1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:04,004 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:04,091 --> 00:00:07,181 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,268 --> 00:00:09,052 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,139 --> 00:00:11,881 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,968 --> 00:00:14,144 These are their stories. 6 00:00:36,819 --> 00:00:38,168 Dad? 7 00:00:40,475 --> 00:00:41,563 Dad? 8 00:00:41,998 --> 00:00:43,260 Dad? 9 00:00:43,347 --> 00:00:45,741 Oh, hi, hon. You're home already. 10 00:00:47,743 --> 00:00:49,005 Dad, you're going to burn the place down some night. 11 00:00:49,092 --> 00:00:50,963 Well, I got it all under control. 12 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:52,313 You're going to wake Mom up. 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:53,879 No, she's not gonna wake up. 14 00:00:53,966 --> 00:00:54,924 No, Dad, Dad. 15 00:00:55,011 --> 00:00:57,057 What's wet? What's wet? 16 00:00:57,144 --> 00:00:58,754 Come on, get up. 17 00:00:58,841 --> 00:00:59,755 What is... 18 00:00:59,842 --> 00:01:01,713 Mom! 19 00:01:05,456 --> 00:01:10,505 Mrs. Merrick, why don't we step into the other room so we can talk, all right? 20 00:01:15,553 --> 00:01:18,295 I was in here watching some movie. 21 00:01:19,470 --> 00:01:22,995 James Bond movie, the one with the painted girl. 22 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:25,215 Where was your wife? 23 00:01:25,302 --> 00:01:27,391 She goes to bed early. 24 00:01:28,044 --> 00:01:30,046 When did you hit the sack? 25 00:01:30,133 --> 00:01:32,004 After the movie. 26 00:01:32,092 --> 00:01:33,876 Did you talk to her? 27 00:01:34,833 --> 00:01:37,532 She was already asleep. 28 00:01:37,619 --> 00:01:40,665 And you're sure the front door was locked? 29 00:01:40,752 --> 00:01:41,971 I guess. 30 00:01:43,059 --> 00:01:44,887 She used to lock up, 31 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:50,371 and now I can't believe this. 32 00:01:51,850 --> 00:01:54,723 You just sit right there, Mr. Merrick. 33 00:01:57,291 --> 00:02:01,556 We're going to test for powder residue on his hands, all right? 34 00:02:01,643 --> 00:02:04,559 The door wasn't locked, sometimes Mom forgets. 35 00:02:04,646 --> 00:02:07,736 Your parents keep any money or jewelry around? 36 00:02:07,823 --> 00:02:09,390 No. 37 00:02:09,477 --> 00:02:11,696 My father paints apartments, they hardly get by. 38 00:02:11,783 --> 00:02:14,134 You keep a regular schedule at the hospital, right? 39 00:02:14,221 --> 00:02:16,310 Yeah. In the E.R. 40 00:02:16,397 --> 00:02:18,964 Did I tell you my father's deaf in one ear? 41 00:02:19,051 --> 00:02:22,054 So if he sleeps on his right side, he can't hear anything, 42 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:23,491 so if somebody was in the house... 43 00:02:23,578 --> 00:02:26,015 Yeah, he would've slept right through it. 44 00:02:26,102 --> 00:02:29,845 Ms. Merrick, how long has your father had a drinking problem? 45 00:02:29,932 --> 00:02:31,194 My father doesn't drink. 46 00:02:31,281 --> 00:02:33,240 Neither did I. 47 00:02:33,327 --> 00:02:36,678 Come on, his hands are shaking, he reeks of breath freshener. 48 00:02:39,855 --> 00:02:42,945 Why don't you tell us what really happened? 49 00:02:47,515 --> 00:02:50,257 The door was locked when I got home. 50 00:02:50,344 --> 00:02:54,391 Dad was asleep in bed. He'd had too much to drink. 51 00:02:55,349 --> 00:02:58,439 Mom was next to him, and she was dead. 52 00:02:59,657 --> 00:03:01,572 Did he say anything about how that happened? 53 00:03:01,659 --> 00:03:04,445 He said he couldn't remember anything. 54 00:03:07,056 --> 00:03:09,101 How did they get along? 55 00:03:09,189 --> 00:03:12,322 They fought, but Dad never hit her. 56 00:03:13,367 --> 00:03:15,499 He loves her. He didn't do this. 57 00:03:15,586 --> 00:03:17,109 That's why I got rid of the bottles, 58 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:19,851 because I knew what you would think. 59 00:03:28,033 --> 00:03:29,774 Daddy's little helper. 60 00:03:29,861 --> 00:03:32,603 Yeah, I used to have one like that. 61 00:04:21,609 --> 00:04:24,481 I keep telling you, I can't remember anything. 62 00:04:24,568 --> 00:04:26,831 That happen a lot, when you can't remember things? 63 00:04:26,918 --> 00:04:29,356 Yeah, but something like this I'd remember. 64 00:04:29,443 --> 00:04:32,750 We found gun powder residue on your hands. It has to be you. 65 00:04:32,837 --> 00:04:35,623 But I don't have a gun, so how could I have killed her? 66 00:04:35,710 --> 00:04:38,016 Well, that's what we're trying to find out. 67 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:40,280 So let's take it step by step. 68 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:42,325 You were watching Goldfingeron TV and drinking rye and ginger? 69 00:04:42,412 --> 00:04:44,109 You're right. I remember that. 70 00:04:44,196 --> 00:04:45,328 And your wife, she wasn't happy you were drinking, 71 00:04:45,415 --> 00:04:47,591 was she?Said it disgusted her. 72 00:04:47,678 --> 00:04:49,767 Well, what's it to her? You're a grownup. You can do whatever you want. 73 00:04:49,854 --> 00:04:52,030 Yeah, right, that's what I kept telling her. 74 00:04:52,117 --> 00:04:53,380 Yeah, fat lot of good it did. 75 00:04:53,467 --> 00:04:54,946 I bet she just never shut up about it, right? 76 00:04:55,033 --> 00:04:57,209 No, never. 77 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:59,211 Yeah, and you just want to sit there in peace and watch your movie. 78 00:04:59,299 --> 00:05:01,126 Uh-huh.So you go and you get the gun from its hiding place. 79 00:05:01,213 --> 00:05:02,867 Well, how could I do that if I don't have a gun? 80 00:05:02,954 --> 00:05:05,479 We already established you have a lot of blackouts. 81 00:05:05,566 --> 00:05:07,611 Yeah, I know. 82 00:05:07,698 --> 00:05:09,091 All right, you're standing there in front of the bed 83 00:05:09,178 --> 00:05:11,049 with the gun. 84 00:05:11,136 --> 00:05:13,138 Carol's flat on her back, snoring, her mouth wide open. 85 00:05:13,225 --> 00:05:14,183 You remember that? 86 00:05:14,270 --> 00:05:15,358 Yeah, I remember that. 87 00:05:15,445 --> 00:05:16,925 And you pulled the trigger. 88 00:05:17,752 --> 00:05:18,883 No. 89 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:23,540 I don't remember. 90 00:05:23,627 --> 00:05:24,933 That's the way it happened, isn't it? 91 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:26,021 I don't know. 92 00:05:26,108 --> 00:05:27,414 Yeah, come on. 93 00:05:28,066 --> 00:05:29,285 I don't... 94 00:05:29,372 --> 00:05:31,113 I don't remember. 95 00:05:32,462 --> 00:05:34,072 I don't know. 96 00:05:34,159 --> 00:05:35,813 I don't remember. 97 00:05:39,382 --> 00:05:43,038 Carol Merrick called in a complaint against him two years ago. 98 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:46,998 She had his handprint on her face. She dropped the charges. 99 00:05:47,085 --> 00:05:48,391 Nothing new there. 100 00:05:48,478 --> 00:05:49,914 We find the gun, it's over. 101 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:52,830 CSU's opening the drain pipes as we speak. 102 00:05:52,917 --> 00:05:55,964 The canvass is batting zero with the neighbors. No one heard a shot. 103 00:05:56,051 --> 00:05:58,183 We got to come up with something to turn him around. 104 00:05:58,270 --> 00:06:00,447 As soon as he sobers up, he's going to wonder why we haven't booked him. 105 00:06:00,534 --> 00:06:02,971 Yeah, and figure out we were pulling his chain about the powder residue. 106 00:06:03,058 --> 00:06:05,669 M.E. recovered a nine millimeter slug out of Carol Merrick. 107 00:06:05,756 --> 00:06:08,063 They sent it to Ballistics. 108 00:06:12,067 --> 00:06:16,245 Six with a right twist. Italian steel, Beretta 92-series. 109 00:06:16,332 --> 00:06:17,768 Big gun. 110 00:06:17,855 --> 00:06:19,640 Even if he fired it from across the bedroom, 111 00:06:19,727 --> 00:06:21,337 the slug should've gone clear through. 112 00:06:21,424 --> 00:06:22,730 Through the headboard into the wall. 113 00:06:22,817 --> 00:06:24,732 Well, maybe the bullet had a short load. 114 00:06:24,819 --> 00:06:26,473 They don't quality-test every one of these at the factory. 115 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:27,822 Still would've exited the skull. 116 00:06:27,909 --> 00:06:29,954 We did a muzzle- to-first-surface test, 117 00:06:30,041 --> 00:06:33,784 this little piggy was fired from 50-100 yards away. 118 00:06:33,871 --> 00:06:35,960 Unless Merrick played a bank shot around the room 119 00:06:36,047 --> 00:06:38,398 before it hit her, we got a problem. 120 00:06:38,485 --> 00:06:41,488 Well, it didn't come through a brick wall, and I didn't see any broken windows. 121 00:06:41,575 --> 00:06:44,621 But you weren't the first one at the scene. 122 00:06:44,708 --> 00:06:46,623 You got the hump that did it, 123 00:06:46,710 --> 00:06:48,451 does it matter if he sleeps with the windows open or closed? 124 00:06:48,538 --> 00:06:52,716 If it didn't, we wouldn't be keeping you from your busy schedule. 125 00:06:53,717 --> 00:06:55,980 It was closed.CURTIS: Really? 126 00:06:56,067 --> 00:06:58,156 Well, the daughter told us her parents had a running battle on the subject. 127 00:06:58,243 --> 00:06:59,854 Mr. Merrick liked it open. 128 00:06:59,941 --> 00:07:01,986 Well, I guess that night he lost. 129 00:07:02,073 --> 00:07:03,814 You know what, Wheeler? 130 00:07:03,901 --> 00:07:06,208 We got a couple of unknown prints off the window. 131 00:07:06,295 --> 00:07:07,688 We find they match yours... 132 00:07:07,775 --> 00:07:09,037 All right, all right, all right. Look, look, look, 133 00:07:09,124 --> 00:07:10,908 I've been coming off of this flu thing. 134 00:07:10,995 --> 00:07:13,911 The room was freezing. The window was wide open. I closed it. 135 00:07:13,998 --> 00:07:17,480 You know, it would've been nice if you included that in your report. 136 00:07:17,567 --> 00:07:19,308 Yeah, it would've. 137 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:21,832 Thanks for the dog. 138 00:07:21,919 --> 00:07:25,314 First, the M.E. ran a probe into the wound. That gives us our first calculations. 139 00:07:25,401 --> 00:07:27,534 Then we fire a test shot into a skull-like object. 140 00:07:27,621 --> 00:07:29,013 That gives us the angle of the trajectory. 141 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:30,362 Here, you want to see what we did? 142 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:32,321 I'll give it to Mr. Peabody here. 143 00:07:32,408 --> 00:07:34,410 Yeah, you take in the velocity, the drop rate. 144 00:07:34,497 --> 00:07:37,239 Yeah, I got that. Fast-forward, please. 145 00:07:37,935 --> 00:07:39,197 That roof. 146 00:07:40,851 --> 00:07:43,463 We get this scum up here all the time. 147 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:46,204 Smoking dope, having sex, drinking. 148 00:07:46,291 --> 00:07:49,207 I call the cops, they're too busy. I try to keep them out. 149 00:07:49,294 --> 00:07:52,123 I put a new padlock on the door. They don't care. 150 00:07:52,210 --> 00:07:54,256 What about last night? 151 00:07:54,343 --> 00:07:56,432 I was fixing the boiler. I didn't come up for air until midnight. 152 00:07:57,607 --> 00:07:59,957 You hear that? 153 00:08:00,044 --> 00:08:03,831 You got animals taking drugs and killing the weak. 154 00:08:03,918 --> 00:08:05,876 See, I'm taking my son Eddie to Santo Domingo 155 00:08:05,963 --> 00:08:07,443 to live with his grandmother. 156 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:09,097 I don't want him dying here. 157 00:08:09,184 --> 00:08:12,274 Lennie, nine mil, just to the right of the line of fire 158 00:08:12,361 --> 00:08:14,537 into the Merrick's place. 159 00:08:14,624 --> 00:08:16,147 There's also some blood drops on the ground near the edge of the roof. 160 00:08:16,234 --> 00:08:18,019 Yeah, you play with guns, you're going to get hurt. 161 00:08:18,106 --> 00:08:19,890 We got a dozen sets of footprints around your shooter's position, 162 00:08:19,977 --> 00:08:23,241 running shoes, boots, all sizes, kids to grownups. 163 00:08:23,328 --> 00:08:26,114 Eddie, you ever come up here with your friends? 164 00:08:26,201 --> 00:08:27,419 No. 165 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:29,117 My dad says it's too dangerous. 166 00:08:29,204 --> 00:08:31,554 But you've seen other kids come up here, right? 167 00:08:31,641 --> 00:08:32,816 Sometimes. 168 00:08:32,903 --> 00:08:34,862 How about last night? 169 00:08:35,558 --> 00:08:37,125 Answer the man. 170 00:08:37,212 --> 00:08:41,085 I saw a couple of older kids, but they don't live here. 171 00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:42,783 You know them? 172 00:08:42,870 --> 00:08:44,959 I just seen them around at Mr. Reyes' bodega. 173 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:47,614 What do they look like? 174 00:08:47,701 --> 00:08:50,965 One's a black kid, the other one's white, 175 00:08:51,052 --> 00:08:54,925 he had on a red baseball hat, you know, backwards. 176 00:08:55,012 --> 00:08:57,319 The black kid called him Nacho. 177 00:08:57,406 --> 00:09:00,365 The only nachos around here are for sale, man. What'd he do? 178 00:09:00,452 --> 00:09:02,803 Nothing, it's what he might've seen somebody else do. 179 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:05,588 A white kid with a red cap turned backwards? 180 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:07,416 Yeah, about 12 or 13. 181 00:09:09,940 --> 00:09:12,943 If he wasn't wearing a red cap turned backwards, maybe I would've noticed him. 182 00:09:13,030 --> 00:09:15,250 Sorry.All right, thanks. 183 00:09:17,078 --> 00:09:19,384 Kids, they're like roaches, for every one you see, 184 00:09:19,471 --> 00:09:21,473 there's a million you don't, but they're out there. 185 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:24,868 Well, try to stay focused on this one kid, okay, Monty? 186 00:09:24,955 --> 00:09:27,915 He's a white boy, early teens. 187 00:09:28,002 --> 00:09:29,699 This him? 188 00:09:29,786 --> 00:09:32,876 No, that's my partner. This kid's name is Nacho. 189 00:09:32,963 --> 00:09:34,878 Nacho?Yeah, like the snack. 190 00:09:34,965 --> 00:09:36,706 Yeah, yeah, I know Nacho. 191 00:09:36,793 --> 00:09:39,274 He gave me a dollar once to help him carry his groceries home. 192 00:09:39,361 --> 00:09:41,276 Where's home?Two blocks. 193 00:09:41,363 --> 00:09:44,975 Ninth Street, fourth floor, no elevator, nearly killed me. 194 00:09:45,062 --> 00:09:46,455 You remember what his name is? 195 00:09:46,542 --> 00:09:48,979 Nacho, like you said. 196 00:09:49,066 --> 00:09:51,025 He got a fine-looking mama. 197 00:09:51,112 --> 00:09:53,157 Listen, you take us to where she lives, 198 00:09:53,244 --> 00:09:56,117 and maybe you can buy her some flowers, huh? 199 00:10:01,296 --> 00:10:04,821 I don't know where Lonnie is. He must be out with his friends. 200 00:10:04,908 --> 00:10:06,867 What do you want with him? 201 00:10:06,954 --> 00:10:09,521 He may be a witness to a crime. We just want to talk to him. 202 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:12,524 Well, leave your number. When he gets home, we'll call you. 203 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:14,004 It's a little more urgent than that. 204 00:10:14,091 --> 00:10:16,006 Where does he go when he's out with his friends? 205 00:10:16,093 --> 00:10:17,486 I don't get his appointment schedule. 206 00:10:17,573 --> 00:10:19,357 He's around, in the neighborhood. 207 00:10:19,444 --> 00:10:21,403 Fine, we'll just wait here. 208 00:10:21,490 --> 00:10:23,710 Come on, guys, I got to go now. 209 00:10:23,797 --> 00:10:28,453 See, we really hate to keep you from your errands, Ms. Rickman. 210 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:31,892 Hey, this number with the pager's prefix, that's Lonnie's? 211 00:10:31,979 --> 00:10:34,024 No.What's the "L" stand for? 212 00:10:34,111 --> 00:10:37,114 You know somebody else with a pager? Maybe your dope connection? 213 00:10:37,201 --> 00:10:39,943 Look, sweetheart, we're not gonna hurt your son. 214 00:10:40,030 --> 00:10:43,555 So why don't you just do us all a favor and page him, huh? 215 00:10:43,643 --> 00:10:44,905 It's just for emergencies. 216 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:47,908 Guess what? You have an emergency. 217 00:10:50,432 --> 00:10:54,044 When he calls back, tell him to come home right away. 218 00:11:02,487 --> 00:11:03,880 Mom, what's the matter? What are they doing here? 219 00:11:03,967 --> 00:11:05,969 They just have some questions. 220 00:11:06,056 --> 00:11:08,363 I'm Detective Lennie Briscoe. This is my partner, Rey Curtis. 221 00:11:08,450 --> 00:11:10,278 Want to take a seat? 222 00:11:17,502 --> 00:11:21,419 So, they call you Nacho because that's what you like to eat? 223 00:11:22,551 --> 00:11:25,467 This is what you want to know? 224 00:11:25,554 --> 00:11:28,426 Some people saw you going up on a roof over on Seventh 225 00:11:28,513 --> 00:11:31,038 a couple of nights ago between 11:00 and midnight. 226 00:11:31,125 --> 00:11:32,866 We just want to know what you saw up there. 227 00:11:32,953 --> 00:11:34,650 I wasn't up on any roof. 228 00:11:34,737 --> 00:11:36,391 Well, maybe you weren't supposed to be up there, 229 00:11:36,478 --> 00:11:38,785 but nobody's making a big deal out of that, see? 230 00:11:38,872 --> 00:11:42,919 You're here because it's no big deal. I wasn't there, okay? 231 00:11:43,572 --> 00:11:45,182 So where were you? 232 00:11:45,269 --> 00:11:46,923 I was shooting hoops over in Tompkins Square 233 00:11:47,010 --> 00:11:49,317 with my partner Clayton. 234 00:11:49,404 --> 00:11:50,361 What's his last name? 235 00:11:50,448 --> 00:11:52,276 Clayton Doyle. 236 00:11:52,363 --> 00:11:53,495 So you and Clayton were shooting hoops till midnight? 237 00:11:53,582 --> 00:11:54,583 What, on a school night? 238 00:11:54,670 --> 00:11:55,715 Yep. 239 00:11:55,802 --> 00:11:58,630 After we did our homework. 240 00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,807 Look, Lonnie, if you're lying 'cause you're scared, then... 241 00:12:00,894 --> 00:12:03,287 I'm not lying. I'm not scared of anything, and I'm not scared of you. 242 00:12:03,374 --> 00:12:05,289 Okay, all right, all right, take it easy. 243 00:12:05,376 --> 00:12:07,596 Hey, you take it easy! 244 00:12:07,683 --> 00:12:10,164 I know what you did. You come down here to hassle my mom so she calls me. 245 00:12:10,251 --> 00:12:11,643 Who the hell do you think you are? 246 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:13,167 You got no right to do that to her. 247 00:12:13,254 --> 00:12:15,038 Now, get out of here!Sit down. 248 00:12:15,125 --> 00:12:16,997 Hey!BRISCOE: Rey, Rey. 249 00:12:17,780 --> 00:12:19,869 Listen to me. 250 00:12:19,956 --> 00:12:23,786 You can BS us all you want, but we know you were up on that roof. 251 00:12:23,873 --> 00:12:25,614 Yeah, you know jack. 252 00:12:25,701 --> 00:12:29,313 We don't have to talk to you, so why don't you just leave? 253 00:12:32,621 --> 00:12:34,754 There's one kid who doesn't want to grow up to be a cop. 254 00:12:34,841 --> 00:12:37,931 If he grows up. You see the burn marks on his fingers? 255 00:12:38,018 --> 00:12:40,063 Yeah, kid's on the pipe. 256 00:12:40,150 --> 00:12:42,587 I tell you what, Rey. That kid's not a witness. 257 00:12:42,674 --> 00:12:44,372 He's the shooter. 258 00:12:48,724 --> 00:12:50,334 He's 13 and smokes crack. 259 00:12:50,421 --> 00:12:52,206 Or he's just clumsy with matches. 260 00:12:52,293 --> 00:12:54,556 Anyway, it looks like it's an old family tradition. 261 00:12:54,643 --> 00:12:56,123 And that makes him Billy the Kid? 262 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:57,994 Matches the description, the street name fits. 263 00:12:58,081 --> 00:12:59,779 Well, that puts him on the roof, period. 264 00:12:59,866 --> 00:13:01,389 If he saw someone up there waving a gun, 265 00:13:01,476 --> 00:13:03,695 he might have an incentive to keep his mouth shut. 266 00:13:03,783 --> 00:13:05,088 Well, he was seen with a black kid, 267 00:13:05,175 --> 00:13:06,960 could be this Clayton he mentioned. 268 00:13:07,047 --> 00:13:08,831 Yeah, the one he supposedly cracked the books with. 269 00:13:08,918 --> 00:13:10,354 I don't think we're going to find him at the library. 270 00:13:10,441 --> 00:13:12,095 Well, maybe they ditched the same classes. 271 00:13:12,182 --> 00:13:15,055 Check with their school. Find the kid. 272 00:13:18,362 --> 00:13:21,713 We're not telling you anything till we know why you want him. 273 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:24,455 Well, Lonnie Rickman told us he was with Clayton on Monday night. 274 00:13:24,542 --> 00:13:25,587 We just want to verify that. 275 00:13:25,674 --> 00:13:28,111 Lonnie Rickman? What's he done? 276 00:13:28,198 --> 00:13:29,721 We're not sure yet. 277 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:31,723 Where was your son Monday night? 278 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:34,422 First, answer my question. Why you looking at Lonnie Rickman? 279 00:13:34,509 --> 00:13:37,338 He may have been involved in a shooting on Seventh Street. 280 00:13:37,425 --> 00:13:39,253 Oh, my God. 281 00:13:39,340 --> 00:13:43,039 Now, how about answering my question? 282 00:13:43,126 --> 00:13:45,433 Clayton had told us he was playing basketball. 283 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:46,521 And was he? 284 00:13:46,608 --> 00:13:48,610 I don't know. 285 00:13:48,697 --> 00:13:52,614 Came home, he had a cut on the side of his head just above his ear. 286 00:13:52,701 --> 00:13:55,530 Told us he got it jumping over the fence at the playground. 287 00:13:55,617 --> 00:13:57,053 You didn't believe him? 288 00:13:57,140 --> 00:13:59,186 Well, he was shaking, but he wouldn't tell us why. 289 00:13:59,273 --> 00:14:01,449 But we thought somebody might have hurt him. 290 00:14:01,536 --> 00:14:03,494 Meaning Lonnie Rickman? 291 00:14:03,581 --> 00:14:05,496 That boy's always been getting Clayton in trouble at school. 292 00:14:05,583 --> 00:14:08,935 Cutting class, being kept after, kid stuff. 293 00:14:09,587 --> 00:14:10,588 But now... 294 00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:12,416 But now it's what? 295 00:14:14,723 --> 00:14:18,727 Couple of weeks ago, Luanne found $300 in Clayton's pocket. 296 00:14:18,814 --> 00:14:22,078 Said he found it on the street. 297 00:14:22,165 --> 00:14:26,213 He's peddling dope, him and that boy Lonnie. 298 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:29,042 We weren't anywhere near that roof. We were shooting hoops. 299 00:14:29,129 --> 00:14:30,957 Is that right? 300 00:14:31,044 --> 00:14:33,394 Well, your friend Lonnie told me you were at the movies. 301 00:14:33,481 --> 00:14:35,265 That is some bull... 302 00:14:35,352 --> 00:14:36,005 You mind your mouth, if you know what's good for you. 303 00:14:36,092 --> 00:14:37,964 Mr. Doyle, please. 304 00:14:42,316 --> 00:14:43,404 Clayton. 305 00:14:45,406 --> 00:14:48,583 You know about blood types, right? Like type A, type B? 306 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:50,585 Yeah, I seen it on TV. 307 00:14:50,672 --> 00:14:53,849 Yeah, well we got your blood type from your family doctor, 308 00:14:53,936 --> 00:14:55,503 and our lab is matching it up now 309 00:14:55,590 --> 00:14:58,680 against the blood that we found up on that roof. 310 00:14:58,767 --> 00:15:03,119 Matter of fact, their report should be on my desk right about now. 311 00:15:03,206 --> 00:15:05,165 Think I'll go check. 312 00:15:10,605 --> 00:15:13,695 Listen, Clayton, I know you want to do the right thing. 313 00:15:13,782 --> 00:15:15,958 What have you got in there that looks like it might be a lab report? 314 00:15:16,045 --> 00:15:19,875 Well, take your pick. An expense report or a booking sheet. 315 00:15:19,962 --> 00:15:22,008 Tell the truth now, Clayton. 316 00:15:22,095 --> 00:15:25,359 You wait for him to come back with those test results, it's over. 317 00:15:25,446 --> 00:15:27,274 You're going to be in the same boat as Lonnie. 318 00:15:27,361 --> 00:15:30,494 For God's sake, Clayton, tell them what they want to know. 319 00:15:30,581 --> 00:15:32,496 You little punk! You show your mother respect! 320 00:15:32,583 --> 00:15:33,802 Hey, you're hurting me!Frank! Frank! 321 00:15:33,889 --> 00:15:35,760 You're going to tell the truth! 322 00:15:35,847 --> 00:15:37,675 You're not going to ruin your life for some dope dealer! 323 00:15:37,762 --> 00:15:39,851 Stop, stop!He can't let him do that. 324 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:41,114 Tell the truth!CLAYTON: Stop! You're hurting me! 325 00:15:41,201 --> 00:15:43,072 Detective Curtis! 326 00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:47,642 Take Mr. Doyle outside now. 327 00:15:59,306 --> 00:16:02,135 Listen, young man, this has gone on long enough. 328 00:16:02,222 --> 00:16:06,661 Now, you're going to tell me what Lonnie did to you up on that roof. 329 00:16:12,275 --> 00:16:14,190 He put a gun to my head. 330 00:16:14,277 --> 00:16:15,278 Why? 331 00:16:15,365 --> 00:16:17,541 'Cause Ross told him to. 332 00:16:17,628 --> 00:16:19,239 Ross who? 333 00:16:19,326 --> 00:16:22,720 Ross Morales. I didn't want to be in his crew no more. 334 00:16:22,807 --> 00:16:24,592 Selling dope?Yes. 335 00:16:24,679 --> 00:16:27,464 Lonnie got me started. I wanted to quit, though. 336 00:16:27,551 --> 00:16:29,771 Lonnie did say Ross told him to kill me. 337 00:16:29,858 --> 00:16:33,905 He shot once and just missed, and that's how I got hurt. 338 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:37,648 And when he pulled the trigger again, the gun jammed. 339 00:16:37,735 --> 00:16:39,694 He was gonna kill you? 340 00:16:41,870 --> 00:16:43,698 That's what he said. 341 00:16:45,178 --> 00:16:48,050 Roscoe Morales, a.k.a. Ross Morales. 342 00:16:48,137 --> 00:16:51,532 Arrests for battery, possession, carrying a concealed weapon. 343 00:16:51,619 --> 00:16:54,578 Investigated for two shootings, one fatal. 344 00:16:54,665 --> 00:16:57,712 Never charged. And he's all of 22. 345 00:16:57,799 --> 00:16:59,627 You talk to the D.A. about murder charges? 346 00:16:59,714 --> 00:17:02,760 Yeah, they okayed it against Lonnie, but not Morales. 347 00:17:02,847 --> 00:17:04,197 Well, you heard Clayton. 348 00:17:04,284 --> 00:17:06,155 Lonnie told him Morales put him up to it. 349 00:17:06,242 --> 00:17:09,245 Well, it's a double-hearsay, not evidence. 350 00:17:09,332 --> 00:17:12,553 Here's the paper on the boy. 351 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,209 Lennie, give me a minute with Detective Curtis? 352 00:17:22,084 --> 00:17:23,607 Your conduct was unacceptable. 353 00:17:23,694 --> 00:17:25,783 Why? 'Cause I let a father discipline his kid? 354 00:17:25,870 --> 00:17:29,483 No one lays a hand on a suspect in my interrogation room. 355 00:17:29,570 --> 00:17:32,877 Now, that man was out of control. It was up to you to manage it. 356 00:17:32,964 --> 00:17:35,924 Well, that kid was out of control. And you know what scares me? 357 00:17:36,011 --> 00:17:38,144 That somebody like that can go to school with my daughter. 358 00:17:38,231 --> 00:17:40,972 You think you're the only one who loses sleep? 359 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:46,282 Look, if you don't like the way this place is run, transfer. 360 00:17:54,595 --> 00:17:57,511 You were out of line, Rey, just accept it and move on. 361 00:17:57,598 --> 00:18:00,514 As a cop, okay, I should've stepped in, but as a parent? 362 00:18:00,601 --> 00:18:02,081 Man, that kid was selling crack. 363 00:18:02,168 --> 00:18:05,214 That rates a big hug and a trip to Disneyland? 364 00:18:05,301 --> 00:18:06,563 This really burns you, huh? 365 00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:07,999 Hell, yes. 366 00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:09,044 The guy's fighting for his kid's life. 367 00:18:09,131 --> 00:18:10,306 What, by beating up on him? 368 00:18:10,393 --> 00:18:12,221 If it comes to that. 369 00:18:12,308 --> 00:18:14,136 I'm not one of those parents who has a problem 370 00:18:14,223 --> 00:18:16,051 taking a strong stand against drugs. I never took drugs, 371 00:18:16,138 --> 00:18:18,445 and I don't feel like a hypocrite telling my kids not to. 372 00:18:18,532 --> 00:18:21,100 So if I tell my kids not to drink, that makes me a hypocrite? 373 00:18:21,187 --> 00:18:23,580 Whatever, Lennie. I don't want to get into personalities. 374 00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:26,409 Now I got Pat Buchanan for a partner. 375 00:18:26,496 --> 00:18:27,845 Hello, again, Cassie. 376 00:18:27,932 --> 00:18:28,890 Don't you people have phones? 377 00:18:28,977 --> 00:18:29,978 We want to see Lonnie. 378 00:18:30,065 --> 00:18:31,284 He's not here. 379 00:18:31,371 --> 00:18:33,895 We want to see for ourselves. We insist. 380 00:18:40,945 --> 00:18:43,426 Look all you want. He's not here. 381 00:18:48,736 --> 00:18:51,391 It's okay, they're homicide cops. 382 00:18:51,913 --> 00:18:53,828 All right, then. 383 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:55,743 I'll see you around. 384 00:18:59,703 --> 00:19:01,096 A new acquaintance? 385 00:19:01,183 --> 00:19:02,793 Whatever. 386 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,534 Look, Lonnie's not here. I don't know where he went, 387 00:19:04,621 --> 00:19:06,580 and the batteries died in his beeper. 388 00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:09,322 The story never changes with you, does it? 389 00:19:09,409 --> 00:19:13,239 I stick with what works. Now, goodbye. 390 00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:16,155 I'll get a unit to sit outside, in case the kid turns up. 391 00:19:16,242 --> 00:19:18,418 Kid's selling crack, mom's turning tricks, 392 00:19:18,505 --> 00:19:20,463 this is one family Norman Rockwell never met. 393 00:19:20,550 --> 00:19:22,639 Hey, we arrest Lonnie, we'll be doing him a favor. 394 00:19:22,726 --> 00:19:26,252 The kid worked for Ross Morales. We tap Morales, maybe we get lucky. 395 00:19:26,339 --> 00:19:28,732 Funny, I didn't see Morales in the business directory. 396 00:19:28,819 --> 00:19:31,387 Clayton would know where he hangs his shingle. 397 00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:37,088 According to our informant, Morales has been operating 398 00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:38,307 out of a ground floor apartment 399 00:19:38,394 --> 00:19:40,657 on 11th Street for the past month. 400 00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:43,225 Now, twice a day, he comes by with Lonnie Rickman to collect the receipts. 401 00:19:43,312 --> 00:19:45,009 We're aiming for a 9:00 p.m. pickup. 402 00:19:45,096 --> 00:19:46,837 They're both considered dangerous. 403 00:19:46,924 --> 00:19:49,405 We've decided to take them down inside the building, 404 00:19:49,492 --> 00:19:50,537 the super's cooperating. 405 00:19:50,624 --> 00:19:52,191 You want me inside? 406 00:19:52,278 --> 00:19:54,932 No, I need you outside with Morrissey to ID Lonnie. 407 00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:58,414 Wilson and Dickerson will take the back. Any questions? 408 00:19:58,501 --> 00:20:00,982 Yeah, who's got a deck of cards? 409 00:20:05,682 --> 00:20:06,901 Come on. 410 00:20:06,988 --> 00:20:08,424 Number one? 411 00:20:09,382 --> 00:20:11,253 Number one. 412 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:14,038 It's 10 past, maybe they won't show. 413 00:20:14,909 --> 00:20:17,433 Give it another 30. 414 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,566 Ten minutes. Is he always that anal? 415 00:20:19,653 --> 00:20:21,350 Hey, I need somebody around like him, 416 00:20:21,437 --> 00:20:22,699 otherwise I'd never get out of bed. 417 00:20:22,786 --> 00:20:25,136 Well, chill him out, please. 418 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,355 You know me. 419 00:20:26,442 --> 00:20:29,315 "I play it cool, I dig all jive 420 00:20:29,402 --> 00:20:31,665 "That's the reason I stay alive" 421 00:20:31,752 --> 00:20:36,931 "My motto, as I live and learn Is dig and be dug in return" 422 00:20:37,018 --> 00:20:39,977 You read Langston Hughes on a men's room wall? 423 00:20:40,064 --> 00:20:42,328 Back when I was a beatnik for about five minutes, 424 00:20:42,415 --> 00:20:45,156 it used to work pretty good on the Jewish girls from Riverdale. 425 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:48,595 It does pretty good with girls from Washington Heights. 426 00:20:48,682 --> 00:20:51,598 Number one, they're coming in. 427 00:21:07,178 --> 00:21:08,789 Police! Freeze! 428 00:21:10,051 --> 00:21:11,052 All right, then! 429 00:21:11,139 --> 00:21:12,271 It wasn't me! Help! 430 00:21:12,358 --> 00:21:13,315 Get over here! 431 00:21:13,402 --> 00:21:15,578 Help me! Get off me! 432 00:21:17,363 --> 00:21:19,539 Get down! Get back here! 433 00:21:20,888 --> 00:21:22,585 Get up! Get up! 434 00:21:27,808 --> 00:21:30,767 All right, this one's clean. No weapon. 435 00:21:30,854 --> 00:21:33,509 Same here. Okay, turn around. 436 00:21:33,596 --> 00:21:36,556 What do we got, huh? What do we got? 437 00:21:36,817 --> 00:21:37,905 Oh! 438 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,864 Three vials of rock, okay. 439 00:21:40,951 --> 00:21:43,606 Roscoe Morales, you're under arrest for possession. 440 00:21:43,693 --> 00:21:45,216 Lonnie Rickman, you're under arrest 441 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:46,696 for the murder of Carol Merrick 442 00:21:46,783 --> 00:21:48,698 and the attempted murder of Clayton Doyle. 443 00:21:48,785 --> 00:21:50,396 Get them out of here! 444 00:21:50,483 --> 00:21:52,267 You have the right to remain silent. 445 00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:53,964 Anything you do say can and will be used against you... 446 00:21:56,663 --> 00:21:58,055 This is an outrageous abuse of authority. 447 00:21:58,142 --> 00:21:59,970 I am taking this to the Civilian Review Board. 448 00:22:00,057 --> 00:22:03,409 You say police brutality. We say resisting arrest. 449 00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:06,237 I didn't resist nothing. I thought y'all was heisting me. 450 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:08,762 And where's my ice pack? I been waiting here for an hour. 451 00:22:08,849 --> 00:22:11,242 They didn't tell you? Somebody stole our ice cube trays. 452 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:14,028 Come on, man, I got baseballs growing down here. 453 00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:16,378 I'll lend you my jock 454 00:22:16,465 --> 00:22:18,772 as soon as we get this thing with you and Lonnie Rickman straightened out. 455 00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:21,340 Look, the kid just follows me around like I'm his big brother. 456 00:22:21,427 --> 00:22:23,429 Yeah. The big brother who uses him 457 00:22:23,516 --> 00:22:25,431 to keep his other employees in line. 458 00:22:25,518 --> 00:22:28,477 Mr. Morales is a part-time auto mechanic. He has no employees. 459 00:22:28,564 --> 00:22:30,392 He does as a full-time crack dealer. 460 00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:32,220 I don't know anything about that. 461 00:22:32,307 --> 00:22:35,919 Let me guess, you were at that apartment to visit a sick friend? 462 00:22:36,006 --> 00:22:38,269 Yeah, that's right. 463 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:39,749 You can't connect him to any illegal activity occurring in that apartment. 464 00:22:39,836 --> 00:22:41,577 We've got Clayton Doyle to do that. 465 00:22:41,664 --> 00:22:43,797 And I would be very surprised 466 00:22:43,884 --> 00:22:45,494 if your witness has any first-hand knowledge of my client's actions. 467 00:22:45,581 --> 00:22:48,889 What about the three vials of crack we found in his pocket? 468 00:22:48,976 --> 00:22:50,499 His dry cleaner left them there? 469 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:53,415 Look, I got a substance abuse problem. 470 00:22:53,502 --> 00:22:55,591 I'm working on it. 471 00:22:55,678 --> 00:22:59,813 When you sent Lonnie Rickman up on that roof with a gun to kill Clayton Doyle, 472 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:02,903 you became liable for everything he did with that gun, 473 00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:05,775 which includes shooting Carol Merrick. 474 00:23:08,604 --> 00:23:10,171 Work on that. 475 00:23:15,611 --> 00:23:16,699 Have a seat. 476 00:23:16,786 --> 00:23:18,701 How long is this gonna take? 477 00:23:18,788 --> 00:23:21,574 First of all, I want to make sure that you both understand, 478 00:23:21,661 --> 00:23:24,011 Lonnie has the right to have an attorney present. 479 00:23:24,098 --> 00:23:27,362 He doesn't need a lawyer. He'll tell you whatever you want to know. 480 00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:30,626 Lonnie, are you sure you don't want one? 481 00:23:30,713 --> 00:23:32,628 Yeah.CURTIS: Okay. 482 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,326 We talked to Clayton Doyle. 483 00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:37,503 He told us what happened on that rooftop. 484 00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:40,070 We'd like to hear your version. 485 00:23:40,157 --> 00:23:41,768 Nothing to say. 486 00:23:42,986 --> 00:23:44,945 Well, he told us you worked for Ross Morales, 487 00:23:45,032 --> 00:23:47,295 and that Morales told you to kill him. 488 00:23:54,258 --> 00:23:55,912 All right, let me explain something to you, Lonnie. 489 00:23:55,999 --> 00:23:57,566 We've got an eyewitness who saw you go up 490 00:23:57,653 --> 00:23:59,699 on that roof 15 minutes before the shooting, 491 00:23:59,786 --> 00:24:02,353 so we got you dead to rights for murder. 492 00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,268 But if Morales told you to kill Clayton, 493 00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:07,358 if you were acting on his orders, 494 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,578 that changes everything. 495 00:24:11,058 --> 00:24:12,755 What do you mean, it changes everything? 496 00:24:12,842 --> 00:24:14,714 He'll plead to a lesser charge. 497 00:24:14,801 --> 00:24:18,457 We'll agree to a reduced sentence, if you give us Morales. 498 00:24:18,544 --> 00:24:20,633 You understand, Lonnie? 499 00:24:21,721 --> 00:24:24,245 Any time you're ready, little man. 500 00:24:25,551 --> 00:24:27,901 Go on, tell them what you did. 501 00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:34,647 Clayton's lying. I don't work for Morales, 502 00:24:34,734 --> 00:24:36,910 and I wasn't gonna cap Clayton. 503 00:24:36,997 --> 00:24:38,694 I took him on the roof on my own account, 504 00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:41,871 just to scare him, because he pissed me off. 505 00:24:41,958 --> 00:24:45,005 I busted that bullet, and nobody else was behind it. 506 00:24:45,092 --> 00:24:46,267 Just me. 507 00:24:49,052 --> 00:24:50,140 Okay. 508 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,840 We'll be back in a few minutes. 509 00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:58,061 Either Morales was pulling the strings or he wasn't. 510 00:24:58,148 --> 00:24:59,759 This kid walks on his own two feet. 511 00:24:59,846 --> 00:25:02,239 This kid changed his own diapers, too. 512 00:25:02,326 --> 00:25:04,590 It's moot, as long as he says he acted on his own, 513 00:25:04,677 --> 00:25:06,156 I doubt we'll convince a jury otherwise. 514 00:25:06,243 --> 00:25:08,768 So we send Mr. Morales home in a limo? 515 00:25:08,855 --> 00:25:12,598 He stays. Resisting arrest, possession with intent. 516 00:25:18,691 --> 00:25:23,913 "Case number 456020. People v. Lonnie Rickman. 517 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,395 "The charge is Murder in the Second Degree." 518 00:25:30,354 --> 00:25:32,269 Your plea, Mr. Rickman? 519 00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:34,445 Not guilty. 520 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,622 Your Honor, the People ask 521 00:25:36,709 --> 00:25:38,798 that the defendant be remanded without bail to the youth authority. 522 00:25:38,885 --> 00:25:40,451 Without objection, Your Honor. 523 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:41,540 Done. 524 00:25:41,627 --> 00:25:43,629 Goodbye, Mr. Rickman. 525 00:25:51,201 --> 00:25:53,160 Does Lonnie know there's no MTV where he's going? 526 00:25:53,247 --> 00:25:55,728 There's no Cassie Rickman. That sold it to me. 527 00:25:55,815 --> 00:25:57,643 Me, too. We're off to a good start. 528 00:25:57,730 --> 00:26:00,254 Don't get used to it. Motion to exclude his confession. 529 00:26:00,341 --> 00:26:03,866 He was denied counsel. It was nice while it lasted. 530 00:26:05,651 --> 00:26:07,609 It was by the numbers, Your Honor. 531 00:26:07,696 --> 00:26:10,569 As the defendant's legal guardian, his mother waived counsel. 532 00:26:10,656 --> 00:26:12,571 The defendant himself acquiesced. 533 00:26:12,658 --> 00:26:14,573 The defendant's 13. 534 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:16,313 His mother was high on crack. 535 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,446 Neither of them was competent to waive counsel. 536 00:26:18,533 --> 00:26:22,450 The police get waivers from drunken drivers every day of the week, 537 00:26:22,537 --> 00:26:24,713 and the courts routinely uphold them. 538 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,629 Mrs. Rickman wasn't waiving her own rights, she was waiving her son's. 539 00:26:27,716 --> 00:26:29,022 He was utterly at her mercy. 540 00:26:29,109 --> 00:26:31,502 Ms. Kincaid should have disregarded the waiver 541 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,200 and stopped the interrogation. 542 00:26:33,287 --> 00:26:35,289 Your Honor, she wasn't bouncing off the walls. 543 00:26:35,376 --> 00:26:38,248 She was coherent. She didn't appear to be under the influence. 544 00:26:38,335 --> 00:26:40,642 I don't understand what counsel expected us to do, 545 00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:42,557 run a drug test on her? 546 00:26:42,644 --> 00:26:44,472 Ms. Rubinoff, there's nothing in the case law stating 547 00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:47,388 a defendant has to be stone cold sober to waive counsel. 548 00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:50,696 You uphold my motion, Your Honor, and there will be. 549 00:26:50,783 --> 00:26:52,872 Well, being first isn't all it's cracked up to be. 550 00:26:52,959 --> 00:26:55,962 Your motion's denied, the confession stays. Sorry to spoil your day. 551 00:26:56,049 --> 00:26:57,746 You can make it up to me, Your Honor. 552 00:26:57,833 --> 00:26:59,792 I want the case remanded to Family Court. 553 00:26:59,879 --> 00:27:01,968 Absolutely not, this is a violent offender. 554 00:27:02,055 --> 00:27:06,102 He's committed a serious crime without expressing an iota of remorse. 555 00:27:06,189 --> 00:27:07,843 Family Court's not equipped to deal with him. 556 00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:10,541 The issue is, with proper counseling, 557 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,588 would he still pose a danger to society? 558 00:27:13,675 --> 00:27:17,200 Mr. McCoy, you prove to me he should be tried as an adult, he's all yours. 559 00:27:17,287 --> 00:27:19,246 Have your briefs on my desk in a week. 560 00:27:19,333 --> 00:27:23,119 And I want this boy to have a chat with a court psychiatrist. 561 00:27:24,947 --> 00:27:27,297 I didn't even know that lady. 562 00:27:27,384 --> 00:27:30,561 I didn't mean it to happen. It just happened. 563 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:34,435 Has anything like this ever happened to someone you knew? 564 00:27:35,392 --> 00:27:36,480 Yeah. 565 00:27:37,917 --> 00:27:41,529 A friend at school got shot. 566 00:27:41,616 --> 00:27:44,880 And this other kid in the neighborhood was pushed off a building. 567 00:27:44,967 --> 00:27:47,448 Did your parents ever hit each other? 568 00:27:47,535 --> 00:27:50,756 My dad, before he dumped us, 569 00:27:50,843 --> 00:27:52,888 he used to hit my mom when he got high. 570 00:27:52,975 --> 00:27:55,108 Did he ever hit you?No. 571 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:58,241 How about your mom? Has she ever... 572 00:27:58,328 --> 00:28:00,417 She's not like that. 573 00:28:02,332 --> 00:28:03,464 Okay. 574 00:28:05,727 --> 00:28:08,382 You want to tell me what she is like? 575 00:28:12,125 --> 00:28:14,649 What do you want me to say? 576 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:16,477 She's funny. 577 00:28:16,564 --> 00:28:18,392 She makes me laugh. 578 00:28:19,741 --> 00:28:22,483 How do you feel about her taking drugs? 579 00:28:23,353 --> 00:28:25,181 It's not her fault. 580 00:28:25,268 --> 00:28:28,794 My dad got her hooked, and I'm helping her get off it. 581 00:28:28,881 --> 00:28:31,535 You think she takes good care of you? 582 00:28:31,622 --> 00:28:33,102 Yeah. 583 00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:36,715 Because of her, we got a place to stay. 584 00:28:36,802 --> 00:28:40,719 And this one time, they tried to put me into foster care, 585 00:28:40,806 --> 00:28:43,547 but my mom fought like hell to keep me. 586 00:28:46,246 --> 00:28:50,076 She always says I'm the most important thing in her life. 587 00:28:52,078 --> 00:28:53,862 He's seen a good deal of violence, 588 00:28:53,949 --> 00:28:56,082 but he doesn't seem preoccupied with it, 589 00:28:56,169 --> 00:28:58,998 so it's possible he's not dangerous. 590 00:28:59,085 --> 00:29:01,217 What about treatment? Is he a candidate? 591 00:29:01,304 --> 00:29:04,351 Maybe. I don't know enough about him. 592 00:29:04,438 --> 00:29:06,483 Good, more hedging. 593 00:29:06,570 --> 00:29:09,791 He's been abused by his mother, this I'm sure of. 594 00:29:09,878 --> 00:29:11,140 He told you that? 595 00:29:11,227 --> 00:29:13,099 He denied it a little too vehemently. 596 00:29:13,186 --> 00:29:16,667 He's very defensive on the entire subject of his mother. 597 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:17,843 That's it? 598 00:29:17,930 --> 00:29:20,193 No, I read the police reports. 599 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,413 He gave Detectives Briscoe and Curtis a very hard time, 600 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:26,155 in contrast to how he behaved toward me or Claire. 601 00:29:26,242 --> 00:29:29,942 He gets angry at men, but he's very submissive toward women. 602 00:29:30,029 --> 00:29:32,248 That's the pathology for maternal abuse. 603 00:29:32,335 --> 00:29:34,860 So what's your recommendation? 604 00:29:35,948 --> 00:29:37,601 I'd have to say Family Court. 605 00:29:37,688 --> 00:29:39,560 Because he was abused. 606 00:29:40,735 --> 00:29:43,216 Fine, we send him there, 607 00:29:43,303 --> 00:29:45,827 and when they let him out in a few years and he kills again, 608 00:29:45,914 --> 00:29:47,002 we get another bite at him. 609 00:29:47,089 --> 00:29:49,178 That's right. 610 00:29:49,265 --> 00:29:51,572 What if we got him to roll on Morales? He's the one we really want. 611 00:29:51,659 --> 00:29:53,139 We want them both. 612 00:29:53,226 --> 00:29:55,663 Papers are calling this kid a super-predator. 613 00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:58,318 He's not getting a lollipop for killing a woman in her sleep. 614 00:29:58,405 --> 00:30:00,233 A murder he claims full credit for. 615 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,322 He even denies he works for Morales. 616 00:30:02,409 --> 00:30:05,281 He's 13. He's probably terrified of Morales. 617 00:30:05,368 --> 00:30:07,588 He doesn't want to be the only one pointing the finger at him. 618 00:30:07,675 --> 00:30:09,459 What do you suggest? 619 00:30:09,546 --> 00:30:11,461 If we find evidence that he was Morales' employee, 620 00:30:11,548 --> 00:30:13,681 we convince him we're going to make the case against Morales 621 00:30:13,768 --> 00:30:15,030 with or without him. 622 00:30:15,117 --> 00:30:17,728 That should bring him around. 623 00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:20,949 Who made you this kid's fairy godmother? 624 00:30:21,036 --> 00:30:23,212 I just know what Lonnie told me. 625 00:30:23,299 --> 00:30:26,433 I never heard Ross telling him to do no drug business. 626 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,045 You ever see him give Lonnie money or drugs to sell? 627 00:30:30,698 --> 00:30:32,787 No. 628 00:30:32,874 --> 00:30:35,572 Lonnie said Ross never got his hands dirty with the small stuff. 629 00:30:35,659 --> 00:30:38,140 How did you get paid? 630 00:30:38,227 --> 00:30:40,795 Lonnie gave me money for being a lookout. 631 00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:44,190 So as far as you knew, you could have been working for Lonnie. 632 00:30:44,277 --> 00:30:46,279 Lonnie said Ross was the man. 633 00:30:46,366 --> 00:30:48,672 He even showed me where Ross beat him on his back 634 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:51,414 just for being short five dollars. 635 00:30:51,501 --> 00:30:54,504 Is that why he was covering for him? Because he was scared? 636 00:30:54,591 --> 00:30:56,506 Yeah, for his mom. 637 00:30:56,593 --> 00:30:59,770 Ross said if he ever went against him, he'd hurt his mom. 638 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,903 Lonnie is devoted to that woman. 639 00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:04,471 He does her chores. He cleans her up. 640 00:31:04,558 --> 00:31:06,560 He's even dragged her from the crack houses. 641 00:31:06,647 --> 00:31:08,649 It is pathetic. 642 00:31:08,736 --> 00:31:11,695 Now, that boy came home with Clayton a couple of months ago. 643 00:31:11,782 --> 00:31:14,089 He had not eaten in two days. 644 00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:15,699 So what happened? 645 00:31:15,786 --> 00:31:17,179 His mom sold their food stamps. 646 00:31:17,266 --> 00:31:19,225 She must have owed a dealer a lot of money. 647 00:31:19,312 --> 00:31:21,357 So I gave him something to eat. 648 00:31:21,444 --> 00:31:23,751 Who feeds him the rest of the time? Morales? 649 00:31:23,838 --> 00:31:28,321 I don't know, but Ross doesn't like anybody messing with Lonnie. 650 00:31:28,408 --> 00:31:29,496 How do you mean? 651 00:31:29,583 --> 00:31:31,193 Well, a couple of weeks ago, 652 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,892 I found Lonnie at the park, and he couldn't breathe, 653 00:31:33,979 --> 00:31:35,806 so I called an ambulance. 654 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,113 And when Ross found out, he was real mad. 655 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,376 And what did he do? 656 00:31:40,463 --> 00:31:43,640 He just went off, saying that I should've called him, not the ambulance. 657 00:31:43,727 --> 00:31:46,556 And then he wanted to know what hospital he was at. 658 00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:50,604 Paramedics brought him in. He was in cardiac shock, too much crack. 659 00:31:50,691 --> 00:31:51,735 So what's he done? 660 00:31:51,822 --> 00:31:53,824 He's charged with murder. 661 00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:56,784 Great. He was a mess. We pumped his stomach, nothing came out. 662 00:31:56,871 --> 00:32:00,962 His back and legs were covered in bruises. He looked like he hadn't slept in a week. 663 00:32:01,049 --> 00:32:02,616 Did he say how he got those bruises? 664 00:32:02,703 --> 00:32:04,139 It was a fight just to get a name out of him. 665 00:32:04,226 --> 00:32:05,532 He wouldn't tell us where he lived. 666 00:32:05,619 --> 00:32:07,316 He didn't want us to call Child Welfare. 667 00:32:07,403 --> 00:32:08,796 So why did you release him? 668 00:32:08,883 --> 00:32:10,798 We didn't. This Hispanic guy came in. 669 00:32:10,885 --> 00:32:12,843 He paid the bill in cash, 670 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,802 then before we could stop them, he grabbed the kid and left. 671 00:32:14,889 --> 00:32:16,760 Kid didn't say a word. 672 00:32:16,847 --> 00:32:18,197 Just because he paid the kid's bill 673 00:32:18,284 --> 00:32:20,025 doesn't imply that Lonnie worked for him. 674 00:32:20,112 --> 00:32:21,852 He could just be a good Samaritan. 675 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:23,245 Who beat him like a dog. 676 00:32:23,332 --> 00:32:25,204 And again, it's all just hearsay unless 677 00:32:25,291 --> 00:32:27,858 we get it directly from Lonnie's mouth. 678 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,599 Then we're back where we started. 679 00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:32,080 That's too bad. 680 00:32:32,167 --> 00:32:36,215 Because Morales' attorney just filed an Article 78 motion to get him released. 681 00:32:39,218 --> 00:32:43,004 He had less than three grams of rock cocaine, all for his personal use. 682 00:32:43,091 --> 00:32:45,224 He's willing to plead to Possession in the Seventh Degree, 683 00:32:45,311 --> 00:32:47,139 take his time served and pay a fine. 684 00:32:47,226 --> 00:32:49,184 But Mr. McCoy won't even take my calls. 685 00:32:49,271 --> 00:32:51,795 Mr. Morales is a known drug dealer. 686 00:32:51,882 --> 00:32:53,406 He has numerous convictions. 687 00:32:53,493 --> 00:32:55,495 Only one for possession with intent, Your Honor. 688 00:32:55,582 --> 00:32:58,063 We arrested him on the way to one of his drug outlets. 689 00:32:58,150 --> 00:32:59,629 He was there to collect the daily take. 690 00:32:59,716 --> 00:33:02,328 He was arrested in a common-use hallway. 691 00:33:02,415 --> 00:33:04,721 He could have been going anywhere. 692 00:33:04,808 --> 00:33:07,637 Mr. McCoy, are you willing to discuss a plea on Mr. Morales? 693 00:33:07,724 --> 00:33:10,510 Not at this time, Your Honor. We're looking at other charges. 694 00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:11,815 For example? 695 00:33:11,902 --> 00:33:13,556 It's a continuing investigation. 696 00:33:13,643 --> 00:33:15,036 I'm not going to discuss it in front of the defendant. 697 00:33:15,123 --> 00:33:16,255 He's stalling, Your Honor. 698 00:33:16,342 --> 00:33:17,865 Mr. McCoy is punishing my client 699 00:33:17,952 --> 00:33:19,780 because we filed a complaint of police brutality. 700 00:33:19,867 --> 00:33:21,651 That's nonsense. 701 00:33:21,738 --> 00:33:24,219 But we'll drop the complaint if Mr. McCoy agrees to a plea. 702 00:33:24,306 --> 00:33:26,830 Sounds reasonable, Mr. McCoy, how about it? 703 00:33:26,917 --> 00:33:29,094 I'm sorry, Your Honor. 704 00:33:29,181 --> 00:33:33,968 Mr. McCoy, the police arrest 150 people a day for simple possession, 705 00:33:34,055 --> 00:33:36,362 there's just nowhere to put them all. 706 00:33:36,449 --> 00:33:39,887 I'm not adding to the problem. I don't want Mr. Morales in jail. Is that clear? 707 00:33:39,974 --> 00:33:40,931 May I approach alone? 708 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,108 Objection. 709 00:33:43,195 --> 00:33:46,285 Your objection is noted. Come up, Mr. McCoy. 710 00:33:50,985 --> 00:33:53,118 Your Honor, we're developing another case against him. 711 00:33:53,205 --> 00:33:55,207 He may be facing murder charges. 712 00:33:55,294 --> 00:33:57,252 If you release him, the chances are he'll flee the jurisdiction 713 00:33:57,339 --> 00:33:59,080 and we'll never find him. 714 00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:01,735 You have any direct evidence connecting him to this murder? 715 00:34:01,822 --> 00:34:03,606 No, Your Honor. 716 00:34:03,693 --> 00:34:05,478 Step back, Mr. McCoy. 717 00:34:08,524 --> 00:34:10,961 I can't order you to accept this plea. 718 00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:12,963 But if you don't, I'll dismiss the charge 719 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,878 on grounds of legal insufficiency. 720 00:34:14,965 --> 00:34:17,055 You have till tomorrow morning to make up your mind. 721 00:34:17,142 --> 00:34:18,143 We're adjourned. 722 00:34:23,757 --> 00:34:27,456 It doesn't matter whether Ingles dismisses the charges or we accept the plea. 723 00:34:27,543 --> 00:34:31,504 Once Morales walks out the door, it's the last we'll see of him. 724 00:34:31,591 --> 00:34:33,593 You found him once, you'll find him again. 725 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,032 When we've got a witness in custody who can nail him for murder? 726 00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:39,990 He's jumped bail before. 727 00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:44,169 Besides, Lonnie's more likely to talk if Morales is already in jail. 728 00:34:44,256 --> 00:34:46,040 Maybe we can hit him with another charge. 729 00:34:46,127 --> 00:34:49,174 As far as I know, you can't walk into an emergency room 730 00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:51,915 and grab a minor out of his bed. 731 00:34:52,002 --> 00:34:53,134 That could be kidnapping. 732 00:34:53,221 --> 00:34:55,354 Yeah. It could. 733 00:34:58,661 --> 00:35:00,924 Where'd you come up with kidnapping, man? 734 00:35:01,011 --> 00:35:02,012 I didn't kidnap that little slice. 735 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:04,058 Ross, cool it. 736 00:35:04,145 --> 00:35:06,278 Mr. McCoy, you don't know the storm of crap you are in for. 737 00:35:06,365 --> 00:35:09,672 You've just graduated from police brutality to malicious prosecution. 738 00:35:09,759 --> 00:35:14,503 Your client forcibly removed a sick child from a hospital bed. 739 00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:16,244 The boy went with him of his own free will. 740 00:35:16,331 --> 00:35:18,333 Not according to the attending doctor and nurses. 741 00:35:18,420 --> 00:35:20,161 Lonnie was scared out of his mind. 742 00:35:20,248 --> 00:35:23,295 Not to mention the fact that Mr. Morales has no legal standing 743 00:35:23,382 --> 00:35:25,645 to take the boy anywhere, willing or not. 744 00:35:25,732 --> 00:35:27,168 That's bull. 745 00:35:27,255 --> 00:35:29,344 I'm his de facto guardian. 746 00:35:29,431 --> 00:35:31,781 My client was acting with Mrs. Rickman's knowledge and permission. 747 00:35:31,868 --> 00:35:36,612 You expect us to believe that she entrusted her son to a drug dealer? 748 00:35:36,699 --> 00:35:38,701 Well, you ask her, man. 749 00:35:38,788 --> 00:35:40,573 She gave him to me. 750 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:43,706 You see, I'm like a father figure to the local kids. 751 00:35:43,793 --> 00:35:45,404 I'm their hero. 752 00:35:45,491 --> 00:35:49,234 He's right, I asked him to keep an eye on Lonnie for me. 753 00:35:50,322 --> 00:35:52,280 You let him baby-sit your son? 754 00:35:52,367 --> 00:35:54,630 Yeah, out there. 755 00:35:54,717 --> 00:35:57,242 I mean, Lonnie's a kid, he needs somebody to protect him. 756 00:35:57,329 --> 00:35:59,200 Morales isn't all bad, you know. 757 00:35:59,287 --> 00:36:01,202 He turned him into a gangster. 758 00:36:01,289 --> 00:36:02,638 He did? 759 00:36:02,725 --> 00:36:04,858 I thought it was the rap music. 760 00:36:04,945 --> 00:36:06,207 I don't see the humor. 761 00:36:06,294 --> 00:36:07,991 No, you're the joke here, Mr. McCoy. 762 00:36:08,078 --> 00:36:09,993 You bitch and moan because Morales owns the street, 763 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,606 when it's you and your stupid laws that gave him the power. 764 00:36:13,693 --> 00:36:16,478 I didn't come here for an argument. 765 00:36:16,565 --> 00:36:18,959 If you think he's a suitable guardian for your child... 766 00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:22,397 Yeah, well our last nanny quit, so it was Morales or nothing, huh? 767 00:36:22,484 --> 00:36:25,661 Ms. Rickman, if you're just saying this because he threatened you... 768 00:36:25,748 --> 00:36:27,576 I've said everything I'm gonna say. 769 00:36:27,663 --> 00:36:30,013 All right, keep talking that way. 770 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:34,279 You'll be facing charges of reckless endangerment and child abuse. 771 00:36:34,366 --> 00:36:36,237 Now, that's funny. 772 00:36:36,324 --> 00:36:38,457 Look at me. 773 00:36:38,544 --> 00:36:41,764 I can hardly get myself through the day, so who's he better off with? 774 00:36:41,851 --> 00:36:44,811 Now, why don't you and your skinny little friend get lost? 775 00:36:55,778 --> 00:36:59,217 Crackhead logic never ceases to amaze. 776 00:36:59,304 --> 00:37:01,610 Maybe she's right about one thing. 777 00:37:01,697 --> 00:37:05,048 Don't believe her, you look fine to me. 778 00:37:05,135 --> 00:37:07,486 I was talking about Morales. 779 00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:08,661 Right. 780 00:37:08,748 --> 00:37:11,664 Let's all petition to legalize drugs. 781 00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:15,102 That'll free Mr. Morales to pursue his true calling, 782 00:37:15,189 --> 00:37:17,713 curing cancer or Alzheimer's. 783 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,456 How many people does our office put in jail every year for drugs? 784 00:37:21,543 --> 00:37:23,980 Five, six thousand? 785 00:37:24,067 --> 00:37:27,593 Not including repeat offenders, maybe seven. 786 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,769 And it hasn't even made a dent. 787 00:37:29,856 --> 00:37:33,903 We're standing on the beach, bailing out the ocean with a teaspoon. 788 00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:37,298 You want to reform sentencing rules, you get no argument from me. 789 00:37:37,385 --> 00:37:40,867 But legalize drugs, open the floodgates, it's not responsible. 790 00:37:40,954 --> 00:37:42,738 Jack, I can make a couple of phone calls 791 00:37:42,825 --> 00:37:46,351 and have any kind of drug delivered right here. 792 00:37:46,438 --> 00:37:48,527 Anyone who wants them can get them. 793 00:37:48,614 --> 00:37:53,358 We have kids being terrorized by dealers, innocent people being shot. 794 00:37:53,445 --> 00:37:57,579 We turned a disease into a war, and we're losing. 795 00:37:57,666 --> 00:38:00,016 Anyway, here we are, two grunts in the trenches, 796 00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:02,105 arguing about whether war is bad. 797 00:38:02,192 --> 00:38:06,458 And we can't even put scum like Morales in jail for kidnapping. 798 00:38:09,635 --> 00:38:11,593 Maybe there's a good reason 799 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,727 that Cassie Rickman allowed Lonnie to go to work for Morales. 800 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:17,382 I'm listening. 801 00:38:17,469 --> 00:38:21,386 Didn't somebody tell you that she was deeply in debt to her dealer? 802 00:38:22,343 --> 00:38:23,997 To Morales? 803 00:38:24,084 --> 00:38:27,740 And now, two months later, she's buying drugs from him? 804 00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:30,873 How did she pay him off? 805 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,701 You're wrong, she wouldn't do that to me. 806 00:38:32,788 --> 00:38:36,575 How much money did she owe Morales? $500? $1,000? 807 00:38:36,662 --> 00:38:39,534 Where did she find that kind of money? 808 00:38:39,621 --> 00:38:41,536 I don't know. I don't work for Morales, anyway. 809 00:38:41,623 --> 00:38:42,842 Can't you get that straight? 810 00:38:42,929 --> 00:38:44,234 Don't treat us like idiots, Lonnie. 811 00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:46,933 You're going to jail for him. 812 00:38:47,977 --> 00:38:49,544 How much dope is that gonna buy your mother? 813 00:38:49,631 --> 00:38:51,894 It's not true. My mom loves me. 814 00:38:51,981 --> 00:38:53,418 Jack, this is cruel. 815 00:38:53,505 --> 00:38:56,464 And selling your kid to a drug dealer isn't? 816 00:38:56,551 --> 00:38:59,946 Young man, if you want to protect your mother, protect her from me. 817 00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:03,079 I can put her in prison for what she did to you. 818 00:39:03,166 --> 00:39:06,561 But if you testify against Morales, I won't charge her, 819 00:39:06,648 --> 00:39:09,085 and you can go to Family Court. 820 00:39:10,522 --> 00:39:12,262 What exactly would he have to say? 821 00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:15,875 That he was acting under Morales' orders when he fired that gun, 822 00:39:15,962 --> 00:39:18,051 and that he obeyed 823 00:39:18,138 --> 00:39:20,706 because his mother agreed to let Morales do what he wanted with him. 824 00:39:20,793 --> 00:39:23,665 It won't make Mr. Morales a happy man. 825 00:39:24,710 --> 00:39:27,626 We'll make arrangements for their protection. 826 00:39:27,713 --> 00:39:29,105 Let me talk to him. 827 00:39:29,192 --> 00:39:30,716 Forget it. I'm not talking against my mom. 828 00:39:30,803 --> 00:39:34,328 Lonnie...No, nobody made me do anything. 829 00:39:34,415 --> 00:39:38,376 Then you and your mother can write to each other from jail. 830 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:40,334 Empty threat, Jack. 831 00:39:40,421 --> 00:39:42,989 Selling your kid may be despicable, but it's not illegal. 832 00:39:43,076 --> 00:39:46,906 As for Family Court, I think we're halfway there already. 833 00:39:46,993 --> 00:39:48,647 Come on, Lonnie. 834 00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:51,824 She's right. 835 00:39:51,911 --> 00:39:53,956 No statute against selling your kid. 836 00:39:54,043 --> 00:39:58,265 His mother put him at risk for his life. That rates as a felony. 837 00:39:58,352 --> 00:40:00,441 Yeah. 838 00:40:00,528 --> 00:40:03,096 You want him to testify against Morales and risk both their lives. 839 00:40:03,183 --> 00:40:05,359 You're not giving the kid much of a choice. 840 00:40:05,446 --> 00:40:08,536 He'd rather go to prison than admit what his mother did to him. 841 00:40:08,623 --> 00:40:10,582 So we throw in the towel. 842 00:40:10,669 --> 00:40:14,063 Ross Morales goes home, Cassie Rickman stays on crack, 843 00:40:14,150 --> 00:40:17,980 and her kid spends the next 25 years in a cell. 844 00:40:18,067 --> 00:40:19,939 Is everybody happy? 845 00:40:20,026 --> 00:40:22,463 Didn't you say that's where he belonged? 846 00:40:22,550 --> 00:40:28,208 That must have been some other arrogant, moralistic son-of-a-bitch. 847 00:40:28,295 --> 00:40:32,691 Thirteen and living in a madhouse, who knows what any of us would do? 848 00:40:32,778 --> 00:40:36,042 Give him a taste of reality. He loves his mother. 849 00:40:37,739 --> 00:40:40,307 Does he know how much she loves him? 850 00:40:43,266 --> 00:40:45,573 It's not going to be pretty. 851 00:40:46,966 --> 00:40:49,055 I'm not going to do it. I'd have to be out of my mind. 852 00:40:49,142 --> 00:40:52,841 It'll prove to the jury Lonnie had to do whatever Morales wanted. 853 00:40:52,928 --> 00:40:58,630 First of all, I did not give my son to Morales, that is absolutely, 100% untrue. 854 00:40:58,717 --> 00:41:00,762 What kind of mother do you think I am? 855 00:41:00,849 --> 00:41:03,069 Oh, please. Let's cut through the bull, lady. 856 00:41:03,156 --> 00:41:05,463 We all know what kind of mother you've been to that boy. 857 00:41:05,550 --> 00:41:08,901 Blame it on the ex-husband or the drugs if it makes you feel better, 858 00:41:08,988 --> 00:41:12,818 but right now, you have one chance to help your son. Take it. 859 00:41:12,905 --> 00:41:16,865 If you testify against Morales, Lonnie goes to Family Court. 860 00:41:16,952 --> 00:41:19,955 He gets a lighter sentence. He gets help. 861 00:41:21,522 --> 00:41:23,393 What do I get? I get my throat cut. 862 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:24,786 We can offer you protection. 863 00:41:24,873 --> 00:41:27,006 Yeah, right. 864 00:41:32,272 --> 00:41:35,493 Lonnie pulled the trigger. He killed that woman. 865 00:41:35,580 --> 00:41:37,016 You send him wherever you want, 866 00:41:37,103 --> 00:41:39,888 I don't care, he's a pain in the ass. 867 00:41:47,461 --> 00:41:49,289 Juvenile detention. 868 00:41:50,072 --> 00:41:51,334 Five years. 869 00:41:56,035 --> 00:41:59,212 Ross said Clayton was trying to quit the crew. 870 00:41:59,299 --> 00:42:02,737 He gave me the gun and told me to take Clayton upstairs and kill him. 871 00:42:02,824 --> 00:42:05,914 What specifically did he instruct you to do? 872 00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:14,096 He told me to put the gun up against the side of his head and shoot. 873 00:42:14,183 --> 00:42:16,229 Did you follow these instructions? 874 00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:17,796 I tried to, 875 00:42:18,318 --> 00:42:20,407 but I couldn't. 876 00:42:20,494 --> 00:42:22,888 I couldn't kill him. 877 00:42:22,975 --> 00:42:25,804 The first time, I missed on purpose. 878 00:42:26,631 --> 00:42:28,371 The second time, the gun jammed. 879 00:42:28,458 --> 00:42:31,157 If it hadn't, would you have killed Clayton? 880 00:42:31,244 --> 00:42:32,680 I don't know. 881 00:42:32,767 --> 00:42:35,248 I like Clayton. He's okay. 882 00:42:35,901 --> 00:42:37,250 I didn't want to kill him. 883 00:42:37,337 --> 00:42:40,340 Then why did you take him up on the roof? 884 00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:43,604 Because I was scared of Ross Morales. 885 00:42:43,691 --> 00:42:45,954 But you could have run away. 886 00:42:46,041 --> 00:42:48,609 You could have gone to your mother, or even to the police. 887 00:42:48,696 --> 00:42:50,176 I couldn't. 888 00:42:50,698 --> 00:42:52,004 Why not? 889 00:42:53,919 --> 00:42:57,400 Lonnie, tell these people why you didn't run away. 890 00:43:03,537 --> 00:43:06,018 Because of my mom. 891 00:43:06,105 --> 00:43:08,934 She said I had to stay with Ross and do what he said. 892 00:43:09,021 --> 00:43:10,500 Why? 893 00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:12,154 She owed him money, and he was going to hurt her. 894 00:43:12,241 --> 00:43:14,766 How long were you with him before you were arrested? 895 00:43:14,853 --> 00:43:16,768 I'm not sure. It was a lot of weeks. 896 00:43:16,855 --> 00:43:20,423 What did you do during that time? 897 00:43:20,510 --> 00:43:24,689 I went to the store for Ross, I got him cigarettes, 898 00:43:24,776 --> 00:43:27,605 I took his clothes to the coin laundry. 899 00:43:27,692 --> 00:43:29,694 What else did you do? 900 00:43:33,045 --> 00:43:35,438 I helped him sell drugs. 901 00:43:35,525 --> 00:43:37,484 I carried it for him. 902 00:43:37,571 --> 00:43:39,747 I watched the other kids. 903 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,273 Did he pay you? 904 00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:46,493 No, sir. 905 00:43:46,580 --> 00:43:48,190 Did he feed you? 906 00:43:48,756 --> 00:43:50,192 Sometimes. 907 00:43:51,585 --> 00:43:53,456 Didn't you get hungry? 908 00:43:55,371 --> 00:43:58,113 Yes, sir, but 909 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,508 Ross told me to smoke crack so my stomach wouldn't hurt. 910 00:44:01,595 --> 00:44:03,466 Didn't you ever complain? 911 00:44:03,553 --> 00:44:05,338 Yes, sir, once. 912 00:44:05,425 --> 00:44:06,992 What happened? 913 00:44:09,211 --> 00:44:12,562 He hit me on my back and my legs, 914 00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:14,303 and he said he'd hurt my mom. 915 00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:16,828 How long were you supposed to stay with him? 916 00:44:16,915 --> 00:44:18,264 I don't know. 917 00:44:18,351 --> 00:44:20,309 As long as your mother needed drugs? 918 00:44:20,396 --> 00:44:21,920 I don't know. 919 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:27,447 Lonnie, how much money did your mother owe Ross Morales? 920 00:44:30,798 --> 00:44:32,757 $865. 921 00:44:40,155 --> 00:44:42,984 Thank you, Lonnie, no more questions. 922 00:44:58,521 --> 00:45:01,046 Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict? 923 00:45:01,133 --> 00:45:03,178 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 924 00:45:03,265 --> 00:45:04,702 In the first count of the indictment, Murder in the Second Degree, 925 00:45:04,789 --> 00:45:06,355 how do you find? 926 00:45:06,442 --> 00:45:10,272 We find the defendant, Ross Morales, guilty. 927 00:45:21,806 --> 00:45:25,810 Has Ms. Rubinoff explained to you the consequences of taking this plea? 928 00:45:25,897 --> 00:45:27,855 Yes, ma'am. 929 00:45:27,942 --> 00:45:30,118 You realize that you'll be incarcerated in a juvenile facility 930 00:45:30,205 --> 00:45:32,338 until your 18th birthday? 931 00:45:33,208 --> 00:45:35,210 Yes, ma'am. 932 00:45:35,297 --> 00:45:38,213 Then in accordance with the provisions of the Family Court Act, 933 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:41,477 I hereby sentence you to a term of five years. 934 00:45:42,609 --> 00:45:44,829 Per Mr. McCoy's recommendation, 935 00:45:44,916 --> 00:45:48,963 you will receive psychiatric counseling during that term of incarceration 936 00:45:49,050 --> 00:45:52,010 and for a period of five years thereafter. 937 00:45:54,795 --> 00:45:56,492 We're adjourned.