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In the criminal justice system,
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the people are represented by two separate
yet equally important groups,
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the police, who investigate crime,
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and the district attorneys,
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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He's got it in for me is all I'm sayin'.
He don't got it in for you.
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He's startin' to make me
look bad to Hector.
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Hector's smart enough to see
that Alex is just talkin' trash.
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All due respect to Hector, I got my doubts.
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Just once I'd like to come in here
without some jerkweed causing a dustup.
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Yeah, this stuffs gettin' old.
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Whoa!
This guy's hurt bad.
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- Get some help.
- Somebody call 911!
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Thirty-five years my family owns this place.
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Plenty of fights,
but nobody ever got killed.
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You see what happened?
I hear shouts.
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I look over. I see one guy swing a
bottle, and the other guy goes down.
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The guy who was swinging
what did he look like?
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Kind of average.
Height, weight, age?
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Middle-aged. Brown hair. An inch or two shy
of six feet, maybe. You know, average.
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Any of you seen this average
dude in here before?
Nope.
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First-timers, the two of them. The other
guy, the one who got his head cracked?
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I could swear I seen him
somewhere before.
Me too.
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But not in here?
Nah.
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Anybody see how it started?
I... I... It was like all of a sudden,
out of the blue.
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This one guy starts bashing
the other guy's head in.
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- I tried to tackle him, but...
- That's how you got the eye?
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He was a lot stronger than he looked.
All right.
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Be sure to give your home number
to the officer.
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So, what do we got?
Depressed skull fracture.
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Glass shards in the wound.
Victim was struck with a blunt object.
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Yeah, a liquor bottle.
Your murder weapon.
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- Or what's left of it.
- Maybe Latent can get a print anyway
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Have C.S.U.gather as much
of that as they can.
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You'd be better off with all the
king's horses and all the king's men.
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Brendan Donner.
I thought he looked familiar.
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Not to me. I'm drawin' a blank.
Who is he?
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Public Enemy Number One,
at least in this city.
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League Championship Series...
this dude goes for a foul ball
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Cost us the game and the pennant.
We're talking about baseball?
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Yeah. Instead of being the third out,
the batter draws a walk.
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Next guy up hits a two-run homer,
and it's wait till next year, again.
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- Looks like somebody was pissed off about waitin'.
- Wait a minute.
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You're telling me this guy got killed
'cause he reached for a foul ball?
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And the suspect list is
the Greater New York phone book.
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I can't believe somebody killed him
over a stupid game.
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We 're not sure yet that that's why
your husband was murdered Mrs. Donner.
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But it's a pretty good bet, right?
I mean, what other reason could there be?
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People treated Brendan
like he was Osama Bin Laden.
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As if any one of them wouldn't
have tried to catch that damn ball.
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Did you take any of those threats
more seriously than others?
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I mean, is there anyone in particular
we should be looking at?
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Just half of New York.
Poor Brendan. He was obsessed.
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He read every letter,
surfed the Internet, uh,
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watched all the talk shows.
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I'm telling you something.
That game ruined our lives.
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We'd like to look through
your husband's things, if we could.
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Well, we separated four months ago.
He moved out.
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Said there was no reason why I should
take the brunt for what he did.
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Sorry.
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We're gonna need
to get into his new place.
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The papers should publish separate
listings for the soon-to-be divorced
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Available, crappy studio apartment
with view of air shaft.
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Emphasis on shaft.
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Also excellent for sleepless nights
and drinking binges.
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And reading your hate mail.
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“Dear Jagoff, I've been replaying the game
in my mind, and I still don't know...
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what the hell you were thinking,
you dumb-ass son of a bitch.“
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- Oh, that's quality bedtime reading.
- His wife said he was obsessed.
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There's no forwarding labels on these
They were sent here.
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Wonder how they got
his new address so quick.
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Hmm.
Maybe he can tell us.
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“Special Agent Jeffrey Bowerman, F.B.I."
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Donner was gettin' death threats
from all over the country.
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People mailin' him dead rats,
dog crap, you name it.
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When you care enough
to send the very worst.
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The worst was the envelope
full of white powder.
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Ah, we were wondering why
the F.B.I. was involved in this.
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Standard procedure for all cases involving
a suspected biological contaminant.
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Which this wasn't.
Baking soda isn't lethal.
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Oh, you never met my ex-wife.
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We went ahead and seized all the letters,
cards and packages anyway, cataloged 'em.
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Wow. A lot of people
with too much time on their hands, huh?
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We've got audio too. I tapped
Donner's phone just to be safe.
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For a case like this?
I felt sorry for him.
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Wanted to go the extra mile,
help the guy out.
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You bet the other team.
Made out like a bandit.
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Donner may have been a schmuck
to you guys, but he was a hero to us.
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Sketch artist came up
with a composite of our suspect.
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Could be anybody.
How are you doing?
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I'm reading Donner's hate mail.
Ed's listening to it.
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Anything interesting?
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Ah, they either want to dump him in the
East River, throw him off a building...
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or run him over with a car...
not much originality.
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What would you have done to him?
Who, me?
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Oh, please. I remember how mad
you were after that game.
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And I don't recall any tears
from “Who, me"...
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when the tabloids published
Donner's address and phone number.
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Okay. Maybe that was
a little bit over the line.
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But the idiot did earn himself
a little grief.
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- He tried to catch a ball.
- Which was still in play!
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Any real New York fan would've
kept his hands in his pockets.
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Hey, I got something.
This is from two weeks ago.
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You think I don't
know where you live, Donner?
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You better be watching your back,
Donner, 'cause one day soon...
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I'm comin' up behind you and bash your
thick head until you're dead, you moron.
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- The F.B.I. traced that call to a Ted Enwright.
- Sounds promising.
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And the genius called
from his home phone.
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We lost half our pitchers
to free agency.
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Then there's that whole steroid thing.
Who knows how that's gonna play out?
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Nah, let's face it. Last year was
our best shot, and Donner blew it.
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So, after stewing about this all winter,
you decided it was time for some payback.
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All I did was get drunk one night and make a phone call.
And a couple nights later,
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Donner gets drunk, and he gets his
head smashed in, as you promised.
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- Come on. That was just talk.
- How did you get his phone number?
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I read it in the papers.
No, his new number.
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On the Net.
Everything's on the Net.
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www.getdonner.com.
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- You've got to be kidding me.
- We don't have that much imagination.
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Six months after the fact, this Web
site still gets 30,000 hits a day
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Most of this stuff is harmless, you know,
stupid Donner jokes and whatnot.
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But check it out.
They have a message board.
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“Hey fellow Donner haters.
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"Think I just saw Donner shoving his stuff
in the back of a moving van.
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Guess his old lady hates him
as much as the rest of us."
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Now, this entry started a landslide. People started writin'
in whenever they saw Donner on the street or in the subway.
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They call it “Donner Watch." Which is how they
knew where to keep sending all the hate mail.
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I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm
actually startin' to feel real sorry for this dude.
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Hey, we were one out away from
the World Series.
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Yo. All right.
All right, we'll be there.
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It's the crime lab.
They got prints.
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If I were you guys, I'd steer
clear of Latent for a while.
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Why? They don't see the challenge
in lifting prints off a broken bottle?
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Any prints shattered
along with the glass,
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so they're fragmented
like a jigsaw puzzle.
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You guys like jigsaw puzzles?
I love jigsaw puzzles.
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Wanna know how I solved this one?
That is why we're here.
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I bought a bottle
of the same brand of scotch,
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filled it with plaster, then broke it,
leaving a perfect mold.
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Then I took the glass from the crime
scene and glued it on that mold...
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putting each piece in its proper place.
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- Voilà.
- Just like a jigsaw puzzle.
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With the bottle now reconstituted...
You could lift the prints.
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Two sets.
I ran them through B.C.I.
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- The first belong to a Rooney, James.
- The bartender.
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And owner. His prints are on file from
when he applied for a liquor license.
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What about the second set?
B.C.I. kicked back a Grimes, Walter.
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Walter Grimes?
Mm-hmm. Here's the best part.
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Yeah. Convicted of murder, second
degree, in the killing of a young girl.
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Drew 25 to life at Green Haven.
Yeah. How'd you know?
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He reads the front page of the Times.
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Walter Grimes was released
from prison three months ago.
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“Walter Grimes,
born Poughkeepsie,1964.
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Arrested '83. Convicted '84.
Second-degree murder."
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Victim was Leeanne Testa, 15.
Stabbed to death.
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A year ago, when Grimes finally got
a court order to test the D.N.A.,
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it turned out the blood that the cops found on the
knife in his apartment wasn't Leeanne Testa's.
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- Property still had the evidence?
- M.E.'s office. This is pre-D.N.A.
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They tested it for serology. After the
trial, it went to the medical examiner's...
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and never made it back
to the police lab.
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It's lucky for Grimes. Police lab would've
destroyed it after he got convicted.
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So, Grimes didn't kill Testa.
Good for him.
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Question is,
did he kill Brendan Donner?
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Grimes's prints are a 12-point match
to the ones on that liquor bottle.
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There are eight people in that bar
who I.D.'d him from a photo array.
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They all saw him
bash Donner's skull in.
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I'll get an arrest warrant.
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We have any idea
where Mr. Grimes is now?
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Department of Corrections can't
compel him to give an address...
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because he was exonerated
and not paroled.
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Grimes a jailhouse lawyer,
or did he have some help?
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Rodney Fallon...
the New York Exoneration Project.
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Well, I'm sure Mr. Fallon keeps in
touch with his success stories.
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So far, the New York Exoneration Project
has gotten...
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almost 50 innocent people released, and
we're looking at hundreds of other cases.
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And I'll bet each and every
one of 'em didn't do it.
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Obviously they're not all innocent.
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But if even a single one is,
don't you think it's our obligation...
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to see to it they don't spend
a minute longer in jail?
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I bet you can count
the number of guys in jail ..
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Who are genuinely innocent
on one hand.
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You know how many felonies
the average criminal commits...
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before he gets caught,
let alone convicted?
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I'm well aware of the police statistics. It's
about the same as the number of times...
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you speed on the thruway
without getting a ticket.
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So what you're saying, Detective, we shouldn't try
to exonerate defendants who were wrongly convicted?
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Yeah, sure we should try. But just
don't tell me they're all innocent.
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Gentlemen, can we talk about
Walter Grimes, please?
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An outright travesty of justice.
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His lawyer was a 25-year-old
Legal Aid attorney trying his third case.
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Well, he caught a bad break.
That alone should've got him a new trial.
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D.N.A. proved he didn't kill
Leeanne Testa.
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Which won't happen this time.
Look, we may not have D.N.A.,
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but we got your client's fingerprints on the
bottle he used to fracture Brendan Donner's skull.
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We don't know what happened that night.
Maybe Walter was defending himself.
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- Why don't we ask him ourselves?
- Yeah, where can we find him?
We got a warrant for his arrest.
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I'd rather you didn't speak to Walter
if I'm not present.
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What, are you still his lawyer?
If you have a warrant, I am.
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Then you know that you have an
obligation to surrender your client.
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I know what my obligations are.
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Then you won't mind
giving us his address.
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Open up!
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Hey, you hear that?
I don't hear nothin'.
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Yeah, it sounded like a plaintive cry
for help coming from this apartment.
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Open the door.
If you say so.
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Mr. Grimes?
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He ain't here.
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Hey, Ed, you always leave
your phone book out?
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Only if I've been using it.
Yeah.
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There's an old P.I. trick. If you had it
open to a certain page, it bends the spine.
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It'll open there.
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Hotels. Some cheaper than others.
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Where do we start?
At the bottom and work our way up, I guess.
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Oh, yeah. I remember
this guy. He was here.
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Uh, was?
Checked out earlier today.
About 4:00 this afternoon.
216
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Six hours ago.
Now that's a hell of a coincidence.
217
00:12:25,510 --> 00:12:27,889
No wonder Fallon gave up
Grimes's address so easy.
218
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Yeah, he knew Grimes
wasn't gonna be home.
219
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He drops a dime to his favorite client
as soon as we're out the door.
220
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Lawyers.
This is me being surprised.
221
00:12:36,024 --> 00:12:38,595
You asked me where Walter lived
I gave you his primary address.
222
00:12:38,660 --> 00:12:42,040
Hey, man don't get smart with us!
I wouldn't dream of it. You couldn't keep up.
223
00:12:42,097 --> 00:12:44,544
All right. Let's all just
take it down a notch.
224
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Mr. Fallon, this is way past
zealous representation here.
225
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I can't tell you where he went.
It's arguably privileged information.
226
00:12:51,876 --> 00:12:55,654
Well, consider it negotiating
a fugitive's peaceful surrender.
227
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- I'll get him to come in.
- Not a chance.
228
00:13:01,454 --> 00:13:04,959
I have no idea what he's capable of
if he feels threatened.
229
00:13:05,025 --> 00:13:08,473
I... I can do this. He trusts me.
230
00:13:08,530 --> 00:13:11,307
All right. You've got two hours.
231
00:13:11,367 --> 00:13:13,472
Either we're going to
arrest him for murder...
232
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or you for hindering prosecution.
233
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He'll be here. I promise.
234
00:13:24,116 --> 00:13:26,790
Tell me you didn't just agree to
what I think you just agreed to.
235
00:13:26,852 --> 00:13:28,799
Please.
236
00:13:30,957 --> 00:13:34,098
I'm starting to get
a bad feeling about this.
237
00:13:34,161 --> 00:13:36,232
How long's Fallon been in there?
238
00:13:36,297 --> 00:13:38,244
Forty-five minutes.
239
00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:41,942
That's long enough to either talk Grimes
down or book him a flight to Brazil.
240
00:13:42,004 --> 00:13:44,143
That's right. Let's go.
241
00:13:55,287 --> 00:13:58,929
Someone, help!
242
00:13:58,992 --> 00:14:01,700
Mr. Fallon, looks like you put up
a hell of a fight.
243
00:14:01,762 --> 00:14:03,709
Yeah.
Where's your client?
244
00:14:03,764 --> 00:14:06,267
And the first words out of your mouth
better not be “privileged.”
245
00:14:06,334 --> 00:14:08,406
He's not here!
I can see that.
246
00:14:08,470 --> 00:14:11,007
So where is he?
You said you weren't going to interfere.
247
00:14:11,073 --> 00:14:13,020
You said you were gonna
bring Grimes in.
248
00:14:13,076 --> 00:14:15,420
Looks like we both failed
on our promises.
249
00:14:15,478 --> 00:14:18,483
I tried to convince him to surrender
to the authorities for his own good,
250
00:14:18,549 --> 00:14:20,530
but he was in no mood
to go back to prison.
251
00:14:20,585 --> 00:14:22,531
How long has he been gone?
About 10 minutes.
252
00:14:22,587 --> 00:14:27,628
Did he say where he was going?
And don't forget what we said
about that word “privilege.”
253
00:14:30,030 --> 00:14:33,774
He took my wallet.
Said he needed to get to
his cousin's in Providence.
254
00:14:45,682 --> 00:14:48,664
Hey! Police! Don't move!
255
00:14:48,719 --> 00:14:51,792
Grimes, hold it right there!
256
00:14:51,857 --> 00:14:54,463
Stop right there! Grimes!
Take it easy.
257
00:14:54,526 --> 00:14:57,997
- All right.
- I'm not going back there!
I'll die before I go back there.
258
00:14:58,064 --> 00:15:00,545
Just let the lady go.
259
00:15:00,601 --> 00:15:04,516
- Keep away from me.
- Let's talk this over. Look, no gun.
260
00:15:04,573 --> 00:15:07,747
Okay? Look, I know
you were innocent before.
261
00:15:07,809 --> 00:15:10,086
I just want to talk to you.
Let the lady go, please.
262
00:15:10,146 --> 00:15:12,183
All right?
Just let her go and we can talk.
263
00:15:12,248 --> 00:15:16,061
It's over, man.
Let her go, Grimes. Now.
264
00:15:21,025 --> 00:15:22,972
I can't go back there.
265
00:15:24,463 --> 00:15:26,410
I can't.
266
00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:33,179
Judge Hinkle didn't think twice
about remanding Grimes.
267
00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,085
After holding a woman hostage,
I should hope not.
268
00:15:38,380 --> 00:15:40,327
Rodney Fallon.
Pleasure.
269
00:15:41,384 --> 00:15:43,456
I don't think Mr. Grimes is eligible...
270
00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,831
for the Exoneration Project's
services this time, Mr. Fallon.
271
00:15:46,891 --> 00:15:50,169
Well, I don't see why he
wouldn't be. Walter is innocent.
272
00:15:50,228 --> 00:15:54,439
Then can he explain his fingerprints
on the murder weapon
and the eyewitnesses at the bar?
273
00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,244
Or his behavior when he saw
two N.Y.P.D. detectives?
274
00:15:58,305 --> 00:16:01,253
Taking a hostage isn't exactly
consistent with innocence.
275
00:16:01,309 --> 00:16:03,949
Well, that depends
on how you define innocence.
276
00:16:04,012 --> 00:16:07,392
I define an innocent person as someone
who didn't commit the crime.
277
00:16:07,449 --> 00:16:11,227
Or someone whom the law recognizes
should not be held responsible
for his actions.
278
00:16:11,288 --> 00:16:15,396
A defendant can't be convicted
if he didn't act with mens rea...
criminal intent.
279
00:16:15,459 --> 00:16:17,769
He brained a man
with a liquor bottle.
280
00:16:17,828 --> 00:16:21,971
Walter Grimes was convicted
of a crime he didn't commit.
281
00:16:22,034 --> 00:16:25,107
If he hadn't gone
to prison for 20 years,
as an innocent man,
282
00:16:25,171 --> 00:16:27,118
he never would have
attacked Brendan Donner.
283
00:16:27,174 --> 00:16:29,950
What are you saying?
Prison made him do it?
284
00:16:30,010 --> 00:16:32,924
It certainly changed him.
Profoundly.
285
00:16:32,981 --> 00:16:35,587
He absolutely wasn't the same man
when he came out.
286
00:16:35,650 --> 00:16:37,756
I'm sorry the system
failed you, Mr. Grimes,
287
00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:43,100
but a wrongful conviction
does not earn anyone
a free pass on murder.
288
00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,732
You're sorry?
289
00:16:45,797 --> 00:16:50,110
How about before rushing
to judgment again you at least
have your shrink evaluate him?
290
00:16:51,537 --> 00:16:55,315
There's no reason to be anxious.
We're just having a conversation.
291
00:16:55,375 --> 00:16:59,222
I ain't anxious.
What makes you think I'm anxious?
292
00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,556
Do you know why you're here?
293
00:17:01,615 --> 00:17:04,688
My lawyer says because of what
happened to me in prison.
294
00:17:04,753 --> 00:17:06,700
I lose control.
295
00:17:06,756 --> 00:17:08,758
What do you think?
296
00:17:08,825 --> 00:17:12,933
I spent 20 years in prison
for something that I didn't do!
I don't have control over nothin'!
297
00:17:14,031 --> 00:17:15,978
How can I lose what I don't have?
298
00:17:17,035 --> 00:17:19,642
You're talking about
Leeanne Testa's murder.
299
00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:24,382
Of course that's what I'm taikin' about.
The police said I killed that girl.
I'd never even met her.
300
00:17:24,444 --> 00:17:28,359
They found a bloody knife
in your apartment
with your fingerprints on it.
301
00:17:28,416 --> 00:17:30,657
They planted that knife.
302
00:17:30,718 --> 00:17:32,790
The police?
Yeah, the police.
303
00:17:32,855 --> 00:17:35,699
I had an alibi.
They didn't believe me.
304
00:17:37,494 --> 00:17:40,407
But this time,
you did kill someone.
305
00:17:40,463 --> 00:17:42,410
You killed Brendan Donner.
306
00:17:44,235 --> 00:17:46,716
He laid hands on me.
307
00:17:46,772 --> 00:17:49,116
And that justified killing him?
308
00:17:50,376 --> 00:17:53,323
I bumped into him, by accident.
309
00:17:53,379 --> 00:17:55,519
But this guy, he gets all freaky on me.
310
00:17:55,582 --> 00:17:58,996
In my face, tellin' me
the whole world's against him.
311
00:17:59,054 --> 00:18:03,435
And you thought
hitting him with a bottle
was an appropriate response?
312
00:18:03,492 --> 00:18:07,338
I didn't think about it.
He grabbed me.
313
00:18:07,396 --> 00:18:10,810
A guy comes at you,
you don't think twice.
You just put him down.
314
00:18:10,867 --> 00:18:13,872
You stop to think about what to do,
you're dead.
315
00:18:18,310 --> 00:18:20,813
Walter Grimes is legally sane.
But?
316
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,726
But I'm sure his lawyer can find experts
who will say that his experience in prison...
317
00:18:24,784 --> 00:18:27,129
so programmed him
that he lacked the ability...
318
00:18:27,188 --> 00:18:29,498
to appreciate
that his conduct was wrong.
319
00:18:29,557 --> 00:18:33,301
It turned him into a killer?
Well, they'll argue that
he couldn't differentiate...
320
00:18:33,361 --> 00:18:36,775
between his old environment
and his new one.
321
00:18:36,833 --> 00:18:39,246
He couldn't tell the difference
between Rooney's Tavern...
322
00:18:39,303 --> 00:18:41,249
and the exercise yard at Green Haven?
323
00:18:41,305 --> 00:18:44,617
Exactly. The defense will get
a gaggle of psychiatrists...
324
00:18:44,676 --> 00:18:49,092
to say that Grimes lacked the ability
to curtail a lethal instinct...
325
00:18:49,148 --> 00:18:51,652
developed by two decades in prison.
326
00:18:56,124 --> 00:19:00,596
I'd feel sorry for a man
who lost that much of his life
on a wrongful conviction.
327
00:19:00,662 --> 00:19:03,973
If Fallon gets this in front of a jury,
you could have a problem.
328
00:19:10,708 --> 00:19:13,656
You 're moving to preclude
this defense, Mr. McCoy?
329
00:19:13,712 --> 00:19:18,560
Your Honor, it's ridiculous.
Under Mr. Fallon's theory, every ex-con
would have a defense for murder.
330
00:19:18,618 --> 00:19:21,497
But we 're not talking about men
who were criminals before going to prison.
331
00:19:21,554 --> 00:19:25,025
We're talking about a man
who was completely innocent
before being sent to Green Haven,
332
00:19:25,092 --> 00:19:27,334
and was profoundly
and irrevocably changed...
333
00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:29,375
and not for the better
by the experience.
334
00:19:29,430 --> 00:19:31,411
And prison erased
his sense of right and wrong?
335
00:19:31,467 --> 00:19:35,280
In a manner of speaking, yes.
It maimed him. It dehumanized him.
336
00:19:35,338 --> 00:19:37,477
It replaced traditional notions
of right and wrong...
337
00:19:37,541 --> 00:19:40,955
with a kill-or-be-killed reflex that led,
tragically, to Brendan Donner's death.
338
00:19:41,012 --> 00:19:43,390
That doesn't meet
the New York standard, Your Honor.
339
00:19:43,447 --> 00:19:46,429
Either Mr. Grimes didn't know
what he was doing was wrong,
340
00:19:46,485 --> 00:19:48,966
or he didn't understand
the nature of his behavior.
341
00:19:49,022 --> 00:19:51,798
Simply reacting to a perceived threat...
342
00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:55,204
because he thought he was in
a hostile environment doesn't cut it.
343
00:19:55,262 --> 00:19:57,971
He wasn't in prison.
He was in a bar, Your Honor.
He completely overreacted.
344
00:19:58,033 --> 00:20:01,139
Exactly Walter Grimes
completely overreacted...
345
00:20:01,203 --> 00:20:03,343
Because of how
his prison experience shaped him.
346
00:20:03,406 --> 00:20:05,647
You have an expert who will
back your theory, Mr. Fallon?
347
00:20:05,708 --> 00:20:08,246
I've got five of them, Your Honor.
Fax their C.V.'s over to me.
348
00:20:08,312 --> 00:20:12,022
If they're credible,
I'm inclined to let this go to a jury.
349
00:20:12,083 --> 00:20:14,690
You don't think that there might be
something to Grimes's defense?
350
00:20:14,753 --> 00:20:17,165
People adapt to their environment,
in or out of prison.
351
00:20:17,223 --> 00:20:19,795
He knew where he was
and how he was supposed to act.
352
00:20:19,860 --> 00:20:24,401
How do we know he wasn't a bad apple
before rotting in prison for 20 years?
353
00:20:24,465 --> 00:20:27,503
Fallon's already conceded
this defense only applies...
354
00:20:27,568 --> 00:20:31,381
if Grimes was a law-abiding citizen
before being shipped off to Green Haven.
355
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,786
Leeanne Testa's murder was his first arrest.
356
00:20:34,844 --> 00:20:37,451
How old was he at that time?
Nineteen.
357
00:20:37,514 --> 00:20:40,791
If he had committed any prior crimes
they might have been as a juvenile.
358
00:20:40,852 --> 00:20:42,991
And those records would be sealed.
359
00:20:43,054 --> 00:20:47,834
I'm sure that under the circumstances
you could convince a judge
to unseal those records,
360
00:20:47,894 --> 00:20:49,841
if there are any.
361
00:20:51,031 --> 00:20:54,980
What prosecutor wouldn't love
a peek at a defendant's juvie record?
362
00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:58,017
But if I unsealed it in every case,
the seal would have no meaning.
363
00:20:58,072 --> 00:21:00,110
This isn't a typical case.
364
00:21:00,175 --> 00:21:03,123
Mr. Grimes's defense puts
his juvenile record directly at issue.
365
00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:06,251
He claims he had no criminal tendencies
before he went to prison.
366
00:21:06,316 --> 00:21:09,127
So, you want to look
at his juvenile record,
assuming that he has one,
367
00:21:09,186 --> 00:21:11,325
to determine if that's true.
368
00:21:11,389 --> 00:21:13,961
I'll tell you what.
I'll review the file in camera.
369
00:21:14,026 --> 00:21:17,304
If I find anything relevant,
I'll make it available to you.
Agreed?
370
00:21:17,363 --> 00:21:19,900
Thank you, Your Honor.
371
00:21:19,966 --> 00:21:24,109
Jackpot. Grimes fits the textbook
definition of a bad seed.
372
00:21:24,171 --> 00:21:27,051
Arrests for school ground assault, menacing,
373
00:21:27,108 --> 00:21:30,750
auto stripping,
possession of stolen property.
374
00:21:30,813 --> 00:21:33,590
But no convictions.
The system kept cutting him loose.
375
00:21:33,650 --> 00:21:37,393
The closest he ever came
was a liquor store robbery
when he was 15.
376
00:21:37,454 --> 00:21:40,436
He threatened the owner with a gun.
Why did the A.D.A. kick it?
377
00:21:40,491 --> 00:21:42,802
I don't know.
But it makes one thing pretty clear.
378
00:21:42,861 --> 00:21:44,966
Even if Grimes
didn't kill Leeanne Testa...
379
00:21:45,030 --> 00:21:47,033
He was hardly an innocent man.
380
00:21:51,172 --> 00:21:54,642
Sure, I remember. Guy sticks a gun
in my face, I'm gonna forget that?
381
00:21:54,709 --> 00:21:58,988
According to his juvenile records,
the police arrested a young man
named Walter Grimes.
382
00:21:59,047 --> 00:22:01,028
You're talking about
that white kid, right?
383
00:22:01,084 --> 00:22:03,724
He would've been
about 15 at the time.
He didn't do it.
384
00:22:03,786 --> 00:22:07,826
As far as I know,
they never caught the kid that did.
But the police arrested him.
385
00:22:07,891 --> 00:22:11,362
I told the officer...
Daniels, his name was Daniels...
386
00:22:11,429 --> 00:22:15,139
I told Daniels the little pachuco
who held me up was Hispanic.
387
00:22:15,201 --> 00:22:18,342
Daniels didn't believe me
But I saw what I saw.
388
00:22:18,405 --> 00:22:20,351
Are you sure?
Sure, I'm sure.
389
00:22:20,407 --> 00:22:23,651
How come Officer Daniels didn't believe you?
How come he arrested Walter Grimes?
390
00:22:23,711 --> 00:22:26,056
You're gonna have to ask him.
391
00:22:26,115 --> 00:22:28,288
You're talking about a case
that was, like, 25 years ago.
392
00:22:28,350 --> 00:22:31,161
I know cops who remember
every suspect they ever interrogated.
393
00:22:31,221 --> 00:22:33,827
Walter Grimes?
Yeah, that's right.
394
00:22:33,890 --> 00:22:35,837
Real punk.
Absolute white trash.
395
00:22:35,893 --> 00:22:38,567
Is this about that guy he killed in a bar?
That's right.
396
00:22:38,629 --> 00:22:42,840
See, that's what you get when you let
a guy like Grimes loose on society.
397
00:22:42,901 --> 00:22:45,007
He was exonerated.
Whatever.
398
00:22:46,339 --> 00:22:49,514
I'm looking into all of his priors.
If Grimes did this liquor store robbery,
399
00:22:49,576 --> 00:22:51,920
it would actually help the case
that we're prosecuting.
400
00:22:51,979 --> 00:22:54,187
But the store owner
says that he didn't.
401
00:22:54,249 --> 00:22:56,594
What can I tell you?
The old guy was wrong.
402
00:22:56,652 --> 00:23:00,361
But Grimes is white.
The store owner said
that the robber was Latino.
403
00:23:00,423 --> 00:23:02,665
Look, the old man was so scared,
he pissed himself.
404
00:23:02,726 --> 00:23:05,002
All he saw was the gun, if that.
405
00:23:05,061 --> 00:23:07,167
Grimes's the guy
who held him up.
I have no doubt.
406
00:23:07,231 --> 00:23:09,542
Except your gut
isn't admissible, Detective.
407
00:23:09,601 --> 00:23:12,138
Which is why the D.A.
kicked the robbery charge.
408
00:23:12,204 --> 00:23:14,811
Grimes did it.
And it wasn't his first stickup either.
409
00:23:14,874 --> 00:23:17,718
That kid was born to go to jail.
Have a good day.
410
00:23:18,846 --> 00:23:20,985
So, we know Grimes
wasn't the choirboy...
411
00:23:21,048 --> 00:23:23,620
his lawyer's been saying he was,
but we can't prove it?
412
00:23:23,685 --> 00:23:25,631
That's what it looks like.
413
00:23:25,687 --> 00:23:28,032
What about the knife?
The one found at Grimes's apartment?
414
00:23:28,091 --> 00:23:31,402
D.N.A. confirmed that the blood
on it wasn't Leeanne Testa's.
415
00:23:31,462 --> 00:23:34,272
But it was someone's.
Let's see if we can find out whose.
416
00:23:34,331 --> 00:23:37,575
I'll have Briscoe and Green contact
the primary on the Testa case.
417
00:23:37,635 --> 00:23:40,344
We got an anonymous tip
about the Testa case.
418
00:23:40,406 --> 00:23:43,012
Judge signed the search warrant.
Off an anonymous tip?
419
00:23:43,075 --> 00:23:45,989
Back in '84, we had a couple
political appointees...
420
00:23:46,046 --> 00:23:48,994
they let us take a few more procedural
shortcuts than they do now.
421
00:23:49,050 --> 00:23:50,996
Ah, the Reagan years.
422
00:23:51,052 --> 00:23:53,624
Anyway, I went in with my partner
and a team of five blues.
423
00:23:53,689 --> 00:23:56,499
We searched from ceiling to cellar.
Yeah, you found the knife.
424
00:23:56,558 --> 00:23:59,836
Wrapped in a dishrag. It was hidden under
a loose floorboard in his closet.
425
00:23:59,896 --> 00:24:02,776
But the blood on the knife
wasn't Leeanne Testa's.
426
00:24:02,833 --> 00:24:07,044
Hell of a thing. This Fallon guy...
Yeah, the Exoneration Project.
427
00:24:07,105 --> 00:24:12,021
Got a court order,
did family D.N.A. against the knife,
proved it wasn't Testa's.
428
00:24:12,078 --> 00:24:14,354
Grimes always said
that the knife was planted.
429
00:24:14,413 --> 00:24:16,360
Well, of course he'd say that.
430
00:24:16,416 --> 00:24:18,828
Who knows?
He probably killed somebody else.
431
00:24:18,886 --> 00:24:23,131
Yeah thats why we need
to run that knife past forensics,
see if it matches any open cases.
432
00:24:23,191 --> 00:24:26,833
Well, after Fallon had it tested,
it went back to the M.E.'s office.
Ought to still be there.
433
00:24:26,896 --> 00:24:29,741
So, that day,
when you found the knife
in Grimes's apartment,
434
00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:31,836
anything strike you as fishy?
435
00:24:31,902 --> 00:24:35,510
Well, I didn't actually find it. Some
uniform, got his shield a few years back.
436
00:24:35,573 --> 00:24:39,078
Reynolds, Daniels, something like that.
Not Kenny Daniels?
437
00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:41,489
Yeah, Kenny Daniels.
That's it. You know him?
438
00:24:41,548 --> 00:24:44,324
We were at the same house
for a while, the 29.
I ain't seen him in years.
439
00:24:44,384 --> 00:24:46,331
He the kind of cop
that would plant evidence?
440
00:24:46,387 --> 00:24:49,129
Not the Kenny Daniels I knew.
He was a stickler. By the book.
441
00:24:49,189 --> 00:24:51,136
He drove me crazy.
Thought I was a cowboy.
442
00:24:51,193 --> 00:24:53,366
He'd always say
“dot your i's, cross your t's."
443
00:24:53,428 --> 00:24:55,375
People change.
444
00:24:59,236 --> 00:25:03,184
This is great, Ed. What is it, uh,
eight or 10 years since I seen you?
Not even a phone call.
445
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,551
Now you're on my doorstep
making accusations?
446
00:25:05,610 --> 00:25:09,354
Just questions, Kenny.
Not accusations, just questions.
447
00:25:09,415 --> 00:25:12,522
These the sort of questions I should
have my P.B.A. delegate present for?
448
00:25:12,585 --> 00:25:15,930
Look, I spoke to the D.A.'s office.
449
00:25:15,989 --> 00:25:18,027
You arrested Grimes
for a liquor store robbery...
450
00:25:18,092 --> 00:25:20,595
that the owner swears up and down
that the kid didn't commit.
451
00:25:20,661 --> 00:25:23,734
Mr. Magoo?
452
00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:26,644
That old man was so blind,
he couldn't tell his ass from his elbow.
453
00:25:26,703 --> 00:25:29,651
Grimes did the robbery, Ed. Trust me.
Okay.
454
00:25:29,707 --> 00:25:32,313
But then you find a knife
that puts the same guy away...
455
00:25:32,376 --> 00:25:35,381
for a murder that
he absolutely did not commit.
456
00:25:35,447 --> 00:25:37,393
He goes to jail for 20 years.
457
00:25:38,884 --> 00:25:41,922
What? What is it, man?
You couldn't get him on
the liquor store robbery,
458
00:25:41,988 --> 00:25:44,128
so you framed him
for Leeanne Testa's murder?
459
00:25:44,191 --> 00:25:46,137
Liquor store had nothing
to do with it.
460
00:25:46,193 --> 00:25:49,903
How do you think Grimes's prints
got on that knife? What, do you think
I'm some kind of magician?
461
00:25:49,964 --> 00:25:53,435
I don't know, man. You tell me.
462
00:26:04,081 --> 00:26:06,028
Her name was Julie Sayer.
463
00:26:07,352 --> 00:26:10,630
She was 16, going on 12.
464
00:26:10,690 --> 00:26:12,636
You know, innocent.
465
00:26:13,694 --> 00:26:16,038
The knife I found
in Grimes's apartment...
466
00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:18,634
it was his, all right,
but he didn't use it on Leeanne Testa.
467
00:26:20,168 --> 00:26:22,342
He used it on Julie Sayer.
468
00:26:22,405 --> 00:26:24,783
He slit her throat with it.
469
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,720
There was no
D.N.A. testing back then.
470
00:26:27,778 --> 00:26:30,349
Same type... "O" positive.
471
00:26:30,414 --> 00:26:32,691
So, everyone assumed
it was Leeanne's blood.
472
00:26:32,750 --> 00:26:35,561
Well, if Grimes killed Julie Sayer,
why didn't you collar him for that?
473
00:26:35,621 --> 00:26:37,897
I did. Grimes was a creep.
474
00:26:37,956 --> 00:26:40,164
I had witnesses who put him
with the girl that morning.
475
00:26:40,226 --> 00:26:43,002
I brought him in.
He started runnin' his mouth,
talkin' trash.
476
00:26:43,063 --> 00:26:45,340
He even took a swing at me.
477
00:26:45,399 --> 00:26:48,347
You didn't beat the dude down,
did you?
478
00:26:48,403 --> 00:26:51,213
Only time I ever lost it like that.
479
00:26:52,742 --> 00:26:55,916
All I could see was that dead girl
lying there with her throat cut.
480
00:26:55,978 --> 00:26:59,483
- Did Grimes give it up?
- Yeah, he told me how he killed Juiie.
481
00:26:59,550 --> 00:27:02,430
Told me how he hid the knife
in a storm drain.
482
00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:04,433
Told me exactly where to find it.
483
00:27:04,489 --> 00:27:07,096
But what, the bust wasn't any good?
484
00:27:07,159 --> 00:27:10,437
Lieu took one look at him,
one look at my knuckles.
He told me I had to kick him loose.
485
00:27:10,497 --> 00:27:12,670
He told you to 86 the arrest.
486
00:27:13,734 --> 00:27:16,011
Try to find another way
to make the case.
487
00:27:16,070 --> 00:27:18,607
But if the confession was inadmissible then...
The knife was too.
488
00:27:18,673 --> 00:27:22,383
There wasn't gonna be
any justice for Julie Sayer.
489
00:27:25,048 --> 00:27:29,361
I let Grimes go, fished the knife
out of the storm drain...
490
00:27:29,420 --> 00:27:31,366
saved it for a rainy day.
491
00:27:33,425 --> 00:27:35,462
Then Leeanne Testa gets stabbed.
492
00:27:36,996 --> 00:27:39,476
Wound patterns were consistent
with Grimes's knife.
493
00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:42,275
Blood type the same as Julie's.
Pieces fell into place.
494
00:27:42,336 --> 00:27:45,216
You call in an anonymous tip...
495
00:27:45,273 --> 00:27:48,152
and then you "find" the knife
in Grimes's apartment?
496
00:27:48,209 --> 00:27:51,020
Why not? Grimes was guilty.
497
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,253
He was a murderer!
498
00:27:53,315 --> 00:27:55,956
He was gonna walk
on the murder of Julie Sayer.
499
00:27:56,019 --> 00:27:57,965
He was gonna walk
because of me!
500
00:28:00,658 --> 00:28:02,604
It was eating me up, Ed.
501
00:28:02,661 --> 00:28:07,702
I had to make it right.
I had to balance the scales.
502
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:22,460
At least he didn't frame an innocent man.
503
00:28:22,518 --> 00:28:24,931
No, he framed a guilty one.
504
00:28:24,988 --> 00:28:29,062
The way he sees it,
he kept Grimes from falling
through the cracks in the system.
505
00:28:29,127 --> 00:28:32,574
Well, somebody should tell him
not to do the system any more favors.
506
00:28:32,630 --> 00:28:37,171
Regardless of his motivation,
this is the worst kind of police misconduct.
507
00:28:37,236 --> 00:28:41,242
Now, any appellate court
would find that this shocks
the conscience, and so should we.
508
00:28:41,308 --> 00:28:45,485
- Agreed, but he's all we've got.
- Where's this lieutenant of his now?
509
00:28:45,546 --> 00:28:48,494
In the cemetery.
He died of a heart attack
six years ago.
510
00:28:48,550 --> 00:28:51,157
So no one but Daniels can say
that Grimes killed Julie Sayer.
511
00:28:51,221 --> 00:28:53,428
No, but if we could prove he did!
512
00:28:53,489 --> 00:28:56,801
Fallon's defense strategy
on the Donner murder
goes out the window.
513
00:28:56,860 --> 00:29:00,308
Grimes was a murderer
before he was ever
shipped off to Green Haven.
514
00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:03,369
All right. We'll try him
on the Sayer murder first.
515
00:29:03,435 --> 00:29:07,350
Only Grimes is confession
is no more admissible today
than it was 20 years ago.
516
00:29:07,406 --> 00:29:11,116
But today, D. N.A. analysis will confirm...
517
00:29:11,178 --> 00:29:14,092
that the blood on the knife
is Julie Sayer's.
518
00:29:14,149 --> 00:29:16,186
You know what Fallon's
gonna say about that.
519
00:29:19,722 --> 00:29:23,136
People versus Walter Grimes.
Murder in the second degree.
520
00:29:23,193 --> 00:29:26,767
- How do you plead, Mr. Grimes?
- My client pleads not guilty, Your Honor.
521
00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:29,607
People on bail?
The People seek remand
522
00:29:29,667 --> 00:29:32,979
Mr. Grimes is accused
of murdering a teenage girl,
stabbing her to death.
523
00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:36,179
Your Honor, this crime took place
more than 20 years ago.
524
00:29:36,242 --> 00:29:39,156
Mr. Grimes is also a suspect
in a recent bar killing.
525
00:29:39,213 --> 00:29:41,659
Let the State try him on that charge then.
We intend to.
526
00:29:41,715 --> 00:29:45,254
Their physical evidence
in this matter, Your Honor,
the murder of Julie Sayer,
527
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,792
the State has already used to convict
my client of another crime for which
he's subsequently been exonerated.
528
00:29:49,859 --> 00:29:52,773
- Is this true, Miss Southerlyn?
- That same D.N.A. evidence, Your Honor,
529
00:29:52,829 --> 00:29:56,505
now accurately identifies
which victim Mr. Grimes killed.
530
00:29:56,567 --> 00:30:00,413
Their star witness is the officer
who planted the knife
and framed my client in the first case.
531
00:30:00,471 --> 00:30:05,388
Enough. Someone else can sort
through the evidentiary issues,
thank God.
532
00:30:05,445 --> 00:30:07,686
Since the People seem to have
an ongoing interest...
533
00:30:07,747 --> 00:30:11,821
in Mr. Grimes's whereabouts
after this matter is concluded,
I'm gonna remand the defendant.
534
00:30:11,886 --> 00:30:14,390
- Your Honor...
- That's it. Sorry, Mr. Fallon.
535
00:30:14,456 --> 00:30:17,528
Better luck next time.
Next case.
536
00:30:18,594 --> 00:30:20,699
The knife was planted
in my client's apartment.
537
00:30:20,763 --> 00:30:23,745
By a police officer.
The chain of custody remained intact.
538
00:30:23,801 --> 00:30:27,875
This is outrageous.
I can't believe you can stand there
and say that to me with a straight face.
539
00:30:27,939 --> 00:30:31,045
You're forgetting how that officer
found the knife in the storm drain
in the first place.
540
00:30:31,109 --> 00:30:33,784
Your client told him where it was.
He beat it out of him.
541
00:30:33,846 --> 00:30:37,556
An improperly obtained confession.
The knife is poisonous fruit.
542
00:30:37,617 --> 00:30:40,895
You're assuming that the police
wouldn't have found it
without Grimes's confession.
543
00:30:40,955 --> 00:30:44,665
They canvassed all over the city.
They would have never found it.
And you know it.
544
00:30:44,727 --> 00:30:49,143
Let's see what a judge thinks.
In the meantime, consider this
your notice of our lab work.
545
00:30:49,199 --> 00:30:51,645
We exhumed her body
and extracted D.N.A. from her bones.
546
00:30:51,701 --> 00:30:53,648
The blood on the knife
was Julie Sayer's.
547
00:30:53,704 --> 00:30:55,684
D.N.A.'s a double-edged sword, counselor.
548
00:30:55,740 --> 00:30:59,314
D.N.A.'s persuasive
only if it's admissible.
549
00:30:59,378 --> 00:31:01,324
My motion to suppress the knife.
550
00:31:07,554 --> 00:31:10,194
- Is he right?
- About the D.N.A.?
551
00:31:10,257 --> 00:31:14,001
About the search. Fallon just said the
police looked high and low for the knife.
552
00:31:14,062 --> 00:31:16,475
That's right.
553
00:31:16,532 --> 00:31:18,478
Let's get the case's primary
on the phone.
554
00:31:20,137 --> 00:31:23,243
Julie Sayer was 16, pretty.
555
00:31:23,306 --> 00:31:25,446
On the front page of the Post
for weeks.
556
00:31:25,510 --> 00:31:27,456
Bet your ass we tore the city apart.
557
00:31:27,512 --> 00:31:31,757
Do you remember
searching on 190th Street
between Audubon and Amsterdam?
558
00:31:31,817 --> 00:31:34,526
Where it happened.
We turned that neighborhood
upside down.
559
00:31:34,587 --> 00:31:37,125
Storm drains?
We searched them all.
560
00:31:37,191 --> 00:31:41,607
From Washington Heights to Inwood.
Would you be willing to sign an affidavit?
561
00:31:41,663 --> 00:31:43,973
What? That we searched
the storm drains?
562
00:31:44,032 --> 00:31:46,070
Every one in the area.
563
00:31:46,135 --> 00:31:48,137
With a flashlight
and a fine-tooth comb.
564
00:31:48,204 --> 00:31:50,947
And didn't find a thing.
565
00:31:51,008 --> 00:31:53,750
First, the People concede
that Detective Daniels,
who was then Officer Daniels...
566
00:31:53,811 --> 00:31:56,850
questioned my client without
counsel present in clear violation
of his Sixth Amendment rights.
567
00:31:56,915 --> 00:32:00,796
Then they concede he assaulted my client
to obtain a confession in violation
of his Fifth Amendment rights,
568
00:32:00,853 --> 00:32:04,233
used that illegal confession to seize
the knife in violation of
my client's Fourth Amendment rights.
569
00:32:04,291 --> 00:32:07,739
And, as if that wasn't enough,
they freely admit
he then planted the knife...
570
00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:09,741
to frame my client for a crime
he didn't commit,
571
00:32:09,797 --> 00:32:12,074
in violation of, at the very least,
his 14th Amendment rights.
572
00:32:12,134 --> 00:32:14,273
Are there any amendments
the People haven't violated?
573
00:32:14,336 --> 00:32:17,250
Now, in what has to be
the single greatest demonstration
of legal chutzpah...
574
00:32:17,307 --> 00:32:20,379
in the history of jurisprudence,
he contends the knife
shouldn't be suppressed.
575
00:32:20,443 --> 00:32:22,651
Mr. McCoy, is this true?
Every word, Your Honor.
576
00:32:22,713 --> 00:32:25,388
Then how can you argue in support
of the knife's admission?
577
00:32:25,450 --> 00:32:28,090
Because of the
“inevitable discovery” doctrine
578
00:32:28,153 --> 00:32:32,660
the knife is admissible if the police
would have eventually discovered it
without the impropriety.
579
00:32:32,725 --> 00:32:34,728
How is that possible?
They only found the knife...
580
00:32:34,795 --> 00:32:37,036
because Officer Daniels
planted it in my client's home.
581
00:32:37,097 --> 00:32:41,342
The police canvassed the area
where the knife was originally hidden.
582
00:32:41,402 --> 00:32:44,111
I have an affidavit
from Detective Johnson,
583
00:32:44,173 --> 00:32:48,714
the primary on the case,
who searched the storm drain
where Grimes had hidden the knife.
584
00:32:48,779 --> 00:32:52,284
- But it wasn't there to be found.
- Because Officer Daniels
had already removed it.
585
00:32:52,350 --> 00:32:54,296
Under inevitable discovery
the issue is,
586
00:32:54,352 --> 00:32:58,563
what would have happened but for
Officer Daniels's wrongful conduct?
587
00:32:58,624 --> 00:33:01,731
The knife would have been in
that storm drain
for Detective Johnson to find.
588
00:33:01,794 --> 00:33:03,933
Exactly
Oh, this is outrageous.
589
00:33:03,997 --> 00:33:07,241
You're basically saying
that Daniele's illegal conduct
makes the knife admissible.
590
00:33:07,301 --> 00:33:11,546
It isn't that I don't see the irony,
but the evidence is admissible.
591
00:33:11,606 --> 00:33:17,421
He's got you, Mr. Fallon.
Look, Mr. Grimes's confession remains
inadmissible, but the knife comes in.
592
00:33:19,483 --> 00:33:21,429
Don't pop
those champagne corks yet.
593
00:33:21,485 --> 00:33:24,057
No amount of fancy footwork
is gonna change the fact...
594
00:33:24,122 --> 00:33:26,501
that your sponsoring witness
is Kenny Daniels.
595
00:33:26,559 --> 00:33:28,937
I hate using him,
but what choice do we have?
596
00:33:28,994 --> 00:33:32,943
A cop who admits he framed
a guilty man for another crime
which he didn't commit.
597
00:33:32,999 --> 00:33:36,072
In service of the greater good.
That's what you'll tell the jury.
598
00:33:36,137 --> 00:33:40,746
What Fallon will tell them
is that Daniels is a vigilante
with an ax to grind.
599
00:33:40,809 --> 00:33:43,415
Which is exactly
what we need to prepare him for.
600
00:33:44,848 --> 00:33:47,658
If I hadn't done what I did,
Grimes was gonna walk.
601
00:33:47,717 --> 00:33:50,597
Why are you making me out
to be the bad guy?
602
00:33:50,654 --> 00:33:52,965
Because you crossed
the line, Detective.
603
00:33:53,024 --> 00:33:56,198
And because that's what Rodney Fallon
will do when you take the stand.
604
00:33:56,261 --> 00:33:58,936
He's not the first shyster I've taken on.
I can handle him.
605
00:33:58,998 --> 00:34:02,139
Let's hope he's the only one
whose client's been framed by you.
606
00:34:02,202 --> 00:34:05,183
Okay. I deserve that.
607
00:34:06,507 --> 00:34:08,953
Grimes killed Julie Sayer.
He admitted it.
608
00:34:09,010 --> 00:34:11,753
And because I screwed up,
he was gonna walk.
609
00:34:11,814 --> 00:34:15,490
That's a mistake I couldn't live with,
and I'm not gonna apologize for fixin' it!
610
00:34:15,552 --> 00:34:19,000
If you don't, he may walk on
Julie's murder a second time.
611
00:34:19,056 --> 00:34:22,060
If the jury sees you
as some kind of a vigilante...
612
00:34:22,126 --> 00:34:25,802
with no qualms about framing
someone or planting evidence,
613
00:34:25,864 --> 00:34:28,869
they won't listen
to a word you say!
614
00:34:28,935 --> 00:34:33,817
I screwed up 20 years ago.
But by making it right,
it's the best thing I've ever done.
615
00:34:35,042 --> 00:34:37,580
You really want me to say
I feel sorry when I don't?
616
00:34:37,646 --> 00:34:43,120
You're a police officer.
And you put yourself above the law.
617
00:34:43,185 --> 00:34:45,689
I can't believe you have
no regrets about that.
618
00:34:45,756 --> 00:34:48,760
Yeah, I have some regrets,
that I gave him a beating
and I screwed up the case.
619
00:34:48,825 --> 00:34:52,103
What, do you want me to lie?
I want you to acknowledge...
620
00:34:52,163 --> 00:34:54,337
what it is I know
you must be feeling!
621
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,346
And that's what?
Guilt.
622
00:34:56,402 --> 00:34:59,680
Guilt about what?
Guilt at having been so arrogant...
623
00:34:59,739 --> 00:35:03,119
as to put yourself above the law!
624
00:35:08,617 --> 00:35:10,597
Planting the knife was wrong.
625
00:35:10,652 --> 00:35:12,599
What I did was wrong.
626
00:35:12,655 --> 00:35:16,399
I was trying to do right,
but now I see the ends
didn't justify the means.
627
00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:18,667
I'm sure you understand
people may view...
628
00:35:18,729 --> 00:35:21,074
whatever testimony you'd offer
against Walter Grimes...
629
00:35:21,132 --> 00:35:23,078
with a certain amount of skepticism.
630
00:35:23,134 --> 00:35:25,911
I made one mistake 20 years ago.
631
00:35:25,972 --> 00:35:29,216
Since then?
I've told the truth and played by the rules.
632
00:35:33,581 --> 00:35:35,527
Have you?
Yes.
633
00:35:35,583 --> 00:35:37,585
“One mistake."
634
00:35:37,653 --> 00:35:40,566
You admit you framed my client
for the murder of Leeanne Testa.
635
00:35:40,623 --> 00:35:45,630
I admit to framing him for one murder
because he committed another,
the one he's on trial for here.
636
00:35:45,695 --> 00:35:48,438
You don't get to be judge
and jury this time, Mr. Daniels.
637
00:35:48,499 --> 00:35:50,638
He confessed to me
that he killed Julie Sayer.
638
00:35:50,701 --> 00:35:54,343
A confession you beat out of him.
Which mistake do you regret,
639
00:35:54,406 --> 00:35:57,354
beating my client,
or planting evidence against him?
640
00:35:59,212 --> 00:36:01,352
Both.
So that's two mistakes.
641
00:36:01,415 --> 00:36:05,455
Tell me, is there anyone who can
corroborate your story?
Just your client.
642
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,764
My client maintains his innocence.
Which means we're left with your word.
643
00:36:08,824 --> 00:36:11,668
Then you're left with my word,
and I'm telling the truth.
But I don't believe you.
644
00:36:11,727 --> 00:36:13,708
You've been obsessed
with getting my client for decades,
645
00:36:13,764 --> 00:36:15,710
since he was a kid, haven't you?
No.
646
00:36:15,766 --> 00:36:20,113
- You arrested him for a liquor store
robbery that was committed by someone else.
- I stand by that arrest.
647
00:36:20,171 --> 00:36:22,482
Even though the owner said
the robber was Latino.
648
00:36:22,541 --> 00:36:24,987
And then, on another occasion,
you assaulted Mr. Grimes.
649
00:36:25,044 --> 00:36:27,286
He was a suspect.
He attacked me, counselor,
and I defended myself.
650
00:36:27,347 --> 00:36:29,953
He was in your custody
and you beat him bloody.
651
00:36:31,452 --> 00:36:35,526
- Like I said, I regret that.
- Then you framed him
for Leeanne Testa's murder.
652
00:36:35,590 --> 00:36:37,536
And I've got nothin' to gain
by admittin' it.
653
00:36:37,592 --> 00:36:40,403
In fact, I'm throwing away
my career and my pension...
654
00:36:40,463 --> 00:36:43,171
Your career and pension
mean nothing to you, do they?
655
00:36:43,233 --> 00:36:46,680
Not compared to your vendetta
against Walter Grimes.
656
00:36:53,579 --> 00:36:56,959
Enjoy the show?
You held up okay.
657
00:36:57,017 --> 00:36:59,122
What're you doing here?
It's my case.
658
00:37:00,153 --> 00:37:02,100
I thought maybe
you came to gloat.
659
00:37:02,156 --> 00:37:04,659
Why would I do that?
We're friends.
660
00:37:04,725 --> 00:37:06,933
I thought we were.
661
00:37:06,995 --> 00:37:10,705
Don't try to turn this around on me, Kenny.
You put yourself in this circus.
662
00:37:10,767 --> 00:37:13,145
D.A.'s could've made their case
on that barroom fight...
663
00:37:13,203 --> 00:37:16,014
without dredging this up
and dragging me into the middle of it.
664
00:37:16,073 --> 00:37:17,950
We had no choice.
You did.
665
00:37:19,011 --> 00:37:21,389
You could've let it go, Ed.
666
00:37:21,446 --> 00:37:24,291
You don't want justice
for Julie Sayer?
667
00:37:25,351 --> 00:37:28,333
I already had justice
for Julie Sayer.
668
00:37:36,465 --> 00:37:39,002
I don't know what I ever did to him,
669
00:37:39,068 --> 00:37:41,811
but he's had it in for me since I was a kid.
670
00:37:41,872 --> 00:37:45,514
He was the cop on the beat
in our neighborhood,
and he always hated me.
671
00:37:45,576 --> 00:37:48,182
He's had it in for me since day one.
672
00:37:48,246 --> 00:37:52,787
Detective Daniels seems to think
you were an incorrigible criminal
who should be taken off the street.
673
00:37:52,851 --> 00:37:55,025
Look, I never said I was a saint.
674
00:37:55,088 --> 00:37:57,899
But the things he said I did,
I didn't do.
675
00:37:57,958 --> 00:38:00,199
But in respect to Julie Sayer's murder,
676
00:38:00,261 --> 00:38:03,766
your fingerprints are on the knife
along with her blood.
677
00:38:03,832 --> 00:38:06,905
It's... It's my knife.
I never denied that.
678
00:38:06,969 --> 00:38:09,210
Of course it's gonna have
my prints on it.
679
00:38:09,272 --> 00:38:11,617
And Julie Sayer's blood?
680
00:38:11,675 --> 00:38:13,621
Daniels is police, right?
681
00:38:13,677 --> 00:38:16,522
He could get as much
of her blood as he wanted.
682
00:38:16,581 --> 00:38:20,189
There's nothin' this guy
won't do to burn me. Nothin'
683
00:38:25,192 --> 00:38:27,832
You sound paranoid, Mr. Grimes.
684
00:38:27,894 --> 00:38:31,308
It ain't paranoia if someone's
really out to get you.
This Daniels is.
685
00:38:31,365 --> 00:38:33,676
Yet you admit
you don't know why.
686
00:38:34,737 --> 00:38:37,275
- You'd have to ask him.
- No, I'm asking you.
687
00:38:37,340 --> 00:38:40,344
I don't know. Maybe he's crazy
688
00:38:40,410 --> 00:38:42,948
So you're saying Detective Daniels
somehow manufactured...
689
00:38:43,013 --> 00:38:45,493
the bloody knife evidence in this case?
690
00:38:45,549 --> 00:38:47,791
Come on. He framed me before.
691
00:38:47,853 --> 00:38:51,700
I spent 20 years in prison
for killing a person
I never even laid eyes on.
692
00:38:51,757 --> 00:38:53,703
That's irrelevant, Mr. Grimes.
693
00:38:53,759 --> 00:38:56,070
Twenty years of my life
is irrelevant?
694
00:38:56,129 --> 00:39:01,011
Your fingerprints are on the knife.
Julie Sayer's blood is on the knife.
695
00:39:01,069 --> 00:39:03,209
How did all that get there?
Objection!
696
00:39:03,272 --> 00:39:07,015
- Daniels put it there.
- How did Detective Daniels get your knife?
697
00:39:07,076 --> 00:39:10,581
It is not incumbent upon the defendant to
prove how Detective Daniels did anything.
698
00:39:10,647 --> 00:39:13,595
He's making all these assertions.
He must have some idea.
699
00:39:13,651 --> 00:39:18,328
I don't know how!
He framed me, okay?
I never killed anybody!
700
00:39:18,390 --> 00:39:20,427
You didn't kill Brendan Donner...
701
00:39:20,492 --> 00:39:23,770
three months after being released from prison...
Objection, Your Honor! Objection!
702
00:39:23,830 --> 00:39:25,902
By smashing his head in
with a liquor bottle?
703
00:39:30,071 --> 00:39:32,278
This is outrageous.
Accusing him of murder?
704
00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:35,220
The defendant denied it.
I have every right
to attack his credibility.
705
00:39:35,278 --> 00:39:37,724
He hasn't been convicted in that case.
He hasn't even been tried.
706
00:39:37,780 --> 00:39:40,455
But he did raise
a “not responsible" defense.
707
00:39:40,517 --> 00:39:42,896
Which is an admission
that he killed Brendan Donner.
708
00:39:42,954 --> 00:39:47,597
And if the defendant denies that,
I'll put Dr. Olivet on the stand
to impeach him.
709
00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:50,732
You goaded him into that denial
so you could bring in the other case
to poison the minds of the jury.
710
00:39:50,796 --> 00:39:53,801
They call that cross-examination,
Mr. Fallon.
711
00:39:53,867 --> 00:39:56,781
Sorry, counsel.
Your client opened the door
and put out the welcome mat.
712
00:39:56,837 --> 00:39:59,943
If I were you, I'd talk to
Mr. McCoy about a plea.
713
00:40:01,810 --> 00:40:04,290
Forget it, McCoy.
I'll argue that Grimes killed Donner...
714
00:40:04,346 --> 00:40:07,487
because Daniele's vendetta against him
turned him into a murderer.
715
00:40:07,550 --> 00:40:10,430
You don't have to posture, Mr. Fallon.
Your client's not here.
716
00:40:10,487 --> 00:40:13,298
I don't have to posture because
I still have Kenny Daniels to vilify.
717
00:40:13,358 --> 00:40:16,498
Which means nothing
unless you can paint Grimes
as the victim here.
718
00:40:16,561 --> 00:40:21,602
A victim is exactly what he is.
A victim of police misconduct.
A victim of the entire criminal justice system.
719
00:40:21,667 --> 00:40:25,138
The jury's not here either,
so let's not pretend
we don't know the crimes...
720
00:40:25,205 --> 00:40:27,584
your client committed
as a juvenile.
721
00:40:27,642 --> 00:40:30,088
Let's not pretend
he didn't kill Julie Sayer.
722
00:40:30,144 --> 00:40:32,591
And let's not pretend
Daniels wasn't out there
playing judge and jury.
723
00:40:32,648 --> 00:40:36,062
Detective Daniels
is not on trial here.
Grimes is.
724
00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:39,567
And Grimes is the one
who slit a woman's throat.
725
00:40:39,623 --> 00:40:42,570
Grimes is the one
who crushed a man's head.
726
00:40:42,626 --> 00:40:46,234
You seem to forget that.
But I'm going to make sure
the jury remembers.
727
00:40:46,298 --> 00:40:50,679
They're going to want someone to pay.
Trust me, it won't be Kenny Daniels.
728
00:40:55,776 --> 00:40:59,156
Twenty years in prison
almost killed Walter Grimes.
729
00:41:00,215 --> 00:41:02,856
I'll give him credit
for those 20 years.
730
00:41:04,553 --> 00:41:06,966
If he allocutes.
731
00:41:11,596 --> 00:41:13,542
I killed Julie Sayer.
732
00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:17,374
I knew her from around.
I had the hots for her.
733
00:41:17,436 --> 00:41:19,383
But she...
734
00:41:20,707 --> 00:41:23,245
Doesn't matter why I did it.
735
00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:25,256
I just...
736
00:41:27,515 --> 00:41:31,658
I followed her one night.
I grabbed her. She said no.
I stabbed her. That's it.
737
00:41:33,122 --> 00:41:35,068
There's nothing more to say.
738
00:41:35,124 --> 00:41:37,765
Mr. Grimes, since you're pleading guilty...
739
00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:41,902
to murder in the second degree
with a sentence of 25 years to life,
740
00:41:41,966 --> 00:41:44,207
and since the terms
of your plea agreement...
741
00:41:44,269 --> 00:41:46,511
are that in exchange
for this allocution...
742
00:41:46,572 --> 00:41:50,715
you are to be given credit
for the 20 years you served
in Green Haven,
743
00:41:50,777 --> 00:41:55,193
your remaining sentence
on the murder of Julie Sayer
is five years.
744
00:41:55,249 --> 00:41:57,422
I understand, Your Honor.
745
00:41:57,485 --> 00:42:01,195
And the parties have also
reached a plea with respect
to the murder of Brendan Donner?
746
00:42:01,256 --> 00:42:04,568
We have. The defendant
has waived his right to trial...
747
00:42:04,627 --> 00:42:07,939
and will plead guilty
to first-degree manslaughter.
748
00:42:07,998 --> 00:42:11,947
I'm accepting the defendant's plea
and imposing a sentence...
749
00:42:12,003 --> 00:42:15,280
of seven and a half to 15 years
to be served consecutively...
750
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:17,480
with the aforementioned five.
751
00:42:29,125 --> 00:42:31,264
I don't need company.
752
00:42:31,327 --> 00:42:34,502
Maybe I do.
Irish, rocks on the side.
753
00:42:37,869 --> 00:42:39,815
He pled out.
754
00:42:42,274 --> 00:42:44,220
All's well that ends well.
755
00:42:48,047 --> 00:42:50,118
So, how's it end for you?
756
00:42:52,853 --> 00:42:55,095
I've been encouraged
to take an early retirement.
757
00:43:04,735 --> 00:43:06,874
I'm sorry.
758
00:43:06,937 --> 00:43:10,317
Don't be.
I did what I had to do.