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Obviously, shockwaves are running through the entire community, as well as

profound grief.

Sister Carolyn Oaks was a beloved, beloved member of the church.

Preliminary reports say she was stabbed more than 30 times.

Oh, can you believe it? That's what I need.

Ellen, it's a compliment. High -profile case. You get the assignment. Too high

-profile. I don't need that kind of pressure. It makes my face break out.

were actually responding to the calls of another kidnapping victim, Cynthia

Simonson, when they found the nun's body in a closet.

Unconfirmed reports indicate... The arraignment's when? Nine o 'clock. Maybe

I'll stop by my way and watch. Why?

Because it's high profile and I want to be there for your first pimple. Oh,

funny. This is big stuff, Helen. They must consider you their go -to DA.

It's a compliment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Case number three, two, six, five, four. Commonwealth versus Michael Kingston.

Murder in the first degree.

Quiet down.

I said quiet.

Anybody who disrupts this room will be removed, possibly to a jail cell. I

think you want to test me.

Joseph Mapp, the defendant, your honor. We'll waive reading.

Helen Gamble for the Commonwealth.

We'd obviously oppose bail.

Okay, let's conference. We can set the trial date there.

Counsel, I have great respect for the public defenders, as well as your work

particular, but given the magnitude of scrutiny this case is likely to

together with the limits on your office's resources... Ms. Joe, would you

up, please?

Ms. Joe, did you hear me? Would you please come forward?

I hope you're not thinking of... You win.

Congratulations. Your Honor. Get together with the DA. Let's conference

as possible.

Your Honor, I regretfully have to decline my schedule. Counsel, this

request. It's your case.

Next. Case number 32655, people versus Nathan.

Can she really make me do this? She can't make me, can she? Can she make me?

Where is she?

Chambers. Come on.

Oh, come on. You love these cases. Granted, it doesn't involve a chopped

head, but still. We don't want this one.

Why? You know why.

Well, then humor me.

The victim is a nun stabbed 30 times. This kind of crime, the stigma will run

the lawyers defending the psycho who killed her. Again, I keep going back to

client who cut off the girl's head. You defended him. He was innocent.

To the public, he wasn't, so you face the same stigma there, Bobby. Which is

we don't need to be the lawyers on this one.

Plus, the district attorney is my roommate. I bet grants for

right there. Not if the judge is convinced you'll rise above the

conflict, which I am.

Helen Gamble is also an ex -girlfriend of mine. You've tried cases against her

before. Your Honor.

Bobby, if I were to recuse you every time you've slept with the other side...

Hey, there's already a lynch mob mentality out there. You can see that.

I need to ensure he gets a legitimate and zealous defense. You people fight

murderers better than anybody.

You can't force us to take this case. Of course I can't. It's exactly what I'm

doing. Go defend him.

I got him down to straight probation.

I think we should jump.

But, Jimmy, if I take any guilty finding, I lose my job.

I've got a morals clause which says any criminal conviction.

Maybe we could talk. Yeah, boss.

He can't waive it.

There's a precedent.

This is a company with 32 ,000 employees. This isn't fair. This isn't

Mr. Burroughs, it's not like you didn't commit the crime. You offered the woman

money. But I never would have. I am sitting in a bar. I'm minding my own

business, and she came up to me.

We're going to go with entrapment.

Is there any chance we could win?

Yes.

But not a good one.

Miss Washington, it isn't exactly like my life has a lot of dimension.

I have a job, which I've put in 16 years at. I've been a complete company man,

and they say I could stay on, but not if I have a guilty finding.

I want to roll the dice, Jimmy.

This is bad.

What can I tell you? First of all, if this thing goes to trial, we lose a

fortune. The court -ordered fees are minimal. I don't care about the money.

What's with the panic then? We've done nasty cases before. This was a nun,

Eugene. Stabbed repeatedly.

I understand, but we defended child killers. Are you upset on religious

Have you been watching the news?

Look, we could bring a motion before a different judge. Try to get out. Arguing

what? Hardship. That we're too overloaded to... That won't fly. Look.

Look, we've been assigned the case.

So we do the job. Lindsay, meet the client. Oh, great.

Eleanor, I want you to draft a promotion for a gag order. No doubt Helen will be

trying this case in the media every chance she gets you. And Lindsay will

if it gets that far since we're better off with women. I'm moving out of

criminal, remember?

Never mind. Eugene, I'd like you to do a memorandum on changing venue.

We should try to move this thing out of Boston. How about L .A.? Lucy, good. All

calls from the media. We have no comment.

It isn't fair. The guy is like this sad sack.

It was entrapment.

What do you want from me, Jimmy? You know, I would never ask a favor in a

million years that I thought was, you know, unethical. I don't know that,

actually. But go ahead.

The guy is getting a bum shake.

He's worked hard in his job, and he's about to lose it because some undercover

cop got him aroused. And it's vintage entrapment. So make the argument.

I'd like to make it to you.

Judge Cohen's going on vacation.

This thing will get transferred to one of six divisions, including yours.

I know Mark, Pat Sells, the clerk.

I'd like him to steer it your way. That wouldn't be a good idea. I wouldn't kick

it. From where I stand, your client committed the crime. And second, I don't

appreciate your even asking what you're asking. It amounts to an ex parte

communication. It's wrong, and you know it. I got a good guy here. I don't care.

Fine. Forget it. Fine.

You're angry now. Just forget it. I gotta go. Hey, Jimmy.

I understand you want to help your friend, but you have to understand that

I put on that robe, I don't play favorites for anybody.

I thought I'd just take a shot.

Oh, I do like that.

You do take your shots.

Say, why don't you come back in a couple of hours when the rope is off?

I'm Lindsay Dole. I know.

I was there at the arraignment, remember?

Yes.

Okay.

First off, attorney, quite a privilege. Anything you say obviously goes no

further, so... Yes, but you don't want me to be too truthful in case I want to

testify.

We have to preserve you from lawyer ethic problems.

All right.

Any thoughts on how a sliced -up nun got in your apartment?

I haven't a clue.

How's that?

This woman, Cynthia Simonson, who called the police.

Was she being held captive?

Shouldn't you get to know a little bit about me first?

I mean, I'm sure a nice person such as yourself has conflicts defending

something so vile as me.

I kind of stay emotionally neutral in my cases.

So let's just stick with the facts of the case.

Let's start with the underlying kidnap charge on the girl.

I didn't kidnap her.

She came back to my apartment, willingly.

She just found herself locked in.

And that would be false imprisonment, by the way. That's a distinction from

kidnapping.

This isn't your first case, is it?

No, it isn't.

Because you've got a little virgin thing going on.

Well, not that I don't like it.

Look, Mr. Kingston, you're in jail right now either because you killed somebody

or somebody else played you for the perfect dupe.

Either way, I consider you pretty stupid.

And if you think you're going to intimidate me somehow, we can just

because I really don't have the time. I'm representing you because a judge

ordered me to, and I will defend you as best I can, but don't mistake my effort

for caring.

You disgust me.

The reason he even knew her is because she reached out to help him. How so?

He would show up at the church sometimes.

Angry.

Respondent.

One time, Carolyn approached him.

That was the thing about Carolyn.

She was there for everybody.

Being there for him got her killed.

Three nights ago, she went to see him?

Yes. She got a call from him.

And he asked if she could come visit him at his apartment.

She knew nothing about his criminal record. We told the police all this. I

understand, but...

His lawyers are good, and they may take this to trial. I just don't want to be

surprised by anything.

For example, they might even claim that Michael Kingston and Sister Carolyn were

having a physical relationship.

What? Their job is to get him off. They're not beneath arguing anything.

Carolyn wasn't having any physical relationship.

If that's going to be their legal strategy, good luck to them. They got

wrong nun.

She went there.

To help a man she thought was in need.

Miss Gamble, you are going to put this man in jail, aren't you?

Yes, I'm definitely going to do that.

This woman, Cynthia Simonson, you say you didn't kidnap her.

I met her at a bar in Kenmore Square.

She left with me, happily.

She was at the bar with friends. I asked them.

And you came back to your apartment?

To play Scrabble.

We're back to being cute now?

She left with me to spend the night together.

Which we did.

And why'd you keep her locked up inside?

I didn't.

I went out to get coffee in the morning, and I have a barred door with padlock.

It's the only way it locks.

And the reason you have a barred door?

Safety.

Don't want to get ripped off.

Plus, which I had a nun in my closet. I didn't want people popping in.

Well, you won't be walking back. We'll get you to a cab. You know where the

entrance is? Yeah, I'm using it.

Back off!

Why me? Why always me?

Well, it won't be you from here on in. I'll be with you every step.

What about the supposed kidnapping of the college girl?

He said she went back to his place voluntarily.

What difference does it make? He carved up a nun.

Oh, may raise Fourth Amendment issues. Do we have an address on her? It's in my

coat pocket, probably soaked in yolk.

Eleanor, try to talk to this girl. Eugene, I guess we should try to make

with Dr. Crane in case we want to go with insanity.

Dr. Crane charges five grand. This is corner pointed and state will never

authorize it. Just give him a call in case you want to go that route. Give him

what he did. There's got to be a chance. He's insane.

So we're going to the Met for this psycho.

Do we have a choice?

We had a few drinks, talked.

And at some point, officer, you told him you were a prostitute.

I said I was lady of the evening, yes.

And how did Mr. Burroughs respond to that? He was surprised at first, maybe

shocked. What happened next?

We kept talking. I eventually asked him if he'd like to go upstairs to his hotel

room. He said yes.

Did you ever quote him a price?

$400. And then?

We went upstairs. He paid me the money, at which point I told him I was an

undercover police officer.

I placed him under arrest, read him his rights, and took him into custody.

Why were you working this bar undercover?

Mainly because high -priced call girls were. It was a problem.

And this was an upscale hotel bar, right, officer?

Yes. A lot of out -of -town business people frequented, including many law

-abiding people, right? Yes. In fact, mostly law -abiding, wouldn't you say?

Probably. And you weren't out to sting my client specifically, were you?

No. In fact, you didn't even know who he was when you sat down. No, I didn't.

And when you first sat down next to him, you told him you were an executive

secretary. Isn't that right?

Yes. How long were the two of you talking before you said you were a

Maybe an hour or so. An hour or so. So for a while, he could have thought, hey,

this woman thinks I'm attractive.

Is that possible?

I guess.

You guess?

Well, in fact, that was the idea, wasn't it? I suppose it was.

So before you told him that you worked for hire, do you think it was possible

was... Already hoping maybe something could happen upstairs in his hotel room?

I don't know what he was thinking. Did you feel, sitting there, he was

physically attracted to you?

Yes, I did.

Your Honor, I'd like to see her as she was that night.

Objection. There's no point. It certainly goes to our entrapment

I agree.

The court will be adjourned for one hour.

Life with parole, we both save ourselves a lot of aggravation.

Are you out of your mind?

He could have been out of his, Helen, in which case... There's no way I'm making

any deal which allows this guy to see the street again. I understand the

outcry. It has nothing to do with public outcry.

Look at what he did.

That's how she was found.

You want him free one day?

No.

But if you don't offer us something, we have no choice but to go to trial.

We'll agree to life.

I can't agree to parole. Come on, did you really expect me to? I don't feel

devoting six months of my life to this guy. Judge Hiller did that to you, not

me.

Could you just walk over to the foreman, hold his hand?

Objection. A woman like this touches you, it has an effect, Your Honor.

Go ahead.

Now smile at him like you did my client.

Objection.

Objection.

I really appreciate you coming in.

You shouldn't thank me too fast. I have absolutely no intention of helping you.

Believe me, we completely understand. We just have a few questions.

The police say that you were locked inside Mr. Kingston's home.

Yeah, it was like one of those barricade doors.

And you went there willingly, correct?

Yeah, I spent the night.

At what point did you decide that you were kidnapped?

When I woke up, he was gone, and I couldn't get out the door with the

I called the police. There was panic.

And when they got there, you told them that there were guns in the closet?

I told them that's what he told me.

And that's when they opened it up?

Yeah, that's the last thing I remember before passing out.

When they opened the door and I... I spent the night with him.

I could have been next.

Good news or bad, depending on how you look at it.

What?

We got a shot at getting this case kicked.

Excuse me?

Fourth Amendment.

Could be a bogus search.

How do you figure? They moved in on a kidnap.

There was no kidnap here, Bobby.

He was coming back to the place with donuts. The police didn't know that.

there was nothing exigent. The arresting officer is taking the stand tomorrow at

the PC hearing. If he says what I think he's going to, our little nun killer

could walk.

Lindsay, there was a woman locked up inside his apartment and a chopped up

And I'm telling you, we might be able to suppress the chopped up nun.

I don't really want to.

You think I do?

I paid the woman the money. I don't deny that.

But? But I didn't go into the bar looking for a call girl.

I sat down at the bar, I ordered a nightcap, then she sat down.

Okay, but Mr. Burroughs, she didn't force you to hire her services. We were

talking, getting along.

You know, I should have known something was up. Pretty women never come up to

me.

Things were getting flirtatious.

And I started thinking...

Hotel bar.

I'm on the road.

He says he's on the road. And my mind is going right to where a man's mind goes

to in these situations.

Which is where?

My penis.

Mr. Burroughs.

I'm just being honest.

I haven't slept with a woman in four years. I don't even go looking for it.

a realist.

But now suddenly I'm thinking this is a possibility.

And then?

Then she tells me she's the lady of the evening.

And how did you respond?

I was crushed.

One minute I was thinking this beautiful woman was actually attracted to me.

And then the next day I come crashing back down to earth. But as we continue

talking, I begin to realize why she's sitting there and smiling at me. And it

occurs to me that this possibility that I've been so excited about, that still

exists. And all of these little dreams I had been dreaming.

Well, suddenly $400 seemed cheap.

And I said yes.

She got me as thirsty as she could. She led me to a trough, and then I get

arrested because I wanted to drink.

We were responding to a 911.

When we got there, we found the girl behind the padlock steel door.

Then what happened?

We cut through the door, freed the woman. She told us the suspect had guns

something in the closet.

We opened the closet door, found the remains of the nun.

After you cut through the front door to reach Miss Simonson, there was no real

emergency, was there, officer?

I suppose not. And did you feel Miss Simonson had the authority to give you

permission to open the closet?

Well... You knew it wasn't her home, right?

And by the way, how did you open the closet?

Crowbar.

Your Honor, at this time, the defense asks that you suppress the entire

of that closet.

I see counsel in chambers.

It's a no -brainer. No exigency, no plain sight. The police were responding

what they thought was a kidnap. But after they went in, they had the girl.

if there's cause for an arrest, there's cause for a search incident to an

arrest. Did you just make that up? Hold on.

They could have secured the premises, got the warrant, they could have come

and searched. Instead, they just skipped the warrant. If there was one kidnap,

there could have been two. Somebody clearly could have been in that car. All

right, let's just cut through this.

I'm told you'd agree to life with parole. Let's just do that. That offer

on the table anymore.

Bobby, I suggest you take it. Why? Because that officer could have

believed there were exigent circumstances.

What? He's a young kid. He comes upon a kidnap. Hold on a second. Lower your

voice, please. You stuck us on this case to do a job. Which I'm grateful for.

And you gotta do yours. Don't you raise your voice.

You're looking to avoid setting this guy free. I get it. But the search was bad.

I said lower your voice. There were no exigent circumstances.

The suspect wasn't even there. They knew the girl had no authority to say yes to

the search. They had to get a warrant. They didn't. They screwed up.

And everybody in this room knows they screwed up. And if you suppress the

contents of that closet, this guy walks.

We all know that, too. The victim and the weapon were inside.

I'll hear oral arguments tomorrow.

Why? Because I want to. It's my prerogative. Do you keep forgetting I'm

judge? Let's not you forget it.

Oral arguments at 10 o 'clock tomorrow.

I'll see Ms. Gamble alone.

Why? Hey, out!

You better give me something, Helen.

I don't want to set him free any more than you want me to, but you better give

me something because...

Your Honor,

go get something.

You haven't got much time.

Under the belief this woman was a prostitute, you agreed to pay her $400

sex. She had me in an aroused state.

Is that your defense? You were in an aroused state? My defense is entrapment.

And this crime would never have happened if she hadn't come along.

You agreed to pay her $400 for sex. Yes, Mr. Tisbury.

They got me.

Good for them. Your Honor, I... No, no, Jimmy, don't tell me to calm down. Now

I'm angry. Now listen, I pay my taxes and this is what I get? The government

waving illegal candy bars in my face, hoping that I will bite. And you did

didn't you, sir? Which brings me right back to congratulations!

Listen, you know, maybe you ought to litter the street with $20 bills next

bust the homeless when they don't turn them in.

What the hell was that? I'm angry. Our chance is right on sympathy, and you

blew it. I don't care when I think about what they did.

No, you did it.

They maybe brought you to the trough, but you did drink, Clyde. I wanted to

drink. I wanted to bite, but I didn't. Because you got arrested before you

could. All right, Clyde, if we can still settle... You know something, Jimmy?

I'm a weak person. I know that, but I never broke a damn law in my life. They

caused me to, and it just isn't fair.

Anything and everything on search and seizure. Get on Westloft. Check the

Virginia case that threw out Miranda.

Forget lunch, forget dinner. I need those citations by 7 o 'clock. Go, go,

Don't tell me.

The officer's screwed up, Mark. Now I'm screwed going in there. Ellen, if he

walks... He's going to walk, Mark, unless... Between

now and ten o 'clock tomorrow morning, I have to find something.

up to date are you on the Fourth Amendment?

The Fourth Amendment is an embarrassment.

What else do you need to know?

What's wrong?

I may have to set the nun killer free.

What?

Warrantless search.

Stupid police mistake.

Oh, God.

Maybe I should just look the other way. Let the appeals court do the dirty work.

That isn't you, Zoe. We both know that.

Suppose I transfer it over to you.

Well, it's not me either.

Besides which, I'm having a little thing with one of the lawyers at Bobby

Donald's firm, so I'd have to recuse myself anyway.

What? Oh, Jimmy Berluti.

Little bollock.

Have you lost your mind?

What? I'm not supposed to have a personal life? Well, you shouldn't be

with lawyers who appear before you. I don't. That's why I just said I'd have

recuse myself. You know...

It's been quite a while since I've seen you smile. It wouldn't be such a bad

thing if you went out and got yourself... Never mind.

What am I going to do, Roberta?

The man, this is the killed nun. I put him back out there, he'll no doubt kill

somebody else.

What about the kidnap charge?

It won't stick. They arrested the guy coming back to the house with coffee.

The phone in the apartment worked.

She was free to make a call.

Clearly, she wasn't being kidnapped.

What the hell am I going to do?

Nice bomb, Lindsay. Couldn't tell me over breakfast, could you?

No.

Sorry.

You know, I realize you didn't want this case either, but still.

What you do for a living, it's repulsive. And your little credo of just

job, it doesn't excuse it. Hold on a second, Helen. You hold on. It says

something about a person's character, the kind of work that she would do.

turning this personal? The fact that you could represent him even under court

order and look at yourself in the mirror. I'm not going to listen to this.

don't. It might kick up a little bit of a conscience.

Oh, give me a break. No, Lindsay, the breaks go to people who kill nuns. And

police, because they're always innocent. The police try to catch criminals,

Lindsay. Three of them planted a knife in Eleanor's desk trying to... to frame

her and George Vogelman. I'm not talking about that. I am. You know, you're

crying about... This guy killed a nun.

And if we could trust the police, then we wouldn't have all these searching

scenes. Oh, don't talk to me. Oh, don't turn this on me. If you were in my

position, you'd do the exact same thing. I would never be in your position. Hey.

Go to hell. You go to hell.

Were you up all night?

Couldn't sleep.

Sure you could.

Oh, go to hell again.

Lindsay.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to take it out on you, but you're here.

You think I want the guy free, Helen?

No.

He hired her.

$400. He agreed to pay her.

And his defense is what? The aroused penis defense?

The thing about prostitution, ladies and gentlemen, we can throw the Janes in

jail, but they end up right back out there because they have no choice.

Broke, some with drug problems, some with children to support.

They can trade on their bodies, and they do. They end up right back out on the

street. Because as far as they see it, there's no other choice.

For the Johns, they do have a choice.

Deterrence works on the Johns.

And if we can shut down the demand by going after them, and this man, he had a

choice, didn't he? He chose to knowingly break the law to pay for sex.

Now, He has to pay the consequence for that choice.

Entrapment. That's defined as when a person is lured into the commission of a

crime that he has no predisposition to commit.

And that's this case.

Clyde Burroughs never would have committed this crime if he had been left

by the police.

That's... Entrapment.

And Mr. Tisbury stands here lecturing you on how we have to stop the Johns.

Clyde never was a John in his life.

He only became a John here because the police convinced him to become one.

And big picture.

Is this what we want the police to be doing?

Staking out law -abiding citizens, baiting them into committing crimes,

busting them?

Sure. If Clyde Burroughs had been stronger, he could have resisted.

Maybe if he'd been more moral, he would have resisted.

But he wasn't. He was weak.

And thank God we have the police to go out and find the weak and lure them into

committing crimes.

Come on. The police are supposed to protect us.

not trap us. The police are supposed to be catching the people who are out there

committing crimes, not finding innocent people and luring them into committing

crimes.

Clyde Burroughs would not be sitting here today but for the actions of a

officer.

Is this the government we want?

Donald Young, Dolan Fright.

Oh, shut up.

Heard of Star 69, you idiot?

I'm reporting you to the police.

What's going on?

It's his case.

People don't like us doing it.

Absent, exigent circumstances.

The police cannot search without a warrant.

They thought she was kidnapped. Which buys them entry.

But once they had her, once the exigency was over, they had to get a warrant.

There was no danger of losing evidence. They could have secured the premises.

They can't even argue search incident to the arrest because the suspect was

arrested outside the building.

I know the idea of setting a murder defendant free is, of course,

repugnant.

to everybody in this room, especially this defendant.

But we have a Constitution, a Fourth Amendment and case law that couldn't be

more clear. The police were required to have a warrant to search that closet.

They didn't get that warrant. As a result, everything in that closet is

inadmissible as evidence.

Ms. Gamble.

Ms. Gamble?

The Fourth Amendment does not require warrants.

It protects people against unreasonable searches, but it has never, by its

language, required warrants. The Supreme Court has chimed in and said that it

does.

The modern Supreme Court interpreted it that way. The language only requires

reasonableness, and nowhere, nowhere does the Fourth Amendment ever say that

evidence obtained absent a warrant or even absent reasonableness be excluded.

This exclusionary rule wasn't carved out by the courts until 1961.

That means for 172 years, the Fourth Amendment did just fine without

evidence. The courts decided to impose that sanction. The courts decided that

that would be the best way to remedy police misconduct. Now we've stretched

to remedy police mistakes.

Innocent mistakes which themselves are reasonable.

If a convicted felon locks up a woman, if he tells her he has guns in his

closet, reason says he's forfeited his right to privacy.

Reason says those police officers should go in and investigate.

Are you asking me to ignore the holdings of the Supreme Court? I'm asking you to

recognize the absurdity of the exclusionary rule. I'm asking you to

how ridiculous it is to require 20 -year -old police officers to understand the

law when judges and lawyers can't.

In this case, there was no misconduct by the officers. They rescued a woman who

appeared to be kidnapped.

They attempted to make sure the apartment was gun -free before the

returned. This is reasonable.

That man sitting right over there stabbed Anon 30 times and cut her into

He has a felony record. He...

Last

night, I got into a screaming argument with the defense counsel.

She accused me of making this personal.

It is personal.

I take my job very personally, Your Honor.

I like to come in here thinking the work I do counts for something.

Just like those police officers.

And...

When we see criminals get turned loose on technicalities that have nothing to

with merit or... The Constitution was designed to

protect the innocent, not the guilty.

In this case, that man, Your Honor, feed this right into the mouths of the

Supreme Court.

If they want to spit him back on the street, yes.

Yes, I'm asking you to overrule recent decisions.

We need a brave judge to do that, Your Honor.

Otherwise, they'll never get the chance to revisit the irrationality of...

He killed a nun.

He mutilated a nun and stuffed her into a closet.

Fourth Amendment was never meant to protect this animal.

I'm sorry.

It's personal.

I don't want to be Judge Hiller. I think Helen did

pretty well.

Given her hand, I've seen you better.

I'm sorry?

You hit all the marks. You certainly weren't bad, but I've seen you better.

you accusing me of something?

No. Let's see you defend that guy better, Bobby. I wasn't criticizing.

are, and I don't like it.

Will the defendant please rise?

Has the jury reached its verdict?

We have, Your Honor. What say you?

In the matter of Commonwealth v.

Burroughs on the charge of solicitation, we find the defendant, Clyde Burroughs,

not guilty.

Oh, God.

Oh, thank you.

You stuck to your guns, Clyde.

You hung in there.

I gotta admit, I didn't think we'd win. Well, I owe you big.

Do me a favor. From now on, go to bars like this instead of hotels. Pretty

don't come in here except for Beck.

I take offense at that.

Roberta. Hi. I just swung by to tell you that I won't be able to see you later

tonight. I gotta check on Judge Hiller. She may need me.

How'd she rule?

Oh, she hasn't yet. I don't know which way she's gonna go.

So, can I please have a rain check for dinner?

Sure. Oh, sure.

Never mind. I'm going to go.

I'll call you later.

We're friends.

I agree with Ms. Gamble. There is nothing in the language of the Fourth

Amendment that requires warrants.

Nor is there anything that says illegally obtained evidence should be

These rulings have been carved out by the courts in response to our distrust

the police.

I also realize the courts are more than willing to adjust their thinking to the

needs of the day.

We search...

Bags at airports now, without warrants. Make people go through metal detectors.

California requires fingerprints just to get a driver's license.

The Department of Transportation has mandatory drug testing. We have all

invasive things we do to people, absent not only warrants, but absent any

suspicion of wrongdoing.

So, why camp?

a police officer who's been told there are weapons in the closet of a convicted

felon, a man suspected of kidnapping, why can't he open the closet?

I agree with the district attorney.

The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted and expanded by the court to

where it belies both the language and the intent of the amendment, which is...

reasonableness.

But I also know that Supreme Court

rulings on search and seizure have set clear rules.

And as much as I would love to be a renegade.

Our criminal justice system has no chance whatsoever once the judges

begin embracing judicial anarchy.

The search of the closet was illegal.

The contents are inadmissible. With the contents suppressed, I find no probable

cause to hold the defendant.

He is free to go.

can we get it

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