1 00:00:00,543 --> 00:00:03,504 Narrator: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented 2 00:00:03,671 --> 00:00:06,132 by two separate yet equally important groups… 3 00:00:06,298 --> 00:00:08,009 The police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,175 --> 00:00:10,886 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,053 --> 00:00:13,347 These are their stories. 6 00:00:51,302 --> 00:00:52,928 Announcer: Next stop, 14th Street. 7 00:00:53,095 --> 00:00:54,472 Change for the uptown local. 8 00:02:06,377 --> 00:02:09,130 Announcer: Next stop, 23rd Street. 9 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:21,016 Let me through! 10 00:02:24,103 --> 00:02:25,771 Out of the way! Come on! 11 00:02:33,362 --> 00:02:34,780 Cop: Come on, come on! 12 00:02:47,084 --> 00:02:50,212 Station 45? We have a shooting in car number seven. 13 00:04:20,427 --> 00:04:22,221 I heard there was two. 14 00:04:22,388 --> 00:04:24,056 One's still down there. 15 00:04:24,223 --> 00:04:27,184 They got two detectives coming down right now. 16 00:04:31,230 --> 00:04:33,065 Patrolman: How you doing, fellas? 17 00:04:40,781 --> 00:04:42,491 Where are we going, Joe? 18 00:04:42,658 --> 00:04:44,159 He's right over there. 19 00:04:49,248 --> 00:04:51,250 Looks like we're in here. 20 00:04:58,882 --> 00:05:00,592 How's this one? 21 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:03,345 He's okay. Guy doesn't look so good to me. 22 00:05:03,512 --> 00:05:05,431 You're right, he'd look better dead… 23 00:05:05,597 --> 00:05:08,183 One less jerk with a screwdriver. 24 00:05:08,350 --> 00:05:11,020 You see the shooter? 25 00:05:11,186 --> 00:05:13,105 I did. 26 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:15,357 Could you describe him for me? 27 00:05:15,524 --> 00:05:16,525 Her. 28 00:05:16,692 --> 00:05:18,360 Her? 29 00:05:18,527 --> 00:05:20,738 What did she look like? 30 00:05:20,904 --> 00:05:23,073 A ballerina. 31 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,616 A ballerina? 32 00:05:24,783 --> 00:05:26,660 Oh, yeah. 33 00:05:28,203 --> 00:05:30,122 Talk about your "nutcracker," huh? 34 00:05:39,214 --> 00:05:41,175 You Jones? 35 00:05:42,426 --> 00:05:44,386 How you feeling? 36 00:05:44,553 --> 00:05:46,180 I didn't do nothing. 37 00:05:46,347 --> 00:05:49,433 Of course you didn't, Michael… you're a newborn babe. 38 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,478 What you want with me? Your speedy recovery, 39 00:05:52,644 --> 00:05:54,730 so you might have a happy productive life. 40 00:05:54,897 --> 00:05:57,066 Actually… 41 00:05:58,067 --> 00:06:00,069 we're on your side, Michael. 42 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:02,279 Why'd she shoot you? 43 00:06:02,446 --> 00:06:04,490 I don't know, man. 44 00:06:06,784 --> 00:06:09,286 The chick must be going crazy or something. 45 00:06:09,453 --> 00:06:11,663 What did Darnell do, then? 46 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:12,998 Nothing. 47 00:06:13,165 --> 00:06:14,958 Nothing? 48 00:06:15,125 --> 00:06:17,127 We heard he was coming onto her pretty strong. 49 00:06:17,294 --> 00:06:20,047 Whoever told you that is lying. 50 00:06:20,214 --> 00:06:22,716 My partner asked her for some apple… 51 00:06:22,883 --> 00:06:25,010 and she shot him. 52 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:26,220 It's that simple. 53 00:06:26,387 --> 00:06:28,889 Asked, or demanded? 54 00:06:29,056 --> 00:06:30,891 Asked. 55 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:33,727 Besides, why'd she shoot me, huh? 56 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:36,063 I didn't do a damn thing to her. 57 00:06:36,230 --> 00:06:39,149 I was just sitting down doing nothing, man. 58 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:44,988 Listen, Michael, now listen real good. 59 00:06:45,155 --> 00:06:48,784 If the lady popped you two 'cause you were "mau-mauing" her, 60 00:06:48,951 --> 00:06:50,869 and they put her on trial, 61 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:52,496 I'll testify for her. 62 00:06:52,663 --> 00:06:54,373 But if you're telling the truth… 63 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:56,917 If you're telling the truth I'll haul her into that court 64 00:06:57,084 --> 00:06:59,586 and nail her for attempted murder. 65 00:06:59,753 --> 00:07:02,756 I am telling the truth. 66 00:07:04,174 --> 00:07:07,469 Like I got a real good chance of proving it. 67 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:16,019 Got a bleeder here. Hemostat. Here you go. 68 00:07:16,186 --> 00:07:17,938 Tie him off. Come on, come on. Get the lead out. 69 00:07:18,105 --> 00:07:19,231 Doctor: What's the hurry? 70 00:07:19,398 --> 00:07:21,358 This guy won't be running a marathon. 71 00:07:21,525 --> 00:07:23,193 Nurse: Can you see all right? 72 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:26,363 Wrap it up. 73 00:07:32,369 --> 00:07:33,745 Cragen: You recover a slug? 74 00:07:33,912 --> 00:07:37,082 Two. One in the subway, one in Chenault's lower back. 75 00:07:37,249 --> 00:07:39,585 Cragen: That's a start. Any leads on the gunman? 76 00:07:39,751 --> 00:07:41,003 Gunwoman. 77 00:07:42,421 --> 00:07:44,089 Gunperson. 78 00:07:44,256 --> 00:07:45,591 A lot of phone calls. 79 00:07:45,757 --> 00:07:47,092 Uh-huh. Who from? 80 00:07:47,259 --> 00:07:49,636 Bunch of psycho sisters. Each one… 81 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,263 claiming to be the "Avenging Angel." 82 00:07:51,430 --> 00:07:53,223 Oh great, that is great. 83 00:07:53,390 --> 00:07:55,934 Who's calling her that? It's already on the radio. 84 00:07:56,101 --> 00:07:57,936 Why do you think we're getting all these volunteers? 85 00:07:58,103 --> 00:07:59,438 Maybe they can relate to her. 86 00:07:59,605 --> 00:08:01,773 They'd like to peddle their life story to the highest bidder. 87 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:03,525 I don't want the press going into a feeding frenzy. 88 00:08:03,692 --> 00:08:07,446 You mean, like, "Babe to punks: Drop dead"? 89 00:08:07,613 --> 00:08:08,780 Maybe we should deputize her. 90 00:08:08,947 --> 00:08:10,532 Just find her. 91 00:08:13,327 --> 00:08:14,995 Woman: Positive… he was grinding himself 92 00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:16,538 right in that woman's face. 93 00:08:16,705 --> 00:08:18,582 What about the other one? He was just as bad, 94 00:08:18,749 --> 00:08:21,168 but I kept my attention on the one who was pushing on her. 95 00:08:21,335 --> 00:08:24,171 Are you willing to testify in court to what you've told us? 96 00:08:24,338 --> 00:08:25,964 Of course. 97 00:08:26,131 --> 00:08:29,676 A lot of people develop short-term memory loss these days. 98 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:31,470 I'm not afraid of punks like that. 99 00:08:31,637 --> 00:08:33,847 I dealt with worse when I taught fifth grade. 100 00:08:34,014 --> 00:08:36,183 Mrs. Hastings, 101 00:08:37,893 --> 00:08:39,186 the woman who did the shooting, 102 00:08:39,353 --> 00:08:41,396 she's the one that we're looking for. 103 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:43,649 Well, you shouldn't be. When you find her 104 00:08:43,815 --> 00:08:46,026 I hope she gets a medal. 105 00:08:48,654 --> 00:08:52,449 "Midtown Dance Club." I think that's what it was. 106 00:08:52,616 --> 00:08:54,826 "Manhattan." 107 00:08:54,993 --> 00:08:56,828 You have good eyes. You got to pay attention… 108 00:08:56,995 --> 00:08:59,373 Chaz… That's how come I seen the ice pick. 109 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:01,667 Ice pick? What ice pick? 110 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:03,877 The one with the Yankees cap. 111 00:09:04,044 --> 00:09:05,712 Look, I'm a Mets fan, I hate the Yankees, 112 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:08,382 and he's waving an ice pick. I'm thinking, "What's this for? 113 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:10,842 It's all automatic ice cubes now." 114 00:09:11,009 --> 00:09:12,928 We heard it was a screwdriver. 115 00:09:13,095 --> 00:09:16,306 I seen what I seen. 116 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:21,270 You really think we like these two dirtbags? 117 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:22,729 So what's your problem? 118 00:09:22,896 --> 00:09:26,066 Shooting people you don't like is a big problem. 119 00:09:26,233 --> 00:09:28,318 Unless you're defending your own self. 120 00:09:28,485 --> 00:09:31,738 Are you saying it was self-defense? I seen what I seen. 121 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,997 Why do I get the feeling we're on the wrong side here? 122 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:41,707 'Cause you're thinking like a civilian. 123 00:09:41,873 --> 00:09:44,334 Oh yeah, right. I should've known better. 124 00:09:44,501 --> 00:09:45,794 Hey, don't worry, Max, 125 00:09:45,961 --> 00:09:48,005 next time I'll be a good little German. 126 00:09:48,171 --> 00:09:49,881 You got a wise mouth. 127 00:09:50,048 --> 00:09:51,216 Oh yeah? Yeah. 128 00:09:51,383 --> 00:09:53,969 What, you want every fruitcake on the BMT packing six on his hip? 129 00:09:54,136 --> 00:09:56,013 'Course I don't want that, I just think those… 130 00:09:56,179 --> 00:09:57,472 Don't think! 131 00:09:57,639 --> 00:09:59,308 The city ain't a free-fire zone. 132 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:02,811 Gimme a… 133 00:10:02,978 --> 00:10:05,022 turn, turn, 134 00:10:05,188 --> 00:10:07,524 and port de bras. 135 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:11,028 Okay, let's take five. 136 00:10:12,404 --> 00:10:14,072 Miss Putterman? Mm-hmm. 137 00:10:14,239 --> 00:10:16,116 I'm Detective Logan. I called you before. 138 00:10:16,283 --> 00:10:18,577 Yes, I told you, it sounds like Laura di Biasi. 139 00:10:18,744 --> 00:10:19,745 You got her address? 140 00:10:19,911 --> 00:10:22,289 What do I look like, a phone book? 141 00:10:22,456 --> 00:10:23,999 In Manhattan. 142 00:10:24,166 --> 00:10:26,460 Okay, everybody, let's take it again. 143 00:10:26,627 --> 00:10:28,920 Logan: Yes, I am aware… 144 00:10:29,087 --> 00:10:31,048 Okay, I'm aware it's unlisted. 145 00:10:31,214 --> 00:10:34,051 I told you for the 10th time, I'm a police officer. 146 00:10:34,217 --> 00:10:36,511 Let's get this straight… Detective Mike Logan, 147 00:10:36,678 --> 00:10:38,680 Badge number nine… 148 00:10:38,847 --> 00:10:41,224 Warrant, huh? Warrant this, lady, all right? 149 00:10:41,391 --> 00:10:43,477 I need a warrant, it's going to take me three hours. 150 00:10:43,644 --> 00:10:45,687 Now you listen to me. You listen to me! 151 00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:49,316 Hold on. 152 00:10:51,443 --> 00:10:55,155 Hi. To whom am I speaking, please? 153 00:10:57,199 --> 00:10:59,159 Hello, Miss Schweder, 154 00:10:59,326 --> 00:11:01,286 this is Sergeant Greevey. 155 00:11:01,453 --> 00:11:03,789 Could you connect me with your central office supervisor? 156 00:11:03,955 --> 00:11:05,957 Maybe we can straighten some of this out. 157 00:11:07,626 --> 00:11:09,670 Thank you so much. 158 00:11:09,836 --> 00:11:12,005 Max: Chenault's got priors up the ying-yang. 159 00:11:12,172 --> 00:11:14,508 Nothing on Jones. Nothing? 160 00:11:14,675 --> 00:11:18,303 Computer came up with 12 felons named "Michael Jones," 161 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:20,681 "Michael J., Michael Ray"… 162 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:22,808 "Michael T." 163 00:11:22,974 --> 00:11:24,976 I hate walk-ups. 164 00:11:25,143 --> 00:11:26,812 No positive make on our own 165 00:11:26,978 --> 00:11:29,231 "Michael no-middle-initial Jones." 166 00:11:29,398 --> 00:11:31,358 Zippo. 167 00:11:31,525 --> 00:11:33,777 Nobody home… 168 00:11:33,944 --> 00:11:35,654 Down the stairs. 169 00:11:39,032 --> 00:11:41,034 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 170 00:11:45,414 --> 00:11:47,791 Ahem! Oh! 171 00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:50,419 Excuse me. It's all right, ma'am. We're the police. 172 00:11:50,585 --> 00:11:52,879 Do you know where the lady who lives there is? 173 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:54,840 Miss di Biasi? 174 00:11:55,006 --> 00:11:56,967 She works at Murray Hill Hospital. 175 00:11:57,134 --> 00:11:58,677 Man: I'm the Chief Administrator in this place, 176 00:11:58,844 --> 00:12:00,095 and I've told you twice… 177 00:12:00,262 --> 00:12:02,848 You don't discuss personnel. 178 00:12:03,014 --> 00:12:05,892 I'm telling you, I'm not interested in a discussion! 179 00:12:06,059 --> 00:12:08,353 I want to know where she is! 180 00:12:13,692 --> 00:12:15,777 She's working in Radiology. 181 00:12:17,904 --> 00:12:19,406 Miss di Biasi? 182 00:12:19,573 --> 00:12:22,242 Sergeant Greevey, Detective Logan. 183 00:12:22,409 --> 00:12:24,745 We'd like to ask you a few questions. 184 00:12:26,246 --> 00:12:29,541 Yeah, I imagine you would. 185 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:33,044 I felt threatened. 186 00:12:33,211 --> 00:12:35,464 Max: It's a threatening city. 187 00:12:35,630 --> 00:12:38,425 I felt I had to defend myself. Is that a crime? 188 00:12:38,592 --> 00:12:40,260 That's what we're trying to determine. 189 00:12:40,427 --> 00:12:43,054 Why'd you run? 190 00:12:43,221 --> 00:12:45,140 Because I was freaked out. 191 00:12:45,307 --> 00:12:47,726 Okay, we can appreciate that, 192 00:12:49,394 --> 00:12:50,771 but where'd you get the gun? 193 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:52,689 Somebody gave it to me. Logan: Boyfriend? 194 00:12:52,856 --> 00:12:55,400 Somebody. I don't know, it was years ago. 195 00:12:55,567 --> 00:12:57,402 Meaning it's probably unlicensed. 196 00:13:01,823 --> 00:13:04,159 Logan: Okay… 197 00:13:04,326 --> 00:13:05,535 what did you do with it? 198 00:13:05,702 --> 00:13:07,704 I guess I threw it. "Guess"? 199 00:13:07,871 --> 00:13:10,248 I dropped it down there. In the subway? 200 00:13:10,415 --> 00:13:11,875 Yeah. 201 00:13:12,042 --> 00:13:15,462 Listen, are you sure you don't want to call your lawyer? 202 00:13:15,629 --> 00:13:17,297 My lawyer? 203 00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:20,675 Do I look like I could afford to have a personal lawyer? 204 00:13:20,842 --> 00:13:23,929 Anyway, I don't need one. I haven't done anything wrong. 205 00:13:24,095 --> 00:13:25,972 I wouldn't count on that. 206 00:13:33,104 --> 00:13:36,608 Are you arresting me? 207 00:13:39,236 --> 00:13:41,404 Not at the present time. 208 00:13:41,571 --> 00:13:43,782 But if we do arrest you, 209 00:13:43,949 --> 00:13:47,118 a lawyer will be provided for you at no cost. 210 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:57,045 Why are we busting her chops? 211 00:13:57,212 --> 00:13:58,296 That the way you see it? 212 00:13:58,463 --> 00:14:00,131 Two kids jump her on the subway, 213 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:01,800 she defends herself, okay? 214 00:14:01,967 --> 00:14:03,510 We're not talking about "Squeaky" Fromme here. 215 00:14:03,677 --> 00:14:05,470 We don't know that. We don't? 216 00:14:05,637 --> 00:14:08,473 Look, she did the shooting, that makes her the perp. 217 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,433 That's all I know. 218 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,727 What, you want to do her or something? 219 00:14:12,894 --> 00:14:14,729 Hey, hey… 220 00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:16,606 It's all that simple, huh? 221 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:18,024 When it comes to the law, it better be. 222 00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:19,818 Jones doesn't even have a record. 223 00:14:19,985 --> 00:14:21,736 He say he was sitting down when she shot him. 224 00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:25,365 Yeah, and he's such an innocent-looking guy, Max. 225 00:14:25,532 --> 00:14:27,450 Oh, that's terrific. 226 00:14:27,617 --> 00:14:30,787 "You're under arrest for looking guilty." 227 00:14:30,954 --> 00:14:32,414 That's a cheap shot. 228 00:14:32,581 --> 00:14:35,166 The hell it is. That kind of thinking, you can't do the job. 229 00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:37,627 When it comes to the law, everybody's the same. 230 00:14:37,794 --> 00:14:40,338 That's when it works… When everybody's the same. 231 00:14:40,505 --> 00:14:42,841 It's like football… You hold somebody, 232 00:14:43,008 --> 00:14:44,384 you get caught, it's a penalty. 233 00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:46,052 Doesn't matter whether you're Billy Sims 234 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:48,138 or some rookie for East Podunk State. 235 00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:55,395 Max: She admitted that she did the shooting… 236 00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:57,772 It's on videotape. 237 00:14:57,939 --> 00:15:00,984 She also says, "Yes, I wanted to kill them, to hurt them." 238 00:15:01,151 --> 00:15:03,653 Isn't that enough? You want to arrest her on the Sullivan? 239 00:15:03,820 --> 00:15:06,406 A gun charge is pretty lame, don't you think? 240 00:15:06,573 --> 00:15:08,241 It's still mandatory jail time. 241 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:12,579 She fired into a crowded subway car, for God's sakes! 242 00:15:12,746 --> 00:15:13,955 You want to go for attempted murder, 243 00:15:14,122 --> 00:15:15,874 you're going to need a formal statement from the other vic… 244 00:15:16,041 --> 00:15:17,000 Mr. Chenois. 245 00:15:19,210 --> 00:15:22,380 That's Chenault. Darnell Chenault. 246 00:15:22,547 --> 00:15:24,257 Whatever. 247 00:15:27,052 --> 00:15:30,305 Chenault's been upgraded. Room 322. 248 00:15:30,472 --> 00:15:33,850 Jones? Jones is in 324, but you better hurry. 249 00:15:34,017 --> 00:15:36,019 Excuse me, ma'am. 250 00:15:37,228 --> 00:15:39,397 Dr. Garcia, pick up your messages… 251 00:15:39,564 --> 00:15:41,399 Look here. 252 00:15:43,193 --> 00:15:44,611 Michael Jones? 253 00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,738 Used to be. 254 00:15:48,073 --> 00:15:49,783 Man: I don't want a shot, sweetheart, 255 00:15:49,950 --> 00:15:51,451 I want to get out of this damn bed. 256 00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:53,870 Nurse: That's not going to happen for a while, Darnell. 257 00:15:54,037 --> 00:15:55,372 So just take it easy. 258 00:15:55,538 --> 00:15:57,540 Darnell: Take it easy? Hey, baby, 259 00:15:57,707 --> 00:16:00,168 give me some decent drugs if you want me to take it easy. 260 00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:02,170 Nicely, Darnell, nicely. 261 00:16:02,337 --> 00:16:04,005 What are you so upset about? 262 00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:06,758 Man, they say I'm going to be paralyzed, man. 263 00:16:06,925 --> 00:16:10,553 Dumb mothers give me freaking aspirin with codeine. 264 00:16:12,722 --> 00:16:14,849 You a new specialist? 265 00:16:15,016 --> 00:16:17,811 Sergeant Greevey, Detective Logan. 266 00:16:17,978 --> 00:16:20,021 Yeah, Darnell, just the facts, okay? 267 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:22,524 The facts is, why'd the bitch shoot me?! 268 00:16:22,691 --> 00:16:24,234 I didn't do nothing. 269 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:25,986 Stone: Reckless endangerment? 270 00:16:26,152 --> 00:16:29,114 That tells the jury the girl was a little upset, 271 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,617 but so long as no innocent bystanders were hit, there's no problem. 272 00:16:32,784 --> 00:16:34,536 There's something to that, isn't there? 273 00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:36,454 I got a subway full of eyewitnesses 274 00:16:36,621 --> 00:16:38,123 who claims they saw one of the victims 275 00:16:38,289 --> 00:16:39,833 accost Miss di Biasi… Threaten her. 276 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,210 With his hand on his crotch? With a screwdriver! 277 00:16:42,377 --> 00:16:44,129 Or with an ice-pick, or a pick axe. 278 00:16:44,295 --> 00:16:45,714 It's funny what the eye can witness. 279 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,298 Attempted homicide. 280 00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:49,217 I know we're going to prosecute, 281 00:16:49,384 --> 00:16:50,593 but do we have to hang her out to dry? 282 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,721 Why, so every loophead can blast away 283 00:16:52,887 --> 00:16:54,389 when someone asks him for the time? 284 00:16:54,556 --> 00:16:56,349 Yeah, I forgot, you guys in the DA's office 285 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:58,393 are a regular bunch of "Carnacs." 286 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,395 You ask me, the young gentlemen were not asking 287 00:17:00,562 --> 00:17:01,896 for the time of day. 288 00:17:04,607 --> 00:17:06,943 Let us suppose, just for the sake of argument, 289 00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:10,321 that Miss di Biasi has had a really horrendous day, 290 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:12,699 and someone jokingly says, "Stick 'em up." 291 00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:16,494 She kills them. It's not self-defense, right? 292 00:17:16,661 --> 00:17:19,122 So she's liable for negligent homicide, 293 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:20,540 only in this case… 294 00:17:20,707 --> 00:17:22,542 in this case the guy didn't die. 295 00:17:24,044 --> 00:17:26,337 Okay, so we go for attempted murder, 296 00:17:26,504 --> 00:17:28,131 if you're sure you can make it stick. 297 00:17:28,298 --> 00:17:29,841 You'd better hope I can. 298 00:17:30,008 --> 00:17:32,135 She walks, New York is Dodge City. 299 00:17:32,302 --> 00:17:34,554 May I make a suggestion? By all means. 300 00:17:34,721 --> 00:17:36,056 Skip the "legal beagling" 301 00:17:36,222 --> 00:17:38,183 and go with plain vanilla murder two. 302 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:40,268 The coroner is determining 303 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:42,353 the COD on Mr. Jones 304 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,148 even as we speak. 305 00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:47,525 Murder two? 306 00:17:47,692 --> 00:17:49,903 Bring her in. 307 00:17:54,199 --> 00:17:55,575 Wait a sec, huh? 308 00:18:05,585 --> 00:18:07,754 Ooh. 309 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:15,470 Sergeant Greevey. 310 00:18:19,474 --> 00:18:21,392 Hold on. 311 00:18:23,186 --> 00:18:25,230 Relax, relax. 312 00:18:27,190 --> 00:18:29,901 Just tell me what happened, honey. 313 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:40,703 No… well, why worry about it then, huh? 314 00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,666 Yeah, of course. 315 00:18:44,833 --> 00:18:47,877 We'll talk about it later tonight, okay? 316 00:18:48,044 --> 00:18:51,297 I'll get home as soon as possibly can, okay? 317 00:18:52,549 --> 00:18:55,135 Yeah, me too. 318 00:18:58,555 --> 00:18:59,472 What? 319 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,308 It's nothing. 320 00:19:03,393 --> 00:19:05,770 Oh, I thought it might've been something. 321 00:19:08,523 --> 00:19:10,316 Eileen got roughed up at school. 322 00:19:10,483 --> 00:19:13,736 She hurt? No, you know, just some bruises. 323 00:19:15,989 --> 00:19:17,365 Is that all? 324 00:19:18,825 --> 00:19:20,869 Yeah. 325 00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:23,246 Yeah, that's all. 326 00:19:25,623 --> 00:19:27,667 Come on, let's wrap this up. 327 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,211 Who did it? 328 00:19:30,378 --> 00:19:32,130 Three guys from her basketball team. 329 00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:35,633 She ignored them so they slammed her up against the lockers. 330 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,177 Bastards. 331 00:19:37,343 --> 00:19:39,387 I wonder if Chenault and Jones were any good. 332 00:19:39,554 --> 00:19:41,181 At what? 333 00:19:41,347 --> 00:19:43,683 Basketball. 334 00:19:46,644 --> 00:19:49,314 Don't touch me with that thing. 335 00:19:50,607 --> 00:19:52,817 Max: Did you re-Miranda-ize her? 336 00:19:52,984 --> 00:19:54,319 Yeah, on the way in. 337 00:19:54,485 --> 00:19:57,071 Where's my lawyer? Why isn't she here yet? 338 00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:02,535 The Public Defenders have a heavy caseload. 339 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,037 She told me she'd be here. 340 00:20:04,204 --> 00:20:05,580 Maybe she's stuck in traffic. 341 00:20:05,747 --> 00:20:07,665 Have a seat. 342 00:20:13,046 --> 00:20:15,256 I really… 343 00:20:15,423 --> 00:20:16,883 want a lawyer. 344 00:20:17,050 --> 00:20:18,551 I don't want to talk to you. 345 00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:22,096 You understand, Miss di Biasi, 346 00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:25,892 that you are charged with negligent homicide? 347 00:20:26,059 --> 00:20:28,353 And when you appear before the judge 348 00:20:28,519 --> 00:20:30,813 he'll determine what the bail will be, 349 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:33,191 if the court decides that you're eligible. 350 00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:34,776 Why is this woman handcuffed? 351 00:20:34,943 --> 00:20:37,528 Sorry, there was an accident on the FDR. 352 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:39,155 You haven't said anything, I trust? 353 00:20:39,322 --> 00:20:41,574 "Trust" and "lawyer," that's a pair of words that don't match. 354 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,451 How about "cop" and "IQ over 90"? 355 00:20:43,618 --> 00:20:46,120 Shambala Green, I'm Miss di Biasi's PD. 356 00:20:46,287 --> 00:20:47,956 So I gathered. 357 00:20:48,122 --> 00:20:51,251 And I ask again, why is she handcuffed? 358 00:20:51,417 --> 00:20:53,294 Because she's an accused killer. 359 00:20:53,461 --> 00:20:55,046 Look, Ms. Green, 360 00:20:55,213 --> 00:20:57,590 why don't you save your attitude for the courtroom? 361 00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:09,310 Do you have a toothbrush? 362 00:21:09,477 --> 00:21:12,605 'Cause we have to take you over to the women's side 363 00:21:12,772 --> 00:21:14,774 until you're arraigned. 364 00:21:27,245 --> 00:21:28,746 Here, Counselor, 365 00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:31,040 do something useful. 366 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:41,301 What nuance? I spelled it out for them in black and white. 367 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:43,928 Adam: Yup, and therein lies the rub. 368 00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:46,222 What, the color angle? 369 00:21:46,389 --> 00:21:49,225 Forget it, Adam, this isn't Selma. 370 00:21:49,392 --> 00:21:51,978 Neither was Howard Beach, and you know what happened there. 371 00:21:52,145 --> 00:21:54,522 You read "The Times" poll… Blacks favor tougher sentences 372 00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:55,940 for street crime then whites do. 373 00:21:56,107 --> 00:21:58,026 Very good. 374 00:21:58,192 --> 00:22:01,112 We've still got to worry about the perception of racism. 375 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:02,864 Did she think these guys were a threat 376 00:22:03,031 --> 00:22:04,574 because they were street toughs… 377 00:22:04,741 --> 00:22:06,284 or because they were black? 378 00:22:06,451 --> 00:22:09,203 I can't answer that. All I know is that self-defense 379 00:22:09,370 --> 00:22:11,873 requires that the response be in direct proportion to the threat. 380 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,500 The threat as she reasonably perceives it. 381 00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:18,129 If she thinks she is about to be raped 382 00:22:18,296 --> 00:22:20,923 can she kill her attacker? 383 00:22:21,090 --> 00:22:24,469 The law says yes, absolutely. 384 00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:26,429 And what if her perception is wrong? 385 00:22:26,596 --> 00:22:29,474 If we let her go, do you realize what we are unleashing in this city? 386 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,268 There's always the weapons charge. 387 00:22:33,353 --> 00:22:34,896 You can't be serious. 388 00:22:35,063 --> 00:22:37,648 If we don't prosecute, we're creating a city of vigilantes. 389 00:22:37,815 --> 00:22:38,941 A man is dead. 390 00:22:39,108 --> 00:22:42,320 I don't need a summation. Now what do you want? 391 00:22:42,487 --> 00:22:44,739 Permission to file a murder indictment? 392 00:22:44,906 --> 00:22:46,532 You want to ask for deniability? 393 00:22:46,699 --> 00:22:49,827 I told you to file? Since when do I dictate to you? 394 00:22:49,994 --> 00:22:51,454 You don't have a problem? 395 00:22:51,621 --> 00:22:54,624 It's not my problem to have. 396 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:58,336 Robinette: No, I'm not a policeman. 397 00:22:58,503 --> 00:22:59,962 I work for the District Attorney's office. 398 00:23:00,129 --> 00:23:01,672 What do you want to know? 399 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:03,925 Is Miss di Biasi an RN? 400 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:06,552 No, a technician. She used to be a dancer. 401 00:23:06,719 --> 00:23:07,845 She told you that? 402 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:10,181 We're friends. She told me about it. 403 00:23:10,348 --> 00:23:12,725 She was performing with a modern dance company. 404 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,894 I don't know if she made a living at it. 405 00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:16,562 But you do know what happened? 406 00:23:16,729 --> 00:23:18,356 She was attacked… 407 00:23:18,523 --> 00:23:21,651 Down in the subway, by three youthful offenders. 408 00:23:21,818 --> 00:23:24,487 After she recovered, she came to work here. 409 00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:27,198 And what was her reaction to the attack? 410 00:23:27,365 --> 00:23:29,450 Same as anybody's. 411 00:23:29,617 --> 00:23:33,121 She was fearful, resentful of all the little… 412 00:23:33,996 --> 00:23:35,665 "Little" what? 413 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:40,628 "Little black bastards"? 414 00:23:43,172 --> 00:23:45,174 You see some black teenagers on the train, 415 00:23:45,341 --> 00:23:46,926 are you automatically afraid of them, Miss Maltese? 416 00:23:47,093 --> 00:23:49,429 Aren't you? 417 00:23:59,981 --> 00:24:02,775 Sometimes the stereotype fits. 418 00:24:04,152 --> 00:24:06,279 Long as the story's true. 419 00:24:06,446 --> 00:24:08,990 Cops have shot kids with screwdrivers before. Why not a 90-pound woman? 420 00:24:09,157 --> 00:24:11,826 How threatened could she have been? She sat down right next to them. 421 00:24:11,993 --> 00:24:13,494 She's got a right to sit anywhere she wants. 422 00:24:13,661 --> 00:24:16,581 So do the other passengers, but they moved away because it seemed prudent. 423 00:24:16,747 --> 00:24:19,917 Maybe she was tired of getting moved around by the mugging class. 424 00:24:20,084 --> 00:24:22,086 "The mugging class"? 425 00:24:22,253 --> 00:24:23,796 What's that about? 426 00:24:23,963 --> 00:24:26,048 You're an Assistant District Attorney. 427 00:24:26,215 --> 00:24:28,801 You work for the people. 428 00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:31,762 We follow the letter of the law here. 429 00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:34,348 Go talk to Chenault. 430 00:24:41,230 --> 00:24:43,065 My man tried… 431 00:24:43,232 --> 00:24:45,359 Scared her, 432 00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:47,862 maybe with a screwdriver, 433 00:24:48,863 --> 00:24:51,657 but we was just sitting there. 434 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:53,618 Cut the crap, Darnell, you weren't sitting, 435 00:24:53,784 --> 00:24:56,078 you were standing up in her face… everybody says so. 436 00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,206 I'm sitting here now, ain't I? 437 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:01,459 I'm going to be sitting for the rest of my life. 438 00:25:01,626 --> 00:25:02,877 So maybe you should lighten up on the 'tude. 439 00:25:03,044 --> 00:25:05,463 Nobody likes a wise-ass in a wheelchair. 440 00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:08,257 Whose side you on, anyway? 441 00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:12,803 Nobody's. 442 00:25:12,970 --> 00:25:14,597 I just want the truth. 443 00:25:14,764 --> 00:25:16,432 And I want payback, man. 444 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:19,310 Like I said, that's up to you. 445 00:25:21,312 --> 00:25:23,105 All right. 446 00:25:23,272 --> 00:25:26,359 All right… We had the screwdrivers. 447 00:25:26,526 --> 00:25:28,945 We were going to rob some lockers down at Grand Central. 448 00:25:29,111 --> 00:25:32,156 But we was never, ever, threatening to nobody, 449 00:25:32,323 --> 00:25:34,867 especially no white… chick. 450 00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:37,036 You were unthreatening enough so everybody was down the end of the train? 451 00:25:37,203 --> 00:25:40,748 Except her, man. She came in and sat down right next to us. 452 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:42,792 Now why you think that was, huh? 453 00:25:46,671 --> 00:25:50,341 Woman: Even with a court order, it'll take three working days. 454 00:25:50,508 --> 00:25:53,344 I'm afraid I can't wait. The wheels of justice are turning. 455 00:25:53,511 --> 00:25:55,221 Don't you guys have your own files? 456 00:25:55,388 --> 00:25:57,181 Hey, you're the paper of record. 457 00:25:59,308 --> 00:26:02,603 Green: If this were a Greek tragedy, I'd be guilty of hubris. 458 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:05,898 Public sentiment on my side, witnesses on my side, 459 00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,401 precedent on self-defense going back to the days 460 00:26:08,568 --> 00:26:10,403 of knights bashing each other over the head with… 461 00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:13,322 those whatchamacallit… Those spiked balls… 462 00:26:13,489 --> 00:26:15,575 Maces? Maces. 463 00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:17,451 Thank you. See what I mean? 464 00:26:17,618 --> 00:26:19,036 Now I am trying not to gloat, 465 00:26:19,203 --> 00:26:22,164 but what have you got on your side, Stone? 466 00:26:22,331 --> 00:26:24,792 Not very much, I agree. 467 00:26:24,959 --> 00:26:27,003 Only the New York penal law. 468 00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:30,172 I don't think we have to discuss the Sullivan statute… 469 00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:32,800 Concealed weapons have been illegal for the past 70 years. 470 00:26:32,967 --> 00:26:34,927 The code is also clear when it comes to self-defense. 471 00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:36,846 I'm afraid you have not convinced me 472 00:26:37,013 --> 00:26:38,514 that your client acted in a way 473 00:26:38,681 --> 00:26:41,434 proportional to imminent attack. Oh, come on. 474 00:26:41,601 --> 00:26:44,145 The defendant must also act in a way that is thwarting the attack, 475 00:26:44,312 --> 00:26:46,063 not inflicting grave injury on the victim. 476 00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:47,982 Let's get it down to single syllables, okay? 477 00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:49,900 The penal law also clearly allows 478 00:26:50,067 --> 00:26:52,570 for the use of deadly force to repel robbery, 479 00:26:52,737 --> 00:26:53,946 kidnapping, forcible sodomy 480 00:26:54,113 --> 00:26:57,074 and/or forcible rape. 481 00:26:57,241 --> 00:26:59,952 I don't see anything forcible about it. He was only asking. 482 00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:05,833 What kind of piggish attitude is that, Counselor? 483 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,002 Are you suggesting 484 00:27:08,169 --> 00:27:11,130 that my client was asking for it? 485 00:27:13,549 --> 00:27:16,344 Miss Green, this is not a personal attack, 486 00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:18,012 nor an attack upon the species. 487 00:27:18,179 --> 00:27:20,222 The fact is, there may have been some degree of threat, 488 00:27:20,389 --> 00:27:23,142 but where that becomes attempted rape is a fine line. 489 00:27:23,309 --> 00:27:26,395 Which all too many women of this city have been pushed across 490 00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:29,398 while they've been wondering, "Is this really happening to me?" 491 00:27:29,565 --> 00:27:33,569 The law is our only defense against the rapists and the shooters. 492 00:27:33,736 --> 00:27:35,905 People break it, cops try to catch them, 493 00:27:36,072 --> 00:27:37,323 and I try to cook them. It's my job. 494 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:40,159 Sometimes I don't like it, but it's all we got. 495 00:27:42,203 --> 00:27:44,038 Yeah. 496 00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:47,291 See you in court, Stone. 497 00:27:56,175 --> 00:28:00,137 Laura, D-I-B as in boy, I-A. 498 00:28:01,847 --> 00:28:04,433 "Letter to the editor"? That's all you got? 499 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,018 That's it. 500 00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:07,603 I owe you one. 501 00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:10,606 Robinette: "The police seemed to treat this vicious attack 502 00:28:10,773 --> 00:28:13,234 as 'just one of those things.' 503 00:28:13,401 --> 00:28:15,277 The authorities don't want decent people 504 00:28:15,444 --> 00:28:17,446 carrying weapons to protect themselves. 505 00:28:17,613 --> 00:28:20,449 We agree to give up this right on the assumption 506 00:28:20,616 --> 00:28:22,535 that the police will do the protecting for us. 507 00:28:22,702 --> 00:28:24,412 Obviously this is no longer the case. 508 00:28:24,578 --> 00:28:26,997 Laura di Biasi, New York City." 509 00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:31,961 The seeds of premeditation. Way to go. Yes? 510 00:28:32,128 --> 00:28:34,004 Secretary: Sergeant Greevey and Detective Logan are here. 511 00:28:34,171 --> 00:28:36,632 Send them in. Get a search warrant for her apartment. 512 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,260 There may be other letters. Some people keep copies. 513 00:28:41,095 --> 00:28:42,638 Stone: Want to run through it? 514 00:28:42,805 --> 00:28:44,807 Sure. 515 00:28:47,518 --> 00:28:51,522 Now Detective Greevey, describe for the court, if you will, 516 00:28:51,689 --> 00:28:54,150 the accused's state of mind when you questioned her. 517 00:28:54,316 --> 00:28:55,401 She was upset. 518 00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:04,493 She said she intended 519 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,371 to "blow their heads off," if necessary. 520 00:29:08,831 --> 00:29:10,791 Was that a question? 521 00:29:13,502 --> 00:29:15,796 Are we in the same room, Max? 522 00:29:17,631 --> 00:29:19,675 Look, we both know what went down. 523 00:29:19,842 --> 00:29:21,302 She was scared half out of her wits 524 00:29:21,469 --> 00:29:23,512 by those… two perps. 525 00:29:23,679 --> 00:29:26,766 Vi c t i m s, Max. Victims. What's going on? 526 00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:28,267 Meaning what? 527 00:29:28,434 --> 00:29:30,728 Meaning you were gung-ho about this before. What's happened? 528 00:29:37,485 --> 00:29:40,154 Michael Jones, the dead v i c t i m, 529 00:29:40,321 --> 00:29:42,823 the one the computer boys said was so clean 530 00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:44,784 you could eat off of him? Yeah? 531 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:48,579 The coroner sent out his fingerprints on a hunch, 532 00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:50,748 just to see, you know, for the hell of it. 533 00:29:50,915 --> 00:29:54,627 Turns out his real name's Michael Mosket! 534 00:29:54,794 --> 00:29:56,879 Whoa… "Mosquito Mosket"? 535 00:29:57,046 --> 00:29:58,547 Yeah, ring a bell? 536 00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:01,175 Attempted murder, negligent homicide? 537 00:30:01,342 --> 00:30:04,178 Two years at Spofford when he was 14 for manslaughter? 538 00:30:04,345 --> 00:30:06,138 Real winner, this kid. 539 00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:09,141 This is really going to win us points with the jury. 540 00:30:09,308 --> 00:30:10,601 They take one look at him, 541 00:30:10,768 --> 00:30:13,479 they figure the little bastard got just what he deserved. 542 00:30:13,646 --> 00:30:16,232 That's how you figure it, Max? I remember Mosket. 543 00:30:16,398 --> 00:30:19,235 That was all gang-related. There was no sex involved! 544 00:30:19,401 --> 00:30:20,820 Now as far as I read it, 545 00:30:20,986 --> 00:30:23,322 that girl was revenging the earlier attack, 546 00:30:23,489 --> 00:30:25,658 and self-defense does not allow for revenge! 547 00:30:25,825 --> 00:30:28,285 The law allowed Michael Mosket to walk free. 548 00:30:28,452 --> 00:30:31,163 Until real justice was served down in the subway? 549 00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,542 Do you have any other personal views on this subject 550 00:30:34,708 --> 00:30:36,460 you'd like to air before we walk into court 551 00:30:36,627 --> 00:30:39,338 and Ms. Shambala Green hands us our asses on a platter?! 552 00:30:41,215 --> 00:30:43,425 Nope, not a one. 553 00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:46,095 I don't believe this. 554 00:30:46,262 --> 00:30:48,889 The entire New York City Police Department's lost its mind. 555 00:30:49,056 --> 00:30:50,683 Do you have anything to say? 556 00:30:50,850 --> 00:30:53,352 I go along with what my partner says. 557 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:54,854 Which is…? 558 00:31:02,152 --> 00:31:04,822 The accused stated 559 00:31:04,989 --> 00:31:07,408 that she intended to harm the victims. 560 00:31:07,575 --> 00:31:09,952 Absolutely. 561 00:31:19,336 --> 00:31:21,714 Stone: The defense will prove that not only fear, 562 00:31:21,881 --> 00:31:24,383 but anger stemming from a previous incident, 563 00:31:24,550 --> 00:31:27,511 led Miss di Biasi to an act not of self-defense, 564 00:31:27,678 --> 00:31:29,013 but of vengeance. 565 00:31:29,179 --> 00:31:30,389 Armed with a deadly weapon, 566 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:33,601 she waited for the very next pretext… 567 00:31:33,767 --> 00:31:37,146 In essence, she went looking for Darnell Chenault and Michael Jones, 568 00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:39,815 whose only offense against the accused 569 00:31:39,982 --> 00:31:41,775 was that they appeared to be threatening. 570 00:31:41,942 --> 00:31:44,486 If Miss di Biasi is so threatened by urban life, 571 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:46,363 perhaps she could've avoided the subway. 572 00:31:46,530 --> 00:31:48,490 Objection! Objection, Your Honor. 573 00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:50,075 I trust there will be nothing further 574 00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:51,619 along that line, Counselor? 575 00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:54,663 Green: Of course I'm more than willing 576 00:31:54,830 --> 00:31:56,457 to make a statement. 577 00:31:56,624 --> 00:31:58,500 The behavior of the prosecution 578 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,169 is totally inappropriate. 579 00:32:00,336 --> 00:32:02,838 I find it incredible that a civil servant of this city 580 00:32:03,005 --> 00:32:05,758 could suggest that a woman doesn't have the right 581 00:32:05,925 --> 00:32:07,676 to ride the subway without fear. 582 00:32:07,843 --> 00:32:10,679 Mr. Stone, did you really mean to say that Laura di Biasi 583 00:32:10,846 --> 00:32:13,098 has no right to live in New York City? 584 00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:15,434 You're being a bit literal, aren't you? 585 00:32:15,601 --> 00:32:18,270 I don't think so. I think your implication was pretty clear. 586 00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:21,023 If a woman is afraid of rape, she has no right to live here. 587 00:32:21,190 --> 00:32:24,193 That's a curious position to take for a prosecutor. 588 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:48,884 Ballet books, poetry… 589 00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:52,012 Couple of how-to books on achieving orgasm. 590 00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:55,265 Oh, great. 591 00:32:55,432 --> 00:32:57,017 Now what? 592 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,896 Did you find anything incriminating? 593 00:33:01,063 --> 00:33:02,231 "Small Arms Manual," 594 00:33:02,398 --> 00:33:03,649 "Shoot to Kill," "Hand-to-hand Combat." 595 00:33:03,816 --> 00:33:05,275 So? Unusual bedtime stories. 596 00:33:05,442 --> 00:33:07,736 That's my business. 597 00:33:07,903 --> 00:33:09,363 I assume you have a warrant? 598 00:33:10,531 --> 00:33:13,075 Save it. 599 00:33:13,242 --> 00:33:15,577 Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you, I really am. 600 00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:16,912 I know you're going through a tough… 601 00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:19,081 Yeah, right… 602 00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:21,250 You know. 603 00:33:21,417 --> 00:33:24,545 I haven't slept a full hour since this whole thing started. 604 00:33:24,712 --> 00:33:27,131 Look, I should be going, and I'm sorry, 605 00:33:27,297 --> 00:33:29,216 but I have to take these. 606 00:33:29,383 --> 00:33:30,676 It's not enough you hang me, 607 00:33:30,843 --> 00:33:32,928 I have to buy you the rope, too, huh? 608 00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:38,809 What have you got against me? 609 00:33:39,601 --> 00:33:40,310 I'm sorry? 610 00:33:41,353 --> 00:33:43,689 I don't understand why you hate me. 611 00:33:43,856 --> 00:33:45,232 Look, I'm not free to dis… 612 00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:48,652 I don't. Of course I don't. 613 00:33:48,819 --> 00:33:50,154 Then why are you… 614 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,947 We really shouldn't be having this conversation. 615 00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:53,991 I wouldn't shoot you! 616 00:33:54,158 --> 00:33:56,076 Don't you understand? 617 00:33:58,871 --> 00:34:00,956 It all became unreal. 618 00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:03,292 It wasn't happening to me. 619 00:34:03,459 --> 00:34:06,336 All I could feel was fear. I was afraid of them. 620 00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:08,047 I was terrified! 621 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,799 Not because they were black, 622 00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:13,302 but because of who they were. 623 00:34:13,469 --> 00:34:15,387 I didn't mean to kill him. 624 00:34:15,554 --> 00:34:17,931 I couldn't make it stop. 625 00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:20,225 They wouldn't… it wouldn't… 626 00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:22,352 Please, that's enough. 627 00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:23,937 What if you were on a train, 628 00:34:24,104 --> 00:34:27,608 and a bunch of rednecks started hassling you? 629 00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:32,321 Wouldn't you be afraid? 630 00:34:34,531 --> 00:34:36,200 Wouldn't you?! 631 00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:40,621 Miss di Biasi, please. I'm sorry, 632 00:34:40,788 --> 00:34:41,955 I can't comment. 633 00:34:45,125 --> 00:34:47,294 I can't stay. 634 00:34:50,506 --> 00:34:54,343 I came by to give you my unconditional support. Only… 635 00:34:54,510 --> 00:34:56,428 "Number one, tone it down a little; 636 00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:58,388 number two, try a little damage control"? 637 00:34:58,555 --> 00:35:00,265 PR's not my job. 638 00:35:00,432 --> 00:35:01,642 You seen the papers? 639 00:35:01,809 --> 00:35:03,477 She was looking for it." 640 00:35:03,644 --> 00:35:05,187 They're having a field day out there. 641 00:35:05,354 --> 00:35:07,189 I can't help that. Our whole strategy 642 00:35:07,356 --> 00:35:09,066 is sandbagging the self-defense scenario. 643 00:35:09,233 --> 00:35:12,319 Even if she comes off a revenge seeker with a hair trigger? 644 00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:14,988 She pulled off five shots in three seconds. 645 00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:17,199 Excellent, but it would be nice, 646 00:35:17,366 --> 00:35:20,744 real nice, if we could have a concrete piece of evidence 647 00:35:20,911 --> 00:35:22,955 to support your revenge theory. 648 00:35:23,122 --> 00:35:24,581 DA Schiff. 649 00:35:24,748 --> 00:35:26,166 Paul. 650 00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:29,294 "Shoot to Kill"? 651 00:35:29,461 --> 00:35:31,296 Damage control. 652 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:34,216 I found all this in her bedroom. 653 00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:39,221 Check the dates. The first one was six months ago. 654 00:35:42,266 --> 00:35:44,017 Stone: She's improving. 655 00:35:52,526 --> 00:35:54,236 Wow. 656 00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:57,364 What were the extent of those injuries? 657 00:35:57,531 --> 00:35:59,158 They were fairly extensive. 658 00:35:59,324 --> 00:36:01,326 Could you describe them for me? 659 00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:04,288 They were tall, muscular, 660 00:36:04,454 --> 00:36:06,498 one had an Afro with a goatee… 661 00:36:06,665 --> 00:36:09,168 Stone: No, no, Miss di Biasi, I'll rephrase. 662 00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:11,086 Could you please explain 663 00:36:11,253 --> 00:36:13,005 and describe for the court 664 00:36:13,172 --> 00:36:14,590 the injuries? 665 00:36:14,756 --> 00:36:16,717 Oh. 666 00:36:17,759 --> 00:36:19,845 I had a shattered disc in my back, 667 00:36:20,012 --> 00:36:21,805 some broken ribs, 668 00:36:21,972 --> 00:36:24,016 torn cartilage in the right knee. 669 00:36:24,183 --> 00:36:27,144 And these injuries required several operations, didn't they? 670 00:36:27,311 --> 00:36:28,937 Yes, several. 671 00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:31,982 Stone: Three? Five? 672 00:36:32,149 --> 00:36:34,568 Four, I think. Five. 673 00:36:36,403 --> 00:36:37,738 I don't know. 674 00:36:37,905 --> 00:36:39,281 They hurt me, isn't that enough? 675 00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:41,325 Yes, of course. 676 00:36:41,491 --> 00:36:43,619 And no one blames you for being resentful. 677 00:36:45,621 --> 00:36:48,332 These injuries finished you as a dancer, didn't they? 678 00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:53,629 Yes. 679 00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:55,631 That seem fair to you? 680 00:36:55,797 --> 00:36:57,507 I object, Your Honor. What's the relevancy? 681 00:36:57,674 --> 00:36:59,301 I'll allow it. 682 00:37:02,304 --> 00:37:03,764 No. 683 00:37:03,931 --> 00:37:05,766 No, it wasn't fair. 684 00:37:05,933 --> 00:37:07,476 I think it's grossly unfair. 685 00:37:07,643 --> 00:37:09,770 I'm sure if I were in your position, 686 00:37:09,937 --> 00:37:11,271 I'd carry a 9mm, too. 687 00:37:11,438 --> 00:37:12,981 Objection! Withdrawn. 688 00:37:13,148 --> 00:37:15,359 Miss di Biasi… 689 00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:19,404 in your dreams, in your fantasies, 690 00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:22,199 did you ever wish 691 00:37:22,366 --> 00:37:24,618 you'd gotten back at those youths? 692 00:37:24,785 --> 00:37:26,662 Green: Objection. Objection. 693 00:37:26,828 --> 00:37:28,288 Your Honor, this is unbelievable. 694 00:37:28,455 --> 00:37:31,416 She was defending herself against a man who's been accused 695 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:33,168 of multiple homicides. 696 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:36,505 Mr. Mosket's priors have no bearing on this case, Judge. 697 00:37:36,672 --> 00:37:38,423 Nor, of course, could she have known about them. 698 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:40,342 Judge: Overruled. 699 00:37:40,509 --> 00:37:42,844 Besides, he wasn't the only threat, was he? 700 00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:49,184 Who else did you find threatening, Miss di Biasi? 701 00:37:50,185 --> 00:37:51,812 Mr. Chenault? 702 00:37:57,734 --> 00:38:00,570 What exactly did he say? 703 00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:06,660 He said… 704 00:38:07,995 --> 00:38:10,539 "How about a taste… 705 00:38:10,706 --> 00:38:12,624 for my friend?" 706 00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:14,459 Which you took 707 00:38:14,626 --> 00:38:16,878 as an overture to rape? 708 00:38:17,045 --> 00:38:20,048 He was crowding me, he was right up against me. 709 00:38:20,215 --> 00:38:21,425 Who, Mr. Chenault? 710 00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:23,051 Mr. Mosket? Both of them? 711 00:38:23,218 --> 00:38:25,637 Yes! No. 712 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,473 I don't know. At least one. 713 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,976 And you tried to get away? Yes, of course. 714 00:38:31,143 --> 00:38:32,394 The second time, too? 715 00:38:32,561 --> 00:38:33,770 Yes. 716 00:38:33,937 --> 00:38:35,814 That's why you shot him the second time, to get away? 717 00:38:35,981 --> 00:38:37,190 Objection, Your Honor. 718 00:38:37,357 --> 00:38:39,484 Why did you shoot Darnell Chenault 719 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:41,069 a second time, Miss di Biasi? 720 00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:43,363 I was petrified. I wanted to make sure. 721 00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:46,366 So you said, "Here's your taste." 722 00:39:08,347 --> 00:39:11,099 You said, "Here's your taste." 723 00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:13,018 Sounds rather cool. 724 00:39:13,185 --> 00:39:15,479 Green: Objection, Your Honor. No further questions. 725 00:39:21,985 --> 00:39:23,862 Miss di Biasi, you say 726 00:39:24,029 --> 00:39:26,573 you "didn't have time to think." 727 00:39:28,367 --> 00:39:30,744 Nor should anyone be required to think 728 00:39:30,911 --> 00:39:33,163 when faced with grave bodily harm. 729 00:39:33,330 --> 00:39:35,123 The human response is not to think, 730 00:39:35,290 --> 00:39:36,792 but to react. 731 00:39:36,958 --> 00:39:39,211 Miss Green, get on with it. 732 00:39:41,630 --> 00:39:43,840 "Detached reflection 733 00:39:44,007 --> 00:39:46,385 cannot be demanded in the presence 734 00:39:46,551 --> 00:39:48,345 of an uplifted knife." 735 00:39:48,512 --> 00:39:50,847 Or screwdriver. 736 00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:52,891 Objection, Your Honor, this has no bearing 737 00:39:53,058 --> 00:39:54,476 on why Miss di Biasi was waiting… 738 00:39:54,643 --> 00:39:56,186 This has all the bearing in the world. 739 00:39:56,353 --> 00:39:58,522 A lot more than the Jesuitical casuistry 740 00:39:58,688 --> 00:40:01,191 offered up by the District Attorney. 741 00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:03,735 May we approach the bench, Your Honor? 742 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:06,321 If you can be brief. 743 00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:12,452 Your Honor, 744 00:40:12,619 --> 00:40:14,287 the speed of the events, 745 00:40:14,454 --> 00:40:15,997 the timeframe of my client's reaction, 746 00:40:16,164 --> 00:40:17,624 is crucial to my defense. 747 00:40:17,791 --> 00:40:19,960 I'd like permission to stage 748 00:40:20,127 --> 00:40:21,461 a demonstration of the incident, 749 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,171 if it please the court? 750 00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:25,048 Isn't this enough of a circus, Your Honor? 751 00:40:25,215 --> 00:40:27,217 I'll decide that. 752 00:40:28,343 --> 00:40:30,387 All right, but I warn you, Miss Green, 753 00:40:30,554 --> 00:40:32,722 I don't want to see any undue theatrics. 754 00:40:32,889 --> 00:40:34,224 Thank you, Your Honor. 755 00:40:34,391 --> 00:40:36,059 Judge: Ladies and gentlemen, 756 00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:38,186 the court has agreed to allow the defense 757 00:40:38,353 --> 00:40:42,107 to stage a re-enactment of the occurrence in question. 758 00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:52,784 Crime Stoppers! Your Honor, these people 759 00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:55,078 are on record as supporting the vigilante tactics… 760 00:40:55,245 --> 00:40:57,205 If that's an objection, you're overruled. 761 00:40:58,331 --> 00:41:00,083 Judge: Proceed, Miss Green. 762 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:27,152 How about a taste, baby? 763 00:41:27,319 --> 00:41:30,280 Man, what the homeboys doing, narcing for the white folks?! 764 00:41:30,447 --> 00:41:32,199 Order! Order! 765 00:41:32,365 --> 00:41:33,742 Huh?! Little punks! 766 00:41:33,909 --> 00:41:35,368 Get off of me! Get off of me! 767 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,287 Come on, you bunch of freaks! 768 00:41:39,873 --> 00:41:43,001 Judge: Order! Order! 769 00:41:43,168 --> 00:41:44,961 If the Crime Stoppers didn't do it, 770 00:41:45,128 --> 00:41:47,631 Darnell sure as hell did. So how much worse can it get? 771 00:41:47,797 --> 00:41:50,217 Not much. I want you up there for the rest of the day. 772 00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:52,135 What, an antidote to brother Darnell? 773 00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:53,845 The name on everyone's lips. 774 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:56,806 I got a woman down the hall who can't stop talking about him. 775 00:41:59,476 --> 00:42:02,270 I'll… I'll sign a complaint, 776 00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,272 point the finger, you name it. 777 00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:07,067 You recognized Mr. Chenault how, from seeing him on the news? 778 00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:08,652 Uh-huh, that's right. 779 00:42:08,818 --> 00:42:11,696 And the other one, the one that died… 780 00:42:11,863 --> 00:42:13,073 Mosquito Mosket? 781 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:14,783 Mm-hmm. 782 00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:18,036 Yeah. Too bad. 783 00:42:18,203 --> 00:42:19,996 I mean, he's… 784 00:42:20,163 --> 00:42:23,166 He's the one that tried to rape me. 785 00:42:23,333 --> 00:42:25,752 That I'm sure of. And I'm pretty sure 786 00:42:25,919 --> 00:42:28,296 that the guy in the wheelchair, he held me down. 787 00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:30,340 How sure is "pretty sure," Miss Diamond? 788 00:42:30,507 --> 00:42:33,385 Like I said, I'm positive 789 00:42:33,552 --> 00:42:35,345 of the one that died. 790 00:42:47,023 --> 00:42:50,819 Adam, I need to twist Darnell. I need your permission. 791 00:42:50,986 --> 00:42:52,571 Yeah, what are you talking about? 792 00:42:52,737 --> 00:42:54,531 There's a woman right now with Stevenson 793 00:42:54,698 --> 00:42:56,199 swearing out a complaint about Chenault. 794 00:42:56,366 --> 00:42:57,909 What's that got to do with anything? 795 00:42:58,076 --> 00:42:59,327 Maybe nothing, maybe everything. 796 00:42:59,494 --> 00:43:00,996 But if those two are rape-happy, I want to know that 797 00:43:01,162 --> 00:43:03,873 before I go tearing into Laura di Biasi again. 798 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,377 Can't anyone around here stay on the same side of the street for 10 seconds? 799 00:43:07,544 --> 00:43:09,004 Well? 800 00:43:09,170 --> 00:43:11,381 If we change our tune now, 801 00:43:11,548 --> 00:43:13,466 we're facing a public relations disaster. 802 00:43:13,633 --> 00:43:15,468 I know that. You don't have to tell me that. 803 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:17,721 But if I don't listen to my reasonable doubt… 804 00:43:17,887 --> 00:43:19,347 I thought Mosket was a gang member… 805 00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:22,851 Violent, but no history of sexual crimes. With what I know now, 806 00:43:23,018 --> 00:43:24,728 the defendant's perceptions may be accurate. 807 00:43:24,894 --> 00:43:27,564 I can't prosecute on that level. All right, but we've got to consider… 808 00:43:27,731 --> 00:43:29,232 I won't do it. 809 00:43:29,399 --> 00:43:31,192 What the hell, go for it. 810 00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:34,446 I'll ask Leon for a continuance. 811 00:43:34,613 --> 00:43:37,949 Damn, cuz, slow down! What do you want, man? 812 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:40,035 The truth. 813 00:43:40,201 --> 00:43:42,871 Look, I was sitting down, man, 814 00:43:43,038 --> 00:43:44,873 just like I'm sitting down now. 815 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,000 I didn't even move a muscle. 816 00:43:47,167 --> 00:43:51,171 Damn, man, Mosquito's the one into biting on white chicks. 817 00:43:56,051 --> 00:43:58,803 Judge: This is rather unbelievable, Mr. Stone. 818 00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:01,765 The defense has an obligation to defend its client vigorously 819 00:44:01,931 --> 00:44:03,725 even if it has knowledge of the client's guilt. 820 00:44:03,892 --> 00:44:06,394 The prosecutor's job is much more restrictive. 821 00:44:06,561 --> 00:44:10,148 I have to drop the charges if I believe the accused is innocent, 822 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:13,526 and with the new information on Mosket, I have no choice. 823 00:44:13,693 --> 00:44:15,612 There is reasonable doubt on murder two. 824 00:44:15,779 --> 00:44:17,322 So what are you looking for? 825 00:44:17,489 --> 00:44:19,699 That she plead on the gun charge 826 00:44:19,866 --> 00:44:21,660 and the reckless endangerment… 827 00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:26,081 Chenault was shot sitting down according to an eyewitness. 828 00:44:26,247 --> 00:44:27,666 Miss Green? 829 00:44:27,832 --> 00:44:29,751 Forget it, Judge. 830 00:44:29,918 --> 00:44:32,545 Mr. Stone is hardly in a position to negotiate. 831 00:44:32,712 --> 00:44:34,589 Why don't we just go back in there, 832 00:44:34,756 --> 00:44:36,758 tell the jury the truth about Mosket, 833 00:44:36,925 --> 00:44:38,885 and let them decide how to deal with my client? 834 00:44:41,554 --> 00:44:43,765 You are a Public Defender. 835 00:44:43,932 --> 00:44:47,018 Try defending the public. If this goes to a jury, 836 00:44:47,185 --> 00:44:49,270 they won't convict on the gun charge. 837 00:44:49,437 --> 00:44:51,231 She is innocent. 838 00:44:51,398 --> 00:44:54,275 Miss Laura di Biasi is not innocent 839 00:44:54,442 --> 00:44:56,736 of carrying and discharging a lethal weapon 840 00:44:56,903 --> 00:44:59,197 in a closed and crowded subway car. 841 00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:02,534 And if we acquit her on this, we will be inviting 842 00:45:02,701 --> 00:45:05,912 nine million people to arm themselves. 843 00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:07,872 This is not a question of win or lose, 844 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:09,541 it's a question of justice. 845 00:45:13,461 --> 00:45:15,588 We're both paid by the people. 846 00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:17,924 We're both part of the system. 847 00:45:18,091 --> 00:45:20,927 Let's let it work the way it's supposed to. 848 00:45:24,431 --> 00:45:27,684 Are you flexible on sentencing 849 00:45:27,851 --> 00:45:29,394 for the Sullivan violation? 850 00:45:29,561 --> 00:45:31,062 One year suspended, 851 00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:32,772 three years' probation, 852 00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:36,067 2000 hours of community service on the Sullivan. 853 00:45:36,234 --> 00:45:39,571 Five years suspended on the reckless endangerment. 854 00:45:39,738 --> 00:45:42,657 Plus she must submit to a psyche profile test, 855 00:45:42,824 --> 00:45:45,577 and whatever care mandated by the hospital during probation. 856 00:45:46,536 --> 00:45:48,455 Deal? 857 00:45:53,626 --> 00:45:56,337 Naturally, my client is gratified 858 00:45:56,504 --> 00:45:57,756 that justice has been served. 859 00:45:57,922 --> 00:46:01,176 We look upon this as not only a personal vindication, 860 00:46:01,342 --> 00:46:04,345 but also a victory for every woman and man 861 00:46:04,512 --> 00:46:07,182 that rides the subways or walks the streets of New York. 862 00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:09,684 And I want to thank the district attorneys 863 00:46:09,851 --> 00:46:12,270 for having the courage of their convictions. 864 00:46:12,437 --> 00:46:14,355 It's not a perfect world, 865 00:46:14,522 --> 00:46:16,191 but at least we can walk away from this one 866 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:17,525 feeling we did the right thing. 867 00:46:17,692 --> 00:46:19,611 Really? It feels to me like all we did 868 00:46:19,778 --> 00:46:22,280 was make the wrong seem like a right.