1 00:00:01,323 --> 00:00:03,348 (narrator) In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:03,425 --> 00:00:07,327 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:07,395 --> 00:00:09,192 the police who investigate crime, 4 00:00:09,264 --> 00:00:12,062 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders, 5 00:00:12,133 --> 00:00:13,862 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,036 --> 00:00:16,799 [cutlery clattering] 7 00:00:17,439 --> 00:00:20,033 Whatever it costs, my kids are going to Catholic school. 8 00:00:20,108 --> 00:00:21,234 You're a Baptist. 9 00:00:21,309 --> 00:00:23,869 I don't care. Those nuns know how to build character. 10 00:00:23,945 --> 00:00:24,934 Here you go, sweetheart. 11 00:00:25,013 --> 00:00:26,810 You're sure that's very light, no sugar? 12 00:00:26,881 --> 00:00:27,870 That's what you told me. 13 00:00:27,949 --> 00:00:28,973 It has to be very light. 14 00:00:29,050 --> 00:00:31,177 You let go, it'll float in the air. 15 00:00:33,421 --> 00:00:35,753 Oh, man. Sometimes I want to forget I'm married, I swear. 16 00:00:35,824 --> 00:00:38,054 You just like her 'cause her features are white. 17 00:00:38,126 --> 00:00:39,889 Oh, yeah. That's why I like you so much. 18 00:00:39,961 --> 00:00:40,928 Oh! 19 00:00:40,996 --> 00:00:42,930 (Eddie) Anything with your coffee, gentlemen? 20 00:00:43,531 --> 00:00:45,590 J‘J‘[music playing on stereo] 21 00:00:54,109 --> 00:00:55,474 [dog barking] 22 00:00:55,543 --> 00:00:56,874 Mr. Decker? 23 00:01:14,796 --> 00:01:16,058 Hello. 24 00:01:18,066 --> 00:01:19,465 Mr. Decker? 25 00:01:21,903 --> 00:01:23,336 Mr. Decker? 26 00:01:26,241 --> 00:01:27,606 [sighing] 27 00:01:36,217 --> 00:01:37,309 [gaSPS] 28 00:01:37,385 --> 00:01:38,477 [coffee cup thuds] 29 00:01:39,354 --> 00:01:41,151 [police radio chattering] 30 00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:43,087 [camera clicking] 31 00:01:43,158 --> 00:01:45,422 (Holland) Looks like an invited guest. 32 00:01:46,294 --> 00:01:47,420 The door was open, 33 00:01:47,495 --> 00:01:48,985 there was no sign of forced entry. 34 00:01:50,031 --> 00:01:53,125 My dad said, "Be a cop, look what you miss out on." 35 00:01:53,201 --> 00:01:54,793 This must be what he meant. 36 00:01:54,869 --> 00:01:56,234 They didn't look like that in my high school yearbook, 37 00:01:56,271 --> 00:01:57,898 that's for sure. 38 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,437 They didn't sell your high school yearbook 39 00:02:00,508 --> 00:02:01,634 in Times Square. 40 00:02:04,279 --> 00:02:06,247 What've we got, a rare scissors collector? 41 00:02:06,314 --> 00:02:07,372 Photographic supplies. 42 00:02:07,449 --> 00:02:09,246 They're just like the ones in the body. 43 00:02:09,317 --> 00:02:12,480 Listen, when you're done with this, I want it, okay? 44 00:02:12,954 --> 00:02:14,319 (Logan) Nice work. 45 00:02:14,956 --> 00:02:17,015 Think she needed any help getting dressed? 46 00:02:17,092 --> 00:02:18,992 I think you don't make a detective's salary 47 00:02:19,060 --> 00:02:20,652 for being a photographer's assistant. 48 00:02:20,729 --> 00:02:22,526 When you're through looking at that body, 49 00:02:22,597 --> 00:02:24,428 would you mind taking a look at this one? 50 00:02:24,499 --> 00:02:25,659 The girl who found him 51 00:02:25,734 --> 00:02:27,565 was on her way to have her picture taken. 52 00:02:27,635 --> 00:02:28,795 This guy told her 53 00:02:28,870 --> 00:02:30,735 that she was gonna be on a magazine cover. 54 00:02:31,873 --> 00:02:34,034 He was supposed to work tonight, huh? 55 00:02:34,109 --> 00:02:35,599 In his pajamas? 56 00:02:36,311 --> 00:02:37,710 (police officer) Call it in. 57 00:04:01,429 --> 00:04:03,488 He made all the girls bring him coffee. 58 00:04:05,066 --> 00:04:06,260 "Very light." 59 00:04:06,334 --> 00:04:08,461 Could've saved bucks, he bought his own pot. 60 00:04:08,536 --> 00:04:10,436 Wasn't his money, was it? 61 00:04:10,505 --> 00:04:13,065 (Laura) I was working at Bloomingdale's, 62 00:04:13,141 --> 00:04:14,802 you know, spraying cologne at people 63 00:04:14,876 --> 00:04:16,400 coming off the escalator? 64 00:04:16,978 --> 00:04:19,378 Mr. Decker gave me his card 65 00:04:19,614 --> 00:04:21,309 before I could spray him. 66 00:04:21,583 --> 00:04:23,517 He said I had good cheekbones. 67 00:04:23,585 --> 00:04:25,712 Makes you Number 467, honey. 68 00:04:26,154 --> 00:04:28,782 He had girls in and out all hours, all Iookers, 69 00:04:28,857 --> 00:04:30,757 some ofthem two, three times a day. 70 00:04:31,659 --> 00:04:33,718 The man had very clean fingernails. 71 00:04:33,795 --> 00:04:35,820 Of course developing fluid, do it every time. 72 00:04:35,897 --> 00:04:37,296 Or a good manicurist. 73 00:04:37,365 --> 00:04:39,492 No one gets manicures any more. 74 00:04:39,567 --> 00:04:41,159 You catch hepatitis. 75 00:04:41,469 --> 00:04:44,267 Isn't here. Plenty of prints in the loft. 76 00:04:44,339 --> 00:04:46,864 Twelve usable sets other than the victim's. 77 00:04:46,941 --> 00:04:49,034 I sent 'em all out. None ofthem turned up a record. 78 00:04:49,110 --> 00:04:51,135 Maybe you noticed we found a pair of scissors. 79 00:04:51,212 --> 00:04:53,908 Good thumb and index finger at the top ofthe blade. 80 00:04:53,982 --> 00:04:56,314 (Cerreta) Great. Now all we need is a suspect. 81 00:04:56,384 --> 00:04:58,375 Look for a Black Widow Spider. 82 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,145 Don't they kill their mates after sex? 83 00:05:01,222 --> 00:05:03,156 Your victim had semen and vaginal secretions 84 00:05:03,224 --> 00:05:04,589 in his Doctor Denton's. 85 00:05:04,659 --> 00:05:07,389 Okay. We find a woman, can you make a match? 86 00:05:07,462 --> 00:05:09,123 The DNA in vaginal secretions? 87 00:05:09,197 --> 00:05:11,859 When there's exfoliated epithelial cells, 88 00:05:11,933 --> 00:05:13,628 which there happen to be. 89 00:05:13,701 --> 00:05:15,896 Figure the guy pulls his pj's on right after 90 00:05:15,970 --> 00:05:17,767 and just before he was killed. 91 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,739 The samples weren't even dry. 92 00:05:19,807 --> 00:05:21,638 You got a very well-mannered killer here. 93 00:05:21,709 --> 00:05:23,233 Waited till he got dressed. 94 00:05:23,311 --> 00:05:25,176 I'm sure he was grateful. 95 00:05:25,813 --> 00:05:28,145 So where does that get us? A Iovers' quarrel? 96 00:05:28,216 --> 00:05:29,376 After sex? 97 00:05:29,450 --> 00:05:31,748 Most people, you fight and then have sex. 98 00:05:31,819 --> 00:05:33,013 He's not married. 99 00:05:33,087 --> 00:05:34,816 So what is this? The girlfriend leaves, 100 00:05:34,889 --> 00:05:36,982 he falls asleep, a burglar wakes him? 101 00:05:37,058 --> 00:05:39,492 And stabs him in the middle ofthe loft, 102 00:05:39,561 --> 00:05:41,586 in the back. No struggle. 103 00:05:41,663 --> 00:05:44,223 I suppose that means you have a better idea? 104 00:05:45,733 --> 00:05:47,928 He had four appointments on his calendar. 105 00:05:51,573 --> 00:05:53,564 Julian Decker, huh! What a loss. 106 00:05:53,675 --> 00:05:55,643 Then you weren't involved with him? 107 00:05:55,710 --> 00:05:57,837 However you mean that, the answer is no. 108 00:05:57,912 --> 00:05:59,971 I had as little to do with Julian as possible. 109 00:06:00,048 --> 00:06:02,539 And believe me, I'd have preferred less. 110 00:06:02,617 --> 00:06:04,676 Do you know who was involved with him? 111 00:06:04,752 --> 00:06:07,346 This city is full of women with dreadful taste. 112 00:06:07,422 --> 00:06:09,185 But you're not one ofthem. 113 00:06:09,257 --> 00:06:11,122 He could smile the chrome off a fender. 114 00:06:11,192 --> 00:06:12,921 Ijust didn't want him around my girls. 115 00:06:12,994 --> 00:06:14,962 All right. So, you weren't working with him. 116 00:06:15,029 --> 00:06:17,293 But why were you his last appointment yesterday? 117 00:06:17,365 --> 00:06:19,026 In his book, not mine. 118 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:20,226 He barged in around 5:00. 119 00:06:20,301 --> 00:06:21,893 Wanted me to recommend him for work. 120 00:06:21,970 --> 00:06:23,369 I asked him to leave. He did. 121 00:06:23,438 --> 00:06:25,702 Hey, some girls must've found him attractive. 122 00:06:27,208 --> 00:06:28,334 You'll find my girls 123 00:06:28,409 --> 00:06:30,434 on the covers of Vogue, Detective. 124 00:06:30,511 --> 00:06:33,480 You'll find Julian's in catalogue lingerie ads. 125 00:06:33,548 --> 00:06:35,209 Some girls were interested in him. 126 00:06:35,283 --> 00:06:36,841 But not mine. 127 00:06:37,518 --> 00:06:38,712 [honking] 128 00:06:38,786 --> 00:06:40,185 Miss Norman? 129 00:06:40,254 --> 00:06:42,586 Gone for three weeks, Barbados. 130 00:06:42,657 --> 00:06:44,591 Saturday morning, first class. 131 00:06:44,659 --> 00:06:46,388 She took six suitcases. 132 00:06:48,162 --> 00:06:49,993 I got her sunscreen before she left. 133 00:06:50,064 --> 00:06:51,759 Number 15, unscented. 134 00:06:51,833 --> 00:06:53,232 You fold her underwear, too? 135 00:06:53,301 --> 00:06:55,166 I like to be close to my tenants. 136 00:06:55,236 --> 00:06:56,498 I wonder why. 137 00:06:56,571 --> 00:06:57,936 [doorman whistles] 138 00:06:59,607 --> 00:07:01,370 Didn't that calendar have a red line 139 00:07:01,442 --> 00:07:03,034 through Clarissa Norman's name? 140 00:07:03,111 --> 00:07:04,738 It was worth checking. 141 00:07:04,812 --> 00:07:06,143 The other two are downtown. 142 00:07:06,214 --> 00:07:08,842 The 11:00 is East 16th, off Park Avenue South. 143 00:07:08,916 --> 00:07:09,974 Angela Brant. 144 00:07:11,119 --> 00:07:13,713 I was making the rounds, looking for work. 145 00:07:13,788 --> 00:07:14,982 Julian didn't have any. 146 00:07:15,056 --> 00:07:18,025 Which he told me after I bought him breakfast. 147 00:07:18,092 --> 00:07:19,116 It seems Mr. Decker 148 00:07:19,193 --> 00:07:20,956 liked to take advantage of people, huh? 149 00:07:21,629 --> 00:07:23,187 Doesn't everybody? 150 00:07:24,198 --> 00:07:27,429 Look, I'll never have to buy him coffee again, 151 00:07:27,835 --> 00:07:29,700 but I will miss the work. 152 00:07:30,271 --> 00:07:32,205 How old would you say she is? 153 00:07:33,441 --> 00:07:34,635 [sighs] 154 00:07:34,709 --> 00:07:36,006 Maybe 30. 155 00:07:36,644 --> 00:07:38,077 Try 16. 156 00:07:39,213 --> 00:07:41,807 They do her hair and make-up, she looks 30. 157 00:07:41,883 --> 00:07:45,319 I'm 38, I haven't looked 30 since I was 20. 158 00:07:46,354 --> 00:07:48,413 It's easy to take advantage of me. 159 00:07:48,489 --> 00:07:51,549 I wouldn't peg you as that vulnerable, Miss Brant. 160 00:07:53,027 --> 00:07:55,222 I was a model when I was a kid. 161 00:07:55,363 --> 00:07:56,796 In my senior year in high school, 162 00:07:56,864 --> 00:07:58,661 I made five times what my father did 163 00:07:58,733 --> 00:08:00,166 in his hardware store. 164 00:08:00,234 --> 00:08:02,293 All the big agencies wanted me. 165 00:08:02,904 --> 00:08:04,963 Celeste Foxx herself came around. 166 00:08:05,907 --> 00:08:08,375 Problem is, it doesn't last. 167 00:08:08,476 --> 00:08:10,444 (Cerreta) You're still working. 168 00:08:10,511 --> 00:08:12,638 I have a daughter in private school. 169 00:08:12,714 --> 00:08:15,148 I'll be doing catalogues from the grave. 170 00:08:15,216 --> 00:08:17,844 Sounds like you needed Mr. Decker a lot. 171 00:08:18,052 --> 00:08:19,781 Not enough to sleep with him. 172 00:08:19,854 --> 00:08:21,287 You know who did? 173 00:08:22,323 --> 00:08:25,190 I told you, I didn't work for him that much. 174 00:08:25,727 --> 00:08:28,423 Now, ifthat's all, I'm late for aerobics. 175 00:08:28,496 --> 00:08:30,225 Uh, just one more thing, Miss Brant. 176 00:08:30,298 --> 00:08:31,595 [girls chattering] 177 00:08:31,666 --> 00:08:33,497 Can you tell us where you were from, uh, 178 00:08:33,568 --> 00:08:35,661 let's say, 6:00 to about 8:00 last night? 179 00:08:35,737 --> 00:08:36,829 What? 180 00:08:38,539 --> 00:08:39,665 (Angela) Hi, kids. 181 00:08:39,741 --> 00:08:40,765 Hi. 182 00:08:41,442 --> 00:08:42,773 What's going on? 183 00:08:42,844 --> 00:08:44,812 I have to go out. We can discuss it later. 184 00:08:44,879 --> 00:08:46,471 Why don't you go hang out in your room 185 00:08:46,547 --> 00:08:47,639 for a while, okay? 186 00:08:47,715 --> 00:08:49,273 Okay. Okay. 187 00:08:50,952 --> 00:08:53,386 Iadmitted I didn't like him. 188 00:08:53,855 --> 00:08:55,652 Can we finish this some other time? 189 00:08:55,723 --> 00:08:58,590 Could you just tell us where you were last night? 190 00:08:59,460 --> 00:09:01,951 I had dinner with my ex-husband. 191 00:09:02,029 --> 00:09:03,997 Got home around 9:00. 192 00:09:04,065 --> 00:09:06,556 Jeffrey Brant. He's a banker. 193 00:09:08,236 --> 00:09:11,728 Until when? Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Brant. 194 00:09:13,207 --> 00:09:15,175 The ex-husband says that he was with her 195 00:09:15,243 --> 00:09:17,507 from 6:00 until some time past 8:00. 196 00:09:17,578 --> 00:09:18,636 It's an alibi, 197 00:09:18,713 --> 00:09:21,147 unless she got to the phone before we did. 198 00:09:21,215 --> 00:09:24,707 Next up, Betty Ann Carter, West 24th. 199 00:09:25,453 --> 00:09:27,250 Want to bet she didn't like him either? 200 00:09:27,321 --> 00:09:28,879 Look on the bright side. 201 00:09:28,956 --> 00:09:30,287 If we do this all week, 202 00:09:30,358 --> 00:09:32,258 you'll never have to buy Playboy again. 203 00:09:32,326 --> 00:09:33,452 What are you saying? 204 00:09:33,528 --> 00:09:34,995 I treat all women like objects? 205 00:09:35,062 --> 00:09:36,996 More specific. Like furniture. 206 00:09:37,899 --> 00:09:39,924 This one, I promise, I won't even look at her. 207 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:40,990 [Cerreta laughing] 208 00:09:42,103 --> 00:09:44,230 What do you want me to do? Cry? 209 00:09:44,305 --> 00:09:47,502 I'll send a check to the Dead Photographers' fund. 210 00:09:48,609 --> 00:09:50,270 You did work for him, Miss Carter. 211 00:09:50,344 --> 00:09:53,040 You don't have a bed, you sleep in the gutter. 212 00:09:53,114 --> 00:09:54,775 I get into shape, I'm out of catalogues 213 00:09:54,849 --> 00:09:56,407 and back in magazines. 214 00:09:56,484 --> 00:09:59,044 (Logan) You don't look like you're falling apart. 215 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,418 You should've seen me at 19, sugar. 216 00:10:01,489 --> 00:10:03,286 Miss Southern Alabama Cotton Queen. 217 00:10:03,357 --> 00:10:05,052 Without Iiftin' a finger. 218 00:10:05,126 --> 00:10:08,527 Cover of Mademoiselle, Studio 54 till dawn. 219 00:10:08,930 --> 00:10:11,160 Julian said that I was finished. 220 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:15,257 [chuckling] Well, Lauren Hutton's past 40. 221 00:10:15,336 --> 00:10:17,566 She works. I'm still a Size 6. 222 00:10:18,339 --> 00:10:19,670 You'll pardon me, 223 00:10:19,740 --> 00:10:22,208 but ifthis is what you get when you're out of work... 224 00:10:22,476 --> 00:10:23,807 Oh, yeah. 225 00:10:24,011 --> 00:10:26,536 Well, used to be owned by me and Citibank. 226 00:10:26,614 --> 00:10:28,878 Now, just the bank, and they're sellin' it. 227 00:10:29,650 --> 00:10:32,312 Poor Julian, may he rest in hell. 228 00:10:32,653 --> 00:10:34,314 Who do you think killed him? 229 00:10:34,388 --> 00:10:36,447 We think he had a girlfriend. 230 00:10:36,524 --> 00:10:38,788 Oh. I see. 231 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:40,725 Last night? 232 00:10:41,195 --> 00:10:43,026 I was on a revolving pedestal 233 00:10:43,097 --> 00:10:45,224 pointin' at the kind of yacht I used to cruise on. 234 00:10:45,299 --> 00:10:46,789 Boat show, the Meadowlands. 235 00:10:46,868 --> 00:10:48,995 Better than what a lot of girls end up doin'. 236 00:10:49,070 --> 00:10:51,129 You mean to supplement their income. 237 00:10:51,205 --> 00:10:53,105 What do you think you do when this goes, 238 00:10:53,174 --> 00:10:55,165 and these are all you have left? 239 00:10:56,477 --> 00:10:57,808 Thank you. 240 00:10:59,380 --> 00:11:01,905 She was on a yacht display from 3:00 till 10:00. 241 00:11:01,983 --> 00:11:03,245 She didn't get dizzy? 242 00:11:03,317 --> 00:11:04,944 No, she got a break from 5:00 to 7:00. 243 00:11:05,019 --> 00:11:06,509 The guy doesn't know where she was. 244 00:11:06,587 --> 00:11:08,748 All right. Well, that's a half-hour through the tunnel, 245 00:11:08,823 --> 00:11:10,450 and a half-hour back. 246 00:11:10,524 --> 00:11:12,617 That gives her just enough time. 247 00:11:12,693 --> 00:11:14,285 Not unless she can fly. 248 00:11:14,362 --> 00:11:15,488 I went to see the in-Iaws, 249 00:11:15,563 --> 00:11:17,531 one ofthe tubes was closed in the Lincoln. 250 00:11:17,598 --> 00:11:18,758 Two hours just to get there. 251 00:11:18,833 --> 00:11:20,698 Round-trip in two hours? No way. 252 00:11:20,768 --> 00:11:23,601 We got no girlfriend. We don't even know who could've been there. 253 00:11:23,671 --> 00:11:26,003 All we got is a sleazeball who was begging for work. 254 00:11:26,073 --> 00:11:28,473 Who says the one he had sex with is the one who killed him? 255 00:11:28,542 --> 00:11:30,442 Wait a minute. Am I missing something here? 256 00:11:30,511 --> 00:11:32,206 This guy was begging for work? 257 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,714 He even made the girls buy him coffee. 258 00:11:34,782 --> 00:11:38,047 Expensive camera equipment, 3,000 square feet in Tribeca. 259 00:11:38,119 --> 00:11:40,053 This guy must've been one heck of a beggar. 260 00:11:40,121 --> 00:11:41,645 Find out how he paid for his life, 261 00:11:41,722 --> 00:11:43,952 maybe we find out the reason it's over. 262 00:11:44,025 --> 00:11:45,083 Not much in the loft. 263 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:46,956 What, there were boxes of receipts. 264 00:11:47,028 --> 00:11:48,996 And four-year-old tax returns. 265 00:11:49,063 --> 00:11:50,621 Signed by a CPA? 266 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:53,994 Mr. Decker. 267 00:11:55,269 --> 00:11:59,968 He reported $68,000 gross income last year. 268 00:12:00,408 --> 00:12:02,308 According to his travel records, 269 00:12:02,376 --> 00:12:04,901 his trips to the islands cost at least halfthat. 270 00:12:04,979 --> 00:12:06,606 Those were photo shoots. 271 00:12:06,681 --> 00:12:08,546 That's a legitimate business deduction. 272 00:12:08,616 --> 00:12:11,244 And his food, and his mortgage, 273 00:12:11,319 --> 00:12:13,981 and his clothes, and his equipment, and Uncle Sam, 274 00:12:14,055 --> 00:12:16,023 all came out of the rest of it? 275 00:12:16,090 --> 00:12:18,354 Well, I only know what he reported. 276 00:12:18,426 --> 00:12:20,917 I don't know a thing about his other income. 277 00:12:21,662 --> 00:12:23,630 Ifthere was any other income. 278 00:12:26,901 --> 00:12:29,335 You like to go to the islands, too, Mr. O'Hara? 279 00:12:29,403 --> 00:12:30,870 Me? No, 280 00:12:31,172 --> 00:12:33,140 my skin can't take the sun. 281 00:12:33,641 --> 00:12:34,665 That's good, 282 00:12:34,742 --> 00:12:36,403 'cause if you signed those tax returns 283 00:12:36,477 --> 00:12:37,774 knowing he had other income, 284 00:12:37,845 --> 00:12:40,006 you're gonna be out ofthe sun a long time. 285 00:12:43,818 --> 00:12:47,083 Okay, look. Models have a short life span. 286 00:12:47,154 --> 00:12:49,679 Julian found them other work. 287 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:51,849 Remember the guy in the diner? 288 00:12:51,926 --> 00:12:53,655 Said girls were going in and out ofthere 289 00:12:53,728 --> 00:12:55,127 two, three times a day. 290 00:12:55,196 --> 00:12:56,663 What were they doing, Mr. O'Hara? 291 00:12:56,731 --> 00:12:58,460 Getting their graduation photos taken? 292 00:12:58,532 --> 00:13:00,762 Okay. A lot of guys who'll pay big bucks 293 00:13:00,835 --> 00:13:03,633 to see a girl from the swimsuit issue without her swimsuit. 294 00:13:03,704 --> 00:13:04,693 So that the guy could 295 00:13:04,772 --> 00:13:06,603 slip into something more comfortable. 296 00:13:06,974 --> 00:13:08,032 [chuckling] 297 00:13:08,109 --> 00:13:10,339 Everybody's a consenting adult. 298 00:13:10,411 --> 00:13:12,879 No harm, no foul, right? 299 00:13:18,319 --> 00:13:21,311 (Cerreta) This guy was not only a photographer, he was a pimp. 300 00:13:21,389 --> 00:13:23,254 (Cragen) Yeah, and where does that get you? 301 00:13:23,324 --> 00:13:25,087 Ajohn did it? One of his girls? 302 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:27,218 We don't know any of his johns. Or his girls. 303 00:13:27,294 --> 00:13:29,762 Well, you'd better start with all the models he photographed. 304 00:13:29,830 --> 00:13:31,457 Check their bank accounts. 305 00:13:31,532 --> 00:13:33,090 The cotton queen. 306 00:13:33,601 --> 00:13:35,330 She talked about what the other girls did 307 00:13:35,403 --> 00:13:36,665 when their faces went. 308 00:13:36,737 --> 00:13:38,534 She didn't mean they got rich boyfriends. 309 00:13:38,606 --> 00:13:40,130 Rich boyfriends by the hour. 310 00:13:40,207 --> 00:13:42,437 But she didn't know Decker was a pimp. 311 00:13:42,510 --> 00:13:44,444 Or she didn't want to tell us. 312 00:13:45,546 --> 00:13:47,480 Sure he asked me to do it. 313 00:13:47,548 --> 00:13:50,779 $2,500 a week on my back instead of $500 on my feet. 314 00:13:51,218 --> 00:13:52,981 Well, it must've been tempting. 315 00:13:53,054 --> 00:13:54,316 Maybe to you. 316 00:13:54,388 --> 00:13:56,185 But, honey, I don't think you'd survive. 317 00:13:56,257 --> 00:13:59,317 In my experience, cops just can't perform that often. 318 00:13:59,994 --> 00:14:02,224 So, you never turned a trick, huh? 319 00:14:02,596 --> 00:14:03,995 Those beauty contests, 320 00:14:04,065 --> 00:14:06,363 some crackerjudge would put his hands on my ass 321 00:14:06,434 --> 00:14:08,265 and offer me more money than I'd ever seen 322 00:14:08,335 --> 00:14:09,495 to be his date. 323 00:14:09,570 --> 00:14:12,130 I didn't do it then, I don't do it now. 324 00:14:12,506 --> 00:14:14,235 That doesn't mean I have any cause 325 00:14:14,308 --> 00:14:15,639 to look down on those who do. 326 00:14:15,709 --> 00:14:17,540 That's real democratic of you. 327 00:14:17,611 --> 00:14:19,135 Well, it's a free country. 328 00:14:19,213 --> 00:14:21,340 At least I don't drink from the taxpayer's trough, 329 00:14:21,415 --> 00:14:22,712 like some people. 330 00:14:24,952 --> 00:14:27,045 Did Mr. Decker try to put pressure on you? 331 00:14:27,121 --> 00:14:28,520 Oh, every time I was there. 332 00:14:28,589 --> 00:14:29,954 He'd be at his little computer, 333 00:14:30,024 --> 00:14:31,889 addin' up the money the girls would bring. 334 00:14:31,959 --> 00:14:32,926 But I told him, 335 00:14:32,993 --> 00:14:35,223 "Honey, you can type till your fingers fall off. 336 00:14:35,296 --> 00:14:37,355 I work vertical or not at all." 337 00:14:41,936 --> 00:14:44,029 We found files on Decker's hard drive, 338 00:14:44,105 --> 00:14:45,504 one for each month. 339 00:14:45,573 --> 00:14:47,165 They go back two years. 340 00:14:47,241 --> 00:14:48,731 Trouble is, they have passwords. 341 00:14:48,809 --> 00:14:50,140 Well, can't you break the code? 342 00:14:50,211 --> 00:14:52,179 Randomly I wouldn't find the right algorithm 343 00:14:52,246 --> 00:14:53,474 till next summer. 344 00:14:53,547 --> 00:14:55,538 FBI computers could do it. 345 00:14:56,083 --> 00:14:57,414 Six weeks. 346 00:14:57,651 --> 00:14:59,551 Six weeks. Oh, no problem. Right, Phil? 347 00:14:59,620 --> 00:15:00,985 Our case won't go cold. 348 00:15:01,055 --> 00:15:02,215 What's on the files? 349 00:15:02,289 --> 00:15:03,881 We were hoping hookers. 350 00:15:05,826 --> 00:15:07,589 What would he call them? 351 00:15:07,661 --> 00:15:08,889 Hookers. 352 00:15:09,363 --> 00:15:10,990 [keyboard keys clicking] 353 00:15:13,968 --> 00:15:17,165 Wiseass. You know the guy's birthday? 354 00:15:19,473 --> 00:15:21,566 November 15, 1959. 355 00:15:21,675 --> 00:15:23,666 [keys continues clicking] 356 00:15:23,844 --> 00:15:25,471 [computer beeps] 357 00:15:27,648 --> 00:15:29,843 Okay, the initials must be hookers 358 00:15:29,917 --> 00:15:31,908 with dates and dollar amounts. 359 00:15:32,486 --> 00:15:35,148 The names and addresses must be the johns. 360 00:15:35,623 --> 00:15:38,922 H.D. Gets anywhere from $750 to $1,000. 361 00:15:39,627 --> 00:15:41,891 She presses your pants when she's done. 362 00:15:41,962 --> 00:15:44,726 I have a feeling it's more specialized than that. 363 00:15:44,798 --> 00:15:47,824 R.L. Mostly $200 a shot, 364 00:15:47,902 --> 00:15:49,767 but she doesn't work Wednesdays. 365 00:15:49,837 --> 00:15:51,270 Choir practice. 366 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:54,335 A.B. $150 to $300. 367 00:15:54,842 --> 00:15:57,072 J.S., about the same. 368 00:15:58,379 --> 00:16:01,871 A.B.? His second appointment ofthe day. 369 00:16:01,949 --> 00:16:04,144 What, Angela what's her name? 370 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,688 Brant. East 16th. 371 00:16:10,157 --> 00:16:13,854 A.B. Could there be more than one? 372 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:16,163 She said she was with her husband, right? 373 00:16:16,230 --> 00:16:17,720 He confirmed it. 374 00:16:17,865 --> 00:16:19,833 Still, it's worth a shot. 375 00:16:20,668 --> 00:16:23,228 Allan Rohmer. 874, Third Avenue. 376 00:16:23,304 --> 00:16:24,828 Every Monday at 6:00. 377 00:16:25,005 --> 00:16:26,472 [door squeaking] 378 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:28,337 Late Monday afternoon? 379 00:16:28,409 --> 00:16:30,570 I was probably casting a commercial. 380 00:16:31,178 --> 00:16:32,770 You use the couch? 381 00:16:34,381 --> 00:16:36,815 Only in movies from the '50s, Detective. 382 00:16:36,884 --> 00:16:38,408 In advertising we barely have time 383 00:16:38,485 --> 00:16:39,645 to sharpen the pencils. 384 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,449 What did you have time for Monday night, 385 00:16:41,522 --> 00:16:42,921 let's say around 6:00? 386 00:16:43,591 --> 00:16:44,853 Is this a hobby with you 387 00:16:44,925 --> 00:16:47,155 or are you looking to change professions? 388 00:16:47,228 --> 00:16:48,957 I was casting an airline commercial. 389 00:16:49,029 --> 00:16:50,087 I needed stewardesses. 390 00:16:50,164 --> 00:16:53,725 Oh, yeah? Well, fly me. My initials are A.B. 391 00:16:55,402 --> 00:16:58,200 Do you look for stewardesses every Monday, Mr. Rohmer? 392 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,100 Look, I, I saw all that in the Post about Decker, 393 00:17:03,410 --> 00:17:05,878 but what has this got to do with Angela? 394 00:17:09,049 --> 00:17:10,607 Was Miss Brant here? 395 00:17:10,718 --> 00:17:12,083 Yes. She was very nervous. 396 00:17:12,152 --> 00:17:14,245 She was all worked up. But you don't think Angela-- 397 00:17:14,321 --> 00:17:16,687 Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was she nervous about? 398 00:17:16,757 --> 00:17:17,985 Look, she's a lovely lady. 399 00:17:18,058 --> 00:17:19,650 I like her a lot. I didn't ask. 400 00:17:19,727 --> 00:17:21,661 She sharpen your pencil? 401 00:17:21,895 --> 00:17:23,692 She asked if we could skip it, 402 00:17:23,764 --> 00:17:25,288 she wasn't in the mood. 403 00:17:25,366 --> 00:17:27,732 She was only here maybe 20 minutes. 404 00:17:27,935 --> 00:17:29,402 (Cragen) So, you're tellin' me 405 00:17:29,470 --> 00:17:31,529 she makes a stop on Third Avenue, 406 00:17:31,605 --> 00:17:34,733 cries on his shoulder, races downtown, 407 00:17:34,808 --> 00:17:36,776 has sex with Decker and then kills him? 408 00:17:36,844 --> 00:17:38,436 Well, this was a hooker and her pimp. 409 00:17:38,512 --> 00:17:41,208 Maybe she wanted to change the deal. Maybe he wanted to change it. 410 00:17:41,282 --> 00:17:44,012 Maybe she couldn't get over the slaughter in Yugoslavia. 411 00:17:44,084 --> 00:17:46,382 Well, first she said she was with her ex-husband. 412 00:17:46,453 --> 00:17:48,353 Then it turns out she's at the ad agency. 413 00:17:48,422 --> 00:17:51,255 She's breaking the law, Mike. What do you want her to say? 414 00:17:51,325 --> 00:17:53,793 "Oh, that's right, Officer, I was out turning tricks." 415 00:17:53,861 --> 00:17:55,886 Now, when did the husband say he was with her? 416 00:17:55,963 --> 00:17:57,658 He said 6:00 to 8:00. 417 00:17:58,232 --> 00:18:00,393 "Hello, dear. If you don't want your name in the papers 418 00:18:00,467 --> 00:18:02,731 "when the cops get there, tell them we had dinner 419 00:18:02,803 --> 00:18:04,100 at 6:00, not 7:00." 420 00:18:04,171 --> 00:18:06,469 So she's a liar. It doesn't mean she's a killer. 421 00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:08,599 (Logan) I'd like to toss her apartment anyway. 422 00:18:08,676 --> 00:18:10,610 Just to see if Decker's blood shows up. 423 00:18:10,678 --> 00:18:12,202 What are you gonna do for a warrant? 424 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:13,746 She has an alibi. 425 00:18:14,114 --> 00:18:16,412 Get a print on her. You may get a match on the scissors. 426 00:18:16,483 --> 00:18:17,950 (Cerreta) We already ran her. 427 00:18:18,018 --> 00:18:20,179 No priors, no civil service. 428 00:18:20,321 --> 00:18:22,221 Well, wait a minute. Phil, 429 00:18:22,289 --> 00:18:23,950 you remember we were Ieavin', 430 00:18:24,024 --> 00:18:25,252 she was in a big rush 431 00:18:25,326 --> 00:18:26,793 to go to what, an aerobics class? 432 00:18:26,860 --> 00:18:27,792 So? 433 00:18:27,861 --> 00:18:29,328 So, she didn't leave with a bag. 434 00:18:29,396 --> 00:18:31,364 Maybe she's got a locker at the health club. 435 00:18:31,432 --> 00:18:34,060 Excuse me. You don't have probable cause for an apartment, 436 00:18:34,134 --> 00:18:35,692 you don't have it for a gym locker. 437 00:18:35,769 --> 00:18:37,031 What? The outside of a locker? 438 00:18:37,104 --> 00:18:38,628 There's no expectation of privacy. 439 00:18:38,706 --> 00:18:41,573 How much privacy can you expect in a locker room? 440 00:18:45,512 --> 00:18:47,104 Are you sure this is legal? 441 00:18:47,181 --> 00:18:49,206 We have your permission. That makes it legal. 442 00:18:49,283 --> 00:18:50,910 What if I didn't give permission? 443 00:18:50,984 --> 00:18:53,111 Then we've to go and get a warrant, come back tomorrow 444 00:18:53,187 --> 00:18:54,677 and close you down for a whole day, 445 00:18:54,755 --> 00:18:56,723 instead ofjust your locker room for an hour. 446 00:18:56,857 --> 00:18:57,846 [sighs] 447 00:19:00,127 --> 00:19:02,288 Got a pretty good thumb and index finger. 448 00:19:02,363 --> 00:19:03,796 Let's hope they're a match. 449 00:19:03,864 --> 00:19:05,456 Let's hope they're hers. 450 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,293 Hey, Phil. You know the warrant 451 00:19:08,369 --> 00:19:10,837 you told that healthclub guy you'd get? 452 00:19:10,904 --> 00:19:13,566 Exactly what probable cause did you have in mind? 453 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:14,629 A senile judge. 454 00:19:14,708 --> 00:19:16,039 (Medill) First prize, gentlemen. 455 00:19:16,110 --> 00:19:18,305 Which of you gets the Styrofoam dice for the windshield? 456 00:19:18,379 --> 00:19:19,403 What do you got? 457 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,175 Latent said the prints from the locker 458 00:19:21,248 --> 00:19:23,375 match the prints on the scissors from Decker's back. 459 00:19:23,450 --> 00:19:25,350 How about that for probable cause? 460 00:19:26,053 --> 00:19:28,419 I told you I saw Julian that morning. 461 00:19:28,489 --> 00:19:29,581 You didn't go back later? 462 00:19:29,656 --> 00:19:32,318 I was with my ex-husband. For dinner. I told you that, too. 463 00:19:32,393 --> 00:19:34,623 Yeah, you told me your ex was a banker. That's right. 464 00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:36,390 Not an ad exec on Third Avenue. 465 00:19:36,463 --> 00:19:39,261 I didn't want you to know about that. My daughter was there. 466 00:19:39,333 --> 00:19:40,698 It's not something I'm proud of. 467 00:19:40,768 --> 00:19:42,759 And I did see my husband for dinner. 468 00:19:42,836 --> 00:19:44,235 (Logan) Phil! 469 00:19:53,213 --> 00:19:55,408 Well, ifthere's blood on anything, I don't see it. 470 00:19:55,482 --> 00:19:57,450 Decker had sex with somebody. 471 00:19:58,318 --> 00:19:59,876 You think she got up and went home 472 00:19:59,953 --> 00:20:01,443 without getting dressed? 473 00:20:03,657 --> 00:20:04,783 (Logan) What can I tell you? 474 00:20:04,858 --> 00:20:06,689 Her prints are on the murder weapon. 475 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,728 She admits she was in the loft that morning. 476 00:20:08,796 --> 00:20:10,127 The underwear, Paul. 477 00:20:10,197 --> 00:20:12,097 The vaginal secretions match what they found 478 00:20:12,166 --> 00:20:13,394 in Decker's pajamas. 479 00:20:13,467 --> 00:20:15,492 She could've had sex with him in the morning, too. 480 00:20:15,569 --> 00:20:16,797 (Cragen) No, she couldn't. 481 00:20:16,870 --> 00:20:18,895 The sample from the pajamas was fresh. 482 00:20:18,972 --> 00:20:19,996 (Paul) How fresh? 483 00:20:22,209 --> 00:20:24,177 and then stickin' the scissors in his back? 484 00:20:24,678 --> 00:20:25,702 How fresh? 485 00:20:25,779 --> 00:20:28,373 No more than two hours. It puts her there when he was killed. 486 00:20:28,449 --> 00:20:29,746 (Cragen) She's a hooker, Paul. 487 00:20:29,817 --> 00:20:31,751 She slept with her pimp, she got very angry, 488 00:20:31,819 --> 00:20:33,411 and she stabbed him. 489 00:20:33,487 --> 00:20:35,148 Call Eyewitness News. We've never seen 490 00:20:35,222 --> 00:20:37,850 anything like this in New York City before. 491 00:20:40,127 --> 00:20:41,924 Okay. Pick her up. 492 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:50,461 Next case, "docket number 64931. 493 00:20:50,537 --> 00:20:52,004 ”People v. Angela Brant, 494 00:20:52,072 --> 00:20:54,267 The charge is murder in the second degree." 495 00:20:54,341 --> 00:20:56,309 Miss Green. Delightful to see you. 496 00:20:56,376 --> 00:20:58,401 You grace my courtroom so rarely. 497 00:20:58,479 --> 00:21:00,538 Certainly not by choice, Your Honor. 498 00:21:01,315 --> 00:21:03,476 Tell your client it's time to say the magic words. 499 00:21:03,617 --> 00:21:04,777 [whispers] Not guilty. 500 00:21:04,852 --> 00:21:05,910 Not guilty. 501 00:21:05,986 --> 00:21:07,783 Your Honor, with a case this strong, 502 00:21:07,855 --> 00:21:09,686 the People see a substantial flight risk. 503 00:21:09,756 --> 00:21:11,348 We request $250,000. 504 00:21:11,425 --> 00:21:13,620 The defendant has custody of her daughter, Your Honor. 505 00:21:13,694 --> 00:21:15,958 High bail would be a serious hardship. 506 00:21:16,029 --> 00:21:17,462 She should've thought of her child 507 00:21:17,531 --> 00:21:19,431 before she became a prostitute. 508 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,092 Did it ever occur to Your Honor 509 00:21:21,168 --> 00:21:22,760 that some women become prostitutes 510 00:21:22,836 --> 00:21:24,929 in order to support their children? 511 00:21:25,973 --> 00:21:27,133 How stupid of me. 512 00:21:27,207 --> 00:21:29,835 God forbid you should get a regularjob. 513 00:21:29,910 --> 00:21:31,502 And let me point out, Miss Green, 514 00:21:31,578 --> 00:21:34,945 for your next visit, that's a table, not a soapbox. 515 00:21:36,283 --> 00:21:39,013 Bail is $150,000. Short date. 516 00:21:39,086 --> 00:21:40,553 In honor of motherhood. 517 00:21:40,621 --> 00:21:41,815 [bangs gavel] 518 00:21:41,889 --> 00:21:43,254 Murder two? 519 00:21:43,323 --> 00:21:45,291 You couldn't convict her of bad manners. 520 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,259 Depraved indifference to human life. 521 00:21:47,327 --> 00:21:49,795 A scissors in the back, I think that qualifies. 522 00:21:49,863 --> 00:21:52,491 I had sex with him. It doesn't prove I killed him. 523 00:21:52,566 --> 00:21:54,864 Miss Brant, you lied about being there, 524 00:21:54,935 --> 00:21:56,630 you lied about your alibi, 525 00:21:56,703 --> 00:21:58,261 and even your lawyer will tell you 526 00:21:58,338 --> 00:22:00,898 that if you lie enough, juries tend to be suspicious. 527 00:22:01,108 --> 00:22:03,508 Oh, I forgot that section ofthe penal law. 528 00:22:03,577 --> 00:22:05,545 Twenty-five years for lying. 529 00:22:07,714 --> 00:22:09,841 Did she lie about her income, too? 530 00:22:09,917 --> 00:22:12,613 Or are you changing your standards at legal aid? 531 00:22:12,686 --> 00:22:14,950 Oh, no, no, no, no. She's just flatbacking 532 00:22:15,022 --> 00:22:17,490 until she can liquidate a major position at IBM. 533 00:22:17,558 --> 00:22:18,855 She's going to pay us back. 534 00:22:18,926 --> 00:22:22,327 Meanwhile. The fingerprints? Meaningless. 535 00:22:22,563 --> 00:22:24,463 And there's a little rumor going around 536 00:22:24,531 --> 00:22:26,692 that your DNA match to my client 537 00:22:26,767 --> 00:22:28,064 is less than perfect. 538 00:22:28,135 --> 00:22:30,069 You shouldn't even be going to trial. 539 00:22:30,137 --> 00:22:32,503 If we had perfect cases, we wouldn't need juries. 540 00:22:32,573 --> 00:22:33,665 And less than perfect 541 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:35,901 certainly doesn't change myjob description. 542 00:22:35,976 --> 00:22:37,967 I'll tell thejury she's on trial 543 00:22:38,045 --> 00:22:39,945 because prostitutes are easy targets. 544 00:22:40,013 --> 00:22:42,880 She was used by herjohns, abused by her pimp, 545 00:22:42,950 --> 00:22:44,884 and desperate to support her daughter. 546 00:22:44,952 --> 00:22:47,386 What am I hearing? A prostitute's manifesto? 547 00:22:47,454 --> 00:22:49,718 Hookers of the world unite, kill your oppressors? 548 00:22:49,790 --> 00:22:52,224 I'm not ashamed of who I am. I don't need his contempt. 549 00:22:52,292 --> 00:22:53,384 Angela, wait. 550 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:54,552 Look-it. 551 00:22:54,628 --> 00:22:56,186 Julian Decker was primeval slime 552 00:22:56,263 --> 00:22:57,389 and killing him 553 00:22:57,464 --> 00:22:59,591 was like using penicillin to kill the clap. 554 00:22:59,666 --> 00:23:01,827 Miss Brant, I'm not sure your resume 555 00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:03,426 entitles you to that judgment. 556 00:23:03,503 --> 00:23:04,663 [scoffs] Right. 557 00:23:06,974 --> 00:23:08,532 You want to do this, Stone? 558 00:23:08,609 --> 00:23:10,099 I'll clean your clock. 559 00:23:10,177 --> 00:23:13,704 When I'm through, you won't even care what time it is. 560 00:23:19,419 --> 00:23:21,182 She practically admitted killing him 561 00:23:21,254 --> 00:23:22,516 and dared us to convict. 562 00:23:22,589 --> 00:23:24,022 And maybe you'll lose. 563 00:23:24,091 --> 00:23:25,615 Who said hookers were dumb? 564 00:23:25,692 --> 00:23:27,353 Dumb enough not to wash her underwear. 565 00:23:27,427 --> 00:23:29,088 And dumb enough to leave prints. 566 00:23:29,162 --> 00:23:31,562 You have no motive. She has an alibi. 567 00:23:31,632 --> 00:23:33,998 Shambala Green says pity the poor prostitute, 568 00:23:34,067 --> 00:23:35,932 she's supporting her child, 569 00:23:36,003 --> 00:23:38,062 and by the way, everybody hated him, 570 00:23:38,138 --> 00:23:39,571 my client didn't do it. 571 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:40,800 You get no conviction. 572 00:23:40,874 --> 00:23:42,967 We can put her there at the time ofthe murder. 573 00:23:43,043 --> 00:23:45,034 With our excellent lab results. 574 00:23:45,112 --> 00:23:47,103 What, you think Green can get this suppressed? 575 00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:49,614 Brant's DNA is an 80 percent match 576 00:23:49,683 --> 00:23:51,708 to the vaginal secretions in the pajamas. 577 00:23:51,785 --> 00:23:54,049 Her ex-husband says he was with her. 578 00:23:54,121 --> 00:23:55,748 Okay, it's not a walk in the park. 579 00:23:55,822 --> 00:23:58,313 Yes, it is. You're gonna get mugged. 580 00:23:59,059 --> 00:24:00,651 Break the woman's alibi. 581 00:24:00,727 --> 00:24:02,285 Well, what did the husband say? 582 00:24:02,362 --> 00:24:05,126 Delia's restaurant, in the Village, having dinner. 583 00:24:05,198 --> 00:24:08,099 Let's see if somebody remembers if they were there. 584 00:24:11,038 --> 00:24:12,665 The cashier remembered Angela. 585 00:24:12,739 --> 00:24:14,297 He saw her picture in the papers. 586 00:24:14,374 --> 00:24:16,103 God bless the fourth estate. 587 00:24:16,176 --> 00:24:17,507 Does he remember when they left? 588 00:24:17,577 --> 00:24:19,602 Well, she and her ex-husband had an argument. 589 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,204 Stalked out just after they ordered. 590 00:24:21,281 --> 00:24:22,748 Long before 8:00. 591 00:24:23,150 --> 00:24:25,311 He could've been with her the rest ofthe night. 592 00:24:25,385 --> 00:24:26,943 Yeah, ifthey patched it up quick. 593 00:24:27,020 --> 00:24:28,282 The cashier was at the window. 594 00:24:28,355 --> 00:24:30,323 Says they walked off in opposite directions. 595 00:24:30,390 --> 00:24:32,756 Let's go find out what the husband remembers. 596 00:24:33,527 --> 00:24:34,926 [phones ringing] 597 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:37,520 Angela always says that. Like I work on Wall Street. 598 00:24:38,432 --> 00:24:41,424 I'm a loan officer. She likes the sound of "banker." 599 00:24:42,536 --> 00:24:44,060 Look, uh, 600 00:24:44,271 --> 00:24:47,399 I don't really remember when we finished dinner. 601 00:24:48,608 --> 00:24:50,098 You don't remember. 602 00:24:50,544 --> 00:24:52,375 The cashier remembers the shouting started 603 00:24:52,446 --> 00:24:53,572 before the entree. 604 00:24:54,748 --> 00:24:56,545 [people chattering] 605 00:24:58,618 --> 00:25:00,108 [phone ringing] 606 00:25:00,554 --> 00:25:03,546 [sighs] We had a disagreement, okay? 607 00:25:04,124 --> 00:25:06,422 Angela wanted more child support. 608 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,484 When you argue about child support, 609 00:25:08,562 --> 00:25:11,156 do you usually stalk out of the restaurant? 610 00:25:11,998 --> 00:25:16,458 She said Decker was gouging her on her fees. 611 00:25:17,704 --> 00:25:19,604 You knew she was a prostitute? 612 00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:22,370 Yeah, I knew about Angela. 613 00:25:22,542 --> 00:25:25,033 But my daughter didn't, and I didn't want her to. 614 00:25:25,112 --> 00:25:26,136 You also told the police 615 00:25:26,213 --> 00:25:27,874 you were with her from 6:00 to 8:00. 616 00:25:28,882 --> 00:25:31,077 In court, that's called perjury. 617 00:25:35,088 --> 00:25:38,580 I got a wife, two kids besides Tracy. 618 00:25:38,825 --> 00:25:41,385 Does everybody have to be dragged into this? 619 00:25:41,461 --> 00:25:44,225 Then, let's say, let's say I wasn't with her. 620 00:25:45,132 --> 00:25:46,997 Can we just leave it at that? 621 00:25:47,868 --> 00:25:50,200 Let's say you'll testify, 622 00:25:50,604 --> 00:25:53,129 or you'll be reading a contempt citation. 623 00:25:55,275 --> 00:25:56,435 [sighs] 624 00:26:02,349 --> 00:26:03,714 She called. 625 00:26:05,152 --> 00:26:07,643 She was in a panic. She said the cops had just been there. 626 00:26:07,721 --> 00:26:10,815 She asked me to say I was with her. 627 00:26:13,093 --> 00:26:14,754 She got into a cab. 628 00:26:15,862 --> 00:26:18,092 Around 7:00 at the latest. 629 00:26:25,172 --> 00:26:26,867 I knew Angela to say hello. 630 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:29,773 I used to see her at Julian's. Mr. Decker's. 631 00:26:30,143 --> 00:26:31,804 Did she ever share her feelings 632 00:26:31,878 --> 00:26:33,072 about Mr. Decker with you? 633 00:26:33,146 --> 00:26:35,307 (Green) Objection. Calls for hearsay. 634 00:26:35,382 --> 00:26:38,078 Offered for the defendant's state of mind, Your Honor. 635 00:26:38,151 --> 00:26:40,142 Overruled. Go on, Miss Carter. 636 00:26:40,987 --> 00:26:43,148 Angela said she wanted to warn me about him. 637 00:26:43,223 --> 00:26:45,123 She was having some trouble with her bills, 638 00:26:45,192 --> 00:26:46,955 her daughter is in private school. 639 00:26:47,027 --> 00:26:48,858 Mr. Decker loaned her some money 640 00:26:48,929 --> 00:26:51,261 and told her that she could make it up on a shoot. 641 00:26:51,331 --> 00:26:52,559 When she didn't get any work, 642 00:26:52,632 --> 00:26:54,224 he told her that she could make it up 643 00:26:54,301 --> 00:26:55,427 on her back. 644 00:26:55,836 --> 00:26:58,600 And what was the defendant's reaction to that? 645 00:26:59,206 --> 00:27:01,800 Well, she was angry. She told me she felt trapped. 646 00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:04,435 She had to pay him and she needed more money. 647 00:27:04,511 --> 00:27:06,843 Thank you. Your witness. 648 00:27:12,786 --> 00:27:14,549 When did this happen? 649 00:27:14,621 --> 00:27:17,920 Miss Brant feeling that she'd been trapped by Mr. Decker? 650 00:27:18,592 --> 00:27:20,958 Uh, six, seven months ago. 651 00:27:21,127 --> 00:27:23,721 (Green) So she was angry seven months ago. 652 00:27:24,264 --> 00:27:27,563 Did you ever hear Miss Brant threaten to kill Mr. Decker? 653 00:27:27,634 --> 00:27:30,068 No. She never said athing like that. 654 00:27:30,470 --> 00:27:33,200 What were your feelings toward Mr. Decker? 655 00:27:34,107 --> 00:27:37,099 Well, like a lot of people, I... 656 00:27:41,081 --> 00:27:43,140 Actually I'd say I hated Julian Decker 657 00:27:43,216 --> 00:27:44,877 and I hope he rots in hell. 658 00:27:46,853 --> 00:27:48,013 Thank you. 659 00:27:48,655 --> 00:27:50,555 No further questions. 660 00:27:52,325 --> 00:27:54,919 I didn't ask Angela ifshe'd killed him. 661 00:27:54,995 --> 00:27:57,020 I mean, it was on the phone, 662 00:27:57,631 --> 00:27:59,758 and I really didn't want to know. 663 00:27:59,833 --> 00:28:01,858 Did Miss Brant tell you about her conversation 664 00:28:01,935 --> 00:28:03,232 with the police? 665 00:28:04,271 --> 00:28:06,068 (Jeff) She thought they'd call me. 666 00:28:06,139 --> 00:28:09,006 She wanted me to say that I was with her until 8:00. 667 00:28:09,075 --> 00:28:11,270 She said that if I told the truth, 668 00:28:11,845 --> 00:28:13,938 we'd all get our names in the papers. 669 00:28:14,014 --> 00:28:16,209 It'd be bad for me, my wife, my kids, 670 00:28:16,283 --> 00:28:18,410 our daughter Tracy. All of us. 671 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,115 (Stone) Thank you. No further questions. 672 00:28:29,195 --> 00:28:31,322 You and your ex-wife hardly spoke, Mr. Brant. 673 00:28:31,398 --> 00:28:32,797 Why was that? 674 00:28:34,935 --> 00:28:36,835 The way Angela lives. 675 00:28:38,004 --> 00:28:40,802 It doesn't fit the life I have now. 676 00:28:41,374 --> 00:28:43,604 What about your life six years ago? 677 00:28:44,978 --> 00:28:46,946 We didn't have one. We were divorced. 678 00:28:47,013 --> 00:28:49,948 I meant the custody suit over your daughter Tracy. 679 00:28:50,150 --> 00:28:51,640 The suit you lost. 680 00:28:51,718 --> 00:28:53,242 I didn't lose. I withdrew. 681 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,153 You told the police you were with your ex-wife that night. 682 00:28:56,222 --> 00:28:57,519 Now you say you weren't. 683 00:28:57,590 --> 00:29:00,650 Now, in fact, isn't your entire testimony today a lie? 684 00:29:00,727 --> 00:29:02,627 Weren't you with Angela Brant 685 00:29:02,696 --> 00:29:04,288 the night Julian Decker was killed? 686 00:29:04,364 --> 00:29:06,161 Objection. Asked and answered. 687 00:29:06,232 --> 00:29:07,631 Sustained. 688 00:29:11,838 --> 00:29:13,135 [sighs] 689 00:29:16,009 --> 00:29:18,000 Would you prefer to see your ex-wife convicted 690 00:29:18,078 --> 00:29:20,046 if it meant getting custody of your daughter? 691 00:29:20,113 --> 00:29:21,102 (Stone) Objection. 692 00:29:21,181 --> 00:29:22,944 In fact, won't you do just about anything 693 00:29:23,016 --> 00:29:24,347 to get custody of your daughter? 694 00:29:24,417 --> 00:29:25,782 She's badgering the witness. 695 00:29:25,852 --> 00:29:27,820 Miss Green, that's enough. 696 00:29:29,622 --> 00:29:30,987 Withdrawn. 697 00:29:32,258 --> 00:29:33,850 No further questions. 698 00:29:35,729 --> 00:29:38,857 A custody case? I can't even think of a better reason to lie. 699 00:29:38,932 --> 00:29:40,524 That was six years ago, Adam. 700 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:41,999 He has a new wife, new kids. 701 00:29:42,068 --> 00:29:43,262 He wouldn't want custody. 702 00:29:43,336 --> 00:29:45,327 Is that what a jury thinks? 703 00:29:45,772 --> 00:29:47,364 As a reason to put your wife in jail, 704 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,170 custody of a child is the ultimate motive. 705 00:29:50,777 --> 00:29:51,903 Who prepped the husband? 706 00:29:51,978 --> 00:29:53,468 I did. He never mentioned it. 707 00:29:53,546 --> 00:29:55,104 Bring in the rest of your witnesses. 708 00:29:55,181 --> 00:29:57,741 Go over their testimony. No more surprises. 709 00:29:58,651 --> 00:29:59,982 Thank you. 710 00:30:04,924 --> 00:30:06,619 Miss Green has just filed a motion 711 00:30:06,693 --> 00:30:08,627 to suppress your DNA evidence. 712 00:30:09,029 --> 00:30:11,896 Should've been pre-trial. Judge Baum will ignore it. 713 00:30:11,965 --> 00:30:13,956 No court in the country rejects DNA. 714 00:30:14,034 --> 00:30:15,797 Until this afternoon. 715 00:30:16,636 --> 00:30:19,196 Judge Lucas, down the hall from Judge Baum. 716 00:30:19,272 --> 00:30:22,105 Rejected our DNA tests in the Gelman murder. 717 00:30:22,609 --> 00:30:24,440 You better hope that Judge Baum 718 00:30:24,511 --> 00:30:26,877 doesn't play bridge with Judge Lucas. 719 00:30:27,113 --> 00:30:29,911 This is absurd. She should've made this motion weeks ago. 720 00:30:29,983 --> 00:30:32,315 Judge Lucas just changed the picture. 721 00:30:32,385 --> 00:30:34,649 The DNA sample in the Gelman case was contaminated. 722 00:30:34,721 --> 00:30:35,779 Ours isn't. 723 00:30:35,855 --> 00:30:38,016 (Baum) Could we look at the law, please? 724 00:30:38,091 --> 00:30:40,582 The standard is Frye v. United States. 725 00:30:40,927 --> 00:30:43,225 "The evidence must have gained general acceptance 726 00:30:43,296 --> 00:30:45,093 in the field in which it belongs." 727 00:30:45,165 --> 00:30:47,190 (Green) We don't have general acceptance. 728 00:30:47,267 --> 00:30:49,394 Six months ago the National Academy of Sciences 729 00:30:49,469 --> 00:30:52,097 said DNA tests are questionable. 730 00:30:52,172 --> 00:30:54,640 They said the labs were questionable, not the tests. 731 00:30:54,707 --> 00:30:57,369 Juries treat science like God. 732 00:30:57,444 --> 00:30:59,344 Especially from police experts. 733 00:30:59,412 --> 00:31:01,744 Pardon me, I do the lecturing here. 734 00:31:02,348 --> 00:31:04,475 You tested the vaginal secretions 735 00:31:04,551 --> 00:31:06,109 against the defendant's DNA. 736 00:31:06,186 --> 00:31:08,120 You got an 80 percent match. 737 00:31:08,321 --> 00:31:11,484 The sample was fresh, why isn't the match perfect? 738 00:31:11,925 --> 00:31:13,517 Nothing's perfect. 739 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,921 What is that, philosophy or law? 740 00:31:17,130 --> 00:31:19,496 This evidence should be admissible. 741 00:31:19,966 --> 00:31:21,900 But I'm no expert. 742 00:31:21,968 --> 00:31:23,663 The scientists can't agree. 743 00:31:23,736 --> 00:31:25,203 Your Honor, with all due respect-- 744 00:31:25,271 --> 00:31:27,296 I hope you'll respect me in the morning. 745 00:31:27,373 --> 00:31:30,865 But I'm going to have to rule the DNA is not admissible. 746 00:31:31,344 --> 00:31:34,279 You want to put the defendant at the murder scene, Ben, 747 00:31:34,347 --> 00:31:36,110 find another way to do it. 748 00:31:41,221 --> 00:31:42,882 Judge Baum is an idiot. 749 00:31:42,956 --> 00:31:44,924 Stuff envelopes for the county leader, 750 00:31:44,991 --> 00:31:46,549 you, too, can ascend to the bench. 751 00:31:46,626 --> 00:31:47,558 No DNA. 752 00:31:47,627 --> 00:31:49,618 If we don't put her there at the time ofthe murder, 753 00:31:49,696 --> 00:31:51,163 thejury'll be out in five minutes. 754 00:31:51,231 --> 00:31:52,425 You'll never get to the jury. 755 00:31:52,499 --> 00:31:53,966 We're looking at a dismissal. 756 00:31:54,067 --> 00:31:55,830 Who saw your victim last? 757 00:31:55,902 --> 00:31:57,460 The modeling agency, Foxx. 758 00:31:57,537 --> 00:31:59,630 Did Decker say anything to put Angela with him 759 00:31:59,706 --> 00:32:01,435 later that day? Did we ask? 760 00:32:01,508 --> 00:32:03,703 We weren't planning on calling her as a witness. 761 00:32:03,776 --> 00:32:05,573 Let's ask her. Personally. 762 00:32:07,147 --> 00:32:10,173 If he was seeing Angela, he wouldn't have told me. 763 00:32:10,950 --> 00:32:12,850 Frankly, I'm surprised. 764 00:32:13,286 --> 00:32:15,379 She's a little old for Julian. 765 00:32:16,689 --> 00:32:18,554 Sounds like you almost feel sorry for her. 766 00:32:18,625 --> 00:32:20,058 I almost do. 767 00:32:20,126 --> 00:32:21,753 I'm sorrier for her daughter. 768 00:32:21,828 --> 00:32:24,058 She wants to be just like Angela. 769 00:32:24,130 --> 00:32:26,394 Brought in her own portfolio, taken by Decker. 770 00:32:26,466 --> 00:32:27,933 She doesn't have her mother's legs. 771 00:32:28,001 --> 00:32:29,559 Podgy. Bad legs. 772 00:32:29,636 --> 00:32:30,933 The daughter? 773 00:32:31,004 --> 00:32:32,733 She had her pictures taken by Decker? 774 00:32:32,805 --> 00:32:35,330 Tracy said her mother encouraged her. 775 00:32:36,109 --> 00:32:37,940 A little hard to believe. 776 00:32:38,978 --> 00:32:40,411 Who would know? 777 00:32:41,247 --> 00:32:43,772 Tracy's friends, maybe. Her school, Miss Harker's. 778 00:32:43,850 --> 00:32:45,147 I went there myself. 779 00:32:45,218 --> 00:32:48,312 On career day, six girls handed me their portfolios. 780 00:32:49,355 --> 00:32:51,323 How much does something like that cost? 781 00:32:51,391 --> 00:32:54,326 $1,500 minimum. Even from Decker. 782 00:32:55,662 --> 00:32:58,187 It makes one wonder why he did Tracy's. 783 00:32:58,464 --> 00:33:01,262 Tracy always bragged about her older boyfriend. 784 00:33:01,334 --> 00:33:04,997 The fashion photographer. Tracy was gonna be a star. 785 00:33:05,071 --> 00:33:07,733 The next Cindy Crawford. Just like her mother. 786 00:33:07,807 --> 00:33:09,707 Tracy's pretty, she could be a model. 787 00:33:09,776 --> 00:33:11,403 Ifthey shot her from the waist up. 788 00:33:11,477 --> 00:33:12,944 Those legs! 789 00:33:13,012 --> 00:33:14,502 She could do fingernail ads. 790 00:33:14,581 --> 00:33:15,775 [both chuckling] 791 00:33:15,848 --> 00:33:18,476 If a big fashion photographer came on to me, 792 00:33:18,551 --> 00:33:20,143 I'd be interested. 793 00:33:20,687 --> 00:33:23,087 Did Tracy's mother know about this boyfriend? 794 00:33:23,156 --> 00:33:25,750 They had a fight on the sidewalk, right outside. 795 00:33:25,825 --> 00:33:27,952 Mrs. Brant found her portfolio. 796 00:33:28,027 --> 00:33:30,757 Mrs. Brant thought something else was going on. 797 00:33:31,965 --> 00:33:33,364 Do you know what she meant? 798 00:33:33,433 --> 00:33:34,923 They were in love. 799 00:33:35,268 --> 00:33:37,463 And we're15, not 12. 800 00:33:38,037 --> 00:33:39,061 [elevator bell dinging] 801 00:33:39,138 --> 00:33:41,129 The mother knew about Decker and her daughter? 802 00:33:41,207 --> 00:33:42,299 Yeah, it's motive. 803 00:33:42,375 --> 00:33:44,468 But it doesn't put Brant in the loft that night. 804 00:33:44,544 --> 00:33:46,011 The kids never heard Decker's name 805 00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:48,445 or saw the daughter with him. It's all hearsay. 806 00:33:48,514 --> 00:33:50,539 What's the problem? Put the daughter on the stand. 807 00:33:50,617 --> 00:33:52,016 Whatever she knows, she'll lie. 808 00:33:52,085 --> 00:33:54,417 It gives us leverage on Brant, might get us a deal. 809 00:33:54,487 --> 00:33:56,785 So get a subpoena for the daughter to testify. 810 00:33:59,025 --> 00:34:01,084 Her testimony isn't relevant. 811 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,491 You'll never get it in. 812 00:34:02,562 --> 00:34:04,655 Last time I looked, motive was relevant. 813 00:34:04,731 --> 00:34:05,823 This is a homicide, 814 00:34:05,898 --> 00:34:08,059 even Judge Baum won't keep her offthe stand. 815 00:34:08,134 --> 00:34:10,329 Do you know what this will do to my daughter? 816 00:34:10,403 --> 00:34:12,462 I don't think it's a lot worse than what you did. 817 00:34:12,538 --> 00:34:14,335 Man two, three to nine. 818 00:34:14,407 --> 00:34:15,635 What does that mean? 819 00:34:15,708 --> 00:34:17,335 It means they're desperate. 820 00:34:17,410 --> 00:34:20,277 Miss Green is wrong. It means three to nine years in jail. 821 00:34:20,346 --> 00:34:21,540 (Green) We're not interested. 822 00:34:21,614 --> 00:34:22,603 Maybe I am. 823 00:34:22,682 --> 00:34:24,081 Come on, Angela, let's go. 824 00:34:24,150 --> 00:34:26,778 It's not worth it. I've ruined my life, 825 00:34:26,853 --> 00:34:29,014 I don't want to ruin Tracy's, too. 826 00:34:31,257 --> 00:34:32,451 Angela, trust me, 827 00:34:32,525 --> 00:34:34,459 Tracy will never take the stand. 828 00:34:34,527 --> 00:34:35,892 You're misleading your client. 829 00:34:35,962 --> 00:34:37,429 You're misleading yourself. 830 00:34:37,497 --> 00:34:39,431 I'll see you at the hearing. 831 00:34:44,370 --> 00:34:46,861 (Green) This meets no standard of relevance. 832 00:34:46,939 --> 00:34:48,600 It's a fishing expedition. 833 00:34:48,675 --> 00:34:49,972 The defendant was angry 834 00:34:50,043 --> 00:34:52,204 about her daughter's involvement with the victim. 835 00:34:52,278 --> 00:34:53,267 It goes to motive. 836 00:34:53,346 --> 00:34:54,745 Motive? It's a theory. 837 00:34:54,814 --> 00:34:56,907 Last week she killed him over money. 838 00:34:56,983 --> 00:34:58,109 Now it's her daughter. 839 00:34:58,184 --> 00:35:00,345 Next week it'll be whatever new motive 840 00:35:00,420 --> 00:35:02,980 you dream up over lunch at the University Club. 841 00:35:03,056 --> 00:35:04,648 Ben, the standard 842 00:35:04,724 --> 00:35:07,454 is whether the testimony is relevant or collateral. 843 00:35:07,527 --> 00:35:09,586 You don't know if it's relevant and neither do I. 844 00:35:09,662 --> 00:35:10,686 Thank you. 845 00:35:10,763 --> 00:35:12,731 Don't buy me an apple yet, Miss Green. 846 00:35:12,799 --> 00:35:14,596 I'll question the girl in chambers 847 00:35:14,667 --> 00:35:16,532 and then make a decision. 848 00:35:16,602 --> 00:35:19,264 Relevance aside, Your Honor, the girl's in trauma. 849 00:35:19,339 --> 00:35:21,170 She's seeing a psychiatrist. 850 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:22,901 An interview at this point is-- 851 00:35:22,975 --> 00:35:25,535 Fine, I'll order a psychiatric exam. 852 00:35:25,611 --> 00:35:27,306 By my psychiatrist. 853 00:35:27,380 --> 00:35:28,779 With me present. 854 00:35:28,848 --> 00:35:30,406 For you, Miss Green, anything. 855 00:35:30,483 --> 00:35:32,610 This court orders a psychiatric exam 856 00:35:32,685 --> 00:35:36,212 of Tracy Brant with defense counsel present. 857 00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:41,527 (Tracy) I was with my mom. 858 00:35:41,594 --> 00:35:43,562 It--It was a catalogue shoot, 859 00:35:43,963 --> 00:35:45,760 Julian saw me, he liked me. 860 00:35:45,832 --> 00:35:48,995 He said I had great coloring, better than Mom’s, 861 00:35:49,969 --> 00:35:52,267 I had a chance even if she didn’t, 862 00:35:52,939 --> 00:35:53,997 Did your mom know 863 00:35:54,073 --> 00:35:55,802 that you were sleeping with Julian? 864 00:35:59,445 --> 00:36:01,606 She found some pictures he took. 865 00:36:03,249 --> 00:36:05,183 I didn't have any clothes on. 866 00:36:06,185 --> 00:36:07,812 What did your mom do? 867 00:36:09,622 --> 00:36:12,056 She told me not to see him again. 868 00:36:12,825 --> 00:36:15,225 She said I'd end up as a prostitute. 869 00:36:15,628 --> 00:36:17,619 She had no right to say that. 870 00:36:18,765 --> 00:36:20,926 You continued to see Julian. 871 00:36:23,336 --> 00:36:24,633 I had to. 872 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:28,472 Ineeded him. 873 00:36:30,877 --> 00:36:33,675 Was Julian the first man you'd had sex with? 874 00:36:37,316 --> 00:36:39,147 He was experienced. 875 00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:42,681 He made me feel safe. 876 00:36:45,825 --> 00:36:48,157 Do you think your mom killed him because of you? 877 00:36:48,227 --> 00:36:50,024 (Green) Out of bounds, Doc. 878 00:36:50,496 --> 00:36:52,225 Don't answer that, Tracy. 879 00:36:55,168 --> 00:36:58,399 Tracy, how did your mom feel about you being a model? 880 00:37:00,773 --> 00:37:02,832 She said it was a bad life. 881 00:37:04,177 --> 00:37:06,304 But it was just too hard for her. 882 00:37:06,612 --> 00:37:09,604 She didn't want it bad enough. She wasn't dedicated. 883 00:37:11,784 --> 00:37:13,081 But I am. 884 00:37:17,089 --> 00:37:19,057 It's what everybody wants. 885 00:37:19,826 --> 00:37:21,191 My friends. 886 00:37:23,729 --> 00:37:26,220 To have everybody think you're beautiful. 887 00:37:27,733 --> 00:37:29,496 (Paul) Fifteen years old, 888 00:37:29,569 --> 00:37:31,400 she seemed fairly self-possessed to me. 889 00:37:31,471 --> 00:37:33,371 Too self-possessed. Did you hear her? 890 00:37:33,439 --> 00:37:34,804 A scared child 891 00:37:34,874 --> 00:37:36,205 afraid of her mother one minute. 892 00:37:36,275 --> 00:37:38,607 A tough kid, contemptuous of her mother the next. 893 00:37:38,678 --> 00:37:40,908 You saying she shouldn't testify? 894 00:37:40,980 --> 00:37:43,505 There's something missing with this girl. 895 00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:46,575 (Olivet) Tracy Brant's life was bound up in this man. 896 00:37:46,652 --> 00:37:49,348 Everything she wanted, Julian Decker would get it for her. 897 00:37:49,422 --> 00:37:51,788 If her mother killed him, she should be enraged. 898 00:37:51,858 --> 00:37:53,052 She's not. 899 00:37:53,125 --> 00:37:54,422 It's strange. 900 00:37:54,494 --> 00:37:57,054 You know what's stranger? She dared us to convict. 901 00:37:57,129 --> 00:37:58,858 She almost admitted killing him. 902 00:37:58,931 --> 00:38:01,559 Our case gets weaker, she wants to plead. 903 00:38:02,068 --> 00:38:05,003 Some mothers will do anything to protect a child. 904 00:38:07,073 --> 00:38:09,234 You're saying the daughter killed Decker? 905 00:38:09,308 --> 00:38:11,333 I'm saying it's a possibility. 906 00:38:11,944 --> 00:38:13,707 The DNA was a match with Angela. 907 00:38:13,779 --> 00:38:15,007 80 percent. 908 00:38:15,081 --> 00:38:18,107 And where does a daughter get her DNA from, anyway? 909 00:38:18,184 --> 00:38:20,345 The cops searched the apartment. 910 00:38:20,953 --> 00:38:22,648 Why was the underwear still there, 911 00:38:22,722 --> 00:38:24,622 why didn't Brant get rid of it? 912 00:38:24,957 --> 00:38:27,482 Because she didn't know it mattered until they found it. 913 00:38:29,695 --> 00:38:32,255 Let's get a blood sample on the daughter. 914 00:38:32,331 --> 00:38:35,562 Did anybody even consider the possibility? 915 00:38:35,635 --> 00:38:37,330 Adam, we all made the same assumption. 916 00:38:37,403 --> 00:38:39,303 We thought the underwear was the mother's. 917 00:38:39,372 --> 00:38:42,603 When did we turn this office over to the Marx Brothers? 918 00:38:43,442 --> 00:38:47,071 First, nobody checks out this husband's custody suit 919 00:38:47,146 --> 00:38:48,670 and now it turns out 920 00:38:48,748 --> 00:38:51,216 that nobody checked whose bloomers were whose. 921 00:38:51,284 --> 00:38:53,252 You're going for a record here. 922 00:38:53,319 --> 00:38:54,946 So what's the theory? 923 00:38:55,454 --> 00:38:57,649 Mother walks in, finds the daughter, 924 00:38:57,723 --> 00:38:59,850 stabs Decker in front of her. That it? 925 00:38:59,926 --> 00:39:02,156 Liz thinks it's possible that the daughter did it. 926 00:39:02,228 --> 00:39:03,286 Where was the mother? 927 00:39:03,362 --> 00:39:04,920 I think she was with the ex-husband. 928 00:39:04,997 --> 00:39:07,659 The husband testified she wasn't with him. 929 00:39:07,733 --> 00:39:09,997 Cerreta and Logan asked Brant where she was. 930 00:39:10,069 --> 00:39:11,969 She didn't know the daughter killed Decker. 931 00:39:12,038 --> 00:39:13,164 She tells the truth. 932 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,070 Says she was with her ex. He backs her up. 933 00:39:15,141 --> 00:39:16,369 Not in court. 934 00:39:16,442 --> 00:39:17,466 But try this. 935 00:39:17,543 --> 00:39:19,704 He changed his mind after she told him to. 936 00:39:19,779 --> 00:39:21,474 She wanted to look guilty. 937 00:39:21,547 --> 00:39:23,105 He tells the truth the first time, 938 00:39:23,182 --> 00:39:24,911 then lies on the stand. 939 00:39:26,819 --> 00:39:28,184 Both lying. 940 00:39:28,554 --> 00:39:30,988 Protecting the kid. Good. 941 00:39:31,057 --> 00:39:32,285 [door opens] 942 00:39:33,526 --> 00:39:35,551 DNA match on the daughter. 943 00:39:35,628 --> 00:39:37,892 Irrefutable. 100 percent. 944 00:39:42,535 --> 00:39:43,661 Okay. 945 00:39:44,570 --> 00:39:46,595 Only way this works now 946 00:39:47,173 --> 00:39:48,765 is to put husband and wife together 947 00:39:48,841 --> 00:39:50,206 at the time ofthe killing. 948 00:39:50,276 --> 00:39:51,937 Can you prove that? 949 00:39:55,314 --> 00:39:57,509 (Stone) It's called perjury, Mr. Brant. 950 00:39:57,583 --> 00:39:59,778 You might want to call your lawyer. 951 00:40:00,052 --> 00:40:01,178 You can't prove anything. 952 00:40:01,253 --> 00:40:02,777 You don't know where Angela was. 953 00:40:02,855 --> 00:40:04,322 I think we do. 954 00:40:04,390 --> 00:40:06,722 We also know where your daughter was. 955 00:40:08,461 --> 00:40:11,919 We're going to indict Tracy for murder, Mr. Brant. 956 00:40:13,032 --> 00:40:14,294 She'll be arraigned, 957 00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:16,460 she'll be surrounded by reporters. 958 00:40:17,303 --> 00:40:19,464 Unless you'd like to make this easier. 959 00:40:19,538 --> 00:40:20,937 Oh, you mean easier for you. 960 00:40:21,007 --> 00:40:22,804 For your daughter. 961 00:40:24,477 --> 00:40:26,035 you'd better talk now. 962 00:40:35,087 --> 00:40:36,315 Oh, God. 963 00:40:41,727 --> 00:40:43,718 I did what Angela told me. 964 00:40:45,464 --> 00:40:47,193 I met her for dinner. 965 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:49,400 She knew about Tracy and Decker. 966 00:40:49,468 --> 00:40:51,766 She wanted my help. I didn't know what to do. 967 00:40:51,837 --> 00:40:53,828 How late were you together? 968 00:40:55,174 --> 00:40:58,302 She walked away, she was mad. 969 00:40:59,445 --> 00:41:02,278 I started to leave. I felt guilty, I went back. 970 00:41:03,516 --> 00:41:06,451 We went to the bar on the corner. 971 00:41:07,620 --> 00:41:09,315 We were there till 9:00. 972 00:41:09,755 --> 00:41:12,053 So you told the police the truth. 973 00:41:16,829 --> 00:41:18,387 Yeah. Angela called 974 00:41:18,464 --> 00:41:20,295 after they searched her apartment. 975 00:41:21,534 --> 00:41:24,332 She said ifthey asked again, I should tell them I lied. 976 00:41:24,937 --> 00:41:26,802 That I wasn't with her. 977 00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:30,131 She was willing to go tojail. 978 00:41:31,444 --> 00:41:33,207 Anything to save Tracy. 979 00:41:34,447 --> 00:41:36,938 You don't have a case on either ofthem. 980 00:41:37,016 --> 00:41:38,540 We're dismissing on Mrs. Brant 981 00:41:38,617 --> 00:41:40,278 and arresting her daughter. 982 00:41:40,352 --> 00:41:41,979 You can't prove Tracy did it. 983 00:41:42,054 --> 00:41:44,955 With what your husband told us this morning, I think we can. 984 00:41:45,991 --> 00:41:47,219 [sighing] 985 00:41:50,863 --> 00:41:52,956 She didn't understand 986 00:41:54,066 --> 00:41:56,296 that you couldn't have everything. 987 00:41:58,170 --> 00:42:00,070 That life wasn't like that. 988 00:42:02,575 --> 00:42:04,543 How do you tell a child? 989 00:42:11,083 --> 00:42:13,745 I have no authority to deal for Tracy, Ben. 990 00:42:14,453 --> 00:42:17,354 But I know that the girl's had a lot of problems. 991 00:42:17,757 --> 00:42:19,816 I understand, but she also killed a man. 992 00:42:19,892 --> 00:42:21,257 When you know what he did to her, 993 00:42:21,327 --> 00:42:23,261 you won't be thinking 25 years. 994 00:42:24,897 --> 00:42:26,762 Sentence her as ajuvenile. 995 00:42:29,935 --> 00:42:31,266 Convince me. 996 00:42:32,872 --> 00:42:34,134 You have a daughter, Ben. 997 00:42:34,206 --> 00:42:36,731 You know 15 is not an adult. 998 00:42:36,809 --> 00:42:38,640 She's not responsible. 999 00:42:40,946 --> 00:42:42,937 Would you excuse us, please? 1000 00:42:52,958 --> 00:42:54,152 You knew. 1001 00:42:54,627 --> 00:42:56,754 She never told me, I never asked. 1002 00:42:57,797 --> 00:42:59,662 Until she wanted a deal. 1003 00:42:59,932 --> 00:43:02,230 I knew she had to be either stupid or a martyr. 1004 00:43:02,301 --> 00:43:04,030 She was not stupid. 1005 00:43:06,438 --> 00:43:08,599 I'll get the case assignment. 1006 00:43:09,008 --> 00:43:10,475 Talkto the girl. 1007 00:43:15,981 --> 00:43:17,778 (Tracy) I know I'm pretty. 1008 00:43:17,850 --> 00:43:19,943 I'm just not that good with boys. 1009 00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:22,214 Oh, they're gross. 1010 00:43:22,421 --> 00:43:24,651 Just never wanted to go outwith them. 1011 00:43:25,958 --> 00:43:26,947 Um... 1012 00:43:27,993 --> 00:43:30,291 but Julian took me to clubs. 1013 00:43:31,597 --> 00:43:33,963 I mean, Iwent to the opening of Arena. 1014 00:43:34,934 --> 00:43:36,868 He introduced me to everybody. 1015 00:43:39,071 --> 00:43:40,299 Tracy, 1016 00:43:41,307 --> 00:43:44,504 tell Mr. Stone what Julian promised you. 1017 00:43:47,980 --> 00:43:49,641 He was grooming me. 1018 00:43:52,685 --> 00:43:54,414 He said we'd always be together, 1019 00:43:54,486 --> 00:43:56,818 and I was going to be a big model. 1020 00:44:02,061 --> 00:44:03,756 What happened that night, Tracy? 1021 00:44:09,034 --> 00:44:10,433 We made love. 1022 00:44:13,472 --> 00:44:16,964 And then he told me to leave and never come back again. 1023 00:44:20,312 --> 00:44:22,109 It was my mom's fault. 1024 00:44:24,183 --> 00:44:25,343 [sobbing] 1025 00:44:25,417 --> 00:44:27,044 She told him 1026 00:44:28,721 --> 00:44:31,155 that if he didn't stop seeing me, 1027 00:44:34,093 --> 00:44:35,526 she wouldn't... 1028 00:44:38,898 --> 00:44:41,731 Angela said she'd quit working for him. 1029 00:44:42,868 --> 00:44:45,359 She threatened to have him arrested. 1030 00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:49,601 (Green) Decker told Tracy 1031 00:44:51,110 --> 00:44:53,476 that her mother was worth more to him 1032 00:44:53,545 --> 00:44:54,944 as a prostitute, 1033 00:44:55,948 --> 00:44:58,280 than she ever would be as a model. 1034 00:45:04,189 --> 00:45:05,850 I didn't mean to do it. 1035 00:45:10,129 --> 00:45:13,257 After what he said about Mom, he made fun of me. 1036 00:45:15,634 --> 00:45:17,898 He said I wasn't pretty enough. 1037 00:45:20,773 --> 00:45:22,673 My legs were too heavy. 1038 00:45:26,979 --> 00:45:29,812 He just turned his back on me. 1039 00:45:31,216 --> 00:45:34,083 He just walked away. 1040 00:45:40,592 --> 00:45:41,786 [sighing] 1041 00:45:51,136 --> 00:45:54,970 Three years. Spofford. With treatment. 1042 00:46:00,946 --> 00:46:02,436 15 years old. 1043 00:46:02,514 --> 00:46:04,914 She thought if her picture was on a magazine cover, 1044 00:46:04,984 --> 00:46:06,383 her life would be perfect. 1045 00:46:06,452 --> 00:46:09,080 Aborigines think if you take their picture, 1046 00:46:09,154 --> 00:46:10,587 you capture their soul. 1047 00:46:10,656 --> 00:46:12,317 Maybe they're right.