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Lock your hands there.
There we go.
I
talked
to him. Anyway.
It's Harry Fenwick. The cancer finally took him.
You're supposed to call us when you pick up dead bodies, Sal. I was going to
call from the metro. You're supposed to call from the scene.
You're getting calls from neighbors.
We want that call from you.
Suddenly such a show.
Is there a problem?
Sorry about this. It was a blessing, really. He was in a lot of pain.
Carla,
I'm sorry.
Thank you. He's with God now.
Yes, he is.
Excuse me.
Call probate. Find out who inherits what.
Tell Carter to get to the mortuary.
Take a look.
What? Why?
Because somebody's dead.
Jimmy, he died of cancer. We check.
Get a statement from the wife and the son.
Have Kenny run probate and tell Carter to check the body out.
You don't think that that's a little, you know, insensitive?
We're no longer a sensitive department, Max.
When somebody dies, we find out why and we find out for sure.
Like I said, there's a new sheriff.
Not the old one.
Please get out of my face. A man can't even die of cancer without you.
It is not routine for Carla Fenwick. The car to call. There's needle marks on
the guy's arm. Of course there are needle marks. I was his doctor. He's on
medication. Jimmy, since we're close friends, let me say this in candor. I'll
sue you for emotional distress and take your house. The entire estate went to
Carla. About $130 ,000.
Here's the thing, though.
Insurance only covered 60 % of his home care.
which means if Harry had lived another four months, the estate would have been
bankrupt.
So technically, she did have a financial motive, maybe.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Tell Carter to do an autopsy. What? Do it!
Add two more zeros to the judgment!
It was natural causes. I was there just this morning. He was on death's door.
Well, then it shouldn't be a problem, right?
You're hurting me.
Why are you doing this?
Why?
Because people in this town end up in freezers.
Because things in this town are never what they appear.
And every time there's a surprise, this sheriff's department looks stupid.
Specifically me.
Jimmy, the Fenwick family has just lost a husband and a father to a very long
and a very painful bout with cancer.
Do you really want to impose your new tough guy policy on them?
He didn't die of cancer.
What? Freezer. Quiet. Don't bait me during my work.
He died of a morphine overdose.
Are you sure? Positive.
The guy was on morphine because of pain, Carter. Maybe he was... This was way
beyond pain medication. He was being pumped with more than 40 cc's per hour.
was all through his blood.
Could he have done this to himself?
Not if he was as weak as everybody says he was. Somebody had to do it to him.
Um, I wasn't going to mention it, but last Sunday at church, Carla was
wishing that her husband would sort of, uh, die.
You weren't going to mention this?
He was sick. She said it in compassion.
Did he die by morphine?
Yes, he did.
Pick up Carla Fenwick. Bring in his son, too.
You have my orders.
What? It's just for questioning. You can't. You can't be serious.
We don't mean to be arresting you or nothing, reading your rights, but you
probably shouldn't be saying nothing either.
We'll call Doug Wambaugh. He'll meet us at the station. We'll ask some
questions.
Hopefully this will go away.
In 41 years of practice, I've never witnessed a bigger atrocity. Did you
the morphine drip?
Don't you answer that.
Be quiet. I didn't hire you.
The morphine was turned up to 40 cc's with the full knowledge that it would
Harry.
This is a setback.
Which one of you did it?
Neither of us did it, Jimmy.
The morphine was up by your wife.
What do you want me to say?
The truth.
Did you do it?
Yes, I did it.
So what?
It's done thousands of times every month by doctors all over the country.
Not legally, it isn't. Why didn't you tell me, Jill? Because you didn't want
hear it like you never want to hear it.
And I knew that it would put you in an awkward position as the sheriff.
But how naive can you people possibly pretend to be?
Euthanasia is illegal, Dr. Brock. Well, I certainly know that, Mr. Littleton.
But in cancer cases with extreme suffering, we customarily increase the
level in order to relieve that suffering, even though we know that that
could possibly... Hold on, hold on. That's good. Now, what you're saying is
you increase the morphine to reduce his pain.
Unfortunately, by mistake...
He suffered an overdose.
Yes. Now, that's what I think happened. You didn't intend for the man to die.
You're just trying to make him more comfortable.
Is that your statement?
Jill.
No, that's not my statement.
What happened was, I told the family...
That I could raise the morphine level and stop the pain.
But in doing so, it would probably kill him within six to eight hours.
The family wanted to relieve his suffering, and so I raised the morphine
It was not... unforeseeable that he died. I knew it would happen.
That came out wrong. She didn't mean it that way.
I meant it exactly that way.
This hypocrisy has gone too damn far. When are we going to tell the truth?
It's what doctors do in these situations.
Well, place her under arrest.
What? Unless you misspoke.
Was it an accident, Jill? Is that what you're trying to say?
Yes, she misspoke.
No.
I spoke the truth.
That's under arrest.
Um, you have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you.
I don't know why you have to be the minor. Why do you have to investigate,
Jimmy? Just change the damn thing. I told you natural causes, but now you
to do an autopsy. There's no time to stand on principle, Jill.
Jimmy. You can't be serious about prosecuting. We have to bring her up on
charges, all right? She flat out said she killed him. I don't want... Listen
me. Now, we'll arraign her, all right? I'll agree to a plea bargain. We'll send
her home with a suspended sentence. For murder?
No. Man slaughtered with extremely mitigating circumstances.
Now, Judge Bone happens to believe in euthanasia. With a joint recommendation
from the DA, I think we can sell suspended.
There's my wife.
You picked a fine time to be a tough sheriff, Jimmy.
Case number 32222.
The state of Wisconsin versus Dr.
Jill Brock on the charge of voluntary manslaughter. The Honorable Judge Henry
Bone presiding.
The court will come to order.
Douglas Wambo for the defense.
Your Honor, in the course of my practice...
I've represented a diverse group of people, some better than others, but
have I been privileged with a client that so personifies what it means to be
compassionate and the thought that she could be charged with...
I need a moment.
Deny. You're not getting any moments.
Question of bail?
None, Your Honor. We agree to personal recognizance.
Defense stands ready for immediate trial by jury.
Actually, Your Honor, I'd like to confer with counsel and offer a plea bargain.
Failing that, the prosecution is ready to proceed.
Tomorrow morning, 10 o 'clock.
Proffer a plea or we'll go to trial.
Until then, everybody, get out.
If you had told me I thought with a possibility the wife did it for the
thought... I would have to investigate.
If I had known just... We've had this discussion a zillion times.
You've always said to me, if I ever help a patient die, whatever I do, don't
tell you about it.
What's going to happen now?
Littleton will recommend three years suspended sentence. You won't have to go
jail, but you will have manslaughter on your record.
Well, then maybe I should go to trial, Jimmy.
We all know the Rome juries. The dancing bandit was found not guilty. I'd have
to be equally sympathetic. But suppose they did find you guilty. Jury trial,
fraud a conviction.
You'd have to get jail time.
We can't risk that.
Okay.
I'm sorry, Jimmy. Maybe I should have just said it was pain medication, but I
didn't want to lie.
I'm sorry.
Warren, to what do I owe this?
Field check.
How are you, John? I'm fine. How are you? Excellent, except for the fact I'm
Rome, Wisconsin.
You know, one of the points of my assigning you here was so that I'd never
to show up personally.
I've been following your interesting caseload. Oh, have you?
Did you hear about today?
Yes, that's actually why I'm here.
I'm going to handle the prosecution.
What? A physician actually caught with her hand in the euthanasia jar.
We've been waiting a long time for this opportunity.
You actually want to try this cave?
Oh, yes.
Kevorkian may make better copy, but Dr. Brock's conduct is certainly more
prevalent and therefore more dangerous.
Um, I was thinking of offering three years suspended.
Well, it's good that I'm here then. The Attorney General wants time served.
I'm sorry, Warren.
Joe Brock is a friend of mine.
That's another reason I'm here.
Can you cry on command?
I like my clients to seem contrite.
When I give you a sad little look like this, that's the signal for you to let a
tear escape. Just one.
I like to be subtle.
Oh, yes, I've always admired that about you.
Oh, my worthy opponent.
Two weeks suspended to be served at Club Med, and we have a deal. No, we have a
problem.
Look,
Warren Greer, the assistant district attorney of Wisconsin, my boss, he wants
try this case personally.
What are you talking about?
He wants to make an example of you, Jill.
He's a...
He's very, very good.
Calm down. Just relax.
They're seeking jail time, Jimmy.
I can't believe this.
I did nothing that isn't done routinely. How can I be on trial for murder?
Because it's done routinely. Well, maybe I should change my statement. It's too
late for that. Your statement is already on record. Look, one thing is for sure.
We're not trusting your life to Douglas Wambaugh.
Not completely.
I don't understand.
It's nothing personal, Doug, but they brought in this top DA. We want both of
you. It's been a life goal to work with you, to see the inner workings of that
vacuous mind.
You're a character.
I want you to be my lawyer, Doug. I just need every resource available to me.
Mr. Wambaugh, she is facing jail time.
How can you make this about you?
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I plan to stipulate to the prosecution's case.
It works well for me. I have no problem with that, especially since she's
already confessed.
As I see it, we need to put the law against euthanasia on trial.
Already he's taking over. All right. I need all of Mr. Fenwick's medical
records. We must demonstrate that not only was his death imminent, with or
without the morphine, but that any lingering would have been with extreme
suffering. That's easy. I need Carla Fenwick, Bruce Fenwick, any other
of import sitting with us, testifying for us. They already said they would.
I've been in contact with doctors from various bioethics committees. They'll
testify that what you did with Mr. Fenwick was fairly routine.
Then I want a parade of character witnesses.
Ministers, priests, former patients, former mayors. They're all dead.
Anybody and everybody who can testify as to your integrity, your morality, your
conscience, your compassion.
Get your kids out of school.
I want them sitting in that courtroom. I want you hugging them and kissing them
every day.
You are a wonderful mother in addition to being a caring physician.
We will defy any jury to put you in a jail cell.
I don't mean to be strict about this, but my needs are strict.
If you're trying this case, Warren, what's the point of me being there?
Your absence from the prosecutor's table could be interpreted as dissent.
A dissent which could be quite crippling given your influence in this community.
I therefore want and need you by my side.
You're a district attorney, an officer of the court, and we have a defendant
clearly acted outside the boundaries of our criminal law.
There should be no professional conflict.
I'll be by your side.
Obviously, I would expect facial expressions, body language, and all
your part to support the state's position.
Obviously.
She did commit a criminal act, John.
Objection. A change of venue would cause unnecessary delay with no apparent
benefit. The defendant was the acting mayor of the town, Your Honor. She
continues to be the leading doctor in this community.
Upon cursory review of the witness pool, I see that she's given physicals to 11
of them, not to mention the fact... The people of Rome can be impartial.
Certainly, Your Honor himself would not be in favor of a venue that might be
predisposed to an acquittal. Is that an accusation, counsel? I believe it was,
Judge.
It was simply an affirmation of my belief that Your Honor considers the
integrity of the judicial process to be paramount.
That integrity would be best preserved, I believe, by transferring venue of this
matter into another county where the defendant is not quite so familiar.
if not popular.
As I said, the people of Rome can be fair.
Motion for change of venue denied.
Trial date April 4th.
It's become a little more complicated than we originally thought.
If I get convicted, then...
I could go to jail.
It'll be on the news.
It'll stir up a lot of anger.
People will say a lot of things.
We have to stick together.
All of us.
So care what you did?
To play gone?
Mr. Fenwick was suffering, Zach.
Eat your dinner.
Oh, come on.
We have to be a strong family.
We are a strong family.
No jury's going to put you in jail.
Not for this.
Well, I certainly hope you're right.
I don't care if your feelings are hurt. We need the Wambaugh strut. She hired
you to strut. She hired both of us. Now listen to me.
I've tried cases against Greer before. He's methodical, he's plodding, and he
very effective.
One advantage we might have.
Although he's been up against plenty of lawyers like me, he's never seen the
likes of anybody close to you.
You have to be your bombastic self.
It's Douglas Wambaugh's showtime. You have to keep him on tilt.
This guy is good. This man is very good.
We can't let him get his soft, persuasive rhythm.
As soon as he begins, you jump up. Never let him get his stride. Never let him
up. You talk like you're scared.
I look at the facts, I look at the law, and I look at the DA trying the case.
You're damn right I'm scared.
You should be, too.
Right from the start.
Don't worry about me.
Mr. Greer, we will hear your opening statement.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Objection! I beg your pardon. I'm sorry.
What I object to is wasting this jury's valuable time.
The defense will stipulate that Dr.
Brock turned up the morphine drip. Mr. Wambaugh, I haven't even introduced
myself to this jury. We'll stipulate to that, too.
Warren Greer, single, never married, no kids. Your Honor. Wambaugh. Both his
parents are in good health.
I hope that they never get sick or suffer. Wambaugh. I hope if that happens
a compassionate doctor wouldn't try to help.
That's enough. Because then you might seek to prosecute that doctor just like
you're doing to Joe Brock. Move to strike all of that and ask that Your
take control of this courtroom.
Counsel to the bench, now.
You got him mad.
Bad start.
I'm not going to put up with any of your crap.
Since she's got another lawyer, I'll think nothing of holding you in
And you, I've got control of this courtroom.
You want to see how much control?
Try insulting me one more time.
He objected for even told the jury my name.
The jury knows all about you. I had them over for cocktails last night. Who is
this man?
I'm Douglas Wambo. Mr. Wambo, this is a court of law.
You're new in town.
He was losing control of his bodily functions, and,
well, we all knew that the time was here.
And you had a discussion with Dr. Brock concerning what to do?
Yes.
Could you relate that discussion for the court?
He was in pain, and Dr.
Brock said that she could...
increase the morphine and take the pain away.
She said this would probably put him in a coma.
What else did Dr. Brock say, Mrs. Fenwick?
She said that Harry would not come out of the coma.
The morphine would cause his death.
He was going to die no matter what. For your observation.
Dr. Brock, up the morphine with the knowledge that the increased dosage
affect the end of your husband's life?
Yes.
Thank you, Mrs. Fenwick.
Nothing further.
Your husband had
stomach cancer?
Yes.
Could you describe his condition on the morning of his last day?
The pain was excruciating.
He was suffering some dementia.
He was dying, Mr. Dell.
Did you have an opportunity to speak with Dr. Brock after your husband's
passing?
Yes, I did.
And what did you say?
I...
I said, thank you.
I said, thank you for relieving his suffering and allowing him to die with
some dignity.
No further questions, Your Honor.
Redirect, Mr. Greer.
Just one thing, Your Honor.
Mrs. Fenwick, I neglected to say how deeply, deeply sorry I am for your loss.
I would like you to trust that no matter how difficult these proceedings may
become, I hope we will never allow the jury or anyone to lose
sight of your pain.
Thank you.
He came off almost more sympathetic than Carla.
That's exactly his plan, to sympathize with her, with you, with the whole
tragedy. He's going to share his compassion with the jury, and then he's
going to ask them to rise above it. I thought I had him clustered.
For a second I thought I saw a nostril twitch.
This man is hard to shake.
So what now?
The gloves come off this afternoon.
They're putting up their doctors and bioethicists to condemn you. It's
that we destroy them. We have just as many doctors on my side.
but they're bringing in Dr. Ellen Smithy from Chicago.
I don't understand this.
Why am I being singled out?
What
gives?
Couldn't this be construed as an ex parte communication?
I have no intentions of discussing the merits of your case, Counsel, but I
like to know.
Lots of doctors do what Jill Brock did, many of them in big hospitals.
Now, why go after a small -town general practitioner?
One might also ask why exempt the small -town doctor.
One might even pose the query why the laws of our nation often seem not to
to Rome, Wisconsin.
I suspect the answer to that question...
might be located with the Honorable Judge Bone.
Uh, we probably shouldn't be having this discussion.
You have something to say to me?
There's a little piece of legal vernacular cropping up in Madison these
It's called Bone Law.
Named after you.
Bone Law means when you don't like a particular rule or regulation, you just
ignore it.
You've become such a wonderful populist, defying the Supreme Court.
You've made vigilantism so romantic again, so contagious, that a jury here
acquit a guilty defendant like the dancing bandit, simply on the grounds of
likability.
Why Rome?
Because the people here need to know the laws of this country apply to them.
Why Jill Brock?
Because she murdered her patient.
That's kind of a harsh way to put it, isn't it?
You increase the dosage to terminate a patient's life.
Murder's the term for it, harsh or not.
But, Dr. Smithy, as the defense correctly points out, this kind of a
the morphine drip, it goes on all the time.
A lot of people cheat on tax returns, too. That doesn't make it right.
The fact that a lot of doctors may do what she did is all the more need to put
stop to it. The patient was suffering.
We're not talking about a Labrador retriever.
This was a human being. We don't put people to sleep when they suffer. We do
everything we can to help them get better. But this patient wasn't going to
better. Death was imminent.
The patient was in extreme pain.
We never know when death will strike.
Miracles happen all the time.
Cancers go into remission sometime with no medical explanation.
It's not for any doctor to exclude the remote possibility of recovery, and
that's exactly what she did.
But the patient wanted to die.
Patients want to die all the time. Some with depression, some with cancer, some
because they've lost a limb.
I don't give a damn if a patient wants to end it.
Doctors don't help them die.
You think it's possible that a miracle was waiting for Harry Fenwick?
I don't know.
Terminal cancer has been known to inexplicably go into remission.
Did you look at Mr.
Fenwick's medical records?
No, I did not.
Nor do I need to.
It's beyond the point.
Wait a second. Mr. Fenwick's health is beyond the point?
I'm not disputing her prognosis. I'm saying whatever the prognosis... So Mr.
Fenwick's pain and suffering have no relevance in your testimony today?
I'm saying in any situation... It's a yes or no question, Doctor.
Does Mr.
Fenwick's suffering carry any meaning for you in today's testimony?
No.
No. Well, it did for Dr.
Jill Brock.
Objection. What do you object to? Her caring? Objection. I'll tell you what I
object to. Doctors making million -dollar salaries while serving up
platitudes without ever getting into the room with the patient. The train was
relevant for Harry Fenwick.
One more word, you see a jail cell.
That's all, Your Honor.
I'm finished with Dr. Smitty's expert testimony.
Certainly you must sympathize with Mr. Fenwick and his family.
Of course I do.
Do you think doctors aren't human?
It hurts to see a patient suffer, especially when it's someone you care
It's because doctors are so human that the lines have to be well drawn.
Once you step across it and say, this one, I'll let die.
That one, I'll put out of his misery.
We're all in trouble.
That's the whole point of the Hippocratic Oath.
Thank you, Doctor.
Nothing further.
I'm off this case, Warren.
What?
What Jill Brock did may be against the law, but this enforcement is arbitrary.
Now, it's one thing not to make exceptions for friends. It's another
selectively prosecute.
I'm out. I'm not sitting at your table.
I'm disappointed.
This is a bad dream.
I'm going to wake up any second.
It's in color.
Dreams are in black and white. The trial's been in color. Let's just go
your testimony one more time. We've been over it ten times.
I can't believe this. We're losing.
Why can't we just offer a plea? Because Greer won't take one. Where the hell's
the defense? You don't do anything!
I believe we are.
The ethical testimony was a wash. They put up doctors to condemn her. We put up
doctors to support her. Most importantly, we've successfully put the
euthanasia on trial, and that's what we need to do. You don't object.
You just let them... There's no defense.
All right, Jimmy.
All right.
All right.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I asked them to investigate.
You couldn't know.
You couldn't know.
When you turned up the morphine, was it with intent to end his life?
It was with the intent to relieve his suffering.
It was with the knowledge that it could end his life.
Dr. Brock, I'm a little confused.
Three years ago, you took this very stand to condemn a nun who stood accused
mercy killing?
I said that we can't have nuns and philanthropists running around
euthanasia, I believed then, and I continue to believe that it is a
that needs to be left up to the family and to the medical establishment.
Mr. Fenwick, his wife, and his doctor made that decision.
Pretty big decision.
Mr. Fenwick was going to die no matter what I did.
Maybe a day later, maybe three days later, but he was going to die.
All I did was to make his passing less painful.
You heard the prosecutor's experts talk about cancers going into inexplicable
remission.
None of the prosecutor's experts examined my patients. None of them made
medical judgment concerning my patient. My medical judgment, which remains
undisputed, is that Mr. Fenwick was going to die either that day or a day
Just the same.
Miracles do happen.
The cancer had eaten away Mr. Fenwick's stomach. There was no miracle for him.
Dr. Smithy talked about the Hippocratic Oath.
Do you believe that you violated it?
The first rule of the Hippocratic Oath is do no harm.
If a doctor sits around allowing the prolonged suffering of a death that is
to happen anyway, that's harm. That's excruciating harm.
So if you had it to do all over again, You'd turn up that trip?
It's not an easy thing.
Did Harry say anything to you before you turned up the morphine?
Yes.
What did he say?
He asked me to let him go be with God. He... He
said that God was waiting.
Nothing further?
The autopsy report lists a morphine overdose as the cause of death.
Would you agree with that?
Mr. Fenwick was going to die regardless. Yes, I'm not disputing Mr. Fenwick's
terminal condition, but the supervening cause of his death was the morphine.
Yes.
And, according to your own testimony, you increased the dosage with both the
knowledge and the expectation that it would terminate Mr. Fenwick's life,
correct?
Yes, that is correct.
Hmm.
When Sheriff Brock, your husband, began to investigate Mr. Fenwick's death...
Did you try to dissuade him from doing so?
Well, I didn't want to put him in a situation where... You told him Mr.
died of the cancer.
Natural causes.
Yes.
Yes, I said that.
And that was a lie.
Well, I didn't think... I knew that it wasn't foul play.
I didn't want Jimmy investigating, causing more pain... So you chose not.
to tell him the truth.
You concealed from the sheriff, your own husband of 15 years, that you turned up
the morphine drip.
True? I already said that was true.
Thank you, Doctor.
Jill Brock stands on trial today only because she tried to spare a dying
man a few hours of horrible suffering.
Now, make all the speeches you want about policy and anarchy and
but the simple truth is only that Harry Fenwick was dying in agony.
Dr. Brock helped him, like doctors do all the time.
Now, it's usually done quietly.
between family and physician.
Usually it's kept secret because this happens to be an area where the law and
humanity are still apart.
Some states are changing this.
In Oregon, euthanasia is now legal.
For other states, such as Wisconsin, the law still lags behind.
So for people like Harry Fenwick, they have to look to the doctor for
compassion. Harry looked.
To Jill.
You heard Carla Fenwick thank Jill for giving her husband peace and dignity,
for ending his sufferings.
She thanks her.
Who are any of us to judge this woman?
How could any judicial system be so perverted as to subject this doctor to a
trial for...
I've never known such a tragedy.
The arguments for or against legalized
euthanasia are very powerful.
and very complex.
It's a debate, no doubt, that could keep you in that deliberating room for a
very long time.
Fortunately, that's not your debate, at least not today.
For this proceeding, as Judge Bone will instruct you, euthanasia is illegal.
It is unlawful for a doctor to terminate a patient's life.
The only question before you, therefore, is did Jill Brock commit this unlawful
act?
By her own admission, she did.
Mr. Wambaugh eloquently argues the heroic character of Dr.
Brock. I take no issue.
But Mr. Wambaugh's remarks are more appropriately aimed at a sentencing
How shall we punish her?
That is not today's question.
Today's question is simply, did she commit the unlawful act?
Once again, she admits that she did.
Whether you accept our position or hers, there is only one verdict
you can return.
I think you'd like to watch me eat.
Maybe I wonder how you can eat.
Or sleep, for that matter.
You have to know, very little is served by incarcerating Jill Brock.
I keep coming back to why.
Evidence is closed, counsel. It's in the hands of the juries.
So we can talk about it.
Why take such a tough stance with this crime of all crimes?
The law against euthanasia.
Mr. Wambaugh had his facts wrong when he provided my introduction.
My brother died of AIDS.
It was a painful, very ungodly end.
So don't you look at me as if I don't understand.
I understand.
It would have been easy for me to help him die, but it would have been wrong.
It's unlawful for me and for Dr. Jill Brock.
That's fine, but if you make your point, Dr.
Jill Brock goes to jail.
Which, as an officer of the court, I am obligated to make happen until the law
is changed.
I prosecute the Jill Brocks.
You see, with me, Your Honor, the bone law is never in effect.
Judge, jury's ready.
Madam foreperson, has the jury reached its verdict?
We have, Your Honor.
Will the defendant please rise?
What say you?
On the charge of voluntary manslaughter, we find the defendant, Dr. Jill Brock,
guilty as charged.
Your Honor, we ask that you poll the jury.
Members of the jury, the clerk will call your name, at which point you will rise
and state your individual finding.
Adams.
Guilty.
Berluti.
Guilty.
Jowers. Guilty.
Mendel. Guilty.
Davis.
Guilty. Seidman. Guilty.
Roberts. Guilty.
Carey. Guilty.
Megan. Guilty.
Aaron. Guilty.
Boucher. Guilty.
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