1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,700 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:06,640 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:08,480 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:11,350 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,410 --> 00:00:12,680 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,710 --> 00:00:18,350 We weren't flapping in the wind or anything. We were lying on our stomachs. 7 00:00:18,410 --> 00:00:20,520 Looked to us like you were lying on her stomach. 8 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:21,650 That was totally innocent. 9 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,460 Hey, look, pal, in this heat, I don't know how you could do it in the place. 10 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,800 But you were, and it's gonna cost you 75 bucks. 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:29,160 This really chews. 12 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:30,230 (MACHINE GUN SHOTS) 13 00:00:30,290 --> 00:00:31,290 Shots! 14 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,810 (PEOPLE SCREAMING) 15 00:00:32,860 --> 00:00:35,240 What's going on? What's going on? 16 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:37,400 Back there! He's shooting everybody! 17 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:39,540 This is Park Ten! We have shots fired. 18 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,380 Man with gun behind the Conservatory. 19 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:42,570 (SHOTS CONTINUE) Don't stop! Keep moving! 20 00:00:42,740 --> 00:00:43,910 (SCREAMING CONTINUES) 21 00:00:44,870 --> 00:00:47,250 This is Park Ten! We got people down! 22 00:00:47,310 --> 00:00:51,660 I see 15, 20! We're behind the Conservatory. 23 00:00:51,710 --> 00:00:53,850 We're gonna need EMS down here, big time! 24 00:00:54,150 --> 00:00:59,190 (PEOPLE CRYING) 25 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,360 Witnesses saw a male, white, mid to late 20s, 26 00:01:05,430 --> 00:01:07,170 average height and weight. 27 00:01:07,230 --> 00:01:10,540 T-shirt, shorts, sunglasses, blue baseball cap. 28 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:14,010 The fastest way out of the park is the Vanderbilt Gate. 29 00:01:14,070 --> 00:01:15,480 You got people covering that area? 30 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:17,450 Yes, sir. Canvassing Fifth Avenue. 31 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,840 First shots came from over there. 32 00:01:19,910 --> 00:01:21,550 Guy just moved through the crowd. 33 00:01:21,610 --> 00:01:24,920 Emptied a clip, reloaded from a black knapsack. 34 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:28,430 We got 11 people down. Wounded are at Mt. Sinai. 35 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:34,320 (SIGHS) 36 00:01:34,390 --> 00:01:36,800 So, what do you want to do first? 37 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,260 Maybe the guy's A.C. went on the fritz. 38 00:01:41,330 --> 00:01:42,670 You think? 39 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:47,000 Oh, God! 40 00:01:50,370 --> 00:01:51,750 (SOBBING) 41 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,280 Oh, no! No, no! 42 00:01:56,850 --> 00:01:58,550 Oh. My baby! 43 00:02:13,130 --> 00:02:14,800 Let's go. 44 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:17,440 Come on. 45 00:02:24,170 --> 00:02:26,280 Let's go talk to some witnesses. 46 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:20,700 I got three kinds of patients down here. 47 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,070 Hysterical, unconscious and expired. 48 00:03:23,130 --> 00:03:25,810 You want to talk to someone, try X-ray. Second floor. 49 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:29,210 Eddie, the elevator's over here. 50 00:03:29,270 --> 00:03:30,770 Stairs are faster. Hey, Loo. 51 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,720 What's the count? I heard 11 on the radio. 52 00:03:32,770 --> 00:03:34,150 BRISCOE: Yeah. Plus four here. 53 00:03:34,210 --> 00:03:35,280 Fifteen dead? 54 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:36,340 And 12 wounded. 55 00:03:36,410 --> 00:03:38,820 We're going upstairs to talk to one of the survivors. 56 00:03:40,150 --> 00:03:41,820 ED: Ms. Drake, I'm Detective Green. 57 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,520 This is Detective Briscoe and Lieutenant Van Buren. 58 00:03:44,690 --> 00:03:46,860 Can you talk to us about what happened? 59 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,490 Yes, I think so. 60 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,560 How you feeling? 61 00:03:49,620 --> 00:03:51,100 Lucky. 62 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,440 There was this girl lying to me in the field, Claudia Shue. 63 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:57,240 I was sitting with her group. 64 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:58,680 What group is that? 65 00:03:58,730 --> 00:04:01,180 DRAKE: We're pre-med at Hudson. 66 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,910 I heard these pops and Laura fell over, 67 00:04:04,970 --> 00:04:06,110 then Claudia. 68 00:04:06,610 --> 00:04:08,210 There was this guy coming towards us. 69 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,650 I got up to run, but my leg just gave out. 70 00:04:11,110 --> 00:04:12,990 This guy, what did he look like? 71 00:04:13,050 --> 00:04:15,790 He was white, I barely saw him. 72 00:04:16,590 --> 00:04:19,120 I kept my head down, I played dead. 73 00:04:19,490 --> 00:04:23,270 He walked right past me, shooting and muttering stuff. 74 00:04:23,690 --> 00:04:25,230 VAN BUREN: Muttering what? 75 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:31,910 "Damn bitches." He just kept saying that. "Damn bitches." 76 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,180 The weapon's a nine mil SMG fired at full auto. 77 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,810 We're looking for a converted Ingram or Rolf. 78 00:04:38,870 --> 00:04:40,480 Most of the dead and wounded are women? 79 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:43,420 All but two. And there were plenty of men to shoot at. 80 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,360 Seventeen of the female victims were pre-med students at Hudson. 81 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:48,990 They were the first ones shot, right here. 82 00:04:49,050 --> 00:04:51,360 So the guy trolled the park for women to shoot. 83 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:53,730 Is there a sketch? BRISCOE: Yeah. 84 00:04:53,790 --> 00:04:56,000 But it looks like half the people in this room. 85 00:04:56,060 --> 00:04:58,540 I got a call from the Daily News. They want to run it on the front page. 86 00:04:58,590 --> 00:05:00,440 Media calls get routed to Public Affairs. 87 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:01,940 It was a personal contact. 88 00:05:02,260 --> 00:05:05,250 I hope you didn't make any promises you can't keep. Questions? 89 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:07,080 No. But I think we ought to release the sketch. 90 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,340 It's too generic. 91 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,940 Well, that could work to our advantage. 92 00:05:10,010 --> 00:05:12,490 If the guy has a false sense of security, he might make a mistake. 93 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:13,710 He might make one if he thinks 94 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:15,880 there's going to be a knock on his door any minute. 95 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,420 Any other groups of women in the area. 96 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,420 There was a soccer game in the East Meadow. 97 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,990 Yeah, and a bunch of flower-sniffers from the Conservatory. 98 00:05:24,050 --> 00:05:27,000 But he chose these pre-med students. 99 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:29,630 Let's find out who knew they were meeting in the park. 100 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,330 It was an orientation to discuss gender issues in med school. 101 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,110 There was a flyer about it in the lobby. 102 00:05:38,370 --> 00:05:40,110 ED: You have a copy of it? 103 00:05:40,170 --> 00:05:41,510 Yeah, sure. 104 00:05:44,570 --> 00:05:46,210 It's okay. Take your time. 105 00:05:53,580 --> 00:05:55,360 How long was this posted? 106 00:05:55,420 --> 00:05:56,560 A couple of weeks. 107 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:59,830 This says that the orientation was by the pool on the west side. 108 00:05:59,890 --> 00:06:01,630 How'd they end up clear across the park? 109 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,670 Oh, there were people playing Frisbee so we had to find someplace else. 110 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,100 Oh, you were with them? 111 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:09,230 Yes. 112 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:13,110 We had to walk across the park before we found someplace quiet. 113 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,310 We'd already wasted half an hour, 114 00:06:16,370 --> 00:06:18,580 and I had to leave for a meeting. 115 00:06:19,610 --> 00:06:20,780 (PHONE RINGS) 116 00:06:21,380 --> 00:06:24,690 I have to get that. All these parents have been calling. 117 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,930 If the shooter followed the girls from the west side, 118 00:06:29,990 --> 00:06:31,900 there's a chance he left that way. 119 00:06:31,950 --> 00:06:34,760 And a chance we were looking on the wrong side of the park. 120 00:06:35,290 --> 00:06:37,360 I'll break the news to the Lieutenant. 121 00:06:39,830 --> 00:06:42,070 This is Mr. Gilbert Gooba. 122 00:06:42,130 --> 00:06:45,510 N'Goueba. Gilbert N'Goueba, from the Ivory Coast. 123 00:06:45,570 --> 00:06:46,670 ED: From Abidjan? 124 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:47,940 Yes. You know Abidjan? 125 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,070 The Paris of Africa. My father worked there. 126 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:52,140 You told the officers you saw something yesterday? 127 00:06:52,210 --> 00:06:55,480 Yes. I saw a white man in short pants run out of the park. 128 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:58,290 He had blood on his short pants. He went to the subway. 129 00:06:58,350 --> 00:07:00,120 BRISCOE: Did you get a look at his face? 130 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:03,630 Not very good. He had big sunglasses and a baseball hat. 131 00:07:03,690 --> 00:07:06,430 Was he carrying anything, like a bag or a knapsack? 132 00:07:06,490 --> 00:07:08,370 No, no. If he had a bag, I see it. 133 00:07:08,890 --> 00:07:10,840 He must've ditched it in the park. 134 00:07:10,890 --> 00:07:11,890 Thanks. 135 00:07:12,630 --> 00:07:15,730 Hey, Old Spice, what did the Loo tell you about me? 136 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,780 Nothing. Did she tell you I don't like nicknames? 137 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,380 Yeah? Yeah. 138 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:22,210 Lennie'll do. 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,250 The old man used to wear Old Spice. 140 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:28,380 POLICEMAN: Detectives, a black knapsack, right? 141 00:07:33,550 --> 00:07:36,830 Rolf nine mil. There's still three full clips in here. 142 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:40,860 All right, cordon off the area and radio CSU. Tell 'em we got a pick-up for the lab. 143 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:41,920 Right. I'll take it in. 144 00:07:41,990 --> 00:07:42,990 Get 'em to hump right on it. 145 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:44,440 Hey, Ed, it's after 7:00. 146 00:07:44,490 --> 00:07:46,340 You know Shrier's not gonna look at it tonight. 147 00:07:46,390 --> 00:07:48,100 Sure, she will. 148 00:07:48,330 --> 00:07:49,330 (DOOR OPENS) 149 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,880 The weapon, the bag, and the clips were clean for fingerprints. 150 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,640 And this is why you paged me at 6:00 a.m.? 151 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:59,120 The guy tried to burn the serial off, but the lab recovered it. 152 00:07:59,170 --> 00:08:00,680 The gun manufacturer said 153 00:08:00,740 --> 00:08:04,250 the weapon was sold four months ago to a wholesaler in Pennsylvania. 154 00:08:04,310 --> 00:08:08,020 The caller ID on your page showed a 609 area code. 155 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,220 Where were you, Atlantic City? 156 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,860 Uh-huh. Went down there last night to play some poker. 157 00:08:12,550 --> 00:08:14,230 Oh, yeah? How'd you do? 158 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,500 I started up a Cadillac. I finished down a Rolex. A stainless steel Rolex. 159 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:19,600 (DOOR OPENS) 160 00:08:19,660 --> 00:08:23,170 Okay, I did a proctoscopy on our little patient. 161 00:08:23,230 --> 00:08:25,910 You see these straight lines along the inside of the barrel? 162 00:08:25,970 --> 00:08:27,840 BRISCOE: Yeah. What are they, scratches? 163 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:29,400 After shooting up the park, 164 00:08:29,470 --> 00:08:34,010 your suspect rammed a metal file down the barrel to distort the rifling. 165 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,720 Means the best I can do is a 50% match to the slugs of the victims. 166 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:39,930 This guy put some thought into it. 167 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:42,550 He used fingerprint-resistant grips. 168 00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:45,660 Converted the piece from a semi to a full auto. 169 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,100 BRISCOE: Real handyman, huh? 170 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:48,570 Well, once you buy the conversion kit 171 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:52,130 all you need is a screwdriver, a file and a soldering gun. 172 00:08:52,190 --> 00:08:54,500 Twenty minutes, you're ready to make history. 173 00:08:58,370 --> 00:09:02,750 Fifty Rolf Nines came in back in March. 174 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,080 Piece you're looking for, 175 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:06,850 it went out two months ago to a firearms dealer in Reading. 176 00:09:06,910 --> 00:09:08,680 A licensed dealer? Of course. 177 00:09:08,740 --> 00:09:11,990 By the law, I can only sell to a federally licensed dealer. 178 00:09:12,050 --> 00:09:14,190 We need the store's address. 179 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,420 He doesn't have a store. 180 00:09:17,950 --> 00:09:21,330 Nowhere does it say I can only sell to a dealer with a store. 181 00:09:21,390 --> 00:09:24,340 So where does he sell his guns? Out of a Good Humor truck? 182 00:09:26,190 --> 00:09:29,200 This is my store. I sell through the classifieds on the Internet. 183 00:09:29,260 --> 00:09:31,400 And this is my dealer's license. 184 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:33,380 And where are the guns? 185 00:09:35,770 --> 00:09:37,010 In there. 186 00:09:37,070 --> 00:09:39,020 Do you remember selling this gun? 187 00:09:40,210 --> 00:09:43,120 Rolf Nine. That's the serial number? 188 00:09:52,690 --> 00:09:54,690 Look, guys, technically you're out of your jurisdiction. 189 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,740 I don't have talk to you. 190 00:09:56,790 --> 00:09:59,070 Maybe you tell me what's so important about this merchandise. 191 00:09:59,130 --> 00:10:02,840 This merchandise was used to kill 15 innocent people. 192 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,540 Oh. Wait, this is the Central Park thing? 193 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Oh, shoot. 194 00:10:09,670 --> 00:10:10,840 "Oh, shoot"? 195 00:10:10,910 --> 00:10:13,940 By law, when I sell a gun, I'm supposed to ship it to a licensed dealer 196 00:10:14,010 --> 00:10:16,990 where they buyer lives, so the buyer can pick it up and fill out the paperwork. 197 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,320 But you didn't do that. 198 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:21,160 This guy said he was housebound in a wheelchair. 199 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,920 And since his shipping address matched his address on his credit card, I... 200 00:10:23,990 --> 00:10:25,230 You shipped it right to him? 201 00:10:25,550 --> 00:10:27,560 Man, that license is coming off the wall. 202 00:10:27,620 --> 00:10:32,260 Hey, relax. Read the federal statute. It's barely a traffic ticket. 203 00:10:33,930 --> 00:10:35,700 So you want the guy's name, or what? 204 00:10:39,670 --> 00:10:43,240 Lee Coats. New York City. Purchased a month ago. 205 00:10:44,610 --> 00:10:47,210 Police! Search warrant! Go, go, go! 206 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:51,490 Somebody open a window. 207 00:10:59,290 --> 00:11:02,230 ED: Well, she's at least a couple of days past the expiry date. 208 00:11:03,260 --> 00:11:04,260 Looks like a heart attack. 209 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:05,330 LAMOTTE: Hey, Lennie. 210 00:11:05,390 --> 00:11:06,630 Hello. Excuse me. 211 00:11:06,690 --> 00:11:07,700 Who are you? 212 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,500 I'm Mrs. Felder. I live across the hall. Oh, my. 213 00:11:12,130 --> 00:11:13,480 Do you know who this is? 214 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,570 Yes, it's Lee. Lee Coats. 215 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:16,980 Short for Leanne. 216 00:11:17,070 --> 00:11:18,780 Yes. This is terrible. 217 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:19,940 She live here with anyone? 218 00:11:20,010 --> 00:11:24,080 No. She just got out of the hospital two weeks ago. 219 00:11:24,150 --> 00:11:26,680 What hospital? Hudson Presbyterian. 220 00:11:26,750 --> 00:11:30,790 She had a pacemaker put in. She was there for nearly a month. 221 00:11:36,090 --> 00:11:38,470 The gun was shipped while the old lady was in the hospital. 222 00:11:38,530 --> 00:11:40,510 Shipping company made two trips to her apartment. 223 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,010 Nobody was home the first time, so they left a signature card. 224 00:11:43,060 --> 00:11:45,170 The next day, the card was signed, so they left the package. 225 00:11:45,230 --> 00:11:46,230 A neighbor? 226 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:47,870 Nobody who fits the description. 227 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:51,280 Now Hudson Presbyterian is the teaching hospital for Hudson. 228 00:11:51,670 --> 00:11:53,880 The victims were all pre-med at Hudson. 229 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:55,380 A hospital employee? 230 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,480 Who had access to her credit cards. Somebody in Admitting. 231 00:11:59,150 --> 00:12:00,650 Good place to start. 232 00:12:00,750 --> 00:12:04,390 Oh, by the way, did you happen to read the news this morning? 233 00:12:04,450 --> 00:12:07,020 It's pretty much a rehash of departmental press releases. 234 00:12:07,090 --> 00:12:11,760 But the funny thing, the only name they mentioned was yours, Detective Green. 235 00:12:13,230 --> 00:12:15,670 Maybe 'cause it was easy to spell. 236 00:12:16,830 --> 00:12:18,780 This lady had Medicare, Blue Cross, CNA. 237 00:12:18,830 --> 00:12:20,010 I didn't need a credit card. 238 00:12:20,070 --> 00:12:22,840 First thing my doctor wants to see is a specimen of my money. 239 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:25,810 Why are there two admitting forms in here with two different dates? 240 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:28,350 Oh, I filled out this one when the paramedics brought her in. 241 00:12:28,410 --> 00:12:30,010 She didn't have her insurance cards with her, 242 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,580 so I couldn't punch in the information. 243 00:12:31,650 --> 00:12:32,680 She'd lost her purse. 244 00:12:32,750 --> 00:12:33,780 But you had all the information 245 00:12:33,850 --> 00:12:35,350 by the time you filled out the second form? 246 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:36,830 They must have found her purse. 247 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:37,890 Who's "they"? 248 00:12:37,950 --> 00:12:38,950 Ask security. 249 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,170 Found her purse in the ambulance the next day. 250 00:12:43,220 --> 00:12:44,730 Must've fallen off the stretcher. 251 00:12:44,790 --> 00:12:45,960 Just like that. 252 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:48,100 Yeah. Things got a little crazy. 253 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,900 She flatlined in the middle of the run. 254 00:12:50,970 --> 00:12:52,600 Old lady's got nine lives. 255 00:12:52,670 --> 00:12:55,580 Eight. You don't mind, we need to talk to your partner at the time. 256 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,880 Dennis Trope? He's on disability. 257 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:00,350 What kind of disability? 258 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,910 Something with his nerves. 259 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:05,920 Well, is he ever coming back to work? 260 00:13:07,650 --> 00:13:10,150 I've been holding some stuff he left in his locker. 261 00:13:10,220 --> 00:13:11,860 He was supposed to come pick it up. 262 00:13:19,630 --> 00:13:22,840 "Don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and lives." 263 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:23,900 Hilarious. 264 00:13:24,470 --> 00:13:26,910 We got a couple of lady paramedics working here. 265 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,040 Dennis had a problem with that. 266 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,150 I don't know his comings and goings. 267 00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:32,340 Is that his? 268 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:33,440 You can't look in those. 269 00:13:33,510 --> 00:13:35,180 Just check the warrant, Mrs. Trope. 270 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:36,920 What's all this about? 271 00:13:36,980 --> 00:13:39,720 It's about the shootings in Central Park. 272 00:13:39,780 --> 00:13:41,890 The one all those girls got killed? 273 00:13:42,850 --> 00:13:44,690 Oh, no, no. Not Dennis. 274 00:13:44,750 --> 00:13:45,890 Basic research. 275 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:47,630 I got medical books in here. 276 00:13:47,690 --> 00:13:49,460 Dennis is gonna be a great doctor. 277 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:50,900 He's almost been accepted at Hudson, 278 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,460 but they give preference to women. 279 00:13:52,530 --> 00:13:54,170 Mmm-hmm. Look, ma'am, 280 00:13:54,230 --> 00:13:56,400 it'll work out better for Dennis if you tell us where he is. 281 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:58,030 But I don't know where he is. 282 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:02,210 What, he didn't call asking about this? Disability check. 283 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:04,940 So is he coming or are you meeting him? 284 00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:07,210 You know we got trigger-happy people on the force. 285 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,260 If we have to go find him, he's likely to get himself shot. 286 00:14:10,310 --> 00:14:11,310 Is that what you want? 287 00:14:16,380 --> 00:14:17,890 MRS. TROPE: That's him, over there. 288 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,160 He's got a gun! 289 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:29,870 MRS. TROPE: Dennis, no! 290 00:14:29,930 --> 00:14:31,270 Don't do that. Don't do that. 291 00:14:31,330 --> 00:14:32,780 Stay away from me! 292 00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:33,840 (sun SHOT) 293 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:37,110 (DENNIS SCREAMING) MRS. TROPE: Oh, my God! 294 00:14:37,170 --> 00:14:38,340 DENNIS: Oh, God, I'm dying! 295 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:41,110 ED: You ain't dying, man! It's just a scratch. 296 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:43,160 You get nothing until I get a statement from you 297 00:14:43,210 --> 00:14:44,420 about those girls you shot! 298 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,220 I want help! You gotta take me to a hospital! 299 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,660 You want to go to a hospital? Say the magic words. 300 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,730 Say the magic words! 301 00:14:51,790 --> 00:14:53,530 No, stop! It hurts! 302 00:14:53,590 --> 00:14:56,330 Say the magic words! "I shot the women." 303 00:14:56,390 --> 00:14:58,870 No, please, stop him! Get him away from my son! 304 00:14:58,930 --> 00:15:00,740 All right. All right, Ed lay off of him. 305 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,470 Eddie, come on, come on. Let him go. 306 00:15:03,630 --> 00:15:05,800 Your son's getting medical treatment, Mrs. Trope. 307 00:15:05,870 --> 00:15:07,870 I don't know when you can talk to him. 308 00:15:08,070 --> 00:15:09,450 Well, I'm getting a lawyer. 309 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:12,680 The other detective, the black one, he brutalized my Dennis. 310 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:15,650 You better keep your hands off him. 311 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,680 What did Green do to Mr. Trope? 312 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:22,660 He tried to get a statement, that's all. Just a little energetic police work. 313 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,890 I hope this doesn't turn into another complaint. 314 00:15:24,950 --> 00:15:25,950 Another? 315 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:29,900 Green has two complaints for excessive force. Review Board gave him probation. 316 00:15:30,290 --> 00:15:33,760 Trope has a restraining order against him from a Lisa Fiori 317 00:15:33,830 --> 00:15:36,570 issued last February, which explains why he used the old lady 318 00:15:36,630 --> 00:15:37,630 to buy the piece. 319 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:39,270 How'd the eyewitnesses do? They couldn't pick Trope 320 00:15:39,330 --> 00:15:40,470 out of a photo array. 321 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:42,780 Forensics processed his clothing, his belongings. 322 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,710 No powder residue, no blood splatters. 323 00:15:44,770 --> 00:15:47,250 So except for a couple of remarkable coincidences, 324 00:15:47,310 --> 00:15:49,380 we can't tie him to the gun or the killing. 325 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,450 He ask for a lawyer yet? Uh-uh. 326 00:15:51,510 --> 00:15:54,120 Well, we don't have much time before his mother comes back with one. 327 00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:57,490 I pulled some old Children's Services files on him. 328 00:15:57,550 --> 00:15:58,760 There was abuse in the family. 329 00:15:58,820 --> 00:16:00,860 I got his employee file from the city, 330 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,700 and I got his Hudson med school application. 331 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,170 I'm ready for him. 332 00:16:06,530 --> 00:16:09,530 All roads lead to you, Dennis. From the gun, to the old lady, 333 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,840 to the hospital, to the ambulance, to you. 334 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:13,040 I didn't kill anybody. 335 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:16,140 Oh, no? You know who's on juries nowadays? 336 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,740 Women. Right, Eddie? 337 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:21,450 Most of 'em got nothing better to do than hang around and report for jury duty. 338 00:16:21,510 --> 00:16:23,650 Once they hear your take on women's rights, 339 00:16:23,710 --> 00:16:26,250 they'll cut your kiwis off and hand 'em to you on a stick. 340 00:16:27,150 --> 00:16:30,690 You really want those bitches deciding if you live or die? 341 00:16:31,890 --> 00:16:34,260 You really wanna give 'em that last bit of power? 342 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:40,310 I mean they already got both hands on the steering wheel. 343 00:16:43,330 --> 00:16:47,840 They're driving buses, directing traffic, working construction. 344 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,420 Who the hell invited them to the party anyway? 345 00:16:51,470 --> 00:16:53,780 They should be at home watching over their kids. 346 00:16:55,110 --> 00:16:57,650 Detective Green. Yes, ma'am. 347 00:16:57,710 --> 00:16:58,750 I got it right here. 348 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,430 I'm sorry I didn't get it to you sooner. 349 00:17:11,260 --> 00:17:12,800 I've been in this house a month. 350 00:17:13,730 --> 00:17:16,710 There isn't a day that bitch doesn't ride my ass. 351 00:17:20,870 --> 00:17:23,010 Lennie, Detective Briscoe, he was in line for the job. 352 00:17:23,070 --> 00:17:25,520 He had the seniority. They made her Lieutenant. 353 00:17:30,140 --> 00:17:32,560 I bet it's the same where you work. 354 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:36,020 You know what? 355 00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:37,790 It belittles us. 356 00:17:38,820 --> 00:17:40,490 It disrespects us. 357 00:17:41,090 --> 00:17:43,590 Isn't that what you felt? 358 00:17:43,860 --> 00:17:45,770 But we don't sit around and mope, do we? 359 00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:47,200 Take you. 360 00:17:47,730 --> 00:17:51,440 You tried to move up the ladder, to get into med school. 361 00:17:52,170 --> 00:17:54,610 And they even denied you that opportunity, didn't they? 362 00:17:57,140 --> 00:17:58,210 Yep. 363 00:17:58,470 --> 00:18:00,650 It's a terrible thing they did to you. 364 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,490 They should have been helping you, Dennis. 365 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:06,320 Taking care of you. 366 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:07,950 That's what women are for. 367 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:10,020 To look out for you. 368 00:18:11,050 --> 00:18:12,530 But they let you down. 369 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,590 They always have, haven't they? 370 00:18:19,630 --> 00:18:22,070 I saw your Children's Services file. 371 00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:26,510 Your old man beat on you. 372 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:29,310 He beat your mother. 373 00:18:30,970 --> 00:18:32,250 I know what that's like. 374 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,660 Your mother was supposed to look out for you, 375 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,590 to protect you. 376 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,660 She just let it happen, didn't she? 377 00:18:48,190 --> 00:18:51,300 She didn't protect her baby 378 00:18:51,890 --> 00:18:56,970 and now, these women get a crack at killing you. 379 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:00,100 Dennis. 380 00:19:03,540 --> 00:19:06,310 You are in a deep hole right now, man. 381 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,280 There's only one way out. 382 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:17,060 You tell us what you did There's no trial, no jury, no death penalty. 383 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:26,370 Please, man, please. 384 00:19:27,130 --> 00:19:29,200 Don't them do this to you. 385 00:19:31,030 --> 00:19:33,100 Don't let them win. 386 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,270 You tried hard to be a good man 387 00:19:38,770 --> 00:19:41,340 and did they give you the respect you deserve? 388 00:19:43,410 --> 00:19:44,910 (CRYING) 389 00:19:44,980 --> 00:19:47,290 Those bitch doctors at the hospital... 390 00:19:48,250 --> 00:19:50,660 What about them, Dennis? What did they do? 391 00:19:54,890 --> 00:19:57,930 They said that I should apply to nursing school. 392 00:19:59,690 --> 00:20:04,270 See? They humiliated you. 393 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:09,680 But in the park, you set everything right, didn't you? 394 00:20:10,270 --> 00:20:11,410 Yeah. 395 00:20:11,470 --> 00:20:12,750 You put them back in their place. 396 00:20:12,810 --> 00:20:13,880 Yes. 397 00:20:15,010 --> 00:20:16,850 And that's why you shot them, right? 398 00:20:18,980 --> 00:20:19,980 Yes. 399 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,460 We need to hear you say it, Dennis. 400 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,270 That's why I shot them. 401 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,360 It's all right, it's all right. 402 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:35,940 You're gonna be all right, Dennis. 403 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,770 We just need your help with one more thing to make this work. 404 00:20:41,770 --> 00:20:44,340 The clothes you wore. 405 00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:47,410 You got some blood on them. You threw 'em away. 406 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:49,990 Where'd you put them? 407 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,930 In a bag on the train tracks on 36th. 408 00:20:56,050 --> 00:20:57,090 (DOOR OPENS) 409 00:20:57,150 --> 00:21:01,760 Mr. Trope, this is Mr. Powell, a lawyer hired by your mother to represent you. 410 00:21:02,090 --> 00:21:04,260 I want to talk to my client alone. 411 00:21:04,330 --> 00:21:08,430 Take your time. We need to amend the charges to include fifteen counts of murder. 412 00:21:09,660 --> 00:21:12,670 You did good, Dennis. You win. 413 00:21:19,370 --> 00:21:21,410 They told his mother he was getting medical treatment. 414 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,890 Instead, they interrogated him even though they'd been told a lawyer was being hired. 415 00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:27,720 Hired when? That day? The next day? 416 00:21:28,250 --> 00:21:30,920 The right to counsel doesn't attach until an attorney is actually... 417 00:21:30,990 --> 00:21:32,290 Mr. McCoy, this is a mess. 418 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,830 Mr. Trope's statement doesn't have much probative value anyway. 419 00:21:35,890 --> 00:21:36,890 I'm going to suppress it. 420 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,600 Your Honor, this wasn't some bodega robbery. 421 00:21:40,430 --> 00:21:43,640 Mr. Trope sprayed Central Park with automatic gunfire. 422 00:21:44,170 --> 00:21:46,040 He was out to kill every woman he encountered. 423 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,470 He faces the death penalty. If anything, the police should be held to a higher standard. 424 00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:53,310 The statement led the police to some clothing. I want that out too, judge. 425 00:21:53,370 --> 00:21:56,220 That clothing had blood splatters from five of the victims on it. 426 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,950 Fruit of the poisonous tree. I'm sorry. Motion granted. 427 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:03,090 Do we know where Trope got the conversion kit for his weapon? 428 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,320 Not yet. But even if we did, it won't solve our big problem. 429 00:22:06,790 --> 00:22:07,860 We have small problems? 430 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,840 Well, since the rifling was scratched up, ballistics can only 431 00:22:10,890 --> 00:22:13,630 give us a 50% match-up from the weapon to the slugs. 432 00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:16,830 That's reasonable doubt. Don't we have rocket scientists on the payroll? 433 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,210 Well, they say they can recreate the rifling on a computer 434 00:22:20,270 --> 00:22:23,510 but they need technical data from the gun-maker, Rolf Firearms. 435 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,640 Okay. 436 00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:28,210 Well, the company's ignored all of our requests so far. 437 00:22:29,410 --> 00:22:31,010 We weren't ignoring your request. 438 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,750 As a matter of fact, we had a meeting with our lawyers about it. 439 00:22:33,150 --> 00:22:34,320 CARMICHAEL: And what did you all decide? 440 00:22:34,780 --> 00:22:38,090 Much as we'd like to cooperate, it would force us to reveal trade secrets 441 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:40,290 that would damage our ability to remain competitive. 442 00:22:40,490 --> 00:22:41,490 Trade secrets? 443 00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:44,930 Mr. Weber, you make guns, not soda pop. 444 00:22:44,990 --> 00:22:48,060 You're asking us for the specs to our manufacturing equipment. 445 00:22:48,130 --> 00:22:50,200 I don't understand. If it was my product 446 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:51,740 that was used to kill 15 people, 447 00:22:51,830 --> 00:22:53,870 I'd sure as hell feel it was my civic duty 448 00:22:54,140 --> 00:22:55,640 to help convict the person who pulled the trigger. 449 00:22:55,770 --> 00:22:57,810 Being good corporate citizens also means 450 00:22:57,940 --> 00:22:59,820 we have a responsibility to our employees 451 00:22:59,870 --> 00:23:01,050 to keep this company in business. 452 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,280 Okay. 453 00:23:02,380 --> 00:23:03,860 We'll go the hard way then. 454 00:23:04,810 --> 00:23:06,620 You can expect a subpoena on your desk by tomorrow morning. 455 00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:09,950 My lawyers tell me subpoenas from New York don't travel well. 456 00:23:10,580 --> 00:23:12,620 I'm sorry you came all the way up to Connecticut for nothing. 457 00:23:13,950 --> 00:23:15,830 It's not trade secrets, it's lawsuits. 458 00:23:16,190 --> 00:23:18,760 We're asking them to help prove their gun killed 15 people. 459 00:23:19,230 --> 00:23:21,040 So they'd rather spend a half a million dollars 460 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:22,100 fighting a subpoena? 461 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,670 It's like the bastards are asking for it. 462 00:23:24,730 --> 00:23:26,840 BRISCOE: Fifteen dead pre-med students. 463 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,210 What's that worth these days? 464 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,310 Gotta be Bill Gates ballpark. 465 00:23:30,370 --> 00:23:31,750 I mean, a family in California 466 00:23:31,810 --> 00:23:33,940 got 5 billion dollars for an exploding gas tank. 467 00:23:34,010 --> 00:23:36,780 I'd be happy if Mr. Trope got a five dollar injection. 468 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,550 He made atoll call to New burgh 469 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:43,720 in June, 470 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:46,630 about a week after he bought the gun. 471 00:23:46,690 --> 00:23:47,690 What's in New burgh? 472 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,230 Besides deer ticks? 473 00:23:49,290 --> 00:23:50,290 Hello? 474 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:55,800 Automated information line for the New burgh Arena. 475 00:23:56,430 --> 00:23:57,430 Wait a minute. 476 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,570 I just saw an ad in one of these. 477 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,770 Yeah. 478 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,180 "Show-gun Gun Show, June 10th, New burgh Arena." 479 00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:08,210 "Chinese AKs, German machine pistols." 480 00:24:08,510 --> 00:24:10,890 "Thousands of guns, barrels of fun." 481 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,290 Sol had a booth at New burgh. 482 00:24:15,450 --> 00:24:17,730 I take a booth at a show every weekend. 483 00:24:18,350 --> 00:24:20,490 Since I'm not getting rich on my stock options... 484 00:24:20,590 --> 00:24:22,400 No, you're doing it the all-American way. 485 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,870 Selling conversion kits for assault weapons. 486 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,190 I don't sell kits. 487 00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:27,430 I sell instruction sheets, 488 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,230 which is legal under the First Amendment. 489 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:30,570 And on the other end of the table, 490 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:31,970 you sell recoil springs 491 00:24:32,130 --> 00:24:34,040 and a guide plate for a 30-round clip. 492 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,510 You say guide plate, 493 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,140 I say a piece of junk metal. 494 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,940 At 50 dollars a pop? 495 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:42,010 Mr. Lydell, we just want to know 496 00:24:42,340 --> 00:24:45,320 if you sold a kit for a Rolf Nine that weekend. 497 00:24:54,990 --> 00:24:56,230 I had one customer, 498 00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:58,030 bought one set of instructions, 499 00:24:58,490 --> 00:24:59,490 one set of hardware. 500 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:02,410 Good. Now, you're gonna look at one set of pictures. 501 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:04,470 Big demand for your kits? 502 00:25:04,530 --> 00:25:06,270 Mostly as it relates to the Rolf Nine. 503 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,710 It's the easiest to convert. 504 00:25:07,770 --> 00:25:08,970 CARMICHAEL: Thanks to you. 505 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,670 You want to put me out of business? 506 00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:12,410 Make the gun tamper-proof? 507 00:25:12,740 --> 00:25:14,690 Just redesign the slide bolt. 508 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,050 It'll cost you all of 10 dollars per unit. 509 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,320 This is him. 510 00:25:21,850 --> 00:25:23,330 It doesn't address our core problem. 511 00:25:23,380 --> 00:25:25,060 We still have to prove we have the right gun. 512 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,760 You call the manufacturer again? 513 00:25:26,850 --> 00:25:28,800 They filed a motion to quash the subpoena this morning. 514 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:29,860 Do you feel lucky? 515 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,270 I won't offer Trope a deal. 516 00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:32,670 Well, as a matter of law, 517 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,870 can you prove that you have the murder weapon? 518 00:25:35,860 --> 00:25:37,970 'Cause the jury might want to acquit, 519 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:40,400 rather than send an innocent man to death row. 520 00:25:40,470 --> 00:25:42,140 That subpoena hasn't been quashed yet. 521 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,080 Yes, that's why now might be the time 522 00:25:45,170 --> 00:25:46,980 to make your best deal with Trope. 523 00:25:50,140 --> 00:25:51,920 You're taking the death penalty off the table 524 00:25:52,010 --> 00:25:53,250 with the city screaming for blood? 525 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,520 The victims' families need closure, not blood. 526 00:25:57,550 --> 00:25:58,960 My client's a healthy young man. 527 00:25:59,350 --> 00:26:00,350 Life without parole, 528 00:26:00,450 --> 00:26:01,460 that could be fifty, sixty years. 529 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,130 He could always take up smoking. 530 00:26:04,660 --> 00:26:06,660 Going once. Going twice. 531 00:26:07,030 --> 00:26:09,130 I was reading the Law Journal on the bus. 532 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,500 I noticed this motion hearing 533 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,440 in the criminal court calendar listing? 534 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,070 Rolf Firearms v. New York. Judge Flint presiding. 535 00:26:15,470 --> 00:26:16,680 I called Flint's clerk. 536 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,010 Seems you have an evidentiary problem. 537 00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:21,180 My problem is I've got too much evidence. 538 00:26:21,410 --> 00:26:23,080 The only evidence that matters is the gun, 539 00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:25,020 which you can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt 540 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:26,080 is the murder weapon. 541 00:26:26,150 --> 00:26:27,630 You're willing to bet your client's life on that? 542 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,990 You must have quite a pair of crystal balls. 543 00:26:30,820 --> 00:26:32,060 We'd go 25-years-to-life, 544 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:33,430 all sentences to be concurrent. 545 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,060 It's a lot of closure. 546 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,630 Mr. Trope, in accordance with your plea agreement 547 00:26:40,690 --> 00:26:42,200 with the District Attorney, 548 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:44,710 I sentence you to a term of not less than 25 years 549 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:46,300 and not more than your natural life, 550 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,610 to be served at a facility to be determined by the Department of Corrections. 551 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,440 Wait. 552 00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:53,350 This son-of-a-bitch could be out in 25 years? 553 00:26:53,410 --> 00:26:55,280 Your Honor, this isn't right. He killed my girl! 554 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:57,190 Order! Officers, clear the gallery. 555 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,220 McCoy, you... Why are you just sitting there? 556 00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:00,380 (GAVEL POUNDS) 557 00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:02,450 It isn't right! My girl's dead! 558 00:27:02,950 --> 00:27:03,950 He killed my girl! 559 00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:05,890 It isn't right! 560 00:27:06,090 --> 00:27:07,090 (ALL CHATTERING) 561 00:27:07,220 --> 00:27:08,670 Those families deserve better. 562 00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:11,490 They deserve to get their daughters back. 563 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,160 JACK: They're entitled to an eye for an eye. 564 00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:16,240 We couldn't deliver, because Rolf Firearms got in the way. 565 00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:18,830 The least we can do now is give them the sense 566 00:27:18,930 --> 00:27:20,640 that their kids didn't die for no purpose. 567 00:27:20,830 --> 00:27:22,250 What are you talking about? 568 00:27:22,540 --> 00:27:23,980 Rolf makes a product 569 00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:25,780 that any clever 12-year-old 570 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:27,880 can turn into a weapon of mass destruction. 571 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:29,820 I'm appalled. Write them a letter. 572 00:27:30,310 --> 00:27:32,120 If they don't know it already, Adam, they should. 573 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,090 Last year, 284 violent crimes 574 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,020 were committed in the state using a Rolf Nine. 575 00:27:37,550 --> 00:27:39,930 All but six of them had been modified for automatic fire. 576 00:27:40,250 --> 00:27:41,360 CARMICHAEL: And that's their fault? 577 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,500 What are those, grand jury slips? 578 00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:45,630 Yes. 579 00:27:46,660 --> 00:27:47,870 What are you charging them with? 580 00:27:52,030 --> 00:27:54,980 Fifteen counts of criminally negligent homicide? 581 00:27:55,540 --> 00:27:56,540 It's unprecedented. 582 00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:58,540 Mr. Weber makes a legal product. 583 00:27:58,610 --> 00:28:02,380 Mr. McCoy, if the admitted killer tampered with their product, 584 00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:04,680 then why blame Mr. Weber and his company? 585 00:28:04,750 --> 00:28:08,350 Because the evidence their product posed an unjustifiable risk 586 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:10,490 was right in front of them, and they failed to look. 587 00:28:10,550 --> 00:28:13,260 New York has strict gun laws which aren't being enforced. 588 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,300 Her client's business practices 589 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,730 help criminals circumvent our laws. 590 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,070 The weapons used to commit crimes in New York 591 00:28:20,430 --> 00:28:22,300 were traced back to wholesalers in states 592 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,670 with far more lenient gun laws. 593 00:28:25,030 --> 00:28:26,380 Records show that Rolf 594 00:28:26,530 --> 00:28:29,840 shipped weapons to those states far in excess of the local demand. 595 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,910 My client was filling legitimate orders. 596 00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:33,480 They never ask who's buying their guns 597 00:28:33,540 --> 00:28:35,420 or what they're doing with them. 598 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,780 One look at the statistics, 599 00:28:36,980 --> 00:28:38,220 those guns are finding their way 600 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,520 back to New York in the hands of criminals. 601 00:28:39,580 --> 00:28:42,720 Your Honor, Rolf Firearms is a Connecticut company. 602 00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:45,930 They don't sell, manufacture, transport, 603 00:28:46,150 --> 00:28:48,530 or advertise their product in New York State. 604 00:28:48,620 --> 00:28:51,660 There is no jurisdictional nexus for these charges. 605 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:53,300 The victims were killed here. 606 00:28:53,830 --> 00:28:57,370 They're dead, because the design of Mr. Weber's gun 607 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,770 made it attractive to Mr. Trope. 608 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:03,040 And his marketing practices as good as put it in Mr. Trope's hands. 609 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,810 Mr. McCoy, 610 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:07,150 you're trying to use my court to make social policy. 611 00:29:07,210 --> 00:29:08,690 I won't stand for it. 612 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:11,180 And my interpretation of the statute doesn't permit it. 613 00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:13,680 You don't have the authority to bring these charges. 614 00:29:14,550 --> 00:29:16,260 Motion to dismiss is granted. 615 00:29:17,420 --> 00:29:18,420 Judge Wright. 616 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,520 Thirty years, 617 00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:21,930 I've seen him eat the same pork chop for lunch at Forlini's. 618 00:29:21,990 --> 00:29:23,330 I'm filing an appeal. 619 00:29:23,390 --> 00:29:24,390 Man of La Mancha? 620 00:29:24,730 --> 00:29:26,170 You read the op-eds, Adam. 621 00:29:26,490 --> 00:29:28,370 The public wants us to do something. 622 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:33,870 JACK: The fact that Rolf Firearms' products 623 00:29:34,030 --> 00:29:35,810 are used in the State of New York, 624 00:29:35,870 --> 00:29:37,350 the jury gives us jurisdiction 625 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,480 over the corporation and its officers. 626 00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:43,120 That all the criminal acts except the murders 627 00:29:43,510 --> 00:29:45,460 took place outside the state is immaterial. 628 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:47,020 Thank you, Mr. McCoy. 629 00:29:52,550 --> 00:29:54,500 Mr. McCoy wants to punish my client 630 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,060 for exercising his rights under the Second Amendment. 631 00:29:57,860 --> 00:30:00,600 As long as the Supreme Court upholds the right to bear arms, 632 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,870 the manufacture of those arms... 633 00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:05,570 The Supreme Court does recognize the state's right 634 00:30:05,630 --> 00:30:06,670 to regulate firearms. 635 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,010 Well, that's the point. Mr. Weber makes firearms 636 00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:11,850 that can legally be sold in New York State. 637 00:30:12,470 --> 00:30:14,250 He engages in business practices 638 00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:16,250 that are legal under New York law. 639 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,190 Mr. McCoy's problem is with the law. 640 00:30:19,610 --> 00:30:22,120 Let him seek redress in the legislature, not the courts. 641 00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:24,690 Thank you, counselor. Your point is well taken. 642 00:30:25,650 --> 00:30:28,130 Mr. McCoy, in the remaining time. 643 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,730 Criminal negligence is not a legal activity. 644 00:30:33,190 --> 00:30:35,870 While adhering only to the letter of the law, 645 00:30:35,930 --> 00:30:39,100 Mr. Weber ignores the fact that his product 646 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:40,470 is the preferred choice 647 00:30:40,530 --> 00:30:43,170 of bank robbers, gang members and mass murderers. 648 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:46,610 It does sound like you want to make social policy. 649 00:30:46,770 --> 00:30:48,810 The courts have always been agents of social change. 650 00:30:49,510 --> 00:30:50,650 The legislative process, 651 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,220 especially as it relates to this issue, 652 00:30:53,410 --> 00:30:54,410 has been corrupted 653 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:57,060 by well-funded special interest groups. 654 00:30:57,580 --> 00:30:59,060 Sol urge you to let a jury, 655 00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:01,220 to let 12 ordinary citizens, 656 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,360 impartial and answerable only to their consciences, 657 00:31:05,860 --> 00:31:07,000 decide on the evidence 658 00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:09,700 where the criminal liability rests. 659 00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:15,170 In their infinite wisdom, 660 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,440 the Appellate Court has overturned my ruling, 661 00:31:17,540 --> 00:31:18,780 and remanded this case for trial. 662 00:31:20,010 --> 00:31:22,210 I've given a lot of thought to this matter. 663 00:31:22,740 --> 00:31:24,980 Particularly the People's burden of proof. 664 00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:27,080 Now here's what the ground rules are going to be. 665 00:31:28,150 --> 00:31:30,390 Mr. McCoy, the People must prove 666 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,690 that the firearm as manufactured was hazardous per se. 667 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,600 Your Honor... Now, be quiet. 668 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,230 Unless you can show that Mr. Trope used the weapon 669 00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:41,030 as it was intended to be used by Rolf Firearms, 670 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,900 I will entertain a motion to dismiss 671 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,410 at the conclusion of the People's case. 672 00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:46,370 That's an impossible standard, Your Honor. 673 00:31:47,130 --> 00:31:48,880 Trial date to be set in two weeks. 674 00:31:53,810 --> 00:31:57,910 Mechanical engineers, industry analysts, marketing specialists. 675 00:31:58,450 --> 00:31:59,690 Riveting witness list. 676 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:01,820 Once the victims' families take the stand. 677 00:32:02,180 --> 00:32:03,560 Yes, you have them, 678 00:32:04,050 --> 00:32:05,590 and the other side has Judge Wright. 679 00:32:05,650 --> 00:32:09,290 He has set the bar higher than you can jump with a pogo stick. 680 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,060 Jack wants the jury to make a finding of emotion, not of fact. 681 00:32:13,030 --> 00:32:15,840 This isn't atrial, this is gun control by other means. 682 00:32:16,030 --> 00:32:18,870 When they can sell guns on the talking Internet, talking about control is a joke. 683 00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:20,240 So this is your answer? 684 00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:22,040 Putting gun-makers in jail? 685 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:25,480 I'd like to start by putting Rolf Firearms out of business. 686 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,920 CARMICHAEL: Responsible adults can own firearms 687 00:32:27,970 --> 00:32:30,010 without the entire country sinking into criminal anarchy. 688 00:32:30,140 --> 00:32:31,140 What's the point? 689 00:32:31,210 --> 00:32:32,850 Maybe when the Redcoats were coming over Bunker Hill. 690 00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:35,650 How about somebody six-foot-five coming through my door? 691 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,220 The people have a right to defend themselves. 692 00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:39,520 And cops shouldn't have to worry 693 00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:42,330 about running into Rambo every time they pull over a car. 694 00:32:42,420 --> 00:32:44,460 Before you settle this spat with a duel, 695 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,500 find a way to win your case or drop it. 696 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,600 Rolf never put restrictions on us. 697 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:51,810 We can sell it to any retailer. 698 00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,000 It doesn't matter whether he has a store, 699 00:32:54,070 --> 00:32:55,600 or a booth at a gun show. 700 00:32:56,370 --> 00:32:58,110 As long as he has a federal license. 701 00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:02,110 Did they ever question why their guns were in such high demand in your area? 702 00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:03,180 Well, 703 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,550 I got a call last year from somebody at Rolf asking me about 704 00:33:07,180 --> 00:33:10,090 sales volume in retail outlets. 705 00:33:10,650 --> 00:33:12,150 What was he, a sales rep? 706 00:33:12,350 --> 00:33:13,590 He was in marketing. 707 00:33:13,690 --> 00:33:15,000 A director of marketing. 708 00:33:15,620 --> 00:33:17,330 Guy by the name of Victor Colby. 709 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,830 He said he was doing a survey for Rolf. 710 00:33:21,190 --> 00:33:22,800 He's not on their employment rolls. 711 00:33:24,630 --> 00:33:26,540 Unless Rolf Firearms gives me permission, 712 00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:28,700 there isn't much I can tell you about my work there. 713 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:30,510 Just name, rank and serial number. 714 00:33:31,170 --> 00:33:33,050 You signed a non-disclosure agreement when you left? 715 00:33:33,270 --> 00:33:34,580 Yes. We all did. 716 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:36,610 They laid off a third of the sales department. 717 00:33:37,210 --> 00:33:38,210 They laid you off? 718 00:33:38,710 --> 00:33:40,280 After 16 years? 719 00:33:40,550 --> 00:33:42,690 And you won't talk to us about a marketing survey? 720 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:44,520 I can't. 721 00:33:44,580 --> 00:33:47,000 Did they offer you a financial incentive to keep your mouth shut? 722 00:33:48,620 --> 00:33:49,760 You're going to have to leave. 723 00:33:52,830 --> 00:33:54,810 I'm sure you know what killed these people. 724 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,150 Any help you can give us. 725 00:34:17,950 --> 00:34:19,690 It's an internal memo about the survey. 726 00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:23,360 The company concluded that making the Rolf Nine tamper-proof 727 00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:25,730 would reduce sales by almost 40%. 728 00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:30,370 It was cheaper to settle any lawsuits than to change the design. 729 00:34:31,730 --> 00:34:34,230 With this, we can meet Judge Wright's standard of proof. 730 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,080 They know their gun's easy to modify. It's their whole marketing strategy. 731 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:41,120 Trope used the gun the way they intended it to be used. 732 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,120 First thing tomorrow, we re-file the indictment. 733 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:47,050 Murder two, depraved indifference. 734 00:34:48,110 --> 00:34:49,120 Fifteen counts. 735 00:34:50,180 --> 00:34:53,860 Mr. Colby signed a legally binding agreement with Rolf Firearms. 736 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,230 If he chooses to testify, 737 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,230 her clients can seek their remedies in civil court. 738 00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:59,960 You can't keep him off the stand, Ms. Swann. Motion denied. 739 00:35:00,430 --> 00:35:01,430 Now, what about this memo? 740 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:02,910 It's a privileged communication. 741 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:04,910 Written by the vice president of marketing, 742 00:35:04,970 --> 00:35:06,950 and addressed to Mr. Weber? Where's the privilege? 743 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,210 It was CC'd to the company's in-house counsel. 744 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,380 It's a communication between a client, 745 00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:14,140 the corporation and its officers, and an attorney. 746 00:35:14,670 --> 00:35:16,950 Memo's privileged. Motion granted. 747 00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:23,130 We fund safety education programs, 748 00:35:23,220 --> 00:35:25,290 we participate in an industry-wide effort 749 00:35:25,390 --> 00:35:27,300 to develop smart gun technology. 750 00:35:27,350 --> 00:35:28,360 And yet, tragically, 751 00:35:28,660 --> 00:35:31,900 innocent people still get killed by criminals using your gun. 752 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:34,160 Yes. We deeply regret that. 753 00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:36,640 We know the very nature of what we do imposes on us 754 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,140 a grave responsibility. 755 00:35:38,330 --> 00:35:39,330 The idea 756 00:35:39,570 --> 00:35:42,240 that we passively encourage criminal conduct 757 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:44,340 just to make a profit is repugnant. 758 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:45,910 It never happened. 759 00:35:51,510 --> 00:35:54,150 You knew your guns were being sold unlawfully to criminals. 760 00:35:54,350 --> 00:35:56,050 We have no control over that. 761 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,660 If a liquor store sells beer to an adult 762 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:01,600 who turns around and sells it to a minor, is the brewer responsible? 763 00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:04,200 He is, if he makes bubble-gum flavored beer. 764 00:36:07,990 --> 00:36:10,030 This is the slide bolt for a Rolf Nine. 765 00:36:11,570 --> 00:36:14,010 The part that's being modified for automatic fire. 766 00:36:16,370 --> 00:36:18,510 This is where the design flaw is, isn't it? 767 00:36:18,970 --> 00:36:21,080 The design is not flawed. 768 00:36:21,170 --> 00:36:24,590 The gun is simply vulnerable to tampering, like all firearms. 769 00:36:25,010 --> 00:36:27,360 If it's vulnerable, why didn't you correct it? 770 00:36:27,550 --> 00:36:28,550 Suppose we did. 771 00:36:28,750 --> 00:36:32,720 We shut down production, we redesign the gun, we retool the factory. 772 00:36:32,820 --> 00:36:33,820 Six months from now, 773 00:36:33,890 --> 00:36:36,830 some other bright kid finds another way to tamper with the gun. 774 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:40,440 Do we change the design again, just to keep pace with the criminal mind? 775 00:36:40,490 --> 00:36:41,900 But the real problem 776 00:36:42,630 --> 00:36:44,370 is sales, isn't it? 777 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:47,880 No, the real problem is no one's enforcing the laws. 778 00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:49,270 The laws. 779 00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:52,810 Mr. Weber, didn't you contribute 780 00:36:53,170 --> 00:36:55,780 to a special interest group that lobbied Congress 781 00:36:56,010 --> 00:36:58,790 to pass the so-called Gun Owners' Rights Bill 782 00:36:59,180 --> 00:37:01,520 that weakened gun control laws? 783 00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:03,730 We have a right to participate in the political process. 784 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,790 You not only armed Dennis Trope, 785 00:37:06,150 --> 00:37:09,220 you undermined the very laws that were supposed to protect us from him, 786 00:37:09,390 --> 00:37:10,390 didn't you? No. 787 00:37:10,490 --> 00:37:11,490 No, that's not true. 788 00:37:11,590 --> 00:37:13,940 Look, none of this is our fault. 789 00:37:19,730 --> 00:37:20,730 No more questions. 790 00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:23,180 Your Honor, the defense rests. 791 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:25,750 Mr. McCoy, rebuttal witnesses? 792 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,380 Yes, Your Honor. The People call Dennis Trope. 793 00:37:32,150 --> 00:37:34,720 Those high school kids out west had semi-automatics, 794 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,460 but there were two of them. 795 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:38,220 To... 796 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:41,560 ...do what I wanted to do alone, 797 00:37:42,490 --> 00:37:45,230 I was going to need to convert a semi-auto to a full-auto, 798 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,770 and the easiest one, I found out, was the Rolf Nine. 799 00:37:49,930 --> 00:37:52,380 Is this the one you bought through the Internet? 800 00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:53,900 DENNIS: Yes. 801 00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:56,950 The literature said it had a tendency to jam, but, 802 00:37:58,740 --> 00:38:00,270 it worked like a pro for me. 803 00:38:00,610 --> 00:38:02,590 After you got this weapon, what did you do? 804 00:38:03,510 --> 00:38:06,790 I bought a conversion kit at a gun show for 50 dollars. 805 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,820 Show us how you converted this weapon. 806 00:38:20,690 --> 00:38:22,640 The bolt comes with a little hump right here. 807 00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:25,310 That keeps the gun from firing on automatic. 808 00:38:26,030 --> 00:38:27,030 I filed it down. 809 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:28,810 How long did that take? 810 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:30,500 Ten minutes. 811 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:32,980 Then I changed the recoil spring. 812 00:38:33,370 --> 00:38:34,510 That took five minutes. 813 00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:35,940 And then, 814 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,350 I soldered the new guide plate on the magazine feed right here. 815 00:38:41,950 --> 00:38:43,120 How much time, all told? 816 00:38:44,050 --> 00:38:45,050 Half an hour. 817 00:38:45,290 --> 00:38:46,290 No more questions. 818 00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:48,600 Let me make sure I understand. 819 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:51,630 You wanted to kill as many women as possible 820 00:38:51,730 --> 00:38:53,140 in the shortest amount of time? 821 00:38:53,390 --> 00:38:54,390 Yes. 822 00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:56,100 And the Rolf Nine, as you bought it, 823 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,970 wasn't adequate to the task? 824 00:38:59,330 --> 00:39:00,330 No. 825 00:39:01,370 --> 00:39:02,370 No more questions. 826 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,350 Gun-makers are among the most heavily regulated groups in this country, 827 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,180 with an army of people watching over them. 828 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,550 But despite all that, 829 00:39:14,110 --> 00:39:15,990 this fell through the cracks. 830 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,330 Fifteen people were killed. 831 00:39:20,390 --> 00:39:22,230 Now, Mr. McCoy wants you to believe 832 00:39:22,420 --> 00:39:26,630 there's a straight line between their shattered bodies and my client's factory. 833 00:39:27,830 --> 00:39:28,830 There isn't. 834 00:39:29,230 --> 00:39:31,330 There's just Dennis Trope. 835 00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:34,550 He was the one who broke the law 836 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,210 when he bought the gun, modified it, and fired it into that crowd. 837 00:39:38,270 --> 00:39:39,750 Horrifyingly simple. 838 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,480 So, 839 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,110 why doesn't Mr. McCoy get it? 840 00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:48,420 Responsible gun ownership is an American tradition, 841 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,160 protected by the constitution. 842 00:39:50,650 --> 00:39:53,190 But many people would like to get rid of guns. 843 00:39:55,420 --> 00:39:57,920 Well, we all know Cain didn't need a gun to kill his brother. 844 00:39:59,790 --> 00:40:02,330 As long as there are Dennis Tropes in this world, 845 00:40:03,060 --> 00:40:05,810 they will find away to kill innocent people, 846 00:40:05,870 --> 00:40:09,110 whether it's with a gun or a few hundred pounds of fertilizer. 847 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,040 But you can't blame the fertilizer company 848 00:40:13,470 --> 00:40:15,380 any more than the gun-maker for that. 849 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,950 You put the blame where it belongs. 850 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,180 That's another American tradition. 851 00:40:26,650 --> 00:40:29,000 Gun ownership is not an American tradition. 852 00:40:29,290 --> 00:40:30,290 That's a myth. 853 00:40:30,420 --> 00:40:32,100 Like George Washington's cherry tree. 854 00:40:33,230 --> 00:40:36,040 Most Americans, going back to colonial times, 855 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:37,370 did not own a gun. 856 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,240 Didn't even know how to shoot one. 857 00:40:40,070 --> 00:40:41,310 That's still true today. 858 00:40:43,540 --> 00:40:45,380 You heard expert testimony 859 00:40:46,410 --> 00:40:49,650 that redesigning the slide bolt of a Rolf Nine 860 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,760 would add 27 dollars and 64 cents 861 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,690 to the manufacturing cost 862 00:40:54,850 --> 00:40:57,330 of a weapon that sells for 900 dollars. 863 00:40:59,150 --> 00:41:00,430 Mr. Weber knew 864 00:41:00,850 --> 00:41:01,850 that his gun 865 00:41:02,260 --> 00:41:04,760 was being bought for the purpose 866 00:41:04,820 --> 00:41:06,960 of being converted to an automatic weapon. 867 00:41:07,190 --> 00:41:09,400 His refusal to change the design 868 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:11,270 is tantamount to admitting 869 00:41:11,630 --> 00:41:14,480 that its intended use was as an automatic weapon. 870 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:26,050 Reasonable people can disagree about the Second Amendment. 871 00:41:29,050 --> 00:41:30,320 But this can't be. 872 00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:33,630 What the framers of the constitution had in mind. 873 00:41:37,660 --> 00:41:40,930 Of course, you must hold Dennis Trope responsible. 874 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:42,630 He pulled the trigger. 875 00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:44,130 But remember, 876 00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:48,770 because of Mr. Weber's refusal to change the design of his gun, 877 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:52,570 instead of firing this many bullets, 878 00:41:55,610 --> 00:41:58,050 in the 30 seconds that he pulled the trigger, 879 00:42:00,850 --> 00:42:03,520 Dennis Trope was able to fire this many. 880 00:42:28,410 --> 00:42:30,450 (SOBBING) 881 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:36,890 Madam Foreperson, 882 00:42:37,020 --> 00:42:39,220 as to each of the fifteen counts of the indictment, 883 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,460 murder in the second degree, 884 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,560 has the jury reached a unanimous verdict? 885 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:43,930 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 886 00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:46,060 We find the defendant guilty. 887 00:42:46,930 --> 00:42:48,200 (ALL CHATTERING) 888 00:42:48,260 --> 00:42:49,640 JUDGE: Order! Order! 889 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:50,700 (GAVEL POUNDS) 890 00:42:50,860 --> 00:42:52,240 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 891 00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:54,210 I thank you for your service. You are excused. 892 00:42:54,670 --> 00:42:56,080 Don't pack it up just yet, Linda. 893 00:42:57,140 --> 00:42:59,340 I'm finding, as a matter of law, 894 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,350 the People failed to meet the standard of proof 895 00:43:02,410 --> 00:43:03,820 I set at the beginning of trial. 896 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,920 The People did not establish that the weapon was hazardous per se, 897 00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:11,250 nor that the main actor in the homicides used the weapon 898 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,300 as it was intended to be used by Mr. Weber. 899 00:43:14,890 --> 00:43:16,870 Therefore, I am setting aside the jury verdict, 900 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,130 and issuing a directed verdict of not guilty. 901 00:43:19,230 --> 00:43:20,230 The defendant is free to go. 902 00:43:20,590 --> 00:43:22,270 Objection! Order! Order! 903 00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:25,000 I'm filing notice of the People's intent to appeal! 904 00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:27,380 This is outside the scope of your authority! 905 00:43:27,470 --> 00:43:29,240 Mr. McCoy, I'm not going to sanction a verdict 906 00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:31,180 that can't possible be sustained on appeal. 907 00:43:31,670 --> 00:43:33,620 This conviction isn't based on 908 00:43:33,910 --> 00:43:35,210 any proven facts. 909 00:43:35,540 --> 00:43:37,520 It's based on the jury's outrage 910 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,950 at Mr. Weber's irresponsible and 911 00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:41,760 inexcusable conduct. 912 00:43:42,850 --> 00:43:45,260 You want to end the violence, the bloodletting. 913 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,590 So do I, Mr. McCoy. 914 00:43:47,190 --> 00:43:48,260 In my 30 years on the bench, 915 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,630 I've seen every permutation of it, 916 00:43:50,790 --> 00:43:52,060 and it sickens me 917 00:43:52,390 --> 00:43:54,370 when somebody profits from it. 918 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,370 But tempted though I may be, 919 00:43:57,430 --> 00:44:00,070 putting Mr. Weber in jail won't end the carnage. 920 00:44:01,570 --> 00:44:04,240 Until we cure what ails the human heart, 921 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:06,740 we won't make a dent in the body count. 922 00:44:07,370 --> 00:44:08,370 In the meantime, 923 00:44:08,470 --> 00:44:10,610 no matter how profound our grief, 924 00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:12,750 our indignation, 925 00:44:13,310 --> 00:44:14,310 I can't let you 926 00:44:14,580 --> 00:44:15,580 use this court 927 00:44:15,750 --> 00:44:16,750 to raise a lynch mob. 928 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:17,990 I won't allow you 929 00:44:18,650 --> 00:44:22,120 to exploit the same base passions Mr. Weber counts on 930 00:44:22,190 --> 00:44:23,720 to beef up his bottom line. 931 00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:26,740 It's not about being right, Mr. McCoy. 932 00:44:27,390 --> 00:44:29,240 It's about doing right. 933 00:44:30,230 --> 00:44:31,470 Now, we're adjourned. 934 00:44:31,530 --> 00:44:32,530 (GAVEL POUNDS)