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In the criminal
justice system...
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups:
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the police who
investigate crime...
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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I've been a bad boy.
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Hey, guys. Midnight House. A good
place to stay, a meal. Check it out.
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Hola, Lola.
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Como esta?
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Fun to say, no?
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How about taking a night off?
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No nights off for me, honey.
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I'll see you at soup
kitchen tomorrow.
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Yeah, yeah. Go away,
Padre. You're bad for business.
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Here you go. Father Jack. I'm at
Midnight House. Drop on by anytime.
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Guys. Father Jack, Midnight House
Shelter. Get you off the street tonight.
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We got a soup kitchen
tomorrow. Come on by.
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Hey, Midnight House Shelter.
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You come down. Come on by?
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Thanks, man.
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Hey, you too, kid.
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Hey, would you get a cop?
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For God's sakes, the
kid's dying. Get a cop, now.
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I'm out here every
night. I know a lot of them.
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What about this one?
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Greyhound pulls in every 10
minutes. There's always a new face.
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Running from worse than
this, if you can imagine.
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You got any kids we can talk to?
Maybe they've seen him around.
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Well, the regulars pass up the bed,
but they come by tomorrow for food.
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They don't pass up a free meal.
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All right. Can you
stick around, Father?
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Thank you.
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Looks like he had a
rough night, doesn't it?
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Kid was beaten to a pulp.
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Broken ribs, massive
internal bleeding.
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My guess, somebody's
pretty handy with his feet.
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Johnny Doe. No wallet, no ID.
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Gets off the bus from Plattsburgh,
and it's welcome to the Big Apple.
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No, no, he's not an
import. He's a local.
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Look, student bus pass.
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Working his way through school.
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When I was a kid and wanted extra
lunch money, I delivered groceries.
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Hey, tips wouldn't buy
what he had on his feet.
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Air Max. $130 a pair.
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They still don't make
you run fast enough.
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I just said, I don't know him.
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I ain't seen him.
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I ain't even heard
of him, all right?
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Well, why don't you start by
looking at the picture, okay?
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Man, I don't know him.
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Look, we don't catch this guy,
next time this could be you, honey.
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My tricks like little girls. Little boys,
that's a whole other kind of freak.
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Give me a break, would you?
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'Cause, you know, the Father here
tells me you're on the corner every night.
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Now a good-looking new kid on the
block, I think you're gonna notice him.
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Only if he's flashing jack
and wants a date with me.
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Other than that, I'm
strictly for the girls.
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Sorry you got your hopes up.
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I tell the young dudes "never
work solo." It's just not safe.
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Mr. Brown rolls in from the
suburbs, all buttoned down.
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Once he gets your little butt
in the saddle, he cuts loose.
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This is what happens.
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This kid get your warning?
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I don't know him from Eve, and,
baby, Lewis knows everybody.
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I'll tell you this, though. Looks
like he was in the rough trade.
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Specialty acts need
management, huh?
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Got that right.
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So you got a name for me, Lewis?
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Honey, if they're cruising for a
bruising, they work for Mr. Clyde.
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Sounds like you got
his beeper number.
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Not this child. Pain pays,
but see where it gets you.
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♪ Thank heaven
for little boys ♪♪
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Check it out, check it out.
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Check it out, Manhole.
Check it out, man. No.
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Manhole, check
it out, sir. Man...
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No cover charge
for the men in blue.
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We're not here for the
show. You know a Mr. Clyde?
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He's the man, right there.
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Check it out. Manhole. Hey,
sir, don't be shy. Come on in.
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♪♪
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Kid's not old
enough to be in here.
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I'm not old enough
to be in here.
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Hey. We're looking for Clyde.
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Mike, don't touch anything.
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Hey, I'm all paid
up at the precinct.
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I'm not laughing, Clyde.
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What do you want from me?
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I run a legitimate business
for patrons of the dance.
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Any of your patrons
dance on this kid's face?
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Oh, shucks. The
party got out of hand.
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Let me know where
to send flowers.
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Hey, clown...
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just for laughs, we're gonna
lock you up for child prostitution.
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And you won't last five minutes.
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They'll be sending
flowers to you, cowboy.
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Hey, I deal only with
consenting adults.
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What, do you check
their driver's license?
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Matter of fact, yeah.
You know different?
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Take a nice, long look.
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No. I never seen him. I told you before,
I don't handle that end of the business.
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It ain't worth the trouble.
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Yeah, well, I think you better come along
with us, while we check your references.
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I'd put the kid at about 13, 14.
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Time to worry about pimples
and Debby from next door.
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He had more pressing concerns.
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Cracked ribs, punctured
lung, ruptured spleen.
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He was hemorrhaging
from almost every organ.
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How long could he
walk around like that?
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Slow rate of seepage?
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A couple of hours.
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Priest said he found
him a little after 11:00.
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Beating at 9:00, film at 11:00.
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Listen, we think the kid might
have been working the street.
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Really? Doing what,
selling newspapers?
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Saw no evidence
of sexual activity.
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No fluids, no tearing of tissue.
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What about his
wounds? Anything kinky?
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Just your normal
blunt-force wounds.
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Then I guess we have to
let the choreographer go.
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Somebody on the street
had to know that kid.
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I doubt he was
sleeping in any alley.
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How many runaways do
you know eat string beans?
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Kid had a full belly.
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Meat, potatoes,
string beans, milk.
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When I was his age, the only place I
ever saw string beans was at home.
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What about the
Father's soup kitchen?
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No, we checked the menu. They had
soup and sandwiches three days running.
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He lives at home. His parents
should have called 911 by now.
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Missing Persons doesn't have
anyone matching this description.
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We sent photos
to every precinct...
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you know, in case the
parents happened to walk in.
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No hits.
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It's been 48 hours. I'm sure they
would have noticed he's missing.
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Unless they're the
reason he's lying on a slab.
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I mean, if they were
smacking him around...
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maybe they didn't care
where he crawled off to die.
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You said the kid had
a school bus pass.
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No name on it.
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My kids' passes are good only on
the lines that take them to school.
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What was his, the
Lower East Side? Yeah.
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Start with the junior highs.
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Look, I'm telling you,
the faces, they go right by.
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Well, maybe if you checked your
attendance records for the past two days.
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You're making a joke, right?
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You name the day, at least
20% of my students are absent.
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Look, lady, this one
isn't coming back.
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Now look at him. Two nights ago,
we found him dead on the sidewalk.
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We'd like to give him a name.
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I'm sorry.
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We have over 2,000 students.
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Maybe one of the homeroom
teachers will recognize him.
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So long, Mrs. Chips.
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If this kid had trouble at home,
I bet he was trouble at school.
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Maybe in line for a little
individual attention, huh?
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They used to send me
to the guidance counselor.
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John Lasky.
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One of my regulars.
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Not exactly the
teacher's pet, huh?
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John got an A in energy.
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Non-stop motion.
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Mouth like the Grand Canyon.
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Got him in trouble
on a daily basis.
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Off the record, the
kid cracked me up.
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Where'd he get his
chuckles after class?
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I think he lived
in the Alphabets...
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with his mother and her boyfriend.
I might still have the address.
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Might?
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You don't hear from a kid for a couple
of days, you gonna throw out his records?
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Forty kids in a class is
about all we can handle.
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Johnny was transferred...
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at the end of last year.
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Hey, what can I tell you?
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The bitch moved out.
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I don't know, two,
three months ago.
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And you're still
carrying the torch, huh?
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Tori was a piece, you know?
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But the brat, forget about
it. I had a theory about him.
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What's going on, Zack?
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We got company,
what does it look like?
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Hey, Delia, you want to
cover your butt, or what?
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I gotta go pee.
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So, you were saying,
about your theory?
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Half the reason she got
strung out was 'cause of him.
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Kid couldn't sit
still. Drive you nuts.
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So the kid drove you nuts, and you
gave both of them the boot, huh, Zack?
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Hey, I gotta go out of town with the
band, come back, find her out of her head?
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How long do I gotta
put up with that?
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Yeah. So everybody's partying...
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and Johnny's gonna
take care of Johnny?
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What do I look like,
the Partridge family?
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When they hit the
road, where did they go?
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If I knew that, I wouldn't
be stuck with her bills.
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If you had to
guess... I don't know.
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Maybe...
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I heard she was back in rehab.
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Daybreak Village,
out on the Island.
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I didn't have nothing
in the world, but Johnny.
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Nothing.
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Those bastards...
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They kidnapped him. Who did?
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Child Welfare. They ripped him out
of my arms and put him in foster care.
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Maybe they were afraid you'd
stick a needle in his arm by mistake.
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I would never...
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I would never hurt
him. Not in a million...
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I'm here 'cause of him.
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They wouldn't give him
back, unless I got clean.
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You know where he was living?
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No, why would they tell
me? I'm only the mother.
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I might steal him or something.
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They said I was too dangerous.
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And look what they did to him.
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First day on the job, they dumped
Johnny Lasky on my desk...
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along with 28 other members
of the Oliver Twist club.
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He told me I was his sixth
caseworker in 10 years.
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Just what every kid
needs, consistency.
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They tell me a couple more
years, I'll be ready to quit, too.
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These kids can tear
your heart in half.
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Looks like the damage
goes both ways.
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He tested positive
for heroin at birth.
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Johnny never had a chance.
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Well, putting him on the foster care
merry-go-round didn't improve the odds.
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Just because she has the right plumbing
didn't make Tori Lasky fit to be a mother.
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Yeah, we had the
pleasure of meeting her.
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Two months ago, Johnny showed
up for class every shade of purple.
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Don't tell me, the boyfriend
used him for a drum solo.
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Poor kid was too scared to say.
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Anyway, Johnny went into foster
care, and Tori went into rehab.
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You know the rest. Not quite.
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We'd like to see
the foster parents.
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Sure.
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We put him in with Flo Bishop.
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He lucked out. She's terrific.
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She knew Johnny
was a hard case...
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but she didn't mind.
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Yeah. She also didn't mind
him being missing for three days.
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Thanks.
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I take good care of my boys.
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I never even let
them go out alone.
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And if one of them forgets to
come home, you don't report him?
240
00:13:11,991 --> 00:13:13,550
I was sure he would be back.
241
00:13:14,427 --> 00:13:17,829
Look, I report him, they
transfer him to a group home...
242
00:13:18,164 --> 00:13:19,496
that's no better than a prison.
243
00:13:19,565 --> 00:13:21,727
Well, it's better than a
morgue, don't you think?
244
00:13:22,268 --> 00:13:24,396
I had no way of knowing.
245
00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:28,764
I try to provide for these
boys some kind of stability.
246
00:13:29,375 --> 00:13:32,038
I thought Johnny was
making real progress.
247
00:13:33,579 --> 00:13:36,014
He went to a 6:00
show at the movies.
248
00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:38,876
He went with two of the
other boys, Chris and Andy.
249
00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:41,886
On the way home, they
turn around and he's gone.
250
00:13:42,121 --> 00:13:44,147
Would they have any
idea where he went?
251
00:13:44,857 --> 00:13:47,053
No. They just said he took off.
252
00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:50,490
I could guess. I mean, usually
when the boys run away...
253
00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:51,894
they go back to their parents.
254
00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:54,229
Hoping Mom and Dad
get their act together.
255
00:13:55,368 --> 00:13:57,735
And then in a day or two,
they come back to me.
256
00:13:58,871 --> 00:14:00,897
And they never run away again.
257
00:14:02,108 --> 00:14:04,703
Two hours of watching Van
Damme makes you hungry.
258
00:14:05,311 --> 00:14:07,576
So around 8:00, you
stopped for food, right?
259
00:14:07,647 --> 00:14:10,242
Yeah, we did. But Johnny...
260
00:14:10,883 --> 00:14:15,048
We go to get a slice on Dyckman and
he's beamed up, like some UFO grabbed him.
261
00:14:15,121 --> 00:14:17,955
How about it, Andy? He say
anything to you before he left?
262
00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:19,985
Nothing.
263
00:14:20,059 --> 00:14:21,254
He just booked...
264
00:14:21,627 --> 00:14:22,890
like Chris said.
265
00:14:23,363 --> 00:14:24,661
Maybe he got homesick.
266
00:14:26,099 --> 00:14:27,931
I don't know. No, the
way Johnny told it...
267
00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,593
home was what made you sick.
268
00:14:29,969 --> 00:14:31,528
That guy his mom
shacked up with...
269
00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:33,038
a real jerk.
270
00:14:33,106 --> 00:14:35,041
Enough of a jerk to hit Johnny?
271
00:14:35,775 --> 00:14:37,334
What else is new?
272
00:14:43,416 --> 00:14:45,351
I never laid a hand on him.
273
00:14:46,085 --> 00:14:47,109
Never.
274
00:14:47,186 --> 00:14:50,384
Then what, two months
ago he fell in the bathtub?
275
00:14:51,524 --> 00:14:53,425
It was between me and Tori.
276
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,019
He got in the way.
277
00:14:55,094 --> 00:14:57,689
Yeah, and he walked
right into your fists.
278
00:14:58,131 --> 00:14:59,622
It's Friday night, Zack...
279
00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:02,391
you must've been really ticked
off when the kid showed up, huh?
280
00:15:02,535 --> 00:15:04,003
I told you, I wasn't there.
281
00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:05,732
I was doing a gig in Jersey.
282
00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:09,339
Don't get us wrong.
We understand.
283
00:15:09,876 --> 00:15:11,037
The little brat...
284
00:15:11,411 --> 00:15:13,312
he got in the way of
the scene with his mom.
285
00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:14,711
Hey, you guys are nuts.
286
00:15:15,348 --> 00:15:18,147
I ain't saying anything
till I get a lawyer.
287
00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:29,462
His alibi checks, if you squint.
288
00:15:29,529 --> 00:15:32,693
The club manager in Bayonne
said the band hit the stage at 11:00.
289
00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:34,631
He can't remember what
time Zack showed up.
290
00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:37,464
Look, we're not
ready to cut him loose.
291
00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:39,665
This creep could have beat
the kid and made the show.
292
00:15:39,739 --> 00:15:41,332
You said he had a girlfriend?
293
00:15:41,474 --> 00:15:45,036
Yeah, just this side of jailbait.
She's a waitress downtown.
294
00:15:45,144 --> 00:15:47,636
Check her timecard
for last Friday.
295
00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:52,744
I stayed home Friday
night. I was sick.
296
00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:54,546
Stomach flu.
297
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:57,146
Did Zack stick around to
make you chicken soup?
298
00:15:57,323 --> 00:15:59,815
I don't need his help
to puke my guts out.
299
00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:01,855
He left around 8:00.
300
00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:03,493
Why don't you just ask him?
301
00:16:03,563 --> 00:16:07,000
You say he left around 8:00. He
didn't get to club till about 11:00.
302
00:16:07,166 --> 00:16:09,635
It doesn't take three
hours to get to Bayonne.
303
00:16:10,136 --> 00:16:12,605
So maybe he stopped
to tune his guitar.
304
00:16:13,005 --> 00:16:17,067
Delia, if you're lying to protect him,
that makes you an accomplice to murder.
305
00:16:17,877 --> 00:16:19,402
You mean that kid?
306
00:16:20,046 --> 00:16:21,412
Are you out of your mind?
307
00:16:22,081 --> 00:16:24,141
What about these
bruises on your arm?
308
00:16:24,217 --> 00:16:26,049
Are those hallucinations, too?
309
00:16:32,391 --> 00:16:34,360
Does he always
talk with his fist?
310
00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:38,294
Johnny Lasky was at the
apartment last Friday, wasn't he?
311
00:16:40,032 --> 00:16:41,295
Yeah.
312
00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:43,997
I didn't tell Zack,
'cause he'd just get mad.
313
00:16:44,504 --> 00:16:45,904
So he didn't know?
314
00:16:47,273 --> 00:16:48,798
About an hour after he left...
315
00:16:49,242 --> 00:16:52,804
I heard someone at the door, like
they were trying to get a key in a lock.
316
00:16:53,312 --> 00:16:54,837
And I heard kids whispering.
317
00:16:54,914 --> 00:16:57,679
Could you tell how many there
were? I don't know, a couple.
318
00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:01,949
I guess they must've heard me, 'cause I
saw the one kid, Johnny, running away.
319
00:17:02,154 --> 00:17:03,417
You'd seen him before?
320
00:17:03,990 --> 00:17:05,219
Yeah.
321
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:07,952
Hey, you know,
about four weeks ago...
322
00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:10,121
someone ripped off
some of our equipment.
323
00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:12,425
No breaking, just entering.
324
00:17:13,065 --> 00:17:14,761
Zack figured it was his ex.
325
00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:17,027
We changed the locks.
326
00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,471
No one ever
thought about the kid.
327
00:17:26,178 --> 00:17:30,081
Now, if she's telling the truth, it
means the angels with dirty faces aren't.
328
00:17:30,683 --> 00:17:32,515
Thieves who lie,
color me shocked.
329
00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:35,415
Yeah. No, go ahead.
330
00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:37,889
Uh-huh.
331
00:17:38,157 --> 00:17:39,318
Anything else?
332
00:17:40,293 --> 00:17:41,386
All right, thanks.
333
00:17:42,595 --> 00:17:44,996
Johnny's little foster
brother, Chris Pollit...
334
00:17:45,264 --> 00:17:46,664
did time at Spofford.
335
00:17:46,732 --> 00:17:48,496
Now, his records are sealed...
336
00:17:48,768 --> 00:17:51,670
but he had some months
added on for bad behavior.
337
00:17:53,139 --> 00:17:54,664
So let's go rattle their cages.
338
00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:57,466
Come on, Chris...
339
00:17:57,910 --> 00:18:01,210
we know you weren't eating
pizza on Dyckman Street that night.
340
00:18:01,614 --> 00:18:04,413
You were at the other end of
town, with your friend Johnny.
341
00:18:05,685 --> 00:18:08,484
Wasn't me. We got a
witness who puts you with him.
342
00:18:08,988 --> 00:18:12,083
Maybe Johnny was hanging out
with his Lower East Side homeboys.
343
00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:13,251
Hey, Kreskin...
344
00:18:13,326 --> 00:18:15,727
how did you know he was
on the Lower East Side?
345
00:18:21,734 --> 00:18:23,293
You said. Nobody said.
346
00:18:23,369 --> 00:18:24,962
Well, somebody
did, 'cause I heard it.
347
00:18:26,172 --> 00:18:28,835
It's getting tough keeping
all the lies straight, isn't it?
348
00:18:29,175 --> 00:18:32,009
Look, kid, we don't care
about your little burglary, okay?
349
00:18:32,078 --> 00:18:34,240
And we don't care that
you went back for seconds.
350
00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:38,580
All we're interested in is what
happened after you left Zack's apartment.
351
00:18:40,353 --> 00:18:44,313
Yo, Brylcreem, why don't you and
Captain America go blow it out your butt?
352
00:18:51,330 --> 00:18:53,629
I can tell when my son's lying.
353
00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:55,568
You're pretty good at it.
354
00:18:56,035 --> 00:18:58,163
I'll bet you put a lot
over on your mom, huh?
355
00:18:58,237 --> 00:18:59,899
She's passed out most times.
356
00:19:00,006 --> 00:19:01,565
How about Mrs. Bishop?
357
00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,534
She easy to fool?
358
00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:09,940
You know, it says on your
sheet you stayed with her...
359
00:19:10,516 --> 00:19:14,044
four times in the past six years.
She must know you pretty well.
360
00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:16,748
Anybody thirsty?
361
00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:20,122
Andy here was telling me how
much he likes staying at Mrs. Bishop's.
362
00:19:20,326 --> 00:19:21,521
Oh, yeah?
363
00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:23,726
That's too bad...
364
00:19:23,863 --> 00:19:26,697
'cause his friend Chris just
finished telling us that Mrs. Bishop...
365
00:19:26,766 --> 00:19:29,565
fenced the sound equipment that
him and his buddy Johnny stole.
366
00:19:29,702 --> 00:19:31,694
Really? Yeah. You sure?
367
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:35,569
Yeah, seems Johnny
was gonna rat on them...
368
00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:37,707
and the old lady had him killed.
369
00:19:38,110 --> 00:19:39,237
Murder...
370
00:19:39,311 --> 00:19:41,610
trafficking in stolen goods...
371
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,547
delinquency of minors.
372
00:19:43,883 --> 00:19:45,579
That's pretty serious stuff.
373
00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:50,083
He's lying.
374
00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:52,085
She don't have
nothing to do with it.
375
00:19:52,224 --> 00:19:53,658
He's the one.
376
00:19:54,326 --> 00:19:56,386
Better get the foster
mother down here.
377
00:19:56,796 --> 00:19:58,788
And someone from
the D.A.'s office.
378
00:20:05,271 --> 00:20:07,706
Okay, from the beginning, Andy.
379
00:20:09,308 --> 00:20:11,470
Johnny thought that if he
could get up some money...
380
00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:14,241
him and his mother
could afford an apartment.
381
00:20:14,447 --> 00:20:17,110
And the first time in Zack's
apartment, you were with him?
382
00:20:17,249 --> 00:20:18,911
He still had his old
key. It was easy.
383
00:20:18,984 --> 00:20:21,544
But the second time,
you ran into problems.
384
00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:23,153
It was a bad idea.
385
00:20:23,589 --> 00:20:24,613
But Johnny...
386
00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:25,851
he needed the money...
387
00:20:25,925 --> 00:20:27,917
and there wasn't any
left from the first score.
388
00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:29,757
What, did he have
holes in his pockets?
389
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:31,325
It was Chris.
390
00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:33,427
He was supposed
to fence the stuff.
391
00:20:33,933 --> 00:20:35,424
Instead, he spent it...
392
00:20:35,634 --> 00:20:37,500
on clothes, and boots...
393
00:20:38,204 --> 00:20:40,173
shades, junk like that.
394
00:20:40,473 --> 00:20:41,998
So what happened Friday night?
395
00:20:46,178 --> 00:20:47,339
Well...
396
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,973
we heard someone
inside, and we took off.
397
00:20:51,317 --> 00:20:52,945
Then Chris blamed Johnny...
398
00:20:53,018 --> 00:20:54,509
and they started to fight.
399
00:20:55,855 --> 00:20:59,121
Chris went nuts. I mean, I
never seen him like this before...
400
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:01,291
and kicked the hell out of him.
401
00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:04,586
He had this look in his eyes...
402
00:21:05,164 --> 00:21:06,962
like he wasn't even there.
403
00:21:08,534 --> 00:21:09,934
Then after we left...
404
00:21:11,570 --> 00:21:13,368
he was shaking all over.
405
00:21:14,173 --> 00:21:15,835
He was in his own zone.
406
00:21:17,076 --> 00:21:18,635
Even I was afraid
to look at him.
407
00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:21,742
And, I mean, my dad used
to beat me all the time...
408
00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:24,577
but I've never seen
anything like that.
409
00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:31,122
Look...
410
00:21:31,323 --> 00:21:33,656
I'm the first to admit this
kid is no Andy Hardy...
411
00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,957
but if he's tried as a juvenile, at
least there's a hope of rehabilitation.
412
00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:38,759
He brutally murdered
his friend, Helen...
413
00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:40,993
and you want me to send
him to his bed without dinner?
414
00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:42,898
The state tried that
once. It didn't work.
415
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:46,496
If he's over 14 years of age, the
presumption is he's tried as an adult.
416
00:21:46,605 --> 00:21:49,404
And we both know that that
presumption is rebuttable.
417
00:21:49,508 --> 00:21:52,068
I'm just asking for
compassion, Ben.
418
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,669
He's a kid, for God's sake.
419
00:21:53,746 --> 00:21:55,271
So was John Lasky.
420
00:21:58,284 --> 00:21:59,946
I'll see you at the hearing.
421
00:22:02,021 --> 00:22:04,786
By the way, it's been
assigned to Judge Kershan.
422
00:22:09,595 --> 00:22:10,824
Judge Kershan?
423
00:22:10,896 --> 00:22:12,228
She spent at least six years...
424
00:22:12,298 --> 00:22:15,200
as Chairman of the Bar Association
Committee on Children's Rights.
425
00:22:15,301 --> 00:22:18,032
It's not easy to get a case
remanded to Family Court.
426
00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,737
The burden's still
on the defense.
427
00:22:19,805 --> 00:22:22,001
Well, the burden just
got a lot lighter for them.
428
00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:25,476
So we better find out all there
is to know about young Mr. Pollit.
429
00:22:27,513 --> 00:22:30,210
You actually expect me to
help you send Chris to jail?
430
00:22:30,416 --> 00:22:33,352
He murdered John. I can't
imagine you wanting to protect him.
431
00:22:33,819 --> 00:22:35,481
Maybe it's time somebody did.
432
00:22:35,788 --> 00:22:37,552
I'd like to protect
him from his mother...
433
00:22:37,623 --> 00:22:39,922
who rented the boy out by
the hour to some pervert...
434
00:22:39,992 --> 00:22:42,757
when hooking didn't bring in
enough money to pay her rent.
435
00:22:43,295 --> 00:22:45,161
And how about those
doctors at Bellevue...
436
00:22:45,231 --> 00:22:48,030
that doped the boy up on
Thorazine for over a year?
437
00:22:48,634 --> 00:22:51,763
And those three foster
families, lovely people, they were.
438
00:22:52,104 --> 00:22:55,506
Took him in and used the
stipend for big TV screens...
439
00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:58,773
and trips to Aruba, while the
boy had barely enough to eat.
440
00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,676
So you don't think he
should be punished?
441
00:23:00,746 --> 00:23:02,977
I think he's been
punished enough.
442
00:23:04,450 --> 00:23:05,645
I lived with him.
443
00:23:06,252 --> 00:23:07,379
I had dinner with him.
444
00:23:07,453 --> 00:23:09,388
I got the boy ready for school.
445
00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,816
I don't know what snapped...
446
00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:14,417
but I do know that's
not all there is to Chris.
447
00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:19,197
What can you tell me
about his year at Spofford?
448
00:23:19,498 --> 00:23:20,830
Miss Kincaid...
449
00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,064
I have a toaster. It breaks, I
don't toss it into the trash can.
450
00:23:24,136 --> 00:23:25,434
I call the repair man.
451
00:23:25,504 --> 00:23:27,132
I'm not suggesting...
Oh, I know...
452
00:23:27,206 --> 00:23:29,869
you only have his
best interests in mind.
453
00:23:30,476 --> 00:23:34,311
But if Chris Pollit goes to Attica, you
and I both know he's not coming out.
454
00:23:35,214 --> 00:23:37,046
The judge sealed the records.
455
00:23:38,017 --> 00:23:39,883
Why should I tell you anything?
456
00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:46,121
So he stepped in it bad.
457
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:48,784
Should I be surprised?
458
00:23:48,861 --> 00:23:52,127
Maybe not. Your son did
spend a year in Spofford.
459
00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:53,391
A year?
460
00:23:56,602 --> 00:24:00,039
I guess they're right.
Parents are the last to know.
461
00:24:04,176 --> 00:24:07,146
If you haven't noticed, Chris
is not my problem anymore.
462
00:24:07,613 --> 00:24:08,637
Was he ever?
463
00:24:08,714 --> 00:24:12,583
What do you think, just 'cause I didn't
go to Miss Porter's I didn't love my kid?
464
00:24:12,685 --> 00:24:15,519
Well, the state found it necessary
to take him away from you.
465
00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:18,081
I left him alone for a
couple of hours a day.
466
00:24:18,157 --> 00:24:20,922
Some pervert downstairs gets
ahold of him, that's my fault?
467
00:24:20,993 --> 00:24:22,222
Where's his father?
468
00:24:23,162 --> 00:24:27,065
Jack's in lovely downtown
Attica for another 5-to-15.
469
00:24:31,003 --> 00:24:33,268
Look, maybe I
screwed up with Chris.
470
00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:36,332
What did I know about
kids? I was a kid myself.
471
00:24:36,408 --> 00:24:38,070
And now you know better.
472
00:24:39,178 --> 00:24:41,443
I got as much right to be
a mother as anyone else.
473
00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:42,913
And what right
does your kid have?
474
00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:46,441
You got an education. You
got a job. This is all I got.
475
00:24:49,388 --> 00:24:52,119
Nobody's taking this
baby away from me.
476
00:24:53,459 --> 00:24:55,894
When I was 14 years
old, I had a fight...
477
00:24:56,028 --> 00:24:57,929
with Joe Dworkin. I pushed him.
478
00:24:58,330 --> 00:25:01,960
He retaliated by throwing
my Spaldine down the sewer.
479
00:25:02,534 --> 00:25:04,093
Kids killing kids.
480
00:25:04,203 --> 00:25:07,503
You bounce around the system
long enough, you grow up a lot quicker.
481
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:08,864
Meaning what?
482
00:25:08,941 --> 00:25:11,570
If his mother's any indication,
he never had a chance.
483
00:25:11,643 --> 00:25:13,475
And the system only
made the problem worse.
484
00:25:13,579 --> 00:25:15,309
He had four years
with Florence Bishop.
485
00:25:15,381 --> 00:25:18,317
She's the best the system has to
offer. It didn't make any difference.
486
00:25:18,384 --> 00:25:20,704
And for all we know, this
may be his first violent offense.
487
00:25:20,753 --> 00:25:24,485
Well, why does our Mr. Pollit
deserve two bites at the apple?
488
00:25:24,556 --> 00:25:26,991
Because he's not
even 15 years old.
489
00:25:29,161 --> 00:25:31,858
Okay, find a way
to open the kid's file.
490
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:35,467
If his first offense
was non-violent...
491
00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:39,832
let Helen Brolin do her song
and dance in Family Court.
492
00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:45,738
I thought your job was
putting the bad guys in jail.
493
00:25:46,011 --> 00:25:48,606
I just want to make sure
he goes to the right jail.
494
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,139
From what I've read, Chris Pollit should
be riding the ferry on the river Styx.
495
00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:55,153
Seems you're getting a little
soft in your old age, Claire.
496
00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:57,280
Seems you're getting
a little callous in yours.
497
00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:59,551
Hey, I'm a lawyer,
not a social worker.
498
00:25:59,625 --> 00:26:02,254
I represent the little buggers.
Doesn't mean I have to like them.
499
00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:05,359
Tell me about youthful
offender hearings.
500
00:26:05,464 --> 00:26:08,491
Sure. That's where we dress
them up in their Sunday best...
501
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,001
clean their fingernails...
502
00:26:10,069 --> 00:26:11,765
and teach them to
cry a lot while saying:
503
00:26:11,837 --> 00:26:13,999
"I didn't do it, and I
swear I won't do it again."
504
00:26:14,273 --> 00:26:15,673
Can we introduce priors?
505
00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:17,676
An often overlooked
statute requires...
506
00:26:17,743 --> 00:26:19,735
that the judge consider
all relevant factors...
507
00:26:19,812 --> 00:26:21,713
even if they're not
admissible at trial.
508
00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:23,248
Even if the records are sealed?
509
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:27,883
Anything goes, as long as it bears on the
little angel's history and or character.
510
00:26:28,087 --> 00:26:31,216
And the best part, none of
it can later be used at trial.
511
00:26:31,356 --> 00:26:33,052
Not even a confession.
512
00:26:33,959 --> 00:26:37,020
You're awful cynical for a
children's rights attorney.
513
00:26:38,397 --> 00:26:39,990
I'm just being pragmatic.
514
00:26:40,099 --> 00:26:41,431
"The child is
father of the man."
515
00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,026
I gotta live in this city
when these kids grow up.
516
00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:51,634
Johnny and I always got along
pretty good before. I mean...
517
00:26:52,411 --> 00:26:54,676
we never got into a
fight, or anything like that.
518
00:26:54,746 --> 00:26:56,237
In your own words, Chris...
519
00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:59,517
tell us what you remember
about your fight with John Lasky.
520
00:27:01,253 --> 00:27:03,085
He started getting down on Mom.
521
00:27:03,155 --> 00:27:05,681
You know, he called
her a whore, stuff like that.
522
00:27:06,325 --> 00:27:07,623
Did you tell him to stop?
523
00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:10,491
Yeah, me and Andy both,
but he just wouldn't let it go.
524
00:27:11,096 --> 00:27:12,564
So what happened then?
525
00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:17,167
I don't remember.
526
00:27:18,904 --> 00:27:20,600
You don't remember
the fight at all?
527
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,142
I remember crying on the
subway back to Miss Bishop's.
528
00:27:25,077 --> 00:27:27,569
And how do you feel
about that now, Chris?
529
00:27:32,384 --> 00:27:34,046
I wish it didn't happen.
530
00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:38,920
I mean, I don't
want to hurt nobody.
531
00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:48,791
Young man, who is Brian North?
532
00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:50,335
Objection. Irrelevant.
533
00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:51,927
You know better
than that, Counselor.
534
00:27:52,437 --> 00:27:54,599
Answer the question, son.
535
00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:57,565
He's a kid I used to know.
536
00:27:57,776 --> 00:28:00,439
Didn't he cut in line in
front of you at Spofford...
537
00:28:01,246 --> 00:28:03,272
and you smashed
him right in the face...
538
00:28:03,615 --> 00:28:04,947
with your tray?
539
00:28:05,651 --> 00:28:06,812
He pushed me.
540
00:28:07,052 --> 00:28:08,543
But didn't you kick him...
541
00:28:09,087 --> 00:28:12,023
and keep kicking him
until he was unconscious?
542
00:28:12,157 --> 00:28:14,490
Your Honor, when he's
in a normal environment...
543
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,358
he's had no violent episodes.
544
00:28:17,296 --> 00:28:18,525
Mr. Pollit...
545
00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:21,862
why were you placed in
Spofford in the first place?
546
00:28:23,936 --> 00:28:26,565
I was with a bunch of
guys. We robbed a deli.
547
00:28:26,805 --> 00:28:28,535
And you were armed, right?
548
00:28:29,942 --> 00:28:31,103
Isn't that true?
549
00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:37,141
Mr. Pollit, isn't that true?
550
00:28:39,618 --> 00:28:40,618
Yes.
551
00:28:40,686 --> 00:28:43,121
Your Honor, there was
no money in the store...
552
00:28:43,255 --> 00:28:45,019
and Mr. Pollit got mad...
553
00:28:45,424 --> 00:28:47,620
and he shot the
owner with a .22.
554
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:56,532
This case must be special.
555
00:28:56,602 --> 00:28:59,800
Judge Kershan removes nine
out of ten cases to Family Court.
556
00:28:59,905 --> 00:29:02,238
Three violent episodes
that we know of so far.
557
00:29:02,307 --> 00:29:04,401
She had no choice but
to try him as an adult.
558
00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:08,240
Wait until you see this.
559
00:29:09,147 --> 00:29:10,672
Brolin's notice of her intent...
560
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:14,117
to plead Chris not guilty
by reason of mental defect.
561
00:29:17,389 --> 00:29:19,654
He testified that he knew
what he did was wrong.
562
00:29:19,725 --> 00:29:20,954
He expressed remorse.
563
00:29:21,026 --> 00:29:23,461
She'll never get out of the
gate with an insanity defense.
564
00:29:23,528 --> 00:29:25,588
Well, she's not
claiming he's insane.
565
00:29:26,198 --> 00:29:28,099
She's claiming he's
not responsible...
566
00:29:28,166 --> 00:29:31,068
because he's genetically
predisposed to violent behavior.
567
00:29:31,136 --> 00:29:33,833
Most of his blood relations are
incarcerated for violent crimes.
568
00:29:33,905 --> 00:29:36,136
The sins of the father
are visited upon the son?
569
00:29:36,208 --> 00:29:38,143
That is not a
defense for murder.
570
00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:40,338
Well, you say it's nurture,
Brolin says it's nature.
571
00:29:40,412 --> 00:29:41,710
And what's our plan?
572
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:45,046
We have a conference tomorrow in
chambers to see what Judge Kershan says.
573
00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:48,349
Ever since Mendel, at
the turn of the century...
574
00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:52,390
scientists have seen a direct relation
between genetics and human behavior.
575
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:53,948
And most of those scientists...
576
00:29:54,026 --> 00:29:56,928
goose-stepped their way through
the streets of Berlin in the 1940s.
577
00:29:57,095 --> 00:30:00,623
Very dramatic image, Ben,
but unfortunately, misinformed.
578
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:06,067
Researchers in our own back yard have
identified the XYY chromosome male...
579
00:30:06,371 --> 00:30:08,863
as being predisposed
to criminal behavior.
580
00:30:09,007 --> 00:30:11,704
Are you saying this kid
has an extra Y chromosome?
581
00:30:11,843 --> 00:30:13,869
Verified by the
Tyler-Hampton Clinic.
582
00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,709
He also has blonde
hair and brown eyes.
583
00:30:15,781 --> 00:30:17,909
Should we allow that as a
defense for murder, as well?
584
00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:22,387
If there's a relation between that and
aggressive anti-social behavior, yes.
585
00:30:22,621 --> 00:30:24,783
There is no proof
that the XYY male...
586
00:30:24,856 --> 00:30:27,416
is predisposed to any kind
of behavior, Your Honor.
587
00:30:27,492 --> 00:30:28,755
Frye v. U.S.
588
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:31,228
Scientific evidence
is only admissible...
589
00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:33,822
when it is generally accepted
by the scientific community.
590
00:30:33,899 --> 00:30:37,199
Well, show me one scientist who
doesn't accept the laws of genetics.
591
00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:40,962
The Frye case says nothing about
the conclusions drawn from those laws.
592
00:30:41,139 --> 00:30:42,539
Richard Speck?
593
00:30:42,641 --> 00:30:45,372
Didn't he try this XYY
chromosome defense?
594
00:30:45,444 --> 00:30:47,037
And the judge threw
it out, Your Honor.
595
00:30:47,112 --> 00:30:49,980
Yes, that's because Speck didn't
have the extra Y chromosome.
596
00:30:50,048 --> 00:30:53,678
No court that we know of
has ever accepted this defense.
597
00:30:54,019 --> 00:30:57,547
Your Honor, we can fill the courtroom
with experts who'll say this is nonsense.
598
00:30:57,689 --> 00:30:59,851
And we'll see if the
jury believes them.
599
00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:04,155
What is next, Helen,
the astrological defense?
600
00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:06,892
Jupiter aligned with Mars,
so I had to rob a bank?
601
00:31:07,099 --> 00:31:09,534
If it gets my client the
justice he deserves, why not?
602
00:31:09,601 --> 00:31:11,841
You don't think people are
responsible for their actions?
603
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,772
Sure. I read Sartre in college.
604
00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:16,737
I also read Freud.
605
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:20,334
Chris Pollit's life was determined
for him before he hit the age of six.
606
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:23,481
Maybe. But not before
he was born. Look, Ben...
607
00:31:24,049 --> 00:31:26,644
I present even the smallest
slice of Chris's home life...
608
00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:28,243
the jury starts bawling.
609
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,085
So what does that get me?
Maybe a Man One conviction.
610
00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:35,158
I start hitting them with genes and
chromosomes, I got a shot at an acquittal.
611
00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:36,991
And that's what's
best for Chris? No.
612
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:39,327
What's best is transferring
this to Family Court.
613
00:31:39,398 --> 00:31:42,197
Helen, you had the opportunity
for that. You didn't meet the burden.
614
00:31:42,267 --> 00:31:47,137
Yeah, well, it's a lot easier to confuse
a jury, than it is to convince a judge.
615
00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:53,943
This is dumb. Humor me, Chris.
616
00:31:54,713 --> 00:31:55,908
What would you do?
617
00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:58,712
I'd tell the teacher
she was stupid.
618
00:31:59,351 --> 00:32:00,751
Why is she stupid?
619
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,747
Because the other kid was cheating
off me, I wasn't cheating off him.
620
00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:07,155
But the teacher
said she saw you.
621
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,591
I told you, she's stupid.
622
00:32:11,563 --> 00:32:13,054
Does that make you angry?
623
00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:18,062
If I got in trouble, sure.
624
00:32:19,171 --> 00:32:20,571
And what would you do?
625
00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:23,899
Beat the hell out of the kid.
626
00:32:25,143 --> 00:32:26,907
You think you'd try to kill him?
627
00:32:31,516 --> 00:32:33,883
I get mad, I don't
know what I'd do.
628
00:32:35,187 --> 00:32:37,486
You think that's what
happened with John Lasky?
629
00:32:42,527 --> 00:32:44,120
I liked Johnny. I mean...
630
00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:46,197
he sort of cracked me up.
631
00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:50,401
It's not like I wanted
to kill him or anything.
632
00:32:51,770 --> 00:32:53,329
He just got me mad.
633
00:32:55,941 --> 00:32:58,035
There's no question he
knows what he did was wrong.
634
00:32:58,176 --> 00:33:00,338
He's aware of the
consequences. He feels remorse.
635
00:33:00,412 --> 00:33:02,506
So he's not legally insane?
636
00:33:03,014 --> 00:33:06,451
The problem is, when sufficiently
provoked, he loses control.
637
00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:09,111
Liz, you don't think
there's any validity...
638
00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:11,723
to this XYY chromosome theory?
639
00:33:11,857 --> 00:33:13,485
Current thinking
among geneticists...
640
00:33:13,558 --> 00:33:17,188
is that the extra Y chromosome
causes a slight increase in height.
641
00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:20,490
There's no evidence of any causal
connection to criminal behavior.
642
00:33:20,565 --> 00:33:23,933
So all he's really got is a
homicidal temper, right?
643
00:33:24,069 --> 00:33:26,629
There's a lot we don't
know about the brain.
644
00:33:26,738 --> 00:33:28,730
Liz, keep this out
of the shadows.
645
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:31,238
Is he responsible
for what he did?
646
00:33:31,610 --> 00:33:34,307
With all the scientific
data available at this time...
647
00:33:34,779 --> 00:33:35,838
yes.
648
00:33:39,551 --> 00:33:43,386
There were hematomas on his
arms, legs, chest, back, and face.
649
00:33:43,622 --> 00:33:45,386
Three ribs were fractured.
650
00:33:45,457 --> 00:33:48,017
Vertebrae displaced
in the spinal column.
651
00:33:48,226 --> 00:33:50,821
The actual cause of death
was internal hemorrhaging.
652
00:33:51,129 --> 00:33:54,861
Doctor, could you determine
if the victim was unconscious...
653
00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:56,260
during the beating?
654
00:33:56,334 --> 00:33:58,334
From the amount of cranial
bleeding and bruising...
655
00:33:58,403 --> 00:34:00,565
I would say that, no...
656
00:34:00,639 --> 00:34:02,574
he had to be
conscious at the time.
657
00:34:02,641 --> 00:34:06,442
So then it is possible that
John Lasky was screaming...
658
00:34:06,678 --> 00:34:08,977
while he was being
savagely beaten?
659
00:34:09,281 --> 00:34:11,978
Any objections, Ms.
Brolin? No, Your Honor.
660
00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:15,218
Well, I can't imagine that anyone
could sustain such a beating...
661
00:34:15,287 --> 00:34:17,017
and not cry out in pain.
662
00:34:17,322 --> 00:34:18,381
Thank you.
663
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:24,385
Was the victim already
on the sidewalk...
664
00:34:24,496 --> 00:34:26,522
when the severest part
of the beating occurred?
665
00:34:26,598 --> 00:34:30,694
From the pattern of the bruising, it
would appear he had to be prostrate, yes.
666
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:33,129
So there he was, Johnny Lasky...
667
00:34:33,204 --> 00:34:35,537
13 years old, lying
on the sidewalk...
668
00:34:35,607 --> 00:34:39,339
screaming in pain, and
what did the defendant do?
669
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:41,269
He kept on kicking.
670
00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:45,974
Would you characterize this
beating as savage, Doctor?
671
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:47,647
Yes.
672
00:34:47,886 --> 00:34:49,377
Inhuman?
673
00:34:49,487 --> 00:34:50,546
Yes.
674
00:34:50,622 --> 00:34:53,524
Like someone not in control
was doing it? Objection.
675
00:34:53,592 --> 00:34:54,890
Sustained.
676
00:34:55,393 --> 00:34:59,626
The defendant was definitely cognizant
of the difference between right and wrong.
677
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:01,323
But more importantly...
678
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:05,097
he's able to analyze his own
behavior in terms of societal norms.
679
00:35:05,170 --> 00:35:08,140
Did Mr. Pollit tell you
that he heard voices...
680
00:35:08,573 --> 00:35:09,734
telling him...
681
00:35:10,008 --> 00:35:11,340
to kill John Lasky?
682
00:35:11,543 --> 00:35:13,603
No. He's not schizophrenic.
683
00:35:14,346 --> 00:35:16,178
Doctor, please tell the court...
684
00:35:16,414 --> 00:35:18,042
what you know...
685
00:35:18,183 --> 00:35:20,982
about the XYY male syndrome.
686
00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:22,710
It arose in the '60s.
687
00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:24,722
Geneticists tried
to correlate the
688
00:35:24,746 --> 00:35:27,282
existence of an extra
Y chromosome in men...
689
00:35:27,359 --> 00:35:30,261
to aggressive,
antisocial behavior.
690
00:35:30,495 --> 00:35:32,259
And what became of this theory?
691
00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:36,056
To date, there's no proof
that there's any validity to it.
692
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,158
Thank you.
693
00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:41,505
Doctor, isn't it true that
some psychiatrists believe...
694
00:35:41,573 --> 00:35:43,838
that depression is
passed on genetically?
695
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:46,877
Well, it is commonly
found to occur in families.
696
00:35:46,945 --> 00:35:49,414
And what about
schizophrenia? Yes.
697
00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:51,140
So why would it be
so unbelievable...
698
00:35:51,216 --> 00:35:54,152
that we may pass on criminal
behavior to our children?
699
00:35:54,386 --> 00:35:56,287
Because there's no
scientific evidence...
700
00:35:56,354 --> 00:35:59,290
that criminal behavior
is anything but learned.
701
00:35:59,357 --> 00:36:01,986
All the data supporting
the XYY male syndrome...
702
00:36:02,060 --> 00:36:03,494
was dismissed in the '70s...
703
00:36:03,561 --> 00:36:05,681
because the pools from
which the samples were taken...
704
00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:09,633
were not sufficiently random to
form cohesive scientific conclusions.
705
00:36:09,701 --> 00:36:10,794
So what you're saying is...
706
00:36:10,869 --> 00:36:13,964
that there was a problem with
the methodology, not the theory.
707
00:36:16,608 --> 00:36:19,271
Our lab ran karyotype
tests on the defendant...
708
00:36:19,344 --> 00:36:22,576
and there's no question that
he has a second Y chromosome.
709
00:36:22,647 --> 00:36:25,776
And has your lab studied the
effects of this chromosomal anomaly?
710
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:28,547
Certainly, and it definitely
appears to occur...
711
00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:32,819
to a higher degree in members of the prison
population than in the general public.
712
00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:35,387
And what does that
indicate, Doctor?
713
00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:39,488
The extra Y chromosome
relates to criminal behavior.
714
00:36:39,731 --> 00:36:42,633
So, Doctor, if this
behavior is genetic...
715
00:36:42,734 --> 00:36:45,294
would you also say that
it was uncontrollable?
716
00:36:45,403 --> 00:36:47,395
No more controllable
than your height.
717
00:36:47,505 --> 00:36:48,632
Thank you, Doctor.
718
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,910
Doctor, as I understand it...
719
00:36:53,978 --> 00:36:55,344
you have found...
720
00:36:55,413 --> 00:36:57,507
in the general
population at large...
721
00:36:57,582 --> 00:37:00,347
people like you and
I, who have this...
722
00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:02,851
extra Y chromosome,
correct? Yes.
723
00:37:03,121 --> 00:37:04,885
Are they leading
productive lives?
724
00:37:05,356 --> 00:37:06,756
I couldn't say.
725
00:37:07,926 --> 00:37:10,919
Well, then let me rephrase
the question, okay?
726
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:15,159
In your files, is there
evidence that they exhibit...
727
00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,464
aggressive, homicidal...
728
00:37:17,669 --> 00:37:19,160
sociopathic behavior?
729
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:20,432
I suppose not.
730
00:37:20,505 --> 00:37:22,201
So then isn't it true...
731
00:37:22,273 --> 00:37:26,142
that your testing hasn't
even come close to proving...
732
00:37:26,411 --> 00:37:29,245
that this chromosomal anomaly...
733
00:37:29,414 --> 00:37:30,905
has any effect on behavior?
734
00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:32,848
My study is not yet completed.
735
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,510
You should have
told the court that...
736
00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:36,248
when you arrived. Objection!
737
00:37:36,321 --> 00:37:37,619
Withdrawn.
738
00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:44,185
Head of the local chapter of
the White America Caucus...
739
00:37:44,729 --> 00:37:46,891
has taken up Brolin's cause.
740
00:37:46,965 --> 00:37:48,228
Letter to the editor:
741
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,068
"It's a known fact...
742
00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:53,166
"that genetics is the
cause of violence...
743
00:37:53,238 --> 00:37:55,571
"and feeble-mindedness
in the black man."
744
00:37:57,142 --> 00:38:01,273
Do you think educated people actually
buy this XYY chromosome theory?
745
00:38:01,346 --> 00:38:02,939
Well, no one wants to think...
746
00:38:03,014 --> 00:38:05,210
that their society
produces monsters...
747
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:08,811
like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey
Dahmer, or Chris Pollit.
748
00:38:09,487 --> 00:38:11,979
Brolin paints a bad
enough picture...
749
00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:15,955
the jury convinces itself
the kid can't be normal.
750
00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:19,960
The defense has added Chris's
mother to their witness list.
751
00:38:20,165 --> 00:38:21,633
Oh, great.
752
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,238
Now we'll hear stories about the poor
baby torturing puppies during nap time.
753
00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:34,173
From the day he was
born, we knew Chris was...
754
00:38:36,014 --> 00:38:37,243
different.
755
00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:41,252
Please go on, Mrs. Pollit.
756
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,920
He never cried.
757
00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:47,853
We thought maybe he was
deaf or dumb. We didn't know.
758
00:38:49,127 --> 00:38:51,995
When he was four, I
took one of his toys away.
759
00:38:52,564 --> 00:38:55,363
He went crazy and
came at me with a knife.
760
00:38:55,967 --> 00:38:57,492
Where is Chris' father now?
761
00:38:57,936 --> 00:38:59,370
He's in Attica.
762
00:38:59,871 --> 00:39:01,863
And why is he in prison?
763
00:39:03,374 --> 00:39:05,741
Jack attacked the
mailman with a hammer.
764
00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:09,446
And is he the only
family member in prison?
765
00:39:09,848 --> 00:39:12,113
Jack's brother, Chris' uncle...
766
00:39:12,250 --> 00:39:14,116
is serving life for murder.
767
00:39:14,619 --> 00:39:16,019
Thank you, Mrs. Pollit.
768
00:39:17,989 --> 00:39:19,252
Mrs. Pollit...
769
00:39:20,658 --> 00:39:23,526
did you try to
discipline Chris at all?
770
00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:25,525
Jack hit him all the time.
771
00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:27,358
It didn't help.
772
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:29,329
So you just gave up on him?
773
00:39:31,803 --> 00:39:33,965
I used to think
it was my fault...
774
00:39:35,573 --> 00:39:37,906
but I didn't know
about this gene stuff.
775
00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:41,274
The gene stuff, right?
776
00:39:42,413 --> 00:39:43,472
Do you believe it?
777
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:46,279
Do you believe
that Chris inherited...
778
00:39:46,684 --> 00:39:50,246
his criminal behavior, and,
as such, he's totally incapable...
779
00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:51,583
of changing?
780
00:39:51,689 --> 00:39:53,555
Well, there's nothing
I could do about it.
781
00:39:53,625 --> 00:39:55,719
But if there was, you
would do something about it?
782
00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:56,886
Sure.
783
00:39:58,363 --> 00:40:01,458
How many months
pregnant are you, Mrs. Pollit?
784
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:02,623
Five.
785
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,601
Has it ever occurred to you
that you might be carrying a killer?
786
00:40:09,974 --> 00:40:12,307
What, do you think I
want another one like him?
787
00:40:12,377 --> 00:40:15,779
I don't know, Mrs. Pollit.
But if he is like Chris...
788
00:40:16,047 --> 00:40:17,481
what are you
going to do about it?
789
00:40:17,548 --> 00:40:20,382
I'm not going to kill my baby,
if that's what you're saying.
790
00:40:21,686 --> 00:40:24,178
You haven't thought this
through at all, have you?
791
00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:25,883
What do you mean?
792
00:40:26,858 --> 00:40:28,884
If this theory is true...
793
00:40:30,929 --> 00:40:32,727
and your infant is like Chris...
794
00:40:33,164 --> 00:40:35,656
aren't we going to have
to lock him up right away...
795
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,770
and sterilize him so
he won't reproduce?
796
00:40:39,304 --> 00:40:41,637
Because if he is
genetically criminal...
797
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,303
he can't stop.
798
00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:47,402
Or why don't we just avoid
the whole bloody mess...
799
00:40:47,512 --> 00:40:50,414
and kill him right now?
Enough, Counselor.
800
00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:56,178
No further questions.
801
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:05,657
Thanks.
802
00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:11,932
For me, it's always cold fried
chicken before a summation.
803
00:41:13,004 --> 00:41:14,404
Summation's next week.
804
00:41:14,939 --> 00:41:16,407
Change of plans.
805
00:41:16,808 --> 00:41:17,867
I ran out of witnesses.
806
00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:20,275
I'd have bet the ranch that
you'd put Chris on the stand.
807
00:41:20,345 --> 00:41:22,610
Yeah, I would. But my
client thinks otherwise.
808
00:41:22,747 --> 00:41:25,546
Yeah, well, maybe your
client is smarter than both of us.
809
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:28,411
You know, the way I
see it, I've got jurors...
810
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,788
two, five and
seven. You've got...
811
00:41:32,256 --> 00:41:34,623
six, four, eleven. The
rest are up for grabs.
812
00:41:34,692 --> 00:41:37,457
Brolin, you know what they
say about counting your chickens.
813
00:41:37,962 --> 00:41:39,055
Listen, Ben...
814
00:41:39,897 --> 00:41:41,058
give me Man Two.
815
00:41:41,466 --> 00:41:43,867
He stays at Spofford till
he hits his 18th birthday...
816
00:41:43,935 --> 00:41:47,064
and the rest he spends
at a facility of your choice.
817
00:41:47,138 --> 00:41:49,073
Helen, what's going on?
818
00:41:50,274 --> 00:41:53,301
If you have three jurors in
your pocket, it's a sure mistrial.
819
00:41:54,112 --> 00:41:56,377
I advised him against it, but...
820
00:41:57,115 --> 00:41:58,310
Chris wants a sit down.
821
00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:01,846
Okay.
822
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,185
Tomorrow, my office, 9:00.
823
00:42:06,491 --> 00:42:07,720
You want a drink?
824
00:42:09,093 --> 00:42:10,220
Yeah.
825
00:42:12,630 --> 00:42:14,531
I just want you to
understand, Chris...
826
00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:17,194
I don't think this is
in your best interests.
827
00:42:17,902 --> 00:42:19,632
Don't worry,
you're off the hook.
828
00:42:19,771 --> 00:42:21,672
I spoke to your attorney
last night, Chris...
829
00:42:21,739 --> 00:42:24,607
and a plea at this point
in the trial is unacceptable.
830
00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:27,171
I don't think you get
what I'm looking for.
831
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,548
I heard everything that went
on in the courtroom, and I...
832
00:42:31,182 --> 00:42:32,514
I just...
833
00:42:33,651 --> 00:42:35,051
I just want it over with.
834
00:42:37,822 --> 00:42:39,916
Chris, this is a mistake. Why?
835
00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:44,622
I mean, you go on and on about
how my genes are screwed up.
836
00:42:44,896 --> 00:42:47,229
And nobody can
ever fix that, can they?
837
00:42:47,298 --> 00:42:49,563
I'm just trying to get
the jury on our side.
838
00:42:49,967 --> 00:42:51,435
What, are you lying?
839
00:42:52,703 --> 00:42:56,037
I'm just trying to present a
valid argument for your defense.
840
00:42:56,107 --> 00:42:57,905
I mean, I killed him, didn't I?
841
00:42:58,509 --> 00:43:01,946
And I tried to kill that guy in
the deli and that kid at Spofford.
842
00:43:02,513 --> 00:43:03,811
I'm screwed up.
843
00:43:03,881 --> 00:43:05,850
Chris, what are
you trying to tell us?
844
00:43:08,186 --> 00:43:09,814
I want to go to jail.
845
00:43:09,987 --> 00:43:12,422
You might spend the rest
of your life there, Chris.
846
00:43:13,991 --> 00:43:16,483
So what? I'm a freak.
847
00:43:27,505 --> 00:43:29,531
You can't force the
other side to play.
848
00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:32,539
You put a check in the win column,
and you count your blessings.
849
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:35,011
In any other circumstances,
that's exactly what I'd do.
850
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:37,878
Well, why does this kid
deserve such special attention?
851
00:43:37,949 --> 00:43:39,781
Because he's pleading
for the wrong reason.
852
00:43:39,851 --> 00:43:42,821
His lawyer tells him that he's
born bad. We say he's raised bad.
853
00:43:42,887 --> 00:43:45,379
He buys both stories,
sees his life as a dead end.
854
00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:47,789
Well, maybe he knows
his life better than you do.
855
00:43:47,859 --> 00:43:50,260
Your job is to convict,
not to rehabilitate.
856
00:43:50,328 --> 00:43:52,354
He's a 14-year-old
kid who gave up.
857
00:43:52,430 --> 00:43:53,728
So you're doing him a favor.
858
00:43:54,065 --> 00:43:55,658
If he gave up his
illusions, right...
859
00:43:55,733 --> 00:43:57,861
but he gave up hope,
and I drove him to that.
860
00:43:57,935 --> 00:43:59,927
Now anything might
happen to that kid in prison.
861
00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:01,802
Gary Gilmore, Wesley Dodd:
862
00:44:01,873 --> 00:44:03,808
two unrepentant killers.
863
00:44:04,008 --> 00:44:06,307
Everybody wants them
dead until they agree...
864
00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:08,105
and then we turn
them into folk heroes.
865
00:44:08,179 --> 00:44:09,841
I had nothing to
do with their fates.
866
00:44:09,914 --> 00:44:11,974
You want them to start
naming churches after you...
867
00:44:12,049 --> 00:44:13,129
I'd get another profession.
868
00:44:13,184 --> 00:44:16,177
Take the kid's plea,
move on to the next case.
869
00:44:25,463 --> 00:44:28,058
Murder Two, he
serves the maximum.
870
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:31,726
Am I reading this
right, Miss Brolin?
871
00:44:31,802 --> 00:44:33,794
It's what my client
wants, Your Honor.
872
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:39,443
Do you understand the charges to
which you're pleading guilty, Mr. Pollit?
873
00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:40,534
Yes.
874
00:44:43,281 --> 00:44:45,341
Please describe,
in your own words...
875
00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:49,243
what occurred on the night of
September the 10th, of this year.
876
00:44:50,054 --> 00:44:52,080
I had a fight with Johnny.
877
00:44:53,024 --> 00:44:55,892
I hit him and I kicked
him until he was dead.
878
00:44:56,627 --> 00:44:58,289
Why did you kill him?
879
00:44:58,796 --> 00:44:59,957
You think I know?
880
00:45:01,699 --> 00:45:03,361
I get mad, I can't stop.
881
00:45:06,437 --> 00:45:08,497
The result of a plea bargain...
882
00:45:09,407 --> 00:45:11,774
usually is a reduced sentence.
883
00:45:11,842 --> 00:45:13,538
Doesn't anybody listen?
884
00:45:14,979 --> 00:45:16,675
I killed him.
885
00:45:18,616 --> 00:45:20,244
I'd do it again.
886
00:45:22,253 --> 00:45:24,552
I don't want anybody's help.
887
00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:30,287
Mr. Stone?
888
00:45:30,361 --> 00:45:32,387
Your Honor, we have agreed...
889
00:45:32,463 --> 00:45:35,661
that the defendant be
incarcerated in a juvenile facility...
890
00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:37,224
until his 18th birthday...
891
00:45:37,301 --> 00:45:40,533
at which point he'd
be transferred to Attica.
892
00:45:40,605 --> 00:45:41,664
Why?
893
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,066
We're trying to
save your life, son.
894
00:45:49,547 --> 00:45:51,175
What's the point?