All language subtitles for Picket Fences s03e18 Without Mercy

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.