1 00:00:02,959 --> 00:00:05,222 I represent Eric Sanders.The guy who killed his wife? 2 00:00:05,222 --> 00:00:06,789 Seriously, Harry, I could use your help. 3 00:00:06,789 --> 00:00:08,617 Don'’t say you can'’t win this! 4 00:00:08,617 --> 00:00:10,314 Remove Harry Korn for her own good.You'’re insane. 5 00:00:10,314 --> 00:00:11,446 Well, don'’t say you weren'’t warned. 6 00:00:11,446 --> 00:00:13,274 Harry Korn?What'’s going on? 7 00:00:13,274 --> 00:00:14,753 You actually had her arrested?Look, they got 8 00:00:14,753 --> 00:00:16,320 the matter dismissed, so what'’s all the hoo-ha? 9 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,670 Until this trial is over, this will be your priority. 10 00:00:18,670 --> 00:00:19,976 We'’re on a mission now. 11 00:00:19,976 --> 00:00:21,630 Bethany Sanders, Eric'’s daughter. 12 00:00:21,630 --> 00:00:23,806 Would he be capable of a vicious murder like this? 13 00:00:23,806 --> 00:00:25,938 Perhaps not, but nor did I think him capable 14 00:00:25,938 --> 00:00:27,288 of writing such depraved material 15 00:00:27,288 --> 00:00:28,680 in his journal. 16 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,988 Not just her dying, but doing so at my hands. 17 00:00:31,988 --> 00:00:33,816 Ellen Sanders tore up her will two weeks before her death. 18 00:00:33,816 --> 00:00:34,817 This could be a motive. 19 00:00:34,817 --> 00:00:35,774 They'’re my parents. 20 00:00:35,774 --> 00:00:37,124 They'’re wonderful people. 21 00:00:37,124 --> 00:00:38,560 James is a loon. 22 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,562 I say our best shot is to say she did it. 23 00:00:40,562 --> 00:00:42,390 You put a dead rat in her bed? 24 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:43,739 She was not a nice person. 25 00:00:43,739 --> 00:00:45,088 That'’s why you'’re here? To ask me 26 00:00:45,088 --> 00:00:46,394 if Ellen was having an affair with somebody? 27 00:00:46,394 --> 00:00:47,308 Was she? 28 00:00:47,308 --> 00:00:48,483 The delivery guy 29 00:00:48,483 --> 00:00:50,354 overheard her talking on the phone. 30 00:00:50,354 --> 00:00:51,573 You have information that could help my client. 31 00:00:53,662 --> 00:00:55,185 He confirmed everything Vinnie said. 32 00:00:55,185 --> 00:00:56,491 Overheard the victim breaking up with a lover, 33 00:00:56,491 --> 00:00:57,666 not her husband. 34 00:00:57,666 --> 00:00:59,755 He told Roseanna Remmick months ago. 35 00:00:59,755 --> 00:01:01,278 That'’s grounds for dismissal with prejudice. 36 00:01:01,278 --> 00:01:03,889 It'’s now very personal, and I have no intention 37 00:01:03,889 --> 00:01:05,413 of calling any truce. 38 00:01:05,413 --> 00:01:06,979 Let the fun begin. 39 00:01:30,264 --> 00:01:33,397 BETHANY: I'’m just not sure what good I could possibly do. 40 00:01:33,397 --> 00:01:35,747 You do a lot just by walking in with us. 41 00:01:35,747 --> 00:01:37,706 You'’re the only child to be supporting your father. 42 00:01:37,706 --> 00:01:40,317 James is testifying against him. 43 00:01:40,317 --> 00:01:41,840 We need you, Bethany. 44 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,060 It'’s as simple as that. 45 00:01:47,281 --> 00:01:49,979 I'’m not going to lie for you, Dad. 46 00:01:49,979 --> 00:01:52,286 We'’re not asking that. 47 00:01:52,286 --> 00:01:54,418 But if you really believe it'’s not in him 48 00:01:54,418 --> 00:01:56,290 to do what he'’s been accused of, 49 00:01:56,290 --> 00:01:58,248 please just say that. 50 00:01:59,902 --> 00:02:01,947 Please, honey. 51 00:02:05,342 --> 00:02:06,735 Okay. 52 00:02:06,735 --> 00:02:09,216 We'’re leaving here tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. 53 00:02:09,216 --> 00:02:11,435 Be great for us all to walk in together. 54 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:12,741 9:00 a.m. I'’ll be here. 55 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:16,919 Thank you, baby. 56 00:02:18,964 --> 00:02:21,053 You need to stay completely on top of her, Adam. 57 00:02:21,053 --> 00:02:22,577 Coach her, I don'’t care. 58 00:02:22,577 --> 00:02:25,014 But she needs to be ready to testify effectively, 59 00:02:25,014 --> 00:02:27,277 and I'’m making that your responsibility. 60 00:02:27,277 --> 00:02:28,583 Somebody'’s tense. 61 00:02:28,583 --> 00:02:29,540 Excuse me? 62 00:02:31,238 --> 00:02:33,457 Okay, we all have our jobs to do. 63 00:02:33,457 --> 00:02:35,764 Eric, you ready? 64 00:02:37,592 --> 00:02:38,767 Eric. 65 00:02:38,767 --> 00:02:42,074 Oh, I'’m sorry. 66 00:02:42,074 --> 00:02:45,252 I was just thinking about my grandfather. 67 00:02:48,385 --> 00:02:50,431 At times of distress, he used to like to tell jokes. 68 00:02:52,998 --> 00:02:55,610 Two tigers walking through the jungle, one starts 69 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:57,133 licking the other'’s ass. 70 00:02:57,133 --> 00:02:59,004 The other stops and says, "Hey, what are you doing?" 71 00:02:59,004 --> 00:03:01,137 First tiger says, "I'’m sorry, I just ate a lawyer. 72 00:03:01,137 --> 00:03:03,313 I'’m trying to get rid of the taste in my mouth." 73 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:05,272 [laughs] 74 00:03:07,143 --> 00:03:09,754 Oh, my God. 75 00:03:11,887 --> 00:03:13,845 I'’m going to be sentenced to death. 76 00:03:16,848 --> 00:03:18,502 You okay? 77 00:03:18,502 --> 00:03:20,635 Yeah. 78 00:03:20,635 --> 00:03:23,551 Yeah, I'’m fine. 79 00:03:23,551 --> 00:03:26,206 Like the singer said, "Let'’s get it on," right? 80 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:28,295 Let'’s do that. 81 00:03:31,123 --> 00:03:33,125 [reporters clamoring] 82 00:04:03,417 --> 00:04:04,418 All rise. 83 00:04:04,418 --> 00:04:05,462 Stand by. Oh, boy. 84 00:04:05,462 --> 00:04:06,550 Why is it I feel 85 00:04:06,550 --> 00:04:08,378 we should all be wearing helmets? 86 00:04:08,378 --> 00:04:11,207 Case number 42765, 87 00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:13,731 the State of Ohio v. Eric Sanders III. 88 00:04:13,731 --> 00:04:15,124 This court is now in session. 89 00:04:15,124 --> 00:04:18,040 the Honorable Judge Lucas Kirkland presiding. 90 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,476 God bless the State of Ohio, 91 00:04:19,476 --> 00:04:21,304 God bless the United States of America. 92 00:04:21,304 --> 00:04:22,000 Be seated. 93 00:04:23,785 --> 00:04:25,526 Ms. Remmick? 94 00:04:25,526 --> 00:04:26,875 Ready for trial, Your Honor. 95 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:28,224 Ms. Korn?Here it comes. 96 00:04:28,224 --> 00:04:29,791 No, Your Honor. 97 00:04:29,791 --> 00:04:32,141 And we have liftoff. 98 00:04:32,141 --> 00:04:34,186 [gallery murmuring] 99 00:04:35,579 --> 00:04:36,972 This better be good. 100 00:04:36,972 --> 00:04:38,669 It'’s not, Your Honor. 101 00:04:38,669 --> 00:04:40,715 And please believe me, this is not something I take lightly. 102 00:04:40,715 --> 00:04:42,194 But I'’d like to move for a dismissal 103 00:04:42,194 --> 00:04:44,327 of all charges with prejudice 104 00:04:44,327 --> 00:04:46,286 on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. 105 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:48,157 What?I thought best to do so in chambers. 106 00:04:48,157 --> 00:04:49,680 What is going on? 107 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,813 What'’s going on is, we found out two days ago 108 00:04:51,813 --> 00:04:53,467 that the victim was having an affair. 109 00:04:53,467 --> 00:04:55,904 With whom we still don'’t know. 110 00:04:55,904 --> 00:04:58,863 She broke off this affair about a month before she was murdered. 111 00:04:58,863 --> 00:05:01,779 This is an affidavit from our source. 112 00:05:01,779 --> 00:05:03,738 What we also discovered is that this witness 113 00:05:05,522 --> 00:05:08,308 told Ms. Remmick the contents of that affidavit six months ago. 114 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:10,222 It is exculpatory, she deliberately 115 00:05:10,222 --> 00:05:11,615 withheld it from defense, 116 00:05:11,615 --> 00:05:13,748 and that is prosecutorial misconduct, 117 00:05:13,748 --> 00:05:15,227 grounds for either a dismissal 118 00:05:15,227 --> 00:05:17,142 or a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. 119 00:05:17,142 --> 00:05:18,318 Ms. Remmick? 120 00:05:18,318 --> 00:05:19,884 This was some delivery thug 121 00:05:19,884 --> 00:05:21,538 who says he vaguely overheard 122 00:05:21,538 --> 00:05:22,844 something about Mrs. Sanders talking to... 123 00:05:22,844 --> 00:05:24,236 There was nothing vague about it. 124 00:05:24,236 --> 00:05:25,890 What he heard was very specific. 125 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:27,414 We found him totally unreliable. 126 00:05:27,414 --> 00:05:28,850 He wanted money for his information. 127 00:05:28,850 --> 00:05:29,894 We properly 128 00:05:29,894 --> 00:05:31,418 dismissed him. 129 00:05:31,418 --> 00:05:33,507 This is just an offensive stunt by defense counsel 130 00:05:33,507 --> 00:05:35,639 to rattle me before opening arguments. 131 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:36,814 You might want to ask her 132 00:05:36,814 --> 00:05:37,859 why she waited two days 133 00:05:37,859 --> 00:05:39,164 to spring this motion. 134 00:05:39,164 --> 00:05:40,731 Because we wanted to investigate a little. 135 00:05:40,731 --> 00:05:42,994 We wanted to find out about this alleged affair, 136 00:05:42,994 --> 00:05:44,256 who the mystery man was. 137 00:05:44,256 --> 00:05:46,737 Had we been told of this six months ago, 138 00:05:46,737 --> 00:05:48,304 we might know by now. 139 00:05:48,304 --> 00:05:52,090 Ms. Remmick, I'’m not happy. 140 00:05:52,090 --> 00:05:53,831 Your Honor, I can assure you...I'’m talking now! 141 00:05:53,831 --> 00:05:55,572 You had an obligation 142 00:05:55,572 --> 00:05:57,618 to bring this information to defense counsel'’s attention. 143 00:05:57,618 --> 00:05:59,924 We interview a lot of witnesses we dismiss, 144 00:05:59,924 --> 00:06:01,578 especially those who extort us for cash. 145 00:06:01,578 --> 00:06:03,319 No! Not good enough! 146 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:05,495 This information is potentially material, 147 00:06:05,495 --> 00:06:06,540 possibly exculpatory. 148 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:07,758 For you to withhold that, 149 00:06:07,758 --> 00:06:08,846 it'’s just unconscionable. 150 00:06:08,846 --> 00:06:10,892 Your Honor, why would I risk 151 00:06:10,892 --> 00:06:11,849 a possible dismissal... 152 00:06:11,849 --> 00:06:13,198 Because you'’re psychotic. 153 00:06:15,070 --> 00:06:16,201 Since there'’s been no actual showing 154 00:06:16,201 --> 00:06:17,986 that this information is relevant, 155 00:06:17,986 --> 00:06:20,162 I'’m denying defense counsel'’s motion. 156 00:06:20,162 --> 00:06:22,425 But you'’d damn well better watch yourself the rest of the way. 157 00:06:22,425 --> 00:06:23,861 Do I make myself clear? 158 00:06:23,861 --> 00:06:24,993 I'’m sorry. 159 00:06:24,993 --> 00:06:26,647 That you have to give up your lives 160 00:06:26,647 --> 00:06:29,040 and sit through something so awful as a murder trial. 161 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,782 This one'’s especially ugly. 162 00:06:31,782 --> 00:06:33,784 The evidence will show that Ellen Wright Sanders 163 00:06:33,784 --> 00:06:36,700 died on November 11, 2010, 164 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,964 as a result of blunt-force trauma to her skull. 165 00:06:39,964 --> 00:06:43,141 She was bathing in her tub when she was struck repeatedly 166 00:06:43,141 --> 00:06:44,969 from behind by a heavy iron instrument 167 00:06:44,969 --> 00:06:46,884 we believe to be a crowbar. 168 00:06:46,884 --> 00:06:48,538 The medical examiner will establish 169 00:06:48,538 --> 00:06:49,974 that Mrs. Sanders was bludgeoned 170 00:06:49,974 --> 00:06:53,978 at least 20 times. 171 00:06:53,978 --> 00:06:58,069 It was a brutal, vicious, inhuman attack. 172 00:06:58,069 --> 00:07:00,550 When the police arrived, they discovered 173 00:07:00,550 --> 00:07:02,204 the defendant with the body. 174 00:07:02,204 --> 00:07:08,210 There will be no forensic or testimonial evidence of anyone 175 00:07:08,210 --> 00:07:11,343 other than the defendant being at the scene. 176 00:07:11,343 --> 00:07:13,084 We will introduce a journal kept by the defendant, 177 00:07:13,084 --> 00:07:15,522 which journal was discovered by the police in his nightstand. 178 00:07:15,522 --> 00:07:19,264 I would like to now read for you a portion of his journal. 179 00:07:20,962 --> 00:07:24,792 "How joyous it would be to creep up from behind, 180 00:07:24,792 --> 00:07:27,403 "while she lay lapping in her suds of luxury, 181 00:07:27,403 --> 00:07:29,840 "and smash her head like a melon. 182 00:07:32,408 --> 00:07:34,671 "To feel the joy, 183 00:07:34,671 --> 00:07:37,761 "the freedom that can only come from the sound 184 00:07:37,761 --> 00:07:42,113 of crushing, mulching bone that used to be her skull." 185 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:57,607 Had to be him, didn'’t it? 186 00:07:57,607 --> 00:08:00,305 All the forensic evidence points to him. 187 00:08:00,305 --> 00:08:02,090 No sign of anyone else being there. 188 00:08:02,090 --> 00:08:04,179 You just heard what was in that journal. 189 00:08:04,179 --> 00:08:05,441 Had to be Eric Sanders. 190 00:08:05,441 --> 00:08:08,226 Why bother looking at anybody else? 191 00:08:08,226 --> 00:08:11,578 Well, they didn'’t. 192 00:08:11,578 --> 00:08:15,016 It was case closed before an investigation even ensued. 193 00:08:15,016 --> 00:08:17,148 The thing is... 194 00:08:17,148 --> 00:08:18,498 it isn'’t him. 195 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:21,196 Eric Sanders is innocent. 196 00:08:21,196 --> 00:08:23,981 It'’s no coincidence that Ellen Sanders died 197 00:08:23,981 --> 00:08:25,505 as described in his journal. 198 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:27,071 The killer read it, 199 00:08:27,071 --> 00:08:28,899 and murdered her exactly that way 200 00:08:28,899 --> 00:08:31,249 in order to frame Eric Sanders. 201 00:08:31,249 --> 00:08:34,252 The killer was able to get in and get out without waking Eric, 202 00:08:34,252 --> 00:08:38,430 because Mr. Sanders was out cold on sleeping medication. 203 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:42,304 Sure, Eric Sanders'’ DNA was all over the body. 204 00:08:42,304 --> 00:08:45,046 That'’s because when he finally woke and discovered his wife, 205 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:46,874 he tried to revive her. 206 00:08:46,874 --> 00:08:51,226 In addition, you will hear how many people hated Ellen Sanders. 207 00:08:51,226 --> 00:08:53,707 Many had access to the residence. 208 00:08:53,707 --> 00:08:56,448 Now, of course, you don'’t have to take my word on any of this, 209 00:08:56,448 --> 00:08:58,102 and I won'’t ask you to. 210 00:08:58,102 --> 00:09:02,629 Just listen closely as the evidence is being introduced. 211 00:09:02,629 --> 00:09:05,762 And be mindful of the evidence that never gets introduced. 212 00:09:05,762 --> 00:09:08,199 I will be asking you to bring to this case 213 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:12,508 something the police and the prosecution never did: 214 00:09:12,508 --> 00:09:14,466 an open mind. 215 00:09:31,309 --> 00:09:34,095 I loved my mother deeply. 216 00:09:34,095 --> 00:09:36,706 Her death simply ripped me apart. 217 00:09:36,706 --> 00:09:39,013 I was devastated, of course. 218 00:09:39,013 --> 00:09:40,754 Of course. 219 00:09:40,754 --> 00:09:42,538 Mr. Sanders, when you first heard of your mother'’s death, 220 00:09:42,538 --> 00:09:44,148 can you recall what you said to the police? 221 00:09:44,148 --> 00:09:47,238 I believe I said, "Heavens, Mother'’s dead." 222 00:09:48,762 --> 00:09:49,763 Yes. 223 00:09:49,763 --> 00:09:50,894 Anything else? 224 00:09:50,894 --> 00:09:52,374 I might have asked, 225 00:09:52,374 --> 00:09:54,289 "Did my father kill her?" 226 00:09:54,289 --> 00:09:56,030 Yes, you did ask that. 227 00:09:56,030 --> 00:09:57,597 Can you tell us why you asked that? 228 00:09:57,597 --> 00:09:59,729 I thought he killed her. 229 00:09:59,729 --> 00:10:02,253 Okay. Can you tell us why you thought that? 230 00:10:02,253 --> 00:10:03,951 Well, he hated her, of course. 231 00:10:03,951 --> 00:10:04,952 He said that? 232 00:10:04,952 --> 00:10:05,953 He didn'’t have to. 233 00:10:05,953 --> 00:10:07,824 Spend three minutes with them, 234 00:10:07,824 --> 00:10:09,609 it became overtly clear 235 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,349 that he loathed her. 236 00:10:11,349 --> 00:10:14,439 His whole body would clench whenever he was around her. 237 00:10:14,439 --> 00:10:17,355 He seemed like he'’d just... snap. 238 00:10:18,487 --> 00:10:21,098 I guess he did, didn'’t he? 239 00:10:24,841 --> 00:10:27,017 HARRY: You said you were torn up by the death of your mother. 240 00:10:27,017 --> 00:10:28,062 Are you still? 241 00:10:28,062 --> 00:10:29,063 Why, yes. 242 00:10:29,063 --> 00:10:30,455 Thank you for asking. 243 00:10:30,455 --> 00:10:31,892 Take any medication, sir? 244 00:10:31,892 --> 00:10:32,893 Yes. 245 00:10:32,893 --> 00:10:34,198 I take lithium. 246 00:10:34,198 --> 00:10:35,939 How long have you been taking lithium, sir? 247 00:10:35,939 --> 00:10:37,593 Since I was 14. 248 00:10:37,593 --> 00:10:38,899 Do you consider yourself 249 00:10:38,899 --> 00:10:41,075 a mentally balanced individual, sir? 250 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:42,293 Does anybody? 251 00:10:42,293 --> 00:10:43,251 [gallery chuckles] 252 00:10:43,251 --> 00:10:45,122 Thank you, sir. 253 00:10:45,122 --> 00:10:46,341 That'’s all. 254 00:10:46,341 --> 00:10:48,691 He killed her for the money, you know. 255 00:10:48,691 --> 00:10:50,606 There'’s no question before you, sir. 256 00:10:50,606 --> 00:10:52,739 Nothing...Harry, you can'’t let that go unchallenged. 257 00:10:52,739 --> 00:10:54,654 We don'’t know what he'’s going to say next, Oliver. 258 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:56,046 If he had anything to support that, 259 00:10:56,046 --> 00:10:57,308 Roseanna would'’ve had him say it on direct. 260 00:10:57,308 --> 00:10:58,614 I don'’t care. I'’m certainly not 261 00:10:58,614 --> 00:11:00,181 giving him a chance to say anything more. 262 00:11:00,181 --> 00:11:02,444 I can do it. I'’ll be up and down. 263 00:11:02,444 --> 00:11:03,488 He'’s too unpredictable. Oliver... 264 00:11:05,708 --> 00:11:08,450 You don'’t know at all that your father killed her. 265 00:11:08,450 --> 00:11:11,322 That'’s only your opinion-- 266 00:11:11,322 --> 00:11:12,672 your lithium-induced opinion? 267 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:14,151 Objection. JUDGE: Overruled. 268 00:11:14,151 --> 00:11:16,153 You don'’t have any facts to support your opinion 269 00:11:16,153 --> 00:11:17,459 regarding your father'’s motive, 270 00:11:17,459 --> 00:11:20,375 do you, sir?Well, I know 271 00:11:20,375 --> 00:11:22,377 that my mother died intestate. 272 00:11:22,377 --> 00:11:23,683 That'’s a fact. 273 00:11:23,683 --> 00:11:26,294 And since all the family money was hers, 274 00:11:26,294 --> 00:11:27,643 he stood to lose out. 275 00:11:27,643 --> 00:11:29,819 Actually, that'’s incorrect. 276 00:11:29,819 --> 00:11:31,516 If your mother died intestate, 277 00:11:31,516 --> 00:11:33,127 the estate still goes to the husband 278 00:11:33,127 --> 00:11:35,259 and children. Yes, but since she 279 00:11:35,259 --> 00:11:37,087 had just torn up her will, 280 00:11:37,087 --> 00:11:39,786 my lithium-induced opinion 281 00:11:39,786 --> 00:11:43,006 would be she planned to draw up a new one. 282 00:11:43,006 --> 00:11:45,008 Which means Father had a very short window 283 00:11:45,008 --> 00:11:47,010 to bludgeon her to death. 284 00:11:47,010 --> 00:11:48,925 Which would apply to you as well, 285 00:11:48,925 --> 00:11:50,579 wouldn'’t it, sir? You had a short window 286 00:11:50,579 --> 00:11:52,015 in order to get that money? 287 00:11:52,015 --> 00:11:55,366 Yes, but I had both love for my mother, 288 00:11:55,366 --> 00:11:57,412 together with an alibi. 289 00:11:57,412 --> 00:11:58,674 Daddy had neither. 290 00:12:01,546 --> 00:12:03,723 [reporters clamoring] 291 00:12:14,298 --> 00:12:16,126 Just had to cross-examine him, didn'’t you? 292 00:12:16,126 --> 00:12:17,911 Don'’t start with me."Let me do it, Harry. 293 00:12:17,911 --> 00:12:19,782 I can do it." For my money, he'’s a suspect. 294 00:12:19,782 --> 00:12:21,305 Your money? Your money said to cross-examine him.CASSIE: All right! 295 00:12:21,305 --> 00:12:22,959 Take it outside?Just had to cross, didn'’t you? 296 00:12:22,959 --> 00:12:24,744 Take it outside. Take it outside. 297 00:12:31,576 --> 00:12:34,710 A grave, that'’s what he just dug us-- with your help. 298 00:12:34,710 --> 00:12:36,016 He dug us a trench the size of... 299 00:12:36,016 --> 00:12:38,540 All right. Nobody tell me to calm down. 300 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:40,629 Anybody says, "Calm down," to me, they'’re fired.You'’re the one who said 301 00:12:40,629 --> 00:12:42,239 he was a loon, nothing but a loon.What, you'’re gonna 302 00:12:42,239 --> 00:12:43,501 blame this on me? I'’m responsible 303 00:12:43,501 --> 00:12:45,286 for your bonehead move?Take it outside? 304 00:12:45,286 --> 00:12:46,548 Enough of this "take it outside" crap. 305 00:12:46,548 --> 00:12:48,637 All right! At the risk of getting fired, 306 00:12:48,637 --> 00:12:50,421 I think we should all calm down. 307 00:12:50,421 --> 00:12:51,814 May I just say...ALL: No! 308 00:12:51,814 --> 00:12:53,424 Look, we knew James was going to accuse 309 00:12:53,424 --> 00:12:55,122 his father going in. We knew that. 310 00:12:55,122 --> 00:12:56,863 Yeah, but we didn'’t figure he'’d come off persuasive, 311 00:12:56,863 --> 00:12:58,821 which he did because somebody chose 312 00:12:58,821 --> 00:13:00,692 to cross-examine him. I won'’t name names. 313 00:13:00,692 --> 00:13:02,782 All right, what about James as a suspect? 314 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:04,087 He has an alibi, but that doesn'’t mean 315 00:13:04,087 --> 00:13:05,132 that he didn'’t hire somebody. 316 00:13:05,132 --> 00:13:06,220 No, no, no, no. 317 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:07,612 We can'’t keep going, 318 00:13:07,612 --> 00:13:08,613 "It'’s the housekeeper," "It'’s James," 319 00:13:08,613 --> 00:13:09,963 "Look here," "Now there." 320 00:13:09,963 --> 00:13:12,052 We have to pick a theory and stick with it. 321 00:13:12,052 --> 00:13:13,270 The case is housekeeper, 322 00:13:13,270 --> 00:13:14,663 housekeeper, housekeeper. 323 00:13:14,663 --> 00:13:16,491 She'’s the one we have to focus on. 324 00:13:16,491 --> 00:13:18,014 Unless we can find out 325 00:13:18,014 --> 00:13:20,321 who the hell the victim was having an affair with. 326 00:13:20,321 --> 00:13:21,583 Has anybody heard from Vinnie on this? 327 00:13:23,063 --> 00:13:24,368 Oliver, you need to light 328 00:13:24,368 --> 00:13:26,240 Vinnie'’s ass up. Do you hear me? 329 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,111 Tell him, 330 00:13:28,111 --> 00:13:31,071 if he doesn'’t dig up something, he'’s not getting paid. 331 00:13:49,219 --> 00:13:52,527 I talked to Corinne Waters, the victim'’s boss. 332 00:13:52,527 --> 00:13:55,878 She told me I should do very graphic things to myself. 333 00:13:55,878 --> 00:13:57,445 Yeah, but listen, Vinnie, the clock is ticking. 334 00:13:57,445 --> 00:13:59,142 If you don'’t find out who Ellen Sanders was having 335 00:13:59,142 --> 00:14:00,448 an affair with, our guy is going down. 336 00:14:00,448 --> 00:14:01,492 Listen, smart-ass, I know how to tell time. 337 00:14:01,492 --> 00:14:02,972 It'’s going to be your fault. 338 00:14:02,972 --> 00:14:04,147 You'’re supposed to be some good private dick. 339 00:14:04,147 --> 00:14:05,540 You know what I'’m seeing, Vinnie? 340 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:06,976 I'’m seeing ordinary-- ordinary, everyday, 341 00:14:06,976 --> 00:14:08,282 dime-a-dozen dick!I'’m about two seconds away 342 00:14:08,282 --> 00:14:10,458 from slapping your fairy ass down the street. 343 00:14:10,458 --> 00:14:12,286 Do your job. 344 00:14:18,292 --> 00:14:19,902 As you see from the various angles, 345 00:14:19,902 --> 00:14:21,469 there are blood spatters everywhere, 346 00:14:21,469 --> 00:14:22,818 including on the ceiling. 347 00:14:23,819 --> 00:14:25,560 And what, if anything, 348 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:26,822 did that tell you, Officer? 349 00:14:26,822 --> 00:14:28,824 Well, it would certainly be consistent 350 00:14:28,824 --> 00:14:30,652 with the medical findings of multiple impacts. 351 00:14:30,652 --> 00:14:32,262 The victim was struck repeatedly. 352 00:14:32,262 --> 00:14:34,134 The fact that blood spatters traveled so far 353 00:14:34,134 --> 00:14:36,266 tells us it was a longish weapon. 354 00:14:36,266 --> 00:14:37,920 "Longish"-- would that be consistent 355 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,357 with a crowbar of this size, which was found at the scene? 356 00:14:40,357 --> 00:14:42,142 That would be exactly consistent. 357 00:14:42,142 --> 00:14:43,665 And, sir, could you please talk 358 00:14:43,665 --> 00:14:45,797 about the spatters on the walls and the ceiling? 359 00:14:45,797 --> 00:14:50,063 Basically, blood can be projected in two ways. 360 00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:52,456 As the weapon strikes the skull, 361 00:14:52,456 --> 00:14:55,416 it causes blood to shoot out. 362 00:14:55,416 --> 00:14:57,070 Also, as the assailant swings the weapon, 363 00:14:57,070 --> 00:14:59,768 blood can fly off, causing cast-off stains. 364 00:14:59,768 --> 00:15:03,032 Again, from the amount of blood and overlapping patterns, 365 00:15:03,032 --> 00:15:05,687 we could conclude this was a beating of multiple impacts. 366 00:15:05,687 --> 00:15:08,690 And, sir, based on your 15 years as a detective, 367 00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:09,734 did you form any other conclusions 368 00:15:09,734 --> 00:15:11,606 about the nature of this attack? 369 00:15:11,606 --> 00:15:12,868 It was savage. 370 00:15:12,868 --> 00:15:14,348 One of the worst I'’ve ever seen. 371 00:15:14,348 --> 00:15:16,437 There had to be a lot of rage and hatred involved. 372 00:15:22,269 --> 00:15:24,619 Do the blood spatters tell you who did it? 373 00:15:24,619 --> 00:15:26,142 No, but we can...Thank you. 374 00:15:26,142 --> 00:15:28,318 And you can'’t say that this crowbar 375 00:15:28,318 --> 00:15:29,972 was definitely the weapon, can you, Detective? 376 00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:31,974 We can certainly say it'’s exactly consistent 377 00:15:31,974 --> 00:15:33,845 with the instrument used. 378 00:15:33,845 --> 00:15:35,586 Given it was found right above the scene, 379 00:15:35,586 --> 00:15:37,110 you figure it out. I see. 380 00:15:37,110 --> 00:15:39,677 And did your knowledge of where it was found factor 381 00:15:39,677 --> 00:15:41,070 into your finding of "consistent?" 382 00:15:41,070 --> 00:15:43,072 I didn'’t say that.No, well, you told me 383 00:15:43,072 --> 00:15:44,987 to figure it out, so that'’s what I'’m trying to do. 384 00:15:44,987 --> 00:15:46,380 Objection.Sustained. 385 00:15:46,380 --> 00:15:47,990 And tell me something, sir. 386 00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:51,602 Ever known a construction worker to leave a tool behind, 387 00:15:51,602 --> 00:15:53,778 sometimes inside sealed walls, ceilings? 388 00:15:53,778 --> 00:15:54,954 Ever known that to happen? 389 00:15:54,954 --> 00:15:56,956 I'’ve heard of it maybe happening. 390 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:58,914 And tell me, does human nature ever factor 391 00:15:58,914 --> 00:16:00,568 into some of your conclusions? 392 00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:02,135 Human nature? Yes. 393 00:16:02,135 --> 00:16:04,267 For example, you'’ve got a whole prosecution team, 394 00:16:04,267 --> 00:16:06,443 DAs, police looking for a weapon 395 00:16:06,443 --> 00:16:08,054 for a year, which they can'’t find. 396 00:16:08,054 --> 00:16:09,664 It'’s all very frustrating. 397 00:16:09,664 --> 00:16:12,623 Then presto, you found a crowbar that'’s consistent. 398 00:16:12,623 --> 00:16:14,974 Human nature may be to say, "I bet that'’s it." 399 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,584 I'’m not a behavioral scientist. 400 00:16:16,584 --> 00:16:19,630 Oh. But you were enough of one to conclude 401 00:16:19,630 --> 00:16:21,893 the killer had rage and hatred. 402 00:16:21,893 --> 00:16:23,983 Do you think it'’s fair 403 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:25,419 that the district attorney is presenting something 404 00:16:25,419 --> 00:16:27,160 as the murder weapon 405 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,640 when all you guys really know is that it'’s "consistent?" 406 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,294 Objection. Sustained. 407 00:16:31,294 --> 00:16:32,730 I'’m just looking for what'’s fair here, Judge. 408 00:16:32,730 --> 00:16:34,515 Objection.Even though she'’s not. 409 00:16:34,515 --> 00:16:37,126 Your Honor. The objection was sustained, Ms. Korn. 410 00:16:37,126 --> 00:16:38,388 Knock it off. Sorry. 411 00:16:38,388 --> 00:16:39,563 So just to review-- 412 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:41,000 you can conclude multiple impacts, 413 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,871 most likely rage, 414 00:16:42,871 --> 00:16:44,264 probably that crowbar. 415 00:16:44,264 --> 00:16:46,092 But none of that impact, 416 00:16:46,092 --> 00:16:47,310 cast-off spatter hoo-ha allows you 417 00:16:47,310 --> 00:16:49,095 to state to a certainty who did it 418 00:16:49,095 --> 00:16:50,748 or exactly what was used to do it. 419 00:16:50,748 --> 00:16:51,749 Am I right, Detective? 420 00:16:53,403 --> 00:16:55,449 I'’m sorry. I would need 421 00:16:55,449 --> 00:16:57,103 a yes or no answer, Detective. 422 00:16:57,103 --> 00:16:58,234 Am I right? 423 00:16:58,234 --> 00:16:59,975 Fine. 424 00:16:59,975 --> 00:17:01,368 Thank you, sir. 425 00:17:03,587 --> 00:17:05,459 ADAM: Here'’s where it gets tricky. 426 00:17:05,459 --> 00:17:09,854 You cannot start talking about what or how your dad is. 427 00:17:09,854 --> 00:17:11,769 It'’ll open the door on character evidence, 428 00:17:11,769 --> 00:17:13,336 and then the prosecution can call 429 00:17:13,336 --> 00:17:15,904 witnesses of their own to impeach him. 430 00:17:15,904 --> 00:17:17,775 So what do I say, then? 431 00:17:17,775 --> 00:17:20,126 You basically say that from what you know of your father, 432 00:17:20,126 --> 00:17:22,824 you simply cannot believe he'’s capable of this crime. 433 00:17:22,824 --> 00:17:24,478 Your testimony is not about him, 434 00:17:24,478 --> 00:17:27,176 but rather about what you feel and what you know. 435 00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:29,613 It may seem like a distinction without a difference, 436 00:17:29,613 --> 00:17:31,833 but from an evidentiary standpoint, it'’s not. 437 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,488 It'’s all just a game with lawyers, isn'’t it? 438 00:17:34,488 --> 00:17:37,621 I know this is hard, but it'’s also important. 439 00:17:37,621 --> 00:17:39,101 As Harry said, you'’re the only one 440 00:17:39,101 --> 00:17:41,060 of his kids to stand up for him. 441 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,062 And after your older brother'’s testimony... 442 00:17:46,282 --> 00:17:47,936 She'’s as ready as I can get her. 443 00:17:47,936 --> 00:17:49,198 That'’s all I can tell you. 444 00:17:49,198 --> 00:17:50,895 What about her? 445 00:17:50,895 --> 00:17:53,550 I'’m a little nervous about turning a police witness over 446 00:17:53,550 --> 00:17:55,422 to somebody I haven'’t actually seen in action. 447 00:17:55,422 --> 00:17:57,598 ADAM: You know what her nickname was at the DA'’s office? 448 00:17:57,598 --> 00:17:58,773 The Smart Bomber. 449 00:17:58,773 --> 00:18:00,166 Like a surgeon, she'’s been known 450 00:18:00,166 --> 00:18:01,689 to be up and down with a witness in 30 seconds 451 00:18:01,689 --> 00:18:03,169 and get everything in she wants. 452 00:18:03,169 --> 00:18:04,779 You don'’t need to worry about Cassie. 453 00:18:04,779 --> 00:18:06,824 Well, I do worry. I do worry. 454 00:18:06,824 --> 00:18:09,044 What? What are you doing? 455 00:18:10,219 --> 00:18:11,394 TOMMY: Okay. 456 00:18:13,657 --> 00:18:15,616 You need to listen to me. 457 00:18:19,010 --> 00:18:20,534 You'’re not having any fun. 458 00:18:20,534 --> 00:18:22,710 You need to be having fun here, Harry. 459 00:18:22,710 --> 00:18:25,539 Fun? A man'’s life is on the line. 460 00:18:25,539 --> 00:18:27,454 If I lose, he might be put to death. 461 00:18:27,454 --> 00:18:28,759 Even so. Even... 462 00:18:29,847 --> 00:18:31,153 Tommy, what'’s wrong with you? 463 00:18:31,153 --> 00:18:33,242 You think this is all cause for amusement? 464 00:18:33,242 --> 00:18:36,724 I think you'’re 62 years old, I'’m in my 50s, 465 00:18:36,724 --> 00:18:38,160 and it won'’t be long till you'’re the woman 466 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,770 who used to be Harry Korn, 467 00:18:39,770 --> 00:18:42,164 and I'’ll be the guy that used to be Tommy Jefferson. 468 00:18:43,426 --> 00:18:44,906 You hear me, Harry? 469 00:18:44,906 --> 00:18:47,561 We'’re not far from our "used to be" years. 470 00:18:47,561 --> 00:18:49,780 Right now, you'’re in the game. 471 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:51,826 The world is watching. 472 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:55,699 A man'’s life is in the balance, 473 00:18:55,699 --> 00:18:58,224 and you'’re right smack in the middle of it. 474 00:18:58,224 --> 00:18:59,703 [chuckling sigh] 475 00:18:59,703 --> 00:19:01,836 This may be the most relevant 476 00:19:01,836 --> 00:19:03,794 15 minutes you'’ll ever know. 477 00:19:03,794 --> 00:19:05,448 And trust me, 478 00:19:05,448 --> 00:19:10,801 you do not want to wake up ten years from now... [sighs] 479 00:19:10,801 --> 00:19:15,066 and say, "My God, why didn'’t I savor it some?" 480 00:19:15,066 --> 00:19:16,807 Yeah, there'’s pressure. 481 00:19:16,807 --> 00:19:18,461 Yes, there'’s stress, but... 482 00:19:18,461 --> 00:19:20,333 savor the moment, 483 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:25,251 because tomorrow, we could be yesterday. 484 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:28,819 That'’s what I'’m saying. 485 00:19:40,962 --> 00:19:44,183 Ms. Torres, thanks so much for waiting. 486 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,142 Okay. [sighs] 487 00:19:47,142 --> 00:19:49,971 Sorry, it'’s just all been a bit of a whirlwind today. 488 00:19:49,971 --> 00:19:51,625 Well, sometimes, 489 00:19:51,625 --> 00:19:53,670 I swear I don'’t know if I'’m coming or going. 490 00:19:53,670 --> 00:19:55,194 Do you ever feel that way, Ms. Torres? 491 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:56,717 Sometimes. Yeah. 492 00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:59,589 I'’ll bet it'’s even worse for you since... 493 00:19:59,589 --> 00:20:01,548 well... 494 00:20:01,548 --> 00:20:04,333 you'’re a lunatic, 495 00:20:04,333 --> 00:20:05,421 aren'’t you, Ms. Torres? 496 00:20:05,421 --> 00:20:07,118 You know, I always get nervous 497 00:20:07,118 --> 00:20:09,425 when I see lunatics on the defense team'’s witness list. 498 00:20:09,425 --> 00:20:12,559 You know what I think? 499 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:14,343 I think they'’re going to try to paint you 500 00:20:14,343 --> 00:20:15,692 as a suspect. 501 00:20:15,692 --> 00:20:17,520 I mean, you had keypad access, 502 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,654 you knew the house, hated the victim, 503 00:20:20,654 --> 00:20:23,091 and you haven'’t got an alibi. 504 00:20:23,091 --> 00:20:25,224 That would be awful, wouldn'’t it, 505 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:27,661 to be accused in court of being the real killer? 506 00:20:27,661 --> 00:20:31,447 And yet that'’s precisely what I think they plan to do. 507 00:20:31,447 --> 00:20:33,188 I mean, I can'’t say that I blame them. 508 00:20:33,188 --> 00:20:34,668 I mean, if I can'’t get Eric Sanders 509 00:20:34,668 --> 00:20:36,539 for this crime, you'’d be my next choice. 510 00:20:36,539 --> 00:20:41,544 And I'’m sure we both hope that I get Eric Sanders, don'’t we? 511 00:20:41,544 --> 00:20:42,850 Oh, I understand you spoke 512 00:20:42,850 --> 00:20:44,373 to defense counsel. 513 00:20:44,373 --> 00:20:46,593 I'’d like to know what you said to them, please. 514 00:20:46,593 --> 00:20:48,508 [panting]: Well... 515 00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:51,119 Oh, dear. 516 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,729 Seems I'’ve made you nervous. 517 00:20:52,729 --> 00:20:56,298 I... I can do that to people. 518 00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:58,431 I'’ve really got to get better at small talk. 519 00:20:58,431 --> 00:21:02,565 Let'’s just start again with some small talk, okay? 520 00:21:06,090 --> 00:21:08,745 How'’s your immigration status, dear? 521 00:21:21,018 --> 00:21:22,977 [reporters clamoring] 522 00:21:39,646 --> 00:21:41,300 As you can see, 523 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,781 security cameras point east, west, north and south. 524 00:21:44,781 --> 00:21:46,696 Anybody coming or going, 525 00:21:46,696 --> 00:21:48,872 there would be a video record of it. 526 00:21:48,872 --> 00:21:51,135 How many cameras are we talking about?12 in all. 527 00:21:51,135 --> 00:21:52,615 You can see they cover the entire perimeter. 528 00:21:52,615 --> 00:21:54,356 And, Detective, was there any video record 529 00:21:54,356 --> 00:21:57,620 of anybody coming or going the night Mrs. Sanders was murdered? 530 00:21:57,620 --> 00:22:00,014 Nothing from 6:00 when she arrived home, 531 00:22:00,014 --> 00:22:02,277 till after midnight when the police showed up. 532 00:22:02,277 --> 00:22:04,148 Nobody came, nobody went? 533 00:22:04,148 --> 00:22:05,324 That'’s correct. 534 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:06,629 Thank you. 535 00:22:17,597 --> 00:22:19,294 The northwest corner of the house right here-- 536 00:22:19,294 --> 00:22:20,513 there'’s a blind spot, right? 537 00:22:20,513 --> 00:22:22,036 This part right here? Yes. 538 00:22:22,036 --> 00:22:25,256 I believe that part actually is the very corner. 539 00:22:25,256 --> 00:22:27,433 But there'’s no door or window there.Thank you. 540 00:22:27,433 --> 00:22:29,435 And all the security cameras, they point outwards? 541 00:22:29,435 --> 00:22:30,566 Yes. So you can'’t see 542 00:22:30,566 --> 00:22:32,263 flush against the house anywhere? 543 00:22:32,263 --> 00:22:33,961 Well... 544 00:22:33,961 --> 00:22:36,833 No, flush against the house isn'’t covered. 545 00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:39,836 So if one were to approach exactly at the northwest point, 546 00:22:39,836 --> 00:22:41,795 hug the house, he or she could walk to any door at all, 547 00:22:41,795 --> 00:22:43,536 completely undetected, am I correct? 548 00:22:43,536 --> 00:22:46,626 I suppose that'’s possible, yes. 549 00:22:46,626 --> 00:22:47,583 Thank you, sir. 550 00:22:50,456 --> 00:22:52,066 Okay. 551 00:22:54,895 --> 00:22:58,115 With that much blood, to be able to track out of the house 552 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:00,117 without leaving a trace...If the killer changed clothes 553 00:23:00,117 --> 00:23:01,336 right in the bathroom...We just don'’t think 554 00:23:01,336 --> 00:23:02,772 it would be possible for somebody 555 00:23:02,772 --> 00:23:04,426 ...put the bloody garmentsto be that immaculate. 556 00:23:04,426 --> 00:23:05,949 ...in a bag. 557 00:23:05,949 --> 00:23:08,125 I heard horrible, horrible screams from the upstairs. 558 00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:09,344 That'’s why I called 911. 559 00:23:09,344 --> 00:23:11,128 It could have been a man'’s screams. 560 00:23:11,128 --> 00:23:12,956 That'’s what you told police, am I right? 561 00:23:12,956 --> 00:23:14,480 Fingerprints, forensics-- 562 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,785 all belonging to him. 563 00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:17,178 If he were trying to resuscitate her... 564 00:23:17,178 --> 00:23:18,919 I am positive.Can'’t be sure. 565 00:23:18,919 --> 00:23:20,224 Repeated banging to the head. 566 00:23:20,224 --> 00:23:21,748 As to who did it. 567 00:23:21,748 --> 00:23:23,576 Bang, bang, bang, bang...Could have been anybody. 568 00:23:23,576 --> 00:23:25,621 Right on the head.Never trusted that man. 569 00:23:25,621 --> 00:23:27,971 You didn'’t really know him.Gave me a weird feeling to be around him. 570 00:23:27,971 --> 00:23:29,973 Fantasists are just that, they'’re fantasists."How glorious it would be 571 00:23:29,973 --> 00:23:32,715 "to creep up from behind..."They rarely act out, am I right, Doctor? 572 00:23:32,715 --> 00:23:34,151 "...and smash her head like a melon." 573 00:23:34,151 --> 00:23:35,718 Homicidal, psychotic...Never examine my client. 574 00:23:35,718 --> 00:23:37,633 Clearly a sociopath.Never so much as met with him. 575 00:23:37,633 --> 00:23:38,982 Extremely dangerous.Read a couple police files. 576 00:23:38,982 --> 00:23:40,854 Ellen Sanders was no day at the beach. 577 00:23:40,854 --> 00:23:41,985 She could be cold, 578 00:23:41,985 --> 00:23:44,510 and, frankly, a little unlikeable. 579 00:23:44,510 --> 00:23:45,685 But at her core, 580 00:23:45,685 --> 00:23:47,556 she was a woman about integrity, 581 00:23:47,556 --> 00:23:49,602 about charity and family. 582 00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:52,039 You knew her well?I daresay, I knew her best. 583 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,911 She worked with me and for me for 16 years. 584 00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:56,826 She was perhaps my closest friend. 585 00:23:56,826 --> 00:23:58,872 And in the course of your close friendship, Ms. Waters, 586 00:23:58,872 --> 00:24:01,004 did she ever have occasion to talk about her husband? 587 00:24:01,004 --> 00:24:02,397 Many times.Do you recall 588 00:24:02,397 --> 00:24:05,356 if she ever made any remarks about him in a way 589 00:24:05,356 --> 00:24:07,924 that is revelatory to you now in the light of her death?Objection. Vague. 590 00:24:07,924 --> 00:24:09,273 Sustained. 591 00:24:09,273 --> 00:24:10,927 Did she ever make any statements that would 592 00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,755 occasion you to believe that her husband killed her? 593 00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:14,365 Objection. Leading. 594 00:24:14,365 --> 00:24:15,628 Sustained. 595 00:24:15,628 --> 00:24:17,412 Let'’s just speed this up, shall we? 596 00:24:17,412 --> 00:24:18,674 Tell the District Attorney 597 00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:20,676 what she told you she wants you to say. 598 00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:22,504 Objection. Counsel, step up. 599 00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:25,202 [gallery murmuring] 600 00:24:25,202 --> 00:24:29,250 I'’ll put you both in a damn cell together you don'’t watch yourselves. 601 00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:31,470 Your Honor, could that question have been any more loaded or leading? 602 00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:33,036 I sustained your objection, Counsel. 603 00:24:33,036 --> 00:24:35,212 What you just did was every bit as offensive. 604 00:24:35,212 --> 00:24:37,650 Do not push me any further, either one of you. 605 00:24:41,218 --> 00:24:42,568 Ms. Waters, 606 00:24:42,568 --> 00:24:44,744 what, if anything, did the victim tell you 607 00:24:44,744 --> 00:24:47,137 that you believe might relate to her death? 608 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:50,053 She told me on multiple occasions that her husband scared her. 609 00:24:50,053 --> 00:24:52,012 That he was capable of flash rage, 610 00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:54,057 and sometimes she felt that he would just explode. 611 00:24:54,057 --> 00:24:55,885 In the weeks before her death, 612 00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:59,149 she said that she thought he was increasingly 613 00:24:59,149 --> 00:25:00,586 psychologically unstable. 614 00:25:00,586 --> 00:25:02,283 That'’s character evidence. 615 00:25:02,283 --> 00:25:03,545 Thank you, Ms. Waters. 616 00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:05,504 HARRY: You said she felt threatened. 617 00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:07,941 Did she say he made threats? 618 00:25:07,941 --> 00:25:09,769 I'’m not aware of specific threats. 619 00:25:09,769 --> 00:25:12,162 Anybody, including you, ever call the police 620 00:25:12,162 --> 00:25:13,816 to report my client as a threat? 621 00:25:13,816 --> 00:25:14,861 Not to my knowledge. 622 00:25:14,861 --> 00:25:16,079 Thank you. 623 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:17,254 Did you kill her?[gallery murmuring] 624 00:25:17,254 --> 00:25:18,647 Objection.Ms. Korn. 625 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,696 I don'’t mean to be offensive, 626 00:25:23,696 --> 00:25:25,349 but right before her death, the victim tore up her will. 627 00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:27,177 A lot of charitable institutions lost out. 628 00:25:27,177 --> 00:25:30,659 The biggest being Save Our Ocean-- Ms. Waters'’ nonprofit. 629 00:25:30,659 --> 00:25:34,271 Your foundation lost millions of dollars, didn'’t it?You make me sick. 630 00:25:34,271 --> 00:25:36,578 Ms. Waters, I don'’t think you killed your best friend, 631 00:25:36,578 --> 00:25:38,319 but I'’ll tell you what turns my stomach. 632 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:40,669 You had access, you knew the keypad code, 633 00:25:40,669 --> 00:25:42,279 and you perhaps even had motive, 634 00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:43,803 and I bet I'’m the first person 635 00:25:43,803 --> 00:25:46,022 to ever ask you where you were that night. 636 00:25:46,022 --> 00:25:48,198 Objection.And I object to the fact 637 00:25:48,198 --> 00:25:49,722 that you never investigated anybody but my client. 638 00:25:49,722 --> 00:25:51,985 You just made up your mind.Objection! 639 00:25:51,985 --> 00:25:53,377 All right...Move to strike. 640 00:25:53,377 --> 00:25:55,205 Ms. Korn, that'’s enough. You'’re done. 641 00:26:05,041 --> 00:26:06,782 I hope I didn'’t come off a total monster. 642 00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:09,350 Oh, not to worry, Harry. 643 00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:11,047 The real monster goes up next. 644 00:26:11,047 --> 00:26:13,833 Just be genuine. The most important... 645 00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:16,270 Just be as human as you possibly can. 646 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:18,489 It'’s a little dangerous making me testify, isn'’t it? 647 00:26:18,489 --> 00:26:21,057 Beyond. We'’ve talked about Remmick. 648 00:26:21,057 --> 00:26:23,233 Do not take the bait, do not show 649 00:26:23,233 --> 00:26:25,540 any flashes of anger, 650 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:28,021 and, of course, don'’t hit her on the head. 651 00:26:28,021 --> 00:26:29,805 [chuckles] 652 00:26:29,805 --> 00:26:32,199 It'’s a funny thing, 653 00:26:32,199 --> 00:26:34,331 gallows humor, isn'’t it? 654 00:26:34,331 --> 00:26:36,943 Likely invented by someone being thrown to the wolves. 655 00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:38,684 Which, when you think about it... 656 00:26:38,684 --> 00:26:40,511 We'’ll start with you... 657 00:26:40,511 --> 00:26:41,861 then Bethany, then the housekeeper. 658 00:26:41,861 --> 00:26:44,037 Maybe back to you if I need to recall you. 659 00:26:44,037 --> 00:26:45,255 Okay. 660 00:26:45,255 --> 00:26:47,431 All in all, 661 00:26:47,431 --> 00:26:49,956 Philadelphia, right? 662 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:12,935 The hatred was real, as was the rage. 663 00:27:12,935 --> 00:27:14,633 Writing about spousicide 664 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,331 was a way of processing it, decompressing 665 00:27:17,331 --> 00:27:20,682 by composing the angry e-mail you never plan to actually send. 666 00:27:20,682 --> 00:27:22,553 I never would have or could have 667 00:27:22,553 --> 00:27:24,468 acted upon anything I wrote in my journal. 668 00:27:24,468 --> 00:27:26,993 For your wife to be killed almost exactly that way... 669 00:27:26,993 --> 00:27:28,255 Somebody must have read it, 670 00:27:28,255 --> 00:27:29,996 and then devised a plan 671 00:27:29,996 --> 00:27:32,389 to kill her and frame me for it. 672 00:27:32,389 --> 00:27:34,957 Funny that you never mentioned that to the police, 673 00:27:34,957 --> 00:27:36,219 or even the existence 674 00:27:36,219 --> 00:27:37,960 of the journal, much less its contents. 675 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,701 I was in shock. 676 00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:41,834 I'’d just discovered my murdered wife. 677 00:27:41,834 --> 00:27:43,836 I was essentially placed under arrest 678 00:27:43,836 --> 00:27:45,664 before I had a chance to tell you anything. 679 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,884 After that, I was advised by counsel not to speak with you. 680 00:27:48,884 --> 00:27:51,234 So you met with your lawyer and then quickly switched 681 00:27:51,234 --> 00:27:53,628 from grieving mode to let'’s-not-get-convicted mode? 682 00:27:53,628 --> 00:27:55,151 Objection.Sustained. 683 00:27:55,151 --> 00:27:57,327 Must be awful not being allowed to grieve. 684 00:27:57,327 --> 00:27:59,852 Not being allowed to commiserate even with your own children, 685 00:27:59,852 --> 00:28:01,462 because they'’re all convinced that you did it. 686 00:28:01,462 --> 00:28:02,550 Objection!Bethany didn'’t say anything... 687 00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:04,552 Counsel, stop it right now. 688 00:28:04,552 --> 00:28:06,902 So, someone sneaked into your house, 689 00:28:06,902 --> 00:28:08,425 killed your wife in a bloody mess 690 00:28:08,425 --> 00:28:10,514 and yet managed to sneak out leaving no trail, 691 00:28:10,514 --> 00:28:11,994 no sign even of having been there, 692 00:28:11,994 --> 00:28:13,604 all the while, you lay sleeping? 693 00:28:13,604 --> 00:28:15,215 Wow. 694 00:28:15,215 --> 00:28:17,217 That'’s really good. 695 00:28:17,217 --> 00:28:19,088 And also whoever did it, 696 00:28:19,088 --> 00:28:20,350 managed to incorporate your method, 697 00:28:20,350 --> 00:28:22,918 your rage and hatred as described 698 00:28:22,918 --> 00:28:24,311 exactly in your journal. 699 00:28:24,311 --> 00:28:25,355 Really good. 700 00:28:25,355 --> 00:28:27,227 How dare you be snide. 701 00:28:27,227 --> 00:28:28,576 A woman'’s dead.Oh, I know that, sir. 702 00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:29,751 A woman you hated. 703 00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:31,231 A woman you wrote about killing. 704 00:28:31,231 --> 00:28:32,841 A woman whose body was discovered with you, 705 00:28:32,841 --> 00:28:35,017 with your DNA all over her. 706 00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:36,236 Because I tried to save her. 707 00:28:36,236 --> 00:28:37,672 You tried to save her? 708 00:28:39,195 --> 00:28:42,372 Because you loved her. 709 00:28:42,372 --> 00:28:44,113 Tell me, is there 710 00:28:44,113 --> 00:28:45,985 a chapter in that journal about you saving her? 711 00:28:45,985 --> 00:28:47,856 I guess I skipped that one. 712 00:28:47,856 --> 00:28:50,032 Objection.Sustained. 713 00:28:52,861 --> 00:28:55,864 My father is simply not capable of that kind of violence. 714 00:28:55,864 --> 00:28:56,909 You seem pretty sure. 715 00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:58,649 He loved his family. 716 00:28:58,649 --> 00:29:00,651 He stuck it out through a very difficult marriage for the sake 717 00:29:00,651 --> 00:29:02,653 of preserving the family unit. 718 00:29:02,653 --> 00:29:06,222 So the idea that he would kill his wife or mother 719 00:29:06,222 --> 00:29:08,181 is repugnant. 720 00:29:08,181 --> 00:29:10,836 For the longest time, you remained convinced that he did kill her. 721 00:29:10,836 --> 00:29:12,707 The idea wasn'’t repugnant at all, was it? 722 00:29:12,707 --> 00:29:14,796 I did think that at first, yes. 723 00:29:14,796 --> 00:29:16,102 You thought that for a full year. 724 00:29:16,102 --> 00:29:17,407 In fact, it didn'’t become repugnant 725 00:29:17,407 --> 00:29:18,582 until about a week ago. 726 00:29:18,582 --> 00:29:19,801 I curious, did it become repugnant 727 00:29:19,801 --> 00:29:21,194 after Harry Korn came to see you? 728 00:29:21,194 --> 00:29:22,848 Objection.Sustained. 729 00:29:22,848 --> 00:29:25,372 Bethany, when was the last time you spoke to your mother? 730 00:29:25,372 --> 00:29:27,461 I believe it was the afternoon of her death. 731 00:29:27,461 --> 00:29:28,549 She called you? Yes. 732 00:29:28,549 --> 00:29:29,724 What'’d she say? 733 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:30,899 I don'’t really remember. 734 00:29:30,899 --> 00:29:33,249 Just mother-daughter stuff, I guess. 735 00:29:33,249 --> 00:29:35,730 This isn'’t true, Bethany. 736 00:29:35,730 --> 00:29:39,821 You two didn'’t engage in much mother-daughter stuff, did you? 737 00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:46,436 What did she call to say? 738 00:29:48,264 --> 00:29:50,136 Bethany, you'’re under oath, 739 00:29:50,136 --> 00:29:52,442 subject to the pains and penalties of perjury. 740 00:29:52,442 --> 00:29:53,792 What did your mother tell you? 741 00:29:55,706 --> 00:29:57,926 Ms. Sanders, please answer the question. 742 00:29:57,926 --> 00:29:59,275 Honey, what did she say? 743 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,103 She was leaving my father. 744 00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:03,323 She was filing for a divorce. 745 00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:04,628 And did she indicate as when she 746 00:30:04,628 --> 00:30:06,021 planned to tell your father this news? 747 00:30:06,021 --> 00:30:09,808 She said she was going to tell him that night. 748 00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,548 [gallery murmuring] 749 00:30:17,685 --> 00:30:20,427 Ms. Korn, one question. How do you explain the fact 750 00:30:20,427 --> 00:30:23,822 that no other person was seen on the security camera? 751 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:25,911 [reporters clamoring] 752 00:30:30,959 --> 00:30:32,874 Okay, let'’s have it. 753 00:30:32,874 --> 00:30:34,876 I never told the District Attorney this. 754 00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:36,965 I don'’t even know how she found that out. 755 00:30:36,965 --> 00:30:38,662 I never told anybody, not even my shrink. 756 00:30:38,662 --> 00:30:40,142 Why the hell didn'’t you tell me?! 757 00:30:40,142 --> 00:30:41,970 Because I thought... 758 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:44,755 I mean, I knew how bad it would look. 759 00:30:44,755 --> 00:30:46,975 My mother tells my father she'’s leaving and then she'’s killed? 760 00:30:46,975 --> 00:30:49,499 I just-- I thought that it would be better 761 00:30:49,499 --> 00:30:52,241 if I didn'’t tell anybody. 762 00:30:52,241 --> 00:30:53,590 I'’m so sorry, Daddy. 763 00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:55,070 She never told me she wanted a divorce. 764 00:30:55,070 --> 00:30:56,593 This is the first I'’m hearing of it. 765 00:30:56,593 --> 00:30:58,552 Wait. So how did Remmick find out? 766 00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:01,207 Your siblings told me they had absolutely no contact 767 00:31:01,207 --> 00:31:02,251 with your mother. 768 00:31:02,251 --> 00:31:03,687 I doubt they'’d know. 769 00:31:03,687 --> 00:31:07,561 So if you didn'’t talk to Roseanna, who did? 770 00:31:12,218 --> 00:31:14,524 HARRY: The Defense recalls Corinne Waters. 771 00:31:14,524 --> 00:31:16,700 Uh, Harry, what are you doing?Playing a hunch. 772 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,137 Not in open court. You out of your mind? 773 00:31:18,137 --> 00:31:20,008 HARRY: It'’s the only forum available, Ollie. 774 00:31:20,008 --> 00:31:21,705 I can'’t invite the woman to tea.Harry, you can'’t just... 775 00:31:21,705 --> 00:31:23,098 Sit the hell down. You'’re making a scene. 776 00:31:24,970 --> 00:31:27,537 Ms. Waters, I'’ll remind you that you'’re still under oath. 777 00:31:27,537 --> 00:31:31,890 Ms. Waters, I was wondering, anything you forget to include 778 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,717 in your testimony, or should I say 779 00:31:33,717 --> 00:31:36,851 anything you were you were very specific to exclude? 780 00:31:36,851 --> 00:31:39,375 Well, I may have left out that you disgust me, 781 00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:40,768 but certainly I thought that was implied. 782 00:31:40,768 --> 00:31:42,161 Yeah. 783 00:31:42,161 --> 00:31:44,554 You said Ellen Sanders was your best friend. 784 00:31:44,554 --> 00:31:45,991 She was more than your best friend, 785 00:31:45,991 --> 00:31:47,427 wasn'’t she, Corinne? 786 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:51,518 I'’m sorry. You didn'’t hear the question? 787 00:31:51,518 --> 00:31:54,521 I'’ll rephrase it; maybe that'’ll help. 788 00:31:54,521 --> 00:31:56,915 Were you Mrs. Sanders lover, Corinne? 789 00:31:56,915 --> 00:32:00,005 [gallery gasps and murmurs] 790 00:32:00,005 --> 00:32:01,354 Settle down. 791 00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:04,705 See, the way I figure it, 792 00:32:04,705 --> 00:32:06,402 if the victim was having an affair, 793 00:32:06,402 --> 00:32:07,838 she might have told her lover 794 00:32:07,838 --> 00:32:09,231 she was planning to divorce Eric, 795 00:32:09,231 --> 00:32:11,059 and perhaps her lover passed this information 796 00:32:11,059 --> 00:32:12,626 on to the District Attorney. 797 00:32:12,626 --> 00:32:15,281 Were you Mrs. Sanders'’ lover, Corinne? 798 00:32:15,281 --> 00:32:18,414 My personal life is of no concern to you or this court. 799 00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:20,721 Oh, it'’s very much the concern of both, I promise you. 800 00:32:20,721 --> 00:32:22,070 Were you her lover? 801 00:32:22,070 --> 00:32:24,333 Answer the question, Ms. Waters. 802 00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:26,422 Yes. 803 00:32:26,422 --> 00:32:28,381 [gallery gasps and murmurs] 804 00:32:28,381 --> 00:32:30,949 Well, the plot certainly thickens, doesn'’t it? 805 00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:32,602 I hope you'’re pleased with yourself. 806 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:33,777 I have a husband. 807 00:32:33,777 --> 00:32:34,909 Ah. Think he'’ll be pleased? 808 00:32:34,909 --> 00:32:36,215 And I have kids. 809 00:32:36,215 --> 00:32:37,999 And you may have just destroyed my family. 810 00:32:37,999 --> 00:32:39,783 And for what, to get this murderer off? 811 00:32:39,783 --> 00:32:41,785 Ms. Waters, if you had come clean with me, 812 00:32:41,785 --> 00:32:43,135 I might have had options. 813 00:32:43,135 --> 00:32:44,788 And you couldn'’t have been more wrong. 814 00:32:44,788 --> 00:32:46,138 She was never gonna file for divorce. 815 00:32:46,138 --> 00:32:47,400 She was leaving me for him. 816 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,358 He killed her to finally get rid of her. 817 00:32:49,358 --> 00:32:50,403 Objection. 818 00:32:50,403 --> 00:32:51,752 Move to strike. You killed her 819 00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:52,927 because you wanted her money.Objection. 820 00:32:52,927 --> 00:32:55,843 Ms. Waters, that is enough. 821 00:33:00,804 --> 00:33:02,763 [Corinne sobbing] 822 00:33:20,694 --> 00:33:23,740 HARRY: Well, if the goal was to get the jury 823 00:33:23,740 --> 00:33:25,264 to hate somebody else 824 00:33:25,264 --> 00:33:26,439 more than they do you, 825 00:33:26,439 --> 00:33:27,527 I succeeded. 826 00:33:27,527 --> 00:33:28,963 I think it was a net win. 827 00:33:28,963 --> 00:33:30,573 You'’re always positive, aren'’t you? 828 00:33:30,573 --> 00:33:32,401 No. I can be very negative with certain things. 829 00:33:32,401 --> 00:33:34,055 And people. 830 00:33:34,055 --> 00:33:36,362 We'’ve established that the witness had a secret life. 831 00:33:36,362 --> 00:33:38,190 Secrecy breeds doubt. 832 00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:40,409 Let'’s just move on to Xenia Torres. 833 00:33:40,409 --> 00:33:42,977 Try to do well with her. 834 00:33:44,892 --> 00:33:47,329 XENIA: I worked as their housekeeper for 18 years. 835 00:33:47,329 --> 00:33:48,504 HARRY: And Ms. Torres... 836 00:33:48,504 --> 00:33:50,289 could you describe your relationship 837 00:33:50,289 --> 00:33:52,117 with the Sanders for those many years? 838 00:33:52,117 --> 00:33:53,727 It was professional. 839 00:33:53,727 --> 00:33:55,381 It was never friendly. 840 00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:57,383 Mr. Sanders scared me a little. 841 00:33:57,383 --> 00:33:58,558 He scared you? 842 00:33:58,558 --> 00:33:59,689 He would be moody, 843 00:33:59,689 --> 00:34:01,169 sullen, 844 00:34:01,169 --> 00:34:05,739 and sometimes he would have unpredictable rages. 845 00:34:05,739 --> 00:34:08,829 And what about your relationship with Mrs. Sanders? 846 00:34:08,829 --> 00:34:10,222 She was very cold. 847 00:34:10,222 --> 00:34:11,745 Never happy with my work. 848 00:34:11,745 --> 00:34:13,007 And your feelings for her? 849 00:34:13,007 --> 00:34:14,530 It was very mixed. 850 00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:16,663 I resented how she treated me, 851 00:34:16,663 --> 00:34:18,708 but I was also devoted. 852 00:34:18,708 --> 00:34:21,059 There were times Mr. Sanders wanted to fire me, 853 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,408 but she said no. 854 00:34:23,670 --> 00:34:25,585 [whispers]: She never told me that. 855 00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:27,195 Let'’s turn to the day you were fired. 856 00:34:27,195 --> 00:34:28,501 Can we do that?Okay. 857 00:34:28,501 --> 00:34:30,459 Can you tell us why you were fired? 858 00:34:30,459 --> 00:34:33,506 Mrs. Sanders was not happy with the way I made her bed. 859 00:34:33,506 --> 00:34:35,595 Specifically, what was wrong with the way you made her bed? 860 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:37,292 She was never specific with me. 861 00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:39,860 She just said it wasn'’t good enough. 862 00:34:39,860 --> 00:34:43,907 Had you made it any differently that day? 863 00:34:43,907 --> 00:34:44,908 No. 864 00:34:45,779 --> 00:34:48,303 Excuse me, one second. 865 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:52,655 [whispers]: She'’s lying, Harry. 866 00:34:52,655 --> 00:34:55,789 The question is, did she lie to you, or is she lying to me? 867 00:34:55,789 --> 00:34:57,573 Cassie, I'’m a little on the spot here. 868 00:34:57,573 --> 00:34:59,184 I'’m certain she was being truthful with me. 869 00:34:59,184 --> 00:35:00,272 You'’ll testify to that? 870 00:35:00,272 --> 00:35:01,577 I will. 871 00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:04,537 She'’s lying now. 872 00:35:05,799 --> 00:35:07,844 Sorry to keep you waiting, ma'’am. 873 00:35:07,844 --> 00:35:12,545 Tell me, did you put a dead rat in Mrs. Sanders'’ bed? 874 00:35:12,545 --> 00:35:15,678 No. No, I did not do this. 875 00:35:15,678 --> 00:35:19,204 She said I did as an excuse to fire me, but I never did. 876 00:35:19,204 --> 00:35:20,509 Did you tell this woman, 877 00:35:20,509 --> 00:35:21,989 Cassie Reynolds, 878 00:35:21,989 --> 00:35:24,296 that you put a dead rat in Mrs. Sanders'’ bed? 879 00:35:24,296 --> 00:35:26,646 No, I never told her this. 880 00:35:26,646 --> 00:35:28,082 Okay, Xenia. 881 00:35:28,082 --> 00:35:29,736 This is where these things can get exciting. 882 00:35:29,736 --> 00:35:31,564 I'’m about to disqualify Cassie Reynolds 883 00:35:31,564 --> 00:35:34,001 as a participating attorney in this trial, 884 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:35,481 and, instead, call her as a witness. 885 00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:36,221 Objection. 886 00:35:36,221 --> 00:35:37,309 Overruled. 887 00:35:37,309 --> 00:35:38,832 She will come up here 888 00:35:38,832 --> 00:35:40,660 and, subject to the pains and penalties of perjury, 889 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:42,575 testify as to what you told her. 890 00:35:42,575 --> 00:35:44,142 But before I do that, I'’m going to 891 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:46,013 give you one more chance to answer the question, 892 00:35:46,013 --> 00:35:47,928 reminding you that you, too, are subject 893 00:35:47,928 --> 00:35:49,886 to the same pains and penalties. 894 00:35:49,886 --> 00:35:52,193 Did you tell Cassie Reynolds 895 00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:55,153 that you put a dead rat in Ellen Sanders'’ bed? 896 00:35:58,199 --> 00:35:59,983 Uh... I... 897 00:35:59,983 --> 00:36:02,377 Is there a reason you'’re looking to the District Attorney 898 00:36:02,377 --> 00:36:03,683 for guidance in this matter? 899 00:36:03,683 --> 00:36:04,727 Objection. 900 00:36:04,727 --> 00:36:06,512 JUDGE: Overruled. 901 00:36:06,512 --> 00:36:09,732 Did you tell Cassie you stuck a dead rat in the woman'’s bed? 902 00:36:09,732 --> 00:36:11,734 I-I only said that to mislead her 903 00:36:11,734 --> 00:36:15,477 '’cause I knew she was defending Mr. Sanders. 904 00:36:15,477 --> 00:36:18,524 Okay, Xenia, that'’s a good try. 905 00:36:18,524 --> 00:36:20,482 But the truth always comes out, 906 00:36:20,482 --> 00:36:22,615 as I'’m sure you'’ll suspect; I'’m going to give you 907 00:36:22,615 --> 00:36:24,094 one more chance to set the record straight. 908 00:36:24,094 --> 00:36:25,095 Objection. 909 00:36:25,661 --> 00:36:27,707 Overruled. 910 00:36:27,707 --> 00:36:30,840 Did you tell Cassie Reynolds that you did in fact 911 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,581 put the rat in the bed? 912 00:36:32,581 --> 00:36:33,713 Yes. 913 00:36:35,454 --> 00:36:38,848 Why did you just testify otherwise? 914 00:36:38,848 --> 00:36:40,894 [sniffles] 915 00:36:40,894 --> 00:36:43,766 I... I have loved ones with Immigration. 916 00:36:43,766 --> 00:36:47,770 Ms. Remmick said that if... if I didn'’t testify properly, 917 00:36:47,770 --> 00:36:49,642 my family would be deported. 918 00:36:49,642 --> 00:36:51,034 Your Honor, I did no such thing.Sit down! 919 00:36:53,036 --> 00:36:54,560 JUDGE: This is very serious. 920 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,083 Look at me. 921 00:36:56,083 --> 00:36:57,476 You need to tell me right now, 922 00:36:57,476 --> 00:36:59,478 and it'’d damn well better be the truth, 923 00:36:59,478 --> 00:37:02,350 Did the District Attorney threaten you? 924 00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:04,831 She said that my family... 925 00:37:04,831 --> 00:37:06,746 She told you to deny that 926 00:37:06,746 --> 00:37:08,182 you'’d put a rat in Mrs. Sanders'’s bed? 927 00:37:08,182 --> 00:37:09,357 Yes. 928 00:37:09,357 --> 00:37:11,446 She implied that I might be arrested 929 00:37:11,446 --> 00:37:13,274 as a suspect in this case 930 00:37:13,274 --> 00:37:16,538 if Mr. Sanders didn'’t get convicted. 931 00:37:20,281 --> 00:37:22,457 JUDGE: You can step down now, Ms. Torres. 932 00:37:22,457 --> 00:37:24,067 Your Honor, I haven'’t quite finished... 933 00:37:24,067 --> 00:37:25,634 Step back, Ms. Korn. Step back. 934 00:37:36,558 --> 00:37:38,560 [breathes deeply] 935 00:37:41,128 --> 00:37:43,130 Okay. 936 00:37:45,045 --> 00:37:46,307 This case is over. 937 00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:48,135 [gallery gasps and murmurs] 938 00:37:48,135 --> 00:37:50,833 The charges against Mr. Sanders are dismissed with prejudice 939 00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:53,967 on the grounds of deliberate and gross prosecutorial misconduct. 940 00:37:53,967 --> 00:37:55,969 Ms. Remmick, I warned you. 941 00:37:55,969 --> 00:37:58,276 I will be recommending you for immediate disbarment. 942 00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:00,452 Mr. Sanders, you are free to go. 943 00:38:00,452 --> 00:38:01,931 CASSIE: Oh, my God.We gotta get out of here. 944 00:38:01,931 --> 00:38:03,237 [crowd murmuring] 945 00:38:13,029 --> 00:38:15,205 [reporters clamoring] 946 00:38:18,252 --> 00:38:21,299 I'’m claustrophobic.OLIVER: Get back! 947 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:23,388 Don'’t make me start swinging. 948 00:38:23,388 --> 00:38:25,390 Where the hell is security?Come on. Get back! 949 00:38:25,390 --> 00:38:29,307 TV REPORTER: Stunned, shocked, you could hear people gasp, even scream; 950 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,831 the entire room was rocked by this. 951 00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:34,312 And no, Eric Sanders cannot be tried again. 952 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,662 Double jeopardy does apply. 953 00:38:36,662 --> 00:38:38,359 He is a free man. 954 00:38:38,359 --> 00:38:40,013 We are all still catching our breath. 955 00:38:40,013 --> 00:38:41,667 And while this ruling 956 00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:43,843 is certainly within the judge'’s discretion, 957 00:38:43,843 --> 00:38:45,845 and there is precedent for it, 958 00:38:45,845 --> 00:38:47,542 for a trial of this magnitude, 959 00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:51,503 no one could possibly have forecast such a development. 960 00:38:51,503 --> 00:38:53,156 [remote clicks] 961 00:38:53,156 --> 00:38:56,334 How could she take such a stupid risk-- Roseanna? 962 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:57,813 Because the judge was right. 963 00:38:57,813 --> 00:38:58,988 She'’s psychotic. 964 00:38:58,988 --> 00:39:00,512 Eric, you don'’t look very excited 965 00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:02,252 for someone who just got his life back. 966 00:39:02,252 --> 00:39:04,037 I'’m thrilled, trust me. 967 00:39:04,037 --> 00:39:06,256 I just can'’t quite believe it. 968 00:39:06,256 --> 00:39:08,128 But to be honest, 969 00:39:08,128 --> 00:39:10,348 I wish you could have kept going, Harry-- 970 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:14,439 revealed Xenia to be the killer if she'’s the one. 971 00:39:14,439 --> 00:39:15,918 Remember my prayer... 972 00:39:15,918 --> 00:39:18,921 I had to know I couldn'’t do this. 973 00:39:18,921 --> 00:39:21,924 Oh, I think you know the answer to that question, Eric. 974 00:39:21,924 --> 00:39:23,186 Don'’t you? 975 00:39:23,186 --> 00:39:27,103 I mean, when you really think about it, 976 00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:30,106 we know the killer was diabolical, had access, 977 00:39:30,106 --> 00:39:31,456 probably motive 978 00:39:31,456 --> 00:39:34,502 and above all, an enormous amount of hatred 979 00:39:34,502 --> 00:39:37,462 not just for your wife, but for you. 980 00:39:37,462 --> 00:39:40,029 This was a meticulous frame-job. 981 00:39:40,029 --> 00:39:42,815 Everything planned, right down to saving a choice little nugget 982 00:39:42,815 --> 00:39:45,774 for trial just to bury you. 983 00:39:49,038 --> 00:39:50,736 What are you talking about? 984 00:39:50,736 --> 00:39:53,565 Your mother never planned to get a divorce. 985 00:39:53,565 --> 00:39:55,523 You made this divorce thing up 986 00:39:55,523 --> 00:39:57,917 just to give the prosecution motive. 987 00:39:57,917 --> 00:40:01,529 Roseanna Remmick got that from you, didn'’t she, Bethany? 988 00:40:01,529 --> 00:40:02,791 What? 989 00:40:03,923 --> 00:40:05,577 You'’re out of your mind. 990 00:40:07,143 --> 00:40:09,494 I hacked into a few phone records. 991 00:40:09,494 --> 00:40:12,497 Quite a few calls of late between you and the D.A. 992 00:40:15,369 --> 00:40:17,589 HARRY: You killed your mother. 993 00:40:17,589 --> 00:40:20,592 You had access both to the place and the journal. 994 00:40:20,592 --> 00:40:22,681 You knew your mother'’s bath routine, 995 00:40:22,681 --> 00:40:25,161 your father'’s addiction to sleeping pills. 996 00:40:25,161 --> 00:40:28,251 You knew about the crawl-space above the bathroom 997 00:40:28,251 --> 00:40:29,818 and the one spot 998 00:40:29,818 --> 00:40:32,821 where the security cameras wouldn'’t detect you. 999 00:40:32,821 --> 00:40:35,128 This was a total inside job. 1000 00:40:35,128 --> 00:40:38,087 SANDERS: Bethany? 1001 00:40:39,088 --> 00:40:40,438 Why? 1002 00:40:42,309 --> 00:40:43,571 Why? 1003 00:40:43,571 --> 00:40:46,139 Don'’t listen to her. 1004 00:40:46,139 --> 00:40:48,620 Why would I kill Mom? 1005 00:40:49,838 --> 00:40:52,014 She was always so sweet to me 1006 00:40:52,014 --> 00:40:54,669 and kind and gentle. 1007 00:40:54,669 --> 00:40:57,585 And the way that you just let her go on 1008 00:40:57,585 --> 00:41:01,110 being so kind and gentle to me? 1009 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:03,591 Why would I ever frame you, Daddy? 1010 00:41:03,591 --> 00:41:06,464 You were the one who enabled her to pummel me 1011 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,814 with all that sweetness. 1012 00:41:08,814 --> 00:41:10,729 I'’m indebted to you. 1013 00:41:12,644 --> 00:41:14,341 I'’m Daddy'’s little girl. 1014 00:41:16,691 --> 00:41:19,694 Mommy and Daddy dearest, 1015 00:41:19,694 --> 00:41:23,872 I was doubly blessed. 1016 00:41:23,872 --> 00:41:27,441 Tell me, Daddy, 1017 00:41:27,441 --> 00:41:30,488 do you ever take bubble baths? 1018 00:41:34,361 --> 00:41:37,407 You played us so perfectly, 1019 00:41:37,407 --> 00:41:40,715 setting yourself up as a defense witness, only to... 1020 00:41:40,715 --> 00:41:43,239 Was that Roseanna'’s idea, or yours? 1021 00:41:48,810 --> 00:41:52,901 Oh, I think you'’re being a fantasist... 1022 00:41:52,901 --> 00:41:54,729 just like Daddy. 1023 00:42:03,042 --> 00:42:09,614 ♪ She'’s got everyone to help her on her way ♪ 1024 00:42:09,614 --> 00:42:16,490 ♪ She'’s got everyone to help her on her way... ♪ 1025 00:42:16,490 --> 00:42:18,536 [softly]: Wow. 1026 00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:22,235 Captioning sponsored by WARNER BROS. 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