1 00:00:06,270 --> 00:00:08,002 In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:08,072 --> 00:00:11,945 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:12,015 --> 00:00:13,807 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:13,887 --> 00:00:16,619 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:16,789 --> 00:00:18,261 These are their stories. 6 00:00:19,822 --> 00:00:21,193 So I'm finished? 7 00:00:21,263 --> 00:00:24,796 Yeah. Four weeks. That's it for the radiation. 8 00:00:25,507 --> 00:00:26,568 Great. 9 00:00:27,038 --> 00:00:29,270 I can scratch that off my bucket list. 10 00:00:30,882 --> 00:00:33,044 I like your hemoglobin levels. 11 00:00:33,114 --> 00:00:34,645 They're better than last time. 12 00:00:34,725 --> 00:00:35,716 How are you feeling? 13 00:00:36,156 --> 00:00:41,661 Well, okay, considering. So, what happens next? 14 00:00:41,932 --> 00:00:43,333 We measure the tumor. 15 00:00:43,403 --> 00:00:46,305 In three months we measure it again to see if it's shrunk, 16 00:00:46,776 --> 00:00:47,837 and then we'll know. 17 00:00:49,048 --> 00:00:50,349 Know what? 18 00:00:54,823 --> 00:00:55,924 Three slices. 19 00:00:56,494 --> 00:00:58,486 From the fresh pie, Mustafa. 20 00:00:58,566 --> 00:01:00,538 Thank you, Sammy. I was just going to ask. 21 00:01:00,608 --> 00:01:01,829 For my favorite police lady. 22 00:01:01,909 --> 00:01:03,501 You don't need to ask. 23 00:01:03,581 --> 00:01:04,872 Thanks. 24 00:01:06,183 --> 00:01:09,346 So I told her, I'm not ready to be exclusive. 25 00:01:09,416 --> 00:01:10,407 Uh-huh. 26 00:01:10,487 --> 00:01:11,788 I mean, what's this uniform for? 27 00:01:11,858 --> 00:01:14,891 Hey, who's got Sector Eddie today? 28 00:01:14,961 --> 00:01:16,492 I don't know. Ramos and Colson? 29 00:01:17,303 --> 00:01:18,774 Ah, let's stop for a slice. 30 00:01:19,104 --> 00:01:21,136 If they're out to meal, we should be covering their sector. 31 00:01:22,147 --> 00:01:23,408 So we'll get 'em to go. 32 00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:27,812 We responded to a 13 from 911. 33 00:01:27,892 --> 00:01:29,414 We were the first ones on the scene. 34 00:01:29,494 --> 00:01:30,755 I saw her breathing. 35 00:01:30,825 --> 00:01:32,697 I know her. Rebecca. 36 00:01:33,197 --> 00:01:34,288 Witnesses? 37 00:01:34,368 --> 00:01:37,170 They say some guy came in and just started shooting, then ran out. 38 00:01:37,241 --> 00:01:38,642 Shooting only cops? 39 00:01:39,112 --> 00:01:40,704 I know her, too. 40 00:01:40,784 --> 00:01:42,976 I saw her at the coffee machine this morning. 41 00:01:43,386 --> 00:01:44,947 They're all from our house. 42 00:01:49,692 --> 00:01:50,823 All right. 43 00:01:50,903 --> 00:01:52,164 What do we have here? 44 00:01:52,734 --> 00:01:55,106 Four cops shot, three DOA. 45 00:01:55,307 --> 00:01:56,498 Then you'd better get to work. 46 00:01:56,578 --> 00:01:58,940 Captain, a guy around the corner, 10 minutes ago, 47 00:01:59,010 --> 00:02:01,312 left his BMW running while he went inside a bodega. 48 00:02:01,382 --> 00:02:02,443 Somebody stole it. 49 00:02:02,523 --> 00:02:03,814 You have the details? 50 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:06,416 All right, let's get this over the air. 51 00:02:06,496 --> 00:02:09,729 Which direction? Was the car? From here? 52 00:02:09,799 --> 00:02:10,890 North. 53 00:02:11,601 --> 00:02:13,332 He has two little girls. 54 00:02:17,086 --> 00:02:19,138 We're going to get this guy, Captain. 55 00:02:19,618 --> 00:02:22,110 My precinct. My cops. 56 00:02:23,161 --> 00:02:25,894 Our precinct. Our cops. 57 00:03:25,647 --> 00:03:28,549 Captain, there's nothing for your people to do here. 58 00:03:28,619 --> 00:03:30,351 Except get in your way? 59 00:03:30,421 --> 00:03:32,282 I'll update you every hour. 60 00:03:32,352 --> 00:03:33,654 Every half-hour. 61 00:03:35,125 --> 00:03:38,328 He was a black guy. Uh, clean shaven. 62 00:03:38,538 --> 00:03:40,129 I think he maybe had a mustache. 63 00:03:40,269 --> 00:03:41,260 Did he say anything? 64 00:03:41,340 --> 00:03:43,242 No. He just walked in 65 00:03:43,312 --> 00:03:45,074 and he took out the gun. 66 00:03:45,144 --> 00:03:47,176 I asked him what he wanted to eat 67 00:03:47,256 --> 00:03:48,417 before I saw the gun. 68 00:03:48,487 --> 00:03:52,080 And then, bang! Bang! Bang! Ten times, 20 times. 69 00:03:52,430 --> 00:03:54,092 And he ran north? You're sure about that? 70 00:03:54,162 --> 00:03:56,194 Yeah, he went there, past the barber shop. 71 00:03:56,264 --> 00:03:57,755 Okay, and what was he wearing? 72 00:03:57,835 --> 00:04:02,179 He had on blue jeans, and a puffy winter jacket. Blue. 73 00:04:02,249 --> 00:04:04,241 It was black and a wool cap. 74 00:04:05,782 --> 00:04:08,414 Only one of the officers got off any shots. The female. 75 00:04:08,494 --> 00:04:09,826 The shooter used a.45. 76 00:04:09,896 --> 00:04:11,627 His casings are all over the place. 77 00:04:12,298 --> 00:04:14,700 You find her slugs? The nines? 78 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,002 Oh, they could be anywhere. She was shot twice. 79 00:04:17,072 --> 00:04:18,503 If she kept firing as she fell... 80 00:04:18,944 --> 00:04:20,245 Hey, B. Hmm? 81 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:22,076 Patrol just located the stolen BMW. 82 00:04:22,147 --> 00:04:23,207 Thanks. 83 00:04:25,189 --> 00:04:26,991 It's around the corner, parked halfway down the block. 84 00:04:27,061 --> 00:04:28,492 We saw it and just kept driving, 85 00:04:28,562 --> 00:04:29,993 didn't want to tip the guy if he's still around. 86 00:04:30,064 --> 00:04:31,155 Good. 87 00:04:36,239 --> 00:04:38,681 Some big buildings over there. Could be 500 apartments. 88 00:04:38,751 --> 00:04:39,742 He could be anywhere. 89 00:04:39,812 --> 00:04:41,113 ESU is on the way. 90 00:04:41,384 --> 00:04:43,445 Okay, so we check out the car, we find his prints, 91 00:04:43,525 --> 00:04:44,957 maybe see if he's bleeding. 92 00:04:45,027 --> 00:04:47,859 Or we just sit and watch it till he comes back. 93 00:04:47,929 --> 00:04:50,061 Sit here forever if he ditched it and ran. 94 00:04:53,174 --> 00:04:54,665 I'm going to check it out. 95 00:04:55,116 --> 00:04:56,277 Lupes! 96 00:05:27,104 --> 00:05:29,376 Police. Don't breathe. Drop it! 97 00:05:36,693 --> 00:05:37,884 Lupo. 98 00:05:39,565 --> 00:05:40,756 Lupo! 99 00:05:49,043 --> 00:05:50,945 I didn't kill no cops. You think I'm crazy? 100 00:05:51,015 --> 00:05:53,988 Yeah, but you did five years for felony gun possession and resisting arrest. 101 00:05:54,789 --> 00:05:56,380 You don't like cops, do you? 102 00:05:58,832 --> 00:06:00,163 Where'd you ditch the weapon? 103 00:06:00,233 --> 00:06:02,105 You want to talk about a stolen car, we'll talk. 104 00:06:02,175 --> 00:06:03,797 The rest of this is just wrong place, wrong time. 105 00:06:03,877 --> 00:06:05,278 You got that right. 106 00:06:06,509 --> 00:06:07,670 We're ready. 107 00:06:13,855 --> 00:06:15,727 What is this? A firing squad? 108 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,403 Get him into the lineup, and show Mr. Kaplan where to wait. 109 00:06:27,888 --> 00:06:30,290 Captain, I know your people are concerned. 110 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,692 But we don't need them up here right now. 111 00:06:32,932 --> 00:06:34,904 This is Officer Colson's widow. 112 00:06:35,334 --> 00:06:36,966 Where do you need for her to be? 113 00:06:37,036 --> 00:06:40,169 Is that the man? Did he kill my husband? 114 00:06:40,239 --> 00:06:43,582 We're not sure, Mrs. Colson. I'm so sorry. 115 00:06:44,222 --> 00:06:46,845 Please, why don't you wait in my office? 116 00:06:47,185 --> 00:06:48,526 This way. 117 00:06:53,370 --> 00:06:56,343 I... I don't think so. I don't see him. 118 00:06:56,403 --> 00:06:58,175 You can take as long as you like. 119 00:06:58,245 --> 00:06:59,336 He said he doesn't see him. 120 00:06:59,416 --> 00:07:01,678 He can take as long as he likes. 121 00:07:02,819 --> 00:07:05,851 Maybe you can ask my nephew, maybe he remembers different. 122 00:07:11,306 --> 00:07:12,527 It isn't him. 123 00:07:14,039 --> 00:07:16,311 I thought I'd feel better if it was, 124 00:07:16,381 --> 00:07:19,043 but it wouldn't have made any difference, would it? 125 00:07:19,113 --> 00:07:20,414 Probably not. 126 00:07:22,126 --> 00:07:24,988 Mrs. Colson, the whole department is here 127 00:07:25,058 --> 00:07:27,621 to support you in any way that we can. 128 00:07:27,701 --> 00:07:28,792 The department? 129 00:07:28,872 --> 00:07:31,604 I think it's done enough. 130 00:07:32,675 --> 00:07:35,738 My husband gave 90% of himself to the job, 131 00:07:35,818 --> 00:07:38,110 and the department took the other 10. 132 00:07:39,591 --> 00:07:42,614 That was supposed to be our part... My part. 133 00:07:43,625 --> 00:07:48,369 Yes, well, the job does have a way of taking over. 134 00:07:50,541 --> 00:07:52,012 I have two little girls. 135 00:07:52,313 --> 00:07:54,615 Amy is two. Jesse's five. 136 00:07:55,786 --> 00:07:57,978 How much will she remember her father? 137 00:07:58,058 --> 00:07:59,789 He'll just be this... 138 00:08:00,230 --> 00:08:03,362 This fuzzy image... 139 00:08:19,927 --> 00:08:22,329 The counterman couldn't make an ID either. 140 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:24,431 Plus, he was negative for gunshot residue. 141 00:08:24,511 --> 00:08:25,562 Square one. 142 00:08:25,642 --> 00:08:27,634 You've got to give me something to take downstairs. 143 00:08:27,714 --> 00:08:29,846 I'm turning out 45 officers tonight 144 00:08:29,916 --> 00:08:32,388 and some psychopath is stalking cops. 145 00:08:32,458 --> 00:08:34,480 We don't know that. You don't know what? 146 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:35,791 That it's random. 147 00:08:35,861 --> 00:08:37,853 What, you think he chose these four on purpose? 148 00:08:37,933 --> 00:08:39,524 Well, maybe not all of them. 149 00:08:39,604 --> 00:08:42,227 Maybe one or two, and the others just happened to be there. 150 00:08:42,307 --> 00:08:43,668 What, someone they arrested? 151 00:08:43,738 --> 00:08:45,039 Crossed paths with on the job? 152 00:08:45,109 --> 00:08:46,170 Or something personal. 153 00:08:46,951 --> 00:08:49,683 So, you're going to dig through four cops' personal lives 154 00:08:49,753 --> 00:08:50,944 looking for garbage? 155 00:08:51,025 --> 00:08:53,327 Four victims. That's what we do. 156 00:08:53,397 --> 00:08:56,059 They were all excellent officers. 157 00:08:56,499 --> 00:08:57,490 Clean records. 158 00:08:57,570 --> 00:09:00,873 Rebecca Ramos and Fred Colson were go-getters. 159 00:09:01,314 --> 00:09:03,906 They had more collars than anyone else in the precinct. 160 00:09:03,976 --> 00:09:06,708 What about the other two, Oren and Garber? 161 00:09:07,089 --> 00:09:09,351 Middle of the pack by the numbers, but good cops. 162 00:09:09,421 --> 00:09:10,752 Did everything by the book. 163 00:09:10,822 --> 00:09:11,883 Not everything. 164 00:09:11,963 --> 00:09:14,555 They should have been covering Ramos and Colson's sector, 165 00:09:14,635 --> 00:09:15,696 not eating with them. 166 00:09:15,766 --> 00:09:17,708 What do you think that was about? 167 00:09:17,778 --> 00:09:19,870 Oren was a bit of a ladies man. 168 00:09:19,940 --> 00:09:23,343 And Officer Ramos is a lady. A pretty one, too. 169 00:09:23,413 --> 00:09:25,415 And he would have been wasting his time. 170 00:09:25,485 --> 00:09:28,217 She's married, and she doesn't mess around. 171 00:09:28,298 --> 00:09:30,199 She wasn't wearing a ring when she was shot. 172 00:09:30,259 --> 00:09:33,322 So other than her dead partner, who knows her best? 173 00:09:34,843 --> 00:09:38,537 It just came over the radio Rebecca died. Officer Ramos. 174 00:09:38,617 --> 00:09:39,778 We're very sorry. 175 00:09:39,848 --> 00:09:42,280 So they're all dead, all four? 176 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,452 Yeah, we understand she was a friend of yours. 177 00:09:44,522 --> 00:09:47,014 We were in the same company at the Academy. 178 00:09:47,465 --> 00:09:49,486 She lived for the job. 179 00:09:49,837 --> 00:09:53,100 All she wanted was one of those. To be a detective. 180 00:09:53,170 --> 00:09:55,372 Yeah, that could be tough on a marriage. 181 00:09:55,442 --> 00:09:56,703 How was hers doing? 182 00:09:57,243 --> 00:09:58,544 It wasn't easy. 183 00:09:58,815 --> 00:10:00,376 Her husband moved them up to Suffolk County 184 00:10:00,456 --> 00:10:04,420 when he got a job there, so she had a two-hour commute each way to work. 185 00:10:05,030 --> 00:10:08,123 She started staying at her sister's in Queens in between shifts. 186 00:10:08,773 --> 00:10:10,435 She said her husband didn't get it. 187 00:10:10,505 --> 00:10:13,478 He even accused her of having an affair. He... 188 00:10:13,548 --> 00:10:16,040 You don't think that had something to do with it? 189 00:10:16,921 --> 00:10:18,182 What do you think? 190 00:10:18,652 --> 00:10:20,954 I met him once. He seemed like a good guy. 191 00:10:21,325 --> 00:10:23,316 And when they took her to the hospital today, 192 00:10:23,396 --> 00:10:25,158 I went right over. He was there. 193 00:10:25,768 --> 00:10:26,959 He seemed so upset. 194 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,972 He... He was there right after she was shot? 195 00:10:30,172 --> 00:10:31,944 It's a two-hour commute each way. 196 00:10:32,014 --> 00:10:33,075 Hmm. 197 00:10:36,288 --> 00:10:38,119 Becky's sister's with her parents. 198 00:10:38,189 --> 00:10:40,892 I'm staying with her while the funeral gets worked out. 199 00:10:41,232 --> 00:10:43,824 It's a whole thing, you know, a cop funeral. 200 00:10:43,905 --> 00:10:48,609 Yeah. You and the family, you're all getting along? 201 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:50,951 Yeah. Sure. 202 00:10:53,083 --> 00:10:56,285 We hear that you and your wife were having problems. 203 00:10:57,056 --> 00:10:58,828 So you're talking to me? 204 00:10:59,328 --> 00:11:01,270 Not looking for the maniac who killed her? 205 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:03,462 You mind telling us why you were in town today? 206 00:11:04,403 --> 00:11:06,244 Buying some supplies for my boss. 207 00:11:06,314 --> 00:11:08,646 Your boss, he's going to vouch for that? 208 00:11:16,233 --> 00:11:17,284 Okay. 209 00:11:18,005 --> 00:11:19,496 Becky and I 210 00:11:20,167 --> 00:11:21,538 were having problems. 211 00:11:22,238 --> 00:11:25,842 I came down last night because I thought maybe she was having an affair. 212 00:11:26,182 --> 00:11:28,484 To confront her? To spy on her. 213 00:11:29,555 --> 00:11:31,216 I should have just talked to her. 214 00:11:32,828 --> 00:11:34,019 What did you see? 215 00:11:34,830 --> 00:11:36,821 Her and her partner, after their shift last night, 216 00:11:36,901 --> 00:11:37,922 they went to a bar. 217 00:11:38,002 --> 00:11:39,203 Her partner who was killed with her, 218 00:11:39,274 --> 00:11:40,905 that's who you thought she was having an affair with? 219 00:11:40,975 --> 00:11:44,078 Yeah, but after the bar, they split up, went their separate ways. 220 00:11:44,648 --> 00:11:45,639 Hmm. 221 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:48,221 I took pictures. 222 00:11:50,063 --> 00:11:51,184 Show us. 223 00:12:00,743 --> 00:12:01,844 See, that's them. 224 00:12:02,454 --> 00:12:04,005 They arrived in separate cars. 225 00:12:05,327 --> 00:12:06,347 Mmm. 226 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:11,402 You know who this is? 227 00:12:11,472 --> 00:12:12,523 No. Why? 228 00:12:15,175 --> 00:12:17,147 Puffy jacket, knit cap. 229 00:12:18,048 --> 00:12:19,479 Is that the guy who shot them? 230 00:12:21,121 --> 00:12:24,784 They knew him? They knew the guy who killed them? 231 00:12:30,439 --> 00:12:32,431 They've been in a few times. Together? 232 00:12:32,511 --> 00:12:34,502 Yeah. Well, these two are cops. 233 00:12:34,572 --> 00:12:36,174 I mean, you probably knew that though, huh? 234 00:12:36,244 --> 00:12:37,545 Yeah. How'd you know it? 235 00:12:37,615 --> 00:12:40,348 I caught this lowlife snorting coke in the men's room last month. 236 00:12:40,418 --> 00:12:42,149 Told him I was going to call the cops. 237 00:12:42,229 --> 00:12:44,822 He said don't bother, his friends were cops. 238 00:12:45,032 --> 00:12:46,093 They showed me their badges, 239 00:12:46,163 --> 00:12:47,264 and said they'd take care of it. 240 00:12:47,334 --> 00:12:49,466 You happen to catch that lowlife's name? 241 00:12:49,536 --> 00:12:51,407 No. Why don't you ask them? 242 00:12:52,408 --> 00:12:53,609 Because they're dead. 243 00:12:55,181 --> 00:12:56,512 The ones from today? 244 00:12:56,922 --> 00:12:58,153 Did he kill them? 245 00:12:58,223 --> 00:13:00,215 Uh, what happened the last time they were in here? 246 00:13:00,495 --> 00:13:02,968 They talked, and it got pretty intense. 247 00:13:03,428 --> 00:13:05,700 I mean, this guy, he looked really upset. 248 00:13:06,601 --> 00:13:07,732 All right. Thank you. 249 00:13:08,713 --> 00:13:11,775 Witnesses from the pizzeria picked him out of an array. 250 00:13:11,845 --> 00:13:12,936 He's the shooter. 251 00:13:13,017 --> 00:13:16,149 CSU dusted the booth he sat at with Ramos and Colson for prints. 252 00:13:16,219 --> 00:13:19,562 Our luck, we get the one bar in Queens that actually cleans its tables. 253 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:21,094 So he got upset about something, 254 00:13:21,164 --> 00:13:23,105 he tracked Ramos and Colson down the next day, 255 00:13:23,165 --> 00:13:25,868 the other two had the bad luck to be there. 256 00:13:25,978 --> 00:13:29,811 They were meeting on a regular basis with a lowlife drug user. 257 00:13:29,881 --> 00:13:32,824 Their captain said they were making more collars than anyone else. 258 00:13:32,884 --> 00:13:33,915 Drug busts. 259 00:13:33,985 --> 00:13:35,516 This guy was their informant. 260 00:13:35,597 --> 00:13:37,618 Neither one of them registered a CI. 261 00:13:37,698 --> 00:13:40,961 Because uniforms aren't supposed to be running that kind of operation. 262 00:13:41,031 --> 00:13:43,303 Maybe these two were ambitious, they were bucking for detective. 263 00:13:43,373 --> 00:13:44,845 Yeah, with his help. 264 00:13:44,915 --> 00:13:47,177 Talk to the perps Ramos and Colson busted. 265 00:13:47,247 --> 00:13:49,219 Maybe they know who snitched on them. 266 00:13:51,991 --> 00:13:53,983 I don't know him. Who is he? 267 00:13:54,063 --> 00:13:56,725 He's the guy who ratted you out to the cops who busted you. 268 00:13:57,035 --> 00:13:58,367 Wish I can help. 269 00:13:58,837 --> 00:14:01,429 You were busted holding 50 grams of crack. 270 00:14:03,011 --> 00:14:04,102 Who knew you had that much weight? 271 00:14:04,182 --> 00:14:07,154 Excuse me, but my client is pleading not guilty. 272 00:14:07,385 --> 00:14:08,446 What crack? 273 00:14:08,526 --> 00:14:10,517 He can earn himself a walk here, Counselor. 274 00:14:11,358 --> 00:14:12,589 We need this guy. 275 00:14:14,161 --> 00:14:15,832 Guy named High-Top knew. 276 00:14:16,403 --> 00:14:18,264 I was supposed to meet him in Garvey Park. 277 00:14:18,745 --> 00:14:19,866 He didn't show. 278 00:14:19,946 --> 00:14:22,738 All of a sudden, boom, two cops. 279 00:14:23,749 --> 00:14:26,011 I was doing nothing but feeding pigeons. 280 00:14:26,922 --> 00:14:29,154 I'm sorry. Somebody steered you wrong. 281 00:14:30,365 --> 00:14:31,456 You're looking a little shaky. 282 00:14:32,267 --> 00:14:34,168 You all right, High-Top? 283 00:14:34,969 --> 00:14:36,440 It's Charles. Yeah. 284 00:14:36,811 --> 00:14:38,973 I just don't need cops hassling me, okay? 285 00:14:39,043 --> 00:14:40,774 You should be shaky, Charles. 286 00:14:40,844 --> 00:14:42,476 'Cause your dealer, who got busted, 287 00:14:42,556 --> 00:14:44,818 the one sitting in Rikers, he blames you for putting him there. 288 00:14:45,458 --> 00:14:47,260 Me? Why? 289 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:48,861 You knew where he was. 290 00:14:48,931 --> 00:14:50,163 You were supposed to meet him, 291 00:14:50,233 --> 00:14:51,794 but cops showed up instead. 292 00:14:52,104 --> 00:14:53,626 I didn't rat out anybody. So... 293 00:14:53,706 --> 00:14:54,767 Maybe a friend of yours then. 294 00:14:54,837 --> 00:14:57,509 Maybe somebody who knew what you were doing that day. 295 00:14:58,210 --> 00:14:59,201 How about this guy? 296 00:15:06,327 --> 00:15:10,270 Yes, that son of a bitch's name is Calvin Stokes. 297 00:15:10,571 --> 00:15:12,002 So you recognize him now? 298 00:15:12,072 --> 00:15:13,233 Yes. 299 00:15:13,313 --> 00:15:14,644 Maybe sitting right there? 300 00:15:14,714 --> 00:15:15,705 Yeah. 301 00:15:15,785 --> 00:15:17,407 Looks like dried blood. 302 00:15:17,487 --> 00:15:19,348 Well, he said he got bit by a dog. 303 00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:22,791 He shot four cops, and one of them shot him. Did you hear about that? 304 00:15:24,893 --> 00:15:26,194 I didn't know he did that. 305 00:15:26,264 --> 00:15:28,206 Where'd he go when he left here? Huh? 306 00:15:28,707 --> 00:15:29,728 I don't know. 307 00:15:29,808 --> 00:15:31,239 I... I told him he needed to get to a hospital. 308 00:15:31,309 --> 00:15:33,301 He told me he knew somebody that could help him. 309 00:15:33,381 --> 00:15:34,372 Who? 310 00:15:35,783 --> 00:15:36,984 I don't know, man. 311 00:15:37,484 --> 00:15:38,585 Seriously, 312 00:15:38,655 --> 00:15:40,988 the guy was chewing on a bunch of Vicodin, okay? 313 00:15:41,058 --> 00:15:42,689 I could barely understand what he was saying. 314 00:15:42,769 --> 00:15:44,731 Where'd he get the pills? From you? 315 00:15:44,801 --> 00:15:46,172 No. Definitely not. 316 00:15:46,242 --> 00:15:47,934 He's always got pills on him. 317 00:15:48,004 --> 00:15:50,846 He's Mr. Pill, you know? 318 00:15:51,177 --> 00:15:53,479 I mean, he's always got a prescription bottle. 319 00:15:53,549 --> 00:15:55,650 I saw the label once. It was some, uh... 320 00:15:56,521 --> 00:15:59,654 Chick doctor, funny name, you know? 321 00:15:59,734 --> 00:16:01,195 Like Hooter. 322 00:16:02,336 --> 00:16:05,329 Or Nancy Hooter, or Kooter or something. 323 00:16:06,310 --> 00:16:07,301 Easy does it. 324 00:16:07,781 --> 00:16:08,772 What? Get up. 325 00:16:08,852 --> 00:16:11,374 Oh, come on. You're busting me? Why? 326 00:16:11,454 --> 00:16:13,116 Hindering prosecution. 327 00:16:13,526 --> 00:16:15,488 I just helped you guys. I gave you Hooter, didn't I? 328 00:16:15,558 --> 00:16:18,000 For taking in your friend after he shot four cops. 329 00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:20,232 You know what? They'll explain it to you at Rikers. 330 00:16:21,974 --> 00:16:22,995 Who is he? 331 00:16:23,075 --> 00:16:25,407 Apparently, someone you've been prescribing Vicodin to. 332 00:16:25,477 --> 00:16:28,379 Calvin Stokes? Uh, I don't know him, okay? 333 00:16:28,450 --> 00:16:30,822 Now, I've got a root canal in that room that's about to wake up. 334 00:16:30,892 --> 00:16:32,793 Who else has access to your prescription pad? 335 00:16:33,194 --> 00:16:36,286 I don't know, uh, my staff, but I trust them. 336 00:16:36,367 --> 00:16:38,498 Is all your staff here today? 337 00:16:38,568 --> 00:16:41,201 Yeah, everyone except my office manager, Dolores. 338 00:16:41,271 --> 00:16:42,432 She called in sick today. 339 00:16:42,782 --> 00:16:44,404 - Dolores what? - Martin. 340 00:16:45,915 --> 00:16:47,717 Oh, it used to be something else. 341 00:16:48,157 --> 00:16:50,219 Did you say his name was Stokes? 342 00:16:50,289 --> 00:16:51,350 That might have been it. 343 00:16:51,430 --> 00:16:52,661 So this could be her husband? 344 00:16:53,402 --> 00:16:55,423 Dolores is 60. 345 00:17:12,168 --> 00:17:14,690 No movement. No sign of the suspect or Mrs. Martin. 346 00:17:14,771 --> 00:17:16,032 Are your guys ready to go in? 347 00:17:17,743 --> 00:17:19,265 Woman approaching from the south. 348 00:17:22,287 --> 00:17:23,308 Dolores Martin? 349 00:17:23,658 --> 00:17:24,679 Yes. 350 00:17:24,759 --> 00:17:27,352 Police, ma'am. We need to talk to you about your son. 351 00:17:27,892 --> 00:17:29,624 I don't know where he is. 352 00:17:29,704 --> 00:17:31,535 Okay, what's in the bag, Mrs. Martin? 353 00:17:31,866 --> 00:17:33,807 Just some things from the drugstore. 354 00:17:33,877 --> 00:17:35,069 Uh, may I? 355 00:17:37,351 --> 00:17:39,322 Bandages, sutures, antibiotics... 356 00:17:40,053 --> 00:17:41,574 He's in the house, isn't he? 357 00:17:42,055 --> 00:17:43,926 He killed four police officers yesterday. 358 00:17:43,996 --> 00:17:45,228 We're going to take him in. 359 00:17:45,298 --> 00:17:47,389 Now you can help us, or we'll go in shooting. 360 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,473 No. No. He didn't mean to hurt anybody. 361 00:17:51,543 --> 00:17:52,664 Where is he? 362 00:17:54,746 --> 00:17:57,879 His old room, upstairs in the back. 363 00:17:57,949 --> 00:17:59,680 Give me your keys. Let's go. 364 00:18:01,722 --> 00:18:02,753 Go. 365 00:18:20,999 --> 00:18:24,092 Stokes! Move your hands away from your body! 366 00:18:36,293 --> 00:18:37,354 He's alive. 367 00:18:37,924 --> 00:18:39,486 Get the EMTs up here now. 368 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,942 Get the EMTs up here. Now! 369 00:19:00,274 --> 00:19:01,735 How you feeling, Stokes? 370 00:19:02,606 --> 00:19:04,097 I'm okay. 371 00:19:04,247 --> 00:19:05,809 That's as far as this interview goes. 372 00:19:05,879 --> 00:19:08,852 Yeah, maybe he wants to talk about the four officers he shot. 373 00:19:08,922 --> 00:19:10,583 I've strongly advised him against saying anything. 374 00:19:10,653 --> 00:19:13,145 That's his advice, but it's a free country. 375 00:19:14,066 --> 00:19:15,497 You have anything on your mind? 376 00:19:15,567 --> 00:19:16,929 Maybe you were mad at something 377 00:19:16,999 --> 00:19:18,160 and you want to tell us about it? 378 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,331 I'm doing what he says. 379 00:19:19,411 --> 00:19:21,843 Yeah? Did he tell you Detective Bernard here saved your life? 380 00:19:22,514 --> 00:19:23,605 Did he mention that? 381 00:19:23,685 --> 00:19:25,807 He'll send you a thank-you note. We're done. 382 00:19:31,492 --> 00:19:32,983 Be sure to be vigilant now. 383 00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:40,209 Calvin Stokes, 25, convicted of attempted murder when he was 16. 384 00:19:40,510 --> 00:19:43,612 His sentence was 20 years, but it was commuted after three. 385 00:19:43,752 --> 00:19:47,195 Since then he's been back in prison twice, drugs and assault. 386 00:19:47,456 --> 00:19:50,859 We had this guy behind bars three times and kept letting him go? 387 00:19:50,929 --> 00:19:52,090 Not anymore. 388 00:19:52,170 --> 00:19:55,543 He didn't get bail, and the evidence to convict is rock solid. 389 00:19:55,773 --> 00:19:58,936 Eyewitnesses, Stokes' gun is the murder weapon, 390 00:19:59,016 --> 00:20:02,279 and the bullet in his shoulder came from Officer Ramos' weapon. 391 00:20:02,489 --> 00:20:04,421 Four counts of first-degree murder. 392 00:20:04,491 --> 00:20:06,392 Four terms of life without parole. 393 00:20:06,663 --> 00:20:07,824 Why stop there? 394 00:20:07,894 --> 00:20:09,595 Let the U.S. Attorney take the case. 395 00:20:09,665 --> 00:20:11,607 The federal government has a death penalty. 396 00:20:11,667 --> 00:20:14,109 We don't go forum shopping for harsher penalties. 397 00:20:14,179 --> 00:20:15,731 We follow the laws of New York here. 398 00:20:15,811 --> 00:20:18,974 The New York legislature passed a death penalty law. 399 00:20:19,054 --> 00:20:20,525 It was a court that voided it. 400 00:20:20,585 --> 00:20:22,146 A New York court. 401 00:20:22,226 --> 00:20:23,888 This is all premature. 402 00:20:23,958 --> 00:20:27,831 Do we know why this man Stokes opened fire on four police officers? 403 00:20:27,902 --> 00:20:30,394 With all due respect, who cares? 404 00:20:30,644 --> 00:20:33,166 I do. And you should, too, 405 00:20:33,847 --> 00:20:35,318 if you want to make a federal case of this. 406 00:20:35,378 --> 00:20:37,220 The murder of police officers 407 00:20:37,290 --> 00:20:39,582 isn't a federal crime in itself. 408 00:20:39,992 --> 00:20:43,525 Only if it's committed in certain specified circumstances. 409 00:20:43,896 --> 00:20:46,568 Was it a terrorist conspiracy? 410 00:20:46,968 --> 00:20:49,771 A kidnapping? A continuing criminal enterprise? 411 00:20:50,181 --> 00:20:51,302 We'll find out. 412 00:20:58,459 --> 00:20:59,690 How'd it go? 413 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,863 I'm not sure your lieutenant shares our attitude toward cop killers. 414 00:21:03,933 --> 00:21:06,336 Well, cop killers we all feel the same about. 415 00:21:06,406 --> 00:21:08,137 Playing God, I'm not so sure. 416 00:21:08,447 --> 00:21:11,640 I know you've been sick, Lieutenant, and I'm sorry about that. 417 00:21:12,851 --> 00:21:15,223 But, uh, maybe it's affecting your judgment. 418 00:21:15,794 --> 00:21:18,156 I certainly hope so. 419 00:21:20,768 --> 00:21:23,431 I hope you two are not done with your investigation. 420 00:21:28,315 --> 00:21:30,907 Looks like you may be facing a lynch mob in the courtroom. 421 00:21:30,987 --> 00:21:32,048 Can you blame them? 422 00:21:32,118 --> 00:21:33,960 Maybe we should hand the case to the Feds. 423 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,092 The U.S. Attorney would lap this up. 424 00:21:36,262 --> 00:21:38,094 The U.S. Attorney would execute his own mother 425 00:21:38,164 --> 00:21:39,635 to show what a hard-ass he is. 426 00:21:39,705 --> 00:21:42,438 Right. Kill everybody. It's not like we ever make mistakes. 427 00:21:42,508 --> 00:21:43,839 Stokes is guilty. 428 00:21:44,750 --> 00:21:46,741 If anyone deserves to die, he does. 429 00:21:48,052 --> 00:21:49,784 I've witnessed one execution. 430 00:21:50,725 --> 00:21:52,526 I don't ever need to see another. 431 00:21:53,798 --> 00:21:55,229 What else do we know about Stokes? 432 00:21:55,299 --> 00:21:57,831 His attempted murder sentence was commuted 433 00:21:57,901 --> 00:22:00,003 at the recommendation of Mary Markson, 434 00:22:00,073 --> 00:22:01,514 when she was State Attorney General. 435 00:22:01,574 --> 00:22:03,546 And she's running for Senate now. 436 00:22:04,217 --> 00:22:06,118 This is going to bite her in the ass. 437 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,581 She must have had a reason. 438 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:14,696 I can't tell you how sorry I am 439 00:22:14,766 --> 00:22:16,137 about how all this turned out. 440 00:22:16,277 --> 00:22:17,569 I can only imagine. 441 00:22:18,910 --> 00:22:21,442 You know, Stokes was arrested twice 442 00:22:21,512 --> 00:22:23,684 after I got his sentence commuted. 443 00:22:24,124 --> 00:22:25,245 I know. 444 00:22:25,325 --> 00:22:26,727 Both times he got the minimum. 445 00:22:26,797 --> 00:22:27,988 For felonies. 446 00:22:28,058 --> 00:22:30,190 Those judges made the same mistake I did. 447 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:33,132 Mary, nobody's saying you could have foreseen this. 448 00:22:33,202 --> 00:22:34,193 Nobody? 449 00:22:34,744 --> 00:22:36,866 Have you listened to talk radio lately? 450 00:22:39,988 --> 00:22:43,011 Based on the information I had, I made the right decision. 451 00:22:43,091 --> 00:22:44,392 He was 16. 452 00:22:44,462 --> 00:22:47,255 He had been provoked. He was repentant. 453 00:22:47,565 --> 00:22:50,097 His mother wrote me a beautiful letter. 454 00:22:50,538 --> 00:22:53,300 We practice justice. Mercy is supposed to be part of it. 455 00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:55,772 Not anymore, Jack. 456 00:22:56,453 --> 00:22:57,714 Not after this. 457 00:23:00,757 --> 00:23:03,689 You know, it was his mother who was sheltering him when he got caught. 458 00:23:05,361 --> 00:23:06,832 They were very close. 459 00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:10,335 That is one of the reasons that I thought that he would be okay. 460 00:23:11,606 --> 00:23:14,739 If you want to know what he was thinking, talk to her. 461 00:23:17,051 --> 00:23:19,714 High-Top isn't much of a housekeeper, is he? 462 00:23:19,794 --> 00:23:22,726 Well, you know, the single crackhead lifestyle. 463 00:23:26,109 --> 00:23:27,601 What a load of garbage... 464 00:23:30,783 --> 00:23:31,834 Or not. 465 00:23:36,989 --> 00:23:38,360 "Mr. Pill." 466 00:23:39,831 --> 00:23:41,022 Check this out. 467 00:23:44,235 --> 00:23:47,038 He's a good son. He's always been good to me. 468 00:23:47,108 --> 00:23:49,510 Well, that's not the issue right now, Mrs. Martin. 469 00:23:49,850 --> 00:23:51,111 It is for a mother. 470 00:23:51,181 --> 00:23:54,124 Your good son killed four police officers. 471 00:23:54,755 --> 00:23:57,027 Somebody else's good sons and daughter. 472 00:23:58,428 --> 00:24:01,100 I don't know. Something must have happened. 473 00:24:01,170 --> 00:24:03,763 Well, we think so, too. We just want to find out what. 474 00:24:03,843 --> 00:24:06,315 Mrs. Martin, when you took your son in, 475 00:24:06,385 --> 00:24:07,606 you committed a crime, 476 00:24:07,686 --> 00:24:10,048 and it's still possible that you will be charged. 477 00:24:10,318 --> 00:24:12,951 He's my child. Don't you understand? 478 00:24:13,691 --> 00:24:14,722 Do you have children? 479 00:24:14,792 --> 00:24:15,853 Excuse us. 480 00:24:15,933 --> 00:24:17,054 Dolores Martin, you're under arrest. 481 00:24:17,134 --> 00:24:18,566 What... What are you... What are you doing? 482 00:24:18,636 --> 00:24:21,108 Hindering prosecution is our call, and we haven't made it yet. 483 00:24:21,178 --> 00:24:22,399 Oh, well, take your time. 484 00:24:22,479 --> 00:24:24,841 'Cause right now, she's under arrest for dealing drugs. 485 00:24:24,911 --> 00:24:25,942 Let's go. 486 00:24:29,996 --> 00:24:32,088 We're supposed to be on the same team here. 487 00:24:32,158 --> 00:24:33,719 We're on the team that wants to make sure 488 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:35,431 a cop killer gets what's coming to him. 489 00:24:35,501 --> 00:24:36,902 You think we want to give him a parade? 490 00:24:36,972 --> 00:24:38,633 We're going by the book. 491 00:24:38,704 --> 00:24:41,006 We conducted a search of the suspect's friend's apartment. 492 00:24:41,076 --> 00:24:43,478 High-Top, the guy who took him in after the murders. 493 00:24:43,548 --> 00:24:45,209 And we found these. 494 00:24:45,289 --> 00:24:46,380 Prescription pads. 495 00:24:46,460 --> 00:24:48,512 From the oral surgeon that Mrs. Martin works for. 496 00:24:48,592 --> 00:24:52,536 Made out for Vicodin, Oxycontin, and all kinds of goodies. 497 00:24:52,596 --> 00:24:55,729 So we arrested Mrs. Martin for criminal diversion of prescription medications. 498 00:24:55,809 --> 00:24:57,440 Well, how about consulting us first? 499 00:24:57,510 --> 00:24:59,532 We don't need an A.D.A.'s permission to do our job. 500 00:24:59,612 --> 00:25:01,914 You're trying to establish some kind of criminal enterprise 501 00:25:01,984 --> 00:25:03,956 to make this qualify as a federal case. 502 00:25:04,026 --> 00:25:05,928 Well, if that's where the chips fall. 503 00:25:07,329 --> 00:25:10,422 We have no idea how these pads got into that apartment, 504 00:25:10,502 --> 00:25:11,693 and neither do you. 505 00:25:12,173 --> 00:25:15,236 Go ask this High-Top. And do it together. 506 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,340 They ain't mine. 507 00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:22,082 Well, they were found in your apartment. 508 00:25:22,152 --> 00:25:24,884 That puts you in possession. Another felony. 509 00:25:25,765 --> 00:25:28,428 Or you could tell us about your friend, Stokes. 510 00:25:28,738 --> 00:25:29,729 They're his. 511 00:25:30,309 --> 00:25:31,400 He stashed them at my place, 512 00:25:31,470 --> 00:25:32,912 along with some of the pills he got with them. 513 00:25:32,982 --> 00:25:34,373 Where did he get those pads? 514 00:25:34,443 --> 00:25:35,474 I don't know. 515 00:25:35,844 --> 00:25:37,075 He called me a couple of days ago, 516 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:38,206 before those cops were shot. 517 00:25:38,286 --> 00:25:39,307 He told me to get rid of them. 518 00:25:39,688 --> 00:25:40,849 Them and the pills? 519 00:25:40,929 --> 00:25:43,901 No, not the pills, just the pads. He said, "Burn them." 520 00:25:43,961 --> 00:25:45,192 I told him I would. 521 00:25:45,262 --> 00:25:46,934 But, I mean, come on, you know? 522 00:25:47,004 --> 00:25:48,595 They're worth something, I figured... 523 00:25:48,676 --> 00:25:50,577 He never mentioned his mother to you? 524 00:25:51,248 --> 00:25:53,680 His mother? Why? 525 00:25:55,081 --> 00:25:56,072 That doesn't incriminate the mother. 526 00:25:56,152 --> 00:25:58,424 How do you think he got those pads without her, positive thinking? 527 00:25:58,494 --> 00:25:59,555 The connection is obvious. 528 00:25:59,625 --> 00:26:02,398 So Stokes tells his pal to destroy the pads, but not the pills 529 00:26:02,468 --> 00:26:03,699 because the connection was obvious. 530 00:26:03,769 --> 00:26:04,860 Yeah, to protect his mother. 531 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:05,931 From whom? 532 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:07,973 Well, Ramos and her partner wanted to make detective. 533 00:26:08,043 --> 00:26:10,535 They had an informant, but he was bringing them little fish. 534 00:26:10,615 --> 00:26:12,547 And if they wanted to go after something bigger, 535 00:26:12,617 --> 00:26:13,918 but Stokes wouldn't play along. 536 00:26:13,988 --> 00:26:15,509 Right. What's his pressure point? 537 00:26:16,991 --> 00:26:18,392 You know what? You guys are fun, 538 00:26:18,462 --> 00:26:20,454 but I think I should talk to her alone. 539 00:26:23,576 --> 00:26:25,908 They haven't even let me see my son. 540 00:26:25,979 --> 00:26:27,910 I'll see what I can do, Mrs. Martin, 541 00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:30,783 but I know that you were right about your son. 542 00:26:31,123 --> 00:26:32,584 You do? Mmm-hmm. 543 00:26:32,995 --> 00:26:34,186 Even in this situation, 544 00:26:34,526 --> 00:26:36,118 he was trying to protect you. 545 00:26:37,269 --> 00:26:40,672 Just like you have always protected him. 546 00:26:42,503 --> 00:26:45,065 We know you took those prescription pads. 547 00:26:45,776 --> 00:26:48,879 But you did it because he needed the medication, right? 548 00:26:49,820 --> 00:26:51,982 He was trying to stop being a drug addict. 549 00:26:52,292 --> 00:26:55,094 It was very painful, the withdrawal. 550 00:26:55,635 --> 00:26:57,536 He just needed some pain pills to help. 551 00:26:57,937 --> 00:27:00,129 He didn't want to be in that world anymore, did he? 552 00:27:00,209 --> 00:27:01,400 No, he didn't. 553 00:27:01,910 --> 00:27:04,673 Which is why he was helping those police officers, 554 00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:07,085 helping them arrest drug dealers. 555 00:27:07,155 --> 00:27:08,146 That's right. 556 00:27:08,556 --> 00:27:10,078 He wanted to change his life. 557 00:27:10,628 --> 00:27:13,260 He wanted to be a good citizen. 558 00:27:14,772 --> 00:27:16,263 What did they want him to do? 559 00:27:17,504 --> 00:27:19,496 To go after dangerous people. 560 00:27:19,706 --> 00:27:21,197 He could have been hurt. 561 00:27:21,277 --> 00:27:23,840 So, he said no. And what did they say? 562 00:27:26,052 --> 00:27:27,543 That they'd send him to jail? 563 00:27:30,466 --> 00:27:32,527 That they'd send you to jail? 564 00:27:34,769 --> 00:27:36,141 They saw those pads. 565 00:27:36,781 --> 00:27:37,802 They said I was guilty. 566 00:27:37,882 --> 00:27:42,076 And they made him choose to risk his life or they'd arrest me. 567 00:27:42,586 --> 00:27:44,578 He wouldn't let anyone do that to me. 568 00:27:45,459 --> 00:27:49,232 It was a terrible, terrible situation. 569 00:27:50,003 --> 00:27:52,025 They forced him into it. 570 00:27:52,535 --> 00:27:53,936 Anything he did, 571 00:27:54,747 --> 00:27:56,839 he did it to protect his mother. 572 00:27:59,281 --> 00:28:00,953 You informed the PD? 573 00:28:01,793 --> 00:28:03,555 We're all on the same team, right? 574 00:28:04,796 --> 00:28:08,459 If Stokes killed those cops to protect his mother from a drug charge, 575 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,503 the murders were part of a continuing criminal enterprise, 576 00:28:12,573 --> 00:28:15,105 which makes him eligible for the federal death penalty. 577 00:28:15,515 --> 00:28:18,008 Exactly what the U.S. Attorney says. 578 00:28:18,618 --> 00:28:23,062 He just filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum. 579 00:28:23,132 --> 00:28:25,935 He wants to take over the prisoner and the prosecution. 580 00:28:26,005 --> 00:28:28,237 The police didn't waste any time running over there. 581 00:28:28,307 --> 00:28:30,038 It wasn't the police. 582 00:28:30,649 --> 00:28:31,870 Somebody beat them to it. 583 00:28:31,950 --> 00:28:33,141 Mary Markson. 584 00:28:33,221 --> 00:28:37,175 She filed a supporting brief saying the state has consistently mishandled 585 00:28:37,255 --> 00:28:38,696 its prosecutions of Mr. Stokes, 586 00:28:38,756 --> 00:28:43,030 only the federal government can be trusted to do it right. 587 00:28:43,801 --> 00:28:45,272 Mishandled by whom? 588 00:28:45,342 --> 00:28:47,534 It was her recommendation that freed him. 589 00:28:47,614 --> 00:28:48,665 Five years ago. 590 00:28:48,745 --> 00:28:52,478 Now she's running for Senate, she's trying to make up for that by killing him. 591 00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,882 Politics and the death penalty, 592 00:28:57,763 --> 00:28:59,284 my favorite combination. 593 00:29:03,008 --> 00:29:06,841 Your Honor, on three occasions the state of New York 594 00:29:06,911 --> 00:29:10,314 had the opportunity to deal properly with Calvin Stokes, 595 00:29:10,384 --> 00:29:12,686 and every time, they failed to do so 596 00:29:12,756 --> 00:29:15,629 with the tragic consequences of which we're all aware of. 597 00:29:15,699 --> 00:29:17,630 I'm sorry, Your Honor, 598 00:29:17,701 --> 00:29:21,534 but what standing does Ms. Markson have to address this hearing? 599 00:29:21,604 --> 00:29:23,906 She doesn't represent the United States government. 600 00:29:23,976 --> 00:29:26,448 Her brief is crucial to our application, Your Honor. 601 00:29:26,518 --> 00:29:28,510 We wanted to make Ms. Markson available for questions. 602 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:30,051 You may proceed, Ms. Markson. 603 00:29:30,692 --> 00:29:34,926 I personally made one of New York's three mistakes 604 00:29:34,996 --> 00:29:36,057 with Mr. Stokes. 605 00:29:36,497 --> 00:29:38,799 As a former attorney general, it pains me to say it, 606 00:29:38,869 --> 00:29:42,472 but New York does not deserve another bite of this apple. 607 00:29:42,543 --> 00:29:45,215 Well, we're sorry if Ms. Markson feels bad, 608 00:29:45,285 --> 00:29:47,717 but current state officials don't share her doubts 609 00:29:47,787 --> 00:29:50,420 about New York's capacity to try a murderer. 610 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:52,161 We do it every day. 611 00:29:52,231 --> 00:29:55,034 And the ones whose sentences Ms. Markson doesn't commute 612 00:29:55,104 --> 00:29:56,165 stay in prison. 613 00:29:56,375 --> 00:29:57,606 In any case, Your Honor, 614 00:29:57,676 --> 00:30:00,839 the Supreme Court held in Ponzi v. Fessenden 615 00:30:00,919 --> 00:30:03,411 that the sovereign which first arrests an individual 616 00:30:03,491 --> 00:30:06,894 acquires the priority of jurisdiction for the purposes of trial, 617 00:30:06,964 --> 00:30:08,395 sentencing, and incarceration. 618 00:30:08,465 --> 00:30:10,697 That dates from 1922, Your Honor. 619 00:30:10,768 --> 00:30:13,330 It seems archaic that this important question 620 00:30:13,410 --> 00:30:16,072 boils down to a race between the FBI and local police. 621 00:30:16,312 --> 00:30:18,645 Are they supposed to have tug of wars over murder suspects? 622 00:30:18,715 --> 00:30:22,348 Apparently so, Mr. Horvath. New York has him, 623 00:30:22,418 --> 00:30:25,090 and if it wants to keep him, it has a right to do so. 624 00:30:26,391 --> 00:30:27,793 Have a nice trial, Mr. Cutter. 625 00:30:34,048 --> 00:30:36,570 Now, what is she so happy about? She lost. 626 00:30:36,710 --> 00:30:39,013 She went down swinging for an execution. 627 00:30:39,283 --> 00:30:41,685 That's got to be worth 10 points in the polls. 628 00:30:56,448 --> 00:30:57,679 I heard. 629 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,153 It stays in state court. I know that's not what you wanted. 630 00:31:04,065 --> 00:31:05,796 Yeah, I've noticed, Lieutenant, 631 00:31:06,137 --> 00:31:10,040 that very little of what happens around here is what any of us wants. 632 00:31:14,884 --> 00:31:16,085 I'm sorry. 633 00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:20,890 About what I said, about your illness. 634 00:31:22,701 --> 00:31:24,132 Well, 635 00:31:25,644 --> 00:31:28,136 if four of my detectives were killed, 636 00:31:28,216 --> 00:31:31,049 I don't know what I would do 637 00:31:31,619 --> 00:31:32,880 or what I would say. 638 00:31:33,921 --> 00:31:36,654 Oh, your detectives did a good job. 639 00:31:38,966 --> 00:31:40,667 And whatever happens now... 640 00:31:42,339 --> 00:31:43,810 I wanted to thank you. 641 00:31:44,811 --> 00:31:46,042 To thank them. 642 00:31:49,385 --> 00:31:51,477 I'm sorry for your loss, Captain. 643 00:31:52,127 --> 00:31:53,218 No... 644 00:31:53,999 --> 00:31:55,220 Our loss. 645 00:32:04,318 --> 00:32:07,751 We're putting you on first to give the bare bones of the case. 646 00:32:07,821 --> 00:32:09,723 It's not going to be much of a trial, is it? 647 00:32:09,793 --> 00:32:11,054 He has no defense. 648 00:32:11,124 --> 00:32:14,157 Well, his lawyer's going for a verdict of manslaughter instead of murder, 649 00:32:14,237 --> 00:32:15,728 on the grounds that Stokes acted 650 00:32:15,798 --> 00:32:17,960 in a state of extreme emotional disturbance. 651 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,972 So he could get out in 10-to-20 years? 652 00:32:20,783 --> 00:32:22,905 Why didn't you just allow him to go to the Feds? 653 00:32:23,245 --> 00:32:25,447 He doesn't deserve to go on living, 654 00:32:25,517 --> 00:32:27,959 no matter how disturbed he is. 655 00:32:28,159 --> 00:32:31,152 Detective, I heard when Stokes was arrested, 656 00:32:31,232 --> 00:32:33,364 you were the one who gave him CPR, 657 00:32:33,704 --> 00:32:35,035 who saved his life. 658 00:32:36,707 --> 00:32:38,508 Why, if you wanted him dead? 659 00:32:41,751 --> 00:32:42,942 I'm a cop. 660 00:32:44,093 --> 00:32:45,645 I'm not the executioner. 661 00:32:47,066 --> 00:32:48,397 Neither am I. 662 00:32:57,785 --> 00:32:59,717 When you apprehended the defendant, 663 00:32:59,787 --> 00:33:01,759 did he have a weapon in his possession? 664 00:33:01,819 --> 00:33:05,282 Yes. A.45 caliber pistol, which we secured. 665 00:33:07,464 --> 00:33:09,936 And were you present when the man you arrested 666 00:33:10,006 --> 00:33:11,868 was presented to eyewitnesses? 667 00:33:11,938 --> 00:33:15,441 Yes. And everyone positively picked him 668 00:33:15,511 --> 00:33:18,003 as the man who fired his weapon in the pizzeria. 669 00:33:18,324 --> 00:33:19,415 Thank you. 670 00:33:21,196 --> 00:33:22,717 Detective Bernard, 671 00:33:22,898 --> 00:33:24,989 how much did you know about how Officer Ramos 672 00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:27,362 and her partner treated Mr. Stokes? 673 00:33:27,742 --> 00:33:29,674 I don't know what you mean by "treated." 674 00:33:29,744 --> 00:33:31,936 They had a relationship with him, didn't they? 675 00:33:32,016 --> 00:33:33,377 He provided them with information 676 00:33:33,447 --> 00:33:35,148 leading to the arrest of drug dealers. 677 00:33:35,219 --> 00:33:37,280 There was some indication that he did. 678 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,263 And did they then pressure him to go after bigger fish? 679 00:33:40,323 --> 00:33:41,384 I have no idea. 680 00:33:41,464 --> 00:33:42,895 Did they threaten to arrest his mother 681 00:33:42,965 --> 00:33:44,457 if he didn't do what they wanted him to do? 682 00:33:44,537 --> 00:33:45,768 You know, these are questions 683 00:33:45,838 --> 00:33:49,571 that Officers Ramos and Colson could answer had he not murdered them. 684 00:33:49,641 --> 00:33:50,702 Move to strike. 685 00:33:50,782 --> 00:33:52,714 Detective, you know how to answer these questions. 686 00:33:53,084 --> 00:33:55,577 Didn't you prepare an affidavit for the U.S. Attorney 687 00:33:55,657 --> 00:33:58,559 alleging that Mr. Stokes killed those police officers 688 00:33:58,629 --> 00:34:00,961 to prevent them from arresting his mother? 689 00:34:02,903 --> 00:34:04,635 - Yes. - Thank you. 690 00:34:05,105 --> 00:34:08,168 And Officers Ramos and Colson crossed some lines 691 00:34:08,248 --> 00:34:10,440 in their treatment of Mr. Stokes, didn't they? 692 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:11,781 Not to my knowledge. 693 00:34:11,851 --> 00:34:12,912 Really? 694 00:34:12,992 --> 00:34:14,824 Are police officers supposed to condone 695 00:34:14,894 --> 00:34:17,626 the use of illegal drugs by informants in their presence? 696 00:34:17,696 --> 00:34:18,727 No. 697 00:34:18,797 --> 00:34:21,469 Didn't you become aware that Officers Ramos and Colson 698 00:34:21,540 --> 00:34:23,401 did just that when Mr. Stokes was caught 699 00:34:23,471 --> 00:34:25,073 using cocaine in a bar? 700 00:34:25,143 --> 00:34:29,086 We were told that by a source who I wouldn't consider reliable. 701 00:34:29,156 --> 00:34:30,277 Why not? 702 00:34:30,357 --> 00:34:33,450 Because he works in an establishment where drug use is common, 703 00:34:33,530 --> 00:34:35,862 so I consider anything he says suspect. 704 00:34:38,274 --> 00:34:40,366 That was crap about the bartender, wasn't it? 705 00:34:40,436 --> 00:34:43,109 Drugs are used where he works. He told us himself. 706 00:34:43,179 --> 00:34:45,881 Used by Stokes. That's what the attorney was asking about. 707 00:34:45,951 --> 00:34:47,382 It's not germane. 708 00:34:48,023 --> 00:34:51,466 We don't have to dirty dead cops to convict the man who shot them. 709 00:34:51,526 --> 00:34:54,759 I need my witnesses to testify truthfully. 710 00:34:54,869 --> 00:34:57,391 Okay, so what's my lie again, exactly? 711 00:34:57,471 --> 00:34:58,632 You are pushing it. 712 00:34:58,712 --> 00:35:01,545 And if you go too far and screw up this trial, either of you, 713 00:35:01,615 --> 00:35:04,488 the defense might get what it wants, a manslaughter verdict. 714 00:35:04,558 --> 00:35:05,749 A slap on the wrist. 715 00:35:05,819 --> 00:35:07,150 How bad would that be? 716 00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:09,492 If you don't get Stokes on murder, the Feds could step in 717 00:35:09,562 --> 00:35:11,794 and try him then on the death penalty charge. 718 00:35:12,004 --> 00:35:13,025 It's not double jeopardy. 719 00:35:13,105 --> 00:35:14,867 The state and federal government are separate sovereigns. 720 00:35:14,937 --> 00:35:17,409 I see you're still staying awake in law school, Detective. 721 00:35:17,479 --> 00:35:20,812 Now you wouldn't be thinking of deliberately sabotaging this trial 722 00:35:20,882 --> 00:35:22,874 to give the Feds an opening, would you? 723 00:35:24,796 --> 00:35:25,816 No. 724 00:35:27,258 --> 00:35:28,249 Good. 725 00:35:28,569 --> 00:35:29,560 Detectives? 726 00:35:31,301 --> 00:35:34,334 I found something of Rebecca's that I thought you should see. 727 00:35:40,419 --> 00:35:43,983 There's a guy in the neighborhood runs drugs and guns. 728 00:35:44,063 --> 00:35:45,154 He's crazy. 729 00:35:45,334 --> 00:35:47,125 Everybody knows he's killed three people. 730 00:35:47,195 --> 00:35:50,538 And that's who Officers Ramos and Colson wanted you to inform against? 731 00:35:50,839 --> 00:35:53,311 He killed his own brother for denting his car. 732 00:35:53,581 --> 00:35:54,702 I said, "No way." 733 00:35:54,882 --> 00:35:57,685 But you had informed on other criminals? 734 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:00,057 Yes. It felt good. 735 00:36:00,898 --> 00:36:02,449 But I wasn't going to get myself killed 736 00:36:02,529 --> 00:36:03,930 'cause they wanted to be detectives. 737 00:36:04,901 --> 00:36:06,202 They mentioned that to you? 738 00:36:06,272 --> 00:36:07,293 A lot. 739 00:36:07,373 --> 00:36:10,506 They said they'd put me on the books once they got their gold shields. 740 00:36:10,576 --> 00:36:12,067 That I could go on salary. 741 00:36:12,418 --> 00:36:14,149 I said thanks, but I was done. 742 00:36:14,419 --> 00:36:15,410 Then what happened? 743 00:36:15,490 --> 00:36:18,553 They rousted me on the street And found some pills. 744 00:36:18,994 --> 00:36:21,796 Said they'd send me back to the joint for violating parole. 745 00:36:22,036 --> 00:36:24,158 Plus I had a prescription pad on me, 746 00:36:24,238 --> 00:36:26,140 from the dentist my mother works for. 747 00:36:26,210 --> 00:36:27,941 She didn't even know I'd taken it. 748 00:36:28,012 --> 00:36:29,913 But they said they'd bust her, too. 749 00:36:29,983 --> 00:36:32,455 That we could celebrate Mother's Day in Attica. 750 00:36:36,159 --> 00:36:39,492 What happened the night before the shooting incident? 751 00:36:40,232 --> 00:36:41,794 I met them at the bar. 752 00:36:42,274 --> 00:36:43,966 I offered to keep working for them. 753 00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:45,667 Not aimed at the crazy guy, 754 00:36:45,747 --> 00:36:47,239 but at some other good targets. 755 00:36:47,309 --> 00:36:48,650 They said, "Fine." 756 00:36:49,020 --> 00:36:52,253 And then we could go at the crazy guy, plus some of his friends. 757 00:36:52,393 --> 00:36:53,554 I said, "No." 758 00:36:53,624 --> 00:36:54,715 What did they say? 759 00:36:56,327 --> 00:36:58,388 "Do it or go to jail, 760 00:36:59,569 --> 00:37:01,041 "you and your mother." 761 00:37:01,811 --> 00:37:05,645 That was my choice. Die, or send my mother to prison. 762 00:37:07,657 --> 00:37:09,048 I walked out of there. 763 00:37:10,019 --> 00:37:11,320 I couldn't sleep. 764 00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:13,452 I stayed up all night. 765 00:37:13,532 --> 00:37:16,194 My brain was like shooting off fire stars. 766 00:37:17,776 --> 00:37:19,607 I went to see them the next day. 767 00:37:19,677 --> 00:37:22,770 They saw me coming, and they smiled. 768 00:37:23,951 --> 00:37:25,352 A "screw you" smile. 769 00:37:27,594 --> 00:37:28,755 And... 770 00:37:29,856 --> 00:37:31,057 And I lost it. 771 00:37:32,328 --> 00:37:34,390 I didn't even see the other cops. 772 00:37:34,871 --> 00:37:36,842 I never meant for this to happen. 773 00:37:38,374 --> 00:37:39,605 I'm sorry. 774 00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:42,117 I really am sorry. 775 00:37:49,664 --> 00:37:51,255 We'll break for the day. 776 00:37:52,006 --> 00:37:54,408 Mr. Cutter, you can cross tomorrow. 777 00:38:06,959 --> 00:38:08,060 What's that? 778 00:38:09,031 --> 00:38:11,373 Uh, it's a logbook kept by Officer Ramos. 779 00:38:11,443 --> 00:38:12,534 Her husband found it and brought it in. 780 00:38:12,604 --> 00:38:14,135 You tell the D.A.'s? 781 00:38:14,206 --> 00:38:16,207 No. We just got it. 782 00:38:16,748 --> 00:38:18,219 You know, I heard about the trial today. 783 00:38:18,289 --> 00:38:20,191 That defendant kicked butt. 784 00:38:20,251 --> 00:38:22,223 Sob story from hell. 785 00:38:22,293 --> 00:38:23,454 So what's in it? 786 00:38:25,666 --> 00:38:26,827 Informant log. 787 00:38:27,267 --> 00:38:30,040 Every contact she had with Stokes. 788 00:38:30,110 --> 00:38:31,271 Interesting. 789 00:38:35,885 --> 00:38:37,146 Some might think so. 790 00:38:37,726 --> 00:38:38,817 She saw him do drugs, 791 00:38:38,887 --> 00:38:41,049 she gave him money she knew he would use to buy drugs, 792 00:38:41,129 --> 00:38:44,462 and she and her partner did push him about his mother. 793 00:38:45,003 --> 00:38:47,565 And this here, their last meeting with him. 794 00:38:48,406 --> 00:38:49,937 Well, the D.A.'s could use it. 795 00:38:50,378 --> 00:38:51,368 Mmm-hmm. 796 00:38:51,448 --> 00:38:52,780 Well, if we turn it over, 797 00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:54,852 it all comes out. 798 00:38:55,722 --> 00:38:56,743 So? 799 00:38:56,823 --> 00:38:59,386 So, Officer Ramos and her partner crossed some lines. 800 00:38:59,996 --> 00:39:02,328 It's nothing anybody needs to hear right now. 801 00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:05,731 Oh, so that's what you're worried about? 802 00:39:06,472 --> 00:39:08,944 Okay. Well, what about me? 803 00:39:09,945 --> 00:39:14,008 If I'm not ever around, are you going to turn me into a retroactive saint? 804 00:39:14,259 --> 00:39:17,522 Go through my office and clean out my nasty habits? 805 00:39:17,862 --> 00:39:20,354 Tell the world how sweet I was all the time? 806 00:39:20,434 --> 00:39:22,466 Look, she was a cop. 807 00:39:22,536 --> 00:39:24,238 She wanted to be a detective. 808 00:39:24,308 --> 00:39:25,779 She made some mistakes, 809 00:39:25,849 --> 00:39:29,042 honest, good-faith mistakes, but she made some mistakes. 810 00:39:29,622 --> 00:39:30,883 Get over it. 811 00:39:40,272 --> 00:39:42,203 "January 4th, $50. 812 00:39:42,273 --> 00:39:44,245 "January 12th, $75." 813 00:39:44,646 --> 00:39:48,249 Are these accurate descriptions of Officer Ramos' payments to you? 814 00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:49,350 Sounds right. 815 00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:51,692 "January 13th, collar Brent Darien, 816 00:39:51,762 --> 00:39:54,785 "criminal possession. $50 bonus." Is that right, too? 817 00:39:54,865 --> 00:39:55,856 Yeah. 818 00:39:55,936 --> 00:39:58,698 Is this your signature next to the payment amounts? 819 00:39:59,479 --> 00:40:01,170 Yeah, she made me sign. 820 00:40:01,250 --> 00:40:02,972 In case she ever got reimbursed. 821 00:40:03,182 --> 00:40:06,015 Would you please read this description of your final meeting 822 00:40:06,085 --> 00:40:09,147 with Officer Ramos and her partner at the bar in Queens? 823 00:40:09,227 --> 00:40:10,288 Right there. 824 00:40:12,630 --> 00:40:14,572 "S complained of low pay. 825 00:40:14,942 --> 00:40:17,775 "Demanded bonus, $1,000." That's not true! 826 00:40:17,845 --> 00:40:19,076 Keep reading. 827 00:40:20,577 --> 00:40:22,849 "We rejected. S got angry." 828 00:40:22,919 --> 00:40:25,392 There ought to be stuff in there about their threats about my mother. 829 00:40:25,462 --> 00:40:27,123 There is, from weeks before, 830 00:40:27,193 --> 00:40:30,356 but there is no mention of it near the time of the shooting. 831 00:40:30,436 --> 00:40:32,668 But that last night in the bar, 832 00:40:32,738 --> 00:40:37,683 "S got angry, said we were cheating him, said he'd show us." 833 00:40:37,743 --> 00:40:40,305 It was all about money, wasn't it? 834 00:40:40,585 --> 00:40:41,916 No, they left stuff out. 835 00:40:41,986 --> 00:40:44,188 It wasn't about your mother that night! 836 00:40:44,258 --> 00:40:47,561 It was about getting you more money to buy drugs. 837 00:40:47,631 --> 00:40:49,263 Drugs had nothing to do with it! 838 00:40:49,733 --> 00:40:51,965 I was... I was taking big chances for them! 839 00:40:52,045 --> 00:40:54,207 Right. So you wanted to be paid. 840 00:40:54,277 --> 00:40:57,310 I wanted what was fair, I wanted what I was earning. 841 00:40:57,380 --> 00:41:00,152 They thought they could push me around, like I was nobody. 842 00:41:01,123 --> 00:41:05,067 "S got angry, said we were cheating him, said he'd show us." 843 00:41:05,137 --> 00:41:07,299 And that's exactly what you did. 844 00:41:18,258 --> 00:41:20,390 On the charge of murder in the first degree, 845 00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:23,123 for the death of Officer Dwayne Garber, how do you find? 846 00:41:23,703 --> 00:41:25,535 We find the defendant guilty. 847 00:41:26,135 --> 00:41:27,697 On the charge of murder in the first degree, 848 00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:31,340 for the death of Officer Christopher Oren, how do you find? 849 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,412 We find the defendant guilty. 850 00:41:33,852 --> 00:41:35,584 On the charge of murder in the first degree 851 00:41:35,654 --> 00:41:39,147 for the death of Officer Frederic Colson, how do you find? 852 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:41,089 We find the defendant guilty. 853 00:41:41,169 --> 00:41:43,140 On the charge of murder in the first degree 854 00:41:43,201 --> 00:41:46,644 for the death of Officer Rebecca Ramos, how do you find? 855 00:41:46,714 --> 00:41:48,275 We find the defendant guilty. 856 00:41:55,191 --> 00:41:57,293 Best case, he gets four life sentences. 857 00:41:57,363 --> 00:41:59,735 Worst case, he gets four consecutive 25s. 858 00:41:59,805 --> 00:42:02,368 If the Feds still want him, they can have him in 100 years. 859 00:42:02,438 --> 00:42:05,100 Well, if I'm still around, I'll testify. 860 00:42:05,180 --> 00:42:06,371 It's Van Buren. 861 00:42:08,013 --> 00:42:09,414 We caught a fresh one. 862 00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:13,517 Detectives... 863 00:42:16,470 --> 00:42:17,561 Be safe.