is built on fruit
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from a poisonous tree, and you
must, therefore, suppress it.
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The discovery's troubling.
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But if the defense takes it up
with anyone,
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they should take it up
with the genealogy site.
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Not the police.
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They were just doing their job,
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trying to find a cold-blooded killer
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who orphaned a little boy.
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Are you aware that boy's mother
died when he was a baby?
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That man, whatever his troubles,
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was all the boy had in the world.
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Now he's in the system.
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Where, in all likelihood,
he'll remain until he turns 18.
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Someone has to be held
responsible for that.
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The DNA match stands as evidence.
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This trial will continue.
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Anybody here ever heard
of the Phantom of Heilbronn?
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Female serial killer,
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terrorized France, Germany, Austria,
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from 1993 to 2009?
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DNA evidence linked her
to over 40 crimes,
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including six murders.
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And when I say "linked her,"
I mean figuratively,
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because even though
they had all this DNA,
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they had no idea who she was.
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Three different countries.
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No apparent links at all
between the victims.
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Made no sense.
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I sense a punch line coming.
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Well, the police finally tracked that DNA
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to a sweet old woman in Latvia
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who was working in a factory,
manufacturing cotton swabs.
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I'm guessing the same cotton swabs
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used to gather the DNA evidence
from the crime scenes.
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What happened?
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She must have contaminated them
with her own DNA.
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Validate that man's parking.
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All right, until we find
our own little Latvian woman
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working in a Q-tip factory,
we need to find jurors whose
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psychological makeup
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will allow them to look
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past what seems to be
incontrovertible evidence.
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How in the world do you do that?
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We look for jurors
who rely on an affect heuristic
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when it comes to decision-making.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
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A heuristic is a kind of mental shortcut
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we all use to make decisions
throughout the day,
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and when those decisions are
allowed to be colored
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by our mood or our feelings
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in the moment we make the decision,
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that is called an affect heuristic.
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Essentially, we want jurors
who go with their gut.
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Why?
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Because the one thing there's no
denying is that when you first
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meet our client, "killer" is not the word
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that pops into your head.
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Yeah, the guy's likable.
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You trust him.
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Not withstanding the charges against him,
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he strikes you as a good man.
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- Yeah.
- And the thing about jurors is,
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if their first impression
is positive, they are gonna
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struggle with the idea
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that they need to modify that impression.
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And the seemingly irrefutable
DNA evidence
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- will have less impact.
- And what do I need
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to ask them to figure out if
they have this, um, this...?
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- Affect heuristic?
- Yes.
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You don't have to ask them anything.
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You just have to open your eyes.
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Older woman in the
gray sweater is looking
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at Michael like he's her
grandson. We want her.
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But we haven't even talked to her yet.
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Words lie, body language doesn't.
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She likes him.
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But at the end of the day,
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it can't just be
about an affect heuristic.
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That might net us one
or two friends on the jury,
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but we're gonna need
to broaden our search.
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Target jurors
with pessimism bias, as well.
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People who tend to exaggerate
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the likelihood that negative things
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are going to happen to them.
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Why would I want these people on my jury?
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Because our narrative is that
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Michael is an innocent man,
wrongly accused.
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I believe jurors with pessimism bias
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will put themselves in Michael's shoes.
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And the fear of something
like this happening to them...
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it will likely dilute
the importance of the evidence.
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- Good morning.
- Good morning.
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Do you like to travel?
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I honestly couldn't say.
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I haven't done much of it.
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Any particular reason?
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I guess maybe I just feel safer at home.
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Safer how?
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Can't get in a plane crash
if you don't get on a plane.
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Can't have terrorists take over your
hotel if you don't go to the hotel
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in the first place.
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This juror is acceptable
to the defense, Your Honor.
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Acceptable to the prosecution.
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Fantastic.
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We have ourselves a jury.
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We'll see all of you here
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bright and early tomorrow to start trial.
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So we've got four out
of 12 jurors that are at least
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inclined to look past the evidence.
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I'll take it.
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All I need is one to get a mistrial.
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Talk about being happy in your work...
321
00:14:10,126 --> 00:14:12,827
Yeah. Wonder what that's about.
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Everything all right?
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00:14:16,099 --> 00:14:17,298
Dr. Harper?
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What does the D.A.'s office know
that we don't?
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What do you mean?
326
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What kind of question is that?
327
00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:26,752
Look, I get it.
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The D.A.'s office has DNA
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that would seem to prove you did this,
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and supposedly that's all they have,
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but common sense would suggest
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that in the absence of any other link
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to this crime, at least
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one juror is gonna
take exception to the idea
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00:14:40,890 --> 00:14:42,701
of putting you behind bars
for the rest of your life.
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00:14:42,725 --> 00:14:45,437
But the A.D.A. is not acting that way.
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00:14:45,461 --> 00:14:47,973
In fact, he's acting
like he has you dead to rights,
338
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and I would like to know why.
339
00:14:51,666 --> 00:14:53,479
Well, I can't help you with that.
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00:14:53,835 --> 00:14:55,981
- You never met the victim?
- Never.
341
00:14:56,005 --> 00:14:58,217
- Never purchased illegal drugs?
- Never.
342
00:14:58,241 --> 00:14:59,985
Never consumed heroin?
Never tried to buy heroin?
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00:15:00,009 --> 00:15:02,087
You never contemplated
trying to buy heroin?
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00:15:02,111 --> 00:15:03,289
Of course not!
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00:15:03,313 --> 00:15:05,391
Then why is the A.D.A. so damn sure
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he can draw a line
between you and the victim?
347
00:15:07,884 --> 00:15:10,296
Or is it between you and heroin?
348
00:15:11,018 --> 00:15:13,766
Just trust me, whatever it
is, they're gonna find it.
349
00:15:15,892 --> 00:15:18,037
And if I'm gonna keep you out of prison,
350
00:15:18,693 --> 00:15:20,561
I need to know about it.
351
00:15:23,614 --> 00:15:26,412
Can we go somewhere
a little more private?
352
00:15:27,326 --> 00:15:30,249
Couple of years ago, I
broke my ankle playing basketball.
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Emergency room doctor
prescribed oxycodone.
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I took it.
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00:15:37,447 --> 00:15:40,214
I kept taking it,
even after my ankle healed.
356
00:15:42,585 --> 00:15:44,930
And I'd never done drugs before.
357
00:15:44,954 --> 00:15:48,973
I mean, never so much
as smoked pot in college.
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It was so serene being high.
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So tranquil.
360
00:15:54,797 --> 00:15:55,855
Mm.
361
00:15:56,566 --> 00:15:58,608
I never experienced that before.
362
00:15:59,002 --> 00:16:01,146
You ever write your own prescription?
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00:16:01,170 --> 00:16:02,648
A doctor writing his own prescription
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00:16:02,672 --> 00:16:04,316
for a controlled substance...
365
00:16:04,340 --> 00:16:07,052
the AMA would not look kindly on that.
366
00:16:07,076 --> 00:16:08,621
No. Never.
367
00:16:08,645 --> 00:16:10,890
The prescriptions were all legitimate.
368
00:16:11,537 --> 00:16:13,281
All from other doctors.
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00:16:14,918 --> 00:16:16,918
Of course, my wife figured it out.
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00:16:18,961 --> 00:16:21,567
Mm, she knew something was going on.
371
00:16:22,173 --> 00:16:24,081
She threw away the pills
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00:16:24,105 --> 00:16:26,472
and threatened to leave
with the kids if I didn't quit.
373
00:16:27,803 --> 00:16:29,708
Did you go to rehab?
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00:16:29,732 --> 00:16:31,443
No, I did it myself.
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00:16:31,467 --> 00:16:34,580
It was rough, but... I was lucky.
376
00:16:35,144 --> 00:16:37,549
I was able to do it on my own.
377
00:16:37,573 --> 00:16:40,819
My wife's the only one who knows.
378
00:16:40,843 --> 00:16:42,688
I wouldn't count on that.
379
00:16:42,712 --> 00:16:44,556
I'm sure the A.D.A. has already gone
380
00:16:44,580 --> 00:16:47,092
through your prescription
records, and once
381
00:16:47,116 --> 00:16:49,261
he sees multiples on the oxy,
he is gonna make the case
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00:16:49,285 --> 00:16:52,564
that you got tired of having to
beg your doctors to supply you
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00:16:52,588 --> 00:16:55,935
with drugs and switched
to heroin, which is what happens
384
00:16:55,959 --> 00:16:59,405
more often than not
when people get hooked on oxy.
385
00:17:00,294 --> 00:17:02,708
But... that would be a lie.
386
00:17:03,589 --> 00:17:06,801
Look, I swear to you,
I have never done heroin,
387
00:17:07,969 --> 00:17:11,272
and I've never heard of this man.
388
00:17:13,002 --> 00:17:16,615
I did not, I could not kill that man.
389
00:17:18,815 --> 00:17:20,826
Okay.
390
00:17:21,857 --> 00:17:24,730
Then we're not putting the wife
on the stand.
391
00:17:24,754 --> 00:17:26,693
Jody? She's his alibi.
392
00:17:26,717 --> 00:17:29,301
Well, no. She is also the
only one who knows that he had
393
00:17:29,325 --> 00:17:31,537
an addiction to opioid painkillers,
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00:17:31,561 --> 00:17:34,100
the most common gateway drug to heroin,
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00:17:34,124 --> 00:17:36,875
which is what the murder
victim was selling.
396
00:17:36,899 --> 00:17:38,978
But what if the A.D.A. calls her?
397
00:17:39,002 --> 00:17:42,381
Well, then we'll just have
to claim spousal privilege.
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00:17:43,087 --> 00:17:45,117
I mean, she's married to the accused.
399
00:17:45,141 --> 00:17:47,152
They can't compel her to take the stand.
400
00:17:48,009 --> 00:17:51,545
I don't like it,
but what choice do we have?
401
00:17:52,648 --> 00:17:55,294
Morning. Get your scorecards.
402
00:17:55,318 --> 00:17:58,152
You can't tell the players
without a scorecard.
403
00:18:01,457 --> 00:18:02,735
What's going on?
404
00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:04,803
He's springing a new witness on us.
405
00:18:04,827 --> 00:18:07,973
I don't know who he is
or how he ties in to all this.
406
00:18:07,997 --> 00:18:10,164
Do you know a Dr. David Parsons?
407
00:18:12,825 --> 00:18:14,413
He's my neighbor.
408
00:18:14,437 --> 00:18:16,181
Just your neighbor?
409
00:18:16,787 --> 00:18:18,817
Well, he's a doctor.
410
00:18:19,498 --> 00:18:21,842
Your oxy connection, right?
411
00:18:27,313 --> 00:18:29,988
Dr. Parsons, how do you know
Dr. Michael Harper?
412
00:18:30,012 --> 00:18:33,003
We've been neighbors and friends
for the past seven years.
413
00:18:33,028 --> 00:18:37,208
Around the same age,
both in the same profession.
414
00:18:37,232 --> 00:18:40,312
And have you ever treated
Dr. Harper as a patient?
415
00:18:40,336 --> 00:18:42,947
Depends on how you define "patient."
416
00:18:43,314 --> 00:18:44,916
He is a friend.
417
00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:47,986
And I did help him with some follow-up
418
00:18:48,010 --> 00:18:50,455
after he broke his ankle a few years ago.
419
00:18:50,479 --> 00:18:52,612
What kind of follow-up?
420
00:18:54,283 --> 00:18:56,027
Pain management.
421
00:18:57,286 --> 00:19:00,198
This was a few months after he broke it.
422
00:19:00,581 --> 00:19:03,211
He told me the ankle was still acting up.
423
00:19:03,235 --> 00:19:06,438
And so you wrote him
a prescription for oxycodone?
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00:19:06,921 --> 00:19:08,139
An opiate?
425
00:19:08,163 --> 00:19:09,441
I did.
426
00:19:09,465 --> 00:19:11,343
Did you believe he was in pain?
427
00:19:11,367 --> 00:19:13,178
Most definitely.
428
00:19:13,677 --> 00:19:15,680
Most definitely?
429
00:19:15,704 --> 00:19:18,083
The truth is, you had no way
430
00:19:18,107 --> 00:19:20,140
of really knowing, did you, Dr. Parsons?
431
00:19:24,772 --> 00:19:26,357
Did you?
432
00:19:27,116 --> 00:19:29,282
The witness will please
answer the question.
433
00:19:31,207 --> 00:19:33,430
I depended largely
434
00:19:33,455 --> 00:19:37,369
on Dr. Harper's anecdotal impressions,
435
00:19:37,393 --> 00:19:39,904
but that's true with many patients.
436
00:19:39,928 --> 00:19:43,274
But again, it had been
three months since the accident.
437
00:19:43,298 --> 00:19:44,867
Yeah, that's true,
but it is not unusual for...
438
00:19:44,891 --> 00:19:46,911
In fact, you didn't write
him one prescription.
439
00:19:46,935 --> 00:19:49,574
- You wrote him three, didn't you?
- Over a period of about six weeks.
440
00:19:49,598 --> 00:19:51,799
And was that it, or
did he ask for another?
441
00:19:57,413 --> 00:20:00,514
I'd like to remind you
you are under oath, Dr. Parsons.
442
00:20:03,894 --> 00:20:05,430
Yes, he did.
443
00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:08,722
But you said "no"?
444
00:20:11,393 --> 00:20:13,371
I became concerned.
445
00:20:13,737 --> 00:20:15,440
- I spoke to his wife.
- Is it safe to assume
446
00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:17,142
that you no longer thought
447
00:20:17,166 --> 00:20:18,977
he was most definitely in pain?
448
00:20:19,001 --> 00:20:20,512
You could assume that.
449
00:20:20,536 --> 00:20:21,946
And isn't it true that when
450
00:20:21,970 --> 00:20:24,582
an addict can no longer get
a prescription for oxycodone,
451
00:20:24,606 --> 00:20:26,885
it's common for them
to turn to street drugs?
452
00:20:26,909 --> 00:20:30,121
Most often heroin, which is
exactly what Joseph Lowell sold?
453
00:20:30,145 --> 00:20:31,202
Objection!
454
00:20:31,226 --> 00:20:32,222
Speculation.
455
00:20:32,246 --> 00:20:36,060
Dr. Parsons is not an addiction
expert, nor is he a mind reader.
456
00:20:36,084 --> 00:20:38,696
Your Honor, David Parsons is a doctor,
457
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,565
and his training makes him
intimately familiar
458
00:20:40,589 --> 00:20:42,734
with the world of opioid painkillers.
459
00:20:42,758 --> 00:20:43,968
I'll allow it.
460
00:20:43,992 --> 00:20:45,570
Dr. Parsons,
461
00:20:45,594 --> 00:20:48,873
doesn't oxycodone addiction commonly lead
462
00:20:48,897 --> 00:20:50,430
to heroin addiction?
463
00:20:58,006 --> 00:20:59,408
Yes.
464
00:21:00,676 --> 00:21:03,243
That's the conventional wisdom.
465
00:21:06,957 --> 00:21:08,949
No further questions, Your Honor.
466
00:21:15,043 --> 00:21:18,761
Oh, um, would you have
anything a little stronger?
467
00:21:19,194 --> 00:21:23,475
I might have a little something
under lock and key.
468
00:21:23,499 --> 00:21:25,232
I'll be right back.
469
00:21:27,353 --> 00:21:28,880
You know,
470
00:21:28,904 --> 00:21:31,950
just because a person
abused a prescription drug,
471
00:21:31,974 --> 00:21:34,118
that doesn't make them a killer.
472
00:21:34,142 --> 00:21:37,689
No. The DNA makes him a killer.
473
00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:39,891
The oxy habit is just the assistant
474
00:21:39,915 --> 00:21:41,759
district attorney's way
of dotting all the "I"s
475
00:21:41,783 --> 00:21:43,061
and crossing all the "T" s,
476
00:21:43,085 --> 00:21:46,753
lest any juror try to cultivate
some reasonable doubt.
477
00:21:48,156 --> 00:21:49,567
Anyone else?
478
00:21:49,591 --> 00:21:50,902
Dr. Bull?
479
00:21:50,926 --> 00:21:53,128
Never on a day that ends in "Y."
480
00:21:56,298 --> 00:21:58,364
I'm sorry I got you all into this.
481
00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:00,912
Who am I kidding?
482
00:22:00,936 --> 00:22:02,814
I'm sorry I got myself into this.
483
00:22:02,838 --> 00:22:04,140
Dr. Bull,
484
00:22:04,164 --> 00:22:06,317
you know, ever since
you told us that story
485
00:22:06,341 --> 00:22:08,853
about the, uh, the old lady
with the cotton swabs,
486
00:22:08,877 --> 00:22:12,757
I've been researching false
positives as they relate to DNA.
487
00:22:12,781 --> 00:22:14,559
And while there aren't a lot of them,
488
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,662
there was a case in California,
uh, just a few years ago.
489
00:22:17,686 --> 00:22:19,312
Let's see.
490
00:22:19,336 --> 00:22:22,119
Guy was arrested for murder
based solely on DNA evidence,
491
00:22:22,143 --> 00:22:23,225
just like Dr. Harper,
492
00:22:23,249 --> 00:22:25,433
and he swore up and down he was innocent.
493
00:22:25,434 --> 00:22:27,212
And it turns out, he was.
494
00:22:27,788 --> 00:22:29,781
They figured out
his DNA ended up on the victim
495
00:22:29,805 --> 00:22:32,196
because of something called
"DNA migration."
496
00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:33,719
Never heard of it. You?
497
00:22:33,743 --> 00:22:35,187
No.
498
00:22:35,211 --> 00:22:37,456
It's the secondary transfer of DNA.
499
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,958
And it happens because
the average person sheds
500
00:22:39,982 --> 00:22:42,961
somewhere between 40
and 50 million skin cells a day.
501
00:22:43,554 --> 00:22:46,064
Turns out we leave them behind
everywhere we go
502
00:22:46,088 --> 00:22:47,966
on everything we touch.
503
00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:50,302
Door handles, elevator buttons,
504
00:22:50,326 --> 00:22:52,855
the creamer jug at the coffee shop.
505
00:22:53,605 --> 00:22:55,173
Also, they don't stay put.
506
00:22:55,197 --> 00:22:57,743
Those cells, that DNA...
just end up on the next person
507
00:22:57,767 --> 00:22:59,478
who touches the creamer jug.
508
00:22:59,820 --> 00:23:01,446
Sounds like you may have found a way
509
00:23:01,470 --> 00:23:03,482
to un-dot some "I"s
and uncross some "T"s.
510
00:23:03,506 --> 00:23:05,350
So you're saying
511
00:23:05,374 --> 00:23:07,886
a creamer jug or something
like it might explain
512
00:23:07,910 --> 00:23:09,454
how Dr. Harper's DNA ended up
513
00:23:09,478 --> 00:23:11,256
under the dead man's fingernails?
514
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,357
Exactly.
515
00:23:12,381 --> 00:23:14,459
Marissa, line up a DNA expert,
516
00:23:14,483 --> 00:23:17,329
someone who can spoon-feed
this concept to the jury.
517
00:23:17,796 --> 00:23:19,364
You think that'll be enough?
518
00:23:19,388 --> 00:23:23,502
No. We'll need something
concrete, some kind of proof
519
00:23:23,526 --> 00:23:27,005
that our client and
the murder victim were both in
520
00:23:27,029 --> 00:23:28,874
the same place on the day of the murder.
521
00:23:28,898 --> 00:23:30,275
Taylor, is there any way you could try
522
00:23:30,299 --> 00:23:33,045
and retrace the steps
of both men that day,
523
00:23:33,069 --> 00:23:36,548
see if there's a point of intersection,
524
00:23:36,572 --> 00:23:38,717
hopefully a mutual point of contact?
525
00:23:39,276 --> 00:23:42,287
With a little luck...
and some loud music.
526
00:23:42,613 --> 00:23:45,524
Is that something you might be
available to do tonight?
527
00:23:45,548 --> 00:23:47,693
I think we can make that happen.
528
00:23:54,357 --> 00:23:56,735
We know Dr. Harper lives here,
529
00:23:56,759 --> 00:23:58,937
and he works here.
530
00:23:58,961 --> 00:24:00,539
He takes the Metro-North Train
531
00:24:00,563 --> 00:24:02,040
from White Plains to Grand Central.
532
00:24:02,064 --> 00:24:03,508
Makes sense.
533
00:24:03,532 --> 00:24:05,744
And based on the info
from the victim's phone,
534
00:24:05,768 --> 00:24:08,680
we know that after he dropped
his son off at school,
535
00:24:08,704 --> 00:24:10,615
the day of his death,
he came into Manhattan
536
00:24:10,639 --> 00:24:14,052
to "make some deliveries"
and "solicit new business."
537
00:24:14,076 --> 00:24:17,389
Based on where he lived, I
realized it was almost certain
538
00:24:17,413 --> 00:24:20,392
he took the subway from 180th Street
539
00:24:20,416 --> 00:24:21,927
- to...?
- Grand Central Station.
540
00:24:21,951 --> 00:24:23,328
Exactly.
541
00:24:23,352 --> 00:24:26,298
All right. So, that's our
potential point of intersection,
542
00:24:26,322 --> 00:24:28,400
our haystack.
543
00:24:28,424 --> 00:24:30,769
The good doctor and
the drug dealer are our needles.
544
00:24:34,915 --> 00:24:37,609
How did you get this
in the middle of the night?
545
00:24:37,633 --> 00:24:39,911
I just called the MTA.
546
00:24:39,935 --> 00:24:41,847
And they just gave it to you?
547
00:24:41,871 --> 00:24:44,182
Yup. Of course...
548
00:24:44,206 --> 00:24:47,552
I might have cheated,
might have forgotten to mention
549
00:24:47,576 --> 00:24:50,514
I no longer work with Homeland.
550
00:24:51,580 --> 00:24:53,625
You're scary.
551
00:24:53,649 --> 00:24:56,061
But still, it's Grand Central Station.
552
00:24:56,085 --> 00:24:58,163
There's got to be, what,
hundreds of thousands of people
553
00:24:58,187 --> 00:24:59,564
going through there every day?
554
00:24:59,588 --> 00:25:01,333
How are you gonna find Dr. Harper?
555
00:25:01,357 --> 00:25:03,026
I already did.
556
00:25:03,826 --> 00:25:05,971
There are only so many
trains from White Plains
557
00:25:05,995 --> 00:25:07,406
that line up with his office hours.
558
00:25:07,430 --> 00:25:09,074
I worked backward from there.
559
00:25:09,098 --> 00:25:10,976
Already strung together
all the footage he's in,
560
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,944
from the moment he walks
in the doors at the station
561
00:25:12,968 --> 00:25:14,746
until he gets on the train.
562
00:25:14,770 --> 00:25:17,315
I was just about to review it
when you showed up.
563
00:25:17,339 --> 00:25:20,073
I want you in my lifeboat, baby.
564
00:25:21,310 --> 00:25:23,488
Well, he's pretty relaxed
565
00:25:23,512 --> 00:25:26,525
for a man planning
to kill a guy later that night.
566
00:25:26,549 --> 00:25:28,160
Oh, my God, that's it.
567
00:25:28,184 --> 00:25:29,828
The guy even
568
00:25:29,852 --> 00:25:32,764
grabs Dr. Harper's arm with his hand,
569
00:25:32,788 --> 00:25:34,655
with his fingernails.
570
00:25:36,258 --> 00:25:37,636
All right, now tell me
571
00:25:37,660 --> 00:25:39,404
you have an angle
where we can see his face.
572
00:25:39,428 --> 00:25:41,361
That's all I've got.
573
00:25:43,365 --> 00:25:46,077
This can't be it.
574
00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:48,580
That woman, there?
575
00:25:48,604 --> 00:25:51,171
She's got her phone up
like she's taking a selfie?
576
00:25:53,008 --> 00:25:56,335
What are the chances she has
both our guys in that photo?
577
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,623
Mm, it's a long shot.
578
00:25:58,647 --> 00:26:00,358
You know what's also a long shot?
579
00:26:00,382 --> 00:26:04,329
That I can figure out
or find out who that woman is,
580
00:26:04,353 --> 00:26:06,331
what her cell phone IP address is,
581
00:26:06,355 --> 00:26:09,551
crack it and find the picture.
582
00:26:11,527 --> 00:26:14,661
But is it... impossible?
583
00:26:19,102 --> 00:26:21,346
Dr. Bull, Mr. Colón?
584
00:26:21,370 --> 00:26:23,515
I was just about to leave my
office when I was delivered
585
00:26:23,539 --> 00:26:26,276
an updated witness list from the A.D.A.
586
00:26:26,942 --> 00:26:28,620
They're putting Sam Lowell on the stand.
587
00:26:28,644 --> 00:26:32,040
The victim's son. He's a child.
588
00:26:32,064 --> 00:26:33,492
Good morning.
589
00:26:33,516 --> 00:26:36,194
Sam, thank you for testifying today.
590
00:26:36,218 --> 00:26:37,963
You're welcome.
591
00:26:38,705 --> 00:26:40,232
You understand this is
592
00:26:40,256 --> 00:26:43,535
a court of law, that when
people sit in that chair
593
00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:45,837
you're sitting in they're
expected to tell the truth?
594
00:26:45,861 --> 00:26:47,239
I know that.
595
00:26:47,263 --> 00:26:48,740
Good.
596
00:26:49,299 --> 00:26:51,260
So with that in mind,
597
00:26:52,511 --> 00:26:55,247
can you tell me about the
night your father was murdered?
598
00:26:56,682 --> 00:26:58,350
Yes, sir.
599
00:26:58,934 --> 00:27:01,653
So after you heard
your father let in a stranger,
600
00:27:01,677 --> 00:27:03,814
you opened your bedroom
door and looked out.
601
00:27:04,393 --> 00:27:06,437
Can you tell us what you saw?
602
00:27:07,401 --> 00:27:09,461
I saw my...
603
00:27:09,485 --> 00:27:11,280
I saw my dad...
604
00:27:12,922 --> 00:27:14,533
lying on the ground.
605
00:27:16,118 --> 00:27:17,995
There was a lot of blood.
606
00:27:18,727 --> 00:27:21,239
And did you see anything else?
607
00:27:21,263 --> 00:27:23,909
Did you see anybody else?
608
00:27:25,419 --> 00:27:27,546
I saw... a man.
609
00:27:28,213 --> 00:27:29,670
And that man...
610
00:27:31,073 --> 00:27:33,674
Do you see that man
in this courtroom today?
611
00:27:35,444 --> 00:27:37,122
He's right over there.
612
00:27:43,525 --> 00:27:46,937
The simple truth is
they have... your DNA.
613
00:27:46,961 --> 00:27:48,739
They have an eyewitness,
614
00:27:48,763 --> 00:27:50,675
and they have created a plausible
615
00:27:50,699 --> 00:27:54,157
relationship between you and the victim
616
00:27:54,181 --> 00:27:57,580
based on your dependence on oxycodone.
617
00:27:58,368 --> 00:28:00,730
I thought that you had some theory
618
00:28:01,138 --> 00:28:04,751
about my DNA and the victim's DNA...
619
00:28:04,775 --> 00:28:06,858
maybe I bumped into him somewhere.
620
00:28:06,882 --> 00:28:08,670
Grand Central Station.
621
00:28:09,213 --> 00:28:10,779
"He" turned out to be a she.
622
00:28:13,884 --> 00:28:15,917
The girl who tripped on the stairs?
623
00:28:17,554 --> 00:28:19,999
If only you had asked me.
624
00:28:20,807 --> 00:28:22,902
I'm sorry to have gotten your hopes up.
625
00:28:23,352 --> 00:28:25,572
I really do believe
626
00:28:25,596 --> 00:28:28,230
this is the best course of action.
627
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,719
Gosh. If I had known
I was gonna be so outnumbered,
628
00:28:39,743 --> 00:28:41,777
I'd have brought more people.
629
00:28:48,444 --> 00:28:51,597
My client has never wavered in
his proclamation of innocence.
630
00:28:51,622 --> 00:28:53,899
And I would not want
these conversations to suggest
631
00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:55,978
- otherwise.
- But?
632
00:28:56,002 --> 00:29:00,349
But... what kind of terms
might we be able to come to
633
00:29:00,373 --> 00:29:04,153
if... Dr. Harper agreed to plead guilty?
634
00:29:04,726 --> 00:29:06,789
Well...
635
00:29:06,813 --> 00:29:09,347
he's staring at 25 to life right now.
636
00:29:11,017 --> 00:29:12,662
I'd go to 20.
637
00:29:12,686 --> 00:29:14,664
Well, that's not much of a deal.
638
00:29:15,112 --> 00:29:17,200
The man is in his 40s.
639
00:29:17,224 --> 00:29:18,573
You're right.
640
00:29:19,192 --> 00:29:21,337
Forget it. Let's just
let the jury decide.
641
00:29:21,361 --> 00:29:22,702
15 years to life.
642
00:29:23,363 --> 00:29:25,872
No parole prior to 15 years served.
643
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,745
Let's keep in mind, he's charged
with killing a drug dealer.
644
00:29:29,769 --> 00:29:33,282
That doesn't make the murder
any less of a crime,
645
00:29:34,047 --> 00:29:35,518
but you never know what might happen
646
00:29:35,542 --> 00:29:37,186
during jury deliberations.
647
00:29:37,210 --> 00:29:38,885
Someone might seize on it, and...
648
00:29:41,721 --> 00:29:43,092
15 to life.
649
00:29:43,116 --> 00:29:44,660
You should be a lawyer.
650
00:29:44,684 --> 00:29:47,196
I need 24 hours to sell it to my client.
651
00:29:47,727 --> 00:29:50,521
I'll call the judge and request
a recess for tomorrow.
652
00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:55,104
I can't make sense of any of it.
653
00:29:55,986 --> 00:29:57,807
I mean, you are asking me
654
00:29:57,831 --> 00:30:00,710
to willingly agree to...
to give up a minimum
655
00:30:00,734 --> 00:30:03,334
of a decade and a half of my life.
656
00:30:06,706 --> 00:30:10,174
And my girls will be all
grown up by the time I get out.
657
00:30:11,919 --> 00:30:13,253
My wife...
658
00:30:15,174 --> 00:30:17,285
if she's still willing to be my wife...
659
00:30:17,310 --> 00:30:19,943
- Stop that.
- Sorry.
660
00:30:22,795 --> 00:30:24,839
It's just this...
661
00:30:25,358 --> 00:30:28,126
This defies all logic for me.
662
00:30:30,312 --> 00:30:31,716
I mean, it's...
663
00:30:31,740 --> 00:30:33,676
It's like I'm discovering
664
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:35,711
that night no longer follows day,
665
00:30:35,735 --> 00:30:39,671
that the ground is not beneath
us, the sky is not above us.
666
00:30:42,309 --> 00:30:45,660
I never met that man they said I killed.
667
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,025
And that little boy...
668
00:30:49,049 --> 00:30:51,327
he's wrong...
669
00:30:51,677 --> 00:30:53,835
or confused about what he saw.
670
00:30:55,921 --> 00:30:57,400
And as far as
671
00:30:57,424 --> 00:30:59,341
the DNA evidence is concerned,
672
00:31:01,561 --> 00:31:02,969
I'm a doctor.
673
00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:06,932
I'm a man of science. I know
that what they are asserting...
674
00:31:07,734 --> 00:31:09,309
is absolute.
675
00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:12,070
It's unimpeachable.
676
00:31:13,118 --> 00:31:16,900
The only problem is I'm me,
677
00:31:18,318 --> 00:31:20,445
24 hours a day.
678
00:31:22,182 --> 00:31:25,127
I was not there, I did not do it,
679
00:31:25,151 --> 00:31:27,330
and I know that with
just as much certainty
680
00:31:27,354 --> 00:31:31,089
as the science is
screaming that I must have.
681
00:31:34,417 --> 00:31:36,405
If only I didn't send that sample.
682
00:31:36,429 --> 00:31:38,696
- No. Mm-mm.
- I'm sorry.
683
00:31:42,315 --> 00:31:44,782
It was such a thoughtful thing.
684
00:31:48,974 --> 00:31:50,892
My parents,
685
00:31:52,060 --> 00:31:55,021
they never liked to talk about the past.
686
00:31:55,949 --> 00:31:58,044
Whenever I'd ask them where we came from,
687
00:31:58,068 --> 00:32:00,596
they'd just throw their
hands up in the air
688
00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:02,720
and say we were Americans.
689
00:32:04,657 --> 00:32:06,658
To finally read about...
690
00:32:07,394 --> 00:32:09,721
my family's history,
691
00:32:09,745 --> 00:32:12,441
the bad parts, the slave ships...
692
00:32:12,914 --> 00:32:14,832
...the good parts.
693
00:32:16,209 --> 00:32:18,143
That my ancestors fought
694
00:32:18,167 --> 00:32:21,751
side by side with the colonists to...
695
00:32:22,257 --> 00:32:26,055
secure this freedom for
this country from Britain.
696
00:32:30,183 --> 00:32:32,917
I'm the last of the line.
697
00:32:34,988 --> 00:32:37,105
And my legacy is...
698
00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:40,442
I killed a man.
699
00:32:43,696 --> 00:32:47,476
Not that I've helped hundreds
of kids get through...
700
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,613
infancy and adolescence
701
00:32:50,637 --> 00:32:52,912
in good health.
702
00:32:55,708 --> 00:32:59,288
Not that I married this amazing woman.
703
00:33:00,814 --> 00:33:04,549
And helped bring two phenomenal
girls into this world.
704
00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:09,298
Just...
705
00:33:11,806 --> 00:33:13,892
...I killed a man.
706
00:33:15,929 --> 00:33:18,104
A man I never met.
707
00:33:26,446 --> 00:33:28,490
I promised the A.D.A. that...
708
00:33:29,309 --> 00:33:32,543
we'd let him know within 24 hours.
709
00:33:58,933 --> 00:34:00,511
7:22 in the morning.
710
00:34:00,535 --> 00:34:02,012
Definitely makes me an early bird.
711
00:34:02,036 --> 00:34:03,947
Question is,
does that make you two worms?
712
00:34:05,026 --> 00:34:06,483
I couldn't sleep.
713
00:34:06,507 --> 00:34:07,751
I called Taylor.
714
00:34:07,775 --> 00:34:09,219
Luckily, I was alone.
715
00:34:09,243 --> 00:34:12,389
And she agreed to come in here
and help me with something.
716
00:34:12,413 --> 00:34:14,725
Get back to the part where
you said you couldn't sleep.
717
00:34:14,749 --> 00:34:18,729
I just couldn't stop thinking
about poor Dr. Harper.
718
00:34:18,753 --> 00:34:21,098
You were not alone in that.
719
00:34:21,122 --> 00:34:23,701
Something in the way he said
his parents never wanted to talk
720
00:34:23,725 --> 00:34:26,503
about the past, how it
seemed like he's spent...
721
00:34:26,527 --> 00:34:28,706
his whole life feeling...
722
00:34:28,730 --> 00:34:30,574
disconnected.
723
00:34:30,598 --> 00:34:33,077
I'm not unfamiliar with that feeling.
724
00:34:33,888 --> 00:34:35,579
You're talking about...
725
00:34:35,603 --> 00:34:36,975
being adopted.
726
00:34:37,672 --> 00:34:40,651
Dr. Harper wasn't adopted.
727
00:34:40,675 --> 00:34:43,242
I don't understand
how any of this applies.
728
00:34:44,732 --> 00:34:46,912
Found this 45 minutes ago.
729
00:34:49,445 --> 00:34:51,128
What am I looking at?
730
00:34:51,152 --> 00:34:52,463
His mother's medical records.
731
00:34:52,487 --> 00:34:54,364
The woman he believes is his mother.
732
00:34:54,388 --> 00:34:56,834
Elinor Harper had a hysterectomy at 23.
733
00:34:56,858 --> 00:34:58,168
Uterine fibroids.
734
00:34:58,192 --> 00:35:01,238
Dr. Harper came into her life
when she was 28.
735
00:35:01,262 --> 00:35:02,773
She can't be his biological mother.
736
00:35:02,797 --> 00:35:04,043
It's not possible.
737
00:35:07,168 --> 00:35:09,747
So, why am I looking
at this birth certificate?
738
00:35:09,771 --> 00:35:11,081
I mean, who is this?
739
00:35:11,105 --> 00:35:13,272
Who is... Jackson McKay?
740
00:35:14,375 --> 00:35:16,520
You are, Dr. Harper.
741
00:35:17,348 --> 00:35:19,189
Jackson McKay was your name
742
00:35:19,213 --> 00:35:21,158
for the first 14 months of your life,
743
00:35:21,182 --> 00:35:23,360
right up until your parents, the Harpers,
744
00:35:23,384 --> 00:35:24,895
adopted you.
745
00:35:24,919 --> 00:35:26,730
Adopted?
746
00:35:26,754 --> 00:35:28,732
I'm not adopted.
747
00:35:28,756 --> 00:35:30,000
I know it's got to come as a shock,
748
00:35:30,024 --> 00:35:32,402
but I have a folder full of records here
749
00:35:32,426 --> 00:35:34,738
that proves you are.
750
00:35:34,762 --> 00:35:37,174
I'm sorry, why are you
telling us this now?
751
00:35:37,198 --> 00:35:38,453
This is why.
752
00:35:39,667 --> 00:35:41,912
What's this now?
753
00:35:42,165 --> 00:35:44,042
Your brother's birth certificate.
754
00:35:45,168 --> 00:35:46,711
Your twin brother.
755
00:35:48,509 --> 00:35:50,256
Oh, my God.
756
00:35:51,245 --> 00:35:53,290
The only other person on the planet
757
00:35:53,314 --> 00:35:57,127
who has exactly the same DNA that you do.
758
00:35:57,151 --> 00:35:59,140
100% match.
759
00:36:00,354 --> 00:36:02,888
Can you identify the man in this photo?
760
00:36:03,958 --> 00:36:05,736
That's Brandon McKay.
761
00:36:08,062 --> 00:36:09,840
And how do you know Mr. McKay?
762
00:36:09,864 --> 00:36:11,775
He's what we would call a client
763
00:36:11,799 --> 00:36:15,445
at the city shelter
on 156th Street where I work.
764
00:36:15,469 --> 00:36:16,847
Like a lot of our clients,
765
00:36:16,871 --> 00:36:19,564
he would come in when it got
too cold to be on the street.
766
00:36:19,588 --> 00:36:22,619
Objection your honor, what exactly
is the point of this witness?
767
00:36:22,643 --> 00:36:24,421
I have no idea, Counselor.
768
00:36:24,445 --> 00:36:27,024
But I assure you, I'm fascinated.
769
00:36:27,048 --> 00:36:28,792
Objection overruled.
770
00:36:29,337 --> 00:36:32,596
You are a social worker
and addiction counselor.
771
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:35,199
Can you talk about some
of the underlying conditions
772
00:36:35,223 --> 00:36:36,533
that you believe contributed
773
00:36:36,557 --> 00:36:38,869
to Mr. McKay's chronic homelessness?
774
00:36:38,893 --> 00:36:40,404
Like a lot of our clients,
775
00:36:40,428 --> 00:36:42,940
Mr. McKay struggled
with an addiction to heroin.
776
00:36:42,964 --> 00:36:44,741
And he had a violent streak.
777
00:36:44,765 --> 00:36:46,543
I remember he got
into a fistfight with one
778
00:36:46,567 --> 00:36:48,612
of the other residents
two Christmases ago.
779
00:36:48,636 --> 00:36:51,315
Do you happen to have
his shelter records with you?
780
00:36:51,339 --> 00:36:54,184
I do. And do your records
happen to indicate
781
00:36:54,208 --> 00:36:55,741
Mr. McKay's birth date?
782
00:36:56,650 --> 00:36:59,796
March 2, 1975.
783
00:37:00,014 --> 00:37:03,927
The exact same birth date as Dr. Harper.
784
00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:07,898
Give me a sense.
785
00:37:07,922 --> 00:37:09,900
It's starting to look
less like a stoplight
786
00:37:09,924 --> 00:37:11,857
and more like a Christmas tree in here.
787
00:37:14,262 --> 00:37:18,108
So, what did Brandon McKay
have that my client didn't?
788
00:37:18,132 --> 00:37:20,444
For one, motive.
789
00:37:20,468 --> 00:37:23,180
He was in dire need of heroin and money.
790
00:37:23,204 --> 00:37:25,849
By robbing the victim's supply,
he could get both.
791
00:37:25,873 --> 00:37:28,682
Second, opportunity.
792
00:37:28,706 --> 00:37:30,888
He was a known associate of the victim,
793
00:37:30,912 --> 00:37:34,825
someone Joseph would've let into
his home no questions asked.
794
00:37:34,849 --> 00:37:38,228
And was Dr. Harper identified
by the victim's son?
795
00:37:38,252 --> 00:37:39,496
Of course.
796
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,633
Because he looks exactly like
the murderer.
797
00:37:42,657 --> 00:37:44,701
He's his twin brother.
798
00:37:44,725 --> 00:37:47,040
But the most important thing
799
00:37:47,528 --> 00:37:50,460
is the one thing these two men shared.
800
00:37:51,065 --> 00:37:52,670
Their DNA.
801
00:37:53,134 --> 00:37:57,514
Identical twins' DNA is identical.
802
00:37:57,538 --> 00:38:00,450
A 100% match.
803
00:38:00,474 --> 00:38:03,053
Which means there is no way to tell
804
00:38:03,077 --> 00:38:05,641
which one of the brothers
committed this crime,
805
00:38:06,414 --> 00:38:08,436
even if, in your hearts,
806
00:38:09,771 --> 00:38:11,731
I think you already know.
807
00:38:16,056 --> 00:38:18,702
Very well then. That concludes
the closing arguments.
808
00:38:18,726 --> 00:38:21,538
And in anticipation of the jury beginning
809
00:38:21,562 --> 00:38:23,807
- their deliberations...
- Your Honor,
810
00:38:23,831 --> 00:38:26,410
I apologize for the, uh, interruption.
811
00:38:26,434 --> 00:38:29,079
But before we ask the jury to deliberate
812
00:38:29,103 --> 00:38:31,648
upon the evidence and the testimony,
813
00:38:31,672 --> 00:38:33,850
I was hoping to request a short recess
814
00:38:33,874 --> 00:38:36,520
so that I might confer
with opposing counsel
815
00:38:36,544 --> 00:38:40,631
and save the court and the jury
some time and...
816
00:38:41,225 --> 00:38:42,637
trouble.
817
00:38:44,293 --> 00:38:46,293
Let's take 20 minutes recess
818
00:38:46,326 --> 00:38:48,326
in my chambers.
819
00:38:50,358 --> 00:38:51,667
What do you that means?
820
00:38:51,692 --> 00:38:53,292
Only good things.
821
00:38:56,030 --> 00:38:58,508
Do you want some company?
822
00:38:58,972 --> 00:39:00,572
Sure.
823
00:39:02,782 --> 00:39:04,214
So,
824
00:39:04,238 --> 00:39:07,217
when he says they're
dropping all the charges...
825
00:39:07,241 --> 00:39:08,719
It means you're free.
826
00:39:08,743 --> 00:39:11,188
It means it's over. They realize
they made a mistake.
827
00:39:11,212 --> 00:39:12,356
A mistake you might
828
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:13,762
- actually want to sue them for.
- Mm.
829
00:39:13,786 --> 00:39:16,927
But that's a conversation
we can have another time.
830
00:39:17,547 --> 00:39:20,263
So, now what happens to my brother?
831
00:39:20,287 --> 00:39:22,132
Will there be another trial?
832
00:39:22,156 --> 00:39:23,800
Well, if there were,
833
00:39:23,824 --> 00:39:26,203
the same way his DNA
gave us reasonable doubt,
834
00:39:26,227 --> 00:39:27,938
yours would do the same for him.
835
00:39:28,474 --> 00:39:30,741
There's no way, definitively,
836
00:39:30,765 --> 00:39:32,576
to prove which one of you did it.
837
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,230
So they won't prosecute?
838
00:39:34,668 --> 00:39:35,790
They can't.
839
00:39:36,691 --> 00:39:39,116
Dr. Harper, the second we found out
840
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:40,617
that you had an identical twin,
841
00:39:40,641 --> 00:39:42,864
I had my team out
in the field looking for him.
842
00:39:44,057 --> 00:39:45,623
And we found him.
843
00:39:47,281 --> 00:39:48,592
I'm sorry.
844
00:39:48,616 --> 00:39:50,460
Uh...
845
00:39:50,484 --> 00:39:54,064
he's been in the Philadelphia
City Morgue for three days
846
00:39:54,088 --> 00:39:56,855
as a result of an overdose.
847
00:39:57,958 --> 00:39:59,936
Michael, he was a junkie.
848
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,271
A murderer.
849
00:40:01,295 --> 00:40:03,467
But he looked just like me.
850
00:40:04,031 --> 00:40:05,720
You're not the same.
851
00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:08,545
I know, but...
852
00:40:08,569 --> 00:40:12,215
still, I looked him up on-online.
853
00:40:12,768 --> 00:40:15,085
We both played basketball in high school.
854
00:40:15,109 --> 00:40:16,820
Forward.
855
00:40:16,844 --> 00:40:19,423
We both struggled with addiction.
856
00:40:19,447 --> 00:40:22,111
I had a few fistfights when I was young.
857
00:40:22,850 --> 00:40:25,162
We shared some demons.
858
00:40:25,186 --> 00:40:27,497
You're wondering why your life
turned out one way
859
00:40:27,521 --> 00:40:29,800
- and his turned out another?
- No, I know.
860
00:40:29,824 --> 00:40:32,469
I had parents that put me through school
861
00:40:32,914 --> 00:40:35,605
and a wife that helped
me with my sobriety.
862
00:40:35,629 --> 00:40:38,642
Maybe. Let's not forget about free will.
863
00:40:38,666 --> 00:40:41,172
Our DNA is not our destiny.
864
00:40:41,936 --> 00:40:44,981
We can change it, piece
by piece, choice by choice.
865
00:40:45,005 --> 00:40:46,316
If we're strong enough.
866
00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:48,185
Which you were.
867
00:40:48,209 --> 00:40:49,986
So what about the boy?
868
00:40:50,010 --> 00:40:51,521
The victim's son.
869
00:40:51,545 --> 00:40:53,356
The one who identified me.
870
00:40:53,380 --> 00:40:55,092
The assistant district attorney said
871
00:40:55,116 --> 00:40:56,693
he went to live with his cousins.
872
00:40:56,717 --> 00:40:59,651
They seem happy to have him,
and he seems happy to be there.
873
00:41:02,089 --> 00:41:04,868
You should go home, play with your kids.
874
00:41:04,892 --> 00:41:06,736
It's a beautiful afternoon.
875
00:41:07,490 --> 00:41:09,973
That it is.
876
00:41:14,268 --> 00:41:15,579
So, what is everybody else
877
00:41:15,603 --> 00:41:16,913
doing the rest of the day?
878
00:41:16,937 --> 00:41:18,515
Oh, I think I'm going home,
879
00:41:18,539 --> 00:41:20,250
calling my brother and sister.
880
00:41:20,274 --> 00:41:21,852
Wow.
881
00:41:21,876 --> 00:41:23,854
That's a great idea. I think
I'm gonna do the same thing.
882
00:41:23,878 --> 00:41:24,988
Dr. Bull?
883
00:41:25,012 --> 00:41:26,523
Actually, I'm gonna go back to the office
884
00:41:26,547 --> 00:41:28,525
and try and track down an old girlfriend.