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by two separate
yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Hey, so who do you
like in the third?

Alby's Gal.

You gotta be kidding.
Her last start...

She was over-matched.
But I still lost.

Who told you
to bet?

You did.

Hey, I just told you
who I liked.

Sam, Alby's Gal in the third.

When's the last time
you picked a winner?

Maryland Princess.

Get out of here.

Are you all right?
Are you okay?

Oh, my God,
what happened?

It was their scheduled run.
They come twice a day.

You notice anyone
casing the place?

No. I was just
walking with them,
talking.

About what?
The third race.

I gave them a good tip, too.
Alby's Gal.
Came in 38 bucks to win.

They should have bet.

Thanks.

All this body armor,
and they forgot
the bullet-proof ski mask.

The other one's
on the way
to the hospital.

Tell me
this hump has a wallet.

"Audentes fortuna juvat"?

"Audentes fortuna juvat."

Yeah. Jesse James
and his dead partner
both have the same tattoo,

an eagle with what?

"Fortune favors
the brave."

What'd you get
from that guy?

A long shot.
Alby's Gal.
Paid $38 to win.

He thinks the guards
should have bet.

I guess it wasn't
their lucky day.

Male, 45 to 50.
No needle marks.

Drug panel was clean.
He kept himself in shape.

Thickened skin on the
index finger of the left hand.

He could have
been a carpenter.

Hammer kept
missing the nail?

Or a do-it-yourselfer.
These scars,
from the knee to the hip,

fragments of something hit him
at fairly high velocity.

The bird house
he was building blew up?

Maybe a car accident.

Or shrapnel. See how
the skin is stretched?

Old wounds.
20, 30 years.

What about the tattoo?

Within the year.
Mid-life crisis.

Some guys get a Harley,
some get a tattoo.

And what did you get?

27-year-old boyfriend.

Good for you, Rodgers.

MAC-11s. Both of them.
Take a look
at the slide mechanism.

The releases are filed down.

It's been modified
from semi to full auto.

Yeah. Our do-it-yourselfer
isn't just a carpenter.

Modifications like that
aren't hard,

if you know
what you're doing.

What about the bullet
that killed the guard?
Wells?

Didn't come
from these guns.

The guy that got away?

The residue in the casings
indicates that all three guns

used the same
kind of ammunition.

Centerfire.
American-made, most likely.

From the proportions of lead,
barium, and antimony,

I'd say a non-standard mix.

Extra kick. Something
they cooked up at home?

Sure, depending on
the home.

Yeah, but not something
you'd find in Martha Stewart.

The good news is,
the second guard's
gonna make it.

And the perp
in the hospital?

John Doe's
still unconscious.

But Latent rolled
his prints and the DOA's.

And the third guy
disappeared into thin air.

The guy
in the red windbreaker.

Not just red.

Witnesses from the NYB,
from the street,

we got fire-engine red,
cherry red.

Crimson.

So our fugitive's
windbreaker's noticeable.

Everyone's looking
at the windbreaker.
They don't see anything else.

Prints taken off the DOA
and the one in a coma.

Matthew Brant, the DOA,
and our Mr. Doe is Greg Kubie.

Both guys are from
the suburbs, Hastings.

Criminal records?

Not a traffic ticket
between them,
Brant was a vet.

Kubie's a cop.

Yeah. Hastings PD.

It's him.

I know this is hard.

Was your husband
having money problems?

Any trouble at work?

No.

The third man
we're looking for,

do you have any idea
who that might be?

Other wives,
how do they react?

Everyone reacts
in a different...

Have any of the other wives
called you sadists?

My husband
was a good man.

Two or three times a week,
at dinner time...

Mom.

...his old students
stopped by to tell him
how he changed their lives.

He was not a criminal.
What right did you have
to kill him?

Kay?

Hey, Kay.
Kay, Kay, Kay...

Easy.

If you'll excuse me.

I'm Mrs. Brant's brother,
Phil Christie.

Your sister's
having a hard time.

Is that a photo of Matt?
Do you mind?

It really is him.
It's unbelievable.

Did you know
your brother-in-law
owned a gun?

That's not unusual
up here.

A MAC-11?

Do you know a guy
named Greg Kubie?

Yeah, once or twice a year,
he sat in on a poker game
we got going.

Was your brother-in-law
tight with anyone in
particular besides Kubie?

This is a friendly community.
Matt had a lot of friends.

Any of them
with eagle tattoos?

Your brother-in-law and Kubie
had the same tattoo.

It's the first
I heard of it.

Two days ago,
I was having
breakfast with him.

Today, they tell me
he's murdered

because he's trying
to rob an armored car.

He wasn't murdered.
The guard he was robbing
shot him in self-defense.

Matt was one of
the most decent men
I have ever known.

I'm gonna go
check on my sister.
Excuse me.

That was Profaci.

Nothing at Kubie's place
except for
three-day-old pizza.

Brant and Kubie
had the same tattoo.

You want to give me odds
the third guy has one, too?

How many tattoo parlors
can there be
in a town this size?

Yeah, 10-12 guys, right,
came in maybe
last March, April,

eagle tattoos
with something in Latin.

All at the same time?

Three together.

Then, a couple of guys
three weeks later
ask for the same design,

the next week, two guys.
Like that.

You keep a record?

They came in with a picture,
something from
a computer thing.

Did they tell you
what it was for?
A club or a gang?

It's not my business to ask.

Here. One of them
paid by check.

Thomas Robbins.

The tattoos? A gag.

A few of us got drunk
one night, made a bet.

The next morning,
I forgot I had it.

I get out of bed.
Boy, was my wife pissed.

Who made the bet?

Tony Lapella,
Al Goodman, Matt Brant...

You know Brant well?

Since high school.
A decent guy.

History teacher,
basketball coach,
active in the church.

What about
Greg Kubie?

Never met him.
I guess he saw the tattoo
on one of my buddies.

Yeah, I guess so.

Everybody in town's
been talking about it,

and I don't know
what did or didn't happen,

but one thing I do know is,
Matt Brant
couldn't hold up anyone.

And the 20 or 30 witnesses?

Mind if I use your phone?

Yeah.

So, where were you
on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m.?

A bunch of guys get a tattoo,
they got to be crooks?
Is that it?

Two guys rob an armored car,
they both have
the same tattoo,

we have to take that
into consideration.

Day before yesterday,
2:00 p.m.,

I was just finishing
meals-on-wheels.

Every week,
same time, same day.

We're not like you guys
in New York.

Kubie just
regained consciousness.

If I wanted a lawyer,
I'd hire one.
But, Mr. Kubie...

Who have you
talked to about my case?

No one, but I still
think it's important...

Get out.

These are detectives.
I'd advise you...

Get the hell out!

You can get out, too.

Why don't we just...

I have the right
to remain silent.

Officer Kubie...

Anything I say
can be used against me
in a court of law.

Look, I got nothing
to say to you.

Cops. What a pain.
He's not gonna roll easy.

Hey, that tattoo artist,
she said they came in

with a picture
printed from a computer.

I type in what
we're looking for,
eagle graphics

and the motto
"Audentes fortuna juvat."

The search engine
does the rest.

If it's anywhere
on the Internet,
we'll get a hit.

One of these days,
you'll have to teach me

how to play solitaire
on that thing.

Bingo. This shows us
where to find it.

Let's surf the Net.

The New Sons
of Liberty homepage.
It's a militia.

Maybe Jesse James
and his pals

were trying to
finance a revolution.

What you're saying is,
I've got this tattoo,

it means
I belong to this group,
the New Sons of Liberty?

Do you?

How about you, Detective?
Are you active in politics?

How about
answering my question?

I figure you for
a disappointed Democrat,

or maybe
a disappointed Republican?

You're disappointed
in something.

It's a nice computer
you got there.

Is that where you keep
your virtual clubhouse?

You thinking of dropping in?
Maybe signing up?

Depends on the dues.
Cops get a special rate?

"Congress shall make
no law abridging
the freedom of speech

"or the right of
the people to assemble,

"and to
petition the government
for a redress of grievances."

I don't have to
tell you anything
about my politics.

"What about Waco?

"The Feds pumped
the Davidian compound
full of CS,

"which is highly flammable,
and then started the fire
which killed women and kids."

"The FBI infrared
surveillance tape made at Waco

"shows flashes
coming from the FBI forces

"that could have been
incendiary fire."

It's 3:00 in the morning.

That's when they
come out of the woodwork.

"It was a show of force
to scare off anyone

"who wants to
fight Big Brother.

"We've got to learn
how to defend ourselves."

"I'm ready.

"Do you know any websites
where I can find out more?"

What are you doing?

I'm looking for
the black helicopters.

They don't come
near urban centers.

Lennie, we're in.

You got this
from a chat room?

A New Sons
of Liberty sub-site.

Which we found
through a chat room.

This tells you how to
modify a semi-automatic
weapon to full auto

in the same way the guns used
in the robbery were modified.

Are we sure one of
the New Sons of Liberty
posted it?

No, but it's a connection.

It's a stretch.

Your Honor, if I publish
a magazine article

by an anonymous author
on how to make a bomb...

You're gonna protect
your anonymous author.

But if that article
advocates using that bomb...

Can I subpoena your notes
to find out
the identity of the author?

We're on very
murky ground here.

This is speech protected
by the First Amendment.

With these instructions,
the New Sons of Liberty

advocate illegal use
of automatic weapons.

It's no longer free speech,
it's a verbal act.
An illegal act.

I don't know.
I don't like this.

My daughter just had a baby.
A girl. Two weeks ago.

I want her to have
the same freedoms I've had.

And if she becomes
an armored car guard?

Give me the paper.

I figured you'd be back.

With a warrant?

I was going to say
with stormtroopers.

Look, why don't you
make it easy on all of us

and just give us a list
of the New Sons of Liberty?

Am I under arrest?
No.

Lock up when you're done.

Keep an eye on him.

The New Sons of Liberty
membership list.
Twenty in all.

A nice round number.

Not enough to
start a revolution.

More than enough
to rob an armored car.

We need search warrants
for their homes
and workplaces

to be executed
simultaneously.

6:00 a.m.

A big show of force.

Will the department
back you up on this?

I'll get the money.

Then, I'll get the warrants.

What are you looking for?
My son is only 17!

The New Sons of Liberty
don't have an age limit.

Read the warrant.
If you have any questions,
I'll be glad to answer them.

Why don't you check out
that cabinet over there.

Hey, Sergeant.
Yes, sir?

Open this up.

We hit the mother lode
in the crawl space.

"A well-regulated militia
being necessary to
the security of a free state,

"the right of the people
to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed."

Look at this,
full autos, AK-47s,
a couple of MAS .223s,

a bunch of M16s,
boxes of ammo.

Yeah. Enough guns
to take over
Staten Island.

Take a picture
and send it
to Charlton Heston.

Pack this stuff up.
Take everybody downtown.

Okay. Let's go now.

Cray, Lewis,
March 21, 1965. Private,
New Sons of Liberty, 016.

Okay, Mr. Cray, Lewis.

We're gonna need to know
your whereabouts

on the afternoon
of Tuesday, August 8th.

Cray, Lewis.
March 21st...

1951. Sergeant,
New Sons of Liberty, 004.

004? What are you,
James Bond minus three?

Robbins, Thomas.
October 15th...

1980. Private,
New Sons of Liberty, 018.

Listen up, tin soldier,

this is no game.

Felony murder means
a needle in the arm,

so if you don't want to be
the sucker on the slab,
wise up.

Brant, Matthew Jr.
December 18th, 1980.
Private...

Automatic weapons,
munitions, body armor.

Is that what the robbery
was for, more guns?
Bigger guns?

Christie, Philip.
August 4th, 1962.

Major,
New Sons of Liberty, 002.

LT, you have a call.

Make sure
the Major is comfortable.

So far I've got calls
from the ATF, the FBI,

the whole alphabet soup down
in Washington.

Let them take a number.

It's our case, New York City.
They have no jurisdiction.

They took
jurisdiction in Waco.

The murder weapon?

Not among the ones we found.

They're smart.
Probably tossed it
in the Hudson.

Well, if it's any consolation,
we have the militia
members' prints

all over the guns.

But no connection
to the murder.

So after all that,
we charge them
with simple gun possession.

They post bail.
We look like fascists
or idiots, take your pick.

McCoy. It's for you.

Yeah?

Thanks for calling.

Ballistics.
The special powder
in the ammunition,

the home-load
used in the robbery,

they found it
in the arsenal seized
in Christie's house.

But we don't have
the murder weapon.

The hell with it.

Conspiracy to commit murder
and robbery. Charge them all.

"Docket number 57643,

"the People v.
Philip Christie,
Thomas Robbins, et al.

"Murder in the First Degree,
Attempted Murder
in the First Degree,

"Conspiracy in
the First Degree,

"Attempted Grand Larceny
in the First Degree."

Ms. Mandel,
how do they plead?

Your Honor,
as ranking officer

my co-defendants
have chosen me
to act as our own counsel.

Are you a lawyer?

I've worked as a bailiff.
I know about
your rules and procedures.

You file the motion,
the court will consider it.

Now enter a plea.

Your Honor,
for all defendants on
all charges, not guilty.

Your Honor,
the People request remand.

Your Honor, we move
that all charges be dismissed

on the grounds that
we are prisoners of war

under the terms of
the Geneva Convention.

What?

Mr. Christie, this is
a civilian criminal court.

I have no authority
to rule on your motion.

You do,

Your Honor.
That flag has fringes on it,

which means it is
a military flag.

Which means this court
is a military tribunal.

You must recognize us
as prisoners of war
exempt from trial.

Our motion...

Mr. Christie, I don't care
how many fringes,

bells and whistles
are on this flag,

this is a civilian
criminal court. Got it?

Bail is set at $1 million
for each defendant.
Next case.

Prisoners of war?
What's he talking about?

The New Sons of Liberty
believe they're at war
with the US Government.

And Son of Sam
got his marching orders
from a dog.

It's nonsense.

Have you read
their manifesto?

"For the sake
of global trade,

"low wages and high profits,
the US Government has
mortgaged its sovereignty

"to global interests,
and has endowed the FBI,
the ATF, and the CIA

"with extraordinary powers
to enforce this
new world order."

You could make
a case for that.

Have you started
wearing fatigues
under your clothes?

Jack, these are not
religious fanatics
living on a compound.

They're articulate...
Misguided...

Definitely,
but don't underestimate them.
They've got lots of support.

They've already raised
six of the $20 million
they need,

from every
state in the union,

not one contribution
over $500.

And who was this
guard they killed?
A redcoat?

You need to prove
there was a conspiracy.

Seventy rounds fired,
two dead.
No problem with the overt act.

And your proof
of the agreement
to commit the robbery?

So far no one's
rolled on that.

The agreement
can be inferred

from membership
in the New Sons of Liberty.

Guilt by association?

If it's an association
dedicated to murder
and mayhem, why not?

Now I have to
take him seriously.

Christie got his motion
in front of Judge Scarletti.

Just be sure we don't
have to go to The Hague
to try this case.

Ha!

The Geneva Convention
defines prisoners of war

as "persons who have fallen
into the power of the enemy."

The enemy being
the District Attorney?

And any office or
branch of any government

which is not constituted
of and by the people.

Your Honor,
how long are we going to
humor this man?

On its face, this is
a patently absurd motion.

Mr. McCoy, please.

Go on, Mr. Christie.

Under the convention,
such prisoners of war

include the armed forces
of a party to a conflict,

as well as
members of militia
or volunteer corps,

including members
of an organized
resistance movement.

Your Honor,
the convention
protects combatants,

not common criminals.

It requires the existence
of an open, armed conflict.

Lexington, Concord,
Bunker Hill,

the Revolutionary War
was fought for months

before hostilities
were officially declared.

They didn't attack
an Army base.

They robbed a New York
State Betting Office.

At best, they're terrorists.

Mr. Christie's so-called army
amounts to 20-odd hoodlums.

Twenty? 1,000? 10,000?

How many have to believe
what I believe

before you recognize
my right to say,

"This is wrong,
this must be changed"?

Mr. Christie, this isn't
a First Amendment issue.

Your motion has
been tried in the past

by the Black Panthers
and by other groups.

Granting it
would give license
to any criminal organization

to circumvent
the criminal justice system

by declaring themselves
at war with the government.
Motion denied.

As to your motion
to act as your own counsel,
it's granted.

But I want Ms. Mandel to
serve as your legal advisor.

Now, we're going to trial.

Did you compare
the gunpowder found
in Mr. Christie's basement

to that found at
the crime scene?

Yes, sir.

And what did you find?

"We hold these truths
to be self-evident..."

Silence!
"...that all men
are created equal."

Silence in the court!

"That they are
endowed by their creator..."

Silence in the court!

"...with certain
unalienable rights..."

Bailiff,
please remove the defendant.

Order in the court.

"...that among
these are life, liberty,

"and the pursuit
of happiness.

"That to secure these rights
governments are
instituted among men..."

Your Honor,
I object to this removal.

Overruled.

We will make provisions
for the defendant

to observe
the procedures
of this court

through closed-circuit
television.

You may sit down,
Mr. Christie.

Mr. McCoy,
you may continue.

Did you compare
the gunpowder found
in Mr. Christie's basement

to the gunpowder
at the murder scene?

Yes, sir. Both had
the same distinctive
chemical composition.

In my opinion,
they were from
the same batch.

Thank you.

Do you pay taxes?

Objection.
Sustained.

Have you ever
read the Constitution

of the United States
of America?

Objection.
Sustained.

No more questions.

Yeah, I carried a gun.
But I never thought
I'd have to shoot anyone.

It was crazy.
Suddenly...

"That whenever
any form of government..."

Order in the court!

"...becomes
destructive of these ends..."
I warned you!

"...it is the right of
the people to alter..."

Bailiff, remove the defendant!

"...or to
abolish it and to..."
Get him out of my court.

"...institute new government
laying its foundation..."

You hear me?
"...on such principles

"and organizing its powers
in such form..."

"Governments are
instituted among men..."

You were saying, Mr. Parent?

Suddenly,
everybody was shooting.

What do you know about
the new world order?

Before this trial,
I never heard of it.

Do you work for it?

No, sir.

What branch
of the government
do you work for?

No branch.
I work for the Stevens
Securities Transfer Company.

Thank you.

Mr. Parent, who owns
the Stevens Securities
Transfer Company?

I don't know.

Who's on the board?

I don't know.

Could they be working for
a multinational corporation...

Objection.

Sustained.

How about
New York Bets?

What? Who owns it?

The State, I guess.
New York State?

Yeah.

Do you know who actually
runs New York Bets?

No.

And you didn't vote
for any of them, did you?

Objection.
Sustained.

Mr. Christie,
if you have no relevant
questions, you may sit down.

I have questions
the jury may find relevant.

Your
cross-examination is over.
The witness is excused.

They weren't called
the New Sons of Liberty then.

A few years ago,
my brother, Phil,
and my husband

used to sit around
the kitchen table

and talk about
how the FBI shot that woman
and her baby at Ruby Ridge,

about how no one
in the government
cared about anything

but the special interests.

Special interests?

If you're rich or poor,
the government
pays attention.

But the average family
in America
doesn't stand a chance.

Like what happened
with my brother

when the government
wouldn't let him see his kids
after the divorce

and they gave custody
to his wife.

At any time,
did your husband discuss plans
for a robbery with you?

Well, the more involved
Matt got with the group,
the angrier he got.

And it wasn't like
he was angry
at anything in particular.

It was almost like
he was angry at our life,

at what we had,
at what we didn't have.

After a while,
I could hardly
talk to him anymore.

Mrs. Brant, did he ever
talk about a robbery with you?

Matt woke me up one night,
after Phil and
the others had been there,

and he told me
they had planned a robbery,

and that he had volunteered
for the mission,

and there was
some danger involved,

and that if
anything happened to him,

he wanted me to know
that he did it for my sake

and for Matt Jr.,
for the country.

And what did you say?

I told him
I didn't understand.

I didn't understand.

The government
wasn't bothering us.

I didn't understand
why they had to
commit a crime.

Thank you.

Mrs. Brant,

was your decision to testify
coerced in any way?

Objection.

Sustained.

Did Mr. McCoy
offer you anything

in exchange
for your testimony?

Objection.

Overruled.

Answer the question,
Mrs. Brant.

Mr. McCoy said if I testify,
he'd sever my son's case

and try him
on reduced charges.

No! No, Mom!
You shouldn't
have done this!

Turning mother and son
against each other.

Order in the court!

Mr. Christie,
please sit down.

Do you think
the American people

are gonna stand by and watch
as you tear a family apart?

Bailiff,
will you sit the defendant
back down?

Remove those defendants!

Remove those defendants!

No!

Remove those defendants!

Christie's master plan.
Look at his witness list.

The directors of the CIA,
the NSA, the President.

The judge excludes them,
Christie yells cover-up.

When you have no case...
Right.

It leaves him
with just one witness,

himself.

Ross. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. We'll be right over.

That was
Judge Scarletti's clerk.

There's a problem
with one of the jurors.

Mr. Shelby, it has
come to my attention

that you passed
some reading material
on to another juror.

Yes, sir.
To Bob Clark.

It's a newspaper.

Is this it?
The Crisis.

Yes, sir. It's named
after the newspaper
published in 1776.

How would you characterize
this newspaper?

"Our new army
at both ends of the continent
is recruiting fast,

"and we shall be able
to open the next campaign
with 60,000 men."

Isn't this inflammatory?

It's a quote.
From Thomas Paine,
one of the founding fathers.

In the voir dire,
you were asked

if you had any opinions

which might prevent you
from judging
this case objectively.

I believe I can
judge it objectively.

You told Mr. Clark
that you and some
of the other jurors

had made up their minds
to acquit.

You said you wanted
to send a message.

What message
would that be, Mr. Shelby?

In this country,
the people and not
the courts are sovereign.

Isn't that right,
Your Honor?

Thank you, Mr. Shelby,
you can go.

So, Your Honor,
he's dismissed?

Why? He's going to
exercise his right
as a citizen

and decide the case
on its merits.

Your Honor, I move you excuse
the entire jury
and declare a mistrial.

Because they might acquit?

Because Mr. Shelby is
encouraging them to nullify.

Which is his right
in an illegal trial,

and you've already thrown out
all my co-defendants.

Now you want to
throw out the jury, too?

It's not enough
you have the whole power
of government behind you,

you also have to
rig the verdict.

You entered the courtroom
with the presumption
of innocence,

just like anyone else.

The rights that I am fighting
to protect are
your rights, too.

I can defend my own rights,
Mr. Christie.

Please...

We'll replace
Mr. Shelby and Mr. Clark
with alternates.

Your Honor.
Gentlemen.

All that Christie needs
is one hold out.

In the world
of public relations,

a hung jury
is as good as an acquittal.

If we can knock just
one more juror off,

we exhaust the jury pool,
we get a mistrial.

How do you propose
we do that?

I think we should find out
everything we can
about the other jurors.

I'll talk to
Briscoe and Curtis.

Shady stuff.
This fellow Christie,

he's really
gotten under your skin.

He's a fanatic.

Because he believes
what he's saying?

When you first
applied for a job here,
we had an argument

about some
anti-war protesters.

Oh, come on, Adam.

They broke into
a draft board

and poured blood
over the records,

and you defended them.

You said a bad law
sometimes demands
an illegal act.

Nobody got killed.

It was a protest
and they took
their punishment.

I know some of
our ideas sound crazy,
or extreme.

I could talk to you
about Ruby Ridge
or Waco

or I could tell you
how I came to believe
that our government,

a government
I was brought up to love,
is a threat to our liberty.

But none of that
would explain
what's happened,

why we're on trial here.

The prosecution
says we robbed
and murdered.

And that's all
this trial is about.

But let me tell you
how I see it.

Let's say someone
breaks into your house

and they threaten you
and your family...

Your Honor,
objection, the defendant
is on the stand as a witness.

This is summation.
Your Honor,

as the counsel
for the defense,

I am laying the groundwork
for a line of questioning,

a line of thought that goes
to the heart of my testimony.

I'll give you
a little leeway,
Mr. Christie.

Thank you, Your Honor.

So, if you killed someone

who broke into your house
and threatened your family,

most of you would see that
as an act of self-defense.

Now, what if an enemy army
occupies your town,

and what if you
and your neighbors
decided to resist...

Objection, Your Honor.

Overruled.

Get to the point,
Mr. Christie.

Okay.

So, what if, as part of
the resistance movement,

you robbed somebody
who was collecting taxes.

Taxes that would
be used to increase

the enemy control
of your town...

Your Honor!

New York Bets is
a scam to collect taxes...

Objection sustained.

...through
a levy on gambling.

Limit yourself
to direct testimony,
Mr. Christie.

Your Honor...

I am not going to
allow it, Mr. Christie.

And if I don't knuckle under,
you'll drag me
from court, too!

Don't try my patience!

And then who will
be left to defend us?

That's all.

According to
Mrs. Brant's testimony,
the night before the robbery,

you met with
Matthew Brant, his son,
Thomas Robbins, Lewis Cray,

and half a dozen others.
Is that true?

Did you study
the Bushell case
in law school, Mr. McCoy?

Please answer the question.

1670.
The case established

the right for
juries to nullify.

Answer his question,
Mr. Christie.

I am trying, Your Honor.

The right for juries
to protect defendants
by finding them not guilty,

evidence of their guilt
notwithstanding.

A right that
goes back in America
to John Peter Zenger,

and had been used
by black juries
to acquit black defendants

when they had
been tried unfairly.

Mr. Christie, what did
you discuss that night
with your co-defendants?

It is a right used
in anti-war cases

and was defended
almost 25 years ago

in an article published...

Objection.
Non-responsive.

Published by the NYU
law school entitled,

"Jury Nullification in
the Criminal Justice System"

by Jack McCoy.

Sustained, Mr. Christie.

You wrote this.

In many ways,
you and I are alike,
Mr. McCoy.

No, we're not.
I don't rob armored cars.

You were the third robber,
weren't you?

You killed Walter Wells.

What's the matter,
Mr. Christie?

If you believe
what you did was justified,
why won't you answer?

"No person shall be compelled
in any criminal case

"to be a witness
against himself."

No further questions.

Mr. Christie, do you have
any other witnesses

or evidence to present?

Since you've excluded
all of my witnesses,
no, Your Honor.

The defense,
the resistance to tyranny,
rests.

I think
we've got what we need
to bounce another juror.

Howard Lamm.

The blonde guy
with the glasses.

Late '60s, at Harvard,
he was one of
the leaders of the SDS.

A real firebrand.

Implied prejudice
against the government.

Kick Lamm off the jury,
you got your mistrial.

Where'd you get
this information?

Police Red Squad records.

The creeps
who took our pictures

during demonstrations
in the '60s?

These files were supposed
to be destroyed years ago.

Governments
are like elephants.
They never forget.

We're not gonna do this.

We're not gonna
become the people
Christie thinks we are.

"Tyranny, like hell,
is not easily conquered.

"Yet we have this
consolation with us,
that the harder the conflict,

"the more glorious
the triumph."

Tom Paine wrote
that in a pamphlet

that helped rally Americans
to the cause of liberty

in those dark days
of December 1776.

We again face dark days.

Our founding forefathers
fashioned a government

based on life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.

Today, instead of life,
we have a job,
we have sometimes two jobs.

Instead of liberty,
we have crushing debt.
And happiness?

We work hard,
husbands and wives,
10-12 hours a day.

We work weekends,
and at the end of the week
we have less.

We have less real income,
less benefits,
less time with our kids.

The American dream
used to be,

each generation
was better off
than the previous one.

Are you better off
than your parents?

Will your children
be better off than you?

We believe that
our government has been sold
to global corporations

that are sucking the blood
and the life
out of this country.

It's all right there
in the newspapers,
what they're doing.

NAFTA,
illegal campaign contributions
by foreign businessmen,

the sale of foreign policy.

These people
don't care about us.

They don't care
about Americans.

They care about
their bottom line.

We are not common criminals.
We are... We are
ordinary people like you,

with jobs and mortgages,
who are willing
to lay it all on the line

because we are afraid
of losing our freedom.

But today, you have a chance
to tell the government
what you think.

Seize that opportunity.

We, the defendants,
are not the only ones
on trial here.

You are on trial here.

The State tells you
to follow its laws.

But who lends
the State its power?
Who can take it back?

The judge? Mr. McCoy? No.

You do. You are the State.
You have the power.

Freedom starts with a no.

Will you turn to the State
and say no?

Okay. Okay.

This country began
as an experiment
in freedom.

The foundation of that freedom
is equality before the law.

Everyone, whoever they are,
whatever they may believe,

must be equally accountable.

Mr. Christie hopes
you will ignore
the evidence and nullify.

A power, he says,
derives from a higher law.

I agree that such
a higher law exists.

And each of you,
as members of the jury,
bound yourselves to it

when you swore,
on your conscience,
before God and as a citizen,

that you would decide
this case on the facts.

You are asked
to judge one thing,

were the defendants,
whatever their reasons,
whatever their beliefs,

part of
a criminal conspiracy
to commit armed robbery

and murder!

These guys
did a great job
of memorization.

Too bad they
didn't learn from it.

We all remember that phrase
from the Declaration
of Independence

about life, liberty,
and the pursuit
of happiness,

the unalienable
rights of everyone.

Notice that life
comes first.

You can forget
everything else
about this case,

if you remember one thing,

these defendants,
these conspirators,
targeted an ordinary citizen,

someone just like yourselves,
a guy with a job and
in the private sector,

with bills to pay and
a family to take care of,

and they took his life.

They took his life!

If it's okay for them
to shoot him,

it's okay for them
to shoot anyone,

including any one of you.

Without the law
there can be no freedom,

and without justice
there can be no law.

Your Honor,
we've been out nine days.

We've had 40 ballots.
We're unable
to reach a verdict.

Is there
any chance you could agree
if you had more time?

No, Your Honor.

All right.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I have no choice
but to declare a mistrial.

Yes!

The jury is dismissed.

You did it!
See, see, see.

Hey, man.
All right.

Admit it, McCoy.
We won.

You didn't win anything.
The system
you want to destroy won.

See you back here
in a couple of months.

Enjoy your freedom
while you have it.

Mr. Christie,
over here.

If he only knew.
You could've sunk this trial
and you didn't.

You played it straight, Jack.

That rates
as a moral victory.

It could be
a hollow one

if those clowns could
find even one person
who'd acquit them.

What does that tell you
about this country?

We want to
thank you all
for being objective

in covering this trial
and being supportive...