1 00:00:07,370 --> 00:00:09,110 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:12,910 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:13,110 --> 00:00:14,910 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:14,970 --> 00:00:17,580 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:19,520 These are their stories. 6 00:00:20,610 --> 00:00:22,250 (PEOPLE CLAMORING) 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:23,960 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 8 00:00:33,490 --> 00:00:35,440 (WOMEN EXCLAIMING) 9 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:02,730 I feel very exposed here, Ira. 10 00:01:02,790 --> 00:01:04,930 Privacy in public spaces, Paige. 11 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:06,930 That's what New York's all about. 12 00:01:07,030 --> 00:01:08,940 Can't we just get a hotel? 13 00:01:09,030 --> 00:01:10,900 Right now, let's don't go anywhere. 14 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:12,400 Let's add 15 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:16,580 "Rowboat in Central Park" to our life lists of sexual loci. 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,210 Ira... Let's do add it, Paige. 17 00:01:19,270 --> 00:01:20,340 (SCREAMS) 18 00:01:24,340 --> 00:01:25,910 (OFFICER CHATTERING ON RADIO) 19 00:01:26,510 --> 00:01:28,510 Looks like she was beaten pretty bad. 20 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,900 Excuse me, I have a pretty shaken up lady here. 21 00:01:33,950 --> 00:01:35,190 You're the couple in the rowboat? 22 00:01:35,250 --> 00:01:36,360 Right, that's us. 23 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:37,960 Was she moving when you found her? 24 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:39,090 IRA: Paige? 25 00:01:39,690 --> 00:01:41,100 Oh, God, no. 26 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:42,400 If we're at all close to wrapping it up, 27 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:43,630 I'd like to take her away from here. 28 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:46,370 We're going to need to take full statements from both of you. 29 00:01:46,430 --> 00:01:48,070 We'll get through it as quickly as we can. 30 00:01:48,130 --> 00:01:51,050 Is it possible to keep my full identity out of this? 31 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:52,950 Strictly speaking, we're being naughty. 32 00:01:53,010 --> 00:01:54,010 Ira. 33 00:01:54,070 --> 00:01:56,310 Officially, she's still married to another individual. 34 00:01:56,380 --> 00:01:57,620 Did she murder him? 35 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:58,680 God, no. 36 00:01:58,740 --> 00:02:00,220 Oh, see, we're Homicide. 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,730 Anything else, you have to take up with the adultery squad. 38 00:02:03,620 --> 00:02:05,030 (SIGHS) Name? 39 00:02:54,570 --> 00:02:56,840 I don't know if they're responsible for this here, 40 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,940 but I had a couple of knuckleheads from the parade try to mess with my rowboats. 41 00:03:01,010 --> 00:03:02,540 Can you describe them? 42 00:03:02,610 --> 00:03:03,780 Puerto Rican. 43 00:03:04,110 --> 00:03:06,280 Tall, short, fat, thin? 44 00:03:06,350 --> 00:03:07,480 I couldn't tell you. 45 00:03:07,550 --> 00:03:09,150 Did you get a look at the dead woman? 46 00:03:09,210 --> 00:03:10,250 Yeah. Right. 47 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,320 Was she with anybody when she rented the boat? 48 00:03:12,380 --> 00:03:13,660 All by herself. 49 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,790 She had a pair of shoulders on her big enough for a linebacker. 50 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:18,460 Thanks for the tip. 51 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:19,760 (SIREN WAILING) 52 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:20,830 (SIGHS) 53 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:26,000 Detective? What's up, Sarge? 54 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:28,100 A group of Hispanics coming away from the parade 55 00:03:28,170 --> 00:03:30,270 were just collared for robbery and sexual assault. 56 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:32,140 They're on their way to Central Booking. 57 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,710 See if you can get them re-routed over to the house. 58 00:03:37,810 --> 00:03:40,220 I went to the parade and that's it. 59 00:03:40,410 --> 00:03:42,360 You got collared in the park. 60 00:03:42,910 --> 00:03:46,090 I went through the park to go to the subway to go home. 61 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:47,790 (SIGHS) Let's see. 62 00:03:47,850 --> 00:03:50,960 The parade's on Fifth Avenue, you live in the East Bronx. 63 00:03:51,020 --> 00:03:53,700 You got to take the Lexington Avenue line to get home. 64 00:03:53,990 --> 00:03:56,530 So you don't go through the park to get to the subway. 65 00:03:56,630 --> 00:03:58,510 You want to try another story? 66 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:01,410 If you seen somebody holding something 67 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,240 that says "Sony" in front of their faces, 68 00:04:04,740 --> 00:04:05,980 those are video cameras. 69 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,950 Hey, one stinking day out of the year to honor the Puerto Rican people, 70 00:04:09,010 --> 00:04:10,540 I got to get this kind of harassment? 71 00:04:10,610 --> 00:04:13,610 Hold up. You ripped the girl's shirt off out of patriotism? 72 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,220 Hey, if that's the one bitch I'm thinking of, 73 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,280 I wouldn't exactly call that no shirt, man. 74 00:04:17,350 --> 00:04:19,060 Now, would this be the bitch in the rowboat? 75 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:21,950 I wasn't near no rowboat. 76 00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:24,090 Where were you guys? 77 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,070 Not where we should've been, I guess. 78 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,160 I had my clothes ripped off in Central Park in the middle of the day. 79 00:04:29,260 --> 00:04:31,070 Well, nobody expected that kind of crowd. 80 00:04:31,130 --> 00:04:34,170 If we had, there would have been a much greater police presence in the park. 81 00:04:34,230 --> 00:04:35,370 Not too comforting to think 82 00:04:35,430 --> 00:04:37,940 unless there's police standing there, that this is what happens. 83 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,420 Is there anything you can tell us about who attacked you? 84 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:42,580 Teens, 20s. 85 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,380 I guess Puerto Rican. 86 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,510 Have a look at these. 87 00:04:45,580 --> 00:04:47,850 Tell us if you recognize any of the faces. 88 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:49,880 I don't know. 89 00:04:50,050 --> 00:04:51,690 Anything you could tell us would be helpful. 90 00:04:51,780 --> 00:04:53,990 What I remember about them wasn't their faces. 91 00:04:54,050 --> 00:04:56,830 It doesn't have to be faces. Clothes, tattoos, jewelry... 92 00:04:56,890 --> 00:04:59,490 What I remember about them is hands grabbing me. 93 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,370 What seems like a thousand hands. That's it. 94 00:05:02,730 --> 00:05:04,260 That's all I remember. 95 00:05:05,130 --> 00:05:07,740 ED: We have a vendor that says you and your boys robbed him 96 00:05:07,830 --> 00:05:08,870 That's wrong, man. 97 00:05:08,930 --> 00:05:10,880 Maybe somebody paid him and he didn't realize. 98 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,540 But definitely I didn't rob nobody knowingly with forethought. 99 00:05:15,140 --> 00:05:18,280 How about using water bottles to spray girls with, did you do that? 100 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,780 It was a hot day. We was fooling around. 101 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,310 Fair enough. 102 00:05:22,380 --> 00:05:24,520 Tell me about the girl at the lake. 103 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:25,960 I don't know nothing about that. 104 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:28,090 Well, what happened? I mean, you were spraying her with water 105 00:05:28,150 --> 00:05:30,000 and things just progressed from there? 106 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,460 I want to talk to my lawyer. 107 00:05:33,060 --> 00:05:35,900 BRISCOE: Tell me what was going on by the lake, Kiki. 108 00:05:35,990 --> 00:05:37,870 I wasn't near no lake. 109 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,240 How sure are you that there were no witnesses who saw you there? 110 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:43,250 Look, the only place I went to in the park 111 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:45,410 was to the zoo, on account of I had to use the bathroom. 112 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:47,970 You know, by the clock with the animals? 113 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,710 I mean, I swear to God. I swear to the Blessed Virgin! 114 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:52,920 You... I want my lawyer now 115 00:05:56,980 --> 00:05:58,520 You canvass the park? 116 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:00,720 We're concentrating on the ones who took a collar. 117 00:06:00,790 --> 00:06:03,360 I've got other detectives canvassing the park, Chief. 118 00:06:03,420 --> 00:06:05,060 Where do we stand on holding these guys? 119 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,500 Arraignment's tomorrow morning on robbery and assault. 120 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,800 Yeah, well, given that we had some members of the force 121 00:06:10,860 --> 00:06:13,710 conspicuously non-proactive while all this was going on, 122 00:06:14,170 --> 00:06:17,610 we'd be well-advised to pursue this investigation aggressively. 123 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,610 I would also appreciate if you go see the woman's husband. 124 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,150 I got people all the way up to First Dep pissing in my ear who he is. 125 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:25,350 Who is he? 126 00:06:25,410 --> 00:06:26,950 Some computer billionaire. 127 00:06:27,010 --> 00:06:28,990 Downtown wants him to feel taken care of. 128 00:06:29,210 --> 00:06:32,060 They'll let him know they're on top of it. 129 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,120 Yeah. 130 00:06:35,990 --> 00:06:37,930 ETHAN: I just can't believe she's gone. 131 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,630 We think we're pretty close to having a suspect. 132 00:06:41,490 --> 00:06:44,410 One of the people that was in the park doing the attacks? 133 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:45,940 Yeah, we're leaning that way. 134 00:06:46,330 --> 00:06:48,870 I just don't understand how people can go crazy like that. 135 00:06:48,970 --> 00:06:51,350 Or how they can be allowed to go crazy. 136 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,040 This is Seth Teitel. He's a good friend of mine 137 00:06:54,110 --> 00:06:55,880 and vice president of my company. 138 00:06:55,940 --> 00:06:57,480 The cops were just standing there? 139 00:06:57,540 --> 00:07:00,020 Girls came running out of the park who had their clothes ripped off, 140 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,890 who were hysterical and the cops just stood there? 141 00:07:02,950 --> 00:07:04,760 If they did, they were wrong. 142 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:06,960 If they didn't, maybe Susan would still be alive. 143 00:07:07,020 --> 00:07:08,760 But Seth, we don't know what happened. 144 00:07:09,190 --> 00:07:10,890 We think money makes us safe. 145 00:07:11,290 --> 00:07:13,030 We have doormen, we have limos. 146 00:07:13,090 --> 00:07:15,000 Finally you get to the point where you don't even risk taking cabs 147 00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:17,130 and then you find out you're not safe. 148 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:18,840 Not nearly safe. 149 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:21,070 Susan went to take a rowboat all by herself? 150 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,200 Yeah. 151 00:07:22,570 --> 00:07:26,170 That was a totally Susan thing to do. 152 00:07:26,710 --> 00:07:29,580 Can you think of anyone who would've wanted to hurt her for any reason? 153 00:07:29,710 --> 00:07:30,950 You're asking the wrong guy. 154 00:07:31,010 --> 00:07:32,780 Susan and I were like an old pair of shoes. 155 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,980 I mean, we'd been together since college, 156 00:07:35,050 --> 00:07:36,490 we were best friends. 157 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:38,660 I can't think of anybody that would want to hurt her. 158 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,730 We've got a lot of cops working on this. 159 00:07:40,850 --> 00:07:43,230 Hopefully we'll find what we're looking for. 160 00:07:48,990 --> 00:07:51,980 Hey, you guys catch the Capp homicide? 161 00:07:52,030 --> 00:07:53,100 Right. 162 00:07:53,170 --> 00:07:56,040 From where I'm standing, it looks like a sea of perps on Sunday. 163 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:58,950 I'm figuring they misjudged the deployment down at 1PP, 164 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,380 the guys had parade detail got caught short-handed. 165 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,080 You ever on the job? 166 00:08:03,140 --> 00:08:07,090 I was a year too old when I took the test. Otherwise I could've... 167 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,620 Anything unusual about the woman? 168 00:08:09,850 --> 00:08:12,920 Not exactly kismet in the marriage department, 169 00:08:12,980 --> 00:08:15,990 but other than that she seemed normal. 170 00:08:16,050 --> 00:08:18,030 What, she and her husband used to fight? 171 00:08:18,090 --> 00:08:19,630 To the point where she moved out. 172 00:08:19,690 --> 00:08:21,690 She just moved back in about a week ago. 173 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,800 How do you know she wasn't just taking a trip? 174 00:08:23,860 --> 00:08:25,770 Fellas, give me a little credit, huh? 175 00:08:25,830 --> 00:08:28,280 She was upset, she has some guy helping her, 176 00:08:28,330 --> 00:08:31,440 dragging out a lamp, pillow, photo albums. 177 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:32,880 Plus, she told me to hold her mail 178 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:35,320 and under no circumstances deliver it to her husband. 179 00:08:35,510 --> 00:08:37,510 Can you describe the guy that was helping her out? 180 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,020 Male, Caucasian, approximately 60 years of age, 181 00:08:41,650 --> 00:08:43,560 possible Boston accent. 182 00:08:43,820 --> 00:08:46,490 Thanks, Kevin. You'd have made a hell of a detective. 183 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,030 Where'd you say the girl was from? 184 00:08:50,090 --> 00:08:51,500 Somerville, Massachusetts. 185 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:54,230 Sherlock didn't mention the guy helping her was probably her father. 186 00:08:54,330 --> 00:08:56,970 He and his wife were supposed to be flying down this morning. 187 00:08:57,330 --> 00:08:58,930 That's right. 188 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:01,240 She'd say, "Five years, Dad." 189 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,600 "Let Ethan go public with the company" 190 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,440 "and we'll pack up and come back to Massachusetts." 191 00:09:07,610 --> 00:09:09,710 Can you think of anyone she might have been seeing? 192 00:09:09,870 --> 00:09:12,380 Seeing as in carrying on? Is that what you're suggesting? 193 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,650 We're not suggesting anything, sir. We're just asking questions. 194 00:09:15,710 --> 00:09:19,250 On the chance that whoever killed your daughter knew her, 195 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,890 we need to take a look at all of her friends and acquaintances. 196 00:09:23,150 --> 00:09:25,790 What about her husband? Anyone think to look at him? 197 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:27,430 Martin, please. 198 00:09:27,690 --> 00:09:29,600 We don't think he had anything to do with it. 199 00:09:29,660 --> 00:09:31,830 To the whole world, including my wife, 200 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:33,970 Ethan was this great catch. 201 00:09:34,830 --> 00:09:37,580 Way I see it, he was the lucky one. 202 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,010 He got the great catch, not her. 203 00:09:40,070 --> 00:09:41,980 Do you think he'd do anything to hurt her? 204 00:09:42,070 --> 00:09:43,420 Absolutely not. 205 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,680 Except that he wanted out of the marriage. 206 00:09:45,740 --> 00:09:48,350 ED: How do you know that? Because my daughter told me. 207 00:09:48,910 --> 00:09:50,390 He met someone else. 208 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,700 He wanted out of the marriage, but she wasn't about to beg him to stay. 209 00:09:55,590 --> 00:09:57,160 Had she been to a lawyer? 210 00:09:57,420 --> 00:09:58,990 You better believe it. 211 00:10:02,690 --> 00:10:05,440 So there was enough for both of them to walk away with a bundle? 212 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:06,530 No question. 213 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,240 Gee, now I've heard that an angry spouse 214 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,540 can sometimes think any number is not enough. 215 00:10:11,740 --> 00:10:13,880 Yes, I've also heard of that happening. 216 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:16,110 So how much was Susan looking to bleed him for? 217 00:10:16,270 --> 00:10:18,080 That might be the wrong terminology to use 218 00:10:18,140 --> 00:10:20,350 when talking to her matrimonial attorney. 219 00:10:20,410 --> 00:10:22,410 Go ahead, use any terminology you want. 220 00:10:23,450 --> 00:10:27,730 Susan wanted and was entitled to, an accurate evaluation of Ethan's company. 221 00:10:27,790 --> 00:10:30,530 Sometimes that's provided willingly, sometimes it's not. 222 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,040 Well, let's say nothing was done willingly, 223 00:10:34,090 --> 00:10:37,200 that the divorce gets as nasty as a divorce can get. 224 00:10:37,430 --> 00:10:39,100 What happens to the company then? 225 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,470 Worst case scenario, the company's sold, the proceeds split. 226 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:43,910 Was it headed that way? 227 00:10:44,770 --> 00:10:46,270 Susan had a lot of anger. 228 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,580 She wasn't going to make it easy. 229 00:10:53,010 --> 00:10:56,720 All the ones they collared at the park pleaded out to robbery or assault. 230 00:10:56,780 --> 00:10:58,950 The most they're looking at is 18 months. 231 00:10:59,020 --> 00:11:02,090 Well, it might be worth taking a harder look at the husband. 232 00:11:02,150 --> 00:11:03,720 Is there anything to put him at the park? 233 00:11:03,790 --> 00:11:04,860 Not so far. 234 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,990 See, he was a little too intent on making us think 235 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:08,230 his marriage was in good shape. 236 00:11:08,290 --> 00:11:10,200 Turns out his wife had gone to see a lawyer 237 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:12,240 and she was all set to take him to the cleaners. 238 00:11:13,330 --> 00:11:15,330 Sounds like motive to me. 239 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:20,940 SETH: Can I help you? 240 00:11:21,010 --> 00:11:22,310 We need to talk to Ethan here. 241 00:11:22,370 --> 00:11:25,180 Is there some place we can go that's a little more private? 242 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:26,920 Yeah, we can do it right here. 243 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:30,090 Seth, would you excuse us, please? 244 00:11:35,020 --> 00:11:36,900 You and your wife were getting a divorce? 245 00:11:38,090 --> 00:11:39,260 What's the relevance of that? 246 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,100 I don't know, it just seems like something you would've mentioned, 247 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,830 along with the fact that you two were like "a pair of old shoes." 248 00:11:43,930 --> 00:11:45,270 BRISCOE: We were told that her demands 249 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,310 might lead to your company being broken up. 250 00:11:47,370 --> 00:11:49,640 Are you thinking that I murdered her to prevent that from happening? 251 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,810 We've seen people murdered for a lot less. 252 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,110 So you want me to provide you with an alibi? 253 00:11:56,510 --> 00:11:58,490 Sunday morning I was at my apartment 254 00:11:58,610 --> 00:12:01,390 on the telephone with my people in San Jose. 255 00:12:01,450 --> 00:12:06,830 Around noon, I met a friend at Barney's, made a couple of purchases, 256 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:08,130 had some lunch, 257 00:12:08,190 --> 00:12:10,560 went to a Japanese animation show, 258 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:11,830 then went home. 259 00:12:11,890 --> 00:12:14,800 I've got credit card receipts, you're free to look at them. 260 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:16,430 Who's the friend you met at Barney's? 261 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,980 We're just trying to get a sense as to whether Ethan's marital situation 262 00:12:21,030 --> 00:12:22,480 played a role in his wife's death. 263 00:12:22,530 --> 00:12:23,740 As in, Ethan killed her? 264 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,280 Well, not necessarily Ethan himself, 265 00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:27,440 maybe somebody trying to get in good with Ethan. 266 00:12:27,510 --> 00:12:30,540 Guys with that much money tend to attract opportunists. 267 00:12:30,610 --> 00:12:32,680 Would you be including me under that general heading? 268 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:34,450 I wouldn't include you under any heading. 269 00:12:34,510 --> 00:12:35,580 I don't know you that well. 270 00:12:35,650 --> 00:12:38,890 Yeah, you guys are famous for not making snap judgments. 271 00:12:38,950 --> 00:12:40,160 Whatever you think of me though 272 00:12:40,220 --> 00:12:42,700 Ethan had absolutely nothing to do with his wife's death. 273 00:12:42,750 --> 00:12:44,530 He's as gentle a soul as I've ever known. 274 00:12:44,590 --> 00:12:47,930 So, he's not responsible for those bruises on your neck? 275 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:51,560 I didn't realize I was being physically examined. 276 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,570 It's another thing we're famous for. 277 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,680 Ethan didn't do this. It was his friend, Seth. 278 00:12:58,140 --> 00:13:00,620 He attributed Ethan's marital problems to me. 279 00:13:00,670 --> 00:13:04,250 To use his words, I had destabilized a perfectly ordered universe. 280 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:06,860 Did he say that to you with his hands around your throat? 281 00:13:06,910 --> 00:13:09,920 Just before. I made the mistake of laughing. 282 00:13:10,380 --> 00:13:12,660 That's when he put his hands around my throat. 283 00:13:14,350 --> 00:13:17,230 Seth has to have a pretty big stock position in the company. 284 00:13:17,290 --> 00:13:18,290 No doubt. Which means 285 00:13:18,390 --> 00:13:21,060 if the company gets broken up in a divorce, he loses big. 286 00:13:21,130 --> 00:13:22,330 As does Ethan's girlfriend. 287 00:13:22,390 --> 00:13:25,740 Yeah. If she really wanted to set herself up for life, she'd cover for Ethan. 288 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,180 Well, why don't we get that doorman and see what he has to say about it. 289 00:13:29,230 --> 00:13:30,870 Yeah. Maybe we'll get lucky and he's made an entry 290 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,180 in his official Dick Tracy notebook. 291 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:38,580 You ever notice Ethan with any other women? 292 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,150 Oh, a guma in other words? 293 00:13:40,710 --> 00:13:42,390 Any other women. 294 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:44,390 None that springs to mind. 295 00:13:44,820 --> 00:13:47,920 Hey, they've done away with the Safe and Loft Squad, am I right? 296 00:13:47,990 --> 00:13:49,090 Yeah, right. 297 00:13:49,550 --> 00:13:51,900 Hey, you know anything about Ethan going out on Sunday? 298 00:13:52,260 --> 00:13:55,900 Well, I don't recall any of the usual limo drivers he uses showing up. 299 00:13:56,260 --> 00:13:57,600 Did he go out on foot? 300 00:13:57,900 --> 00:13:59,200 It's a possibility. 301 00:13:59,260 --> 00:14:01,340 Are you maybe liking him for the homicide? 302 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:05,010 Gee, Kevin, I don't know. So far his alibi holds up. 303 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:06,310 Why, you think we should like him? 304 00:14:06,370 --> 00:14:09,010 Ordinarily, you got to always like the husband. 305 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,050 This one might be a little too much of a wet noodle to pull it off. 306 00:14:13,110 --> 00:14:15,460 Briscoe, Green. In my office. 307 00:14:16,450 --> 00:14:19,390 Well, thanks for coming in, Kevin. We really appreciate it. 308 00:14:22,950 --> 00:14:25,630 I ask you to make this guy feel taken care of 309 00:14:25,790 --> 00:14:27,290 and you make him a suspect? 310 00:14:27,460 --> 00:14:29,840 We're going where this investigation takes us, Chief. 311 00:14:29,890 --> 00:14:32,640 Which is exactly what you're supposed to be doing, Lieutenant. 312 00:14:32,730 --> 00:14:35,180 Downtown just finds it a bit hard to fathom 313 00:14:35,230 --> 00:14:37,610 why your guys are so focused on the victim's husband, 314 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,510 when there's no history of domestic abuse, 315 00:14:39,570 --> 00:14:41,210 no criminal record, no nothing! 316 00:14:41,270 --> 00:14:44,190 Hey, there was a nasty divorce about to happen. 317 00:14:44,810 --> 00:14:48,480 And that makes it likely, in your mind, for a guy like this to do a murder? 318 00:14:48,550 --> 00:14:50,650 It makes it worth looking into, yes. 319 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,990 Chief, we still have a lot of work to do. 320 00:14:54,590 --> 00:14:55,830 Do us all a favor. 321 00:14:56,150 --> 00:14:58,860 Find out it was one of the punks from the parade. 322 00:15:01,060 --> 00:15:03,010 So nice to have the support of the job. 323 00:15:03,060 --> 00:15:05,200 Is Ethan the only one you like at this point? 324 00:15:05,260 --> 00:15:06,870 Either Ethan or his friend. What friend? 325 00:15:06,930 --> 00:15:07,970 His friend, Seth. 326 00:15:08,030 --> 00:15:10,030 He stood to lose a fortune of his own in the divorce. 327 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:11,770 Plus, he tried to strangle Ethan's girlfriend. 328 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,650 Plus he seems like half a whack job. 329 00:15:13,710 --> 00:15:18,050 Hey, the doorman said that Ethan didn't take the limo on Sunday, right? 330 00:15:18,540 --> 00:15:19,610 Maybe Seth did. 331 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,550 Listen, do what you have to do. 332 00:15:21,610 --> 00:15:23,890 Not what the chief wants us to be looking at. 333 00:15:24,150 --> 00:15:26,250 The chief's not running this investigation. 334 00:15:30,820 --> 00:15:34,430 The dispatcher told us you drove this guy Seth Teitel on Sunday? 335 00:15:34,590 --> 00:15:35,870 Yeah, right. That's right. 336 00:15:35,930 --> 00:15:37,870 Do you have it in your trip log where you went? 337 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,640 He had me for the day. I didn't keep a trip log. 338 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,410 You happen to remember where he had you drive him to? 339 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:47,010 I picked him up at his apartment around 79th and Columbus. 340 00:15:47,070 --> 00:15:48,740 I took him down to his office. 341 00:15:49,140 --> 00:15:51,710 I remember he wanted to stop at a news stand. 342 00:15:52,010 --> 00:15:55,050 I remember he wanted to look at guitars in a store window. 343 00:15:55,210 --> 00:15:58,560 He went up to Central Park and had me drop him by the rowboats. 344 00:16:01,020 --> 00:16:02,830 BRISCOE: So you and Ethan go way back, huh? 345 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:05,130 We went to MIT together. 346 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,940 You were with the company from the ground up? 347 00:16:08,630 --> 00:16:10,130 Can I ask what your point is? 348 00:16:10,190 --> 00:16:15,910 My point is, if Susan caused the breakup of the company, you had a lot to lose. 349 00:16:15,970 --> 00:16:17,780 And so I murdered her? 350 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,520 When's the last time you saw her? 351 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,610 I don't know, month ago, three weeks ago. 352 00:16:23,810 --> 00:16:25,950 Seth, you're a smart guy. 353 00:16:26,010 --> 00:16:29,550 Ask yourself, are they asking me questions they already know the answer to? 354 00:16:30,010 --> 00:16:31,320 What do you mean? 355 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:33,260 Ask yourself 356 00:16:33,690 --> 00:16:36,560 is there proof that you saw Susan 357 00:16:36,620 --> 00:16:38,430 not a month ago or three weeks ago 358 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:39,870 but the very same day she was killed? 359 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,030 I did not kill her. 360 00:16:41,090 --> 00:16:43,370 Hey, man, ask yourself, 361 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,480 did someone see me at the exact same spot where Susan was killed? 362 00:16:47,530 --> 00:16:48,940 Did someone see me? 363 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,410 Now ask yourself, what would your answer be if they did? 364 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,620 We arranged to meet at the lake. 365 00:17:03,850 --> 00:17:05,490 She rowed up to the shore, 366 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,720 got out, sat on a bench. 367 00:17:09,890 --> 00:17:12,560 I told her how much the company meant to Ethan and me. 368 00:17:13,490 --> 00:17:17,600 I tried to talk her out of destroying something just for the sake of destroying it. 369 00:17:17,660 --> 00:17:19,970 I thought I was actually beginning to make sense to her. 370 00:17:20,030 --> 00:17:22,810 All of a sudden these guys started running down the hill, 371 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,410 yelling, spraying people with water. 372 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:27,570 So Susan told me that I should go get a cop. 373 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:29,920 So that's what I went to do. 374 00:17:30,710 --> 00:17:32,280 But there were no cops. 375 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:36,050 You guys were completely absent from the park that day. 376 00:17:37,550 --> 00:17:40,120 That isn't the same story you told us before. 377 00:17:40,590 --> 00:17:42,120 I was ashamed. 378 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,560 I was afraid Ethan would never forgive me. 379 00:17:46,290 --> 00:17:48,860 I was also afraid that you would think that I'd killed her 380 00:17:48,930 --> 00:17:51,200 and that I was making the whole thing up. 381 00:17:55,670 --> 00:17:56,670 Good call. 382 00:17:58,670 --> 00:17:59,670 (EXHALES) 383 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:05,650 The last thing I want 384 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:09,120 any of you to feel is that there's people at City Hall or in Albany 385 00:18:09,180 --> 00:18:11,590 micromanaging the way this case is handled. 386 00:18:11,650 --> 00:18:13,150 Now, why would we think that, Donny? 387 00:18:13,220 --> 00:18:15,200 Other than the fact that you're here. 388 00:18:15,750 --> 00:18:18,430 As you know, there was considerable public outcry 389 00:18:18,490 --> 00:18:22,940 that the cops didn't do more by way of responding to the wilding in the park. 390 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:25,770 There'd been some hope that an effective prosecution 391 00:18:25,830 --> 00:18:27,670 in this case would offset that. 392 00:18:28,030 --> 00:18:31,040 We're anticipating that there will be an effective prosecution. 393 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:35,140 But it's not a prosecution of one of the individuals involved in the wilding. 394 00:18:35,210 --> 00:18:37,690 That's because we don't have the necessary evidence 395 00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:39,850 to prosecute any of those individuals. 396 00:18:39,910 --> 00:18:44,490 It sounds like the only evidence you've got against Seth Teitel is circumstantial. 397 00:18:44,550 --> 00:18:46,550 That's usually the case with homicide. 398 00:18:46,650 --> 00:18:49,530 Okay, look, I'm all for a level playing field, 399 00:18:49,590 --> 00:18:52,360 justice being color blind, etcetera. 400 00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:55,830 We had hoped to use this trial to punish one or more of these Puerto Ricans 401 00:18:55,890 --> 00:18:59,200 who went nuts in the park that day. If we can't, we can't. 402 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:01,610 What I need to be able to report back 403 00:19:01,670 --> 00:19:04,580 is that you're all absolutely convinced 404 00:19:05,070 --> 00:19:06,740 that you got the right guy. 405 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:09,640 We wouldn't be prosecuting him if we weren't. 406 00:19:13,740 --> 00:19:15,880 Ethan and Seth were very close, 407 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:17,980 although I think in Seth's mind they were closer. 408 00:19:18,050 --> 00:19:21,030 Objection. She has no idea what was in Seth's mind. 409 00:19:21,150 --> 00:19:22,500 Sustained. 410 00:19:23,390 --> 00:19:28,170 Did Seth ever personally indicate he felt threatened by Ethan's impending divorce? 411 00:19:28,290 --> 00:19:30,900 He said that if the company was dissolved in a divorce, 412 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,070 then his stock options would be worthless. 413 00:19:33,130 --> 00:19:35,340 What role, if any, did he assign to you? 414 00:19:35,570 --> 00:19:38,010 He held me responsible, along with Susan. 415 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:39,300 How do you know that? 416 00:19:41,770 --> 00:19:46,410 One day he found me doing something on Ethan's computer and 417 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:47,780 he went crazy. 418 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:50,630 He started choking me, 419 00:19:50,780 --> 00:19:54,160 saying that everything was perfect until I set my sights on Ethan. 420 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,430 He said that if it would keep the company from going down the tubes 421 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:01,870 and him from moving back into his parents' house in Rockville Center, 422 00:20:02,130 --> 00:20:05,110 then he'd risk getting sent away for murder. 423 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:08,700 Nothing further. 424 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,250 Is it possible you saw Seth as a rival, Miss Bergman? 425 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,660 And that's why you're up here testifying against him? 426 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,850 I think Ethan was pretty squarely in the heterosexual camp, 427 00:20:22,910 --> 00:20:24,190 if that's what you're referring to. 428 00:20:24,250 --> 00:20:26,250 Actually, I was thinking more to the point that 429 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,090 you were driving a wedge between Ethan and his wife 430 00:20:29,150 --> 00:20:30,690 and Ethan and his friend, 431 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,240 in order for you for you to claim the power and the money you were seeking. 432 00:20:33,290 --> 00:20:35,000 Objection. Speculative. 433 00:20:35,460 --> 00:20:36,870 Overruled. 434 00:20:38,430 --> 00:20:42,280 Did you send this e-mail to Ethan? 435 00:20:46,670 --> 00:20:47,710 Yes. 436 00:20:47,770 --> 00:20:49,750 I ask that it be marked into evidence. 437 00:20:50,140 --> 00:20:51,140 So ordered. 438 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,120 "Hey, Snakeskin," 439 00:20:55,310 --> 00:20:58,620 "can't wait till I'm next to you at the controls." 440 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:02,220 "I hope it's not too big-headed of me to think I have something to offer." 441 00:21:02,290 --> 00:21:05,730 "Especially once you shed some excess baggage." 442 00:21:05,860 --> 00:21:07,960 "Don't take this to mean I'm not happy now." 443 00:21:08,030 --> 00:21:11,870 "It isn't everyone who has their very own boy-genius crawl into their lap" 444 00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:15,380 "to go nigh-nigh nippy nigh-nigh." 445 00:21:15,430 --> 00:21:17,610 Stop this. Sit down, Mr. Teitel. 446 00:21:17,670 --> 00:21:19,410 I don't want you embarrassing my friend Ethan this way. 447 00:21:19,470 --> 00:21:20,920 Just stop what you're doing. 448 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,190 Witnesses getting antsy? 449 00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:34,460 Nah, I gave them all crayons and coloring books. 450 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:35,720 They'll be fine. 451 00:21:35,790 --> 00:21:37,420 See you in there. 452 00:21:37,660 --> 00:21:40,400 Hey, guys. I have a witness you might be interested in. 453 00:21:40,460 --> 00:21:42,400 Who's that? Name's Kiki Morales. 454 00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:44,300 He was one of the wild bunch in the park. 455 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:46,240 Pleaded out to assault and robbery. 456 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:47,610 He started serving his sentence, 457 00:21:47,670 --> 00:21:50,170 saw your guy's picture in the paper, got in touch with me. 458 00:21:50,230 --> 00:21:51,840 Said he recognized him from the park. 459 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,040 Can place him in the rowboat. 460 00:21:54,510 --> 00:21:56,180 How long does it take to get him down here? 461 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,520 I took the liberty, he's here already. 462 00:21:58,740 --> 00:22:00,120 Interview him, see what we've got. 463 00:22:00,180 --> 00:22:01,820 Yeah, no problem. 464 00:22:03,310 --> 00:22:07,130 Where were you on the afternoon of Sunday, June 11th, Mr. Morales? 465 00:22:07,350 --> 00:22:10,560 I was at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, then I went to Central Park. 466 00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:12,230 Where in Central Park were you? 467 00:22:12,390 --> 00:22:13,600 The lake. 468 00:22:14,090 --> 00:22:15,730 What, if anything, did you see there? 469 00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:18,540 That gentleman seated right there. 470 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:22,440 He jumped out of a rowboat and walked by me in a big rush. 471 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,910 There were a lot of people in Central Park that day. 472 00:22:25,970 --> 00:22:28,750 How sure are you it was the defendant? 473 00:22:28,810 --> 00:22:31,750 There weren't any other people jumping out of rowboats and running. 474 00:22:32,140 --> 00:22:35,390 And I saw his picture in the paper. There's no doubt in my mind. 475 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,120 That's the same guy. 476 00:22:37,580 --> 00:22:39,190 Nothing further. 477 00:22:41,050 --> 00:22:43,930 Your witness is lying I questioned him after he was collared, 478 00:22:43,990 --> 00:22:46,700 he swore up and down he never went past the zoo. 479 00:22:47,020 --> 00:22:48,440 Maybe he was lying then. 480 00:22:48,490 --> 00:22:51,530 Maybe he was, maybe he lies whenever it's in his interest to lie. 481 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,470 What's he getting for testifying? 482 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,040 Time served. 483 00:22:55,630 --> 00:22:57,740 A full year off his prison sentence. 484 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,250 JACK: Even if he told the truth on the stand, 485 00:23:02,310 --> 00:23:05,750 the Defense is entitled to full disclosure of his statement to Briscoe. 486 00:23:05,810 --> 00:23:09,280 Which means his credibility is shot along with ours. 487 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,180 How did this happen? 488 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,130 There was nothing in his statement that said the zoo 489 00:23:13,180 --> 00:23:15,030 was the only place in the park he went. 490 00:23:15,450 --> 00:23:17,130 On the face of it, there was no contradiction. 491 00:23:17,190 --> 00:23:20,140 Obviously we were happy to have eyewitness testimony. 492 00:23:20,590 --> 00:23:22,160 Oh, this is going to get ugly. 493 00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:23,230 Yes, it is. 494 00:23:24,260 --> 00:23:26,330 They're going to come after us for everything. 495 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,880 Cops outside the park who just stood there, 496 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,850 city failing to act, me not doing my job, all of it. 497 00:23:35,110 --> 00:23:36,680 I should've talked to Briscoe. 498 00:23:37,010 --> 00:23:39,350 I shouldn't have relied solely on the statement he gave me. 499 00:23:39,410 --> 00:23:41,820 We need to find out where Morales really was 500 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,020 and what, if anything, he actually saw. 501 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,750 How do we do that? 502 00:23:46,950 --> 00:23:48,900 Stick him in a room with Briscoe and Green. 503 00:23:50,650 --> 00:23:52,960 That's the trouble with lying, Kiki. 504 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:56,270 You have to remember to tell the same lies to the same people. 505 00:23:56,330 --> 00:23:57,810 Look, I don't do time so good, all right? 506 00:23:57,860 --> 00:23:59,360 I got a sick mother, I got asthma. 507 00:23:59,430 --> 00:24:01,240 You should think about your sick mother and your asthma 508 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:02,640 before you go on your next crime spree. 509 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:04,480 I get loaded, I don't think about nothing. 510 00:24:04,570 --> 00:24:06,950 Yeah? Well, think about this. 511 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,710 You just added perjury to your list of felonies. 512 00:24:09,770 --> 00:24:12,250 No, no, no, no. I didn't do no perjury by saying I saw the guy. 513 00:24:12,310 --> 00:24:14,050 ED: By saying you saw him by the lake. 514 00:24:14,110 --> 00:24:15,250 I did see him by the lake. 515 00:24:15,310 --> 00:24:17,620 So you perjured yourself by saying you didn't go past the zoo. 516 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:18,720 That wasn't on the stand. 517 00:24:18,780 --> 00:24:21,660 We're going to prove that you lied on the stand, Kiki. 518 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,030 And you know what that means? 519 00:24:23,090 --> 00:24:25,070 Five more years at Green Haven. 520 00:24:29,430 --> 00:24:30,930 What if I told you guys the truth? 521 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:32,400 BRISCOE: Yeah, what if you do? 522 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,800 Would it help? 523 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:35,240 It couldn't hurt. 524 00:24:38,170 --> 00:24:40,910 All right. A bunch of us were down at the lake, right? 525 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:42,110 We saw the girl in the boat. 526 00:24:42,170 --> 00:24:43,520 You know, we started throwing things at her. 527 00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:46,250 She got upset, rowed to shore and said something. 528 00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:49,220 Then this guy, Nestor, jumped in the boat with her and they got into it. 529 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,250 Problem is, Kiki, that you're completely useless as a witness now. 530 00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:56,690 The jury isn't going to trust you to give them directions to the men's room. 531 00:24:57,250 --> 00:24:58,460 I think you're wrong about that, man. 532 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,870 'Cause I can be totally sincere when I got to be. 533 00:25:00,930 --> 00:25:02,840 BRISCOE: Now, who else saw Nestor in the boat? 534 00:25:03,430 --> 00:25:04,670 A bunch of us saw him. 535 00:25:04,860 --> 00:25:07,140 Anybody who isn't currently doing time? 536 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,240 There is one guy. 537 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,450 The Puerto Rican Day Parade in June, 538 00:25:14,510 --> 00:25:15,980 you remember what you were doing? 539 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,450 I was there. I watched it. 540 00:25:17,510 --> 00:25:18,990 I hung out for awhile and went home. 541 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,780 Let me try to save us some time here, David. 542 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,520 Look, you're in no real strong position to be playing cat and mouse. 543 00:25:23,580 --> 00:25:25,420 We have somebody that has you at the park, 544 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,120 by the lake, witnessing a woman been beat to death. 545 00:25:28,190 --> 00:25:29,600 I stopped him from beating her. 546 00:25:29,650 --> 00:25:31,660 So you knew the one on trial is innocent? 547 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,600 I figured with his money, he'd get off. 548 00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:35,260 Yeah. I'm sure the D.A.'s office 549 00:25:35,330 --> 00:25:37,470 isn't going to connect you up as an accessory. 550 00:25:37,530 --> 00:25:40,630 I mean, the fact that you were in the boat and that you didn't come forward, 551 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:42,700 none of that's going to be a problem for you, huh? 552 00:25:42,770 --> 00:25:45,370 I've never so much as been arrested. I have two kids. 553 00:25:45,470 --> 00:25:47,640 I have a job. What are you doing to me? 554 00:25:47,710 --> 00:25:49,550 Look here, man, we're ready to send you to prison. 555 00:25:49,610 --> 00:25:52,450 The only thing you got working in your favor is the D.A.'s in a bad spot. 556 00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:56,220 Now, they might be inclined to cut you some slack, if they believe you. 557 00:25:56,750 --> 00:25:58,620 Any way you can help yourself here? 558 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,190 There's this woman who might be able to ID Nestor. 559 00:26:03,490 --> 00:26:04,900 They'll believe her. 560 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,760 Why are you asking me this now? 561 00:26:07,830 --> 00:26:10,810 Well, we've received some information that leads us to believe 562 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:13,070 that we arrested the wrong guy. 563 00:26:13,130 --> 00:26:15,200 Except now it's been a while. 564 00:26:15,270 --> 00:26:16,470 If you're not sure, you're not sure. 565 00:26:16,530 --> 00:26:18,280 We're not trying to talk you into anything. 566 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,680 I told David I didn't want to be doing nothing like this. 567 00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:22,810 I was pissed off, 568 00:26:22,870 --> 00:26:24,780 but I didn't want to get involved in the whole thing like this. 569 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,020 All we want you to do is take a look at a photo array 570 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,420 and tell us if you see the guy. 571 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,220 If you don't, you don't. 572 00:26:39,490 --> 00:26:40,490 Him. 573 00:26:49,230 --> 00:26:50,230 Nestor. 574 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,670 What do you guys want? 575 00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:56,450 We want to arrest you, we just don't want to do it in front of all these people. 576 00:26:56,510 --> 00:26:58,110 Arrest me for what? Murder. 577 00:27:04,750 --> 00:27:07,250 I stood right here in this office and I asked you, 578 00:27:07,450 --> 00:27:09,260 "Are you certain you have the right guy?" 579 00:27:09,350 --> 00:27:10,350 You told me you did. 580 00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:13,370 At the time, everything pointed to Seth Teitel as the killer. 581 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:14,860 So, 582 00:27:15,460 --> 00:27:17,060 I went to the mayor and I told him 583 00:27:17,130 --> 00:27:20,070 that he should go to the leadership of the Hispanic community. 584 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,700 Assure them that no one from their constituency was being targeted. 585 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:25,900 No one has been targeted. 586 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,210 He gave them his word, Nora. 587 00:27:28,340 --> 00:27:29,940 What do you want us to do, Donny? 588 00:27:30,010 --> 00:27:33,480 Ignore evidence of this defendant's guilt because we made a mistake? 589 00:27:33,610 --> 00:27:35,650 We could have demonstrations. 590 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,890 Even worse. 591 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,820 This administration had the political high ground on this one 592 00:27:42,090 --> 00:27:44,360 and your people just pissed it away. 593 00:27:44,490 --> 00:27:47,490 Tell the mayor I'd be happy to meet with anybody he thinks would be beneficial. 594 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,090 It's not going to be that easy. 595 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,000 These are bridges we've tried to build with the minority communities, 596 00:27:52,060 --> 00:27:53,510 they're not too sturdy. 597 00:27:54,130 --> 00:27:56,610 So it's going to be damn near impossible to mend them now. 598 00:27:56,670 --> 00:27:59,480 What if you attack my decision to prosecute in the press? 599 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:01,780 That would put you back on dry land. 600 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,650 And what would be your response? 601 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:06,290 No response. Turn the other cheek. 602 00:28:06,340 --> 00:28:10,090 And I assume you'll have someone reach out to this dotcom guy? 603 00:28:10,510 --> 00:28:12,760 Express our sincere apologies? 604 00:28:12,820 --> 00:28:14,490 I did apologize. 605 00:28:15,050 --> 00:28:16,330 And it was sincere. 606 00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:21,130 No one is looking for any scalps, Nora. 607 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,160 You understand. 608 00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:24,840 I do, completely. 609 00:28:27,630 --> 00:28:29,040 Mr. McCoy. 610 00:28:31,340 --> 00:28:32,840 That was fun. 611 00:28:34,610 --> 00:28:36,550 Good to know they're consistent. 612 00:28:36,870 --> 00:28:39,880 I'm sorry about the political capital I just cost you. 613 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,220 There's no need to apologize to me. 614 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,120 I do need a conviction. 615 00:28:45,950 --> 00:28:47,290 What are the chances of that? 616 00:28:47,350 --> 00:28:50,700 The Defense is making noises about this kid's IQ. 617 00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:52,190 Anything to it? 618 00:28:52,490 --> 00:28:53,900 From the video tape? 619 00:28:55,230 --> 00:28:57,640 He was smart enough to enjoy the parade. 620 00:28:57,860 --> 00:28:59,860 Let's make sure the jury sees it. 621 00:29:08,470 --> 00:29:10,150 JUDGE: State your objections, Counselor. 622 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,350 My objection is that the tape is prejudicial rather than probative. 623 00:29:13,410 --> 00:29:16,050 It's inflammatory and has nothing to do with the crime charged. 624 00:29:16,110 --> 00:29:18,890 We'd argue the tape establishes the presence of the defendant 625 00:29:18,950 --> 00:29:20,020 in Central Park at the time of... 626 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,500 A fact already stipulated into the record. 627 00:29:21,550 --> 00:29:25,230 But more importantly, it establishes a sequence of events related 628 00:29:25,290 --> 00:29:28,830 in cause and effect to the eventual murder of Susan Capp. 629 00:29:28,890 --> 00:29:32,000 I know that's what Mr. McCoy wants to convey to the jury, 630 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:33,340 but I would argue strenuously that 631 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,240 the laws of evidence don't permit him to do that. 632 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:38,870 Well, the events on the tape are sufficiently related to the crime charged. 633 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,810 The tape comes in. 634 00:29:45,610 --> 00:29:48,520 What were you doing on Sunday, June 11th, Mr. Stenopolis? 635 00:29:48,580 --> 00:29:51,860 I like to videotape things, events around the city and whatnot. 636 00:29:52,350 --> 00:29:54,230 Sometimes you see famous people like, 637 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,600 like last week I videotaped Steve Martin walking down Madison Avenue. 638 00:29:58,890 --> 00:30:02,230 And sometimes it's just pretty girls like you see in New York every day. 639 00:30:02,490 --> 00:30:04,700 Were you in Central Park with your video camera 640 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,430 following the Puerto Rican Day Parade? 641 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:07,570 Yes, I was. 642 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,940 Was the tape we're about to see made in that location on that date? 643 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,410 Yes, it was. 644 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:14,180 The Defense renews its objection 645 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:15,480 to the showing of this tape, Your Honor. 646 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:16,810 Objection overruled. 647 00:30:17,740 --> 00:30:18,950 Mr. McCoy? 648 00:30:20,310 --> 00:30:21,910 (PEOPLE CLAMORING) 649 00:30:21,980 --> 00:30:23,550 (WOMEN EXCLAIMING) 650 00:30:35,990 --> 00:30:38,000 I would draw the jury's attention 651 00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:40,870 to the individual in the right center of the frame 652 00:30:40,930 --> 00:30:43,540 and ask that he be identified as the defendant. 653 00:30:46,270 --> 00:30:47,510 JACK: Miss Guzman, 654 00:30:48,670 --> 00:30:51,590 what happened to you while you were walking through the park? 655 00:30:54,650 --> 00:30:56,920 I was passing a group of men. 656 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,150 They said something. 657 00:30:59,620 --> 00:31:00,920 I ignored them. 658 00:31:01,950 --> 00:31:03,690 Then one of them grabbed me. 659 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,530 Another one splashed me with water. 660 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:12,070 Then they surrounded me. 661 00:31:12,630 --> 00:31:14,700 Tearing at my clothes. 662 00:31:15,130 --> 00:31:16,700 Groping me. 663 00:31:18,270 --> 00:31:19,270 Then... 664 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,410 One of them put his hands on my breast. 665 00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:25,310 And his tongue in my ear. 666 00:31:27,910 --> 00:31:29,250 That was nice. 667 00:31:30,150 --> 00:31:31,650 What did you do? 668 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,660 I tried to fight them off with my fists, I kicked at them, whatever I could do. 669 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:38,800 Do you see any of those individuals in this courtroom? 670 00:31:40,290 --> 00:31:41,360 Him. 671 00:31:41,430 --> 00:31:45,700 Let the record show that the witness identified the defendant, Nestor Salazar. 672 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:47,240 JUDGE: So ordered. 673 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,100 Where were you in the park when this attack occurred? 674 00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:52,540 Near the lake with the rowboats. 675 00:31:54,910 --> 00:31:56,540 Nothing further. 676 00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:01,680 What specifically did Mr. Salazar do to you, Miss Guzman? 677 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,730 He was one of the group that attacked me. 678 00:32:04,780 --> 00:32:05,780 Uh-huh. 679 00:32:06,450 --> 00:32:08,120 Listen carefully to the question. 680 00:32:08,450 --> 00:32:12,760 What specifically did Mr. Salazar do to you? 681 00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:15,990 He was there. 682 00:32:17,330 --> 00:32:18,530 I'm not sure what he did. 683 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,670 Did you see Mr. Salazar attack Susan Capp? 684 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:25,440 No, but I saw him running down to the lake. 685 00:32:25,540 --> 00:32:31,350 But did you, at anytime, see Mr. Salazar with Susan Capp? 686 00:32:35,010 --> 00:32:37,220 No, I didn't. 687 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,460 Thank you. No further questions. 688 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,930 I knew Nestor and the rest of these guys from the projects. 689 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:52,130 And Nestor's Brazilian. 690 00:32:52,630 --> 00:32:54,340 Sometimes I think he tried too hard 691 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,000 to prove that he was down with the neighborhood. 692 00:32:57,770 --> 00:32:59,540 He wanted to fit in. 693 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,110 When I saw him and these other guys spraying the girls with water, 694 00:33:04,410 --> 00:33:07,650 I went over to them and tried to chill them out a little bit. 695 00:33:07,710 --> 00:33:10,160 They showed me enough respect that they stopped. 696 00:33:11,010 --> 00:33:13,090 Was that the last time you saw them that day? 697 00:33:13,420 --> 00:33:16,160 I had my kids with me. I was buying them ice cream. 698 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,360 One of the guys with Nestor came running over to me 699 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:21,400 and said Nestor was flipping out. 700 00:33:21,930 --> 00:33:26,000 I went over and saw him in a rowboat banging this women's head against the side. 701 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:27,970 JACK: What did you do? 702 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:29,780 I ran into the lake, 703 00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:32,070 climbed on the boat and pulled him off her. 704 00:33:33,170 --> 00:33:34,950 I didn't know how bad she was hurt 705 00:33:35,010 --> 00:33:37,710 and I didn't know she was going to fall in the water and drown. 706 00:33:37,910 --> 00:33:39,820 You know, I needed to get Nestor out of there. 707 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,060 I needed to look after my kids. 708 00:33:42,310 --> 00:33:44,380 With all the craziness in the park. 709 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,520 I never got back. 710 00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:53,230 Counselor. 711 00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:56,900 (EXHALES) My client wants a deal. 712 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,030 What's he offering? 713 00:33:58,100 --> 00:33:59,440 To plead to negligent homicide. 714 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:00,670 You're dreaming. 715 00:34:00,730 --> 00:34:02,010 He's willing to do time. 716 00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:04,340 Negligent homicide won't get him more than a year. 717 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,410 And how much time do you think he deserves? 718 00:34:06,770 --> 00:34:09,550 What? We're charging him with man two, that ought to give you some idea. 719 00:34:09,910 --> 00:34:13,480 You guys finally got the defendant you wanted, didn't you, huh? 720 00:34:13,580 --> 00:34:16,650 Even though the kid's not Puerto Rican, he looks like he could be Puerto Rican. 721 00:34:16,710 --> 00:34:18,950 I mean, Brazil is still Latin America, right? 722 00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:22,090 So, as long as he's Latino, 723 00:34:22,150 --> 00:34:24,390 you got exactly the right kind of head on your stick. 724 00:34:24,450 --> 00:34:27,920 I don't care what kind of head I have on a stick. 725 00:34:28,230 --> 00:34:30,930 All I care about is, did he do the crime? 726 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,160 Yeah, right. 727 00:34:35,700 --> 00:34:37,040 My brother's a follower. 728 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:40,240 He gets together with his so-called friends, he does what they do. 729 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,880 Have you known your brother to be violent before? 730 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,580 Never. Have you known your brother 731 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,780 to be abusive or threatening towards women before? 732 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,290 My brother respected women. He grew up in a house with strong women. 733 00:34:50,350 --> 00:34:52,050 He would not have gotten away for a second 734 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,650 if he did anything but respect women. 735 00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:56,930 That's true for his mother, his aunts, his cousins. 736 00:34:57,150 --> 00:35:00,330 And how about women other than the women in his family? 737 00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:04,130 Nestor didn't start going out with girls till he was 17 years old. 738 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,600 He was real shy. 739 00:35:06,730 --> 00:35:10,180 My girlfriends would come over and he would be too embarrassed to speak. 740 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:12,500 Finally he started going out with this girl and it was 741 00:35:12,570 --> 00:35:14,380 the sweetest thing you ever saw. 742 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,850 He'd open doors for her, hold hands with her. 743 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,850 I remember once coming into the room hearing 744 00:35:19,910 --> 00:35:22,720 his friends laughing at him because he hadn't nailed her. 745 00:35:23,310 --> 00:35:25,090 He shrugged, took the abuse. 746 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,860 All he said was they were waiting. 747 00:35:30,950 --> 00:35:33,460 I don't understand what's happening in that courtroom. 748 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,500 JACK: The Defense is presenting its case. 749 00:35:35,590 --> 00:35:37,330 Well, I know that. 750 00:35:37,530 --> 00:35:40,170 But they seem to be making this Hispanic kid the victim. 751 00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:41,970 Like we should all feel sorry for him 752 00:35:42,030 --> 00:35:46,480 because maybe some of his buddies made too much fun of him when he was young. 753 00:35:46,540 --> 00:35:50,540 It's not an unusual tactic for a defendant to play to the sympathy of a jury. 754 00:35:50,610 --> 00:35:53,050 JACK: Especially with the testimony of a family member. 755 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:55,210 And what about sympathy for our daughter? 756 00:35:56,380 --> 00:35:59,020 When do we get a chance to tell them who she was? 757 00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:01,690 The system doesn't work that way. 758 00:36:01,750 --> 00:36:03,460 Well, it damn well ought to. 759 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,260 Before they write her off, 760 00:36:08,860 --> 00:36:10,930 they got to know how special she was. 761 00:36:11,930 --> 00:36:15,380 We had to have a closed coffin. Her face was so... 762 00:36:18,870 --> 00:36:20,820 If who our daughter was 763 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,910 truly isn't relevant in that courtroom, 764 00:36:23,970 --> 00:36:25,920 then make that jury see 765 00:36:25,980 --> 00:36:28,320 that it wasn't just Susan who was attacked that day. 766 00:36:29,150 --> 00:36:30,720 It was their daughters, too. 767 00:36:31,350 --> 00:36:33,790 Their sisters, mothers. 768 00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:36,960 Maybe they'll care about that. 769 00:36:41,090 --> 00:36:44,540 All day these guys had been riding me about not joinin' in. 770 00:36:44,730 --> 00:36:47,270 I hung back when they were robbing the vendors. 771 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400 I hung back when they were getting the girls wet with water bottles. 772 00:36:50,470 --> 00:36:53,000 If your friends were doing these things, why weren't you? 773 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,680 I didn't feel right. 774 00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:57,650 I knew my friends didn't necessarily mean to hurt anybody, 775 00:36:57,710 --> 00:36:59,950 they were just getting caught up in things. 776 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,090 But I didn't feel right. 777 00:37:04,450 --> 00:37:06,150 When you got to the lake, what happened? 778 00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:09,830 Like I said, all day they had been riding me, so 779 00:37:09,890 --> 00:37:12,060 when I saw this girl on a rowboat, 780 00:37:12,290 --> 00:37:15,200 I figured I'd make like a pirate and show my friends 781 00:37:15,930 --> 00:37:17,200 I could do stuff, too. 782 00:37:17,390 --> 00:37:18,460 And what did you do? 783 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:20,530 I jumped into the rowboat. 784 00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:22,370 I tried to splash the girl to get her wet 785 00:37:22,430 --> 00:37:24,710 like my friends did with those other girls. 786 00:37:24,770 --> 00:37:27,680 I tried to get her wet so her body would show through her clothes 787 00:37:27,740 --> 00:37:29,580 like my friends did with the other girls, 788 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,250 but then she stood up and slapped me in the face. 789 00:37:32,540 --> 00:37:35,550 And she was big and strong and... 790 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,520 I didn't realize that when I jumped into the boat 791 00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:40,260 and the next thing I knew, 792 00:37:40,380 --> 00:37:43,730 my friends were watching me get beat up by this girl. 793 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,490 So I grabbed her 794 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:49,870 and I banged her head back, back and back. 795 00:37:51,330 --> 00:37:54,740 The next thing I knew, someone was pulling me off of her 796 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,940 and she jumped off the boat into the water. 797 00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:02,510 When you went into that boat, Nestor, 798 00:38:02,910 --> 00:38:04,410 did you mean to hurt her? 799 00:38:05,140 --> 00:38:06,140 No. 800 00:38:06,210 --> 00:38:10,250 Did there come a point on the boat when you thought she was going to hurt you? 801 00:38:10,910 --> 00:38:11,980 Yes. 802 00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:15,650 Did it ever occur to you that what you were doing would bring about her death? 803 00:38:15,790 --> 00:38:17,290 No. God, no. 804 00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:23,070 Your witness. 805 00:38:24,030 --> 00:38:27,840 Are you familiar with the New York City subway system, Mr. Salazar? 806 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,070 Yeah. 807 00:38:29,470 --> 00:38:33,920 Did you know how to get home from Central Park on your own? 808 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:35,810 Yes. 809 00:38:35,870 --> 00:38:37,980 Then I wonder why it didn't occur to you, 810 00:38:38,070 --> 00:38:40,990 when your friends were doing what they were doing, to leave? 811 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:44,160 We came together, I figured we'd leave together. 812 00:38:44,410 --> 00:38:45,420 So, 813 00:38:46,650 --> 00:38:49,150 even though you were uncomfortable, so you say, 814 00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:53,260 with your friends robbing vendors and attacking women, 815 00:38:53,420 --> 00:38:55,300 you decided to stick around 816 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,340 because that was less uncomfortable for you than leaving? 817 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,570 I know now that I should've left. 818 00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:02,200 But if you'd left, you wouldn't have been able 819 00:39:02,270 --> 00:39:04,180 to show your friends how tough you are. 820 00:39:04,230 --> 00:39:06,240 Objection, Your Honor. Argumentative. 821 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:07,650 Sustained. 822 00:39:09,740 --> 00:39:11,650 How many times 823 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:16,790 did you bang Susan Capp's head against the side of the boat, Mr. Salazar? 824 00:39:19,380 --> 00:39:20,880 I don't know. 825 00:39:21,050 --> 00:39:22,430 More than once? 826 00:39:24,390 --> 00:39:26,530 Yes. More than twice? 827 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:27,820 Yes. 828 00:39:28,390 --> 00:39:29,870 More than 10 times? 829 00:39:29,930 --> 00:39:30,930 No. 830 00:39:31,690 --> 00:39:33,540 Because someone pulled you off. 831 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:35,400 I didn't know what I was doing. 832 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:39,500 You just knew that you wanted to do it in front of your friends. 833 00:39:43,110 --> 00:39:45,420 I have no further questions. 834 00:39:55,550 --> 00:39:58,330 The events following the Puerto Rican Day Parade 835 00:39:58,390 --> 00:40:00,300 shocked and horrified us. 836 00:40:00,890 --> 00:40:05,130 We watched young men engage in brutal and bestial behavior. 837 00:40:05,860 --> 00:40:08,500 And we felt, correctly, that they must be punished. 838 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,800 We in the Puerto Rican community felt this no less than anyone else. 839 00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:15,780 We felt a particular sense of revulsion and dread 840 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,080 because we knew it would be held against all Puerto Ricans. 841 00:40:19,380 --> 00:40:21,880 We knew that our parade 842 00:40:21,950 --> 00:40:24,980 a joyful expression of our culture and our pride, 843 00:40:25,050 --> 00:40:28,620 would forever be linked to events that had nothing to do with it. 844 00:40:28,750 --> 00:40:31,390 Now, the Prosecution has worked very hard to establish a link 845 00:40:31,450 --> 00:40:34,900 between those events and the crime for which the defendant is charged. 846 00:40:35,830 --> 00:40:40,500 They would only be too happy to turn your shock and your horror into a blind reflex 847 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,100 of vengeance directed at the defendant. 848 00:40:44,330 --> 00:40:46,340 And I'm going to be quite honest with you. 849 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:48,680 That's a very hard thing to resist. 850 00:40:49,110 --> 00:40:52,920 But it's also the very essence of your responsibility as jurors to do so. 851 00:40:54,740 --> 00:41:00,290 There is no question that this young man did something very wrong that day. 852 00:41:01,150 --> 00:41:05,330 This woman's death is a tragedy and it must be answered for. 853 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,000 But it was not manslaughter. 854 00:41:08,930 --> 00:41:15,000 Nestor Salazar acted foolishly and impulsively and negligently. 855 00:41:15,470 --> 00:41:18,110 But he did not commit manslaughter. 856 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,410 And your sworn oath requires that you find him not guilty of that. 857 00:41:29,950 --> 00:41:33,830 The Defense would like you to see Nestor Salazar as a follower, a hanger on. 858 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:39,930 A timid, polite boy who was compelled to commit this horrible crime 859 00:41:39,990 --> 00:41:42,700 by the stronger personalities of his friends. 860 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,870 They were the ones robbing the vendors and sexually assaulting the women, 861 00:41:46,930 --> 00:41:51,640 egging him on to commit an act of violence wholly uncharacteristic of him. 862 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:53,370 And accidental in nature. 863 00:41:53,470 --> 00:41:58,180 Well, there's no question that what we saw in the park that day 864 00:41:58,410 --> 00:42:00,820 was the behavior of a mob. 865 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,620 Not an Hispanic mob. Not a Puerto Rican mob. 866 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:07,620 Just a mob. 867 00:42:07,750 --> 00:42:12,030 With all the false bravado and anonymity that it provides. 868 00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:14,660 But a mob is made up of people. 869 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,060 And we hold people responsible 870 00:42:18,130 --> 00:42:21,170 for the consequences of their actions. 871 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:24,670 The consequence of the defendant's action 872 00:42:24,870 --> 00:42:27,310 is that a woman is dead. 873 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:29,510 We can dispense with the discussion 874 00:42:29,570 --> 00:42:33,250 of who in this group was less of a bad person or more of a bad person. 875 00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:37,020 We can focus, we must focus, on what was done. 876 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,720 On what he did. 877 00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:43,830 What happened that Sunday afternoon in Central Park in June, 878 00:42:44,550 --> 00:42:47,030 was the suspension of civilization. 879 00:42:48,090 --> 00:42:51,300 This is when civilization gets restored. 880 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,940 This is how it gets restored. 881 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,740 Find him guilty of manslaughter. 882 00:43:10,610 --> 00:43:12,060 Has the jury reached a verdict? 883 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,120 WOMAN: We have, Your Honor. What say you? 884 00:43:14,180 --> 00:43:17,720 We find the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. 885 00:43:18,190 --> 00:43:19,190 (GAVEL BANGS) 886 00:43:36,310 --> 00:43:38,790 Her parents are heading back to Boston tonight. 887 00:43:39,180 --> 00:43:42,590 I promised them we'd make arrangements to fly them down for sentencing. 888 00:43:43,650 --> 00:43:45,680 I'm surprised they're willing to come back. 889 00:43:45,980 --> 00:43:48,860 We started off with a white guy, put a Brazilian behind bars 890 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,690 for what happened at the Puerto Rican Day Parade. 891 00:43:50,750 --> 00:43:53,170 New York City, the melting pot.