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Okay, Jared, can you maybe slow down a little?

I'’m going, like, 25, Ethan.

Yeah, well, even at that speed,

they like you to be able to see.

I can see.

Really? I'’m sorry,

do you have a different view than I do?

No, yours might be a little bit better since you'’re not being

distracted by...Jared!

[horn honking, tires screeching]

[screaming]

[panting]

You okay? I'’m okay.

Are you?

Yeah, I'’m okay. [chuckles]

[sustained honk]

[phone ringing]

Hello.

Yeah, this is Cassie.

Wha...?

Oh, it'’s for you.

Hello?

Ethan?

What'’s wrong, are you okay?

No... well, what'’s the address?

No, where are you?

No, okay, I-I'’m on my way.

Get up.

Get up!

[grunts]

[phone rings]

Still dark, this better be good.

Rise and shine!Adam, what the hell...?

It'’s the middle of the night.

No, it'’s not.

Well, it'’s still early.

What the hell do you want?

I just got the call from the clerk'’s office.

The jury'’s coming back.

At 6:00 in the morning?

At 8:00 but 8:00 sharp.

Crap.

[grunts]

[sighs] It sucks getting old.

I miss the days when I was between the ages of 18 and 49.

[siren wailing, indistinct chatter]

Ethan!

Hey!

Thanks, I-I-I'’m sorry, I-I just didn'’t know who else to call.

No, where'’s Jared?He'’s still in the car.

They'’re trying to get him out.

He'’s conscious, so I think he'’s okay.

But he'’s definitely got some broken bones.

Cassie, I'’m really sorry.

I just didn'’t know who else to reach out to.

No, it'’s fine.

This is Oliver Richard, Ethan Kearns,

he'’s an old friend of mine.

I had sort of a premonition that it would be this morning.

They were going to reach a verdict last night.

I just had a feeling.

I hardly slept.

Do you have a feeling?

One way or the other?

Not really.

I still think it'’s hard for them to satisfy the burden.

When a young girl is killed,

juries want to hold someone responsible.

It'’s either you or it'’s unsolved.

And the latter would be very unsatisfying.

I'’m feeling nauseous.

They'’re coming in.

REPORTER: Traffic around the train wreck is at a standstill.

Thank you.

Cassie. Oh...

Hey.

How we doing?

Um, he'’s in surgery.

His femur'’s broken, but they'’re putting in a rod.

But his neck'’s okay.

Oh, thank God.

Man, at first it just did not look good.

I mean, you saw the car.

We'’re just lucky that...

Yeah.

So, Ollie, huh?

You'’re going to withhold details?

Pretty much.Ethan Kearns...

Oh, hi, I'’m Ethan. Uh, this is Cassie Reynolds.

She'’s a family friend.

We'’re, um, we'’re running into some complications.

What do you mean?

We'’ve had difficulty controlling the bleeding.

Excuse me?

Your brother is suffering from

considerable intra-operative blood loss.

Now, we found the source of the bleeding and clamped it.

The main pressing issue is,

Jared needs blood. Now.

Like a transfusion? Yes.

But we'’re waiting for blood products.

What do you mean?Well, our blood supply is depleted.

Look, I don'’t know if you heard the news,

but there was a major train wreck

across town, the weather,

there are a lot of casualties.

And what does that have to do with my brother?

Well, your brother'’s blood type is O-negative,

which, unfortunately,

in an emergency like this, is the first to go.

Now, we contacted the blood bank for a rush.

They informed us they were out.

All their O-neg is over at West Hamilton to cover the disaster.

Now, we'’ve located another source,

but we'’re looking at three hours, which...

I'’m not sure your brother can hold out.

He... he could die?

He'’s at serious risk.

I'’m O-negative.

I could give blood right now.

You have to be tested first. That usually takes

at least 48 hours, which we don'’t have.

Well, I was tested for STDs three weeks ago.

I'’m clean, I haven'’t been with anybody since.

Look, I am his only family.

And I'’m a lawyer. We'’ll sign a waiver right now.

It is highly unusual for us to transfuse untested blood,

but given the extreme situation, even a couple of units

would help at this point.

Okay, just tell me where to go.I'’ll take you myself.

But you said you were tested for STDs three weeks ago?

Yeah.Okay, what occasioned that, if I may ask?

Oh, uh, I do it once a year. I'’m gay, so I do it

as a matter of course.Oh.

Oh? What do you mean "oh"?

I'’m afraid it'’s illegal for you to donate blood.

I beg your pardon?

Because I'’m gay?

Okay.

The defendant, rise, please.

Madam Forewoman, your verdict

is unanimous on all counts?

Yes, Your Honor.

What say you?

FOREWOMAN: In the matter of The State of Ohio v. Colin Danes,

on the count of murder in the first degree,

we find the defendant, Colin Danes,

not guilty...[groans and murmurs]

On the count of murder in the second degree,

we find the defendant, Colin Danes,

not guilty...[groans and murmurs]

On the count of aggravated rape, we find the defendant,

Colin Danes,

not guilty...[groans]

Thank God.

MRS. DANES: Dear God, thank you.

Are you serious?

Sir?This man murdered my sister.

Sir, if you don'’t settle down...He raped her!

He strangled her!

Sir, please don'’t have me call security!

You are a murderer.No, that'’s it...

LUCAS: Your Honor, you will not be calling anybody![gasps and screams]

Nobody is going to move!

Sir, put your gun down.

Sir, you don'’t mean to do this.

Your Honor, if this jury means to let the murderer of my sister

walk free, I can assure you, I very much mean to do this.

There are two armed men right here in this room.

Your hand is shaking. Look at it. It'’s shaking.

But mine isn'’t.

Guards have ten seconds to drop their weapons

or the detective is dead.

Mr. Trassino... I'’m an ex-cop.

I'’m a trained marksman. You don'’t want to test me, Judge.

Your Honor, I suggest you take us very seriously.

Drop the weapons.

Still a lot of confusion. As you might imagine,

the first question, of course,

how did they get the guns into the courtroom?

Please don'’t tell me...You got it.

The courthouse is equipped with metal detectors, but

it'’s not the first time this has happened at this courtroom.

Is this true?

It is, father and son with guns.

And Harry'’s still in there?And Adam.

CHUNHUA: Oliver, I have Cassie for you.

She says it'’s an emergency.Hello.

Almost all the bystanders have been let out of the room,

only the actual participants remain.

We believe Lucas Trassino, the brother of the victim...OLLIE: I'’m on my way.

Tommy, keep me updated.Yeah.

Now...

What we'’re going to do is we'’re going to have a second trial.

But this time we will let you hear all the evidence

that did not happen the first time. Sir.

Look at me, please.

This can only have one ending here.

And you seem smart enough to know that, sir.

Is that what you think?

You can only imagine one ending,

because I can envision a multitude.

Anything from no casualties to quite a few.

I ask you, Judge, in your ending,

how do you make out?

Now, I am prepared to begin with my opening argument.

If you'’d like to make an opening statement, Counsel.

Uh... I would...

Actually, I, I left it back at my office.

Can I go get it?

Does this strike you as funny?!

May I ask what you find most amusing?!

Is it the fact that my 20-year-old sister was raped?!

She was strangled to death!

Or maybe it'’s the fact

that the man who did it just got acquitted.

I wonder, which gives you the most giggles?

The fact that your sister'’s life is over is tragic.

The idea that yours

will probably be over as a result of this

is also tragic.

The notion that you would enlist your father in this,

when he'’s already lost one child,

is, quite frankly, appalling.

You still have a bit of an out here.

LUCAS: You'’re correct, Counsel, I do.

But you do not.

He can'’t give blood because he'’s gay?

As Dr. Diaz explained to Ms. Reynolds...

Well, he didn'’t explain it to me nor perhaps could he have.

Maybe you could tell us?If you'’re going to be hostile about this...

I'’ll be hostile!Ethan...

No, that'’s my brother in there!

And you'’re going to let him die because

of some ridiculous hospital policy?!

Ethan, let us deal with this.

WELLS: It is not a hospital policy.

It'’s a federal law.That a gay man can'’t give blood?

If he'’s had sex with another man, then yes. That is the law.

But I haven'’t in over two months!

Mr. Kearns, if you'’ve had sex with another man

in your lifetime, you are prohibited

by federal law from giving blood.

If he'’s ever had sex ever?

CASSIE: Mr. Wells, we'’ll all sign waivers.Well, you keep saying that,

but the man that would have to sign that waiver

is unconscious. He has no capacity to waive anything.

And even if he did, it would not matter.

The law is the law.The blood is still

two hours off. He'’ll need a transfusion

in the interim to make it that far.

Are you ready to risk the giant lawsuit

that is coming your way?

If these doctors break the law, jail could be coming.

So don'’t threaten me.That would never happen.

Look, I'’m in a nonnegotiable position here.

If you want to get a court order, go ahead.

But until you do...Round up all the witnesses we need. I'’ll get us a judge.

[sighs]

You have to understand...I don'’t!

LUCAS: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I do.

That is quite an oath,

Detective.

The truth,

the whole truth,

nothing but the truth, so help you God.

You took that oath before you testified the first time,

did you not?I did.

And, Detective, did you tell the whole truth?

Did you tell the whole truth, Detective?

I told the truth.

Was it the whole truth? Probably not.

Why is that?The rules of evidence

prohibit us from telling the whole truth.

Be more specific.

Well, here, I was only permitted to talk

about this particular case.

I was not allowed to introduce facts

which went to the defendant'’s past.

Such as...

Such as, the defendant,

Colin Danes, had committed rape before.

[gasps]

Detective, why did you neglect to tell the jury this?

If it goes to the suspect'’s pattern

or M.O., we can put it in.

But defense counsel successfully argued

that one prior bad act does not constitute a pattern.

So it was suppressed.LUCAS: Could you discuss for the court

the circumstances around that prior event?

Your Honor, I...

[jury gasping]

Withdrawn.

Could you describe for the court the circumstances

around that prior event?

Um...

Mr. Danes had gotten into an altercation

with his girlfriend.

It got physical, it led to the sexual assault.

She didn'’t want to testify,

it ultimately led to a plea bargain.

He was convicted of misdemeanor assault.

Detective,

you first interviewed the defendant

after my sister was killed.

I did.

What'’d he tell you?

He said he never meant to kill your sister.

He said he was just trying to stop her from screaming.

He said he was just trying to keep her quiet.

Did he tell you anything else?

He said he was sorry.

Detective, why did you neglect to include that

in your testimony?

Again, I was prohibited from doing so.

Defense counsel claimed the statement was coerced.

And they won a motion to suppress.

Thank you, Detective.

Your witness, Counsel.

[elevator ding]

This floor is closed, ma'’am.

My friend is in there.

He'’s one of the attorneys. Here'’s my bar card.

Ma'’am, no one is going in that room. I'’m sorry.

Can you tell me what'’s going on?

What'’s going on, best we can tell, is they are essentially

conducting a second trial.

You called?

Ollie did. We need some down and dirty fast research

on this federal law prohibiting gay men from donating blood.

Gay men can'’t give blood?

Quickly, please, we'’re on a ticking clock here.

Detective, did you handle this prior sexual assault

my client was involved with?No.

But as part of my investigation in this case,

I learned pretty much everything about it.

And to your knowledge, this was a date-rape sort of thing?

Yes, things got physical at her apartment,

at some point she cut it off,

and he forced himself upon her.

And as I understand it, the sex was consensual at first.

She tried to put the brakes on, as you say.

And he refused. So she said.

Did she report it?

Not right away. Eventually she did.

And whose idea was to reduce this

to a misdemeanor assault?The district attorney'’s.

Do you know why?

She didn'’t feel she had enough to convict

on the felony charge.

She regarded it as a "he said, she said" sort of thing.

Leading...

I'’m in cross-examination.

Stop! Stop playing games.

Are we having a trial here or not?

The district attorney felt that this victim

had some credibility issues, correct?

She might find her more credible now.

And I believe this other woman was reported

to have psychological deficits. Is that true?

According to the file, yes.

Okay, let'’s talk about this case now. Can we, Detective?

When you went into the interrogation room

with my client, you knew of this prior matter?

Yes.

So, you had an idea about a prior case where my client

was involved in an alleged sexual assault.

You had to pretty much think you had a guilty guy, right?

I certainly was suspicious.

He did it then. He did it this time.

Okay.

You were going to get that confession,

weren'’t you, Detective?

You weren'’t going to leave that room until you made sure

he had signed a statement saying that he did it.

You'’re badgering! [stammers]

You can'’t attack the witness, you can'’t do that.He has weapons

and he accuses me...?

All right. All right, sir, all right.

Let her continue.

You want to point that thing the other way?

I did not coerce the confession, if that'’s where you'’re headed.

Well, you know that'’s where I'’m headed.

We went there before without the jury being present.

And the judge found that this confession was indeed coerced.

I disagree.

How many hours did you interrogate

my client, Detective?

Approximately 14 hours.

14 hours.

Started at midnight and went to 2:11

the next afternoon.

That'’s about right.That'’s about right.

By the time my client signed his confession,

he had been awake over 30 consecutive hours.

I know you record these interrogations often.

Did you record this one?

I think the first six hours were,

after which we stopped recording.

Why?We don'’t record every minute of every interrogation.

This was a homicide. If you couldn'’t get the confession

the easy way, you were going to get it the hard way.

And you didn'’t want the cameras rolling then.

Who else did you question

in connection with this homicide, Detective?

Neighbors, potential witnesses...

And were there any?No.

What about associates of the victim?

Did you interview any other people

who might be considered a harm to her?

Did you talk to her brother?

There was nobody else with a motive to our knowledge.

HARRY: To your knowledge.

You got a signed confession about 18 hours

after Ms. Trassino'’s death.

Did you pursue any other theories,

any other suspects besides my client?

There were no other theories or suspects.

HARRY: Wow. That'’s a really thorough investigation.

Well done, Detective.

Your Honor, this has to happen fast or Jared Kearns will die.

He'’s currently bleeding out on a table in an ER.

Not to mention prolonged anesthesia poses a further risk.

This has to happen now! And this archaic ban...

What you call archaic is a safety measure

intended to prevent contamination

to our blood supply.That argument does not even apply in this case.

Look, Mr. Kearns says his blood is clean.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn'’t.

But the fact remains

the man getting his blood is unconscious.

So, we appoint a guardian.

We get it waived.

WELLS: Suppose the blood is tainted.

We could be sued, possibly criminally prosecuted.

If what? He dies?

He'’ll die now.Are you gonna let me speak?

Counsel.

Look, this is the same

argument we get with experimental treatment.

Dying patients are willing to try anything.

We still don'’t do it.

Hospitals have to abide by time-honored traditions.

There'’s a much bigger picture here, and even the chance

that people might say, "Hey, you know,

"hospitals will accept contaminated blood

"on the fly maybe,

"if you pressure them enough

or someone signs a waiver."

It can'’t work that way.

We will not do it.

Our reputation contributes to our saving many,

many lives.

If we compromise our int...

We'’re wasting time.

Hold on.

All right, I'’ll give both sides 15 minutes

to prepare their arguments; we'’ll go into that courtroom,

I'’ll hear you in a formal setting,

and then I'’ll rule. 15 minutes.

Okay? First you and then you.

And the only one who gets to interrupt is me.

Please.

[elevator dings]Does anybody here know anything?

Only what we'’re hearing on the news.

They'’re retrying the case.

At gunpoint?

Evidently. And Harry and Adam?

Neither have tried to call?

They'’re a little busy, Phoebe.

Skype them; maybe we can see what'’s going on.

Skype them.

REPORTER: ...confidence in the police department'’s ability

to rectify this situation.

I don'’t see the harm.

It could backfire.

It means you'’d have to face off against him.

He gets to come right at you.

Hopefully, not with a gun.

Listen, they already know his past.

We'’ll hear his version.

Otherwise...I-I think it could get

too volatile.

We got volatile

no matter what.

JUDGE: Ms. Korn?

How are we doing?

Are you ready?

Yes, Your Honor.

The defense calls Colin Danes to the stand.

Do you swear to tell

the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Yes, I do.

I absolutely do.

I'’ve got '’em! Excuse me?

Adam'’s iPhone, he'’s Skyping.

Call the police, tell them we got this.

HARRY: Let'’s talk about the prior incident

with your former girlfriend.

It was a very sort of rocky relationship.

We both had big tempers.

She accused you of trying to rape her.

Which was totally...

was totally false.

She made that up

after the fight.

Which the D.A. suspected, by the way.

I mean, that'’s why they refused to charge me with a felony.

HARRY: Okay, Colin, but if you were innocent,

why did you plead to misdemeanor sexual assault?

My lawyer told me to.

I'’d get no jail time.

But if I refused to plead,

then there was the chance that they could hit me with

a felony and prison.

But I never raped her.

It just didn'’t happen.

Okay, let'’s talk about this case,

involving Sarah Trassino.

I was there that day.

Uh, we were fighting.

There was a lot of yelling.

What were you fighting about?

I wanted her to take me back, basically.

We had broken up a month before, and...

I wasn'’t handling it too well.

So what happened next?

That was all.

I left around 8:00.

Did the two of you have sex?

No.

The truth is,

she didn'’t want anything to do with me.

Which...

I mean, that'’s what I was reacting so poorly to.

Well, the autopsy found there was vaginal bruising

as well as...That did not come from me.

Look, somebody must have come in to see her after me.

All right? There was no evidence

of any of my semen or my DNA

around her genitalia.

Because it was not me.

HARRY: So somebody else murdered her,

in remarkably similar circumstances

to your prior arrest.

That doesn'’t strike you as

a bit of a coincidence?

I think it was no coincidence at all.

I-I think whoever killed her

knew of my prior incident

and used it to frame me.

You know the kind of people she was seeing that last month.

You are a murderer!

You were worried about the company she was keeping!

Especially you!All right.

You killed my baby.

No, I did not!

JUDGE: Mr. Trassino, please.

Your son has requested a second trial.

I'’m giving you that trial.

Let'’s do this as orderly as we can.

COLIN: Sarah was acting out in a lot of ways.

One was promiscuity.

She started hooking up...

He'’s a liar!

I'’m not lying![pistol hammer clicks]

LUCAS: Hey.Shut up.

[whispering]: Dad.

Hey, hey, hey, shh, shh, shh, shh.

Hey. Hey, hey.

Dad, we have got to get through this.

Okay? Come on.

Come on. I know.

We gotta do this my way. Come on.

Come on, okay?

You got to stay calm.

Proceed, Counselor.

HARRY: Now, Colin...

if you didn'’t do it, why did you confess?

I was delirious at the time.

I hadn'’t slept.

I was awake for almost 30 hours.

They kept pouring coffee down my throat.

Wouldn'’t even let me piss.

Look, at some point...

at some point I think they actually

convinced me that maybe I did do it.

I did not.

WELLS: According to the CDC,

men who have sex with other men

account for more than half the new HIV infections in America.

Half.

They pose a higher threat. That'’s simply a fact.

OLLIE: HIV infection is also

eight times higher in black men than white men,

19 times higher in black women than white women.

Why don'’t we just disqualify African-Americans

from giving blood while we'’re at it?

Look, this...And that ban was passed

in 1983, when the AIDS epidemic was terrorizing everyone.

WELLS: Just as the Patriot Act was passed after 9/11,

and both are still in effect. And while in effect...

It was based on blatant prejudice.

Actually, it'’s not.

It'’s based on statistical analysis.

Gay men pose a significantly higher risk.

That'’s a fact.

Look, people need to trust hospitals.

If the integrity of our blood supply is called into question,

people will stop giving blood altogether.

They'’ll stop accepting transfusions.

That'’d be catastrophic.Gay people are icky.

They have icky, contaminated blood.

How dare you? How dare you?

If this was truly based on statistical analysis,

we would ban black blood. But no.

The bigotry would be too transparent.

Your Honor, this forum is supposed to be about law.

His anger has no place here.

It has no place?

Mr. Kearns...

Where, then, do we go to placeour anger?

Mr. Kearns!

No! Enough already.

I'’m not asking you to extend any special favors.

How about you just stop trying

to regulate or legislate us away?

That is out of order.

Are you kidding me?

We can'’t get married in most states.

We-we-we don'’t have the same adoption rights...

This has nothing to do with...We died for this country

in our wars, but had to endure Don'’t Ask, Don'’t Tell.

Where does it end?

We get beat up

and harassed.

Where does it all stop?!

And where are you?

Where'’s the court

that'’s supposed to stand up for the disenfranchised?

Where are you?!

Ethan...No!

My brother is dying,

and all I want to do

is give him my blood to save him,

and now, as he is bleeding out,

now,

the law which has been so silent

when we needed you,

now the law rears up to tell me that I can'’t save him?

What country is this?!

Who are you people?

Mr. Kearns, like it or not,

the current law states...

Then you need to change that law.

If a law is blatantly homophobic,

if it puts a gay,

HIV-free man

in a long-term monogamous relationship

in the same high-risk category

as a single straight guy who has unprotected sex

with prostitutes and intravenous drug users,

then you need to change that law.

And for the sake of my brother,

you have to change that law now.

I'’m, I'’m sorry.

He'’s making some notes.

I think he'’s about to give a closing of some sort.

What about the father?

He just keeps checking his gun.

Ms. Korn, this is Detective Wallace.

We have the perimeter sealed and if you could...

Yeah, I'’d keep it sealed, uh, but I wouldn'’t

come charging in here

because this whole thing is

about to explode like a time bomb.

Maybe you should tank your closing.

Just let them win.

I have a feeling that if Colin gets convicted,

he'’ll be executed right in the room.

Is Adam okay?

Yeah, Gwynnie.

Our ten-minute recess is up.

Do you still wish to address the jury, sir?

Yes, I do, Judge.

As I said earlier, these trials,

they begin with an oath.

The truth, whole truth, nothing but the truth,

but you didn'’t get that.

In our first trial,

you did not learn that the defendant,

he confessed to the crime.

You didn'’t learn that he raped another woman.

Now, I asked you,

if you had known those things, if you knew them,

would you have all voted to acquit?

My 20-year-old sister Sarah,

her life was ended

in the most violent,

brutal...

Raped, beaten,

and strangled,

and the rules of evidence,

the law,

it protected him.

It protected himlike it protects so many criminals

at the expense of...

This is my baby sister.

I'’m also a lawyer.

Corporate, not criminal.

I remember the day I passed the bar-- it was joyous.

I remember...

I remember talking to, to Sarah.

Telling her what it meant to me

to be in the justice business,

but what you'’ve done with this verdict...

Look...

I will go on.

I will live out the rest of my days

in prison, no doubt,

but at least, you give me...

You come back to me,

come back to me with your verdict based on the facts

as you now know them.

I'’m not asking you to tell me what I want to hear.

If you...

If you decide to acquit again, I-I will make my peace.

But please...

...just give me the truth.

My sister, she deserves justice.

Mr. Trassino is wrong on two fronts.

First, a criminal trial

is not about justice for the victim.

It'’s about justice for the defendant.

Making sure he gets a fair trial.

Second, criminal proceedings are not

and have never been about truth.

The question before this jury,

as it is before every jury,

is, did the prosecution satisfy

its burden of proof?

Did they prove their case

beyond a reasonable doubt,

and here, you quite rightly found that they did not.

All the evidence showed

was that my client was at the victim'’s house

the day she died.

None of his DNA was found on her body.

There is nothing to connect Colin Danes

to Sarah Trassino'’s body.

Nor was there anything on Colin'’s body

or in his car or in his house

to connect him to the victim.

Now, as for the newly introduced evidence by Mr. Trassino.

First, the former girlfriend'’s allegation of sexual assault.

The prosecutor on that case declined to push on that

because A] he questioned the woman'’s credibility

and B] she had some psychological deficits.

Then there'’s the so-called confession.

The very reason that these coerced confessions

are deemed inadmissible is because they'’re not reliable.

Studies show that the longer you put somebody in isolation

and deprive them of food and sleep,

you can get them to say almost anything.

And at the point

that Colin Danes signed that piece of paper,

he was delirious.

There is simply no evidence

that is considered more manufactured

or more bogus than the coerced confession.

That'’s why that was kept from you.

Now, suppose you heard, "Oh, hey, Colin confessed,"

or "Guess what, he'’d been charged with rape before,"

what would you have done then?

It would'’ve been ball game over.

You wouldn'’t have even bothered to listen to the testimony

or weigh the DNA evidence.

Your minds would have been made up in a knee-jerk.

And that'’s exactly why we do not let that kind of prejudicial,

unreliable, inflammatory evidence in, ever.

It taints the process,

it brainwashes the jury,

and it deprives the defendant of a fair trial.

Lucas Trassino held up a picture of his sister.

I certainly cannot trump that.

But I'’m asking you just for one second

to imagine that this is your son

and your best friend

or your grandson.

He gets falsely accused of rape.

And then someone uses that false accusation

to incriminate him in a murder.

Throw in a coerced confession, and here we are.

Would you want a jury that says, "That'’s good enough for me"?

Or one that demands real and reliable evidence?

It'’s a painful situation.

Our hearts go out to the Trassino family.

But you simply cannot convict Colin Danes

of murder beyond all reasonable doubt

with the evidence before you.

They didn'’t even investigate this, for God'’s sake.

Not really.

You acquitted before,

with the recognition that it'’s possible

that somebody came into Sarah'’s house after Colin Danes left.

The same is true now.

Nothing'’s changed.

I heard Lucas Trassino ask you for a true and fair verdict.

And I believe he was sincere.

Give it to him.

How long have they been out?

About 30 minutes.

And Harry played this to win?

She thinks, if she loses, Colin will be shot dead on the spot.

And if he'’s acquitted?It could be worse.

Why aren'’t they just charging in there?

You want a bloodbath, Oliver?

We'’ll call you when there'’s more.

Want some legal advice?

Get out of Ohio. You'’re never gonna get a fair shake here.

And where would I go, Oliver?

You really think this is Ohio?

America is a religious country.

Catholics think that homosexuality is sin,

as do Orthodox Jews,

Baptists,

Methodists, Mormons, Buddhists...

I mean, even the Dalai Lama thinks that we'’re sinners.

You ever think we'’ll hear a presidential candidate take up gay rights?

Where exactly is it that you think I should go?

[door opens]

Go save your brother, Mr. Kearns.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Any time.

He'’s borderline hypertensive, but we still have time.

What about the other blood?That'’s about 30 minutes out.

It'’s up to you to buy us that time.

We got it from here.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah.

So who'’s gay?

What?

In your life, who'’s gay?

That closing was personal.

Cassie, I'’ve got plenty of gay friends.

I doubt that, but even so, that was personal.

Who is it?

It'’s my nephew.

He'’s 16, you know.

He'’s tormented all the time.

Even his school has this "don'’t ask, don'’t teach" policy.

I'’m sorry? Sex-Ed. The teachers aren'’t allowed

to talk about any other sexual orientation

besides heterosexuality.

It'’s obscene.

We'’re ready, Judge.

Bailiff.

Dear God.

Here we go.

REPORTER: We'’re now getting word from attorney Tommy Jefferson,

a partner of Harry Korn,

that the jury has reached its verdict...

again.

Got eyes on the door...

I have the verdict in my hand.

How about we let the jury leave,

since they'’re done?

No.

I want to hear it from them. Nobody leaves.

We, the jury,

find the defendant Colin Danes,

on the charges of both

murder and rape...

not guilty.

That'’s it! You'’re all going to die.

Mr. Trassino...Shut up!

Sir.You shut up, too!

You should die first.Dad.

Mr. Trassino...

your son...

he asked that jury

for a truthful

and fair verdict.

I believe they held up their part of the bargain.

Put down the gun, Dad.

[softly] Put it down.

They'’re gonna let him go.

They'’re just gonna let him walk out.

Put it down.

Come on, give it to me.

Come on, Pop.

Come on.

Dad, no!

[gunshot]

Dad!

Police! Let me see your hands!

Police! Get down!Get down, get down.

Keep your hands where I can see '’em.

Gun, gun, gun!

It'’s over.

Down on the ground!

[indistinct chatter]

Don'’t move.

[indistinct chatter]

Is everybody safe?

Father took one in the leg...

he'’s okay.

Harry'’s retiring.

Yeah, right.

We'’re still waiting here. I'’ll let you know.

Wow.

Everybody'’s really okay?

Everybody'’s fine. So far.

He'’s...

he'’s gonna make it.

He'’s still in surgery, but he'’s

stabilized and, um,

Really?

Yeah, he'’s...

Yeah, he'’s gonna be all right.

I'’m gonna go back,

wait in recovery, but listen, I just don'’t know

how to thank the two of you...

CASSIE: Ethan, go back, be with Jared.

Homophobic.[laughs]

Get over it.

Thank you, guys.

Wow.

Thank you, Ollie.

And how'’d they get the guns in there?

Well, they'’re still trying to figure that one out.

They got problems at that courthouse.

I'’m gonna start bringing my gun.

PHOEBE: What are the charges

being brought against the father and brother?

[groans] Probably a zillion.

TOMMY: You got a friend

with serious feelings on your hands,

you know that?

Oh, and you weren'’t worried, Tommy?

Well, there'’s worried, and there'’s...

worried.

That'’s all I'’m saying.

Yeah, I was worried.

I got plans, all right?

Oh, all right.Friendship kiss.

You and me, no tongues.What?

[groans] You....

You know, listen,

I got to say something.

Some days I don'’t know...

how I'’m gonna make it, but...

but today...

♪ '’Cause you'’re all ♪

♪ All I need ♪

♪ And I can'’t ♪

♪ Do this alone ♪

♪ Just stay with me... ♪

♪ Stay with me... ♪

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