1 00:00:01,233 --> 00:00:02,871 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,102 --> 00:00:06,675 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,073 --> 00:00:08,780 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,941 --> 00:00:11,512 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,711 --> 00:00:12,781 These are their stories. 6 00:00:13,846 --> 00:00:15,087 (CHURCH BELL TOLLING) 7 00:00:15,148 --> 00:00:16,252 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 8 00:00:16,316 --> 00:00:18,353 So this mugger doesn't find any money. 9 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:21,461 He says to the lady, "Where is it, in your girdle?" 10 00:00:22,489 --> 00:00:24,127 Sister, you're not listening. 11 00:00:24,224 --> 00:00:26,568 It's almost 8:00. The children will be here soon. 12 00:00:27,394 --> 00:00:28,395 Look at this. 13 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:31,435 I wish these people would at least pick up after themselves. 14 00:00:32,032 --> 00:00:34,979 Anyway, he feels all around her girdle. 15 00:00:35,202 --> 00:00:39,673 Again he says, "Where's the money?" And the lady says, "Keep looking. 16 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,080 "I'll send you a check." 17 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:42,612 (LAUGHING) 18 00:00:42,676 --> 00:00:44,020 Isn't that funny? 19 00:00:47,248 --> 00:00:48,283 (GAS PS) 20 00:00:48,349 --> 00:00:49,384 Oh, God. 21 00:00:52,754 --> 00:00:56,031 The kids don't need to see this. This is a daycare center. 22 00:00:56,624 --> 00:00:58,729 Every morning we clean up after these junkies. 23 00:00:58,793 --> 00:01:01,433 We always gave them food. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea. 24 00:01:01,529 --> 00:01:03,338 Was this girl a regular in your soup line? 25 00:01:03,397 --> 00:01:04,467 I don't think so. 26 00:01:04,532 --> 00:01:05,875 But there's so many of them. 27 00:01:05,933 --> 00:01:06,968 Thank you. 28 00:01:07,969 --> 00:01:09,573 (MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO) 29 00:01:11,739 --> 00:01:14,584 Picked clean. No ID, no money. 30 00:01:14,643 --> 00:01:16,247 Around here, we should be surprised? 31 00:01:16,311 --> 00:01:20,282 Hey, Mike. Enrico Sariego. Says he was partying here last night. 32 00:01:20,349 --> 00:01:21,953 Good morning, Mr. Sariego. 33 00:01:22,050 --> 00:01:24,792 So, is this one of your party pals? 34 00:01:25,888 --> 00:01:28,368 No. I never seen her before. 35 00:01:29,424 --> 00:01:32,496 And anyway, I like a little meat on my girls, you know? 36 00:01:33,295 --> 00:01:35,707 What time did the festivities end last night? 37 00:01:36,665 --> 00:01:39,009 I don't know. I booked around 3:00. 38 00:01:39,067 --> 00:01:42,572 I didn't wanna be around here with these nuns. They know karate. 39 00:01:43,106 --> 00:01:45,017 Not for me. Stick around, all right? 40 00:01:45,074 --> 00:01:46,280 Get him some breakfast. 41 00:01:47,977 --> 00:01:51,220 She's dead about four to five hours. Track marks. Vomit on the shirt. 42 00:01:51,881 --> 00:01:53,258 It's our sixth OD this week. 43 00:01:53,850 --> 00:01:57,354 New high-octane heroin. It's 90% pure, 100% deadly. 44 00:01:59,923 --> 00:02:00,958 Look at that. 45 00:02:02,826 --> 00:02:04,430 Almost see right through. 46 00:02:05,361 --> 00:02:07,864 I don't know about you, but I broke out the thermals last night. 47 00:02:07,997 --> 00:02:10,979 She's a junkie, Mike. She probably thought it was July. 48 00:02:11,468 --> 00:02:14,506 So she gets out of the heat and lies down here to get comfortable? 49 00:02:14,939 --> 00:02:16,941 You ever pass out with your arms crossed? 50 00:02:17,174 --> 00:02:18,585 No, I was always on my face. 51 00:02:19,276 --> 00:02:20,516 Somebody dumped that girl. 52 00:02:20,945 --> 00:02:23,050 What, a little bundle left for the nuns to find? 53 00:02:23,113 --> 00:02:25,957 Yeah. Like a baby in a basket. 54 00:02:26,283 --> 00:02:27,956 (WOMAN CHATTERING ON RADIO) 55 00:03:14,967 --> 00:03:15,968 24 hours? 56 00:03:16,035 --> 00:03:17,378 Minimum. We're backed up. 57 00:03:17,570 --> 00:03:20,608 Two shootings uptown, a stabbing, couple of undetermined causes. 58 00:03:21,140 --> 00:03:23,245 Next time I'll call ahead for a reservation. 59 00:03:24,777 --> 00:03:26,279 Is there anything you can tell me? 60 00:03:27,146 --> 00:03:30,616 Victim's 20 to 24 years old. No signs of trauma or assault. 61 00:03:30,750 --> 00:03:32,752 Pupil dilation consistent with an overdose. 62 00:03:33,653 --> 00:03:35,656 She was outside for at least four hours. 63 00:03:35,722 --> 00:03:36,860 Exposure? 64 00:03:37,190 --> 00:03:40,660 No outward signs of frostbite. Her airways are clear. She didn't choke. 65 00:03:41,595 --> 00:03:42,665 Oh, this is nice. 66 00:03:43,130 --> 00:03:45,474 She has porcelain caps all around, uppers and lowers. 67 00:03:46,066 --> 00:03:48,103 Somebody laid out 20 grand for this smile. 68 00:03:49,236 --> 00:03:52,445 And we sent the dental records to Missing Persons, but there's no match. 69 00:03:52,673 --> 00:03:54,710 Personal effects? Just her clothes. 70 00:03:55,642 --> 00:03:59,954 What have we got? Silk blouse from Versace. Skirt's by Jil Sander. 71 00:04:00,047 --> 00:04:02,584 Not exactly winter gear from LL Bean. 72 00:04:02,816 --> 00:04:05,161 Make some calls, maybe you can trace it. 73 00:04:05,753 --> 00:04:09,326 Am I missing something? This is hardly the crime of the century. 74 00:04:09,457 --> 00:04:11,334 The girl OD'd. She was a junkie. 75 00:04:11,392 --> 00:04:14,202 A junkie with a $20,000 smile 76 00:04:14,262 --> 00:04:16,640 and clothes I only get to look at in magazines. 77 00:04:16,698 --> 00:04:18,507 So she was a rich junkie. Who cares? 78 00:04:18,566 --> 00:04:23,072 I care why somebody dumped her body. Narcotics Division sent this list. 79 00:04:23,438 --> 00:04:28,046 Dealers arrested in sweeps of the area where she was found. See if any of them knew her. 80 00:04:28,876 --> 00:04:31,720 If I say I know her, you gonna ask, "Did I sell her?" 81 00:04:32,214 --> 00:04:35,093 Then maybe I have to lie to you. Then you get all pissed off, 82 00:04:35,150 --> 00:04:37,027 and I end up with steel on my wrists, my man. 83 00:04:37,152 --> 00:04:40,827 Look at the picture, Pappi, or you're gonna end up with steel in your mouth. 84 00:04:43,625 --> 00:04:45,298 Nah. She ain't one of mine, man. 85 00:04:46,762 --> 00:04:48,605 Cross your heart and hope to die? 86 00:04:48,664 --> 00:04:49,802 Yeah, man. Come on. 87 00:04:50,599 --> 00:04:51,600 Take off. 88 00:04:54,470 --> 00:04:56,814 Little Man here says he might know Jane Doe. 89 00:04:57,339 --> 00:04:59,546 If you promise to talk to my probation officer, right? 90 00:04:59,675 --> 00:05:02,748 Oh, sure. We'll tell him how we found you hanging here on Needle Row. 91 00:05:02,812 --> 00:05:05,258 Maybe a couple more years upstate will help your memory. 92 00:05:07,851 --> 00:05:09,888 You know, it's coming back. I bet. 93 00:05:10,186 --> 00:05:13,690 Miss Jane Doe and the Viking were preferred customers. 94 00:05:13,757 --> 00:05:14,792 The Viking? 95 00:05:14,858 --> 00:05:16,235 This tall, blonde dude. 96 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,673 A guy named Erik. Fine looking couple. 97 00:05:20,430 --> 00:05:21,841 When's the last time you saw them? 98 00:05:21,898 --> 00:05:23,775 I haven't seen the girl in a while. 99 00:05:24,467 --> 00:05:26,504 The Vike, a week maybe. 100 00:05:27,003 --> 00:05:29,848 The dude works the door upstairs at Club Beecees. 101 00:05:31,609 --> 00:05:34,886 Her name's Katie Blanchard. She OD'd for real? 102 00:05:35,179 --> 00:05:38,183 Found her behind a dumpster. For real. 103 00:05:38,549 --> 00:05:39,721 That's cold. 104 00:05:39,784 --> 00:05:41,286 You talked to her last night? 105 00:05:41,952 --> 00:05:44,990 Seen her maybe a couple of times since we busted up three months ago. 106 00:05:45,423 --> 00:05:47,903 We were going pretty hot, then she went crazy with the junk. 107 00:05:48,192 --> 00:05:49,933 I had to cut her loose. 108 00:05:49,994 --> 00:05:52,133 Yeah, right, because you're high on life. 109 00:05:52,396 --> 00:05:54,467 So I light up a bowl on the weekends, big deal. 110 00:05:54,532 --> 00:05:56,603 She was fixing up maybe four or five times a day. 111 00:05:57,201 --> 00:06:00,911 Well, in between getting stoned, did she ever mention her family? 112 00:06:01,139 --> 00:06:03,278 No. Wasn't a big item with her. 113 00:06:03,675 --> 00:06:05,916 The only one she ever talked about was her kid brother, Matt. 114 00:06:05,977 --> 00:06:08,150 Did she ever say where her family lived? 115 00:06:08,313 --> 00:06:10,486 She might've said something. I wasn't paying attention. 116 00:06:10,582 --> 00:06:12,562 Sounds like you two were made for each other. 117 00:06:12,717 --> 00:06:14,355 Hey, if I wasn't hooked up with somebody else, 118 00:06:14,419 --> 00:06:16,057 maybe I'd have given Katie another chance. 119 00:06:16,121 --> 00:06:19,227 I heard she was trying rehab. Some place near Thompson Park. 120 00:06:23,328 --> 00:06:25,706 HERBERT: Katie shot a lot of heroin into that blue blood of hers. 121 00:06:25,764 --> 00:06:28,905 You know, she was Ken Blanchard's daughter. He ran for the Senate. 122 00:06:29,569 --> 00:06:32,709 Yeah, I remember him. Died in a car crash a few years back. 123 00:06:32,772 --> 00:06:33,842 Yeah. He was DWI. 124 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,881 Listen, no offense or anything, 125 00:06:36,943 --> 00:06:40,322 but shouldn't his daughter have been at some four-star rehab in Connecticut? 126 00:06:40,379 --> 00:06:42,120 Katie was cut off from her family. 127 00:06:43,082 --> 00:06:46,791 You know, this may not be the Queen Mary of rehab, but it's not the Titanic either. 128 00:06:46,853 --> 00:06:49,060 We provide the basics. Methadone and therapy. 129 00:06:49,122 --> 00:06:50,829 Well, it doesn't sound like it was enough. 130 00:06:50,890 --> 00:06:52,392 HERBERT: Well, if you give it a chance. 131 00:06:52,458 --> 00:06:56,134 Katie was with the program for about two months. 132 00:06:56,597 --> 00:06:58,338 Then about a month ago, she walked away. 133 00:06:58,398 --> 00:06:59,672 Any idea why? 134 00:06:59,967 --> 00:07:03,244 Look, I got the feeling that rehab was something she did to con her family. 135 00:07:03,704 --> 00:07:06,344 She'd stay clean for a week, then disappear for a few days. 136 00:07:06,607 --> 00:07:08,416 Another week here and then the same thing. 137 00:07:08,809 --> 00:07:10,220 So where does her family live? 138 00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:13,051 I'll get the address. 139 00:07:14,681 --> 00:07:15,989 She was found where? 140 00:07:17,151 --> 00:07:19,392 In a playground on the Lower East Side. 141 00:07:19,453 --> 00:07:21,262 She died outside? 142 00:07:23,824 --> 00:07:25,270 I thought she was in rehab. 143 00:07:26,294 --> 00:07:28,831 Oh, well, the people there told us she left a month ago. 144 00:07:29,531 --> 00:07:32,307 Oh, I'm not surprised. 145 00:07:33,368 --> 00:07:36,577 Every place I sent her, she'd stay long enough to pass a blood test, 146 00:07:37,872 --> 00:07:41,945 then she'd ask me for money. It all went to drugs. 147 00:07:43,244 --> 00:07:45,281 Finally, I had to say, "No more." 148 00:07:46,681 --> 00:07:48,160 Did she come here? 149 00:07:48,216 --> 00:07:50,321 She knew better. 150 00:07:51,586 --> 00:07:53,567 My youngest, Carlie, is still in high school. 151 00:07:54,089 --> 00:07:56,467 I refused to let her see her sister like that. 152 00:08:00,796 --> 00:08:03,800 I know a mother shouldn't say this, but Katie was my favorite. 153 00:08:04,533 --> 00:08:07,446 She was so beautiful. She could've... 154 00:08:12,174 --> 00:08:13,585 She was also the most trouble. 155 00:08:16,111 --> 00:08:19,149 We're trying to determine who she might've been with when she died. 156 00:08:19,481 --> 00:08:21,962 Were there any other relatives she might've been in touch with? 157 00:08:22,018 --> 00:08:23,190 We heard she had a brother. 158 00:08:25,055 --> 00:08:28,628 Matthew. He was at Yale Law. Second year. 159 00:08:30,093 --> 00:08:32,130 Maybe you should speak to Jerome Kamen. 160 00:08:32,295 --> 00:08:33,365 A friend of your daughter's? 161 00:08:33,430 --> 00:08:34,909 Our business adviser. 162 00:08:37,567 --> 00:08:40,207 He was at college with my husband, Ken. 163 00:08:41,171 --> 00:08:44,948 Ever since he died, Jerry's been like a father to my children. 164 00:08:50,381 --> 00:08:53,487 Any arrangements that need to be made, you talk to me. 165 00:08:53,551 --> 00:08:56,293 Actually, we're wondering if you talked to Katie recently? 166 00:08:56,787 --> 00:08:59,927 On the phone, briefly, and she stopped by a few times. 167 00:09:01,225 --> 00:09:02,636 You know where she was staying? 168 00:09:02,693 --> 00:09:04,070 At a rehab center. 169 00:09:05,463 --> 00:09:07,966 BRISCOE: Well, not for the last month. We talked to them. 170 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:10,372 She told me she was doing fine. 171 00:09:10,434 --> 00:09:12,380 What did she come to see you about? 172 00:09:12,737 --> 00:09:15,445 Money. Her mother had cut her off. 173 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,249 She told me not to give Katie a dime. 174 00:09:18,309 --> 00:09:19,584 Tough love. 175 00:09:19,978 --> 00:09:24,393 Yeah. To put it mildly. With Meryl, it's her way or no way. 176 00:09:25,417 --> 00:09:27,624 But I've known the children since they were babies. 177 00:09:28,153 --> 00:09:30,394 I thought about what their father would've wanted me to do. 178 00:09:30,689 --> 00:09:32,327 So I gave Katie a few dollars. 179 00:09:33,158 --> 00:09:36,002 All she had to live on were her social security checks. 180 00:09:36,261 --> 00:09:37,865 Well, she didn't look 65. 181 00:09:38,463 --> 00:09:41,171 The federal government considers addiction a disability. 182 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,536 They send her checks twice a month. 183 00:09:43,602 --> 00:09:45,513 Even though the family's worth millions? 184 00:09:46,772 --> 00:09:48,514 That money is held in trust. 185 00:09:50,109 --> 00:09:51,747 She had to survive somehow. 186 00:09:52,378 --> 00:09:54,619 Nice lady, this Mrs. Blanchard. 187 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:56,388 She was hosting cocktail parties 188 00:09:56,449 --> 00:09:58,451 while her daughter was living on the dole. 189 00:09:58,618 --> 00:10:01,758 Right, she should've let the kid shoot the family fortune into her arm. 190 00:10:02,121 --> 00:10:04,032 Oh, you'd throw your daughter out on the street? 191 00:10:04,257 --> 00:10:06,999 My daughter could go through my fortune in about a day and a half. 192 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:09,165 Yeah, but what if you had Blanchard's money? 193 00:10:09,629 --> 00:10:12,075 Hey, maybe if somebody had kicked me out when I was drinking, 194 00:10:12,131 --> 00:10:14,338 I wouldn't have wasted 20 years inside a bottle. 195 00:10:15,501 --> 00:10:16,640 Hell of a gamble. 196 00:10:17,871 --> 00:10:21,409 Anyway, Kamen said she got checks every two weeks, right? 197 00:10:21,976 --> 00:10:23,922 Social security must've known where to send them. 198 00:10:24,945 --> 00:10:27,926 Under the Social Security Act of 1972, 199 00:10:28,182 --> 00:10:30,856 addicts are entitled to $750 a month. 200 00:10:30,918 --> 00:10:31,953 What? 201 00:10:32,019 --> 00:10:33,726 Somebody actually thinks this is a good idea? 202 00:10:33,921 --> 00:10:35,628 You'd rather they mug you for their money? 203 00:10:36,090 --> 00:10:38,297 Look, we don't simply hand money to the addict. 204 00:10:38,359 --> 00:10:42,136 We send a check to a responsible payee, usually a parent. 205 00:10:42,463 --> 00:10:45,104 The payee gives funds to the recipient as needed. 206 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,539 So who was Katie Blanchard's payee? 207 00:10:54,242 --> 00:10:55,812 Herbert James Fowler. 208 00:10:56,878 --> 00:10:59,757 He runs the rehabilitation center where Miss Blanchard was staying. 209 00:10:59,814 --> 00:11:01,452 That's where we sent the checks. 210 00:11:01,950 --> 00:11:03,486 When was the last check cashed? 211 00:11:04,919 --> 00:11:07,399 Last week, by Mr. Fowler. 212 00:11:08,590 --> 00:11:10,934 (ON SPEAKER) I told you, Katie left the center four weeks ago. 213 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,570 Well, according to Uncle Sam, 214 00:11:15,030 --> 00:11:17,032 you were still cashing her checks. 215 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:20,413 Mr. Fowler had the authority to cash those checks. 216 00:11:20,503 --> 00:11:22,141 If she's there he does. 217 00:11:23,572 --> 00:11:25,813 Maybe she never left the rehab, huh, Herb? 218 00:11:26,876 --> 00:11:28,048 Maybe she OD'd there. 219 00:11:28,110 --> 00:11:29,521 Look, that didn't happen. 220 00:11:30,546 --> 00:11:31,820 (SIGHS) 221 00:11:31,881 --> 00:11:36,455 Look. She was a walking disaster. She was never gonna get cured. 222 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:39,125 Rehab was a revolving door for her. 223 00:11:40,089 --> 00:11:43,230 I thought she'd come back sooner or later. I was holding her money. 224 00:11:43,493 --> 00:11:47,202 Where? In a bank? Or under your mattress? 225 00:11:48,465 --> 00:11:50,809 It's in the general operating fund. 226 00:11:52,235 --> 00:11:55,045 Really? Okay. 227 00:11:55,872 --> 00:11:58,113 I'm sure the Feds can help me track it down. 228 00:11:58,175 --> 00:12:00,815 We don't really have to get them involved, do we? 229 00:12:01,311 --> 00:12:02,881 Why not? If he's got nothing to hide. 230 00:12:02,946 --> 00:12:04,584 I swear to God, she wasn't there. 231 00:12:05,649 --> 00:12:07,185 What's the problem then? 232 00:12:21,265 --> 00:12:24,075 She wasn't the only junkie you were ripping off, was she? 233 00:12:27,138 --> 00:12:29,277 Okay. Look... 234 00:12:29,807 --> 00:12:31,980 If he's ready to admit to fraud, you have to believe 235 00:12:32,043 --> 00:12:33,852 he's telling the truth about not seeing her. 236 00:12:33,911 --> 00:12:36,050 If nothing else, you uncovered his scam. 237 00:12:36,113 --> 00:12:38,889 Great. I'll tell Mrs. Blanchard her daughter didn't die in vain. 238 00:12:38,951 --> 00:12:39,952 (BANGING ON DOOR) 239 00:12:40,652 --> 00:12:43,656 Lieutenant, I've got the autopsy report on Kathleen Blanchard. 240 00:12:43,722 --> 00:12:44,723 Oh, thank you. 241 00:12:47,159 --> 00:12:52,040 Inconclusive for hypothermia. She died of an overdose of high potency heroin. 242 00:12:52,097 --> 00:12:53,974 She must've had some going-away party. 243 00:12:54,032 --> 00:12:55,807 The party was catered in Chinatown. 244 00:12:55,868 --> 00:12:58,940 According to this, her last supper was duck and hoisin sauce. 245 00:12:59,171 --> 00:13:02,675 Peking duck. Thirty bucks a pop. Some taste, huh? 246 00:13:02,941 --> 00:13:04,579 Life wasn't all fun and games. 247 00:13:05,144 --> 00:13:08,183 The ME found some hemorrhaging on the walls of her uterus. 248 00:13:08,548 --> 00:13:12,587 Meaning that she had an abortion or a miscarriage in the past two weeks. 249 00:13:15,355 --> 00:13:17,028 Katie left four weeks ago. 250 00:13:17,323 --> 00:13:19,064 You marked it in your calendar? 251 00:13:19,125 --> 00:13:21,435 My second wedding anniversary. 252 00:13:21,494 --> 00:13:23,940 My husband, Raoul, he's doing a bullet at Rikers. 253 00:13:24,163 --> 00:13:25,904 Anyway, I haven't seen Katie since. 254 00:13:25,965 --> 00:13:29,071 Well, maybe she paid a visit during your lunch break. You got a sign-in book? 255 00:13:29,135 --> 00:13:32,412 This look like Betty Ford? People don't sign in. 256 00:13:32,839 --> 00:13:35,342 Even if she did come back, it makes a difference? 257 00:13:35,408 --> 00:13:39,824 We figure she got pregnant here and maybe one of your residents is the proud papa. 258 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,223 And she might've gotten in touch with him. 259 00:13:41,282 --> 00:13:42,625 One of these losers? 260 00:13:42,917 --> 00:13:46,592 She'd have to be pretty hard up. Besides, Katie had some guy on the outside. 261 00:13:46,687 --> 00:13:48,030 She ever tell you his name? 262 00:13:49,223 --> 00:13:50,759 Some short name. 263 00:13:51,859 --> 00:13:53,566 Rick. Erik? 264 00:13:54,795 --> 00:13:57,969 Could be. I figure that's where she went. 265 00:13:58,332 --> 00:14:01,643 I mean, she took one of those home pregnancy tests. The stick turned blue. 266 00:14:02,036 --> 00:14:04,346 She flipped out. The next day, she split. 267 00:14:05,173 --> 00:14:07,346 Come on, man. How many times we gotta go through this? 268 00:14:07,576 --> 00:14:09,055 Until you get it right. 269 00:14:09,377 --> 00:14:12,051 See, the way we hear it, when Katie came back from rehab, 270 00:14:12,113 --> 00:14:15,993 she had a little surprise for you. You were gonna get it in about nine months. 271 00:14:17,385 --> 00:14:19,558 No way. Not me. 272 00:14:19,621 --> 00:14:22,033 No way? She came crying to you. 273 00:14:22,090 --> 00:14:23,569 What did she want? Money for an abortion? 274 00:14:23,625 --> 00:14:24,865 I didn't knock her up. 275 00:14:25,594 --> 00:14:27,164 I haven't been with her for three months. 276 00:14:27,929 --> 00:14:32,105 Look, why don't you guys just go take a bribe or whatever it is you usually do? 277 00:14:32,968 --> 00:14:34,971 You know, you look like you could use a few pounds. 278 00:14:35,137 --> 00:14:36,275 Why don't we go in the kitchen, 279 00:14:36,339 --> 00:14:38,478 see if there's any milk and cookies in there, huh? 280 00:14:39,141 --> 00:14:41,451 Okay, Erik, this is how it works. 281 00:14:41,777 --> 00:14:45,748 We're gonna check her ID. If she is one day shy of 17, 282 00:14:45,848 --> 00:14:49,057 we toss this whole place, then maybe we find a controlled substance. 283 00:14:49,118 --> 00:14:51,257 You want me to go on? Not if you don't have to. 284 00:14:51,887 --> 00:14:52,888 UP '10 you. 285 00:14:55,958 --> 00:14:58,700 Katie gave me the whole song and dance. She didn't even look pregnant. 286 00:14:58,761 --> 00:15:00,672 She wants me to pay to get rid of it. I blew her off. 287 00:15:01,163 --> 00:15:02,802 The kid probably wasn't even mine. 288 00:15:02,866 --> 00:15:04,140 And since then? 289 00:15:08,372 --> 00:15:11,751 All right, I wonder what's in this box? 290 00:15:11,808 --> 00:15:12,878 All right. All right. 291 00:15:14,144 --> 00:15:17,455 She called about a week ago. She was hurting real bad. She needed a score. 292 00:15:17,514 --> 00:15:18,754 And you're the man, right? 293 00:15:18,815 --> 00:15:20,123 I don't deal. 294 00:15:20,751 --> 00:15:22,924 I just know where to shop. I brought it to her. 295 00:15:22,986 --> 00:15:24,021 Where? 296 00:15:24,087 --> 00:15:25,828 She was staying up on West 81st. 297 00:15:25,889 --> 00:15:28,062 She didn't want me to come upstairs. She was with some guy. 298 00:15:28,125 --> 00:15:31,596 So I met her on the corner on Broadway. And that's the last time I saw her. 299 00:15:37,969 --> 00:15:39,505 (CAR HORN HONKING) 300 00:15:41,839 --> 00:15:42,977 You believe this? 301 00:15:43,808 --> 00:15:46,812 Used to be South Bronx, Alphabet City... 302 00:15:47,045 --> 00:15:48,786 Now these junkies have trust funds. 303 00:15:48,846 --> 00:15:51,884 Hey, 10 years ago they were tooting coke through $100 bills. 304 00:15:51,949 --> 00:15:53,986 Maybe they've heard needles are chic this year. 305 00:15:54,319 --> 00:15:56,060 Which side of the street you want? 306 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,690 Maybe there's a faster way. 307 00:15:57,855 --> 00:15:59,995 She had Peking duck before she died. 308 00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:05,541 Okay, chicken and cashew nut, sweet sour pork. It's $10.95. 309 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,175 About 30 minutes. 310 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:11,673 Come on, Mr. Woo, three days ago? She ordered Peking duck? 311 00:16:11,970 --> 00:16:16,385 Same like everybody. It's the house special. A hundred phone order every day. 312 00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:18,112 Main room always busy. 313 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:19,553 (PHONE RINGING) 314 00:16:21,714 --> 00:16:23,091 I never see her here. 315 00:16:23,582 --> 00:16:26,927 Maybe the duck went to her. You got delivery tickets from three days ago? 316 00:16:27,119 --> 00:16:28,121 Hold on. 317 00:16:28,188 --> 00:16:29,326 MAN ON PHONE: Yeah. I got an order for you. 318 00:16:32,358 --> 00:16:35,464 Yes. Hey, lunch special, $4.95. 319 00:16:39,399 --> 00:16:41,743 Here it is. I'm sure you have the wrong building. 320 00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:44,111 I'm sure we don't. Who lives here? 321 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:45,547 The Cassinis did. 322 00:16:45,605 --> 00:16:49,143 They cashed in city life for Tuscany. It's been on the market for two months. 323 00:16:49,209 --> 00:16:50,984 Are you sure you have the right unit number? 324 00:16:52,045 --> 00:16:54,855 K-T, 14-C. Peking duck. 325 00:16:55,148 --> 00:16:58,130 As clean as a whistle, right down to the empty waste baskets. 326 00:16:58,219 --> 00:17:00,221 Why? What were you expecting to find? 327 00:17:00,287 --> 00:17:01,630 How about this girl? 328 00:17:02,022 --> 00:17:03,660 Have you ever seen her here before? 329 00:17:03,724 --> 00:17:04,930 Yes. 330 00:17:05,559 --> 00:17:08,972 She's Mr. Cassini's niece. She's been staying here the last month. 331 00:17:10,064 --> 00:17:11,065 Staying here alone? 332 00:17:11,132 --> 00:17:12,338 Well, yes. 333 00:17:13,667 --> 00:17:17,410 Why, what's... She's not the one who... Oh, dear God. 334 00:17:18,539 --> 00:17:20,576 Who told you she was their niece? 335 00:17:20,641 --> 00:17:22,780 Their business manager, Mr. Kamen. 336 00:17:23,177 --> 00:17:24,349 Jerome Kamen? 337 00:17:24,478 --> 00:17:26,584 She's been staying here with his permission. 338 00:17:28,416 --> 00:17:32,091 Understand my situation. It was the Cassini's apartment. 339 00:17:32,554 --> 00:17:35,660 If they found out... Well, you can imagine. 340 00:17:35,957 --> 00:17:38,369 Right now my imagination's working overtime. 341 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:39,761 I'm sure it is. 342 00:17:40,562 --> 00:17:43,509 Katie came to me. She said she was pregnant. 343 00:17:44,766 --> 00:17:47,042 She didn't want to give birth to a drug-addicted baby. 344 00:17:47,302 --> 00:17:50,579 I gave her some money and told her to go to a clinic. 345 00:17:50,872 --> 00:17:54,548 And the keys to the Cassini place, you just throw those in to cheer her up? 346 00:17:54,610 --> 00:17:57,454 She wouldn't go back to rehab. Her mother didn't want her in the house. 347 00:17:57,980 --> 00:17:59,857 I wasn't gonna let her sleep on the street. 348 00:18:00,716 --> 00:18:02,718 Well, that's all very commendable, 349 00:18:02,919 --> 00:18:06,025 except for the lies and the clean-up job at the apartment. 350 00:18:06,989 --> 00:18:11,199 All I did was pack up her things after I found out she was dead. 351 00:18:11,394 --> 00:18:12,873 I have her suitcase right here. 352 00:18:13,129 --> 00:18:16,235 As far as we're concerned, that apartment is the scene of the crime. 353 00:18:16,399 --> 00:18:19,005 So, you don't mind if we conduct a little search there, do you? 354 00:18:19,235 --> 00:18:23,981 I have nothing to hide. I was just doing what I thought was best for Katie. 355 00:18:24,875 --> 00:18:28,254 Somebody forgot to tell this girl disability money's for food. 356 00:18:28,479 --> 00:18:33,360 Gold necklace. Louis Vuitton wallet including six $100 bills. 357 00:18:34,151 --> 00:18:37,826 None of which sticks around if she was partying with her junkie friends. 358 00:18:38,021 --> 00:18:40,592 You know, CSU went through all of this stuff and the apartment. 359 00:18:40,991 --> 00:18:42,436 Kamen's prints are on everything. 360 00:18:42,493 --> 00:18:45,167 Well, he packed her suitcase and he was showing the apartment. 361 00:18:45,229 --> 00:18:47,175 Which means he opens the door and says "Look around." 362 00:18:47,231 --> 00:18:50,075 But his prints were in the bathroom, they were all over the furniture. 363 00:18:50,134 --> 00:18:52,843 Look, he shacks her up in this place and then he lies about it. 364 00:18:53,104 --> 00:18:55,482 I, for one, don't believe in his Father Flanagan act. 365 00:18:55,907 --> 00:18:57,716 I, for one, am jealous. 366 00:18:58,243 --> 00:19:01,656 Divorced, middle-aged guy, young single girl... 367 00:19:01,713 --> 00:19:04,057 None of which ties him to her death. Yeah. 368 00:19:04,115 --> 00:19:08,359 But say Kamen gets an itch. He pops over on Katie but Katie's OD'd. 369 00:19:08,453 --> 00:19:10,729 If he was afraid of her being found there alive, 370 00:19:10,788 --> 00:19:12,597 now he's got a real problem. 371 00:19:12,657 --> 00:19:14,330 He owns a car. 372 00:19:14,859 --> 00:19:16,463 Maybe he took her out through the garage. 373 00:19:16,761 --> 00:19:19,503 Well, even if she left anything behind in the car, 374 00:19:19,564 --> 00:19:21,943 we don't have enough for a warrant to search it. 375 00:19:24,003 --> 00:19:26,040 Arrest him for hindering. 376 00:19:26,105 --> 00:19:28,711 Still doesn't get us a search warrant. 377 00:19:29,508 --> 00:19:31,545 Unless you arrest him in his car. 378 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:35,681 (SIGHS) 379 00:19:35,781 --> 00:19:37,988 Are we the only ones who work in the morning or what? 380 00:19:38,284 --> 00:19:39,786 Maybe he telecommutes. 381 00:19:40,719 --> 00:19:41,720 Here we go. 382 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,097 (SIREN WAILING) 383 00:19:56,770 --> 00:19:58,681 You mind stepping out of the car, Mr. Kamen? 384 00:19:59,306 --> 00:20:01,616 No. You mind telling me what this is all about? 385 00:20:01,675 --> 00:20:03,916 You're under arrest for hindering prosecution. 386 00:20:03,977 --> 00:20:06,514 You're kidding. Yeah. It's all a big joke. 387 00:20:07,047 --> 00:20:08,993 What about my car? Oh, don't worry. 388 00:20:09,049 --> 00:20:11,825 Your car will be secured and inventoried for your protection. 389 00:20:14,020 --> 00:20:18,367 I've told you. I was home all night. I had quarterly reports to finish. 390 00:20:18,626 --> 00:20:20,003 It's been four hours. 391 00:20:20,394 --> 00:20:23,637 You either arraign my client or release him now. 392 00:20:24,398 --> 00:20:27,038 I'll pass your sentiments on up the food chain. 393 00:20:31,138 --> 00:20:34,483 I'm running out of stalls. And I don't think he's up for a game of Scrabble. 394 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:37,187 Unless we hear something, we'll have to settle for hindering. 395 00:20:37,244 --> 00:20:38,245 (PHONE RINGING) 396 00:20:38,946 --> 00:20:39,947 Yes. 397 00:20:44,318 --> 00:20:45,456 Thanks. 398 00:20:46,154 --> 00:20:50,625 That was Logan. The labs came back. They found her vomit in his car, 399 00:20:50,692 --> 00:20:53,229 trace amounts of blood matched her blood type. 400 00:20:53,295 --> 00:20:56,003 Which means she was still alive when he took her out of the apartment. 401 00:20:56,064 --> 00:21:00,308 And he let her die in a playground instead of taking her to an emergency room. 402 00:21:00,402 --> 00:21:03,576 Sure. No doctors, no police, no embarrassing questions. 403 00:21:03,739 --> 00:21:05,685 We don't know what his intent was. 404 00:21:05,741 --> 00:21:07,982 He could've been taking her to the hospital when she died. 405 00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:10,347 For now, we'll charge him with man one. 406 00:21:10,545 --> 00:21:13,082 Funny, he smells like murder two to me. 407 00:21:13,649 --> 00:21:16,995 If we get corroborating evidence on motive, we'll bump it up later. 408 00:21:20,556 --> 00:21:23,264 Well, I trust you're here to apologize, Lieutenant? 409 00:21:23,326 --> 00:21:25,203 I do my repenting on Sunday. 410 00:21:25,328 --> 00:21:27,569 Right now I'm here to re-arrest your client. 411 00:21:27,630 --> 00:21:31,009 Jerome Kamen, you're under arrest for the murder of Kathleen Blanchard. 412 00:21:31,067 --> 00:21:32,740 You have the right to remain silent. 413 00:21:32,802 --> 00:21:35,282 Anything you say and do can and will be used against... 414 00:21:36,172 --> 00:21:39,153 "Docket number 8-5-6-9-8-2." 415 00:21:39,208 --> 00:21:42,883 "People v. Jerome Kamen, manslaughter in the first degree," 416 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:45,221 "hindering prosecution in the first degree." 417 00:21:45,683 --> 00:21:47,094 Give me a plea, Mr. Kamen. 418 00:21:47,151 --> 00:21:48,494 Not guilty, Your Honor. 419 00:21:48,719 --> 00:21:52,326 Your Honor, even if you accept the People's theory in this case, 420 00:21:52,389 --> 00:21:55,029 nothing that Mr. Kamen allegedly did supports this charge. 421 00:21:55,092 --> 00:21:57,094 Mr. Kamen transported the victim 422 00:21:57,161 --> 00:21:59,505 and left her behind a dumpster in the middle of the night. 423 00:21:59,563 --> 00:22:02,976 You can both save it for the trial judge. Can we move on to bail, please? 424 00:22:03,033 --> 00:22:04,569 People request 500,000. 425 00:22:04,635 --> 00:22:06,012 POLLARD: Oh, that's ridiculous. 426 00:22:06,070 --> 00:22:09,745 My client has two children to support, not including an ex-wife and her attorney. 427 00:22:09,807 --> 00:22:12,618 He has less than $60,000 in his savings account. 428 00:22:12,677 --> 00:22:16,318 We should all be so fortunate. $150,000 cash or bond. 429 00:22:17,282 --> 00:22:19,387 That's a complete lie. She didn't die in my car. 430 00:22:19,451 --> 00:22:21,397 She was never even in my car. Settle down... 431 00:22:21,453 --> 00:22:22,898 I can't listen to this... Jerry. 432 00:22:22,954 --> 00:22:26,026 If she wasn't in your car, Mr. Kamen, you'd better explain 433 00:22:26,091 --> 00:22:28,037 how her vomit got there without her. 434 00:22:28,093 --> 00:22:31,370 Well, we will deal with that, McCoy. But first, I'm curious about motive 435 00:22:31,429 --> 00:22:33,602 for all these terrible things you say my client did. 436 00:22:33,832 --> 00:22:35,709 He was having an affair with a client's daughter. 437 00:22:35,767 --> 00:22:39,180 He was afraid of being compromised. She overdosed. He panicked. 438 00:22:39,237 --> 00:22:41,844 That's insane! I kept that girl out of the gutter... 439 00:22:41,907 --> 00:22:42,908 Jerry! 440 00:22:43,943 --> 00:22:45,854 And no doubt you have evidence of this affair. 441 00:22:45,911 --> 00:22:46,981 We'll find the evidence. 442 00:22:47,046 --> 00:22:50,255 He stepped in it up to his shorts, I'm sure he left footprints. 443 00:22:50,316 --> 00:22:52,887 So this vomit, that's about the extent of your case, is that right? 444 00:22:53,619 --> 00:22:55,155 Well, then I have bad news for you. 445 00:22:56,355 --> 00:22:58,892 Omnibus motion to suppress the evidence from the car 446 00:22:59,358 --> 00:23:02,771 and to dismiss the charges. Jerry, let's go. 447 00:23:08,567 --> 00:23:11,879 The police knew that they had no grounds for a warrant to search his car. 448 00:23:12,172 --> 00:23:15,085 So they decided to wait until they could ambush him in his car 449 00:23:15,142 --> 00:23:18,055 and they could conduct what they called this "inventory-search." 450 00:23:18,145 --> 00:23:19,852 It's laughable, Your Honor. 451 00:23:20,180 --> 00:23:21,591 Not to the Court of Appeals. 452 00:23:22,282 --> 00:23:25,229 People v. Galak. The need to conduct an inventory 453 00:23:25,285 --> 00:23:28,266 of a prisoner's personal effects provides its own rationale 454 00:23:28,321 --> 00:23:29,425 for searching those effects. 455 00:23:29,489 --> 00:23:31,435 POLLARD: Well, they vacuumed the carpet, Your Honor. 456 00:23:31,491 --> 00:23:33,937 What were they doing an inventory of? Dust mites? 457 00:23:34,895 --> 00:23:37,341 And the officers had the arrest warrant for 16 hours 458 00:23:37,397 --> 00:23:39,173 before they decided to pick up my client. 459 00:23:39,667 --> 00:23:41,977 How about it, Mr. McCoy? Why the delay? 460 00:23:42,570 --> 00:23:46,848 A defendant has no constitutional or statutory right to a speedy arrest. 461 00:23:47,775 --> 00:23:49,550 I can cite People v. Bryant on that one. 462 00:23:49,977 --> 00:23:52,321 A trial term opinion? Please. 463 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,853 Even Mr. Magoo could see right through this. 464 00:23:55,316 --> 00:23:57,728 Motion to suppress is granted. Thank you, Your Honor. 465 00:23:58,086 --> 00:23:59,929 And since the evidence taken from the car 466 00:23:59,987 --> 00:24:01,830 is the sole foundation for the manslaughter charge... 467 00:24:01,889 --> 00:24:04,369 Got it. The motion to dismiss is also granted. 468 00:24:05,026 --> 00:24:09,169 Mr. McCoy, the next time your police officers try to sneak one past this court, 469 00:24:09,231 --> 00:24:10,710 I'm gonna cite them for contempt. 470 00:24:13,101 --> 00:24:16,082 There's no excuse, lieutenant. It was a lousy search. 471 00:24:17,372 --> 00:24:20,410 And you tell your detectives that the Bill of Rights isn't a doormat. 472 00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:21,816 It was my call. 473 00:24:21,977 --> 00:24:25,652 Judge Rodriguez gets birthday cards from the ACLU. 474 00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:27,751 Any other judge would've allowed the search. 475 00:24:27,850 --> 00:24:29,227 Oh, really? In your opinion. 476 00:24:30,018 --> 00:24:31,929 You arrest a man like Jerome Kamen, 477 00:24:32,087 --> 00:24:35,661 you make damn sure that your ducks are standing beak to tail. 478 00:24:35,725 --> 00:24:39,138 But if it's somebody uptown, we have your permission to cut corners? 479 00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:40,931 I'll keep that in mind. 480 00:24:45,301 --> 00:24:47,144 A man in Kamen's position, 481 00:24:48,905 --> 00:24:52,682 why would he risk compromising himself with this girl? It doesn't make sense. 482 00:24:52,976 --> 00:24:54,751 He put her up in a client's apartment. 483 00:24:54,811 --> 00:24:56,449 ADAM: Yeah. An act of kindness. 484 00:24:56,980 --> 00:24:58,687 Hardly grounds to indict. 485 00:24:58,915 --> 00:25:02,226 I don't think his conscience was clear when he left her behind a dumpster. 486 00:25:04,722 --> 00:25:05,792 He's hiding something. 487 00:25:05,856 --> 00:25:07,028 Then bring me somebody. 488 00:25:07,091 --> 00:25:10,300 Anybody who'll testify he was having an affair with this girl. 489 00:25:10,361 --> 00:25:12,534 Apparently she was still close to her brother. 490 00:25:13,797 --> 00:25:14,832 Okay. 491 00:25:15,866 --> 00:25:20,076 Mr. Kamen used to bounce us on his knee. He's been like a father to us. 492 00:25:20,137 --> 00:25:23,277 I can't imagine he would take advantage of Katie. 493 00:25:23,507 --> 00:25:25,384 Well, we found evidence she was in his car. 494 00:25:25,442 --> 00:25:28,582 Yeah. But the judge threw that out, right? So that doesn't prove anything. 495 00:25:28,979 --> 00:25:31,357 You're second year law? You should know better than that. 496 00:25:31,515 --> 00:25:32,927 I know Jerome Kamen. 497 00:25:34,419 --> 00:25:35,523 (SIGHS) 498 00:25:35,587 --> 00:25:39,125 After my dad died, my mother and he became very close. 499 00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:43,798 I thought it was leading somewhere. But Jerry was too loyal to my father. 500 00:25:44,195 --> 00:25:45,196 He backed off. 501 00:25:45,764 --> 00:25:47,971 Did you talk to your sister in the weeks before she died? 502 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,774 Yes. She would call once a week to make sure I was okay. 503 00:25:52,404 --> 00:25:57,080 She thought I was some sort of role model because I escaped the family curse. 504 00:25:57,309 --> 00:25:58,379 How do you mean? 505 00:26:00,579 --> 00:26:04,653 We come from a whole line of alcoholics who think they're social drinkers. 506 00:26:04,717 --> 00:26:06,196 Dad. Mom. 507 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,627 Well, maybe if Katie'd stuck to alcohol, she might've remained part of the family. 508 00:26:12,158 --> 00:26:15,298 Was there anyone else she might've confided in, any friends? 509 00:26:15,461 --> 00:26:18,465 Friends? You mean like people she shared a needle with? 510 00:26:18,531 --> 00:26:21,341 Well, her boyfriend told the police you might've met some of them. 511 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,006 The last time I saw her, she drove up to Yale 512 00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:26,607 with an actress, Teena Varga. 513 00:26:27,106 --> 00:26:29,713 She'd been an extra in some Spike Lee movie. 514 00:26:30,877 --> 00:26:33,357 I just got back in town a couple days ago. 515 00:26:34,414 --> 00:26:36,826 You sure you're talking about Katie Blanchard? 516 00:26:37,818 --> 00:26:40,924 It's her. You didn't even know she overdosed? 517 00:26:41,922 --> 00:26:45,131 I been on a set in the middle of the Nevada Desert for a week. 518 00:26:45,726 --> 00:26:48,798 It's not like I got The Post delivered every morning. 519 00:26:50,764 --> 00:26:51,765 Who was with her? 520 00:26:53,166 --> 00:26:54,975 What makes you think anyone was? 521 00:26:55,035 --> 00:26:57,072 She was a total klutz with needles. 522 00:26:57,637 --> 00:27:02,246 She never got the hang of it. She always needed somebody to fix her up. 523 00:27:03,177 --> 00:27:05,020 You have any idea who that might've been? 524 00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:06,319 Well, it wasn't me. 525 00:27:06,814 --> 00:27:09,693 All somebody had to do was take her to a hospital. 526 00:27:10,118 --> 00:27:12,064 I'm sure she would've been okay. 527 00:27:13,388 --> 00:27:16,631 After she left the rehab, she was staying on West 81st. 528 00:27:16,991 --> 00:27:21,030 Yeah. A nice place. A real change of pace for her. 529 00:27:21,396 --> 00:27:23,239 She never had money before. 530 00:27:23,297 --> 00:27:24,742 But all of a sudden she did? 531 00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:26,244 No. I mean she didn't steal it. 532 00:27:27,302 --> 00:27:29,179 She told me she had a rich uncle. 533 00:27:29,605 --> 00:27:31,585 Would that be Jerome Kamen? 534 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,675 Could be. 535 00:27:33,042 --> 00:27:34,646 She used to call him Jerry. 536 00:27:35,811 --> 00:27:38,758 She used to go by his office every couple of days for a refill. 537 00:27:38,914 --> 00:27:40,860 Two or three grand each time. 538 00:27:41,684 --> 00:27:43,357 What did you think was going on between them? 539 00:27:43,852 --> 00:27:45,490 She didn't want to talk about it. 540 00:27:46,221 --> 00:27:49,668 But it's not what you think. That she would've told me. 541 00:27:51,293 --> 00:27:54,638 According to her friends, Katie bought enough heroin in four weeks 542 00:27:54,697 --> 00:27:56,200 to tranquilize a herd of elephants. 543 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,948 Must have been a popular girl. Kamen was paying for it? 544 00:28:01,338 --> 00:28:04,444 He gave her something like $40,000 during the last month. 545 00:28:04,541 --> 00:28:07,078 Her friend doesn't think it was because they were having an affair. 546 00:28:07,143 --> 00:28:08,850 Didn't he cry poverty at his arraignment? 547 00:28:08,912 --> 00:28:11,256 He said he was in hock to his ex-wife. 548 00:28:12,449 --> 00:28:14,019 If she has a good divorce attorney, 549 00:28:14,083 --> 00:28:16,359 I'm sure Kamen has to account for every penny he makes. 550 00:28:16,419 --> 00:28:19,764 Unless he has a source of income he doesn't want anyone to know about. 551 00:28:20,490 --> 00:28:24,633 Talk to his secretary, see if he keeps a printing press in his basement. 552 00:28:27,832 --> 00:28:30,813 Can we make this quick? If Mr. Kamen finds out I'm meeting with you... 553 00:28:30,901 --> 00:28:32,642 I didn't twist your arm, Ms. Oster. 554 00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:35,912 But if I don't talk to you, it looks like I'm hiding something. 555 00:28:36,374 --> 00:28:39,082 Then you get to do a number on me like you're doing on Mr. Kamen. 556 00:28:39,410 --> 00:28:40,889 You think we're being unfair to him? 557 00:28:41,379 --> 00:28:44,155 The man knocks himself out for people like the Blanchards. 558 00:28:44,548 --> 00:28:47,256 The way they treat him, "Fetch this, fetch that," 559 00:28:47,785 --> 00:28:50,026 "clean up this mess, clean up that one." 560 00:28:51,055 --> 00:28:52,899 Katie Blanchard being one of those messes? 561 00:28:53,158 --> 00:28:54,466 The three years I've been with him, 562 00:28:54,526 --> 00:28:58,064 there hasn't been a month he hasn't had to pull her out of one hell hole or another. 563 00:28:58,330 --> 00:29:00,276 Her family just throws money at the problem. 564 00:29:00,765 --> 00:29:02,403 Or they let Mr. Kamen do it. 565 00:29:03,702 --> 00:29:07,650 Ms. Oster, we know that she picked up an envelope from his office every few days. 566 00:29:11,076 --> 00:29:14,489 She came in about a month ago. The little brat threw a fit. 567 00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:15,815 What about? 568 00:29:15,881 --> 00:29:18,361 What else? Her mommy wasn't paying for her drugs. 569 00:29:19,551 --> 00:29:23,056 I could hear her in Mr. Kamen's office, both faucets running full tilt, 570 00:29:23,122 --> 00:29:27,366 yelling about her trust fund. She practically accused him of stealing from her. 571 00:29:28,294 --> 00:29:29,796 I guess that little act worked. 572 00:29:30,229 --> 00:29:31,674 Mr. Kamen started giving her money? 573 00:29:31,731 --> 00:29:32,869 Wouldn't you, 574 00:29:33,366 --> 00:29:36,245 with some crazed junkie jumping up and down on your desk? 575 00:29:42,808 --> 00:29:46,085 The trust was set up by the late Mr. Blanchard for his three children. 576 00:29:46,145 --> 00:29:48,682 Discretionary authority rests with Mr. Kamen. 577 00:29:48,948 --> 00:29:51,156 He's the only one authorized to make withdrawals? 578 00:29:51,285 --> 00:29:54,357 Yes, for the children's health, education and welfare. 579 00:29:54,888 --> 00:29:57,630 A month ago, Miss Blanchard came in 580 00:29:57,691 --> 00:30:00,297 with a withdrawal slip signed by Mr. Kamen. 581 00:30:01,061 --> 00:30:02,904 So you gave her her money? 582 00:30:02,963 --> 00:30:03,998 No. 583 00:30:04,698 --> 00:30:07,474 Mr. Kamen's signature had been duplicated. 584 00:30:08,769 --> 00:30:09,873 You mean forged. 585 00:30:09,937 --> 00:30:12,383 I'm sure no crime was intended. 586 00:30:12,739 --> 00:30:15,811 Are you positive it was duplicated? 587 00:30:15,876 --> 00:30:17,048 You checked the signature card? 588 00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:18,283 I didn't have to. 589 00:30:18,613 --> 00:30:22,254 I explained to Miss Blanchard, Mr. Kamen has been coming into the bank every week 590 00:30:22,317 --> 00:30:25,196 for the past year to withdraw funds from the children's trust. 591 00:30:25,453 --> 00:30:26,727 I know his signature. 592 00:30:27,455 --> 00:30:29,628 Miss Blanchard became livid. 593 00:30:29,691 --> 00:30:31,034 Because you caught her lying? 594 00:30:31,226 --> 00:30:32,432 Not entirely. 595 00:30:32,927 --> 00:30:36,340 She ranted that Mr. Kamen had been taking money from the trust 596 00:30:36,397 --> 00:30:38,809 and none of it was going to her. 597 00:30:40,068 --> 00:30:43,379 Well, I talked to her mother. She had no idea Kamen was taking money out. 598 00:30:44,138 --> 00:30:48,383 He embezzled almost $350,000 from the trust account in the past year. 599 00:30:48,644 --> 00:30:51,454 Assuming that he didn't use the money for the Blanchard kids. 600 00:30:51,981 --> 00:30:54,518 We verified he bought Matthew a car and a trip to Vail. 601 00:30:54,583 --> 00:30:56,494 Other than that, the money's unaccounted for. 602 00:30:56,652 --> 00:30:58,063 It seems pretty clear cut. 603 00:31:00,089 --> 00:31:03,002 He got reamed in his divorce. He was desperate for money. 604 00:31:03,459 --> 00:31:05,803 The Blanchard trust fund was just too much temptation. 605 00:31:06,095 --> 00:31:07,904 And the girl suspected what he was doing. 606 00:31:07,997 --> 00:31:11,308 She was the only one who ever complained about his handling of the account. 607 00:31:11,834 --> 00:31:15,806 She read him the riot act and then from one day to the next, she's rolling in money. 608 00:31:16,439 --> 00:31:17,713 Blackmailing him. 609 00:31:17,774 --> 00:31:19,048 It's a good reason to kill her. 610 00:31:19,109 --> 00:31:21,783 No. Don't jump the canyon on your motorcycle. 611 00:31:22,712 --> 00:31:25,693 Motive is not an element in proving a murder charge. 612 00:31:26,416 --> 00:31:28,487 We could start by charging him with larceny. 613 00:31:29,386 --> 00:31:32,799 That gives us license to tear his life apart. Maybe something shakes loose. 614 00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:37,560 Just a minute. 615 00:31:40,130 --> 00:31:41,438 Excuse me, I'm in a meeting. 616 00:31:41,498 --> 00:31:42,806 Not anymore. 617 00:31:43,033 --> 00:31:44,843 We have a warrant for your arrest. 618 00:31:44,902 --> 00:31:46,643 This time, the signature's still wet. 619 00:31:46,704 --> 00:31:49,048 Jerome Kamen, you're under arrest for larceny. 620 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,044 You have the right to remain silent. 621 00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:53,448 Anything you do say can and will be used against you in... 622 00:31:54,912 --> 00:31:56,789 I don't know, McCoy, you must be working off some 623 00:31:56,847 --> 00:31:58,292 secret edition of the penal code. 624 00:31:58,349 --> 00:32:03,059 The one I have says that larceny requires intent to deprive another of property. 625 00:32:03,721 --> 00:32:06,429 Over 300 grand disappeared into his pocket. 626 00:32:06,490 --> 00:32:09,130 What was he doing, buying condos for the Blanchard kids? 627 00:32:09,226 --> 00:32:11,797 Have you even read the trust document, Mr. McCoy? 628 00:32:12,496 --> 00:32:15,944 It gives me absolute discretion to use those funds as I see fit. 629 00:32:16,001 --> 00:32:17,639 Except to line your own pocket. 630 00:32:17,703 --> 00:32:20,513 We got your financial records from your ex-wife's attorney. 631 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:22,745 Seems to us you've been living beyond your means. 632 00:32:22,808 --> 00:32:25,015 Every dollar I withdrew went to Katie. 633 00:32:25,077 --> 00:32:27,421 You have no idea what I did for that girl. 634 00:32:27,479 --> 00:32:30,085 You let her blow $300,000 on drugs. 635 00:32:30,749 --> 00:32:34,356 What category does that fall under, her health, education, or welfare? 636 00:32:34,419 --> 00:32:38,458 You can't prove that that money didn't go to Kathleen Blanchard. 637 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:40,503 Ergo, your case is crap. 638 00:32:41,259 --> 00:32:44,139 Now you can rain down as many search warrants as you want on my client, 639 00:32:44,197 --> 00:32:46,302 but it's not gonna jump start any murder charge. 640 00:32:48,267 --> 00:32:51,214 We've searched his home, his office. Nothing. 641 00:32:51,637 --> 00:32:54,049 We need a direct link between Kamen 642 00:32:54,107 --> 00:32:57,179 and the girl's death, or we can forget the whole thing. 643 00:32:57,243 --> 00:32:58,984 JACK: She was a junkie. He gave her money. 644 00:32:59,045 --> 00:33:01,423 It's inevitable he knew what she was going to do with it. 645 00:33:02,381 --> 00:33:06,329 We can argue that he kept her supplied with drugs and is liable for her overdose. 646 00:33:06,552 --> 00:33:09,658 The appellate division doesn't see it that way. People v. Pinckney. 647 00:33:09,722 --> 00:33:11,202 There's no criminal liability. 648 00:33:11,258 --> 00:33:15,331 That was also true in New Jersey until last summer. State v. Maldanado. 649 00:33:15,863 --> 00:33:19,333 They expanded their strict liability statute to include drug suppliers. 650 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,473 New Jersey. They had a statute to work from and we don't. 651 00:33:23,704 --> 00:33:27,516 It's already manslaughter if you inject someone with drugs and they overdose. 652 00:33:27,608 --> 00:33:30,919 It's not a stretch to step it back to include suppliers. 653 00:33:31,845 --> 00:33:34,325 Pinckney's a 20-year-old decision. It doesn't scare me. 654 00:33:34,381 --> 00:33:35,451 Scares me. 655 00:33:36,417 --> 00:33:39,297 Did you say that this girl needed help injecting herself? 656 00:33:39,754 --> 00:33:40,858 According to her friend. 657 00:33:41,890 --> 00:33:45,531 And could that helping hand have come from Kamen? 658 00:33:45,927 --> 00:33:49,170 If we find out who sold her drugs that night, it may take us back to Kamen. 659 00:33:49,431 --> 00:33:52,708 We know of one of her drug connections. Her old boyfriend. 660 00:33:53,301 --> 00:33:56,145 Have him picked up. And get a search warrant for his apartment. 661 00:33:58,673 --> 00:34:00,311 You guys got cement in your ears? 662 00:34:00,675 --> 00:34:03,849 I didn't see Katie that night for pleasure or business. 663 00:34:03,912 --> 00:34:06,984 Even as we speak, the police are tearing your place apart. 664 00:34:07,349 --> 00:34:09,761 They turn up so much as a molecule of heroin... 665 00:34:09,819 --> 00:34:14,461 Misdemeanor possession. So he was a bad boy, so he pays a fine. 666 00:34:14,557 --> 00:34:18,061 Your client already admitted to the police he sold heroin to Katie Blanchard 667 00:34:18,127 --> 00:34:19,697 a week before she died. 668 00:34:19,929 --> 00:34:23,638 The charge will read, "Possession with intent to sell." 669 00:34:23,799 --> 00:34:26,075 That's a B felony. Wait a second. 670 00:34:26,569 --> 00:34:29,379 I told you I gave it to her. I didn't sell it. 671 00:34:29,438 --> 00:34:32,282 No. No, that's not the way I heard it. 672 00:34:32,942 --> 00:34:36,220 One way or another, we'll prove you supplied her with the heroin that killed her. 673 00:34:36,279 --> 00:34:38,020 That's getting close to manslaughter. 674 00:34:44,821 --> 00:34:48,633 It's not manslaughter if my client indirectly supplied her. 675 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,030 Indirectly? 676 00:34:52,462 --> 00:34:55,170 The night she OD'd, Katie's brother called me. 677 00:34:55,532 --> 00:34:57,512 He said he needed some morph for him and Katie. 678 00:34:57,801 --> 00:35:00,509 So I chased down a bag. I gave it to him outside her apartment. 679 00:35:01,938 --> 00:35:04,475 He's lying. I don't even use drugs. 680 00:35:05,009 --> 00:35:07,046 Then you wouldn't mind submitting to a urine test. 681 00:35:07,111 --> 00:35:10,320 I wasn't there. I was at Yale. 682 00:35:10,982 --> 00:35:13,155 I don't even know where my sister was living. 683 00:35:13,284 --> 00:35:15,457 We can call the dean and check your attendance records. 684 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,524 Sol blew off Bankruptcy 101. Big deal. 685 00:35:18,956 --> 00:35:21,698 You must have also missed Evidence 102. 686 00:35:23,127 --> 00:35:26,836 We match your prints on this cup to any prints at Katie's apartment, 687 00:35:27,098 --> 00:35:28,304 and you're cooked. 688 00:35:30,368 --> 00:35:32,177 What happened, Mr. Blanchard? 689 00:35:40,412 --> 00:35:41,652 What happened? 690 00:35:43,549 --> 00:35:44,926 We got high together. 691 00:35:53,258 --> 00:35:56,796 When she started convulsing, I panicked. 692 00:35:57,696 --> 00:36:01,803 I didn't know what to do. I didn't want anyone to find... 693 00:36:04,604 --> 00:36:07,107 I called Jerry. 694 00:36:08,808 --> 00:36:09,809 He came over. 695 00:36:11,744 --> 00:36:13,587 He told me to get the hell out of there. 696 00:36:16,349 --> 00:36:18,090 He said he'd take care of Katie. 697 00:36:23,256 --> 00:36:24,257 (SIGHS) 698 00:36:25,658 --> 00:36:29,265 Kamen took responsibility to save her, and he didn't do it. 699 00:36:30,163 --> 00:36:32,303 It was his opportunity to let her die. 700 00:36:32,733 --> 00:36:34,440 Her brother gave her the drugs. 701 00:36:34,502 --> 00:36:37,312 Now, don't you think that a jury might conclude 702 00:36:37,705 --> 00:36:39,582 that he's to blame for her death? 703 00:36:39,873 --> 00:36:43,343 There was an intervening act. He tried to save his sister by calling Kamen. 704 00:36:43,410 --> 00:36:44,445 ADAM: No. 705 00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:49,684 You try Kamen for murder, it's his word against the brother's. 706 00:36:49,950 --> 00:36:51,759 There's still evidence she was in his car. 707 00:36:51,819 --> 00:36:53,821 No. That was ruled inadmissible. 708 00:36:53,888 --> 00:36:56,129 We can argue inevitable discovery. 709 00:36:56,223 --> 00:36:58,601 No. No. No. No. It won't fly. 710 00:36:59,127 --> 00:37:02,802 Kamen was acting as her surrogate father. He was responsible. 711 00:37:02,864 --> 00:37:06,334 He could've called 911. He could've rushed her to an emergency room. 712 00:37:06,668 --> 00:37:09,547 Instead he left her to die in the cold behind a trash bin. 713 00:37:10,172 --> 00:37:14,712 Can you offer admissible evidence that he transported her? 714 00:37:16,344 --> 00:37:17,550 (SIGHS) 715 00:37:18,413 --> 00:37:20,757 We present his motive, that he was being blackmailed, 716 00:37:20,815 --> 00:37:23,523 the jury will figure out for themselves how she got from A to B. 717 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,197 Fine. Take them through it. 718 00:37:31,127 --> 00:37:32,970 MATTHEW: She filled up the syringe. 719 00:37:34,263 --> 00:37:39,235 She asked me to inject her. A few minutes after, she started having a seizure. 720 00:37:39,568 --> 00:37:40,945 I didn't know what to do. 721 00:37:41,337 --> 00:37:42,680 I called Mr. Kamen. 722 00:37:43,105 --> 00:37:44,982 And what happened as a result of your call? 723 00:37:45,408 --> 00:37:46,887 He came right over. 724 00:37:47,243 --> 00:37:49,689 But by then, her eyes were rolling back in her head. 725 00:37:51,414 --> 00:37:54,725 I tried to revive her, but Mr. Kamen told me I should leave. 726 00:37:55,818 --> 00:37:59,562 He said I would get kicked out of Yale if anyone found out I was there. 727 00:38:01,191 --> 00:38:02,431 I never should've left. 728 00:38:02,859 --> 00:38:05,635 Did you have any communication with Mr. Kamen after that? 729 00:38:05,929 --> 00:38:10,537 Yes. He called me the next day. He told me Katie was dead. 730 00:38:11,735 --> 00:38:13,737 He made it sound like it was my fault. 731 00:38:14,171 --> 00:38:16,947 He said he'd keep his mouth shut to protect me. 732 00:38:17,674 --> 00:38:21,520 And what was your sister's condition when you left her with Mr. Kamen? 733 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:23,817 She was alive. 734 00:38:29,721 --> 00:38:30,722 (CLEARS THROAT) 735 00:38:31,022 --> 00:38:33,935 Mr. Blanchard, why would you call my client? 736 00:38:33,992 --> 00:38:36,404 Does he have some special expertise with overdoses? 737 00:38:36,494 --> 00:38:39,532 Ever since we were little, whenever we got into trouble, 738 00:38:39,597 --> 00:38:40,940 we knew we could count on him. 739 00:38:41,299 --> 00:38:43,176 For example, when you were expelled from Choate? 740 00:38:45,703 --> 00:38:46,841 Yes. 741 00:38:48,339 --> 00:38:51,252 He let me stay with him until he could talk to my father. 742 00:38:51,609 --> 00:38:52,952 And why were you kicked out of Choate? 743 00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:54,149 Objection. 744 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:55,891 Goes to credibility, Your Honor. 745 00:38:55,948 --> 00:38:58,554 Overruled. The witness will answer. 746 00:39:00,252 --> 00:39:02,926 They found marijuana in my room. 747 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:04,425 So you're a drug addict? 748 00:39:04,490 --> 00:39:05,798 I'm not an addict. 749 00:39:06,358 --> 00:39:09,737 I only smoked heroin once or twice a month, on the weekends. 750 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:12,708 POLLARD: But if anybody found out your little secret, you would be in big trouble. 751 00:39:12,765 --> 00:39:13,766 Isn't that right? 752 00:39:13,832 --> 00:39:14,902 Yes. 753 00:39:15,134 --> 00:39:17,239 And if anybody found out that you had injected 754 00:39:17,302 --> 00:39:19,441 your sister with a lethal dose of heroin, 755 00:39:19,505 --> 00:39:21,746 you would be in very big trouble, isn't that correct? 756 00:39:21,807 --> 00:39:23,515 I already admitted what I did. 757 00:39:23,576 --> 00:39:26,318 And if anybody has a reason to move your sister's body 758 00:39:26,379 --> 00:39:28,586 to hide the circumstances of her death, it's you. Isn't it... 759 00:39:28,648 --> 00:39:30,594 I didn't move her. Mr. Kamen said... Nothing further. 760 00:39:30,650 --> 00:39:31,720 He would help her. 761 00:39:33,586 --> 00:39:37,830 Jerome Kamen held full discretionary authority over the joint trust account. 762 00:39:38,391 --> 00:39:41,861 But I gave him specific instructions not to give any money to my daughter. 763 00:39:42,329 --> 00:39:45,799 Every dime she got her hands on went to drugs. He knew that. 764 00:39:45,865 --> 00:39:50,746 Of the $346,000 withdrawn by Mr. Kamen, 765 00:39:50,837 --> 00:39:53,751 were you able to ascertain how much of it went to the children? 766 00:39:54,008 --> 00:39:57,888 To the best of my knowledge, only $33,000 were spent on my children. 767 00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:00,459 I haven't been able to account for the rest. 768 00:40:01,415 --> 00:40:02,416 Thank you. 769 00:40:08,088 --> 00:40:10,090 Didn't you forbid Katie to live in the family home 770 00:40:10,157 --> 00:40:12,000 or any of the other houses that you own? 771 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:14,329 You make it sound so easy. 772 00:40:15,162 --> 00:40:19,008 The psychiatrist said that it was best for her and for my other children. 773 00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:20,840 POLLARD: She was a destructive influence on them? 774 00:40:20,902 --> 00:40:22,643 She only really hurt herself. 775 00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:25,811 Didn't you also forbid her to contact any other member of the family 776 00:40:25,874 --> 00:40:27,080 except through my client? 777 00:40:27,142 --> 00:40:28,416 I had to protect them. 778 00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:30,387 Katie could be very manipulative... 779 00:40:30,445 --> 00:40:31,651 So it fell on my client 780 00:40:31,713 --> 00:40:33,124 to shoulder the sole responsibility 781 00:40:33,181 --> 00:40:35,957 for your self-destructive, drug-addicted daughter, 782 00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:38,357 is that right? MRS. BLANCHARD: I was at my wit's end. 783 00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:40,900 Cutting her off was the best thing I could do as her mother. 784 00:40:41,756 --> 00:40:44,236 No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't work a miracle. 785 00:40:46,161 --> 00:40:49,700 But what's his excuse? He stole from her, he bought her drugs. 786 00:40:49,899 --> 00:40:51,742 Or he bought her food and gave her shelter. 787 00:40:52,568 --> 00:40:55,071 Or would you prefer that he be as cold and heartless as you 788 00:40:55,138 --> 00:40:57,277 and let your daughter die a miserable death on the streets? 789 00:40:57,340 --> 00:40:58,410 Objection! 790 00:40:58,474 --> 00:41:00,147 She doesn't have to answer that. 791 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,418 The money was there, I had discretionary authority. I gave it to her. 792 00:41:07,783 --> 00:41:10,389 Simple as that. Nothing criminal about it. 793 00:41:10,887 --> 00:41:14,596 But I can understand why Mrs. Blanchard blames me for Katie's death. 794 00:41:15,324 --> 00:41:16,564 Can you explain it to us? 795 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:21,865 She disowned her daughter. Katie is dead as a consequence. 796 00:41:22,299 --> 00:41:25,075 But it's easier to blame me. To cut me off, in a way. 797 00:41:25,969 --> 00:41:28,609 That's how Meryl deals with everything she finds unpleasant. 798 00:41:29,406 --> 00:41:32,114 POLLARD: The night that Katie died, did you receive a call from her brother? 799 00:41:32,309 --> 00:41:35,188 I was home most of the night. I went out to get a bite to eat. 800 00:41:35,245 --> 00:41:38,158 When I came home, my answering machine was flashing. 801 00:41:38,949 --> 00:41:40,053 But no one left a message. 802 00:41:40,250 --> 00:41:41,888 And did you see Miss Blanchard that night? 803 00:41:41,952 --> 00:41:42,987 No. 804 00:41:43,987 --> 00:41:46,491 And if I had, I certainly hope I could've saved her. 805 00:41:47,258 --> 00:41:48,259 Thank you. 806 00:41:53,698 --> 00:41:57,441 Why did you lie when the police first interviewed you about Miss Blanchard? 807 00:41:58,136 --> 00:42:02,414 As I explained, I was concerned about my professional reputation. 808 00:42:02,507 --> 00:42:05,818 And not because you were present when Miss Blanchard overdosed? 809 00:42:05,910 --> 00:42:06,980 I wasn't there. 810 00:42:07,078 --> 00:42:09,820 And not because you transported her in your car? 811 00:42:12,483 --> 00:42:14,987 Maybe I didn't say it loud enough the first time. 812 00:42:15,254 --> 00:42:17,029 I didn't see her that night. 813 00:42:17,089 --> 00:42:20,093 Then how do you explain the fact that her vomit was in your car? 814 00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:22,105 Objection. Your Honor. 815 00:42:22,161 --> 00:42:23,868 I'll see counsel in chambers. 816 00:42:26,031 --> 00:42:29,478 This is grounds for a mistrial. Not to mention sanctions. 817 00:42:29,768 --> 00:42:31,304 Your Honor suppressed this evidence. 818 00:42:31,370 --> 00:42:32,906 Settle down, Mr. Pollard. 819 00:42:33,005 --> 00:42:35,986 Mr. McCoy, I'll bet you were the kind of child who touched the plate 820 00:42:36,075 --> 00:42:37,816 even when your mom told you it was hot. 821 00:42:37,877 --> 00:42:41,825 Mr. Kamen is on the stand lying about moving Miss Blanchard's body. 822 00:42:41,914 --> 00:42:44,259 I have every right to challenge his credibility. 823 00:42:44,317 --> 00:42:47,389 Oh, sure. Why let a little thing like the Fourth Amendment stand in the way, 824 00:42:47,454 --> 00:42:50,128 especially when you can sneak the evidence in through the back door? 825 00:42:50,190 --> 00:42:53,103 The Constitution says I can't convict your client with the evidence. 826 00:42:53,393 --> 00:42:55,839 Where does it say that I can't use it to prove him a liar? 827 00:42:55,896 --> 00:42:58,342 A jury isn't gonna make that fine a distinction, and you know it. 828 00:42:58,398 --> 00:43:01,971 I'll make sure they do, Mr. Pollard. I'll charge the jury accordingly. 829 00:43:02,569 --> 00:43:05,277 The evidence is admissible to challenge credibility 830 00:43:05,438 --> 00:43:07,816 but will not be used for liability. 831 00:43:07,974 --> 00:43:11,114 The question will stand, and the witness will answer. 832 00:43:11,579 --> 00:43:12,990 We'll resume after lunch. 833 00:43:13,047 --> 00:43:15,459 Jack, your office, 10 minutes? 834 00:43:19,620 --> 00:43:22,897 You may get the evidence in now, but you know it never survives an appeal. 835 00:43:23,724 --> 00:43:26,705 I'll worry about that after the jury convicts your client of murder. 836 00:43:26,761 --> 00:43:30,800 This is nuts. Katie was a junkie. Junkies die. 837 00:43:31,098 --> 00:43:33,339 Anyone who knew her could've predicted that. 838 00:43:33,434 --> 00:43:36,347 Nothing is inevitable, Mr. Kamen, except your residency 839 00:43:36,437 --> 00:43:39,543 at one of our correctional facilities. You're a liar. 840 00:43:39,674 --> 00:43:41,450 And now the jury knows you're a liar. 841 00:43:44,413 --> 00:43:45,790 I've made my case. 842 00:43:51,687 --> 00:43:54,395 Man two, minimum sentence to cover all counts of the indictment. 843 00:43:54,456 --> 00:43:56,868 Man one, 8113-to-25. 844 00:43:57,259 --> 00:44:00,240 What kind of a deal is that? Do you expect him to serve the max? 845 00:44:00,295 --> 00:44:03,708 Yes. And after that he does two years for larceny. 846 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,107 You have a minute to make up your mind. 847 00:44:08,938 --> 00:44:10,144 I can't believe this. 848 00:44:11,340 --> 00:44:13,286 I was driving her to the damn hospital. 849 00:44:14,477 --> 00:44:16,923 And what hospital was that, Mr. Kamen? 850 00:44:23,753 --> 00:44:24,993 I can't recall. 851 00:44:28,324 --> 00:44:32,466 But I didn't do anything wrong. Meryl didn't care about her. 852 00:44:33,663 --> 00:44:35,939 If it weren't for me, she would've been dead months ago. 853 00:44:36,666 --> 00:44:40,376 Even if she survived this overdose, it was just a matter of time till the next one. 854 00:44:41,271 --> 00:44:44,912 She was in pain, she was killing herself. 855 00:44:44,975 --> 00:44:48,821 She wanted this. Somebody had to make a decision. 856 00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:51,218 It wasn't your decision to make. 857 00:44:51,281 --> 00:44:53,056 It was my decision. 858 00:44:54,451 --> 00:44:57,193 Ken Blanchard was my friend for 35 years. 859 00:44:57,955 --> 00:45:00,697 I was the only one he would entrust with his children. 860 00:45:01,859 --> 00:45:03,964 That family can't survive without me. 861 00:45:04,862 --> 00:45:08,037 I pay their bills, I invest their money, 862 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,538 I clean up the messes they make. I damn well run their lives. 863 00:45:13,071 --> 00:45:16,951 And Meryl dares accuse me of stealing from them? 864 00:45:17,742 --> 00:45:21,019 No, sir. I was entitled. 865 00:45:22,781 --> 00:45:25,921 I'm not gonna waste a minute regretting anything I've done. 866 00:45:29,354 --> 00:45:31,630 You'll be regretting it for the next 25 years 867 00:45:31,690 --> 00:45:33,328 if you don't give me your answer right now. 868 00:45:44,470 --> 00:45:47,474 We'll take the deal. Send me the paperwork. 869 00:46:03,757 --> 00:46:06,863 He's convinced himself he did her a favor by letting her die. 870 00:46:09,196 --> 00:46:10,903 He did himself a favor. 871 00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:13,907 10 years in prison? 872 00:46:13,967 --> 00:46:15,139 (SIGHS) 873 00:46:15,268 --> 00:46:17,270 It may cure him of his bad habit. 874 00:46:19,573 --> 00:46:20,574 Arrogance. 875 00:46:23,643 --> 00:46:24,883 (EXHALING)