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i don't know it seems like the more time

i spend her the less i think i know her

i mean in my gut i feel she couldn't

have done it but somehow i think we

should consider a play bargain vince oh

didn't okay make an offer no but i think

we should sign them out no way no out of

the question the jury took exactly 90

minutes 90 minutes to put buck away

i talked to the foreman they would have

come back sooner but somebody had to

move his car yeah but the woman says

she's innocent she's also facing life in

prison

i think we've got a shot here vince

you think the government's case is that

strong there isn't anything connecting

jennifer to whatever happened on that

island no eyewitnesses no murder weapons

no fingerprints

but a jury just convicted buck in

virtually the same evidence

buck did it

jennifer

i won't plead guilty to anything i

didn't do

and i'm not spending any more time in

jail period

well

i guess we go to trial

you're testing my patience gentlemen how

long are these pre-trial motions going

to go on

government's ready your honor

your honor the defense would like to

request a conference in chambers my

chambers council as previously noted

there's no jury

personal matters

you got a problem with your backhand

counsel no sir yours

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all right mr bull yoshi what's on your

mind

your honor i sat through buck walker's

trial i couldn't help noticing how you

dealt with walker's lawyer

that's none of your business

respectfully sir it's very much my

business

it goes to the stature and credibility a

lawyer has to have with the jury

if i do anything that displeases you

even slightly

please register your displeasure outside

the presence of the jury

call a recess whatever

if you demean me in front of the jury

there will be a price

i'll take you to the mat then and there

i have to i have no choice

i hope i haven't offended you by being

too blunt

i'm sure you do mr boyogy

ladies and gentlemen of the

jury you will not be sequestered during

the presentation of this case nor i hope

during your deliberations

but um i caution you not to discuss it

with anyone look at him the kansas rock

how could we have left him on he looks

like he voted to hate mother teresa the

others were worse

hard to believe

it's your turn mr renoki thank you your

honor

ladies and gentlemen of the jury

the iola arrived at palmyra leaking and

without a working engine

miss jenkins and mr walker were

essentially marooned unless they could

find other transportation

the relationship between the two couples

deteriorated by august to the point they

barely associated in fact

muff graham was afraid of mr walker and

miss jenkins

when the sea wind reached hawaii in

october it was repainted and

re-registered miss jenkins never

mentioned the grams or the disappearance

to anyone they met instead they said

that the sea win was won in a gambling

game

the evidence will show

that the only persons who had access to

muff graham who had a motive to kill her

and who were the next person seen alive

on the sea wind after her death where

buck walker

and jennifer

jenkins now you'll hear from a witness

who considered the iola to be seaworthy

you will also be shown that buck and

jennifer had a boat they could have

gotten to another island on in fact they

were planning such a trip

there was no evidence of enmity

or open hostility

between buck

and jennifer and the grahams

none

when you hear the facts ladies and

gentlemen

you will conclude that jennifer jenkins

is not guilty no mr shoemaker on that

wednesday night you were having another

of your regularly scheduled

conversations with the grams yes

what did you discuss on that occasion

well uh mostly he was talking about

exploring the island how much fun it was

and i think that's the day the leonard's

arrived yeah pulled in this morning nice

looking cutter about 40 feet

i can't say i'm happy about all that

company but most glad to have somebody

besides me and the hippies to talk to

say that again

jennifer's already been over on a

borrowing expedition but they haven't

met good old buck yet so we gave him an

earphone

welcome

thank you palmyra hi

i'm bernie with my wife evelyn

man this is paradise huh well it could

be if

when old buck wants some coconuts nobody

does cuts down the whole cotton picking

tree

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now i thought hippies were supposed to

care about the land stuff like that i

mean the guy goes fishing with a 38.

all in all i'd have to say the big buck

is not exactly adapting efficiently to

life in the wild

listen before i forget you hear anything

about when their friends are coming down

haven't heard a thing okay i'll tell

them i guess i'll sign off buddy good to

talk muff sends her love same from this

end you take care of yourself down there

this is the sea wind on palmyra out

you know you sound tough but you do act

like you feel responsible for them

you're giving him cigarettes you're

giving her fish what am i supposed to do

let the fish rot but it just encourages

them to stay that's all

why do you do it

you're not afraid of him

they'll be ridiculous

mr shoemaker i want to move to the last

conversation you had with mac bran

before he disappeared i believe that was

august 28th

was there anything special about that

last transmission

well um just as we were getting started

there was some commotion up on deck and

he said

i guess they've made a truce

i guess they made a truce that's right

whom do you think he meant by

jennifer and muff

what do you understand from mac's reply

i guess they made a truce

that uh jennifer and muffet had a fight

or somebody had a fight but now they

made up

thank you mr shoemaker

your witness

mr shoemaker apart from this alleged

truce incident was the rest of your

communication with mac graham on the

evening of august 28th basically just

routine conversation pretty much nothing

else comes to mind

no of course you realize the importance

of your testimony

in that it suggests that there was

hostility between the grahams and the

accused and it also places jennifer in

close proximity to the grams at about

the time they disappeared

so this truce incident

is what you remember most about this

last conversation yes it sticks out

above all else

yes

do you remember being interviewed by

fbi special agent tom kilgore

yes i do and the express purpose of this

interview was to find out everything you

knew about the gramps and their

disappearance

yes

mr shoemaker if this

incident actually took place

is there any reason why during this

entire conversation this entire

interview with mr kilgore you failed to

mention the incident

any reason at all

tell me more about this vegetable garden

come on vince give her a break there'll

be plenty of time for breaks after the

trial question is whether it's going to

be here or in some federal prison

it's the big deal it's just like i said

a vegetable garden

shows you're running out of food

that's a motive

we were running out of food

what i call food anyway

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just getting a wheelbarrow full of dirt

would be a day's work wasn't much real

dirt around

i'll put the garden on top of an old

army bunker to keep it safe from the

crabs and the rats

i planted my seeds but i was sure hoping

it wouldn't be long before buck's friend

showed up with some real supplies

hey baby how's that penthouse garden

come we're getting close to planning

a week maybe you look faster if you give

me a hand

man hunt

women garden

okay hemingway where's dinner

no luck today

why don't you make us some chili with

rested ripe beef we're out of beans and

beef

honey what are we gonna do if daryl and

georgie don't show

they're coming

i should put that thing away you know

how much i hate guns it's a tool

it's a gun it kills things knock it off

will you a thousand miles from nowhere

with them have to be nuts not to protect

ourselves protect ourselves from who

mankind bernie and evelyn give me a

break

anyway what have we got anyone would

want to steal

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mr leonard during the time that you and

your wife spent on palmyra in the summer

of 1974 did you see jennifer jenkins and

buck walker together with mac and muff

graham oh yes the first time was when

buck came over to the sea wind and

challenged mack to a game of chess

i was kind of surprised buck even played

chess but it turned out he wasn't half

bad

i'd like to play for a little something

just to make it interesting

what'd you have in mind

how about uh

our outboard motor against a uh

pound of flour

your outboard doesn't work

if it did i wouldn't be putting it up

against a pound of flour now would i

besides you can probably fix it

you're on

whereas everything on the island is so

strange anyway

but the idea of planting a garden on a

corrugated iron roof is

really really ambitious

maybe so but if hard work means anything

that girls can have fresh vegetables

i think it's safe to say there wasn't

any love lost between buck and mack

but then wasn't any love lost between

buck and anybody on that boat well where

i come from that's check

and mate

i'll be damned

i guess you figured i'd get clobbered

humber

rematch

another time old buddy just take my

flower and be on my way

don't make plans for tomorrow night my

place at sunset you're all

invited

especially you

evelyn

many thanks

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happy birthday

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all right okay here you go

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thanks man

to my birthday

and a six week anniversary on palmyra

ginger all right cheers

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poor jennifer we're leaving tomorrow

why

i'm scared to death of him and i'm not

ashamed to admit

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i wish we were going with you

well why don't you

there are plenty of other islands

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okay

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enough

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jim stop it relax relax

that jury's gonna find me guilty

don't talk that way

we haven't even had our innings

i can see the way they look at me

from the very first day those people

decided i was guilty

it's like they weren't even listening to

what was being said

now in your own words mr wolf

will you please tell the court

how you came to meet the defendant

well um

when we first pulled in the only boats

on palmyra were the iola and the sea

land

not long after we said anchor this very

neighborly woman popped up

all right

good morning

i'm jennifer tom norman

welcome to paradise thanks what's this

good huh coconut meal and flour

glad to make you some more if you got

the flour

that's terrific but actually you're only

going to be here a couple days hey we're

talking home baked bread fresh out of

the oven i hate to brag but i've got to

be the best bread maker in a thousand

miles sure why not how much flour do you

need

as much as you can spare

it seemed a little too neighborly if you

know what i mean

but then i met up with matt graham

he told me straight off that buck and

jennifer were just plain hungry

you do that often not as often as he

needs coconuts about off further well

they're pretty much out of staples but

some friends are supposed to come down

with supplies there's been no word yet

so this jennifer she uh married to that

yo-yo who knows these days he's pretty

cute

yeah i wouldn't try anything just an

observation

nice got to keep everything covered or

oiled down to keep it from rusting but

we get the job done so what's going to

happen if their friends don't resupply

them well they talked about fanning

island but their outboards process they

didn't make it under sale

straight into the wind in that tub

forget it tell them you got long hair

and a beard maybe they'll listen to you

what's this i was here when i found the

place i just haven't gotten around to

moving it

brat poison i have checked your honor

this is not one speck of evidence to

show that muff was poisoned and they

keep trying to put rat poison in the

bread its relevance is clearly

outweighed by its prejudicial impact

your honor under rule 403 i know all

about rule 403

how about it mr renoki your honor it

goes to mack and luff's state of mind

wolfe saw the rat poison the first time

he went into the workshop but when he

went back again with sanders it was gone

what's the matter there were some boxes

here on the bench what kind of boxes rat

poison three or four cases they're gone

somebody probably moved them

hi come on board

mac i'll be right up i thought you might

uh like this it's australian oh you love

me okay

everything all right honey yeah except

your mother's roasted heavily this ah

that's funny well thanks my friend's

little resupply mission isn't coming

down for another two months

maybe that means they'll have to leave

so you finally got around to moving

those boxes of rat poison in your

workshop

i didn't move anything

i've been in that workshop since we were

there yesterday well they're gone

i was showing norm around

i think you guys ought to be careful

enough for you

cute

yeah but this isn't

neither of these

man do you know where you might have put

what's going on

nothing

nothing at all

everything's under control there you go

smells great jennifer

hey dave but it's still warm

got a match

hey is your name roy or buck

is your name tom dick or harry

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are you in your mind

probably just don't need it okay

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all right

uh ladies and gentlemen i uh i see it's

a quarter to four so uh rather than

press on we'll adjourn for the day

you're advised not to uh

a few days later

so we were alone with mac and math again

actually after my birthday party things

between me and buck were going pretty

good

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we didn't see the grams again till

oh yes

i was taking a shower

oops i think i got the shampoo i'll get

it

let's say it's that muffers

here to join us for a little douche is

the french caller

mac mac

mac

it's okay honey we're all friends here

right

what's going on hey

nothing let's take a shower later did he

say something

no let's just go

you keep your mouth off my wife

understand

and get some clothes on you're not alone

on this island

no telling you're sorry

sorry for what

i'm supposed to be paradise remember

adam and eve remember

huh want to come aboard sure come on

i just wanted to apologize for buck it

wasn't your fault

he didn't mean it it's okay it's done

want to come visit

gonna get some lemonade sure great

i've seen one of these in a while

how long are you on predictions

okay

i'm trying to conserve not easy you know

buck he's like shark

jennifer do you want to be here

we're here

on this island living like this where

the crabs and the coconuts and the sea

birds have never shut up

i don't know depends on the day

it's like today forget it

i've got this daydream

well it's all the time really

i'm walking down the main street in del

mar

and there's a little shop that has the

cutest things in it

it's named wendy's and i go in and i

visit with the owner for a while

and maybe i buy something

small

and then i go and have lunch with my

girlfriend in the box

and i go and pick mac up at the office

we go to the movies

i love going to the movies

i'd see anything at all i just love it

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nice

oh jennifer just came by to apologize

but really is sorry

okay

hold on

are you tell her tell everyone about

your friends

i talked to shoemaker they're not coming

down at least for another couple of

months

oh

banning here we come

i'm sorry honey

not coming

they better come

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so there was tension in the air when you

decided to leave for fannie

to put it mildly buck and i weren't even

speaking

it was strange to be packing up

even though we planned to return with

food and supplies

i mean we were facing another ocean

voyage this time sailing against the

wind and the current in a leaky boat

with nothing to eat but coconuts

not exactly my idea of a good time

closer we got to leaving

the better palmyra looked

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just your leavings

you don't mind do you

you're my guest

yeah i feel that way sometimes

what was it

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hey

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what's this for

going away present i don't need no

handouts

yeah you do

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jennifer

just a dream

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the day before we were leaving for

fanning

buck said he'd seen mac and he'd asked

us over for dinner on the sea wind

memory going from my mind that

mac didn't seem like the kind of guy to

let bygones be bygones that easily

anyway before dark off we went

hi see win

a dinner guest requested permission to

come aboard

i'm sure we're invited no i dreamed

honey said they were going to try for

bonito they didn't make it back in time

we should just

come on board and make ourselves at home

they were going to be late how come they

didn't put the lights on how the hell

should i know

i'm aboard and make yourself at home

sure doesn't sound like matt well how do

you explain this

as far as i'm concerned they can be

played as they want

but wait a minute

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oh baby

a little brandy

honey

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we should do something honey there's

nothing to do

church in the dark we just got lost

ourselves

relax

maybe we

just went outside the reef and had

trouble getting back just waiting for it

to get light themselves

you know

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hmm

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mack

math

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come on back we've got to start looking

damn it back wake up

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back

back

back

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back

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max

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honey

listen to me

if they beat you themselves it wouldn't

be upside down

what do you say they had some kind of

accident out there it flipped over and

floated in

oh

god oh god

i keep thinking about muffling that cute

little dress in delmar then picking up

mac and going to the movies

she once said that mac and buck were

kind of alike the time i thought it was

ridiculous

those two possibly feel like

how about me and muff

two dopey bimbos who are willing to do

anything our men wanted

not anything

no vince it wasn't like that

i wasn't like susan what's her name or

any of those other mansion girls they

sat around stone waiting for charlie to

crack the whip

that's what you were thinking wasn't it

no

only the jury has to understand that

even though you love buck there was a

line you wouldn't go beyond yeah that's

crucial

how long have you been married vince

23 years

why you ever pushed your wife around

never

you sure

just a little could we please get back

to talking about the case we are talking

about the case

okay you search for four days then what

how'd you decide what to do next

i didn't decide but did

he said we were sailing the sea wind

back to hawaii

i said the hell we were and he said if i

didn't want to i could stay on the

island and wait till somebody showed up

or i could sail the aiola wherever i

wanted to alone

neither of those two ideas particularly

appealed to me

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when did you know buck wasn't going to

return the sea wind

i think i knew it from the beginning

just never faced it

so we were out at sea and buck told me

he had opened the aiolas petcocks

he said he couldn't return it because he

was still a fugitive

so we just sail the sea wind for a

couple of years

and then he'd turn the boat in and

himself like we'd originally planned

i don't know i guess i still love denson

i wanted to believe it

anyway

there wasn't much i could do because the

iola was already sinking

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i love that slum of a boat

knew every inch of her

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i thought she was gonna take us

someplace safe

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gail

gail

happy birthday oh he almost gave me a

corner what's not my birthday i didn't

say it was your birthday no but

somewhere someplace it's someone's

birthday

yeah what is this the government's gonna

rest his case soon right you know it'll

be your turn and you will be at your

absolute craziest most super paranoid

ready to attack everybody and anybody

so i'm spreading good sheer right here

now to help keep you from fighting with

your co-counsel your client the judge

bellhop's waiters parking lot attendance

perfect strangers

out time

thank you

gail she's making me crazy

i've never been so unsure of a client in

my life

you're saying she's guilty

oh my god don't say that no

no i don't believe that

now what am i saying

i'm saying

i'm saying she acts guilty

there's something there's something

inside her something

hidden

something that's eating at her

when i'm alone i'm fine when i'm working

up the transcripts or from notes

but when she's with me i feel it

it's almost like there's a third person

in the room

first i only felt it some of the time

now i'm conscious of it all the time

and it terrifies me

because i'm afraid of

i feel and i'm going to convey it to the

jury

yeah

what does len say

ellen thinks i'm around the bend

but he works with goodly people all the

time so it doesn't bother

maybe she acts guilty because she's

innocent

i beg your pardon

well if buck killed these people

jennifer can't help but feel in some way

responsible whether she knew anything

about it or not right

all right

unless of course she acts guilty because

she is guilty

she isn't making you crazy honey you're

making you crazy

happy birthday

did the defendant tell you anything

about what happened to the iola

she said they were towing the iola with

the sea wind

but that the iola got hung up on a reef

and they were unable to dislodge it so

they left the boat there and sailed away

on the sea wind did miss jenkins say

anything about why they were using the

c1 in the first place

she stated that since the grahams had

invited them for dinner and said make

ourselves at home she rationalized that

to mean

if anything happened to the grams she

and buck could take possession of the

sea wind

your witness mr bugliosi

with respect to this interview of

jennifer on the coast guard cutter on

october 29th of 1974 she was very very

eager was she not to tell you what

happened on palmyra yes so she was

in fact she was so eager that even

even while you were advising her over

constitutional rights

she was interrupting you to tell you

what happened yes sir that's true

did you tape record jennifer's interview

with you no i did not

you didn't

and why not

well we found that

when we do that we rely too much on the

recorder and not on what's being said

so if someone wanted to verify your

recollection of what jennifer had told

you there is absolutely no way on earth

they could do that

isn't that true mr shishido

i guess you could say so

what the hell is going on i don't know i

don't know

she was all over and i put it mildly

this what kind of video i didn't know

what to do what could i do i couldn't

push her away in front of the jerk

you haven't um

are you crazy

no

no

i'll talk to her

look i uh

i know how lonesome you must be

and i understand how easy it is for a

client and an attorney to develop an

attraction for each other

but if you were trying to give that jury

a reason to find you guilty you've just

done one fine job

but the jury sees that you haven't got

enough self-control to keep from acting

like that an open court

they just might conclude that on an

island along with a man that you

admitted you were in love with

you just may not have had enough

self-control to keep from doing anything

that he wanted you to do

do you understand me

do you understand what i'm trying to

tell

you yeah i understand

what what there's more

i just uh

i just want you to know that i'm aware

of what a pain in the ass i can be

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it's all right there you go it's all

right

it's gonna be all right

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your honor

the government rests mr buoyosia the

defense calls deborah noland

debbie in 1973 you and your then

boyfriend stayed for a time with buck

walker and jennifer is that correct yes

would you say that you developed a close

relationship with jennifer during that

period of time yes i became very close

to her

and based on your association with her

and your knowledge of jennifer do you

have an opinion as to whether she is a

violent or non-violent person

oh definitely a non-violent person

loving to animals and to people and

mothering everybody

and during your friendship with jennifer

were you aware of her relationship to

buck walker

yes

i kept insisting she got rid of him but

she saw some spark of goodness

something in there that with a proper

love and acceptance could be nurtured

and brought out mr schultz

based on your association with jennifer

jenkins do you have an opinion

as to whether she is a violent or

non-violent person

i cannot imagine jennifer being involved

in violence in any way

mr schultz in 1975 before buck walker

was sentenced for boat theft did you

write a letter to the court in which you

said you did not consider him to be a

violent person well

yes that was before in that letter did

you say that among the people you knew

who knew buck walker he had no

reputation for violence or even

aggressiveness

i i might have written something to that

effect so just as you vouch for buck

walker's character for non-violence you

are appearing here to vouch for jennifer

jenkins character for non-violence what

well it it's not exactly the same would

you say that jennifer jenkins was more

non-violent than buck walker was

nonviolent

i i don't know how to answer that

question

i'm not surprised

no further questions

well i guess i have you to thank vince

cause after you and nokia's gonna seem

like a pussycat i wouldn't be too sure

of that all right i just want to go over

the events of august 30th 1974 the day

makama disappeared oh geez vince not

again i'm sorry again

you remember everything that happened

that day

pretty much

how

what do you mean well it was over 12

years ago how can you remember

right i remember because it was the day

mack and muff disappeared

no good

no good you didn't know they disappeared

until six o'clock

how can you remember what happened

before six

i just told you

you couldn't have known they were going

to disappear unless you've been planning

to kill them

now you answer like that and somebody in

that jury's gonna start thinking like

and that ask me the stupid question

no i have to ask it you have to answer

it or the jury's going to ask it when

they start deliberating and come up with

their own answer now how is it you can

remember what happened before 6 on

august 30th

all right i remember because because

because it was a day before we left for

fanning good remember that all right

going on

i can't vince whipped

you haven't got time to be whipped now

come on get up splash some water on your

face drink some coffee come on i said i

can't

in view of the

lateness of the hour we'll adjourn till

tomorrow morning all right

jennifer

take the night off

everybody better get a good night's

sleep because tomorrow we hit back

vince we need to talk

talk

would you mind waiting outside for a

minute please ted gail not sure

listen i've been thinking about this all

week i've talked it over with jennifer

and she agrees

we don't think she should testify

not testify

will you not take the stand at all she

is the weakest part of our case

weakest

she is our case she's all we've got come

on vince

look jennifer let me make this really

simple

if you don't take the stand on your own

behalf

you're going to prison

i don't care how poised she is or how

persuasive you are

if she takes a stand and nookie gets a

shot of her you can have an okay it's

not worth it she's vulnerable he'll

bring up all the stuff from the boat

theft trial when she was lying her head

off about peripheral matters vince who

cares

i've been watching this jury

and i think we're in trouble now if an

oaky can make jennifer look like a liar

no if he can show she lied to 12 honest

citizens just like them then they're

going to come back with a guilty verdict

even faster than buck's jury did and the

kansas rock is just looking for an

excuse well how is the kansas rock and

the rest of that jury gonna feel when

this woman who's been accused of a

brutal cold-blooded greed inspired

murder won't walk the ten steps of that

witness box to deny us it's too

dangerous

listen to me

you know how we're going to deal with

this boat trial stuff we've talked about

it a hundred times

i'm going to ask you about the lies on

direct then you get a chance to explain

them

i'll ask you about every single time

you've read the truth

i know he'll have nothing left to attack

with

no lies to reveal to the jury because

we'll have dealt with them our way not

his

no i don't bother i don't buy it

but it's your life i'll go along with

whatever you decide

i won't

now wait a minute jennifer you're not

just our best defense

you're our only defense

i believe in you

i believe in you but only if you believe

in yourself

only if you'll walk up on that witness

stand and defend yourself

but if you won't

i can't continue to defend you

what i have to decide now

i'm afraid so

this is right

i have to tell them what happened

do you swear to tell the truth the whole

truth and nothing but the truth

i do

state your name

jennifer jenkins you may be seated

jennifer you're probably going to be in

that chair for one or two days

but right at the top of your testimony

i'd like to uh

ask you these questions

did you kill

or participate in any way whatsoever in

the killing of mack or muff graham

no

i swear by all that i hold dear that i

have never harmed any human being in my

whole life

do you have any personal knowledge

of who may have killed them

no i do not

all right then

going back to 1972.

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jennifer you've heard testimony of this

trial that buck did in fact have a gun

on palmer

yes

did you go along with that

well buck insisted that anyone who

sailed the open seas should have some

means of protection and so i went along

with him

was there anything else about buck that

attracted you to him he was funny he

made me laugh

was it your intention when you arrived

in palmyra to live off the provisions

that you brought with you

no we plan to supplement our provisions

or food's available on palmyra

jennifer did you believe everything the

bucket told you up to that point yes

but never said or did anything to make

me think anything other than

the mac and muff had gone fishing and

not come back would you characterize

yourself

as a suspicious person

no my mother always said i i was far too

trusting

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on august 30th

1974 did you see either mac or muff no

you heard no gunshots no

screams

no

so there was absolutely nothing that

might

arouse your suspicion

no

now jennifer

there were times during the sequence of

events which you just described in which

you told things to people people who've

testified at this trial

when you've told them things that were

not true is that correct

yes that's correct and you also done

things that you knew were wrong at the

time is that correct

yes for example

at a previous procedure in 1975 for the

theft of the sea wind

you testified

that in towing the iola out of the

harbor at palmyra the aiola got stuck on

the reef you couldn't get her free so

you and buck left it in the channel

that testimony i take it was not the

truth is that correct

that's correct

buck sank the aiola

and when you were interrogated by fbi

agent shishido on october 29th of 1974

did you tell him that same untruthful

story

yes

can you tell this jury why you lied well

i thought that mac and matthew died in a

fishing accident

and buck and i were on the run like

we've been on the run since we left

hawaii

and i knew that if i told the truth

but would probably get caught

what you have to understand is that

buck's reality became my reality

he was a fugitive on the run and

i was running with him

so you did what you did

to save buck walker

yes to keep him from getting caught

yeah

because you loved him

yes

do you still love it

no

louder please

no

jennifer

as this judge and this jury are your

witness as god above is your witness

did you have anything whatsoever to do

with the deaths

of mack or moff graham

no

no further questions

your witnesses

miss jenkins you heard testimony from

witnesses in this trial that you are a

non-violent person yes

yes

is it also your testimony that you

wouldn't associate with violent people

i would not associate with anyone

that was doing a valid act

do you consider shooting people to be

violent

yes i i consider shooting people violent

in 1975 you were living in the pueckwa

area of the big island is that correct

yes were you similarly inclined at the

time that is to say you were a

non-violent person yes

then you still had the same beliefs you

had in 1973

and which i still have

during the time you lived in poacher in

1975 did you come to have a boyfriend

named

joe buffalo

yes and did you come to find out while

going with mr buffalo

that he shot and killed a man in

california

is that correct

yes you knew that he was wanted by the

authorities in connection with this

shooting

isn't that right

yes

she lied to us she didn't lie she just

didn't tell us oh for god's sake clients

lying to their lawyers all the time not

my clients come on vance it's not the

end of the world oh no

then how come i'm hearing trumpets

when we spent this entire trial

portraying her as a poor vulnerable

peace loving girl who just happened to

have the bad luck to get mixed up with

the murderer

except now it turns out she was mixed up

with two murderers in two years

if i'm a juror i want to know how come i

want to know why what more bad luck

coincidence absent-mindedness no to hell

with the jury i want to know how come

so what are you saying i'm saying an

innocent person with a polish oh come on

this that's a croc so what a guilty

person tell me one thing

deep in your heart

god instinct

she innocent or guilty

sorry vince i can't help you out

but i will tell you one thing

your summation better be good no no i

take that back

it better be brilliant

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why didn't you tell me

would you have taken the case if i told

you

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ladies and gentlemen of the jury

it has been the defense's theory

throughout the trial that

buck walker killed mack and muff graham

alone that on that fateful day

he went about his grisly business

popping back every few hours to the iola

to communicate with miss jenkins

in conclusion ladies and gentlemen

let's look at what buck walker had to do

alone without any assistance without

being seen or being heard

he had to find mack and muff graham

he had to kill them both

if either of the killings took place in

the sequin he would have to go back and

clean up the evidence

and then set up the drinks and the

appetizer tray for later on and

he had to do this

without being seen by miss jenkins

without her seeing the smoke without her

hearing the motor of the zodiac

or even noticing if anything was

suspicious about him

finally

crowning touch

he decides to kill two people and hide

it from his girlfriend who could take

the iola's dinghy to the shore at any

time and catch him in the act

this man

was clever enough to do everything else

but wasn't clever enough to remove the

dinghy

this is the story that jennifer jenkins

would like you to believe

should you believe it

ladies and gentlemen

jennifer jenkins has admitted to lying

before about this case to a jury like

you far from being a non-violent

compassionate person she has lived with

not one

but two convicted murderers

she had the motive

she had the opportunity and most damning

of all

there was nobody else on the island

there were four people there

mack and muff graham disappeared

and jennifer jenkins and buck walker

ended up with their boat in the aloy

harbor a thousand miles away

re-registered its hall entirely

repainted its name removed

ladies

and gentlemen

it is time

after 11 and a half years

for you to find jennifer jenkins

guilty of murder

thank you

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time sir

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ladies and gentlemen in our system of

justice

a defendant is always innocent unless

proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt

unless

not until

the burden of proof always rests with

the prosecution

key words

the burden of proof

never shifts to the defendant but a

strange and

ominous thing has happened during this

trial

the entire thrust of the prosecution's

case

has been in effect

jennifer jenkins we don't have to prove

that you murdered

muff graham

we put you on palmyra at the time of the

murder

we put you on the sea wind after the

murder

now miss jenkins

you prove that you did not commit the

murder

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now let's try to reconstruct as best we

can what actually happened on that

tragic day in august

the first question that presents itself

in view of the evidence

is whether or not there was in fact an

invitation to dinner

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the necessity of the situation dictated

that jennifer accompanied buck back to

hawaii on the sea wind wouldn't most

people in that situation have done the

same thing

ladies and gentlemen of the jury

when a person is guilty of a crime

he acts the way we expect a guilty

person to act

he acts guilty

in fact mr nokia suggested that when

jennifer ran from the coast guard at

alloy harbor

she was acting like a guilty person

and he was right

except what caused her to run was not

the knowledge that she was guilty of

murder

guilty

of being on a boat that didn't belong to

her

guilty of aiding and abetting a fugitive

but if a guilty person acts guilty

and the prosecution is put on evidence

of consciousness of guilt

then it's equally true

that an innocent person can act innocent

and i can show you the time and again

throughout the events leading up to this

trial

the jennifer jenkins

acted in a way that only an innocent

person could act

with a consciousness of innocence

for example

she testified that she found the

graham's overturned dinghy on the beach

when in fact it would have been far more

logical if she made up the story of a

boating accident to say that she'd found

it in the water

consciousness of innocence

in 1974

she told agent shishido exactly where

she found the diggy and lo and behold

seven years later sharon jordan comes

along and she finds muff graham's

remains in that very same area

now if someone was going to commit a

murder and hide the body

do they then turn around and tell the

authorities where to find it

consciousness of innocence

jennifer kept the interior of the sea

wing

just the way the grams left it

she even kept a picture of mack and muff

on the wall

consciousness of innocence

when agent shishido questioned her

she was so eager to tell him everything

that happened that

she kept interrupting him even while he

was advising her for constitutional

rights

snapshot glimpses ladies and gentlemen

of an innocent mind

ladies and gentlemen i'm going to

conclude

with a piece of evidence pointing to

jennifer's innocent and buck's guilt

a piece of evidence that's so powerful

that if there was nothing else in this

entire case it would cast down on the

prosecution's theory

mr and oakey would have us believe that

two cold-blooded murderers with all the

time in the world to cover their crime

murderers who were careful enough to

burn the face their victim to prevent

identification who then broke her bone

so her body would fit in that box who

then wrapped the box with wire

he would have us believe that they were

then so stupid

that they disposed of the bodies right

there on the island in the lagoon

the first place sure to be dredged

a place where the bodies could surface

and float to the shore

which is exactly what happened

moreover and this is the critical part

they did this

knowing that they had easy access

to a

an ideal burial ground

a place that would virtually guarantee

the bodies would never be found the

middle of the pacific ocean

now why would they do this it doesn't

make sense

well the answer is

they didn't do it

they didn't do it

he did it

he

buck walker did it

alone

because he not only had to hide the

bodies from the

authorities he had to hide them from

jennifer jenkins

ladies and gentlemen

there is only one verdict consistent

with the evidence in this case

and that is a verdict

of not guilty

not

guilty

thank you

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i've got a note from the jury foreman

i quote we've taken seven votes and

we're tied six and six

what do we do now

unquote well i'm going to ask them to

keep going

but you ought to be thinking about what

to do if it's the same way tomorrow

i count eight

where are the others

over there

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i bet you there's a guilty table and an

innocent table

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kansas rock is guilty for sure

he's got seven lunch companions

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elliot

vince

just have to be the neighborhood

yeah

me too

you think they go this

long one day two days who cares as long

as you have fun

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another note

and i quote again

jury at 10 to 2 the two are firm it's

got to be their way

we don't know that

come on

your honor this has become a war of

attrition you've got to declare a

mistrial your honor ten to two they're

making progress well let's ask them

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the two of the red eyes must be the only

ones that voted not guilty ladies and

gentlemen i've

read your note and i understand that you

say the two are firm but i'm going to

ask you to go back to the wars one more

time and discuss only the issue of

whether it's worthwhile to go on

we'll all await your decision

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they broke half an hour ago there's no

word

len says it doesn't mean anything one

way or the other

jen let's go

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it could be the other way

can you think of any conceivable

scenario where two jurors who were

supposedly on our side would have tears

in their eyes if the vote were tended to

for acquittal

hmm

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all

the jury has just informed me that

they've reached a verdict

defendant will rise

the clerk will read the verdict as to

the murder of eleanor graham

we the jury find the defendant jennifer

jenkins

not guilty

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uh

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yeah i still don't believe it i still

don't believe it we thought the two of

you were crying because you were the

only ones that were holding off for

acquittal yeah we were for acquittal all

right we were just so frustrated because

we couldn't convince the last two wait

wait don't tell me the guy in the end

right

i knew you thought that but i voted not

guilty from the start

if i know that it would save me a lot of

sleepless nights well thank you all very

much thank you thanks a lot

thanks bye-bye

thank you very much

boliosi

len whitehead two of the best

ah shucks to get out of here with that

stuff

jennifer

you all right

all right are you kidding

i'm perfect

pure as a driven snow

the jury of my peers just said so

so

so what why are you drinking like you're

trying to forget something

tell me something cancer

you think i'm pure as a driven snow

you know i never

really knew what that expression means

well let me put it this way

what if say 13 years ago this big

dangerous hunk of a loser had come up to

me at this party in hawaii and i'd said

get lost would makama still be alive

i don't know but what if he'd said

hey babe we're going to get this boat

and sail away to an island paradise and

i'd said you out of your stupid mind

would mac and muff still be alive

jennifer shut up vince you talked all

day in court now it's my turn

what if after the boat fell off the

trailer i hadn't bullied him into fixing

it what if i hadn't fought with him and

made him feel small what if i hadn't

said the sea wind was a great boat what

if i hadn't said i like mac what if what

if what jennifer that's enough

you and your eye won't defend you unless

you're innocent

if i'm innocent how come mac and martha

dead

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