1 00:00:29,090 --> 00:00:34,630 Good evening, and welcome to sing along with Hitch. 2 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:39,930 I have a feeling this will be much better if we could hear you singing. 3 00:00:39,970 --> 00:00:45,540 As it is, it strikes me as a rather limited form of entertainment. 4 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:49,580 And you have no idea how insecure one can feel 5 00:00:49,610 --> 00:00:55,980 when he knows that at any time he can be replaced by a bouncing ball. 6 00:00:56,020 --> 00:01:01,720 For those of you who are too shy or for some reason have not chosen to join us, 7 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,860 I have an enticement. 8 00:01:03,890 --> 00:01:07,760 Perhaps if you sing loud and lustily enough 9 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,870 you will drown out the commercial 10 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:13,340 after which our story. 11 00:01:13,370 --> 00:01:18,770 Remember, the competition tends to become rather fortissimo. 12 00:01:44,170 --> 00:01:46,740 Yes, yes that’s right. Uh-huh. 13 00:01:46,770 --> 00:01:50,440 The hearing will be held, uh, at the Municipal 14 00:01:50,470 --> 00:01:53,840 Court on the 27th. 15 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,680 Ye-- no, Mr. Wedge will be speaking to you before that, Mrs. Hamilton. 16 00:01:57,710 --> 00:01:59,680 N-No, not at all. 17 00:01:59,710 --> 00:02:01,280 Yes, bye-bye. 18 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,580 [hanging up the telephone] 19 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:08,160 Please, miss, it’s almost half an hour. 20 00:02:08,190 --> 00:02:10,460 Couldn’t you ask him if he’s free? 21 00:02:14,930 --> 00:02:17,670 Mr. Marino is still out here. 22 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:21,100 -Can you see him now? -Yeah. 23 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:22,940 Well, send him in. 24 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,680 I am Benjy Marino’s father. 25 00:02:31,710 --> 00:02:35,850 -Yes, I know, now-- -You know about my boy, about his trouble? 26 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,720 Well, I read about it in the paper and I’m sorry for him 27 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:41,360 but I’m sorry for the other kid, too, the one that was killed. 28 00:02:41,390 --> 00:02:43,960 But not by Benjy! That’s the truth, not by Benjy. 29 00:02:43,990 --> 00:02:46,930 He didn’t do it. That’s why I’ve come to you, Mr. Wedge, 30 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,100 because people tell me you’re the best, the best lawyer for my boy. 31 00:02:50,130 --> 00:02:51,700 You should go to the juvenile authorities, 32 00:02:51,730 --> 00:02:53,900 Mr. Marino, they’ll recommend someone for you. 33 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:58,540 That boy’s dead, Mr. Wedge, and they say my Benjy did it. 34 00:02:58,570 --> 00:03:01,180 I went to the jail, I talked to him. 35 00:03:01,210 --> 00:03:03,410 He said to me, "Pop, 36 00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:05,380 I didn’t kill that boy. 37 00:03:05,410 --> 00:03:07,350 You believe me, Pop?" 38 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:10,420 I said, "Sure, Benjy. If you say so, I believe you." 39 00:03:11,550 --> 00:03:13,050 I believe him. 40 00:03:13,090 --> 00:03:15,220 Let me call the State’s Attorney’s office for you, 41 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:18,660 -in case you need, they appoint a-- -Please! Please! I have money. 42 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:20,460 The family all got together. 43 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,200 I run a fuel and oil business. I’m selling the truck. 44 00:03:24,230 --> 00:03:26,840 I can pay what you ask, Mr. Wedge. 45 00:03:26,870 --> 00:03:30,640 It’s not a question of money, Mr. Marino, I got a schedule as long as your arm. 46 00:03:30,670 --> 00:03:35,110 The papers, they make it sound so bad. They say there were witnesses. 47 00:03:35,140 --> 00:03:36,640 They say they saw him with a knife. 48 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,080 How could they say such a thing? 49 00:03:39,110 --> 00:03:41,150 Oh, I don’t say he’s an angel. 50 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:43,490 He runs around, he fights. 51 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,090 A boy without a mother is sometimes a wild, wild boy. 52 00:03:48,090 --> 00:03:49,820 But, what can I do? 53 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:52,390 I have a 24-hour business. 54 00:03:52,430 --> 00:03:55,630 How much time do I have to be a father? 55 00:03:57,370 --> 00:03:59,630 Well, let me recommend a lawyer for you, Mr. Marino, 56 00:03:59,670 --> 00:04:01,470 -another lawyer, there’s-- -No, no, no. 57 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:03,570 I don’t know about anybody else. I only know you. 58 00:04:03,610 --> 00:04:05,810 But I can’t work miracles. 59 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,510 -I only go by facts. -That’s all I want. 60 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:10,610 The fact, he’s innocent. 61 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:12,150 He’s innocent. 62 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:14,720 What can I say to you? 63 00:04:14,750 --> 00:04:16,350 I have one boy. 64 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:18,750 He’s 17 years old. 65 00:04:18,790 --> 00:04:21,390 He’s not a grown man. 66 00:04:21,420 --> 00:04:25,060 They got him down in that jail, they say he’s a murderer. 67 00:04:25,090 --> 00:04:26,730 But he’s innocent. 68 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,700 He’s innocent. 69 00:04:28,730 --> 00:04:31,870 I swear on his dead mother’s grave. 70 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:34,500 He’s innocent, he’s innocent. 71 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:52,090 My name’s Wedge, I’m your attorney, 72 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,560 your father hired me to handle the case. 73 00:04:54,590 --> 00:04:58,090 -Am I getting out of here? -Not till after the trial, and that’s if you’re lucky. 74 00:04:58,090 --> 00:05:00,030 What about bail? Can I get out on bail? 75 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:02,260 Bail’s been refused. 76 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:03,700 When’s the trial? 77 00:05:03,730 --> 00:05:06,070 Look, don’t rush the trial. We need the delay. 78 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:08,170 -Why not-- -Do you think this is gonna be easy? 79 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,910 I didn’t cut that guy. I had nothing to do with it. 80 00:05:10,940 --> 00:05:13,880 You admitted to the police that you knew Kenny Archer, didn’t you? 81 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:17,310 Sure I knew him. We went to Manual Trades together. 82 00:05:17,350 --> 00:05:19,710 They tell me he ran with a gang called the Aces. 83 00:05:19,750 --> 00:05:21,380 Did you ever hang out with them? 84 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:22,880 With that bunch? 85 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,890 I was a Baron. The Barons don’t mix with the bums. 86 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,790 All right, you were a Baron and he was an Ace, 87 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:29,820 that makes you natural enemies, doesn’t it? 88 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:33,930 Look, 89 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,800 Mr. Wedge, 90 00:05:35,830 --> 00:05:37,870 we don’t have that kind of gang. 91 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:39,630 We’re not a bunch of hoods, 92 00:05:39,670 --> 00:05:41,170 we’ve got a basketball team-- 93 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,110 Why do you carry a knife, Benjy? 94 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:47,540 It’s only a Boy Scout knife, they sell them all over. 95 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:49,640 I just use it for... 96 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,210 whittling. 97 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:53,080 You know? 98 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,750 Who do you think you’re kidding? 99 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:57,820 Look, whose side you on? 100 00:05:57,850 --> 00:06:01,520 Now, I didn’t stick Kenny, somebody else did. I swear I didn’t kill him. 101 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,260 I’m not making accusations, kid. That’s the prosecution’s job. 102 00:06:06,290 --> 00:06:08,030 Sit down. 103 00:06:09,430 --> 00:06:11,500 Sit down. 104 00:06:17,670 --> 00:06:20,280 Now, I’m gonna go over this thing the way the police have got it 105 00:06:20,310 --> 00:06:23,780 and you tell me where they’re wrong, huh? 106 00:06:23,810 --> 00:06:27,050 At ten minutes to midnight on October 9th. You and two other guys 107 00:06:27,050 --> 00:06:30,050 were walking down Thurmond Street. 108 00:06:30,050 --> 00:06:31,920 You just come out of a movie house. 109 00:06:31,950 --> 00:06:35,160 Kenny Archer just come out of an apartment building 110 00:06:35,190 --> 00:06:38,530 on Thurmond and Avenue C, you bumped into each other. 111 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,630 There was some horseplay but the next thing that happened 112 00:06:40,660 --> 00:06:42,360 you and the other two guys were running away 113 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,870 and Kenny fell to the sidewalk 114 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:47,340 and started crawling toward the stoop of a house. 115 00:06:47,370 --> 00:06:49,400 Now there were two people sitting on the steps 116 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,610 of that building. 117 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,110 They saw you running away 118 00:06:53,140 --> 00:06:54,880 and they saw Kenny die right in front of them. 119 00:06:54,910 --> 00:06:57,380 Then a half an hour later, 120 00:06:57,410 --> 00:06:59,410 the cops picked you up in your old man’s store 121 00:06:59,450 --> 00:07:01,120 and you still had the knife in your pocket. 122 00:07:01,150 --> 00:07:03,050 It wasn’t me. 123 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:09,560 The rest of that stuff it’s true. 124 00:07:09,590 --> 00:07:11,430 But I didn’t hurt Kenny. 125 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:13,600 All right, who were the other two guys? 126 00:07:13,630 --> 00:07:15,260 -I don’t know. -Don’t give that! 127 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:17,670 I tell you I don’t know! 128 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:19,900 They came out that movie the same time I did. 129 00:07:19,930 --> 00:07:22,870 But I never saw them before. One of them must have done it. 130 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,910 When I saw Kenny was hurt, I ran away. 131 00:07:24,940 --> 00:07:27,540 -That’s how it was. -But you had the knife. 132 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:29,680 But I didn’t use it! 133 00:07:29,710 --> 00:07:32,850 Look, kid, that knife is Exhibit A, you know what means? 134 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,580 -Leave me alone! -The witnesses saw you holding the knife-- 135 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:36,920 You are not here to help me! 136 00:07:36,950 --> 00:07:39,050 Yes, I am, kid, the only way you can be helped. 137 00:07:39,050 --> 00:07:40,760 Now, listen to me and do what I tell you. 138 00:07:40,790 --> 00:07:42,860 I want you to plead guilty. Do you understand? 139 00:07:42,890 --> 00:07:46,060 That’s the only thing you can do. If I put this case in front of the jury, 140 00:07:46,060 --> 00:07:48,230 you’re gonna spend the rest of your life in a cage. 141 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:51,200 -You plead guilty, the judge may give you a break. -Nuh-uh. 142 00:07:51,230 --> 00:07:53,470 I won’t do it! I am innocent. 143 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,500 I’m not going to stay in jail for something I didn’t do! 144 00:07:55,540 --> 00:07:58,740 -I’m talking sense to you, boy, will you listen to me? -But I didn’t do it! 145 00:07:58,770 --> 00:08:01,340 -I swear it! -I’m trying to help you, son. 146 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:04,150 I’m not your son. 147 00:08:04,180 --> 00:08:06,010 I got a father. 148 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,360 Let me out of here, will you? 149 00:08:19,030 --> 00:08:22,260 You’d better talk some sense into him. 150 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:24,400 I told him if he’d plead guilty in the second degree, 151 00:08:24,430 --> 00:08:26,500 the judge is bound to be lenient. 152 00:08:26,530 --> 00:08:29,800 But then he goes to jail for something he didn’t do. 153 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,870 Look, Mr. Marino, because you’re his father 154 00:08:31,910 --> 00:08:34,210 doesn’t give you the right to ignore the facts. 155 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,810 The facts are wrong! 156 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:38,810 I know, 157 00:08:38,850 --> 00:08:41,220 you don’t like to lose cases. 158 00:08:41,250 --> 00:08:43,750 If my boy pleads guilty, you lose nothing. 159 00:08:43,790 --> 00:08:46,150 Your record’s still good. 160 00:08:46,190 --> 00:08:47,660 All right, if you feel that way about it, 161 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:50,560 if you think that’s my reason, get yourself another lawyer. 162 00:08:50,590 --> 00:08:53,660 Please, please, I don’t know what I’m saying. 163 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:57,600 -I don’t know anything about the law. -Well, I do. 164 00:08:57,630 --> 00:09:00,900 And I know this much, Mr. Marino, your faith in your kid is very commendable. 165 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,370 But it’s no defense in the courtroom. 166 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,210 All right, we plead not guilty. 167 00:09:13,250 --> 00:09:15,420 I’ll do what I can to make it stick. 168 00:09:15,450 --> 00:09:17,020 Why shouldn’t it? 169 00:09:17,050 --> 00:09:18,650 It’s the truth. 170 00:09:18,690 --> 00:09:20,160 Why shouldn’t stick? 171 00:09:20,190 --> 00:09:24,030 Because the prosecution has got witnesses. 172 00:09:24,030 --> 00:09:25,790 Mr. Dankers, you were present 173 00:09:25,830 --> 00:09:28,660 at the time of Kenneth Archer slaying, isn’t that so? 174 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:30,670 That’s right. 175 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:33,030 Would you please describe what happened? 176 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,040 Well, I was sitting on the stoop, 177 00:09:39,070 --> 00:09:40,910 getting a breath. 178 00:09:40,940 --> 00:09:43,810 Then the kids come running up the street. 179 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:47,750 I didn’t pay no attention until they stop fooling around. 180 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:49,350 Next thing I know, 181 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:51,920 one of them drops to the sidewalk, 182 00:09:51,950 --> 00:09:54,920 and the rest of them run away. 183 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,520 Then the kid, 184 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:59,160 crawls up to the stoop. 185 00:09:59,190 --> 00:10:02,230 Only, he dies before he gets there. 186 00:10:05,570 --> 00:10:09,240 How far away from the boys were you when scuffle occurred? 187 00:10:09,270 --> 00:10:10,870 Uh, not far. 188 00:10:10,910 --> 00:10:13,940 Maybe 40 or 50 feet. 189 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:16,380 I see, close enough for you to get a look at them? 190 00:10:16,410 --> 00:10:20,620 -I only saw one of them good. -[lawyer] Oh. 191 00:10:20,650 --> 00:10:22,780 There’s a street lamp near the apartment building, 192 00:10:22,820 --> 00:10:24,020 isn’t there? 193 00:10:24,050 --> 00:10:25,990 Yeah. 194 00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:29,590 So you didn’t have any trouble seeing the boy who stabbed Kenneth Archer. 195 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:33,060 I didn’t see the actual stabbing. 196 00:10:33,090 --> 00:10:37,200 But I saw the boy run away with the knife in his hands. 197 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:41,170 Do you see the boy in this courtroom now, Mr. Dankers? 198 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,200 Yeah, I see him. 199 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,640 It’s that one over there. 200 00:10:51,380 --> 00:10:54,450 Mrs. Archer, I-I’m very sorry, 201 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,250 I’ll try to be as brief as possible, but I must ask you these questions. 202 00:10:58,290 --> 00:11:01,720 You said that Kenneth was a good son. 203 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,460 Yes. 204 00:11:03,490 --> 00:11:06,290 -Yes, he was very good. -All right. 205 00:11:08,130 --> 00:11:10,530 He was always helping me around the house. 206 00:11:12,570 --> 00:11:14,970 [lawyer] Did he ever get into any trouble? 207 00:11:15,070 --> 00:11:17,940 No, never, never. 208 00:11:19,270 --> 00:11:23,310 -Was he ever picked up by the police? -No. 209 00:11:23,350 --> 00:11:26,450 He never, never was. 210 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,080 All right. 211 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,590 Did he ever get into any fights 212 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:33,420 with other boys? 213 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:35,090 No. 214 00:11:41,130 --> 00:11:42,400 All right, Mrs. Archer. 215 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:46,940 Sorry. 216 00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:56,480 Would counsel care to cross-examine? 217 00:11:58,210 --> 00:12:00,150 Well, what do you say, Benjy? 218 00:12:02,050 --> 00:12:06,190 Look, kid, if I could work miracles, I’d work one. You can get life! 219 00:12:06,220 --> 00:12:10,060 Even if you got out on parole in 20 years, you know what you’d be worth? 220 00:12:10,090 --> 00:12:12,290 Now, you’re gonna plead guilty. 221 00:12:13,530 --> 00:12:15,800 Benjy, will you please plead guilty? 222 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,200 No. 223 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,370 I didn’t do it. 224 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,070 I didn’t! 225 00:12:35,620 --> 00:12:37,620 Not going so well, is it? Mm. 226 00:12:37,650 --> 00:12:40,090 Of course is not going so well. 227 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:46,130 I wish I could figure out some way to get that old man on the stand. 228 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,300 He’s got a fanatical faith in that kid of his, 229 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:50,670 it might just rub off on the jury. 230 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,340 Do you think he’s innocent? 231 00:12:53,370 --> 00:12:55,170 That question is immaterial, 232 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,970 irrelevant and none of your business. 233 00:12:58,010 --> 00:13:00,740 You do not look all well. 234 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:03,310 You don’t look at all well. 235 00:13:03,350 --> 00:13:06,580 And I think when this is over, you ought to see a doctor. 236 00:13:06,610 --> 00:13:09,820 You know that’s not a bad idea. 237 00:13:09,850 --> 00:13:12,750 Do you remember Doc, uh, Hagerty? 238 00:13:12,790 --> 00:13:14,590 But he’s not the kind of doctor I mean. 239 00:13:14,620 --> 00:13:17,590 -I mean a good all-round GP. -Yeah, yeah. 240 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:21,400 I’m going out. I’ll be at the Dugan Hospital 241 00:13:21,430 --> 00:13:23,730 if anybody wants me. 242 00:13:23,770 --> 00:13:27,370 I don’t understand you, Vernon, you say the police already examined the boy’s knife 243 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,410 for bloodstains, using the standard benzidine test. 244 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,170 That’s right. And they didn’t find anything, 245 00:13:32,210 --> 00:13:35,110 so they claim that the kid had wiped the blade clean. 246 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:38,850 But you told one time there was some kind of the test that’s even more sensitive. 247 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,820 There is. It’s called the reduce phenolphthalein test. 248 00:13:41,850 --> 00:13:43,420 It’s a lot more sensitive in my opinion, 249 00:13:43,450 --> 00:13:45,120 but it’s not universally accepted. 250 00:13:45,150 --> 00:13:47,620 Yeah, well, could you make that test now? 251 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:49,790 It’s all right with me. Just get me the boy’s knife. 252 00:13:49,820 --> 00:13:51,660 No, I can’t do that, it’s court property. 253 00:13:51,690 --> 00:13:55,860 But could, could you demonstrate the test for me using another knife 254 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:57,370 that’s just like it? 255 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:58,770 -I suppose so. -Good. 256 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,370 I picked this up on the way over. 257 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,570 It’s the same type that Benjy Marino carried. 258 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:05,710 Pretty cheap, too, 98 cents. 259 00:14:05,740 --> 00:14:08,180 The cheaper the better. 260 00:14:08,210 --> 00:14:11,210 Well, first, we’ll put some whole blood on the blade. 261 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:18,490 And we’ll wipe off all traces of the blood. 262 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,860 Here, take a look. 263 00:14:23,890 --> 00:14:26,060 See any stains? 264 00:14:27,060 --> 00:14:28,930 Clean as a whistle. 265 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,500 Now, we’ll try it in the solution. 266 00:14:37,970 --> 00:14:40,140 Now, the blade may look clean, but 267 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:42,510 with a cheap knife, the blade metal 268 00:14:42,540 --> 00:14:46,950 is usually porous, so it retains microscopic quantities of the blood. 269 00:14:48,350 --> 00:14:49,850 Mm. 270 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,920 Changes color and gets dark, huh? 271 00:14:53,250 --> 00:14:55,220 If the solution changes color, Vernon, 272 00:14:55,260 --> 00:14:57,760 you can be sure there was blood on the blade. 273 00:14:57,790 --> 00:14:59,590 There’s only one drawback. 274 00:14:59,630 --> 00:15:01,200 What’s that? 275 00:15:01,230 --> 00:15:04,570 This test doesn’t prove whose blood was on the knife. 276 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,440 If your boy cut his own finger, it’ll work just the same. 277 00:15:08,470 --> 00:15:10,270 He’ll look just as guilty. 278 00:15:20,750 --> 00:15:22,850 -Hello, Benjy. -Hello, Mr. Wedge. 279 00:15:25,790 --> 00:15:28,360 Now you listen to me and listen carefully. 280 00:15:28,390 --> 00:15:30,130 I’ve thought of something that might just save you. 281 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,430 It’s a test, now, this is a chemical test that can determine 282 00:15:33,460 --> 00:15:36,300 whether or not there’s ever been blood on your knife. 283 00:15:36,330 --> 00:15:39,730 Now, I’m gonna make that test in court tomorrow. And if it’s negative, 284 00:15:39,770 --> 00:15:41,940 the jury will know that you didn’t kill Kenny Archer. 285 00:15:41,970 --> 00:15:43,640 No, I don’t understand that kind of stuff. 286 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:46,640 I’m not asking you to understand anything. But if you stabbed 287 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,450 that kid, a jugful of chemicals is going to turn dark, and you can kiss your freedom goodbye. 288 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,580 Now, there’s something else. 289 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:56,350 If you ever cut anybody with that knife, 290 00:15:56,380 --> 00:15:59,690 the chemicals are going to turn dark, too. 291 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,020 Now, you tell me something, and I want you to tell me the truth. 292 00:16:03,020 --> 00:16:04,860 Has there ever been blood on that knife? 293 00:16:04,890 --> 00:16:06,430 I told you I never cut him. 294 00:16:06,460 --> 00:16:08,130 Do you understand my question? I wanna know 295 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,930 if there’s ever been blood of any kind on that knife. 296 00:16:11,030 --> 00:16:12,600 No. 297 00:16:12,630 --> 00:16:16,040 -It’s brand new. I never cut nothing with it. -Are you sure? 298 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,610 You never cut your own finger? 299 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,340 I said it was clean. 300 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:24,050 Mr. Wickers, if the prosecution has no further witnesses, 301 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,610 do you wish to make your summation? 302 00:16:25,650 --> 00:16:26,950 [Mr. Wickers] Yes, Your Honor. 303 00:16:27,050 --> 00:16:29,420 -Your Honor. -Yes, Mr. Wedge? 304 00:16:29,450 --> 00:16:31,050 Something has occurred which I consider 305 00:16:31,090 --> 00:16:34,320 to be a paramount importance to this case. 306 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,260 I ask the court’s permission to introduce new evidence for the defense. 307 00:16:37,290 --> 00:16:38,890 [Mr. Wickers] Objection. 308 00:16:38,930 --> 00:16:40,930 The defense has had sufficient time for the introduction 309 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,370 of evidence. I suggest that this is a delaying tactic. 310 00:16:45,430 --> 00:16:47,070 What sort of evidence, Mr. Wedge? 311 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:49,870 This is a demonstration, Your Honor, which in my opinion, 312 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:52,870 will clearly establish the guilt or innocence of my client. 313 00:16:52,910 --> 00:16:54,810 If Mr. Wedge would like a postponement-- 314 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,350 I don’t want a postponement. I want to make this demonstration. 315 00:16:57,380 --> 00:17:00,050 If I may describe it. 316 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,750 Very well, counsel. You may proceed. 317 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:19,370 What is this, Mr. Wedge? 318 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,040 Your Honor, this is a chemical solution 319 00:17:22,070 --> 00:17:25,810 specifically formulated for the detection of bloodstains. 320 00:17:31,380 --> 00:17:34,080 Ladies and gentlemen, 321 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:37,420 Exhibit A in this case is a knife. 322 00:17:37,450 --> 00:17:40,260 The knife which presumably killed Kenneth Archer. 323 00:17:40,290 --> 00:17:42,190 Now, this knife 324 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:46,130 was found in the possession of Benjy Marino on the night of the slaying. 325 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,100 However, not one word of testimony has been produced in this court 326 00:17:49,130 --> 00:17:51,570 concerning the vital factor of blood. 327 00:17:53,870 --> 00:17:59,110 Now this knife has not left the possession of this court since my client’s arrest. 328 00:17:59,140 --> 00:18:04,850 However, this clean, shiny blade can still tell a story of guilt or innocence. 329 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,380 Because as any biochemist knows, there is one infallible test 330 00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:12,290 which can determine whether an object of such porous metal 331 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,520 has ever tasted even one drop of blood. 332 00:18:22,630 --> 00:18:25,630 Your Honor, it’s my intention to prove once and for all 333 00:18:25,670 --> 00:18:29,040 whether I’m defending a boy falsely accused or a lying murderer. 334 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,080 I intend to dip the blade of this knife into a solution of reduced phenolphthalein. 335 00:18:37,110 --> 00:18:39,150 A reduced phenolphthalein is the most sensitive 336 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:41,520 of all blood detection chemicals. 337 00:18:41,550 --> 00:18:43,750 -If-- -One moment, Mr. Wedge. 338 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,890 You say that beaker contains what kind of solution? 339 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,490 Reduced phenolphthalein. 340 00:18:50,530 --> 00:18:53,960 And how can be certain that it contains this chemical? 341 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:56,600 Could be lemonade for all that we know. 342 00:18:58,530 --> 00:19:01,870 I have a statement from Dr. Hagerty of the Dugan Hospital. 343 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:04,110 Well, if you plan to produce expert testimony-- 344 00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:07,480 I plan only to make this test, Mr. Wickers. 345 00:19:07,510 --> 00:19:10,150 Your Honor, objection! 346 00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:12,010 [judge] State your objection, counsel. 347 00:19:12,010 --> 00:19:14,280 Defense is acting improperly. 348 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,320 The police laboratory has already made 349 00:19:16,350 --> 00:19:20,090 the standard test on the weapon and has found no bloodstains on the blade. 350 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:24,630 Prosecution has stated that the knife was obviously wiped clean. 351 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,530 Your Honor, the sensitivity of this test-- 352 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,700 At no time during this trial has the prosecution 353 00:19:31,730 --> 00:19:36,140 denied the absence of bloodstains on Benjamin Marino’s knife. 354 00:19:36,170 --> 00:19:41,080 Now, Mr. Wedge is trying to demonstrate something we already know. 355 00:19:41,110 --> 00:19:45,050 Using a test which is not accepted as standard laboratory procedure. 356 00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:49,220 I suggest that this so-call demonstration is nothing but pure theatrics, 357 00:19:49,250 --> 00:19:52,950 but with an intention to mislead 358 00:19:53,050 --> 00:19:55,890 and to confuse the jury. 359 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,530 Mr. Wedge, 360 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,000 the court must agree with the prosecution. 361 00:20:02,030 --> 00:20:05,170 You’re not an expert in forensic chemistry. 362 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,940 Mere corroboration of the police laboratory report is gratuitous evidence 363 00:20:10,970 --> 00:20:13,610 and must be considered inadmissible. 364 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,310 Your Honor, my client is willing to have me make this test. 365 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,780 The boy is aware of the chance he’s taking. 366 00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:23,390 I’m sorry, this demonstration is improper. 367 00:20:23,420 --> 00:20:25,220 Objection is sustained. 368 00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:28,360 You may not make the test, Mr. Wedge. 369 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,800 Mr. Wedge, if you please make your summation to the jury. 370 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,380 I believe that Benjy Marino is innocent. 371 00:20:56,420 --> 00:21:00,860 I believe he’s innocent because of a test that I was not permitted to make. 372 00:21:04,530 --> 00:21:07,260 This boy knew that if the results of the tests were negative 373 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,570 he would be condemned to prison for the rest of his life. 374 00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:13,740 And no guilty person would have allowed it. 375 00:21:27,850 --> 00:21:29,850 Foreman of the jury please rise. 376 00:21:32,590 --> 00:21:35,990 -Has the jury reached its verdict? -[foreman] We have, Your Honor. 377 00:21:37,090 --> 00:21:38,790 Please read it to the court. 378 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:42,430 We find the defendant 379 00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:44,000 not guilty. 380 00:21:57,510 --> 00:21:59,610 You can wait right here in the judge’s chamber. 381 00:21:59,650 --> 00:22:02,150 Your attorney will be with you in a moment. 382 00:22:07,690 --> 00:22:10,360 Bless you, for what you did, Mr. Wedge. 383 00:22:10,390 --> 00:22:12,060 I didn’t come here to be congratulated. 384 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:14,500 I wanted to see you both for another reason. 385 00:22:14,530 --> 00:22:17,300 The prosecuting attorney was right, Mr. Marino. What I did out there 386 00:22:17,330 --> 00:22:20,770 -was theatrics, pure theatrics. -I don’t understand. 387 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,510 I mean I didn’t want to make that test. 388 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:25,740 I would have had to if they hadn’t objected, 389 00:22:25,770 --> 00:22:27,780 but that was the chance I took. 390 00:22:27,810 --> 00:22:29,240 You didn’t want to? 391 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,780 Look, if this stuff had turned dark, 392 00:22:30,810 --> 00:22:32,480 it would have been all over for your boy. 393 00:22:32,510 --> 00:22:34,520 I was counting on the prosecution objection, 394 00:22:34,550 --> 00:22:36,280 I figured on it. 395 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,620 I also figured that the jury 396 00:22:37,650 --> 00:22:39,790 would be impressed in the right way. 397 00:22:39,820 --> 00:22:42,490 And that’s all I could hope for. 398 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,890 The knife would have been all right. I know it would. 399 00:22:47,730 --> 00:22:51,330 And how do you know, Mr. Marino? Because you’ve got faith? 400 00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:54,100 Yes. 401 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:55,470 In that case, there’s only one way 402 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,310 we can find out, isn’t there? 403 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:01,140 We’ll make the test now for our own sakes. 404 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:04,210 Why? What difference does it make now? 405 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,510 Because I want to know. That’s why! 406 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,800 Here. 407 00:23:22,830 --> 00:23:24,800 Make your test. 408 00:23:24,830 --> 00:23:28,370 Make your tests now, Mr. Wedge. 409 00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:43,250 Those of you with a passion for peripheral detail 410 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,220 would be interested in knowing 411 00:23:45,250 --> 00:23:47,490 that the actual killers, in this case, 412 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,460 were ultimately brought to justice. 413 00:23:50,490 --> 00:23:54,900 As for this next detail, it is a television commercial. 414 00:23:54,930 --> 00:23:58,000 An item for which I have a passion. 415 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:03,070 Frankly, I like them because I feel so wonderful when they’re over. 416 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:04,910 Which is when I shall next see you. 417 00:24:07,910 --> 00:24:12,410 I hope you have enjoyed singing along with Hitch. 418 00:24:12,450 --> 00:24:17,320 It is the best way I know to indulge in a community sing 419 00:24:17,350 --> 00:24:22,060 without actually having to rub elbows with one’s neighbors. 420 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:26,490 Next week, we should be back, myself and all the gang. 421 00:24:26,530 --> 00:24:29,500 Until then, goodnight.