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In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented

by two separate, yet equally important groups:

the police, who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

I wanna thank you all for coming out today

to support Alternative Justice in New York, an organization

working hard to find novel ways to reduce crime

and strengthen our communities.

Before I introduce Suzanne Forrester,

the dynamo attorney behind this visionary nonprofit,

I want to acknowledge Suzanne's latest report,

which shows a rise in prison deaths.

Incarceration shouldn't be a de facto death sentence,

and putting felons in prison can't be the endpoint

of our justice system.

And now, without further ado, Suzanne Forrester.

Thank you, everybody.

Good afternoon.

Eli here is so committed to his latest pro bono case,

he's forgotten what it is to actually bill a client.

I'm not gonna let some charter elementary school

in New York City post the Ten Commandments.

First Louisiana, now Spanish Harlem?

It stops here.

Thou shalt not question Eli's passion for this case.

Religion has no place in a state-funded building.

I agree.

I just don't like angering zealots.

Oh, I can handle zealots.

Speaking of, I've got a 2:00 meeting.

Who's the vic?

Eli Freeman, age 26, lives alone.

Landlord says he's been renting for two years.

Apparently, he's a lawyer.

Okay. Who found him?

I did.

A work colleague called in a wellness check a few hours ago.

- Cause of death? - Blunt force trauma.

Looks like he got his forehead bashed into

- this marble kitchen counter. - Ooh. We got a time?

Given temp and rigidity, I'd peg

between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. last night.

Well, he obviously put up a fight,

so why don't you bag his hands, huh?

I'm seeing a phone and a wallet,

so likely not a robbery.

No music on, no food out.

Doesn't look like he was entertaining.

He is wearing a nice suit though.

All dressed up and no place to go.

Does he have any family that we can notify?

His landlord didn't have any emergency contacts listed.

No. Eli said he was orphaned.

Put himself through Queens Community College,

tutored his way through Fordham Law.

I took him under my wing here.

Within a year, he was the firm's MVP associate.

And when's the last time you saw him?

He left here around 6:00 yesterday.

- Any idea where he was headed? - No.

I was on a client call when he ducked out.

Eli was very private.

I really don't know much about him other than

where he went to law school.

All right, thanks.

Fordham Law confirms the vic's photo and name.

He has a law degree.

Queens Community College has no record

of Eli Freeman ever attending class.

If you're gonna lie about where you went to school,

Queens Community College is kind of an odd choice.

Go big, right? Go Ivy League.

He could have legit went there

and changed his name.

Well, okay, I'll follow up with Fordham

and see if I can track down his application.

Wow, this kid was a workhorse though.

I mean, I found a bunch of social media pics of him,

and he's clerking at the law library,

late night study sessions,

winning the moot court competition.

I mean, as far as I can tell,

this kid cut loose one time

at something called the Barrister's Ball

and took a girl named Angie Marliss,

who is now a sustainable lingerie designer.

What is that, like bras made from plastic bottles?

You know, if I'm not mistaken,

the vic got a text from an Angie

the night of the murder. Yeah, here it is.

She said, "I'm really getting tired of this nonsense."

I'd go find Angie.

DNA analysis from the hairs found on Eli's jacket are back.

They're from a woman.

So you were dating Eli?

How long were you two involved?

On and off, couple years.

How well did you know his past?

He said he was on his own, had lost his family.

Did he ever use any aliases or a different name?

What? No.

When was the last time you saw Eli?

Four, five months ago?

And then in August, he called things off.

He said he was gonna mail me some of my stuff back,

- and he never did. - How about that?

You didn't speak to him since August.

Yet two nights ago, the night he was murdered,

you hate text him?

He kept blowing me off.

And then the other night,

my friend saw him having dinner at Union Cafe with some woman.

You mind telling us where you were

two nights ago between the hours of 7:00 and 11:00 p.m.?

I was hosting a private bachelorette viewing

right here for 20 liquored-up women

from Greenwich trying on everything in the studio.

Our vic didn't use any dating apps,

and we couldn't find any digital trace

about any new girlfriend.

We did find some calls to a burner phone,

and we've got some techs going through those right now.

What did the restaurant say?

Confirmed a reservation for two at 6:30 p.m.

They sent us video of the front door.

He entered alone.

Hour later, at 7:30 p.m.,

he leaves with a mystery brunette,

and she's got a file folder that reads "Pathway Forward."

You mean that halfway house in Hell's Kitchen?

- The one and only. - Whoa, hey, guys!

Harold from Pathway Forward

says that the woman that I described is named Martha

and that she volunteers there once a week.

- Got an address? - No.

But he said that she's a member of the Baylor Church community,

which is upstate near Hudson.

You gentlemen got a full tank of gas?

They broke with the Mennonite Church

about 100 years ago,

consider themselves a utopian sect.

I'm Pastor John. This is my son, Jacob.

- Can we help you? - Afternoon, gentlemen.

We're detectives with the New York Police Department.

We're looking for this woman.

That's Martha.

Martha Fairchild is our schoolteacher

and my son's fiancée.

Why is she with Elijah Penner?

His name is Elijah Penner?

Yes, he grew up here.

Abandoned our church years ago.

His parents live a few doors down.

Thanks.

All right. Thank you.

Murder?

I can't believe it.

I told him it was dangerous out there.

He... he never should have left.

But there was no talking to him.

He wanted something different, something more.

Please sit.

Uh...

when he was, um, about 17,

he turned defiant, hated our sheltered ways.

See, we don't use phones, email, or the Internet.

- Because they're... - Evil? No.

There are only a couple hundred of us,

but we value being present for each other.

A gadget that weakens our community bonds?

No, thank you.

But Eli?

He was a curious, passionate boy.

When the time came, he refused his baptism,

so the church asked Eli to leave.

We hadn't spoken to him since.

We were forbidden.

I'm very sorry.

We believe that your son was with another member

of the church on the night that he died.

Martha Fairchild. Do you have any idea why?

Martha told us she ran into him last year

in the city for her volunteer work,

said he'd changed his name,

but she wouldn't have seen him again.

Communication with those who leave the church,

it's not done.

And Martha is practically the pastor's daughter-in-law.

If she saw him, it must have been something very urgent.

Where can we find Martha?

You saw Eli a few nights ago?

I help to rehabilitate men released from prison

living at Pathway Forward.

When I bumped into Eli, he told me

he'd gone to law school, so I asked him

if he could help me with some paperwork

for one of my parolees.

He was helping me ever since.

You guys had dinner Thursday, right?

To talk about the case.

Then Eli walked me back to Pathway Forward.

- What time was that? - It had to have been 7:45.

I had to turn in the parole termination petition

and talk to the case manager.

And Eli went home to prepare for a work meeting

the next morning.

By 8:00, I raced to catch the bus.

I always meet my fiancé at a set time.

We'll look into that.

In the meantime, if you can think of anything else.

I wouldn't be able to call you, Detective.

We're not allowed to use phones here.

I don't know.

No Internet thing sounds kind of nice.

No texts, no emails, no social media.

Yeah.

I mean, my kids would run away

and never speak to me again, but...

Yeah, I get it.

The simple life thing seems pretty appealing

for about a minute...

Maybe two minutes.

Hey.

Pathway Forward finally got us that video.

Let's see if Martha's story checks out.

There she is with Eli.

She goes inside,

and he goes down the street.

That guy sitting on the stoop,

it looks like he makes sure she was inside.

- And then he... - Chases our vic.

Yeah, and then they get into it on the street.

Run his face.

Marcus Wright, did 17 in Fishkill

- for bludgeoning his girlfriend. - All right.

Call his parole officer and find out where he is.

Yeah.

Hey.

We're looking for Marcus Wright.

Over there.

Stay put.

Marcus Wright, got a few questions for you.

You don't need that to talk, do you?

Hey, I'm... I'm a new man, officers.

How can I help you?

Eli is dead?

You think I killed him?

Because I'm an ex-con?

That and we got video of you arguing with the guy

right before he died.

He and Martha were helping me,

which is more than I could say for anyone in your system.

All you guys did was lock me up and leave me to fester.

- You killed your girl, Marcus. - Yeah, I did.

I was a different man back then.

Martha's church group believes in me.

I mean, that young lady has been my lifeline.

She gives me purpose.

She even helped me get this lawyer.

- Why... why would I hurt him? - Great question.

But you did chase the lawyer, and it did get heated,

and that doesn't seem like gratitude to me, my friend.

I was worked up. All right?

He filed a petition without asking me

for early termination of my parole supervision.

The problem is, my petition could

still be denied because the system is such a mess.

- I just wanted an explanation. - So you what?

So I peeled off on 59th and 9th

on my way to my evening custodial job.

- I called Martha. - At Pathway Forward?

No, her cell phone.

- But I couldn't reach her. - Wait, hold on.

Stop, stop, stop.

You're telling me Martha has a cell phone?

Yeah, I mean, her church group

has something against it,

but a few months back, she'd come to me

and asked me if I could get her one.

She said that it was important, so I got her a burner.

Wright's evening supervisor confirmed his alibi.

He worked the 8:00 to midnight shift,

so not our guy.

The store that Wright bought Martha's burner phone at

gave me the EIN and confirmed the number.

Remember all those untraceable phone calls

to the vic's phone log?

Martha?

All hours and late hours.

That's a lot of talk about parolee petitions.

Martha.

You lied to us.

Yeah, you left out the part about the burner phone

you used to call Eli, didn't you?

And on our way here, we stopped by

the county hospital, checked the records room.

- Your blood type's AB negative. - Yeah.

And guess what blood type matches the hairs

found on Eli's clothing

the night of the murder and in the kitchen?

- AB negative. - I'm not feeling well.

Did you go to Eli's house that night instead of the bus?

- Is that what happened? - I'm engaged to Jake.

I don't spend time with other men.

Please, people will hear you.

Martha, if you do not come clean,

there will be consequences. Do you understand that?

I don't like the questions you're asking.

- I'd like you to go now. - It doesn't work that way.

Martha, stop.

We need an ambulance at the Baylor Church immediately.

Good news is that the paramedics said

that Martha is gonna be fine.

Bad news... well, at least for her...

we pulled her prints off of the soda can,

and they are all over the apartment.

I'm talking bathroom, nightstand, headboard.

Okay, so maybe it started with Eli doing legal work,

and then they got close, and then they got too close,

and then Martha lost her good girl senses,

but ultimately fears the wrath of God,

so she goes to Eli's apartment to end it.

And then he threatens to tell the church.

I got the video back from the bus stop near the church.

Looks like Martha's alibi holds up.

There she is getting off the 8:00 p.m. bus.

All right, back to square one.

Wait a minute. Hold on now.

Didn't Martha say that her fiancé

picks her up at the bus stop?

- Yeah. - Well, keep looking.

I mean, who's she looking for?

She's looking up and down, left and right, for somebody.

And then she walks off alone.

Hmm.

Maybe Jake found out about the affair,

went into the city on his own?

Bring them both in.

I was raised to obey the rules.

My parents were very strict, and I remember how hard it was

to always have to be the good girl...

Resist things you wanted.

When did you fall in love with Eli?

I mean, her fingerprints are all over that apartment.

All over.

Which kind of makes it seem like maybe she did it.

- That's ridiculous. - Is it?

Maybe you can help us out

because we're trying to figure out exactly

why her fingerprints would be all over his apartment.

Unless...

- Yeah, I can think of one thing. - Affair.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

This guy ditches your church.

- He steals your girl. - Stop.

Your childhood friend was living this wildly free life.

He took a huge risk, started over in New York City.

I'm sure he swept you off your feet.

I prayed.

For what?

To not be in love, to not feel so...

so happy, so alive with him, but it wouldn't stop.

And Jake found out about it.

It's actually starting to look like you got motive.

In the first degree.

So Jake realized you were seeing Eli?

No, I was careful.

Because what you did, Martha, would make a man jealous.

Jake's not like that.

Even pastors' sons are human.

He wasn't there when you got off the bus on Thursday,

was he?

So where were you Thursday night, Jake?

- Home. - Really?

'Cause you didn't pick up Martha from the bus.

- We saw the video. - Yeah.

So, you know, the bus stop has surveillance cameras.

And we watched that, and it proves

that you were a no-show, so tell us what's going on.

I think he found out about you and Eli,

- and he went into the city. - No.

I was late.

I picked her up a ways down the road.

Okay.

She's a good kid that set a bad thing in motion.

And she's covering for Jake out of guilt.

I don't know if we're gonna be able to make her cave.

These two are so sheltered, they don't even realize

the magic of two-way glass.

Are you okay?

Um, I'm so sorry about all of this.

We messed up.

I apologize, but these things happen.

We know that you two weren't involved,

and you'll be free to go in a moment,

so just sit tight.

Oh, um, you know Marcus Wright, correct?

Yes, I've been helping him. Why?

Unfortunately, he followed Eli home

- on Thursday and killed him. - Marcus?

That's not possible. He's reformed.

Evidence is evidence.

We're launching a manhunt as I speak.

I just... I hope he doesn't resist because,

you know, things get messy when they resist.

We can't let them arrest Marcus.

Martha, Martha, sit. Sit.

Hey, we'll find some way to help him.

Let's pray for guidance.

But you know he didn't do this.

- Martha. - You weren't at the bus stop.

- Jacob, how could you? - I found your phone.

You betrayed me, defied our church.

And so, yes, I went to see him.

I told him to leave you alone.

But Eli said that you two were in love...

No, no.

And that you were gonna leave me and leave the church.

I told him that wasn't possible,

but he said that you'd been scared,

but you'd finally decided and made preparations,

and I, uh...

I lost my mind.

I raised my hand against him.

- Jacob Albrecht, on your feet. - What are you doing?

Get up.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You're under arrest for the murder of Eli Freeman.

Was it true? Were you in love with him?

No, it...

Come on. Move.

Calling docket ending in 1638,

People v. Jacob Albrecht.

Charge is murder in the second degree.

- How does the defendant plead? - Not guilty, Your Honor.

Your thoughts on bail, Ms. Maroun?

The people seek remand.

The defendant bashed in the skull of a man

having an affair with his fiancée.

The defendant lives outside of New York City,

but went to great lengths to track the victim down,

then kill him.

Police have a recorded admission.

They also found boots in his home

that had glass fragments from the crime scene

stuck to the soles.

Your Honor, my client lives in a small,

conservative, religious community upstate.

He has no access to computers or telephones

to make travel arrangements.

He is the furthest thing from a flight risk.

Bail is set at 500,000.

Ms. Maroun, we're Eli's parents.

Is it true Jacob confessed?

You're sure?

Well, we have it on video.

I can't believe that he...

we don't hurt other people. That's not who we are.

We lost Eli years ago, but at least we knew

he was living the life that he wanted.

We never thought that he would...

- How dare Jacob. - Amelia.

- How dare he? - Amelia, calm down.

And to think I saw him that night,

Jacob at the brush pile, burning something.

- What time? - Late.

I was asleep, but smelled smoke and looked out.

What was he burning?

It looked like fabric, clothing,

maybe a scarf, a jacket.

It was strange, but I had no reason to think that...

did those things have my son's blood on them?

It's okay. You... you didn't know.

You didn't know.

But you can tell the jury what you saw.

You can hold Jacob accountable.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

We will do everything we can to get justice for your son.

Ms. Maroun, motion to suppress the confession.

The defendant is a minister?

An ordained minister in the Baylor Church.

Yet police recorded his protected

and privileged conversation with his parishioner.

This conversation took place in a police interrogation room,

and the defendant was speaking to her as her boyfriend.

The conversation began with a parishioner seeking counsel.

My client, her minister, guided her in prayer,

at which point, the conversation,

every side of it, every word of it,

was off-limits to police.

In Mockaitas versus Harcleroad...

Now, that is a federal case.

It has no bearing on this matter.

Whether it does or doesn't, I'm excluding the admission.

I don't want to impede free communications

between those seeking religious counsel.

End of story.

Can we win without the confession?

It's not a slam dunk.

We're going after a minister with a few pieces

of suggestive forensic evidence to tie him to the crime scene.

- Do we have fingerprints? - Nope. It was cold.

He was probably wearing gloves.

Can we put him near the victim's home

at the time of the murder?

We're trying, but like I said,

it was a cold night.

Everyone was wrapped up in hats and scarves,

so we don't have any obvious video of him

near the victim's building.

We do have trace evidence on the defendant's shoes

that matches the glass shards

that were found at the crime scene.

And we also have records of Martha's

late night calls to the victim.

Plus, police found her phone in Jacob's house,

so we certainly have motive.

And a video from the bus stop will prove

that the defendant wasn't there to pick up Martha

on the night of the murder.

Right, and the victim's mother

will testify that she saw the defendant

burning clothing later that night.

So our case is good, not great?

We sure we wanna stick with murder two?

Well, Jacob Albrecht killed an innocent man,

I mean, someone who gave up everything to be free,

to live the life that he wanted.

I agree. This is murder, Nick.

Well, the judge may have ruled

that the recording of the confession is inadmissible,

but since Martha's the parishioner,

she can still speak to what Jacob told her.

Let's persuade her to testify.

Put the screws to her if necessary.

No, I don't want to do that.

Well, he killed the man that you loved, Martha.

- That's not true. - What part?

I love Jake, always have.

Now, that may be true, but he killed Eli.

Not only that, he admitted to you that he killed Eli.

We need you to tell the jury what he told you.

I can't send the man I love to prison.

He's all I have. This community is all I have.

It might be all you have right now,

but it seems to me that you wanted something else.

If I testify against my fiancé,

the pastor's son, to get justice for a man

who turned his back on this whole church,

I'd be shunned. And then what?

I can't drive.

I don't know how to use a computer.

How do I support myself? What happens to me?

I know this is difficult, but you know,

we can subpoena you.

We can force you to take the stand.

No, you all tricked me once at the police station,

but I won't let that happen again.

You won't get me to utter another word on this matter.

Mrs. Penner, thank you for coming today.

Where do you live?

The Baylor Church compound.

Do you know the defendant, Jacob Albrecht?

Yes.

Can you tell the court the night of December 5th,

in the hours after your son was killed, here in the city,

did you observe the defendant at the church compound?

- Yes. - Around what time?

It was dark, past sunset.

And what specifically was he doing?

Nothing specific that I recall.

Did you see him burning anything?

No.

Didn't...

didn't you tell the district attorney's office

that you witnessed the defendant burning items

that appeared to be clothing?

- Objection, argumentative. - I'll allow.

Answer the question, Mrs. Penner.

I can't.

I won't.

I will not sit in judgment.

And neither should you.

I will not participate in this trial,

nor will anyone else from our church.

And that is the whole truth, so help me God.

So the victim's mother was planning to help us?

She was on board?

Yes, she volunteered to tell the court

what she saw that night.

And we went over it all in prep...

I mean, not even a hint of doubt.

Which means someone got to her.

Someone changed her mind. Makes sense, I suppose.

These people are... they live by their own rules,

their own customs. They're circling the wagons.

They don't want outsiders to sit

in judgment of their people.

And crazy as it sounds, she's trying to protect Jacob,

regardless of the fact that he killed her own son.

That's not circling the wagons.

That's obstruction of justice.

Suzanne, hey. Sorry.

I'm running a few minutes late for our lunch.

Nolan, Sam, this is Suzanne Forrester,

head of Alternative Justice in New York.

We're just wrapping up.

Well, maybe they could stick around for a few minutes.

I know you're trying to put Jacob Albrecht behind bars,

but I have a better idea.

The Baylor Church would like to initiate

a restorative justice circle.

What exactly are you talking about?

No trial, no verdict.

This is a space for collective conversation,

overseen by your office, to focus on healing.

Whose healing?

Well, the victim's family have no desire

- to see Jacob go to jail. - Estranged family.

You want a trial?

You won't get a single member from the community to testify.

Hell, 50 people from the church just marched into Rikers

with cash and property deeds to bail out Jacob.

This community protects its own.

Sounds more like witness tampering.

You can issue subpoenas all day long.

Our threats don't hold any weight with these people.

If I may.

For over 100 years, our church has forged

a separate way of life.

We trust our own way to guide us through this difficult time.

This murder occurred 100 miles from your church in my jurisdiction.

Jacob is repentant, and he's prepared to work

in our community as part of that penance,

restoring homes, assisting the infirm,

compensating the victim's parents.

- Well, he is your son. - We all have our roles.

And Jacob, Jacob is our resident carpenter.

Losing him impacts all of us.

Why send him to prison when he can still

do so much for our society?

So what's actually on the table?

He'll plead to criminally negligent homicide.

Probation, no jail time.

While you're at it, why not throw him a parade?

He is a good young man who lost his way

for five horrible minutes.

He has asked for our forgiveness

and God's.

That's all well and good,

but you don't get to forgive the perpetrator

and give him a free pass. That's not how this works.

This meeting is over.

You're making a mistake.

God isn't just window dressing for your courtrooms.

He is the court.

We never talked about restorative justice for homicide,

and if you wanna bring a test case

to let someone walk on murder, it's not gonna be this.

This was a way for your office to save face,

Nick, not a ploy.

And given the evidence at this point,

he's probably gonna walk anyway.

What you have to do is get me a conviction.

We're grasping at straws here.

The video from the bus stop will show that Jacob

wasn't there to pick her up.

It's not gonna show he was in Eli's apartment committing murder.

The defense is gonna poke holes

in the trace evidence on his boots.

I'm not even sure we can credibly establish motive.

And the burner calls and fingerprints in his apartment?

Defense is gonna chalk it up to their work on parole petitioners.

We need something stronger to at least show

that Jacob had a reason to kill Eli Freeman.

Wait, Nolan?

I'm looking at the victim's call records.

It looks like a week before the murder,

he called Hedgebrook Health.

That's a women's clinic.

Well, what was the date?

Let's see if he made a payment for an appointment.

Hold on.

The same date he made the call, there's a receipt

from a drugstore for...

Prenatal vitamins.

So we may finally have some leverage with Martha Fairchild.

She is pregnant.

The victim's baby?

His Internet search history suggests he thought

he was gonna become a father.

This shows motive. This is good news.

May I sit?

Of course. What's on your mind?

Um...

To win this, we're gonna have to play hardball

with a woman the victim loved.

We're gonna have to blow up the life of a woman

who was carrying his baby.

We're already defying the wishes of his parents,

so...

I'm starting to ask myself,

is manslaughter such a horrible option?

I thought you were all about accountability, Nolan.

Are you going soft?

I got a letter a month ago from the mother

of a college kid that I put away for seven years.

He had gotten into a bar fight, punched a guy

who hit his head on the floor and died.

Those cases are tough.

And the kid got stabbed in prison.

He was trying to break up a fight.

Sometimes I wonder what the right thing really is.

I mean, we just... we just move on.

We get a conviction. We jump into the next case.

But these defendants, they're shuffled off in handcuffs.

They're led into a tiny concrete cell.

And I... I wonder, like,

what is going to happen to Jacob

if we go through with this

and Martha.

The system's flawed.

But there are rules that allow us to do our job fairly,

to operate with integrity within a system

that is meant to dispense equal justice to all.

Do you really believe that?

Most days.

What about now?

What about with Eli Freeman?

Because if justice

is about outcomes,

who is to say whether their version will be

any better or worse than ours?

It is tempting to go there.

But he left that community, became a lawyer.

He chose to practice in our system,

in our church.

Let's honor that.

We'll talk to Martha.

Martha, we know you're pregnant with Eli's baby.

It must be wonderful, scary.

Jake and I got married.

He's gonna raise the baby as his own, keep my secret.

Well, we can keep your secret, too,

if you finally tell the court what Jacob did.

And lose my husband?

Rob this child of its last hope for a father? No.

I know what prison does to a man.

I won't send him there.

We can subpoena you, Martha.

We can force you to testify.

But you can't force me to tell the truth.

No, we can't.

But we can present evidence in court

of the doctor's appointment Eli made for you

and the prenatal vitamins he bought.

Your family and friends will learn the truth.

They will know that you are pregnant with Eli's baby.

What is wrong with you people?

- I'm sorry. - Go to hell!

Martha told me what you're doing.

- I can't believe... - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Why are we here? - We wanna talk about a plea.

But you have to promise to leave Martha alone.

They can't know it's Eli's baby.

She's a good woman.

She didn't mean to sleep with that man to get pregnant,

and I didn't plan to kill him.

Sit down and keep your mouth shut.

What my client means to say is he's willing

to plead guilty to murder two.

You realize that comes with mandatory prison time?

I'll do whatever it takes to protect Martha.

She needs the church.

And that baby is gonna need the church too.

Mr. Price, I understand you've reached

an agreement on a plea.

Yes, Your Honor.

The defendant has agreed to plead guilty

to murder in the second degree.

The People recommend a prison term of 15 years.

Mr. Albrecht, do you understand the terms of this deal?

I do, Your Honor.

I'm deeply ashamed...

Of my actions.

I ask forgiveness of all who were harmed by my sin.

Are you ready to take a plea?

Yes.

Be strong, Martha, for me.

For our child.

We're still gonna have a great life together,

I promise you.

I love you.

These people definitely walk the walk.

They sure do, for better or worse.

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