1 00:00:01,262 --> 00:00:02,915 Voluntary manslaughter, three years. 2 00:00:02,915 --> 00:00:05,353 That is a gift, you know it. 3 00:00:05,353 --> 00:00:08,399 Here'’s our problem. Our client is convinced she didn'’t do this. 4 00:00:08,399 --> 00:00:09,792 I will never get her to admit 5 00:00:09,792 --> 00:00:11,359 to an intentional homicide. 6 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:13,230 Well, then I suggest you get her to a doctor, Harry. 7 00:00:13,230 --> 00:00:14,579 We'’ve already gotten her to seven. 8 00:00:14,579 --> 00:00:16,233 And they pretty much say the same thing: 9 00:00:16,233 --> 00:00:17,582 she likely blocked it out. 10 00:00:17,582 --> 00:00:19,193 I think I can sell her 11 00:00:19,193 --> 00:00:21,021 on negligent homicide. I'’ll still give you 12 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:23,327 the three years, Ben. Why do you care? 13 00:00:23,327 --> 00:00:25,460 I care because negligent homicide is a mockery. 14 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:28,376 She just so happens to accidentally kill her baby 15 00:00:28,376 --> 00:00:30,204 who just so happens to be suffering from anencephaly? 16 00:00:30,204 --> 00:00:32,945 Look, you want her off the street, I get that. 17 00:00:32,945 --> 00:00:34,425 But come on. 18 00:00:34,425 --> 00:00:36,514 She belongs in a hospital, not a prison. 19 00:00:36,514 --> 00:00:38,386 You know, I really don'’t believe that. 20 00:00:38,386 --> 00:00:39,648 She murdered a child. 21 00:00:39,648 --> 00:00:41,128 We'’ve got a sympathetic client here. 22 00:00:41,128 --> 00:00:42,433 We could easily get up there and argue the virtues 23 00:00:42,433 --> 00:00:43,695 of physician- assisted suicide. 24 00:00:43,695 --> 00:00:45,175 What are you doing? 25 00:00:45,175 --> 00:00:47,090 I'’m offering you guys three years 26 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:49,179 for an intentional homicide. Why are you not jumping at this? 27 00:00:49,179 --> 00:00:50,833 Because even if we were inclined 28 00:00:50,833 --> 00:00:52,313 to jump, the client won'’t. 29 00:00:52,313 --> 00:00:54,445 And you told her she could get 25-to-life? 30 00:00:54,445 --> 00:00:56,012 We ran that by her, yeah. 31 00:00:56,012 --> 00:00:58,493 She needs treatment, Ben. 32 00:00:58,493 --> 00:01:01,670 I'’m not in the treatment business. 33 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:03,672 Just prison. 34 00:01:13,508 --> 00:01:14,900 So what now? 35 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:16,989 Well, we may be forced to withdraw as counsel. 36 00:01:16,989 --> 00:01:18,469 The day before the trial? 37 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:20,036 Well, she'’s gonna have to testify. 38 00:01:20,036 --> 00:01:22,212 We can'’t willingly put her on the stand to lie. 39 00:01:22,212 --> 00:01:23,605 She wouldn'’t be lying if she thinks she didn'’t do it. 40 00:01:23,605 --> 00:01:24,606 TOMMY: It'’s crooked. 41 00:01:24,606 --> 00:01:25,607 Your other alternative is 42 00:01:25,607 --> 00:01:26,782 to challenge her competency. 43 00:01:26,782 --> 00:01:27,870 It won'’t fly, she'’s already 44 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:29,611 passed every competency test. 45 00:01:29,611 --> 00:01:30,742 CASSIE: Well, then you need to read her the riot act now. 46 00:01:30,742 --> 00:01:32,396 We already did. 47 00:01:32,396 --> 00:01:34,529 [thud, grunt] 48 00:01:34,529 --> 00:01:37,140 [elevator bell dings] 49 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:39,534 Oh, hello. We can go right in my office. 50 00:01:39,534 --> 00:01:41,231 Maybe you should tell them, Cassie. 51 00:01:41,231 --> 00:01:43,059 But I barely know them.Shh. 52 00:01:43,059 --> 00:01:44,060 ADAM: You moved the ladder. 53 00:01:44,060 --> 00:01:45,061 No, I didn'’t. 54 00:01:45,061 --> 00:01:46,236 Well, you shook it then. 55 00:01:48,325 --> 00:01:51,328 Okay, look, If we try to argue to the jury 56 00:01:51,328 --> 00:01:52,808 you didn'’t cause your baby'’s death, 57 00:01:52,808 --> 00:01:54,505 we will lose. 58 00:01:54,505 --> 00:01:56,899 It'’s that simple. I don'’t know how else to put it. 59 00:01:56,899 --> 00:01:59,162 But it'’s the truth. 60 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:00,424 You remember Cassie Reynolds? 61 00:02:00,424 --> 00:02:02,992 I asked her to cast a fresh eye on this. 62 00:02:02,992 --> 00:02:05,212 She has something she'’d like to say. 63 00:02:06,430 --> 00:02:08,215 Tell them what you'’d like to say. 64 00:02:13,481 --> 00:02:16,571 When the nurse passed your son to you, he was alive. 65 00:02:16,571 --> 00:02:18,529 And when she took him from you... 66 00:02:18,529 --> 00:02:20,096 he was not. 67 00:02:20,096 --> 00:02:22,011 The child died in your hands. 68 00:02:22,011 --> 00:02:23,534 There is no dispute. 69 00:02:23,534 --> 00:02:26,320 And the cause of death was a broken neck. 70 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,626 What are you saying? 71 00:02:28,626 --> 00:02:29,975 She'’s saying your wife is going to prison, Blake. 72 00:02:29,975 --> 00:02:31,586 The baby was only three days old. 73 00:02:31,586 --> 00:02:33,240 The neck is so fragile. It could'’ve... 74 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,502 There'’s no medical evidence to support 75 00:02:34,502 --> 00:02:36,330 that it could'’ve just broken. 76 00:02:36,330 --> 00:02:38,114 There could'’ve been a fracture that we didn'’t know about. 77 00:02:38,114 --> 00:02:39,420 Or some... some genetic defect. 78 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:40,986 We haven'’t been able to find a doctor 79 00:02:40,986 --> 00:02:43,511 who will support that either. 80 00:02:43,511 --> 00:02:46,078 Look, if you acted somehow to relieve the child'’s suffering... 81 00:02:46,078 --> 00:02:48,994 She didn'’t do that. 82 00:02:48,994 --> 00:02:51,736 My wife would never willingly cause the death of our child. 83 00:02:51,736 --> 00:02:54,826 A human life is sacred, Mr. Richard. 84 00:02:54,826 --> 00:02:57,960 Every life, no matter what, it is sacred. 85 00:03:00,876 --> 00:03:02,965 I can maybe sell a jury a mercy killing. 86 00:03:02,965 --> 00:03:05,359 But if we go in there claiming you didn'’t do this... 87 00:03:05,359 --> 00:03:07,665 She didn'’t.I'’m talking to your wife right now. 88 00:03:07,665 --> 00:03:11,365 The prosecutor cannot prove she did this because she didn'’t. 89 00:03:12,670 --> 00:03:14,803 She didn'’t. 90 00:03:18,154 --> 00:03:19,982 I didn'’t. 91 00:03:35,389 --> 00:03:37,434 OLLIE: He'’s totally controlling her. 92 00:03:37,434 --> 00:03:38,870 Maybe she knows she did it, 93 00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:40,698 she'’s just afraid to admit it to her husband. 94 00:03:40,698 --> 00:03:43,135 Have you been able to talk to this woman alone? 95 00:03:43,135 --> 00:03:45,268 Once, but I think I'’m gonna have to try again. 96 00:03:45,268 --> 00:03:47,618 Tommy, if I could ask... 97 00:03:47,618 --> 00:03:50,621 What?! I was just helping him... balance. 98 00:03:50,621 --> 00:03:52,362 Are you okay? 99 00:03:52,362 --> 00:03:54,408 No. 100 00:03:54,408 --> 00:03:56,932 Tommy, I don'’t know what'’s gonna happen, 101 00:03:56,932 --> 00:03:58,586 but it'’s possible that the husband and wife 102 00:03:58,586 --> 00:04:00,457 are gonna need to get separate counsel. 103 00:04:00,457 --> 00:04:02,416 Are you available?I am. Thank you. 104 00:04:02,416 --> 00:04:04,679 And, Adam, would you do some research 105 00:04:04,679 --> 00:04:06,681 on active euthanasia, where the law currently stands in Ohio? 106 00:04:06,681 --> 00:04:08,291 I can tell you now it'’s illegal. 107 00:04:08,291 --> 00:04:11,033 Yeah, just do the research all the same, will you? Ollie, 108 00:04:11,033 --> 00:04:13,688 Yeah?I may need you to get in the husband'’s face a little. 109 00:04:13,688 --> 00:04:15,037 Done. What else?Could just fix the star 110 00:04:15,037 --> 00:04:17,518 on top of the tree? 111 00:04:17,518 --> 00:04:19,041 [elevator bell dings] 112 00:04:19,041 --> 00:04:21,173 Hello, hello, hello! 113 00:04:21,173 --> 00:04:22,871 Is somebody having a birthday?! 114 00:04:22,871 --> 00:04:23,785 ALL: She is! 115 00:04:23,785 --> 00:04:24,699 Happy birthday, Harry. 116 00:04:24,699 --> 00:04:26,831 Happy birthday, Harry! 117 00:04:26,831 --> 00:04:28,616 You got me a clown? 118 00:04:28,616 --> 00:04:31,053 That new bakery on Fourth is having a promotion; free clown 119 00:04:31,053 --> 00:04:33,621 with the purchase of a birthday cake. I couldn'’t resist. 120 00:04:33,621 --> 00:04:35,840 You got me a discount clown. 121 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:37,146 Now, before we get to that 122 00:04:37,146 --> 00:04:38,190 scrumpdiliumptious cake... 123 00:04:38,190 --> 00:04:39,496 Oh, look what I did there. 124 00:04:39,496 --> 00:04:41,324 Let me just pick that up. 125 00:04:41,324 --> 00:04:42,325 Wow! 126 00:04:42,325 --> 00:04:44,371 Well, thank you, little lady! 127 00:04:44,371 --> 00:04:45,328 Now who wants to see a magic trick? 128 00:04:45,328 --> 00:04:46,851 You could saw me in half. 129 00:04:46,851 --> 00:04:49,245 Look what we have here. A heart! 130 00:04:49,245 --> 00:04:50,855 Isn'’t she pretty? Now the thing about hearts 131 00:04:50,855 --> 00:04:52,857 though, is sometimes they get broken. 132 00:04:52,857 --> 00:04:56,687 Yes, a heart can get broken, and it gets torn. 133 00:04:56,687 --> 00:04:59,386 But if a good little birthday girl will just blow on 134 00:04:59,386 --> 00:05:00,952 the pieces, maybe they'’ll go back together! 135 00:05:00,952 --> 00:05:03,433 Now who'’s a good girl, huh? Who'’s a good girl?! 136 00:05:03,433 --> 00:05:04,782 Who'’s a dead clown? 137 00:05:04,782 --> 00:05:07,307 Okeydokey, I'’ll do it myself. 138 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:09,134 Let'’s see here. 139 00:05:10,614 --> 00:05:13,225 And we put the heart back together! 140 00:05:13,225 --> 00:05:14,183 Yay! 141 00:05:15,489 --> 00:05:17,752 Good as new. 142 00:05:19,057 --> 00:05:20,363 Okay, wrap it up, clown. 143 00:05:20,363 --> 00:05:22,278 Look what we have here. A heart! 144 00:05:22,278 --> 00:05:24,106 Now the thing about hearts is... 145 00:05:24,106 --> 00:05:25,760 I already did that, didn'’t I? 146 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:32,114 A heart... uh... 147 00:05:33,594 --> 00:05:35,422 Something'’s up with the clown. 148 00:05:40,644 --> 00:05:42,820 Are you okay? 149 00:05:43,821 --> 00:05:46,346 Not really, no. 150 00:05:50,393 --> 00:05:52,787 [elevator bell dings] 151 00:06:03,537 --> 00:06:05,147 Over here, Ms. Korn. 152 00:06:05,147 --> 00:06:06,540 Get back, get back, get back. 153 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:07,715 [reporters clamoring] 154 00:06:07,715 --> 00:06:09,499 HARRY: We'’re a little bit early. 155 00:06:09,499 --> 00:06:12,720 Why don'’t we wait in the witness room until we'’re called. 156 00:06:15,244 --> 00:06:18,378 Blake, can I talk to you for a sec? 157 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:20,292 Listen, I know you love your wife, 158 00:06:20,292 --> 00:06:21,816 but if you'’re covering for her... 159 00:06:21,816 --> 00:06:23,208 I'’m not. 160 00:06:23,208 --> 00:06:25,385 When you left to go home, you know for a fact 161 00:06:25,385 --> 00:06:26,908 the baby was still alive? 162 00:06:26,908 --> 00:06:28,997 Absolutely. I kissed him good night. 163 00:06:29,693 --> 00:06:30,868 Absolutely. 164 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:35,177 All right, Julie, I'’m gonna cut to the chase. 165 00:06:35,177 --> 00:06:37,266 We don'’t have time for any more crap, you get me? 166 00:06:37,266 --> 00:06:39,094 What do you mean? 167 00:06:39,094 --> 00:06:41,444 Some of our shrinks think you blocked this whole thing out, 168 00:06:41,444 --> 00:06:43,446 others thought maybe not so much. 169 00:06:43,446 --> 00:06:46,536 You know what I'’m thinking? 170 00:06:46,536 --> 00:06:49,583 You did this and you know you did it, 171 00:06:49,583 --> 00:06:53,195 but you'’re afraid to say so in front of your husband. 172 00:06:54,544 --> 00:06:56,285 That'’s not true. 173 00:06:56,285 --> 00:06:57,852 Shouldn'’t we go inside?Oh, no, we'’re fine. 174 00:06:57,852 --> 00:07:00,202 I just want to go over some body language things. 175 00:07:00,202 --> 00:07:02,378 A few dos and don'’ts in the courtroom. 176 00:07:02,378 --> 00:07:04,859 Yeah. I'’d like to go in there, please. 177 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,472 We'’ve got a shot here, but only if you come clean. 178 00:07:09,472 --> 00:07:13,041 If you lie, you go to prison. 179 00:07:13,041 --> 00:07:14,477 Why can'’t we go inside? 180 00:07:14,477 --> 00:07:15,826 Because I need your full attention here. 181 00:07:15,826 --> 00:07:17,349 This is important. 182 00:07:17,349 --> 00:07:18,525 Not so fast. 183 00:07:18,525 --> 00:07:20,222 Not so fast! 184 00:07:20,222 --> 00:07:22,050 What'’s, what'’s going on here? 185 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:25,314 What'’s going on is Harry needs 186 00:07:25,314 --> 00:07:27,447 to talk to her client in private. 187 00:07:32,016 --> 00:07:34,366 What the hell'’s going on? 188 00:07:34,366 --> 00:07:37,544 What'’s going on is I think it'’s possible your wife is afraid 189 00:07:37,544 --> 00:07:41,548 to tell the truth, and what'’s got her afraid is you. 190 00:07:41,548 --> 00:07:44,986 What? Tell her that'’s not true. 191 00:07:47,989 --> 00:07:50,557 Honey... 192 00:07:51,645 --> 00:07:52,733 Is this true? 193 00:07:52,733 --> 00:07:55,257 No. 194 00:08:04,266 --> 00:08:06,050 [door closes] 195 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:08,009 Okay, look, honey... 196 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:10,185 God forgives. 197 00:08:10,185 --> 00:08:13,231 And if you did this, 198 00:08:13,231 --> 00:08:14,406 to spare our baby suffering, 199 00:08:14,406 --> 00:08:17,235 God will certainly forgive that. 200 00:08:17,235 --> 00:08:19,586 I'’ll forgive that. 201 00:08:19,586 --> 00:08:21,196 Is that what happened? 202 00:08:26,506 --> 00:08:29,378 Honey, it'’s okay. 203 00:08:29,378 --> 00:08:31,641 Is that what happened? 204 00:08:35,645 --> 00:08:38,039 I promise I was just holding him. 205 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,258 I didn'’t do anything. 206 00:08:40,258 --> 00:08:44,349 I was just holding him. 207 00:08:44,349 --> 00:08:45,960 I could never... 208 00:08:56,318 --> 00:08:58,320 Let'’s just try it on the elements. 209 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,235 This is by no means a slam dunk, 210 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:02,933 but a baby'’s neck is fragile, he was three days old. 211 00:09:02,933 --> 00:09:04,631 Let'’s just go with accident. 212 00:09:04,631 --> 00:09:06,720 Accident? We haven'’t got one single witness. 213 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,330 Yes, we do. Her. 214 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:11,028 She was the only one there. 215 00:09:12,290 --> 00:09:14,118 All we need is reasonable doubt. 216 00:09:14,118 --> 00:09:17,905 We keep her out of jail, then we get her into treatment. 217 00:09:20,385 --> 00:09:21,865 An accident. 218 00:09:31,005 --> 00:09:33,442 Dr. Robbins and I examined the baby just prior 219 00:09:33,442 --> 00:09:36,010 to passing him to Mrs. Cassidy. 220 00:09:36,010 --> 00:09:39,317 His organs were functioning, his vitals were within range. 221 00:09:39,317 --> 00:09:43,321 He was a tough little customer, given his deficit. 222 00:09:43,321 --> 00:09:45,889 So what happened after you gave the child to the defendant? 223 00:09:45,889 --> 00:09:47,499 I drew the baby'’s blood. 224 00:09:47,499 --> 00:09:49,023 Dr. Robbins continued on his rounds. 225 00:09:49,023 --> 00:09:51,678 I took the sample down to the lab, 226 00:09:51,678 --> 00:09:53,244 and I returned about ten minutes later. 227 00:09:53,244 --> 00:09:54,942 What did you find? 228 00:09:54,942 --> 00:09:58,641 Well, Julie, um, the defendant, she was holding the baby. 229 00:09:58,641 --> 00:10:01,122 I noticed he looked slightly cyanotic. 230 00:10:01,122 --> 00:10:03,341 That'’s when the skin takes on a bluish tint 231 00:10:03,341 --> 00:10:04,908 due to lack of oxygen. 232 00:10:04,908 --> 00:10:05,996 What did you do? 233 00:10:05,996 --> 00:10:07,781 I took him from Julie. 234 00:10:07,781 --> 00:10:10,348 He was clammy, his limbs were flaccid. 235 00:10:10,348 --> 00:10:12,873 I called a Code Blue, but I knew he'’d expired. 236 00:10:12,873 --> 00:10:14,526 And other than the defendant, 237 00:10:14,526 --> 00:10:17,529 had anyone else gone into the baby'’s room 238 00:10:17,529 --> 00:10:19,314 after you and Dr. Robbins had left? 239 00:10:19,314 --> 00:10:21,098 Not to my knowledge. 240 00:10:21,098 --> 00:10:22,534 Mr. Cassidy was in the room earlier, 241 00:10:22,534 --> 00:10:25,973 but the baby was alive after he'’d gone home. 242 00:10:25,973 --> 00:10:27,017 Thank you, ma'’am. 243 00:10:28,410 --> 00:10:31,631 What was the medical condition of this baby? 244 00:10:31,631 --> 00:10:33,981 He was born with anencephaly. 245 00:10:33,981 --> 00:10:35,460 Which means what? 246 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:37,462 He had no cognitive or emotional functions. 247 00:10:37,462 --> 00:10:42,163 He'’s blind, deaf, couldn'’t swallow, blink or cry. 248 00:10:42,163 --> 00:10:44,992 His only movements were involuntary reflexes. 249 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:46,776 Yes. 250 00:10:46,776 --> 00:10:49,561 I'’m told of cases where doctors with anencephalic babies, 251 00:10:49,561 --> 00:10:51,389 doctors have been known 252 00:10:51,389 --> 00:10:52,913 to pinch the nostrils shut. 253 00:10:52,913 --> 00:10:54,218 Have you heard of that? 254 00:10:54,218 --> 00:10:55,655 I have heard of that happening. 255 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:57,004 HARRY: Mercy killings. 256 00:10:57,004 --> 00:10:58,179 NURSE: Yes. 257 00:11:00,181 --> 00:11:02,836 Did you think it'’s possible that my client 258 00:11:02,836 --> 00:11:04,664 committed a mercy killing here? 259 00:11:06,753 --> 00:11:08,145 I don'’t know. 260 00:11:08,145 --> 00:11:10,408 I don'’t get the idea that you condemn her. 261 00:11:13,107 --> 00:11:17,241 In your mind, was it a tragedy that this baby died? 262 00:11:17,241 --> 00:11:19,679 Probably not. 263 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:20,984 OLLIE: What the hell was that? 264 00:11:20,984 --> 00:11:22,290 HARRY: Relax. 265 00:11:22,290 --> 00:11:24,379 We were going accident, not mercy killing. 266 00:11:24,379 --> 00:11:26,729 I realize that, but...Then what the hell was that? 267 00:11:26,729 --> 00:11:28,339 Ollie, would you please stop yelling at me? 268 00:11:28,339 --> 00:11:30,602 We have plenty of time to establish our theory. 269 00:11:30,602 --> 00:11:33,562 I feel it'’s important that the jury understand 270 00:11:33,562 --> 00:11:36,086 from the get-go that this death was a blessing. 271 00:11:36,086 --> 00:11:37,914 If we can diffuse their sense of horror, 272 00:11:37,914 --> 00:11:39,263 then it could color 273 00:11:39,263 --> 00:11:40,961 the whole trial in our client'’s favor. 274 00:11:40,961 --> 00:11:42,658 But, Harry, you likely just confused the jury. 275 00:11:42,658 --> 00:11:44,138 OLLIE: Couldn'’t you have at least 276 00:11:44,138 --> 00:11:46,488 just asked her if it could'’ve been an accident? 277 00:11:46,488 --> 00:11:47,663 No, I couldn'’t, because I don'’t think 278 00:11:47,663 --> 00:11:48,969 we'’d have liked her answer. 279 00:11:48,969 --> 00:11:51,536 My goal here was to get the jury to think 280 00:11:51,536 --> 00:11:55,323 that this death wasn'’t necessarily a bad thing. 281 00:12:05,420 --> 00:12:07,074 [knocks] 282 00:12:09,119 --> 00:12:10,251 What'’s that? 283 00:12:10,251 --> 00:12:11,687 Bear spray. 284 00:12:11,687 --> 00:12:13,254 You expecting a bear? 285 00:12:13,254 --> 00:12:14,864 It'’s like industrial-strength pepper spray, okay? 286 00:12:14,864 --> 00:12:16,823 In case we get attacked by a gang. 287 00:12:18,259 --> 00:12:20,914 Mr. Clown, Tommy Jefferson-- we met last night 288 00:12:20,914 --> 00:12:22,132 at the party. 289 00:12:22,132 --> 00:12:24,482 Oh. You want your money back?No, no. 290 00:12:24,482 --> 00:12:26,006 It isn'’t that. We just came because... 291 00:12:26,006 --> 00:12:27,485 Why does he have, bear spray? 292 00:12:27,485 --> 00:12:28,704 It'’s for gangs. 293 00:12:30,184 --> 00:12:31,359 We couldn'’t help but think 294 00:12:31,359 --> 00:12:32,752 something was wrong last night, 295 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,537 and we just came to see if you'’re okay. 296 00:12:39,584 --> 00:12:41,499 You'’ve upset him.I can see that. 297 00:12:41,499 --> 00:12:42,587 No, no, it'’s, uh... 298 00:12:42,587 --> 00:12:45,068 it'’s just, uh... 299 00:12:45,068 --> 00:12:47,201 Just what? 300 00:12:47,201 --> 00:12:48,463 We were in Kandahar province. 301 00:12:48,463 --> 00:12:50,987 Six of us were on patrol. 302 00:12:50,987 --> 00:12:53,207 An IED went off. 303 00:12:53,207 --> 00:12:55,775 My head slammed against the side of the Humvee. 304 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:58,690 Two guys were killed, one guy lost a leg, 305 00:12:58,690 --> 00:13:00,954 and the other two had shrapnel wounds. 306 00:13:00,954 --> 00:13:03,391 Seemed like I was the lucky one. 307 00:13:03,391 --> 00:13:05,523 They even started calling me Lucky. 308 00:13:05,523 --> 00:13:08,570 But, uh, for days afterwards, 309 00:13:08,570 --> 00:13:10,180 I started getting these headaches. 310 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:11,355 I'’d get dizzy. 311 00:13:11,355 --> 00:13:12,443 I had trouble walking. 312 00:13:12,443 --> 00:13:13,618 Did you see a doctor? 313 00:13:13,618 --> 00:13:15,142 Yeah. They said I had a concussion, 314 00:13:15,142 --> 00:13:17,492 a mild traumatic brain injury. 315 00:13:18,972 --> 00:13:21,191 See, I used to work toward my ETA cert 316 00:13:21,191 --> 00:13:22,889 with, uh, precision instruments-- 317 00:13:22,889 --> 00:13:24,847 uh, gyrocompasses, things like this. 318 00:13:24,847 --> 00:13:26,501 I was really good. 319 00:13:26,501 --> 00:13:28,285 But now... 320 00:13:28,285 --> 00:13:29,983 Now you'’re a clown. 321 00:13:31,419 --> 00:13:33,421 I can'’t concentrate on things. 322 00:13:33,421 --> 00:13:36,337 I get the headaches or, uh... or my thinking gets clouded. 323 00:13:36,337 --> 00:13:37,860 Have you had any medical treatment? 324 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:39,862 Yeah, they gave me some meds for the headaches. 325 00:13:39,862 --> 00:13:41,603 They help a little, I guess. 326 00:13:41,603 --> 00:13:43,779 See, last night was about, uh... 327 00:13:43,779 --> 00:13:45,607 when I was looking at that heart... 328 00:13:47,087 --> 00:13:48,871 [chuckles] 329 00:13:48,871 --> 00:13:51,178 See, I never got the Purple Heart. 330 00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:52,396 But you were injured in combat. 331 00:13:52,396 --> 00:13:54,007 Yeah, but when I got hurt-- 332 00:13:54,007 --> 00:13:57,140 eight months ago... something like that-- 333 00:13:57,140 --> 00:14:00,013 they had this policy called the "no more John Kerrys." 334 00:14:00,013 --> 00:14:02,232 The hell is that?"No more John Kerrys." 335 00:14:02,232 --> 00:14:04,713 Some people claimed John Kerry'’s wounds were not 336 00:14:04,713 --> 00:14:06,454 serious enough to deserve the Purple Heart. 337 00:14:06,454 --> 00:14:07,759 The Army stopped giving them out 338 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:09,196 for what they called minor injuries. 339 00:14:09,196 --> 00:14:10,762 Yeah. Thing is, I served with guys 340 00:14:10,762 --> 00:14:13,026 that lost arms and legs, 341 00:14:13,026 --> 00:14:15,332 had to have surgery to remove shrapnel and bullets. 342 00:14:15,332 --> 00:14:17,204 I guess I just figured, 343 00:14:17,204 --> 00:14:20,163 compared to them, I didn'’t deserve it. 344 00:14:20,163 --> 00:14:22,600 But then I looked it up in the regs-- the... the list 345 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,689 of injuries that you can get the Purple Heart for-- 346 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:28,345 it turns out I should have gotten it. 347 00:14:28,345 --> 00:14:31,044 "Concussion injuries caused as a result 348 00:14:31,044 --> 00:14:33,481 of enemy-generated explosions." 349 00:14:35,570 --> 00:14:37,485 ADAM: Did you apply for it-- the Purple Heart? 350 00:14:37,485 --> 00:14:39,661 Yeah. I was turned down. 351 00:14:39,661 --> 00:14:41,881 I know it shouldn'’t mean anything. 352 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:45,275 It'’s not like a lousy medal'’s going to pay the rent. 353 00:14:45,275 --> 00:14:47,234 It shouldn'’t matter. 354 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:48,409 But it does. 355 00:14:52,848 --> 00:14:55,720 My father... 356 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,332 he would always say, "Make your life count for something." 357 00:14:58,332 --> 00:15:00,769 He'’d say, "I don'’t care what you do, Dave. 358 00:15:00,769 --> 00:15:03,424 "You know, just make sure it adds up to... 359 00:15:03,424 --> 00:15:05,426 something." 360 00:15:07,210 --> 00:15:10,344 I'’m a clown. 361 00:15:10,344 --> 00:15:12,433 I can'’t hold a job. 362 00:15:12,433 --> 00:15:13,825 I can'’t think well. 363 00:15:13,825 --> 00:15:17,003 I got hurt in a war that... 364 00:15:17,003 --> 00:15:19,309 nobody wanted or seems to care about. 365 00:15:22,312 --> 00:15:26,055 Yes, I want that medal. 366 00:15:26,055 --> 00:15:27,796 I want to hold it in my hand, 367 00:15:27,796 --> 00:15:29,667 you know, and I want to look at it 368 00:15:29,667 --> 00:15:31,017 and feel proud 369 00:15:31,017 --> 00:15:34,281 and know that my country is proud of me. 370 00:15:36,109 --> 00:15:38,502 And know that... 371 00:15:38,502 --> 00:15:41,462 that what I did... 372 00:15:41,462 --> 00:15:44,030 it counted. 373 00:15:48,599 --> 00:15:50,601 It counted. 374 00:16:00,785 --> 00:16:02,483 The infant'’s head was twisted 375 00:16:02,483 --> 00:16:04,137 sharply and suddenly to the left, 376 00:16:04,137 --> 00:16:06,574 causing the vertebral artery to burst, resulting in 377 00:16:06,574 --> 00:16:08,576 a massive hemorrhage at the base of the brain. 378 00:16:08,576 --> 00:16:09,664 Death was instantaneous. 379 00:16:09,664 --> 00:16:10,926 Could it be possible 380 00:16:10,926 --> 00:16:12,754 that the neck was twisted accidentally? 381 00:16:12,754 --> 00:16:13,885 No.It'’s not possible 382 00:16:13,885 --> 00:16:15,583 that somebody picked up the baby 383 00:16:15,583 --> 00:16:16,801 and didn'’t support his head, 384 00:16:16,801 --> 00:16:19,021 or his neck got caught in a blanket? 385 00:16:19,021 --> 00:16:20,457 No, this was no accident. 386 00:16:20,457 --> 00:16:21,850 Thank you. 387 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:26,550 Doctor, you can state to an absolute medical certainty 388 00:16:26,550 --> 00:16:29,597 that this event wasn'’t caused by an inadvertent movement? 389 00:16:29,597 --> 00:16:31,381 Well, no one can state anything 390 00:16:31,381 --> 00:16:33,340 to an absolute medical certainty, 391 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,342 but the...Thank you, Doctor. 392 00:16:35,342 --> 00:16:37,039 And, uh, in fact, if Mrs. Cassidy was dozing... 393 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:38,736 I mean, people experience 394 00:16:38,736 --> 00:16:40,956 jerking motions in their sleep all the time, don'’t they? 395 00:16:40,956 --> 00:16:42,001 I don'’t think that'’s what happened. 396 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,959 You know that didn'’t happen? 397 00:16:43,959 --> 00:16:46,962 No, but I have performed over a thousand autopsies, 398 00:16:46,962 --> 00:16:48,920 and what I think really happened...Wow. 399 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,705 That'’s a lot. 400 00:16:50,705 --> 00:16:52,446 Ever get one wrong? 401 00:16:52,446 --> 00:16:54,578 Beg your pardon?Have you ever been mistaken? 402 00:16:54,578 --> 00:16:56,058 Yes, but... 403 00:16:56,058 --> 00:16:57,494 Thank you, Doctor. 404 00:16:57,494 --> 00:16:59,453 And if I put six different pathologists up here, 405 00:16:59,453 --> 00:17:02,238 who all say that this death could have been caused 406 00:17:02,238 --> 00:17:04,240 by an accidental jarring of the neck, 407 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:05,589 would you say they'’re lying? 408 00:17:05,589 --> 00:17:07,243 [chuckling]: I'’d say they were wrong. 409 00:17:07,243 --> 00:17:09,463 Would you say they were lying? 410 00:17:11,073 --> 00:17:12,640 No. 411 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:13,945 I wouldn'’t say they were...Thank you, Doctor. 412 00:17:13,945 --> 00:17:15,947 That'’s all. 413 00:17:15,947 --> 00:17:17,558 Mr. Fraser, redirect? 414 00:17:17,558 --> 00:17:19,255 No, Your Honor. 415 00:17:19,255 --> 00:17:21,257 The witness may step down. 416 00:17:21,257 --> 00:17:25,000 The State calls any one of these six pathologists. 417 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,610 Ms. Korn'’s choice. 418 00:17:26,610 --> 00:17:28,656 Excuse me? One of your 419 00:17:28,656 --> 00:17:29,918 six pathologists-- whichever one you want. 420 00:17:29,918 --> 00:17:31,224 I'’m calling one. 421 00:17:32,312 --> 00:17:34,009 Or am I just calling a bluff? 422 00:17:34,009 --> 00:17:35,445 Your Honor, may we approach? 423 00:17:37,708 --> 00:17:39,275 He can'’t do that. Why not? 424 00:17:39,275 --> 00:17:40,624 HARRY: First of all, these pathologists 425 00:17:40,624 --> 00:17:42,278 are not on your list or mine. 426 00:17:42,278 --> 00:17:43,801 You can'’t... What, what, you need notice? 427 00:17:43,801 --> 00:17:44,846 They'’re your doctors. 428 00:17:44,846 --> 00:17:46,195 I move for a mistrial. 429 00:17:46,195 --> 00:17:48,023 Oh, come on.He cannot do this. 430 00:17:48,023 --> 00:17:50,460 Ms. Korn, you played a little fast and loose. 431 00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:51,592 He caught you. 432 00:17:51,592 --> 00:17:52,723 Motion for a mistrial 433 00:17:52,723 --> 00:17:53,942 is denied. 434 00:17:53,942 --> 00:17:55,770 Step back. 435 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:05,432 Oh, shut up. 436 00:18:15,572 --> 00:18:18,140 We'’re going to have to put you on the stand. 437 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:19,794 Okay. 438 00:18:19,794 --> 00:18:22,144 No, not okay, because you come off 439 00:18:22,144 --> 00:18:24,407 as a person in total denial. 440 00:18:24,407 --> 00:18:26,061 Here are our theories, Julie. 441 00:18:26,061 --> 00:18:27,889 It could have been an accident. 442 00:18:27,889 --> 00:18:29,282 It could have been an act committed 443 00:18:29,282 --> 00:18:30,631 in a dissociative state.No. 444 00:18:30,631 --> 00:18:32,981 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.Julie, stop it. 445 00:18:32,981 --> 00:18:36,854 I know who you are as a person couldn'’t have done this, 446 00:18:36,854 --> 00:18:39,248 which means, if you physically did do it, 447 00:18:39,248 --> 00:18:41,424 you were acting outside yourself, 448 00:18:41,424 --> 00:18:43,905 and that'’s what a dissociative state is. 449 00:18:43,905 --> 00:18:47,300 We have to allow the jury to conclude you did it, 450 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:49,432 and yet set you free 451 00:18:49,432 --> 00:18:52,131 because you didn'’t possess the intent. 452 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:53,306 You mean insanity. 453 00:18:53,306 --> 00:18:54,742 It'’s a form of it. 454 00:18:54,742 --> 00:18:56,744 It'’s a psychotic break of sorts. 455 00:18:56,744 --> 00:18:58,441 It'’s a variation of insanity. 456 00:18:58,441 --> 00:19:01,444 But it'’s not the truth, because I didn'’t do it. 457 00:19:01,444 --> 00:19:02,967 Okay. 458 00:19:02,967 --> 00:19:05,492 But you have to let me argue it just the same. 459 00:19:05,492 --> 00:19:08,103 We suggest-- could be an accident, 460 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:10,932 could be a dissociative act. 461 00:19:10,932 --> 00:19:14,414 We have to give the jury both options here. 462 00:19:14,414 --> 00:19:16,416 You have to trust me. 463 00:19:18,983 --> 00:19:21,029 [sighs] 464 00:19:23,466 --> 00:19:25,599 So what do I say? 465 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:27,253 You just tell the truth. 466 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:30,081 That'’s all you do. 467 00:19:30,081 --> 00:19:32,910 Tell the truth as you know it. 468 00:19:37,959 --> 00:19:39,613 We need to get him his Purple Heart. 469 00:19:39,613 --> 00:19:40,701 I know some of these vets, 470 00:19:40,701 --> 00:19:42,224 they have no money, no dignity, 471 00:19:42,224 --> 00:19:44,357 they can'’t get work, they'’ve got nothing. 472 00:19:44,357 --> 00:19:46,359 Now, this thing may seem, like, just symbolic 473 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,752 to you and me, but to them, it'’s a validation 474 00:19:48,752 --> 00:19:52,495 that what they did counted, that their life means something. 475 00:19:52,495 --> 00:19:55,368 We need to get Dave his Purple Heart right now. 476 00:19:55,368 --> 00:19:56,891 Today. 477 00:19:56,891 --> 00:19:58,240 [sighs] 478 00:20:01,112 --> 00:20:02,810 Tommy, I'’ve done some checking. 479 00:20:02,810 --> 00:20:04,072 This is not easily accomplished. 480 00:20:04,072 --> 00:20:05,334 These things can fall 481 00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:06,683 into bureaucratic sinkholes for years. 482 00:20:06,683 --> 00:20:08,990 And I'’m going to bring up a principle now, 483 00:20:08,990 --> 00:20:10,557 one that I know you hold dear, 484 00:20:10,557 --> 00:20:12,123 if not sacrosanct-- 485 00:20:12,123 --> 00:20:15,388 Dave the Clown can'’t pay. 486 00:20:15,388 --> 00:20:17,694 I don'’t care. It'’s Christmas! 487 00:20:17,694 --> 00:20:19,305 It'’s that special time of year 488 00:20:19,305 --> 00:20:21,132 when we don'’t despise our fellow man. 489 00:20:21,132 --> 00:20:23,439 Uh... We'’ll do it pro bono. 490 00:20:25,311 --> 00:20:30,359 We need to get the clown his Purple Heart. 491 00:20:39,673 --> 00:20:42,937 I never had an ultrasound done because, frankly, 492 00:20:42,937 --> 00:20:45,766 there was nothing either I or my husband 493 00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:47,855 would have done should there... 494 00:20:47,855 --> 00:20:49,552 be a problem. 495 00:20:49,552 --> 00:20:51,206 And there was a problem, wasn'’t there? 496 00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:52,686 Yes. 497 00:20:52,686 --> 00:20:55,079 When did you learn that your baby had anencephaly? 498 00:20:55,079 --> 00:20:56,951 Un, when he was born. 499 00:20:56,951 --> 00:20:58,953 I noticed some looks exchanged 500 00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:01,303 between the doctor and the nurses. 501 00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:05,699 It was so quiet. I... 502 00:21:05,699 --> 00:21:07,353 The baby was quiet. 503 00:21:07,353 --> 00:21:09,485 He, uh... 504 00:21:09,485 --> 00:21:11,487 he didn'’t make a sound. 505 00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:12,662 [sniffling] 506 00:21:12,662 --> 00:21:14,185 I first thought he was dead. 507 00:21:15,709 --> 00:21:17,232 He wasn'’t dead. 508 00:21:17,232 --> 00:21:19,321 But he was very, very ill. 509 00:21:19,321 --> 00:21:21,062 Would it be fair to say you went 510 00:21:21,062 --> 00:21:23,412 into a little shock when you learned? 511 00:21:23,412 --> 00:21:24,674 Yes. 512 00:21:26,894 --> 00:21:29,375 Turning to the night of his death... 513 00:21:29,375 --> 00:21:31,507 were you holding your baby? 514 00:21:34,336 --> 00:21:36,730 Uh... 515 00:21:36,730 --> 00:21:40,647 The truth is, it was... it was difficult 516 00:21:40,647 --> 00:21:44,477 for me to hold him or... 517 00:21:44,477 --> 00:21:47,088 It was just too upsetting. 518 00:21:47,088 --> 00:21:50,700 But Eileen, the nurse, she encouraged me to. 519 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:53,747 She said that it would help lower his stress hormones, 520 00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:55,618 and help regulate his temperature. 521 00:21:55,618 --> 00:21:58,142 So you were cradling him?Yes. 522 00:21:58,142 --> 00:21:59,753 Were you supporting his head? 523 00:21:59,753 --> 00:22:02,233 I thought so. I... 524 00:22:02,233 --> 00:22:03,713 It was the middle of the night. 525 00:22:03,713 --> 00:22:05,846 I might have drifted off to sleep a little, 526 00:22:05,846 --> 00:22:09,415 but I most certainly did not twist his head. 527 00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:12,983 According to certain witnesses, 528 00:22:12,983 --> 00:22:16,422 when your baby was discovered to be dead, 529 00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:18,249 you didn'’t react. 530 00:22:18,249 --> 00:22:21,557 You just stared back rather expressionless. 531 00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:26,954 I didn'’t know what to think, 532 00:22:26,954 --> 00:22:28,782 or feel. 533 00:22:28,782 --> 00:22:31,262 You didn'’t know how to feel? 534 00:22:31,262 --> 00:22:34,135 Julie, your child had just died. 535 00:22:34,135 --> 00:22:37,051 My child was anencephalic. 536 00:22:37,051 --> 00:22:40,663 The doctor said he would have the existence of a house plant. 537 00:22:40,663 --> 00:22:42,970 The only life that he could have had 538 00:22:42,970 --> 00:22:44,537 would have been one of suffering. 539 00:22:46,495 --> 00:22:48,802 Did you grieve for your son? 540 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:51,631 I grieved for my son. 541 00:22:51,631 --> 00:22:54,938 Did I grieve over his death? 542 00:22:54,938 --> 00:23:00,814 I'’ve never denied that his death was most likely a blessing, 543 00:23:00,814 --> 00:23:03,599 only that I had anything to do with it. 544 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:16,743 WOMAN [over phone]: Form 149? 545 00:23:16,743 --> 00:23:18,788 Yes, Department of Defense Form 149, 546 00:23:18,788 --> 00:23:21,965 Application for Correction of Military Record. 547 00:23:21,965 --> 00:23:23,358 I'’m holding a copy in my hand right now. 548 00:23:23,358 --> 00:23:25,795 Name please?David Kerwin. 549 00:23:25,795 --> 00:23:27,623 Kerwin with one "N." 550 00:23:27,623 --> 00:23:29,190 Please hold.No, don'’t put me on hold again! 551 00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:31,322 [dial tone]Damn it! 552 00:23:31,322 --> 00:23:33,020 This is how the terrorists are going to win. 553 00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:34,325 They'’ll land on our shores, 554 00:23:34,325 --> 00:23:35,979 somebody will call the army to report it. 555 00:23:35,979 --> 00:23:37,416 They'’ll be put on hold and we'’ll all be killed. 556 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:39,722 The appeal process seems easy enough, 557 00:23:39,722 --> 00:23:41,681 except it involved miles of red tape. 558 00:23:41,681 --> 00:23:43,073 Here'’s something. 559 00:23:43,073 --> 00:23:44,553 If you'’ve been awarded the Purple Heart, 560 00:23:44,553 --> 00:23:46,555 you get expedited treatment at the V.A. hospital. 561 00:23:46,555 --> 00:23:48,035 Which is another reason to get it. 562 00:23:48,035 --> 00:23:50,516 And here'’s a story about a guy in California 563 00:23:50,516 --> 00:23:52,474 who just received his Purple Heart a few months ago. 564 00:23:52,474 --> 00:23:55,042 He'’d been hit by a grenade, tore open his arm. 565 00:23:55,042 --> 00:23:57,174 September, 1951 in Korea. 566 00:23:57,174 --> 00:23:59,002 Let'’s talk to your captain, Maybe he'’d reconsider and recommend you. 567 00:23:59,002 --> 00:24:01,091 That would be difficult. 568 00:24:01,091 --> 00:24:02,789 Dead? 569 00:24:02,789 --> 00:24:04,573 No, no, but he'’s in Afghanistan. 570 00:24:05,618 --> 00:24:07,663 Has he got a wife? 571 00:24:07,663 --> 00:24:08,751 Ugh, you'’re sick. 572 00:24:08,751 --> 00:24:10,057 What? 573 00:24:10,057 --> 00:24:11,275 You'’re sick. 574 00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:12,625 I'’m sick? You'’re sick. 575 00:24:12,625 --> 00:24:15,584 Has he got a wife? 576 00:24:24,985 --> 00:24:29,032 First of all, my condolences for your tragedy. 577 00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:31,382 That tragedy, 578 00:24:31,382 --> 00:24:33,297 if I understand you correctly, being his birth, 579 00:24:33,297 --> 00:24:34,995 not his death. 580 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:35,952 My sympathies. 581 00:24:35,952 --> 00:24:37,171 Sir, 582 00:24:37,171 --> 00:24:39,129 you are prosecuting me. 583 00:24:39,129 --> 00:24:42,959 I'’m sitting in a courtroom, being charged with murder, 584 00:24:42,959 --> 00:24:45,309 primarily at your doing. 585 00:24:45,309 --> 00:24:48,225 Please, have the decency not to pretend 586 00:24:48,225 --> 00:24:50,401 that you feel any sympathy for me. 587 00:24:51,838 --> 00:24:53,883 Fair enough. 588 00:24:53,883 --> 00:24:56,233 Let'’s agree to be honest with each other. Sound good? 589 00:24:57,844 --> 00:25:00,542 When we speak of tragedy here, 590 00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:04,154 we'’re not just talking about the child'’s, but yours. 591 00:25:04,154 --> 00:25:07,549 And perhaps your greatest hardship would have been 592 00:25:07,549 --> 00:25:09,246 had this little boy gone on living. 593 00:25:10,596 --> 00:25:12,206 Your insurance covered the hospital, 594 00:25:12,206 --> 00:25:15,514 but there was a cap on nursing care. 595 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:17,385 This child would need 24/7 596 00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:18,691 home care. 597 00:25:18,691 --> 00:25:20,344 You couldn'’t afford it, 598 00:25:20,344 --> 00:25:22,390 which meant that it would'’ve had to be you. 599 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:25,306 You'’d have to monitor his vitals, 600 00:25:25,306 --> 00:25:27,395 change his feeding tube, 601 00:25:27,395 --> 00:25:29,702 suction his mouth every 30 minutes 602 00:25:29,702 --> 00:25:31,660 because he couldn'’t swallow his own spit. 603 00:25:33,749 --> 00:25:35,534 Your life as you knew it would effectively be over. 604 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,361 You'’d go bankrupt. 605 00:25:37,361 --> 00:25:39,407 Statistically speaking, you'’d probably get divorced. 606 00:25:39,407 --> 00:25:41,931 Not to mention the emotional toll. 607 00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:45,805 So much hardship... 608 00:25:45,805 --> 00:25:50,244 which could all be fixed with one quick twist of a neck. 609 00:25:50,244 --> 00:25:53,073 You know the funny thing? 610 00:25:53,073 --> 00:25:56,206 How clinically efficient this broken neck was. 611 00:25:56,206 --> 00:25:58,600 I mean, the baby died instantly. 612 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,515 Now, I know as a devout Catholic, 613 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:02,735 that you don'’t believe in euthanasia. 614 00:26:02,735 --> 00:26:06,042 But if one did, wow, 615 00:26:06,042 --> 00:26:08,915 a snap of a neck was probably the most humane method. 616 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:11,831 By the way, uh, do you believe in euthanasia? 617 00:26:11,831 --> 00:26:13,180 I don'’t mean to assume. 618 00:26:13,180 --> 00:26:15,138 Do you?Uh, no. 619 00:26:15,138 --> 00:26:16,400 No. 620 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,402 Did you ever inquire about euthanasia? 621 00:26:18,402 --> 00:26:23,103 I d-didn'’t inquire about euthanasia, no. 622 00:26:23,103 --> 00:26:24,757 You never asked Dr. Robbins whether it would be better 623 00:26:24,757 --> 00:26:25,888 for your child to die? 624 00:26:25,888 --> 00:26:28,369 I was in shock when I asked that. 625 00:26:28,369 --> 00:26:30,110 I was looking at my child as... 626 00:26:30,110 --> 00:26:32,068 As a house plant? 627 00:26:35,376 --> 00:26:37,073 You asked Dr. Robbins, 628 00:26:37,073 --> 00:26:40,468 "How is it we help cancer patients die with morphine? 629 00:26:40,468 --> 00:26:42,644 Why can'’t we just give him some morphine?" 630 00:26:42,644 --> 00:26:44,603 Your Honor, approach? 631 00:26:48,998 --> 00:26:50,173 First of all, 632 00:26:50,173 --> 00:26:51,827 this is privileged doctor/patient... 633 00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:53,916 It is not; not when it speaks to harm caused to the child, 634 00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:55,265 and the nurse was there, so privilege... 635 00:26:55,265 --> 00:26:57,746 Second, this is unfair surprise. If he had... 636 00:26:57,746 --> 00:26:59,400 The information was within the defendant'’s control.Oh, crap! 637 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,620 Your Honor, this is crap. 638 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:02,969 Well, as far as crap goes, 639 00:27:02,969 --> 00:27:05,232 it seems to be of the winning variety. 640 00:27:05,232 --> 00:27:07,451 Your Honor, this will so prejudice the jury... 641 00:27:07,451 --> 00:27:09,628 Step back, Counsel. 642 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:13,588 Okay, so where were we? 643 00:27:13,588 --> 00:27:15,155 Oh, yes. We were discussing 644 00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:16,765 your discussing killing your baby. 645 00:27:16,765 --> 00:27:17,766 Objection! 646 00:27:17,766 --> 00:27:19,072 That I'’ll sustain. 647 00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:23,032 You spoke with your doctor 648 00:27:23,032 --> 00:27:24,773 about giving your baby a morphine drip. 649 00:27:24,773 --> 00:27:26,340 I was emotionally wrought. 650 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:28,298 I was a mother looking at suffering, 651 00:27:28,298 --> 00:27:31,040 the suffering of my baby, and I-I wanted... 652 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,216 Yeah. 653 00:27:33,216 --> 00:27:34,478 Yes. 654 00:27:34,478 --> 00:27:36,567 And I really don'’t believe 655 00:27:36,567 --> 00:27:38,787 that this was about bankruptcy 656 00:27:38,787 --> 00:27:40,441 or finances or money. 657 00:27:40,441 --> 00:27:41,660 I don'’t. 658 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,793 This was about mercy. 659 00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:47,404 Wasn'’t it, Julie? 660 00:27:47,404 --> 00:27:49,755 Your baby suffered from anencephaly. 661 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,279 He would never live a normal life, if any life. 662 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:55,456 It was ungodly for any child to exist like this. 663 00:27:55,456 --> 00:28:00,417 And when you twisted his neck, it was about mercy. 664 00:28:00,417 --> 00:28:01,810 Wasn'’t it? 665 00:28:14,649 --> 00:28:16,956 I did not twist my baby'’s neck. 666 00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:36,758 Don'’t everybody shout out ideas all at once. 667 00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:39,543 I think we should recall the nurse, so we can at least 668 00:28:39,543 --> 00:28:42,459 put whatever comments Julie made to the doctor in context. 669 00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:44,026 Or call the doctor himself. 670 00:28:44,026 --> 00:28:46,159 The doctor is the one who turned her into the police; 671 00:28:46,159 --> 00:28:47,551 we can'’t trust that he'’ll be sympathetic. 672 00:28:47,551 --> 00:28:49,553 But the nurse, we can. 673 00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,428 Maybe it'’s time to plead this thing out. 674 00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:56,256 With a plea, you could be out in three years. 675 00:28:56,256 --> 00:29:00,477 If we go to verdict and you lose, you could face 20. 676 00:29:02,218 --> 00:29:04,917 Honey, maybe... 677 00:29:04,917 --> 00:29:07,789 But here'’s the rub. 678 00:29:07,789 --> 00:29:09,443 The judge cannot legally accept the plea 679 00:29:09,443 --> 00:29:11,184 without being sure you understand it, 680 00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:12,925 and that you'’re sincere about it. 681 00:29:12,925 --> 00:29:15,057 So he will ask you, "Do you admit 682 00:29:15,057 --> 00:29:16,929 to taking the life of your child?" 683 00:29:16,929 --> 00:29:18,452 And you'’ll have to say, "Yes." 684 00:29:18,452 --> 00:29:19,845 But that would be a lie. 685 00:29:19,845 --> 00:29:22,108 Can'’t she just say 686 00:29:22,108 --> 00:29:23,805 it'’s possible she did it by accident? 687 00:29:23,805 --> 00:29:25,981 No, because if it'’s an accident, there'’s no intent. 688 00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:28,854 She'’d have to admit to the crime, which includes intent. 689 00:29:30,290 --> 00:29:33,293 I c... I can'’t. 690 00:29:33,293 --> 00:29:35,643 I... I just can'’t. 691 00:29:35,643 --> 00:29:36,992 Honey...I'’m sorry, Blake. 692 00:29:38,211 --> 00:29:40,300 I can'’t say I killed my baby. 693 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:47,655 I just can'’t say that. 694 00:29:47,655 --> 00:29:49,048 Okay, we'’ll recall the nurse 695 00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:50,963 to address Julie'’s comments to the doctor, 696 00:29:50,963 --> 00:29:54,967 and then we'’ll call our doctors to argue disassociative state. 697 00:29:54,967 --> 00:29:55,968 And we'’ll keep going. 698 00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:57,491 Any other ideas? Ollie? 699 00:29:58,971 --> 00:30:00,973 Cassie? Am I missing something? 700 00:30:00,973 --> 00:30:02,539 Well, maybe just the obvious-- 701 00:30:02,539 --> 00:30:03,976 she'’s innocent. 702 00:30:05,716 --> 00:30:07,762 Harry, if she doesn'’t have the necessary criminal intent, 703 00:30:07,762 --> 00:30:09,851 under the law, she is innocent. 704 00:30:09,851 --> 00:30:11,635 I don'’t think our case is in the toilet. 705 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:13,637 I really don'’t. 706 00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:21,080 Hi, honey. How are you? 707 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,429 Hi, sweetheart. 708 00:30:22,429 --> 00:30:24,518 Hey, where are you? 709 00:30:24,518 --> 00:30:26,476 I don'’t see the fridge with the kids'’ drawings on it. 710 00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:28,827 Well, I'’m not at home. I'’m in a lawyer'’s office. 711 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:29,828 What the hell for? 712 00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:30,829 Is everything all right? 713 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,134 Everything'’s fine. 714 00:30:32,134 --> 00:30:33,135 The lawyer'’s name is Tommy Jefferson. 715 00:30:33,135 --> 00:30:34,702 And... [shrieks] 716 00:30:34,702 --> 00:30:36,835 Hello, Captain. Uh, Tommy Jefferson. 717 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,314 It'’s an honor, sir. 718 00:30:38,314 --> 00:30:39,533 What'’s going on? 719 00:30:39,533 --> 00:30:40,751 You remember Corporal Dave Kerwin? 720 00:30:40,751 --> 00:30:42,666 Lucky? Sure I remember him. 721 00:30:42,666 --> 00:30:45,365 Well, Dave hasn'’t been so lucky since he'’s been back, sir. 722 00:30:45,365 --> 00:30:46,409 Hey, Captain. 723 00:30:46,409 --> 00:30:47,671 Hello, Dave. 724 00:30:47,671 --> 00:30:49,935 Do you remember when Dave was wounded? 725 00:30:49,935 --> 00:30:51,240 Very well. 726 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,546 Two men killed, 727 00:30:52,546 --> 00:30:54,853 one lost a leg, two others needed surgery, 728 00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:56,115 and Dave. 729 00:30:56,115 --> 00:30:57,812 Dave was also wounded, Captain. 730 00:30:57,812 --> 00:30:59,553 A concussion. 731 00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:01,381 Minor traumatic brain injury. 732 00:31:01,381 --> 00:31:03,687 An injury that'’s clearly eligible 733 00:31:03,687 --> 00:31:05,515 for the Purple Heart under military rules. 734 00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:08,170 Yes, I know that now. 735 00:31:08,170 --> 00:31:09,215 You know that now? 736 00:31:09,215 --> 00:31:10,781 Mr. Jefferson, as I'’m sure 737 00:31:10,781 --> 00:31:12,696 you'’re aware, there'’s been a big dust-up over 738 00:31:12,696 --> 00:31:14,176 this whole Purple Heart thing. 739 00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:16,222 I don'’t want to argue about the past with you. 740 00:31:16,222 --> 00:31:18,354 Dave, have you got the medical paperwork 741 00:31:18,354 --> 00:31:19,442 that establishes your injury? 742 00:31:19,442 --> 00:31:20,661 He does. 743 00:31:20,661 --> 00:31:22,402 Then when I receive a copy of that, 744 00:31:22,402 --> 00:31:24,404 I will reverse my previous decision 745 00:31:24,404 --> 00:31:26,710 and recommend you for the Purple Heart. 746 00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:27,886 [chuckles] 747 00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:28,887 Just like that? 748 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:30,801 It was a mistake. 749 00:31:30,801 --> 00:31:32,151 One I'’m willing to fix. 750 00:31:33,239 --> 00:31:34,675 Is my wife still there? 751 00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:35,806 Yes. 752 00:31:38,026 --> 00:31:38,984 Well, that cuts through it. 753 00:31:38,984 --> 00:31:40,072 God, I can'’t believe it. 754 00:31:40,072 --> 00:31:41,421 We'’ll get the document 755 00:31:41,421 --> 00:31:43,118 to your captain by pdf 756 00:31:43,118 --> 00:31:44,163 and get on it. 757 00:31:44,163 --> 00:31:45,381 How long you think it'’ll take? 758 00:31:45,381 --> 00:31:46,774 Ah. 759 00:31:46,774 --> 00:31:47,906 Hey! 760 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:48,907 We'’re gonna pdf the document 761 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,386 to you as soon as we get off. 762 00:31:50,386 --> 00:31:51,910 How soon before you can respond? 763 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,260 Have you filled out DD Form 149, 764 00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:57,306 Application for Correction of Military Records? 765 00:31:57,306 --> 00:31:58,960 Well, yes, but I thought once you changed your recommendation, 766 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,527 we didn'’t need that anymore. 767 00:32:00,527 --> 00:32:03,443 Oh, no, this still has to go through all the channels. 768 00:32:03,443 --> 00:32:05,053 You get that form going, I'’ll send 769 00:32:05,053 --> 00:32:06,881 my change of recommendation up the chain of command, 770 00:32:06,881 --> 00:32:08,578 and then we'’ll see where we are. 771 00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:10,232 Any idea how long that will take, sir? 772 00:32:10,232 --> 00:32:11,277 No, sir. 773 00:32:12,539 --> 00:32:13,801 Can I talk to my wife? 774 00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:18,719 That could take forever. 775 00:32:18,719 --> 00:32:20,764 Do not despair. 776 00:32:20,764 --> 00:32:22,070 That guy from the Korean War-- 777 00:32:22,070 --> 00:32:23,724 he got hung up with DD Form 149. 778 00:32:23,724 --> 00:32:25,421 I read it. Dave. 779 00:32:25,421 --> 00:32:27,423 I'’ll kick whatever ass I need to. 780 00:32:27,423 --> 00:32:29,034 CAPTAIN: I wish I was there, too.We'’ll make this happen. 781 00:32:29,034 --> 00:32:30,992 I'’ll be home soon. 782 00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:34,604 Hey, Dave. 783 00:32:34,604 --> 00:32:35,649 What are you up to these days? 784 00:32:35,649 --> 00:32:37,607 You working at all?Ah, ah! 785 00:32:37,607 --> 00:32:39,696 Uh, y-yes, sir. 786 00:32:39,696 --> 00:32:41,524 Yeah, I have a job. 787 00:32:41,524 --> 00:32:43,135 That'’s fantastic. What line of work? 788 00:32:43,135 --> 00:32:44,832 Precision instruments? 789 00:32:44,832 --> 00:32:48,096 Man, you could build anything, I remember your hands. 790 00:32:48,096 --> 00:32:49,184 Precision? 791 00:32:49,184 --> 00:32:51,186 No, sir. 792 00:32:51,186 --> 00:32:52,361 I'’m a clown. 793 00:32:52,361 --> 00:32:54,233 Come again? 794 00:32:57,540 --> 00:32:59,716 I'’m a clown. 795 00:32:59,716 --> 00:33:01,718 Oh. 796 00:33:02,806 --> 00:33:04,808 Oh. 797 00:33:22,478 --> 00:33:23,653 Adam? 798 00:33:23,653 --> 00:33:24,959 Rachel. Really? 799 00:33:26,482 --> 00:33:27,744 Hey. 800 00:33:27,744 --> 00:33:28,789 Okay. 801 00:33:28,789 --> 00:33:31,487 45 seconds? 802 00:33:31,487 --> 00:33:33,446 That'’s it? Are you kidding me? 803 00:33:33,446 --> 00:33:36,405 I know he'’s busy, but 45 seconds? 804 00:33:36,405 --> 00:33:39,669 I'’m not complaining, I am grateful, I'’m just... 805 00:33:39,669 --> 00:33:43,325 45 seconds is more than enough. Thank you, Rachel. 806 00:33:43,325 --> 00:33:44,805 45 seconds? Tommy. 807 00:33:44,805 --> 00:33:47,112 I got an audience with Congressman Michael Barnes. 808 00:33:47,112 --> 00:33:48,983 What? You did? 809 00:33:48,983 --> 00:33:50,028 [thud]Only for 45 seconds, but... 810 00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:51,638 Let'’s go. No, just me. 811 00:33:51,638 --> 00:33:53,292 Rachel said she got me an audience of one, 812 00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:54,380 specifically me. 813 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:56,773 Specifically not you. When? 814 00:33:56,773 --> 00:33:59,037 10:15, which means I got to go. 815 00:34:05,304 --> 00:34:07,001 Access to treatment, 816 00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:09,612 support services, especially when it comes to brain injuries. 817 00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:11,875 I don'’t think I need to tell you the shocking statistics. 818 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:14,269 Fully one-third of our veterans are homeless. 819 00:34:14,269 --> 00:34:15,749 6,000 commit suicide every single year. 820 00:34:15,749 --> 00:34:17,316 Their unemployment rate is through the roof, 821 00:34:17,316 --> 00:34:19,144 and since I only have 45 seconds, I would love for you 822 00:34:19,144 --> 00:34:20,623 to actually pay attention for some of it. 823 00:34:20,623 --> 00:34:22,712 I'’m listening, keep talking. I multitask. 824 00:34:22,712 --> 00:34:24,801 Now, listen, call John...These DD forms are known to get tied up 825 00:34:24,801 --> 00:34:26,151 in bureaucratic thickets. 826 00:34:26,151 --> 00:34:27,369 The captain has changed his recommendation, 827 00:34:27,369 --> 00:34:28,631 so the only thing that would 828 00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:31,069 hold this up is this lousy form, and... 829 00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:33,375 Damn it, Senator! 830 00:34:33,375 --> 00:34:35,812 These Purple Hearts... they may seem like just something 831 00:34:35,812 --> 00:34:37,379 to hang on a wall, 832 00:34:37,379 --> 00:34:39,468 but they mean a lot more to the soldiers. 833 00:34:39,468 --> 00:34:42,558 They remind them that their sacrifice was worth something 834 00:34:42,558 --> 00:34:44,691 to this country, and... 835 00:34:44,691 --> 00:34:46,345 and it should mean something to you. 836 00:34:46,345 --> 00:34:47,911 Alan? Adam. 837 00:34:47,911 --> 00:34:50,088 We'’re done here. It'’s done.It'’s done? 838 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:52,177 Tell your soldier he'’s gonna get his Purple Heart. 839 00:34:53,917 --> 00:34:55,441 And I'’d like to get his number, please. 840 00:34:55,441 --> 00:34:57,095 I'’d like to call him and personally thank him 841 00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:58,183 for his sacrifice. 842 00:35:01,969 --> 00:35:03,927 I'’ll get you that number! 843 00:35:06,147 --> 00:35:08,018 You were present when my client made these comments 844 00:35:08,018 --> 00:35:09,933 to Dr. Robbins about the morphine drip? 845 00:35:09,933 --> 00:35:10,978 I was. 846 00:35:10,978 --> 00:35:12,806 Did it alarm you? 847 00:35:12,806 --> 00:35:14,721 Not at all. I felt it was only natural. 848 00:35:14,721 --> 00:35:16,201 Natural?She was a grieving mother. 849 00:35:16,201 --> 00:35:19,073 Her grief was over the suffering of her child. 850 00:35:19,073 --> 00:35:21,728 And you didn'’t think it reflected any homicidal intent? 851 00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:22,990 No. 852 00:35:22,990 --> 00:35:24,383 And, Nurse O'’Malley, 853 00:35:24,383 --> 00:35:25,819 I'’m just curious about the morphine drip. 854 00:35:25,819 --> 00:35:28,082 I mean, we do it for suffering older people, 855 00:35:28,082 --> 00:35:29,997 with cancer patients. 856 00:35:29,997 --> 00:35:32,173 Why not anencephalic babies? 857 00:35:32,173 --> 00:35:33,914 Well, we do not technically help people to die. 858 00:35:33,914 --> 00:35:35,481 That would be illegal. 859 00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:37,309 We couch the morphine drip 860 00:35:37,309 --> 00:35:39,615 under "pain management," and the morphine is for pain. 861 00:35:39,615 --> 00:35:42,183 It just so happens it shuts down 862 00:35:42,183 --> 00:35:44,838 the respiratory system and causes death. 863 00:35:44,838 --> 00:35:46,753 It'’s a perverted distinction 864 00:35:46,753 --> 00:35:49,321 without a difference, but it is what it is. 865 00:35:49,321 --> 00:35:52,193 So why not do it with these babies?We probably should. 866 00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:54,500 But these babies don'’t appear to be suffering any pain. 867 00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,458 But often they do die as infants. 868 00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:58,025 Is that because doctors are 869 00:35:58,025 --> 00:35:59,461 running around pinching nostrils? 870 00:35:59,461 --> 00:36:01,942 No. It'’s because the baby'’s nutrition 871 00:36:01,942 --> 00:36:03,944 and hydration are cut off. 872 00:36:03,944 --> 00:36:05,685 Nutrition and hydration. 873 00:36:05,685 --> 00:36:06,990 We starve them to death? 874 00:36:06,990 --> 00:36:08,731 EILEEN: Yes. 875 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,994 That sounds a... a little inhumane. 876 00:36:10,994 --> 00:36:12,866 I mean, isn'’t it ridiculous 877 00:36:12,866 --> 00:36:15,738 we would euthanize a suffering dog, 878 00:36:15,738 --> 00:36:18,001 but for a human being, we starve them to death? 879 00:36:18,001 --> 00:36:19,655 Objection.Sustained. 880 00:36:19,655 --> 00:36:21,788 When we discontinue nutrition and hydration... 881 00:36:21,788 --> 00:36:23,703 is this painful? 882 00:36:23,703 --> 00:36:25,487 We don'’t know. 883 00:36:25,487 --> 00:36:28,229 But the organs dry up. They shrivel and shrink, 884 00:36:28,229 --> 00:36:30,405 and one by one, they close down. 885 00:36:30,405 --> 00:36:33,016 It can'’t be a lot of fun.So... 886 00:36:33,016 --> 00:36:34,583 if my client did this-- I'’m not saying she did, 887 00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:38,021 but ifshe did, if she twisted the neck-- 888 00:36:38,021 --> 00:36:40,198 that would be more humane. 889 00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:42,635 Probably, yes. 890 00:36:42,635 --> 00:36:43,984 We certainly can'’t advocate that mothers... 891 00:36:43,984 --> 00:36:45,507 I mean... how could we 892 00:36:45,507 --> 00:36:48,249 even rely on them to know how to snap a neck 893 00:36:48,249 --> 00:36:51,252 in such a clinical way as to cause instantaneous death? 894 00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:52,732 I mean, that seems like something 895 00:36:52,732 --> 00:36:54,908 only a medical professional would know. 896 00:36:54,908 --> 00:36:56,649 Don'’t you agree, Nurse O'’Malley? 897 00:37:00,130 --> 00:37:03,656 Wouldn'’t you agree, Nurse O'’Malley? 898 00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:13,056 Throughout this whole proceeding, 899 00:37:13,056 --> 00:37:15,407 there'’s only been one given-- 900 00:37:15,407 --> 00:37:18,323 that the child died in my client'’s arms. 901 00:37:18,323 --> 00:37:19,628 But what if he didn'’t? 902 00:37:22,196 --> 00:37:26,244 And if not by my client'’s hand, then whose? 903 00:37:28,898 --> 00:37:33,555 You were the only other person to hold the child that night. 904 00:37:33,555 --> 00:37:36,993 Come to think of it, it was your idea that Julie hold the child. 905 00:37:36,993 --> 00:37:40,214 You woke her up just before 4:00 to do so-- 906 00:37:40,214 --> 00:37:44,479 middle of the night, very few others around-- 907 00:37:44,479 --> 00:37:48,266 and then, as you took the infant from her-- snap. 908 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:51,965 Just one little jerking twist 909 00:37:51,965 --> 00:37:54,968 and no more suffering. 910 00:37:54,968 --> 00:37:57,100 The D.A. was right. 911 00:37:57,100 --> 00:37:59,277 This was a mercy killing. 912 00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:01,888 He just had the wrong angel of mercy. 913 00:38:01,888 --> 00:38:03,933 Didn'’t he, Eileen? 914 00:38:06,327 --> 00:38:08,721 You'’ve gone a little quiet. 915 00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:14,161 Did you kill that baby, Eileen? 916 00:38:15,249 --> 00:38:16,772 Eileen. 917 00:38:18,948 --> 00:38:21,429 Did you kill that baby? 918 00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:33,354 I'’d like to speak 919 00:38:33,354 --> 00:38:34,747 to an attorney, please. 920 00:38:34,747 --> 00:38:35,965 [gasping] 921 00:38:35,965 --> 00:38:38,359 [murmuring] 922 00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:53,766 [clamoring] 923 00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:16,092 That was exciting. 924 00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:17,311 [all sigh] 925 00:39:17,311 --> 00:39:18,704 Is it really over? 926 00:39:18,704 --> 00:39:20,923 It will be, and they'’ll question her, but 927 00:39:20,923 --> 00:39:22,142 the D.A. has indicated 928 00:39:22,142 --> 00:39:23,883 either way he'’ll dismiss it. 929 00:39:23,883 --> 00:39:25,363 There'’s no way he can make anything stick against you. 930 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:30,019 Thank you. 931 00:39:30,019 --> 00:39:32,848 Thank you for believing in me. 932 00:39:32,848 --> 00:39:34,241 You can thank Cassie. 933 00:39:34,241 --> 00:39:35,634 She'’s the one who said we could be missing 934 00:39:35,634 --> 00:39:37,549 the obvious-- that you'’re innocent-- 935 00:39:37,549 --> 00:39:38,941 and it got me thinking. 936 00:39:38,941 --> 00:39:41,030 I figured, if not you, then who? 937 00:39:41,030 --> 00:39:43,381 And I rolled the dice. 938 00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:48,560 Julie, I owe you a big apology. 939 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,257 I, I didn'’t believe you. 940 00:39:54,217 --> 00:39:56,002 But I do now. 941 00:40:05,968 --> 00:40:08,667 [sobbing] 942 00:40:26,293 --> 00:40:27,990 A month? ADAM: Five, 943 00:40:27,990 --> 00:40:29,427 six weeks at most. 944 00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:31,559 [laughing] 945 00:40:33,039 --> 00:40:35,302 I don'’t know what to say to you both. 946 00:40:36,825 --> 00:40:39,524 "Thank you" just doesn'’t seem like enough. 947 00:40:41,395 --> 00:40:42,831 Dave, listen. 948 00:40:42,831 --> 00:40:43,919 My father, 949 00:40:43,919 --> 00:40:46,052 may he rest in peace, 950 00:40:46,052 --> 00:40:47,923 cranky old bastard. 951 00:40:47,923 --> 00:40:49,142 [chuckles] 952 00:40:49,142 --> 00:40:51,318 World War II hero. 953 00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:54,147 In late 1943 he was with the Fifth Army 954 00:40:54,147 --> 00:40:55,365 in the Bernhardt Line offensive. 955 00:40:55,365 --> 00:40:58,151 He took a bullet to his leg, 956 00:40:58,151 --> 00:41:00,632 and for that, they gave him 957 00:41:00,632 --> 00:41:03,330 this. 958 00:41:03,330 --> 00:41:06,159 Thing was... 959 00:41:06,159 --> 00:41:09,684 he died before he got it. 960 00:41:09,684 --> 00:41:11,773 Because the paperwork got lost, 961 00:41:11,773 --> 00:41:13,862 he... 962 00:41:13,862 --> 00:41:16,343 he never got to, uh, 963 00:41:16,343 --> 00:41:20,086 to wear something that he would have... 964 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:27,702 Let'’s call this a loaner, shall we? 965 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,839 When you get yours, give this one back. 966 00:41:33,839 --> 00:41:37,973 Until then, my father would be proud 967 00:41:37,973 --> 00:41:39,932 that you wore it. 968 00:41:46,895 --> 00:41:48,767 Soldier. 969 00:41:59,473 --> 00:42:02,432 Captioning sponsored by WARNER BROS. 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