1 00:00:00,793 --> 00:00:03,754 Narrator: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented 2 00:00:03,921 --> 00:00:06,382 by two separate yet equally important groups… 3 00:00:06,549 --> 00:00:08,259 The police who investigate crime, 4 00:00:08,426 --> 00:00:11,178 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,345 --> 00:00:13,097 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,265 --> 00:00:16,767 Upstairs neighbor complained about the smell. 7 00:00:16,934 --> 00:00:19,937 Don't worry, Max. It's just three more flights. 8 00:00:22,023 --> 00:00:24,233 Didn't somebody find the coffee yet? 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,360 Max: Whew. 10 00:00:35,536 --> 00:00:37,204 Yo, Profaci! 11 00:00:41,459 --> 00:00:43,127 Hey, Mikey. 12 00:00:48,299 --> 00:00:51,218 Holland, Bobby. 26, 27? 13 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:53,846 Shot in the back of the head. Probably two days. 14 00:00:54,013 --> 00:00:56,682 Ask me, it was probably a dealer. 15 00:00:58,517 --> 00:01:01,187 Weapon? Still looking. 16 00:01:01,353 --> 00:01:03,981 Who shoots in the head besides dealers? 17 00:01:05,066 --> 00:01:06,734 A robber who gets surprised? 18 00:01:06,901 --> 00:01:09,403 A burglar so surprised… 19 00:01:09,570 --> 00:01:12,615 he leaves behind a full wallet? 20 00:02:38,075 --> 00:02:40,119 Man: It needs a paint job. 21 00:02:40,286 --> 00:02:43,998 The guy's dead. If they had a decent door downstairs. 22 00:02:44,165 --> 00:02:46,125 I'm below him. In 2A. 23 00:02:46,292 --> 00:02:47,585 Did you ever talk to him? 24 00:02:47,751 --> 00:02:49,753 He listened to sad music. 25 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,423 Piano stuff. Gershwin. 26 00:02:52,590 --> 00:02:55,593 Left early. Came home late. 27 00:02:55,759 --> 00:02:57,595 You see anybody with him Saturday night? 28 00:02:57,761 --> 00:02:59,972 Saturday night, about 1:30 29 00:03:00,139 --> 00:03:01,849 I'm coming back from Symphony Space. 30 00:03:02,016 --> 00:03:03,684 This guy tears past me. 31 00:03:03,851 --> 00:03:05,477 You get a good look at him? 32 00:03:05,644 --> 00:03:08,480 1:00 a.m., guy goes running down the steps in this city? 33 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:10,024 I've learned not to look. 34 00:03:12,651 --> 00:03:15,654 Brownstones, they're invitations to get robbed. 35 00:03:15,821 --> 00:03:17,489 How many sets of prints have you got? 36 00:03:17,656 --> 00:03:19,909 I've got partials from about a dozen people. 37 00:03:20,075 --> 00:03:21,952 It's what you'd expect. 38 00:03:22,119 --> 00:03:23,829 Unless somebody wiped the place down. 39 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:25,998 You run them? No match. 40 00:03:26,165 --> 00:03:28,000 None of his friends had records. 41 00:03:28,167 --> 00:03:30,336 Neither did he. 42 00:03:30,502 --> 00:03:32,004 Man: What'd they used to say? 43 00:03:32,171 --> 00:03:34,131 "Live fast, die young, 44 00:03:34,298 --> 00:03:35,925 leave a beautiful corpse." 45 00:03:36,091 --> 00:03:39,011 Whoever shot this one, didn't care about beautiful. 46 00:03:39,178 --> 00:03:40,846 You should have seen the apartment. 47 00:03:41,013 --> 00:03:42,723 It was more trashed than the victim. 48 00:03:42,890 --> 00:03:44,934 Not to boil your coffee or anything, but… 49 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:47,853 a guy fights with a burglar. 50 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:49,855 He gets banged up. 51 00:03:50,022 --> 00:03:51,357 Not the late Mr. Holland. 52 00:03:51,523 --> 00:03:54,026 Not a bruise, not a mark, not a scratch on the body, 53 00:03:54,193 --> 00:03:57,488 just a nice, clean .38 entrance wound. 54 00:03:57,655 --> 00:03:59,698 Close range? A foot, maybe 18 inches. 55 00:03:59,865 --> 00:04:01,825 Powder burns, stippling. 56 00:04:01,992 --> 00:04:04,245 Check both hands? They're clean. 57 00:04:04,411 --> 00:04:06,622 Not a trace of powder. The guy didn't shoot himself. 58 00:04:06,789 --> 00:04:08,666 That's dead certain. 59 00:04:14,296 --> 00:04:16,215 Mrs. Holland: Bobby was big. He… 60 00:04:16,382 --> 00:04:19,677 When he was born he was over 1 1 pounds. 61 00:04:20,719 --> 00:04:23,055 He was… he's always been big. 62 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:25,599 They… 63 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:29,061 Don't attack big people. I read it in "The Post." 64 00:04:31,939 --> 00:04:34,191 Could you tell us about your son's friends, 65 00:04:34,358 --> 00:04:36,610 places he used to hang out? 66 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:40,572 He… he… 67 00:04:40,739 --> 00:04:43,117 He kept to himself… a lot. 68 00:04:43,284 --> 00:04:45,661 He didn't have a lot of friends. 69 00:04:47,579 --> 00:04:49,456 I should go get his mail. 70 00:04:51,917 --> 00:04:53,919 Bobby have any… brothers? 71 00:04:54,086 --> 00:04:54,962 Sisters? 72 00:04:57,798 --> 00:05:00,718 After Bobby, we didn't have anymore. 73 00:05:04,096 --> 00:05:05,931 He was a very difficult birth. 74 00:05:06,098 --> 00:05:07,933 I'm… I had… 75 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,060 Well, there was just… 76 00:05:10,227 --> 00:05:12,354 I've no more children. 77 00:05:15,441 --> 00:05:17,234 And now we've lost him. 78 00:05:17,401 --> 00:05:21,405 Mr. Holland: We lost him when he moved over the bridge. 79 00:05:32,291 --> 00:05:34,460 Max: Personal possessions. 80 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:37,379 Things they found on him when he was brought in. 81 00:05:37,546 --> 00:05:39,757 Would you sign for them, please? 82 00:05:39,923 --> 00:05:41,759 Took the watch, huh? 83 00:05:41,925 --> 00:05:44,136 An Omega, big heavy job. 84 00:05:44,303 --> 00:05:46,138 Steel. 85 00:05:46,305 --> 00:05:49,183 High school graduation, it cost me a week's pay. 86 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:51,685 The band? 87 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:53,687 It had links. Tight. 88 00:05:53,854 --> 00:05:57,566 Steel, too. He wore it to work without worry. 89 00:05:59,610 --> 00:06:02,571 When he first moved to the city I bought him a gun. 90 00:06:03,822 --> 00:06:06,408 A pistol? A .38, it was licensed. 91 00:06:06,575 --> 00:06:08,327 I told him, "Keep it next to the bed." 92 00:06:08,494 --> 00:06:10,662 Why didn't he defend himself? 93 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:13,665 You got a big tough guy, big enough 94 00:06:13,832 --> 00:06:15,667 to toss most people around like a pillow. 95 00:06:15,834 --> 00:06:18,003 There's always somebody bigger. 96 00:06:18,170 --> 00:06:20,089 The apartment looked like Beirut. 97 00:06:20,255 --> 00:06:22,174 And our vic, not a bruise or a cut. 98 00:06:22,341 --> 00:06:25,010 You fight with a crackhead, you'll get hit, something. 99 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:27,679 A bullet in the head is not something? 100 00:06:27,846 --> 00:06:30,140 How'd the perp get in? Fire escape. 101 00:06:30,307 --> 00:06:32,434 Nope. One door, no fire escape. 102 00:06:32,601 --> 00:06:34,853 Then, maybe we're talking about a friend here. 103 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:37,147 A friend with a grudge? You got something better? 104 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:41,068 Maybe you should go out, shake up the ground a little, see who he knew. 105 00:06:44,154 --> 00:06:46,281 Workman: Drop that rope! 106 00:06:46,448 --> 00:06:49,326 Mark it down-side off. 107 00:06:50,869 --> 00:06:52,913 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Right there! Hold up! 108 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,707 I hope to God you get who did it. 109 00:06:55,874 --> 00:06:58,293 Bobby was a good man. 110 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,087 Women problems? 111 00:07:00,254 --> 00:07:02,297 Bobby didn't cat around. 112 00:07:03,298 --> 00:07:05,259 Gamble? 113 00:07:05,426 --> 00:07:07,136 Not even a football pool. 114 00:07:07,302 --> 00:07:09,888 Bobby Holland hang out after work? 115 00:07:10,055 --> 00:07:11,849 Didn't even come to union meetings. 116 00:07:12,015 --> 00:07:14,435 Mr. Massacio, come on, he must have hung out with somebody. 117 00:07:14,601 --> 00:07:16,270 Go ask Suarez… 118 00:07:16,437 --> 00:07:18,689 Angel. Sometimes they had lunch together. 119 00:07:18,856 --> 00:07:20,107 Thanks. 120 00:07:24,736 --> 00:07:27,030 Angel Suarez? 121 00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:29,575 Detective Logan. Sergeant Greevey. 122 00:07:33,704 --> 00:07:35,581 I already heard about Bobby. 123 00:07:35,747 --> 00:07:37,124 Were you a friend of his? 124 00:07:38,375 --> 00:07:41,295 I knew him. Real broken up, huh? 125 00:07:41,462 --> 00:07:43,255 If I knew who did him I'd let you know. 126 00:07:43,422 --> 00:07:44,715 Where were you Saturday night? 127 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,178 In San Juan, visiting my parents. 128 00:07:49,344 --> 00:07:51,472 I got back Sunday night. 129 00:07:53,348 --> 00:07:54,892 You want to see my plane ticket? 130 00:07:56,602 --> 00:07:58,437 We're talking murder, here. 131 00:07:59,897 --> 00:08:02,483 Look, the night Bobby got it he was having a drink 132 00:08:02,649 --> 00:08:05,652 with a friend… Lois Rivera. 133 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:09,781 She has a gourmet sandwich cart on the Upper West Side. 134 00:08:09,948 --> 00:08:12,242 If you guys find the killer 135 00:08:12,409 --> 00:08:15,496 and wanna save the state the price of a trial, gimme a call. 136 00:08:20,709 --> 00:08:22,127 Thanks. 137 00:08:22,294 --> 00:08:24,630 That night, before I met my sister, 138 00:08:24,796 --> 00:08:26,757 I had a drink with Bobby. 139 00:08:28,258 --> 00:08:30,135 We talked a while about nothing really. 140 00:08:30,302 --> 00:08:32,721 I just told him he should go back to school. 141 00:08:32,888 --> 00:08:35,098 City College, part-time. 142 00:08:35,265 --> 00:08:37,726 Bobby was real smart. 143 00:08:38,936 --> 00:08:41,313 He knew a lot about music. He read a lot of books. 144 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,232 Anybody want to hurt him? 145 00:08:46,193 --> 00:08:48,737 No. Nobody I could think of. 146 00:08:48,904 --> 00:08:51,198 Where'd he go after he left you? 147 00:08:54,785 --> 00:08:56,620 It's Lois, right? 148 00:08:56,787 --> 00:08:57,955 Listen. 149 00:08:58,121 --> 00:09:00,916 Somebody blew your boyfriend's brains out 150 00:09:01,083 --> 00:09:03,001 with a .38, okay? 151 00:09:05,254 --> 00:09:08,632 He went to a bar downtown, Paradise Lost. 152 00:09:13,053 --> 00:09:16,473 Look, I really wasn't Bobby's girl. 153 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,809 Just a good friend. 154 00:09:24,815 --> 00:09:26,775 Bobby was gay. 155 00:09:33,115 --> 00:09:35,325 You couldn't miss the guy. Logan: Why not? 156 00:09:35,492 --> 00:09:38,370 The kind of crowd we get. You know, average guys. 157 00:09:38,537 --> 00:09:41,498 Construction workers. Grad students from NYU. 158 00:09:41,665 --> 00:09:43,500 Easy mix. Neighborhood. 159 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:46,128 So here's this character dressed kind of charivari. 160 00:09:46,295 --> 00:09:48,005 Black t-shirt, gray silk jacket. 161 00:09:48,171 --> 00:09:50,173 You know the look, "I'm cool and you're not." 162 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:52,175 You ever seen him with Holland before? 163 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:55,262 Bobby doesn't come in a lot, lately, 164 00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:58,307 more like after work for a Michelob. 165 00:09:58,473 --> 00:10:00,434 The silk jacket and Bobby 166 00:10:00,601 --> 00:10:02,561 were sitting over there. 167 00:10:02,728 --> 00:10:05,480 Couldn't hear them, then they were gone. 168 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:09,818 Silk jacket… Want to know the truth? 169 00:10:09,985 --> 00:10:11,903 I thought he was a hustler. 170 00:10:12,070 --> 00:10:16,074 Something about him. I don't know. 171 00:10:18,869 --> 00:10:21,163 I don't know. 172 00:10:22,539 --> 00:10:24,583 Logan: So he was rough trade. 173 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:26,293 So they do their thing. 174 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:28,920 Mr. Silk Jacket does it all. 175 00:10:29,087 --> 00:10:31,381 Sex. Kills the guy. Then trashes the place 176 00:10:31,548 --> 00:10:32,883 looking for something to take. 177 00:10:33,050 --> 00:10:36,011 Yeah, and the odds on finding him? 178 00:10:36,178 --> 00:10:39,765 About as good as finding true love at Paradise Lost. 179 00:10:39,931 --> 00:10:42,184 Max: I don't know. His parents, his boss, 180 00:10:42,351 --> 00:10:44,394 his coworkers, his neighbors… 181 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:46,355 No one knew this guy was gay. 182 00:10:46,521 --> 00:10:48,523 They're out there, I don't see them either. 183 00:10:48,690 --> 00:10:52,527 Think a lot of cops are gay? No way, man. 184 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:54,488 Department's got a special test. 185 00:10:54,655 --> 00:10:57,074 They look you in the eye, if your left eye blinks 186 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,576 before your right eye they know you're gay. 187 00:11:05,582 --> 00:11:07,751 They say one in 10, Max. 188 00:11:07,918 --> 00:11:10,295 That's a lot. They just fade in. 189 00:11:11,505 --> 00:11:14,925 Silk Jacket? Five to one he's not in any of these. 190 00:11:15,092 --> 00:11:17,135 Good news and bad news. 191 00:11:17,302 --> 00:11:20,555 The good news is somebody just walked in and confessed? 192 00:11:20,722 --> 00:11:23,266 The good news is they found the gun. 193 00:11:23,433 --> 00:11:25,102 Empty lot, six blocks away. 194 00:11:25,268 --> 00:11:26,395 Bad news, wiped clean. 195 00:11:26,561 --> 00:11:28,772 Registration? You're gonna love this. 196 00:11:28,939 --> 00:11:31,191 Your vic, Bobby Holland. 197 00:11:31,358 --> 00:11:33,402 Terrific. 198 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,495 Bobby was always popular with the girls. 199 00:11:43,662 --> 00:11:45,831 He was a halfback on the football team. 200 00:11:45,997 --> 00:11:49,376 He was on the student council. He was king of the prom. 201 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:52,713 He hid his magazines under the mattress. 202 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:54,840 "Playboy." 203 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,261 My son was not homosexual! 204 00:12:07,185 --> 00:12:10,355 She knows. She just can't admit it. 205 00:12:10,522 --> 00:12:13,066 Can you? Bobby had everything going for him. 206 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:15,193 Any girl he wanted. 207 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,696 His friends would come over, hang out in the yard… 208 00:12:17,863 --> 00:12:19,656 Just to be around him. 209 00:12:19,823 --> 00:12:22,159 Have him throw the football, like that. 210 00:12:23,326 --> 00:12:26,037 When he dropped his high school girlfriend… 211 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:30,500 Beauty. She was a beauty. 212 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:32,169 Gorgeous. 213 00:12:32,335 --> 00:12:34,504 He moved to Manhattan. 214 00:12:37,007 --> 00:12:39,176 I go to visit him in the city. 215 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:42,471 Sometimes… I… 216 00:12:42,637 --> 00:12:44,347 I just stare. 217 00:12:44,514 --> 00:12:47,517 He looked like everybody else. 218 00:12:47,684 --> 00:12:49,603 He talked like everybody else. 219 00:12:49,770 --> 00:12:52,355 Max: Do you know if he brought people home a lot? 220 00:12:52,522 --> 00:12:54,107 I told him, 221 00:12:54,274 --> 00:12:56,693 "You don't know what kind of nuts you're meeting. 222 00:12:56,860 --> 00:12:58,862 There's all kinds of loonies out there." 223 00:12:59,029 --> 00:13:01,907 That's… that's when I bought him the gun. 224 00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:03,909 Logan: What about boyfriends? 225 00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:05,786 He ever tell you anything about any of them? 226 00:13:05,952 --> 00:13:08,997 What'd I want to hear? Want to rub my nose in it? 227 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:16,713 He mentioned one guy. 228 00:13:18,715 --> 00:13:20,467 A… Angel. 229 00:13:23,053 --> 00:13:25,388 Angel… somebody. 230 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,604 Denny Massacio in there, what do you think he'd say, 231 00:13:32,771 --> 00:13:36,024 you told him Bobby was gay? Or that you are? 232 00:13:36,191 --> 00:13:38,485 He'd never believe it. He'd laugh. 233 00:13:38,652 --> 00:13:40,237 And that's how I want it. 234 00:13:40,403 --> 00:13:42,697 What about you and Bobby Holland? 235 00:13:44,866 --> 00:13:46,535 I used to hate being gay. 236 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,703 I used to make fag jokes all the time. 237 00:13:48,870 --> 00:13:50,789 You know, the way blacks call each other nigger? 238 00:13:51,122 --> 00:13:54,668 Anyway, Bobby would never let me get away with it. 239 00:13:54,835 --> 00:13:57,337 I was in love with Bobby. 240 00:13:59,631 --> 00:14:01,383 So you take a weekend out of town, 241 00:14:01,550 --> 00:14:03,593 and he picks up somebody else, huh? 242 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,097 Six, eight weeks ago he started seeing somebody new. 243 00:14:08,682 --> 00:14:10,267 We were over. 244 00:14:10,433 --> 00:14:13,603 I don't know what this guy had for him, but they met at the gym. 245 00:14:13,770 --> 00:14:16,398 You know his name? He lives somewhere on the East Side. 246 00:14:16,565 --> 00:14:18,441 Jack. 247 00:14:18,608 --> 00:14:20,485 I don't know his last name. 248 00:14:23,321 --> 00:14:25,949 Gray silk jacket named Jack. 249 00:14:26,116 --> 00:14:27,784 Great. 250 00:14:27,951 --> 00:14:29,661 A bullet to the head. 251 00:14:29,828 --> 00:14:31,538 This case, I heard about it before. 252 00:14:31,705 --> 00:14:32,956 What are you a psychic now? 253 00:14:33,123 --> 00:14:34,958 A month ago, maybe two. 254 00:14:35,125 --> 00:14:36,835 The same kind of killing. 255 00:14:37,002 --> 00:14:38,753 Gay bashing? I read about it. 256 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,798 "Time," "Newsweek," last week or the week before. 257 00:14:44,426 --> 00:14:47,470 You sure you didn't read about this in your dreams? 258 00:14:47,637 --> 00:14:49,723 "California." 259 00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:52,392 "Redwoods." 260 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:54,561 "Michelle Pfeiffer." 261 00:14:56,187 --> 00:14:58,189 One of them interests you. 262 00:14:58,356 --> 00:15:00,317 "Earthquakes." 263 00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:04,362 And murder. 264 00:15:08,658 --> 00:15:10,619 Max: No prints here either. 265 00:15:13,330 --> 00:15:16,082 Gun was found in an empty lot, wiped clean. 266 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:18,251 Burglary? 267 00:15:20,128 --> 00:15:21,838 Uh-huh. 268 00:15:23,298 --> 00:15:24,799 Ripped the place apart. 269 00:15:24,966 --> 00:15:27,302 A week later, another one just like it in LA. 270 00:15:30,221 --> 00:15:32,432 The vic's address book? 271 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:35,226 Can you fax it? 272 00:15:35,393 --> 00:15:38,355 212-555-8342. 273 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:43,526 Yeah, all right. 274 00:15:43,693 --> 00:15:45,654 Thanks. 275 00:15:47,072 --> 00:15:48,573 He's faxing it. 276 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:51,242 Call Sheriff's Homicide in LA. 277 00:15:51,409 --> 00:15:54,663 Lead investigator's name is Sam White. 278 00:15:56,998 --> 00:15:59,125 They're not as friendly in Los Angeles. 279 00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:01,044 Too much sun makes 'em crazy. 280 00:16:01,211 --> 00:16:03,254 Am I sure it's a similar case? 281 00:16:03,421 --> 00:16:06,508 I'm as sure as I can be, not looking at the bodies. 282 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:08,843 Right. 283 00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:10,387 Mm-hmm. 284 00:16:10,553 --> 00:16:12,389 The victim had no address book. 285 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:14,724 Just a lot of phone numbers on scraps of paper. 286 00:16:14,891 --> 00:16:16,267 Copies? 287 00:16:16,434 --> 00:16:19,229 Oh, an open homicide investigation?! 288 00:16:19,396 --> 00:16:21,898 What do you think we're doing, getting cats out of trees? 289 00:16:22,065 --> 00:16:25,068 Look, we link the victims, we got a case, okay? 290 00:16:25,235 --> 00:16:27,445 Now if you can just send us… 291 00:16:27,612 --> 00:16:30,490 Nobody's asking for the originals! 292 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:33,410 Just fax us whatever you got, okay? 293 00:16:33,576 --> 00:16:36,746 What? Fax you, okay? 294 00:16:38,873 --> 00:16:40,291 "In an open investigation 295 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:42,919 we do not release evidence under any circumstances." 296 00:16:43,086 --> 00:16:45,380 You know how some people gotta give you a hard time 297 00:16:45,547 --> 00:16:47,298 just to feel like they're alive. 298 00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:49,926 Let's give 'em a hard time back. 299 00:16:50,093 --> 00:16:52,929 Look, do they want an arrest or what? 300 00:16:53,388 --> 00:16:55,515 You put the fire out and I'll settle this thing. 301 00:16:55,682 --> 00:16:58,351 Yes. Yes, Captain. Mm-hmm. 302 00:16:58,518 --> 00:17:01,604 Yeah, if it's their collar. 303 00:17:01,771 --> 00:17:03,523 Of course we understand. 304 00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:05,942 Detective Logan has… 305 00:17:06,109 --> 00:17:08,695 been under a little pressure on this case. 306 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:10,780 Pressure? 307 00:17:10,947 --> 00:17:14,325 Yes, yes, we would appreciate that very much. 308 00:17:15,952 --> 00:17:16,703 A courier? 309 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:21,291 Well, the city is bankrupt, but… 310 00:17:21,458 --> 00:17:23,710 yes, I think we could "spring" for a courier. 311 00:17:24,127 --> 00:17:25,712 Uh-huh. Yeah. 312 00:17:25,879 --> 00:17:28,214 No, no, no. Thank you, Captain. 313 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:29,799 You believe that? 314 00:17:29,966 --> 00:17:32,594 They don't want to lose even a copy of this stuff. 315 00:17:32,761 --> 00:17:34,179 What's with them? 316 00:17:34,846 --> 00:17:36,014 You know, fellas, 317 00:17:36,181 --> 00:17:38,308 at what this courier is going to cost the city, 318 00:17:38,475 --> 00:17:40,351 I hope this works. 319 00:17:43,146 --> 00:17:45,148 Logan: You can cross out 320 00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:47,442 Jack E. In San Francisco. 321 00:17:47,609 --> 00:17:50,111 He still lives there, hasn't left town. 322 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,950 That's all the Johns, Jays, Jacks. 323 00:17:56,117 --> 00:17:58,787 All the last names with no first initials. 324 00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:02,791 Anybody in San Francisco, LA or New York. 325 00:18:02,957 --> 00:18:06,586 I got San Francisco, start with Holland's address book. 326 00:18:06,753 --> 00:18:08,421 Read me off the last four digits 327 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:10,673 of any of the ones with telephone numbers. 328 00:18:13,676 --> 00:18:16,012 "Albano. 4512. 329 00:18:16,179 --> 00:18:19,599 Altman. 1 763. 330 00:18:19,766 --> 00:18:22,060 Berry. 9808. 331 00:18:22,227 --> 00:18:24,854 Curry. 4212. 332 00:18:25,021 --> 00:18:27,107 Delorman. 78…" 333 00:18:27,273 --> 00:18:29,776 Wait a minute, hold it. 334 00:18:29,943 --> 00:18:32,028 That's Holland's "J. Curry." 335 00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:43,957 San Francisco's got "John C." 336 00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:48,294 who lives in New York, and has the same phone number. 337 00:18:51,714 --> 00:18:53,967 Yeah. 338 00:18:54,134 --> 00:18:56,594 And LA's got… 339 00:19:01,683 --> 00:19:03,935 "J.R.C." 340 00:19:04,978 --> 00:19:07,147 New York. 341 00:19:11,734 --> 00:19:13,444 Same number. 342 00:19:15,196 --> 00:19:17,282 You got the odds on three murder victims 343 00:19:17,448 --> 00:19:19,701 knowing the same guy? 344 00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:24,289 He was in San Francisco and LA when the others were killed. 345 00:19:24,455 --> 00:19:27,417 Same days? And one on either side. 346 00:19:27,584 --> 00:19:30,503 And all three of them had his name in their address book? 347 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:34,340 Not to mention Bobby Holland's new boyfriend's name is Jack. 348 00:19:35,508 --> 00:19:37,927 Enough? 349 00:19:38,094 --> 00:19:40,138 Pick him up. 350 00:19:44,726 --> 00:19:46,186 Bust the door and then stand back. 351 00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:49,272 My partner and I will go in first. It's our collar. 352 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:56,946 That's funny. I figured Def Leppard. 353 00:19:57,113 --> 00:19:59,991 Maybe Motley Cr e. Ready? Go. 354 00:20:01,284 --> 00:20:03,828 Police! Which one of you is Jack Curry? 355 00:20:03,995 --> 00:20:06,122 I'm Jack Curry. You're under arrest for the murder 356 00:20:06,289 --> 00:20:08,124 of Bobby Holland! Put your hands on your head! 357 00:20:08,291 --> 00:20:10,251 But I didn't… Max: Now! 358 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,963 Check it out. Get up! 359 00:20:17,258 --> 00:20:19,552 Spread your legs! You have the right to remain silent. 360 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:22,096 Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. 361 00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:24,098 Hands down! Get your hand down! 362 00:20:24,265 --> 00:20:26,017 You have the right to an attorney. 363 00:20:26,184 --> 00:20:29,145 If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you at no cost. 364 00:20:29,312 --> 00:20:30,897 Let's go. 365 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,487 Max: His lawyer's already here. 366 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,656 Julia DeBakey. 367 00:20:39,822 --> 00:20:41,616 Great. What? Who's she? 368 00:20:41,783 --> 00:20:45,078 Probably the toughest civil rights lawyer since William Kunstler. 369 00:20:46,663 --> 00:20:48,206 Paul Robinette. Julia DeBakey. 370 00:20:48,373 --> 00:20:50,541 Your cops put my client in a holding cell 371 00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,543 with a bunch of drug addicts. 372 00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:55,004 Jeez, we tried to get him a private suite. 373 00:20:55,171 --> 00:20:57,215 Eh, he looks like he survived. 374 00:20:57,382 --> 00:21:01,052 Counselor, this case, it isn't exactly your ballgame. 375 00:21:01,219 --> 00:21:03,304 Oh, how wrong you are, Mr. Robinette. 376 00:21:03,471 --> 00:21:06,307 We're building a whole new ballpark with this one. 377 00:21:06,641 --> 00:21:08,726 I'll allow my client to answer questions 378 00:21:08,893 --> 00:21:10,895 but I may cut this off at any time. 379 00:21:11,062 --> 00:21:13,189 Logan: Let's start with the wristwatch, Jack. 380 00:21:13,356 --> 00:21:15,692 Engraved to Bobby Holland on the back. 381 00:21:18,861 --> 00:21:20,488 Bobby gave it to me as a present. 382 00:21:20,655 --> 00:21:22,407 Just before you blew his head off? 383 00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:26,828 To thank me for helping him to shoot himself. 384 00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:29,330 You want to run that by us again. 385 00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:33,793 Bobby wanted help… To commit suicide. 386 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,587 Look, he had AIDS. 387 00:21:36,754 --> 00:21:40,216 He wanted it to look like a robbery so his mother wouldn't know. 388 00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:45,930 And when you went to visit Uncle Joe in Los Angeles? 389 00:21:46,097 --> 00:21:48,182 And Aunt Millie in San Francisco? 390 00:21:56,232 --> 00:21:57,942 You know about them? 391 00:22:02,322 --> 00:22:04,157 Look… 392 00:22:04,324 --> 00:22:06,326 if you commit suicide 393 00:22:06,492 --> 00:22:08,328 you don't get the insurance. 394 00:22:08,494 --> 00:22:09,787 Those men… 395 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:11,956 Forest? Dodge? 396 00:22:12,123 --> 00:22:15,251 Yes, they pulled the triggers themselves. 397 00:22:15,418 --> 00:22:17,128 And you just wipe the gun clean? 398 00:22:17,295 --> 00:22:20,840 My client has nothing to say about those cases. 399 00:22:22,216 --> 00:22:23,718 What about Bobby Holland? 400 00:22:23,885 --> 00:22:25,970 Do you know what AIDS looks like? 401 00:22:26,137 --> 00:22:29,140 Have you seen Kaposi's Sarcoma? 402 00:22:29,307 --> 00:22:31,267 Do you know what pneumocystis does? 403 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:34,479 What it's like when you can't breathe? 404 00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:38,232 Dodge won a silver metal in Seoul. 405 00:22:38,399 --> 00:22:41,152 Forest, used to be a professor out at UCLA, 406 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:42,987 PhD in Linguistics. 407 00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:46,032 The last month of his life he forgot how to tell the time. 408 00:22:46,199 --> 00:22:48,910 Did you shoot Bobby Holland? 409 00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:51,788 Bobby didn't want to waste away. 410 00:22:51,954 --> 00:22:54,624 Who pulled the trigger? 411 00:22:56,209 --> 00:22:58,169 I held the gun. 412 00:22:59,170 --> 00:23:01,672 Bobby wrapped his hand around mine. 413 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:03,800 He said he wanted to die. 414 00:23:05,385 --> 00:23:07,720 I helped Bobby do what he wanted. 415 00:23:11,933 --> 00:23:15,603 I didn't… I didn't wanna do it, 416 00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:17,855 but I wasn't considering myself. 417 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:20,441 It's called Mercy Killing. 418 00:23:20,608 --> 00:23:24,612 You have 48 hours to arraign him or let him go. 419 00:23:24,779 --> 00:23:27,407 Ask the medical examiner if Holland did have AIDS. 420 00:23:27,573 --> 00:23:29,075 You'll get answers faster than I will. 421 00:23:29,242 --> 00:23:32,161 And if Holland did? Find out about the victims in LA and San Francisco. 422 00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:35,039 What if they had AIDS, too? 423 00:23:35,206 --> 00:23:37,708 We'll need answers to questions we haven't even thought of. 424 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:39,460 Logan: The guy's jive. I'm telling you. 425 00:23:39,627 --> 00:23:40,878 A jury might not think so. 426 00:23:41,045 --> 00:23:42,880 What's a jury going to think when they hear 427 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:44,632 Holland never even touched the gun? 428 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:46,467 No powder residue on his hands. 429 00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:51,097 Holland had AIDS. So did San Francisco and LA. 430 00:23:51,264 --> 00:23:53,724 So Curry's telling the truth. Or part of the truth. 431 00:23:53,891 --> 00:23:56,185 You say it's a mercy killing, you don't do 15-to-life. 432 00:23:56,352 --> 00:23:58,896 Because somebody has AIDS, doesn't mean he can't be murdered. 433 00:23:59,063 --> 00:24:02,233 Where's that get us? He's killing these AIDS patients for kicks? 434 00:24:04,026 --> 00:24:07,155 I hated Bobby being that way. I hated it. 435 00:24:07,321 --> 00:24:10,408 People he hung out with… I hated the way he lived his life. 436 00:24:10,575 --> 00:24:14,579 But this guy, Curry, you shouldn't put him in jail. 437 00:24:14,745 --> 00:24:16,497 He shot your son. 438 00:24:16,664 --> 00:24:18,875 You read the articles? Newspapers? 439 00:24:20,126 --> 00:24:22,003 Not an easy way to go. 440 00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:27,508 Bobby wanted to die. 441 00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:29,552 You can't be sure of that. 442 00:24:31,429 --> 00:24:33,389 Yes, I can. 443 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:37,226 Bobby asked me… 444 00:24:37,393 --> 00:24:39,562 to shoot him first. 445 00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:45,568 I knew Bobby was gay. 446 00:24:47,153 --> 00:24:49,322 We just couldn't talk about it. 447 00:24:51,199 --> 00:24:53,910 I'll never have that chance now. 448 00:24:55,453 --> 00:24:57,413 That bastard, Curry… 449 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,957 killed my son. 450 00:25:00,124 --> 00:25:02,251 You have to put that man in jail. 451 00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:05,463 The defense is going to make a very strong case 452 00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:07,840 that your son intended to die. 453 00:25:12,345 --> 00:25:14,138 I've been getting Bobby's mail. 454 00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:15,973 This letter. 455 00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:18,726 "Gay Men Allied Against Aids." 456 00:25:19,227 --> 00:25:21,729 Bobby had an appointment with someone 457 00:25:21,896 --> 00:25:23,814 to talk about taking AZT. 458 00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:29,111 My son wanted to live. 459 00:25:32,823 --> 00:25:35,535 Judge: The charges are: murder in the second degree; 460 00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:37,411 conspiracy in the first degree; 461 00:25:37,578 --> 00:25:39,205 manslaughter in the first degree; 462 00:25:39,372 --> 00:25:40,915 criminally negligent homicide; 463 00:25:41,082 --> 00:25:43,292 promoting a suicide attempt; 464 00:25:43,459 --> 00:25:45,545 and reckless endangerment in the second degree. 465 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:47,713 Does the defendant wish to enter a plea? 466 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,924 Yes, Your Honor. Not guilty on all counts. 467 00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:53,177 Do the people have a bail recommendation, Mr. Stone? 468 00:25:53,344 --> 00:25:55,054 This case is a homicide, Your Honor. 469 00:25:55,221 --> 00:25:57,974 Despite the circumstances we feel that some bail is necessary. 470 00:25:58,432 --> 00:26:01,519 Personally, I'm uncomfortable releasing any homicide defendant 471 00:26:01,686 --> 00:26:03,521 without substantial bail, 472 00:26:03,688 --> 00:26:06,399 but I do not feel that this defendant is a major flight risk. 473 00:26:06,566 --> 00:26:09,318 $50,000. Short date. 474 00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:15,408 Our government is killing us through neglect. 475 00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:19,412 The mayor, the governor, the president, they have blood on their hands. 476 00:26:19,579 --> 00:26:23,040 While we're dying, they're prosecuting Jack Curry. 477 00:26:23,207 --> 00:26:25,668 Take the money from the District Attorney 478 00:26:25,835 --> 00:26:27,712 and give it to the Health Department. 479 00:26:27,878 --> 00:26:30,047 Mr. Gordon, do you think the prosecution 480 00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:32,049 has hustled the people with AIDS? 481 00:26:32,216 --> 00:26:34,218 If Bobby Holland was dying of Alzheimer's 482 00:26:34,385 --> 00:26:36,637 and Jack Curry wasn't gay, would they charge him with murder? 483 00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:40,349 Every gay activist in the country is going to be after us. 484 00:26:40,516 --> 00:26:42,768 I understand, Adam, but gay/straight is not the issue, 485 00:26:42,935 --> 00:26:45,479 murder masquerading as assisted suicide is the issue. 486 00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:48,941 Let's say we drop the charges and go for a misdemeanor, 487 00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:51,360 we're not ignoring the gay/straight question, 488 00:26:51,527 --> 00:26:54,530 we're making it the only question. And you know what that is? 489 00:26:54,697 --> 00:26:57,199 Good politics. Yes, and bad law. 490 00:26:57,366 --> 00:26:59,869 It's not compassion. It's pity for gay people. 491 00:27:00,036 --> 00:27:02,163 And pity is one step away from ridicule. 492 00:27:04,749 --> 00:27:06,959 Now what if Bobby Holland wanted to die? 493 00:27:09,503 --> 00:27:12,882 How does anybody know what went through Bobby Holland's mind 494 00:27:13,049 --> 00:27:15,217 five minutes before he died? Or two minutes? 495 00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:17,845 Or 20 seconds? Or one second? 496 00:27:18,012 --> 00:27:21,599 And Jack Curry, who's done this twice before, 497 00:27:21,766 --> 00:27:23,267 did he talk him into it? 498 00:27:23,434 --> 00:27:25,353 Can't change the fact 499 00:27:25,770 --> 00:27:28,272 that Holland was gay and Curry is gay. 500 00:27:28,773 --> 00:27:31,108 What I can't change is that Jack Curry 501 00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:32,693 didn't bring pills and leave them. 502 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:34,487 He didn't bring a gun and leave it. 503 00:27:34,654 --> 00:27:35,863 He pulled the trigger. 504 00:27:41,202 --> 00:27:44,538 Bobby Hollasnd didn't need an angel of death. 505 00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:46,332 I mean, he wasn't that sick yet. 506 00:27:46,666 --> 00:27:48,250 Did he want to die? 507 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:50,920 Look, you're HIV positive, 508 00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:53,881 if you think you'll hang around 509 00:27:54,048 --> 00:27:57,176 till you get sick, you'll start to feel lousy, 510 00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,512 it's hardly unusual to think about suicide. 511 00:28:02,473 --> 00:28:05,559 Bobby wanted to kill himself. I told him not to. 512 00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:08,312 And? 513 00:28:08,771 --> 00:28:10,606 He said he'd think about it… 514 00:28:10,773 --> 00:28:12,942 Going on AZT, trying experimental drugs. 515 00:28:14,735 --> 00:28:17,613 I saw Conrad Gordon on TV. 516 00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:19,615 Anybody want to call Jack Curry a hero, 517 00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:21,409 I tell 'em to look at me. 518 00:28:21,575 --> 00:28:23,619 I was diagnosed with AIDS when it was 519 00:28:23,786 --> 00:28:25,955 still called GRID, for God's sake. 520 00:28:26,122 --> 00:28:27,873 I'm still here. 521 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:32,378 Curry had no right… 522 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:34,755 to shoot Bobby Holland. 523 00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:38,467 Okay. Thanks. 524 00:28:44,932 --> 00:28:47,101 You're saying Bobby Holland might have reconsidered. 525 00:28:47,268 --> 00:28:49,437 If he'd reconsidered, my client wouldn't be here. 526 00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:51,272 You don't know that. I don't know that. 527 00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:53,566 And even you don't know that, Mr. Curry. 528 00:28:53,733 --> 00:28:55,943 You were involved in those cases in California, 529 00:28:56,110 --> 00:28:58,696 do you have a stake in getting these people to die? 530 00:28:58,863 --> 00:29:01,073 No, Mr. Stone, I don't. 531 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,284 Did you try to talk Bobby Holland out of it? 532 00:29:03,451 --> 00:29:05,953 Several times, over several hours. 533 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,873 He didn't want to turn into a zombie. 534 00:29:09,832 --> 00:29:11,917 What if it were your son, Mr. Stone? 535 00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:13,669 If it were my son? 536 00:29:14,336 --> 00:29:17,047 I'd take him to every hospital in America and try to save him. 537 00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:19,383 We'll plead to promoting a suicide. 538 00:29:19,550 --> 00:29:21,343 Stone: You'll plead to manslaughter one. 539 00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,431 We'll… drop the other charges 540 00:29:25,598 --> 00:29:27,892 and make a sentencing recommendation. 541 00:29:29,018 --> 00:29:31,020 Bobby Holland intended to shoot himself. 542 00:29:31,187 --> 00:29:34,398 Manslaughter one is an admission my client intended to shoot him. 543 00:29:34,565 --> 00:29:36,400 He didn't shoot him full of penicillin. 544 00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:41,363 We're finished here, Jack. 545 00:29:44,867 --> 00:29:46,368 Look, Mr. Stone, 546 00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:48,788 I hope you never have to face these choices yourself. 547 00:29:48,954 --> 00:29:51,248 I hope you never see anybody dying, 548 00:29:51,415 --> 00:29:53,459 the way I've seen people dying. 549 00:29:53,626 --> 00:29:55,836 But if you do, 550 00:29:56,003 --> 00:29:57,838 I hope you have the courage to do 551 00:29:58,005 --> 00:30:00,049 whatever has to be done. 552 00:30:12,686 --> 00:30:15,689 DeBakey: What is your position at the hospice, Mr. Wellman? 553 00:30:15,856 --> 00:30:17,191 Wellman: I counsel people with AIDS. 554 00:30:17,650 --> 00:30:20,653 Over the past year, how many people have you counseled? 555 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:24,114 Short term, over 100. Long term, perhaps two dozen. 556 00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:26,659 And how long have you worked there? 557 00:30:27,576 --> 00:30:28,828 11 years. 558 00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:31,080 And everyone you care for is dying? 559 00:30:31,247 --> 00:30:33,999 We're all dying, Ms. DeBakey. 560 00:30:35,793 --> 00:30:39,046 I mean, the people in the hospice are terminally ill. 561 00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:42,174 Most of those who come to us will die within a year. 562 00:30:43,384 --> 00:30:45,803 Isn't it true that many cancer patients 563 00:30:45,970 --> 00:30:48,097 experience excruciating pain? 564 00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:49,932 Yes, that's common. 565 00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:55,187 You ever counseled anyone to commit suicide? 566 00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:56,438 Objection, relevance. 567 00:30:56,605 --> 00:30:58,524 This trial isn't about the right to die. 568 00:30:58,691 --> 00:31:01,068 It's about whether the defendant shot Bobby Holland. 569 00:31:01,235 --> 00:31:03,028 The issues surrounding "right to die" 570 00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:04,864 are murky in this state, Mr. Stone. 571 00:31:05,030 --> 00:31:06,866 The testimony seems to me relevant. 572 00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:09,034 The witness will continue. 573 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:12,580 I've counseled people on suicide, yes. 574 00:31:12,746 --> 00:31:16,292 We call it, "Letting yourself be snowed under." 575 00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:18,043 And what do you counsel them? 576 00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:19,962 We suggest they go to England 577 00:31:20,129 --> 00:31:22,882 where doctors have the right to assist in dying. 578 00:31:23,966 --> 00:31:25,342 Thank you. 579 00:31:27,928 --> 00:31:31,265 Mr. Wellman, have you ever given to anyone in your hospice 580 00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:33,392 lethal chemicals, a gun… 581 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,728 Any device that might help them commit suicide? 582 00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:37,730 No? Why not? 583 00:31:37,897 --> 00:31:39,982 I've been told it's against the law. 584 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:45,070 Gordon: We've established a hotline to answer questions about AIDS. 585 00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:48,365 How many of those calls have you answered personally? 586 00:31:48,532 --> 00:31:50,326 Thousands. 587 00:31:50,492 --> 00:31:53,245 I volunteer three nights a week. I've been doing it seven years. 588 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,372 Do the callers ever ask you about suicide? 589 00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:57,791 Frequently. And what do you tell them? 590 00:32:00,169 --> 00:32:02,546 That dying of AIDS is a difficult death. 591 00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:06,050 And that they have the right to take their own life 592 00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:08,677 when the pain becomes too great. 593 00:32:12,014 --> 00:32:13,599 Your witness, Mr. Stone. 594 00:32:13,766 --> 00:32:15,893 Now, Mr. Gordon, as a gay activist, 595 00:32:16,060 --> 00:32:18,604 you're familiar with the current state of treatment for AIDS? 596 00:32:18,771 --> 00:32:21,774 Reasonably. And you're aware that AZT and other drugs 597 00:32:21,941 --> 00:32:25,235 have prolonged the life of these patients? Yes. 598 00:32:26,195 --> 00:32:29,239 And that people have lived with AIDS for several years? 599 00:32:29,406 --> 00:32:31,116 Yes, I know that. 600 00:32:31,283 --> 00:32:33,827 But I also know that in the end it's a gruesome death. 601 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:38,040 People with AIDS do not "go gently into that good night." 602 00:32:38,207 --> 00:32:40,960 You also know that some gay men, out of embarrassment, 603 00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:43,420 might not seek treatment and commit suicide instead. 604 00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:44,213 Are you in favor of that? 605 00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:50,302 I'm in favor of gay men taking power over their lives. 606 00:32:55,349 --> 00:32:57,810 No more questions, Your Honor. 607 00:33:12,866 --> 00:33:15,786 Excuse me. Are you Ben Stone? Yes, sir. 608 00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,998 You gay-bashing son of a bitch! 609 00:33:19,164 --> 00:33:22,084 Leave us alone to run our own lives and deaths. 610 00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:32,177 Adam: It could get worse. What, you think I need a police guard? 611 00:33:32,344 --> 00:33:35,431 Why, you think it's a joke? Gay activists don't shoot people. 612 00:33:35,597 --> 00:33:37,558 I wouldn't be so sure you're safe, Ben. 613 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,311 Jack Curry has AIDS. 614 00:33:41,478 --> 00:33:44,314 Julia DeBakey just released it. 615 00:33:47,735 --> 00:33:49,778 It's time to bail out of this. 616 00:33:59,830 --> 00:34:01,749 Stone: It just seems like revenge at this point. 617 00:34:01,915 --> 00:34:03,834 Find us something. Anything. 618 00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:06,420 Tonight? Go back over the evidence. 619 00:34:06,587 --> 00:34:09,381 Give us a reason to drop the charges against Curry. 620 00:34:17,723 --> 00:34:19,850 Anybody got any idea what we're looking for? 621 00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:21,769 Remeasure everything… 622 00:34:21,935 --> 00:34:24,104 Distance of the body from the bed, 623 00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:26,148 blood markings. All of it. 624 00:34:26,315 --> 00:34:28,317 And redust for prints. 625 00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,569 Make a map of where you get every print. 626 00:34:37,618 --> 00:34:39,119 How's the jaw? 627 00:34:39,286 --> 00:34:41,455 It only hurts when I prosecute… 628 00:34:41,622 --> 00:34:43,957 So keep me out of court until the swelling goes down. 629 00:34:44,124 --> 00:34:46,752 Two bookcases were turned over. 630 00:34:46,919 --> 00:34:49,630 Pushed from behind. Yeah, we redusted. 631 00:34:49,797 --> 00:34:52,716 Full palm prints on the back of both. 632 00:34:52,883 --> 00:34:56,804 Max: Both sets of prints belong to Bobby Holland. 633 00:34:56,970 --> 00:34:58,305 Curry's prints weren't on them. 634 00:34:58,472 --> 00:35:00,641 Which means Holland trashed the place himself 635 00:35:00,808 --> 00:35:02,726 to make it look like a burglary. 636 00:35:04,103 --> 00:35:06,355 Which means he wanted to die. 637 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:10,651 Well, maybe to us. Max: Meaning? 638 00:35:11,693 --> 00:35:13,862 It's convincing emotionally but not legally. 639 00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:16,490 The prints could have been put there a year before. 640 00:35:16,657 --> 00:35:18,867 And as to state of mind, he could have changed it 641 00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:21,745 the microsecond before Curry pulled the trigger. 642 00:35:21,912 --> 00:35:23,705 But does it convince you? 643 00:35:28,627 --> 00:35:31,130 Curry's already under a sentence of death. 644 00:35:32,297 --> 00:35:35,509 That's as much payment as anyone could ask for. 645 00:35:38,178 --> 00:35:41,098 Drop it completely? It's the right thing to do. 646 00:35:41,265 --> 00:35:43,559 He pleads to promoting a suicide? 647 00:35:43,725 --> 00:35:45,978 He does no time. 648 00:35:55,737 --> 00:35:57,739 Yeah? 649 00:36:05,289 --> 00:36:07,124 You got a copycat. 650 00:36:07,291 --> 00:36:10,627 A woman from Queens just shot her retarded son. 651 00:36:10,794 --> 00:36:14,214 She says she got the idea of a mercy killing 652 00:36:14,381 --> 00:36:16,508 from the Holland case. 653 00:36:24,975 --> 00:36:27,102 Well? 654 00:36:28,896 --> 00:36:30,856 I've got no choice. 655 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,821 We keep going. 656 00:36:38,947 --> 00:36:41,200 This morning I was just another ruthless DA, 657 00:36:41,366 --> 00:36:43,368 now I'm running the Inquisition. 658 00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:47,998 Gordon: Mr. Stone, why do you want to put a dying man in jail? 659 00:36:48,165 --> 00:36:51,376 Mr. Stone, if you were dying of AIDS 660 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,629 would you want someone to end your misery? 661 00:36:55,214 --> 00:36:57,758 Mr. Gordon asks, do I want to put a dying man in jail? 662 00:36:57,925 --> 00:37:00,636 The answer is no. But we're asking a more important question. 663 00:37:00,802 --> 00:37:02,721 Does Jack Curry have the right, 664 00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:06,266 all by himself, to put a dying man in his grave? 665 00:37:06,433 --> 00:37:09,186 DeBakey: You allow regular customers to charge their drinks? 666 00:37:09,353 --> 00:37:11,230 Bartender: Well, not exactly charge. 667 00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:14,441 You got to make a payment on your tab every once in a while. 668 00:37:14,608 --> 00:37:17,444 Did Bobby Holland pay his bill regularly? 669 00:37:17,611 --> 00:37:19,613 He ran a tab, on and off 670 00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:21,490 for the last two or three years. 671 00:37:21,657 --> 00:37:23,283 Paid a little on it now and then. 672 00:37:23,450 --> 00:37:25,786 Never let it get much over a hundred bucks. 673 00:37:27,704 --> 00:37:30,415 Did that change, Mr. Roland? 674 00:37:31,458 --> 00:37:33,168 A couple… 675 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:35,963 a couple of weeks before Bobby died, 676 00:37:36,129 --> 00:37:40,133 he comes in and he lays $120 on the bar and says 677 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:42,302 this is for the bill, plus a tip for me. 678 00:37:42,469 --> 00:37:45,514 I said, "Bobby, what? You hit the lottery?" 679 00:37:45,681 --> 00:37:48,100 He said, "No… 680 00:37:48,267 --> 00:37:50,978 I just wanna pay my bill." 681 00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:56,191 And after that, he paid cash. 682 00:38:00,237 --> 00:38:01,947 Your own son… 683 00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:06,451 he handed you the gun… 684 00:38:11,748 --> 00:38:13,542 what did you say? 685 00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:18,422 I told him I didn't think I could go through with it. 686 00:38:19,923 --> 00:38:21,508 And what did he say? 687 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:24,177 What words did he use? 688 00:38:24,344 --> 00:38:26,555 He said, "Dad… 689 00:38:26,722 --> 00:38:30,642 if you ever wanted to do anything for me… 690 00:38:31,977 --> 00:38:33,687 do this." 691 00:38:34,730 --> 00:38:36,481 Thank you. 692 00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:38,692 No more questions. 693 00:38:41,570 --> 00:38:44,698 Mr. Holland, I know this is difficult, so bear with me. 694 00:38:44,865 --> 00:38:47,951 You testified that your son wanted to shoot himself. 695 00:38:48,118 --> 00:38:50,120 He had a gun, why didn't he? 696 00:38:56,668 --> 00:38:59,004 Were his reasons religious? 697 00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:01,923 No. 698 00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:06,219 Was he worried about the pain he'd cause other people? 699 00:39:07,721 --> 00:39:09,639 No. 700 00:39:09,806 --> 00:39:13,101 Then why do you think your son was unable to take his life? 701 00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:19,941 He said he was afraid to die. 702 00:39:21,276 --> 00:39:23,945 Thank you, sir. 703 00:39:32,579 --> 00:39:34,414 Robinette: Ben! 704 00:39:34,581 --> 00:39:37,626 Ben, DeBakey's putting Curry on the stand. 705 00:39:37,793 --> 00:39:40,295 Tough to win the hearts and minds of a jury 706 00:39:40,462 --> 00:39:42,506 by cross-examining a guy dying of AIDS. 707 00:39:42,672 --> 00:39:45,092 It's still a trial. 708 00:39:48,595 --> 00:39:50,430 DeBakey: And early in the disease 709 00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:53,266 what symptoms have you personally witnessed? 710 00:39:53,433 --> 00:39:55,852 Exhaustion, dizziness, 711 00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:58,772 the inability to hold down food, 712 00:39:58,939 --> 00:40:00,857 loss of weight 713 00:40:01,024 --> 00:40:03,902 would be the most visible symptom. Later in the disease? 714 00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:07,989 A friend of mine… I'd gone to college with him… 715 00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:10,200 He went blind. 716 00:40:10,367 --> 00:40:12,285 And then he got pneumonia. 717 00:40:14,246 --> 00:40:16,498 Have you ever heard what it sounds like 718 00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:18,542 when somebody is drowning? 719 00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:21,002 That's what he sounded like. 720 00:40:21,169 --> 00:40:23,130 For six weeks. 721 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:27,050 You have been diagnosed with AIDS, is that correct? 722 00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:29,219 Yes. 723 00:40:29,386 --> 00:40:31,179 What do you hope for? 724 00:40:31,346 --> 00:40:33,598 A cure. 725 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,854 And if one does not come along soon enough? 726 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,483 Hope I'll be lucky enough to find someone 727 00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:46,278 who'll help me commit suicide. 728 00:40:50,323 --> 00:40:52,159 No more questions. Your witness. 729 00:40:57,539 --> 00:40:59,416 Mr. Curry… 730 00:40:59,583 --> 00:41:01,877 who pulled the trigger on the gun? 731 00:41:05,839 --> 00:41:08,633 Answer the question, please, Mr. Curry. 732 00:41:11,011 --> 00:41:13,180 It was me. 733 00:41:13,346 --> 00:41:16,558 Did Mr. Holland have his hand on the gun at all? 734 00:41:17,934 --> 00:41:19,769 N-no. 735 00:41:22,063 --> 00:41:24,191 No more questions, Your Honor. 736 00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:27,277 Judge: You may step down, Mr. Curry. 737 00:41:30,238 --> 00:41:32,699 Your Honor, on the basis of new information 738 00:41:32,866 --> 00:41:35,160 the defense would like to call an unscheduled witness. 739 00:41:35,327 --> 00:41:37,078 Detective Michael Logan. 740 00:41:37,245 --> 00:41:38,788 Mr. Stone? 741 00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:41,500 No objection, Your Honor. 742 00:41:46,338 --> 00:41:48,715 She has very good sources. 743 00:41:50,133 --> 00:41:52,260 I'd like to know who they are. 744 00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:58,517 Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth 745 00:41:58,683 --> 00:41:59,893 so help you God? I do. 746 00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:01,561 State your name. Michael Logan. 747 00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:05,065 Your Honor, I would like Detective Logan treated as a hostile witness. 748 00:42:05,565 --> 00:42:06,733 So noted. 749 00:42:10,445 --> 00:42:13,365 Tell the jury your profession, please. 750 00:42:13,532 --> 00:42:16,451 I'm a detective with the New York City Police Department 751 00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:19,538 Detective Logan, 752 00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:22,332 shortly after this trial began, did you have a conversation 753 00:42:22,499 --> 00:42:25,585 with Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone about this case? 754 00:42:29,422 --> 00:42:30,966 Yes, I did. 755 00:42:31,132 --> 00:42:35,011 Tell us the substance of your conversation. 756 00:42:36,596 --> 00:42:40,308 Do I have to answer that, Judge? Yes, you do, Detective. 757 00:42:43,436 --> 00:42:45,564 Judge: Answer the question, Detective. 758 00:42:47,274 --> 00:42:49,943 Mr. Stone said that he thought continuing the prosecution 759 00:42:50,110 --> 00:42:51,820 seemed like revenge to him. 760 00:42:51,987 --> 00:42:54,030 DeBakey: And what was his solution? 761 00:42:55,365 --> 00:42:57,242 Mr. Stone directed myself 762 00:42:57,409 --> 00:42:59,286 and Sergeant Greevey to find a reason 763 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:01,788 for him to drop the charges against Jack Curry. 764 00:43:15,302 --> 00:43:17,387 Will the defendant please rise? 765 00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:24,269 Judge: On the first count of the indictment 766 00:43:24,436 --> 00:43:27,314 the charge of murder in the second degree, how does the jury find? 767 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,442 Not guilty. 768 00:43:35,614 --> 00:43:37,824 On the second count, the charge of conspiracy 769 00:43:37,991 --> 00:43:39,993 in the first degree, how does the jury find? 770 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,828 Not guilty. 771 00:43:41,995 --> 00:43:44,998 On the third count, manslaughter in the first degree, 772 00:43:45,165 --> 00:43:47,667 how does the jury find? Not guilty. 773 00:43:47,834 --> 00:43:49,502 On the fourth count, 774 00:43:49,669 --> 00:43:51,755 the charge of criminally negligent homicide, 775 00:43:51,921 --> 00:43:54,549 how does the jury find? Not guilty. 776 00:43:54,716 --> 00:43:56,384 On the fifth count, 777 00:43:56,551 --> 00:43:58,219 promoting a suicide attempt, 778 00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:00,847 how does the jury find? Not guilty. 779 00:44:01,014 --> 00:44:04,768 On the sixth count, reckless endangerment in the second degree 780 00:44:04,934 --> 00:44:06,394 how does the jury find? 781 00:44:06,561 --> 00:44:08,563 Guilty. 782 00:44:18,531 --> 00:44:20,575 I'll catch up with you. 783 00:44:20,742 --> 00:44:22,702 Adam: Some people aren't gonna be happy. 784 00:44:22,869 --> 00:44:24,871 Depends on what you want… Vengeance or justice. 785 00:44:25,038 --> 00:44:27,207 Curry: Stone. 786 00:44:27,374 --> 00:44:29,751 Did you really think that I was guilty of murder? 787 00:44:29,918 --> 00:44:32,420 We bring the charge when they should be brought 788 00:44:32,587 --> 00:44:34,714 and let the people decide. 789 00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:37,550 I may not have a very long life left 790 00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:39,552 but it is my life. 791 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,221 This wasn't a prosecution, 792 00:44:41,388 --> 00:44:43,181 this was a warning, wasn't it? 793 00:44:43,348 --> 00:44:45,642 To anybody else thinking about a mercy killing. 794 00:44:45,809 --> 00:44:48,061 What gave you the right to use me? 795 00:44:48,228 --> 00:44:50,397 Unfortunately, you did. 796 00:44:50,563 --> 00:44:52,732 Not once, not twice, but three times. 797 00:44:54,901 --> 00:44:57,278 Thanks, Adam. 798 00:45:00,156 --> 00:45:02,450 DeBakey: After all that, misdemeanor. 799 00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:04,452 Six months suspended with probation. 800 00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:06,788 No judge will put Jack Curry in jail. 801 00:45:08,707 --> 00:45:10,709 If you'd gone only for manslaughter one, 802 00:45:10,875 --> 00:45:12,961 the jury probably would have found him guilty 803 00:45:13,128 --> 00:45:14,671 and he'd have done time. 804 00:45:16,923 --> 00:45:20,427 I wonder who told a secretary in your office 805 00:45:20,593 --> 00:45:23,513 to call me about your conversation with Logan. 806 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,890 I'll have to look into that.