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what you are about to see is a

dramatization of one of the most

controversial and bitterly debated

police investigations preceding the

supreme court's landmark miranda

decision of 1966

name changes

compressions of time and composites of

certain characters have been made in

order to present this most significant

story

i have a dream

that one day

this nation will rise up

live out the true meaning of its creed

we hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created

i have a dream

that one day on the red hills of georgia

sons of former slaves and the sons of

former slave owners

will they be able to sit down together

i have a dream

that one day

even the state of mississippi a state

sweltering with the heat of

injustice

sweltering with the heat of oppression

will be transformed into an oasis of

freedom and justice

oh no

one day live in a nation where they will

not be judged by the color of their

how did you get here

the hero of today's events

is clearly martin luther king

who emerges as one of the most appealing

magnetic personalities in our country

today

that

is faces and the attitudes of the crowds

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tangible effects of today's events will

be in the past american public

has yet to be seen

no one really knows the heart of america

whether all the years of hatred and

racial violence

are a thing of hello

whether we have now turned a corner

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joanne

are you oh i'm sorry

what's going on here

i see what's going on here yeah they

don't do anything and he won't hurt you

don't touch me

leave me alone

give me my glasses i want to see you i

want to see what you look like

don't touch me

don't touch me

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joanne

is anybody home

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jerry

ah could you come over here please

going to the kitchen with us

where's the phone

jerry what

phone

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don't go in there

don't go with it jerry

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so

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um

my name is theo kojak

it's interesting a matter of fact death

could become

i can remember the first day i was on a

force

an automobile accident there was a lot

of blood all over the car

i went to the side of the road and threw

up

now there are two girls 20 and 22

mutilated beyond anything i'd ever seen

and i can look at it

and only wonder who did it

and why

but before we were through with the

marcus nelson murders the supreme court

will rock

laws of the country

change

separating the country into

and as for me

it would change the way i looked at my

neighbor my city

my country

and myself

i should like to get out of that

apartment nobody should die like that

that's the way chickens are executed

i have to be kojak in charge of this

investigation

we can't help them answers the first

call on a homicide

ah there is inspector throne are you

coming in just for a minute we're due

downtown

still with the italian suits i see well

very happy you noticed

you know when i was a kid i promised

myself two things

number one that i'd be rich

and number two that i stopped wearing my

big brother's hair me downs

when i ain't rich but at least i dress

well until my tail of throws being again

that is

i'm gonna have to put more men on the

case

how many

homicide experts from all over town

how many

about a hundred oh why don't you make it

500 what do you mean i mean why don't

you make it a thousand

kojak

after everything we've just gone through

with you

as a way of life in manhattan

the parents are not only solid citizens

they're also celebrities

now you're gonna have to cooperate with

us you can have 100 detectives falling

all over themselves for promotion

it's not your business to determine

policy no that's your department

the assignments have already gone out

you'll meet with them on 88th street in

the morning

welcome to the national policeman's

convention

it's so good to know that the community

is being protected by such steward

representatives from manhattan brooklyn

bronx

queens

hey staten island oh yeah i'm sorry

the matter be of interest to you i'm

sure

is point of access

there's a doorman downstairs i'm sure

you've noticed

and he says that nobody was admitted

into the apartment at the time of the

murders

there's also a service entrance

downstairs the door locks automatically

i'm sure somebody could have climbed a

wall come through the window

the nearest ledge is eight feet away

so that means

the murder would have to be a cat

burglar

or a circus performer

which isn't very likely

come here follow me

weapons of the bathroom sink three

knives two broken and that's not easy to

do

follow the trail

the bodies were lying here

bound together by strips of sheep

the blinds were drawn

window open

clock stopped at 10 37.

it might be indicative of something and

it might not

any questions

you like to make telephone calls

now i got a record here of some of your

calls

now they're kind of kind of spicy you

know

now take a look at this would you say

that was one of your better calls right

herpe

we understand you have a tendency to

knock girls around a little when

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history

an investigation of everyone who knew

the murdered girls

the chief source of reference

joe and marcus's address book

the number of names it contained

565.

oh yeah quite a spectacle

all those red-blooded american boys out

there

trying to get ahead

just like me

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in the brownsville area of brooklyn far

from the middle class protected

community which joanne marcus and kathy

nelson died ethel lawson

came out of about three o'clock in the

morning six months later go ahead then

you find harry what do i do baby

oh

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get away from me

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it's the bale

uh-huh

yeah a few days after the death of ethel

lawson

and a few blocks away

another unrelated incident happened

i think i got something going down

get away from me

hey what are you doing hey please

stop our show

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160 165.

yes

i got something for him

i got a bottle from his coat

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the next morning patrolman stabile

looked for suspects

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hey

what are you doing in there

trying to keep wall

come out here

did you catch that guy last night

what guy

that guy where you shooting at what do

you know about that

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i was walking down the airport leaving

my aids house

and and

and

this guy came running around the corner

he he said he

he said hide me hide me

i said man i can't hide you

you take off somewhere

which way you go

i think you went down that way he went

down picking

you think you recognize this guy if you

saw him again

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i don't know man it was kind of dark

tell you what

you and i take a little walk come on

come on come on

what do you do

try to rape a woman

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steve post 16.

yeah i got a witness here then i

attempted rape

hey kid what's your name

my name louis humes how do you spell

that

h-u-m-e-s

lewis jones

h-u-n-e-s

yeah okay

uh

it's my

brother what's your name

abe

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sir

can we please go there because we're

trying to find a job

where you going now

they're doing something

running they was chasing that song so

what are you supposed to be some kind of

reporter or something

did not tell you you can't say nothing

you get into trouble but i ain't scared

i ain't doing that so how often you got

to do something to get in trouble what

are you some kind of doofus or something

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i'm not going to pay for any food that's

that's it

and what are you walking behind

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who is he

suspect 985

used to date joanne marcus

someone saw him arguing with her outside

of her apartment

his name is ryan mcnally age 24

freelance writer

he was in washington d.c at the time of

the homicide

i'm sorry i should have checked the

files more carefully that's what happens

when half of the police force is on one

case

they have a tendency to fall all over

each other you want some coffee

hey you want some coffee i'll catch you

later

ruthie

ruthie

you don't remember me do you

i remember you

oh everything is so expensive i get out

of the market i can't believe my bill

this is as good as top round

i didn't know you lived around here

where's uh

jack isn't that the name of the guy you

married

it's over oh welcome to the club

what were you running away for

i got fat

you're not fat

oh wait try try this doesn't have no big

brand name on it but it's just as good

hey you're really up on all these things

i'm afraid

you're a great cook

how about me cooking up some chili i

make a great chili

what's the use of going back we had

something nice let's leave it alone

there aren't so many things back to

remember

you're someone i remember

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hey uptown how's the marcus nelson case

hey dan how are things in manhattan

they're as good as they think they are

they come up with anything yet ah

they order they've been on it long

enough that's been nonvisible it's a

while hot shot

hey al yeah

the attempted rape of the puerto rican

woman

i would tell there's a lawson murder

same vicinity picking avenue

same ammo

how did that occur to you

no

all right this kid the one who saw it

now what's he like

i didn't even give him a toss

that's a stupid kid i like this stupid

chip what's his address

says he works at the darwin salt company

you want to do me a favor hey bishop and

check it out now

okay okay

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there he is

hey hello hey

i'd like to ask you a few questions

police officer

the other fella told the police officer

yesterday that you

see the man running from the police yeah

i'm the one i see your identification

i don't think i got none

you got anything with your name on it

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i got a couple of letters i think all

right

lewis hughes

why'd you say you worked at the derwin

salt company

i was going to but

i lost my social security card

uh-huh

well uh maybe you can help us

so

would you come with us down to the

station

attaboy okay let's go

okay lois you just have a seat over here

all right

that's it right down here

uh sergeant

hey if anybody's going after go up here

take a regular

all right

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sir

this won't take long relax

the first time please

tell me about my first time

yeah

thank you

i'll catch you

later miss alvarez

you want to step this way we got

somebody who wants you to see

oh don't worry about that just step

right in here okay

don't worry about it right there

that's it

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well

is that him

i like to hear him saying something

i want you to say something for me

i want you to say

lady i'm gonna rape you

lady i'm gonna kill you

what's wrong

just say the words okay

what phone just say it

what's wrong just say the word

why i'm saying all this

just do me the favor louis please

let it i'm going to rape you lady i'm

going to kill you that's good little

louder

lady i'm going to rape you lady i'm

going to kill you

take it easy

here here here

sit down over here okay

come on

all right it's all

right okay

it's all right all right

i'm mrs alvarez

this lady said you tried to rape her

what

i don't even know her

hey lady you make a mistake

lady i ain't do nothing to you

give me some coffee we have okay matt

come on mrs alvarez we're getting

outstairs okay

louis humes you're under arrest for

attempted rape put your hands on the

wall oh what come on boy well how could

she say it was me well that's the ticket

i wasn't

you're loaded

all right lewis let's go

come on

it wasn't like it was before

was it

better

there always was a streak of

old-fashioned gallantry about you

what have you been doing with yourself

ruthie i'm a nurse

a nurse

i had a

i had to do something

you know after the divorce good for you

i bet you you still come oh yeah you

can't kick it huh why not i don't know

i thought at first i was doing it to

support the wife put the braces on the

kid's teeth

and now the braces are gone and so is

the white

habit maybe

there's more to it i don't know that's

the one thing about you i could never

get with

i don't like most cops i know either

but who else would put their lives on

the line at these places

i think you're wasting yourself

i don't know if i ever had more to offer

in the first place

cigarette

nope i gave up smoking

yes

you called grossman to come over and get

this confession uh-huh i'm on it right

now

what's up they got the attempted rape

and the loss and murder on kitten avenue

i don't forget to make a list of all

this huh okay

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hey where you going i got to make a list

of that yeah yeah

i'll be back

you want to talk to him oh

your suspect the suspect

come on now we got it all awesome thing

too

i want to talk to him nothing to talk

about

louis

this is detective corrigan

and he wants to ask a few questions

now you've been telling us the truth so

far so

just keep telling us the truth

once again

whose picture is there

my

the girls

where are they from

they're from jersey jersey

where in jersey

they said

they want to rant and erase once

what are their names

my name is i can't hear you

i said when i'm his name

what's your name

i remember

just tell a man what he wants to know

about us just tell the truth

they want to check it out anyway i won't

be able to help

come on come on come on lewis enough

when i was in my class in school what

does a girl like that want to give you

her picture for

i found it in a dump around my house

you want us to believe that

you keep it

tell them the truth listen

cause i liked because you're what

i liked it

i i i always liked her

i just want to pretend that i knew her

i used to show the picture to people

just

made life that i knew

tell me lewis

do you recognize these knives

oh

no

how did you come in the room

to the open door

what did you do

i ran the kitchen and at 2 30 the

following morning assistant district

attorney for manhattan mr michael cabot

arrived accompanied by manhattan

detectives tanner and greene

they took down this confession for lewis

jones

she came in

what was you out

she didn't have my number to town

what did she have from the waist up

nothing

did you or she say anything then that's

when she starts screaming and hollering

what did you do after she started to

scream

i ran over and grabbed hold her and

i told her to shut up

how did you grab her

i grab around the back

grab her by the neck

what happened in there after you dropped

her into the bedroom

i hid it with the bot

what did you do after you hit her on the

head with the bottle and the bottle

broke

i tied up

how did you turn around

with the sheets here covering the body

what happened then

that's when her her mother came in

what do you say it was a mother

well that's what i understand it was a

mother

what did you do then i i i i i got up

and

i told her to be quiet

she started screaming and howling and

then i ran over

and over to her

and

i grabbed her

what did you do then

i i started to have intercourse with her

you started to have what

i say i i start to that's before she

comes too

what happened when she came too

she started screaming and howling again

what did you do then

lay in the kitchen

why did you run into the kitchen

i was trying to find a knife

what did you do

i start cutting and swinging at it

why did you do that

satisfaction

satisfaction for what

i know i i was angry

then i i

i ran the bathroom

why did you run into the bathroom

what wash the blood off

of my hands did you go back into the

bedroom

before i i left the bear when i pulled

the shades down

why don't you pull down the shades

because if

it if they came to they would get up

the two girls you cut

and then the people in the next

apartment might seem tied up

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good evening inspector hofstetter

one of the heads of brooklyn law

enforcement arrived later that evening

how the hell am i supposed to know

all right

what have you got

a picture in his wallet of joanna marcus

what else

confession

how much of a confession 61 pages

what else we have a diagram of the

marcus nelson apartment

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oh

i'm sorry

i couldn't get out of here sooner

why are the woman

she died

could we bother you

no

i was coming for a long time

hey you know those drapes i was making i

brought them

or am i trying to domesticate you too

much

oh

that question is a little too weighty

for this argument

where

brownsville

by the way

what is this

the marcus nelson thing

you have to go up

now well

either i gotta get with the force

you've got to give up nursing

maybe we're too far down the road to

give up anything for each other

you want me to wait for you here

i'll call you at your face later

so

so

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had stuff

we beat our brains out tracked that

every clue for eight months and those

brooklyn hicks

they stumble on it

hello inspector where is he right this

place

looks like new year's eve i got

something to celebrate

tell us once more how you took the

knives from the drawer oh frank hey

inspector

i look into the door

the kitchen table drawer

yes

there were knives in there

how many knives did you grab

i got about three

which one did you use

what's in there

well

details

down from the color of the table in the

dining room to the number of knives you

picked up

he talks about it like he was talking

about taking a drink of water

are you surprised by anything now frank

not much

what's your name harrigan sir good

workouts thanks that's a copy of his

confession yes

you give it to the lieutenant

i'd like to talk to him myself

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i'll give you your statement now wait a

minute

lewis jones took the subway over to

manhattan

and he wondered how hazardly it today if

i change my name or something irish you

know what once you got inside their

apartment and picked up an empty bottle

good to see you well we don't see you

anymore you know that world i mean do

you want ambitious all right

of course i'm

working there long enough right here

to work

hard

there are some things in this i want to

go over with you it's all in here well

there are a few things a little vague

it doesn't say how he got into the

building

well maybe you got into that service

though well i tried it myself it locks

automatically

maybe it doesn't work that well all the

time all right maybe how about the blood

he went into the bathroom wash his hands

i need to close

i had to have it all over him did he

tell you he changed that place

you sure there's joanne marcus come on

what do you think

blind

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hmm

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hey kid you want to say anything to me

no i don't want to say anything again

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hello miss car i'm sorry to bust in on

you this out of the morning that's all

right come on in

thank you what is it

well they picked up somebody in brooklyn

got a picture in this water

they think it may be the guy we're

looking for

something could this be a picture joanne

marcus

it's so old and faded

take your time

no that's not her

are you sure

yeah sure

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melissa carr will not identify the

photograph

that doesn't mean that he didn't find in

their apartment

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no thanks

what you think you're gonna do it well

the charges against you are pretty

serious

what

what is it titus

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do you swear that you officer arrested

louis humes on a charge of homicide

in that the defendant herein mansion did

stab and cut with a knife about the

throat neck and body of two females one

joanne marcus and kathy nelson that

resulted in death of the apostate

i swear

those hills

you have a lawyer

i can't hear you

i don't think he can afford a lawyer

honor let him speak for himself

is there a lawyer in the court now

uh yes judge

mr morris fisher

mr morris fisher will you make your

presence known to the court right here

sir

mr fisher do you want to assist this

court

yes sir

officer you take the defendant over the

table there so he can consult with

council

thank you

uh

did you hear the charges that they have

against you huh they ain't true

that true you confess to them

they made me

oh what do you mean they made they made

me

how

they beat me up and they they scared me

louis

louise they have 60 pages right here in

your own words

man i i do nothing

is that what you want me to tell them

you sure

okay

um your honor

your honor it seems that i'm the first

person uh the defendants had the

opportunity to discuss this with uh not

including the police officials

the defendant now states that the

confessions pertaining to all three

crimes were made under duress and

threats

if your honor please i think the

officers should be commended in this

matter i mean i know that this man has

been wanted for quite some time for

these murders i think a lot of people

are going to rest a lot easier now that

he's been apprehended you aren't the

court please uh excuse me council

without saying or

implying any innocence or guilt in this

matter

the people of this town are pleased with

the arrest for murder in this case in

which they've been very much concerned

i think the police department does a

fine effective job

they do it efficiently they do it

properly

this court

commands the police department the city

of new york

the people of this town are going to

have much more

respect and confidence in law

enforcement now rather than two three

days ago when

relationship to these two major crimes

officer bring the defendant to the bar

lewis humes i order you to be held

without bail until it is determined by a

grand jury whether you should be

indicted

and if so on what charges

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over here dan hey dan hey mark

you've been calling about it

huh

lieutenant first grade dan carrigan huh

congratulations you guys just take that

with me

at 11 o'clock i know you can see how

much he loves the force oh yeah

i can't even get him to go away on a

vacation yeah he deserves one

congratulations again dan my wife having

such a beautiful wife

i made it you know you get more

beautiful every day

hey look who's here

how are you guys taking this up in

manhattan

milksha

hey danny can i talk to you a minute

before you go

are you on a vacation here

look i've been going over that

confession there's a few things in it

that you want to know what the inspector

said

there are more details in that

confession than any case that he can

remember

why do you call that nelson girl the

mother

talk to the inspector

let's go marge

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sit down

i ain't talking to nobody i said sit

down

did a lot of talking to them now you're

gonna do a lot of talking to me

what are you here for i'm a cop

can you say that cops are trying to

lynch you

well i'm not a lyncher neither are they

maybe they was just

trying to make points that's a lie and

you know it

well

why should i want to talk to you

i already did enough talking makes me

believe you make me believe you're not

telling a lie how can i do that tell me

what they said

exactly what they said

and then i know if you're telling a lie

and i know if you're telling the truth

thing or two in there then they threw me

under what

names i gotta have names

that young cop

stabile

and black

the tough one he scares you now what'd

he say

i gotta have the words

all right louis

are you ready to tell us the truth

i have been telling you you've been

lying now we know you tried to rip that

woman

stand up

face the chair

okay

did you try to rape that woman

no i i didn't do nothing

take it easy don't hit me no more

look at me look at me

i'm gonna tell you exactly what happens

you were looking for some white stuff

you were following around no

you saw that particularly no i never

seen it before you followed it no it

wasn't no you grabbed it around the neck

you pushed her into the alley you

haven't remembered al here your director

that's the truth isn't it

believe me this is your last chance tell

me the truth

i've never seen it before i've never

seen it before tell me the truth lois

i didn't do nothing

that's what you say

now i'll tell you what they say

cigarette

thanks

i i know i need help can you help me

louis you have to ask a

lawyer

now or judge that kind of help

you've been as nice as my own father

you've been nicer than my own father

if i don't tell you the truth you'll

find out anyway right

you don't have to tell us anything

but if you do talk to us we want the

truth nothing else okay

it's a lie they say they never even

raise their voices to you

they're gonna testify to that it's a lie

words names

tell me everything you remember

the older one jackarino

jack

he says

don't y'all touch this boy i i won't

stand for it

he pretends like like he's your friend

he pretends to be better than your own

father

i know it must seem like the end of the

world to you

but it's necessary

what are you doing out of the time of

night

i ain't had no place to sleep

you know any place to sleep

my mother come to see you and

my father and i split up

we all came with her

she she went back

she thought i'd be all right cause i got

a job

but

i i lost it

where did you sleep

i slept in the hallway

why don't you call your parents

that's what parents are

supposed to be for

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i ain't want to call cause my dad not a

good mom too good

seem like a hard guy to get along with

me

the button from the code ain't mine

i lost mine a long time ago

how did you lose it

i don't know

woman claimed she saw you

a few of them

which would you believe

you

her

he said

nobody would believe me

so he finds out

everything about you you're your dreams

then he used it against me

you want to trust somebody

what are you going to do when you get

out of this list

you think i will

i'm going to do everything i can to help

what do you want to do with your life

i want to go in the navy

maybe

well you get educated they're better

than anyone else what do you want to do

later

don't laugh

well laughing who's left

i want to be a artist

61 pages of confession

after a while you just break down and

shake your head you figure you ain't

gonna ever get out of there unless you

do you confessed to the murders of three

women i didn't know what i was

confessing to

the first time i knew it was murder was

when i was with you in the courtroom

he fooled me

he fooled you

just a few more questions lewis

always

just a little more lewis come on get the

head up with this

it's a little more what i'll be through

what happened i ain't gonna answer till

i find out what happened to them girls

what the girls that we're talking about

in the apartment

is it all right now what

what's my louis

what is it are you worried about the

girls is that

look i'm gonna give them a call

okay

oh

where's them girls cut back

have a cigarette lily

how many of those things have been

smoking louis

i don't know

i'm going to cut down

stuff is poison

yeah

that was sandwich i i don't want nothing

else to eat i already had too much food

well i talked about

they're not mad at you

and none of the other said anything

about that phone call

no

drew a diagram of the murder girls

apartment

this is the diagram

which part did they help you with

what's the matter something wrong with

your eyes

i can't see too good

i wear your glasses

i ain't got

i never had the money to get it with

excuse me lieutenant they got his mother

out there

all right send her in

right

well ma

oh my god

wow

son what happened to you

hey pick me up mom

they made me confess to them crimes

are you gonna stay here

are you gonna go back to save you

of course i'm gonna stay here with you

i was alone

i was the only color person there

going over the confession all morning it

seems to be all right is there any doubt

in your mind that is all right hey look

danny i asked you once

let me ask you again

why did the kid call kathy the mother

ask him not me

sit down sit ah thank you sir

why did he say you pulled down the

shades in the apartment so that if they

came to no one would see them he cut

them the ribbons he must have known that

they weren't coming to

mr goodman

i don't know why he said that the

diagram of the apartment did he draw it

all

his initials are all over it two

different pens did it what are you

suggesting i drew the diagram myself

this uh

photograph

no no one will identify it as joanne

marcus

i told him

it doesn't mean he couldn't find it in

the apartment

oh and it could be a picture of somebody

else but he still may have found it in

the apartment well how do you know he

wasn't telling the truth when he said he

found a picture and see if you i know

when they're lying their stomachs move

in and out whose stomachs

come on

who's stomach

look i know him i worked in brownsville

for a long time

is there anything else

no no that's all for now

well if there is anything else would you

please contact the da's office in

brooklyn

i'm working on a new case for them

they don't want me off a job

see yeah

can there really be something wrong with

this

what do you think it's not only him

it's a brooklyn police department the

manhattan police department the brooklyn

da's office your department my

department and what are you gonna do

about it what can we do about it

you take the photograph

our corrigan says that hume got it from

the apartment

and hume says he got to deceive you

can i take this yeah

why don't we find out it was telling the

truth

what's that what

up there you mean the right-hand corner

no no no

right here

i don't know it's like a sandy stretch a

broad pathway

could be a river

this doesn't look like the place at all

you said that photo is 10 years old

these trees have grown up a lot since

then

what's this uh stretch of something here

there used to be a lake here

the vegetation's covered it over

thank you officer

let's go to a police station

yeah

you know that looks a lot like travis's

daughter travis yeah he used to be mayor

he owns a service station about three

blocks down turn left it's right on the

corner

thank you sure thing

he'll be back after lunch

about a half hour yeah

let me see that again

if that doesn't look like a lane

you know who this looks like this looks

like lynn piser

where does she live right around the

corner

[Applause]

thanks

where did you get this picture is this

your picture yeah we took it right after

graduation

pigtails

uh some of us went up to mount jersey

woods

oh excuse all this mess we're waiting

for the movies

prizes this is very important

what happened to that picture

oh i don't know it was bouncing around

the house my mother threw it away

when was that um spring cleaning may

june

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all right

well

they won't drop the indictment

so they don't have enough

you don't think i like it do you

the whole thing started with a picture

well it isn't a girl's picture what are

they gonna do

well we'll proceed slowly we'll

investigate everything

we don't want to make any statements at

this time because we don't want to

embarrass brooklyn

embarrass brooklyn

well if brooklyn could be embarrassed

they would have dropped dead years ago

anybody talk to brooklyn

yeah and what they say they said they

weren't interested in hearing any fairy

tales fairy tales

too many promotions and citations are

involved that's the ball game brooklyn

law enforcement is on trial isn't it

that's what they mean

theo we can't delay the legalities on

this case besides you don't even have

enough to

yeah the people from the press are here

sir cinnamon

when there are more developments you let

us

know why the earth's shaking urgency

about this case

what's the damn hurry about this case

nothing nothing at all just that i

happen to care about law and order and i

happen to care about what's happened in

our country that's all hi dear what are

you doing down here something wrong with

the case against you wrong why should

anything be wrong well i don't know uh

come on mary why hasn't manhattan moved

on the indictment against you yeah it's

been a while mario we are not

responsible for what goes on in

manhattan we know what we're doing here

what are you doing mary what are we

doing i'll tell you what we're doing we

are going to try louis humes for the

attempted rape of rita alvarez within

the next two weeks well that's news can

quote me on that's what i'm doing mario

the marcus nelson murders were committed

first mario don't you have to try him

for that first teams what what are you

telling me my job i told you we are not

responsible for what they do in

manhattan we are responsible for

brooklyn it reminds me of the sacrifice

eddie case why is that sacco you got the

nerve to compare this with the sacko

vanzetti case yeah my parents fought for

sacko vincent how does this compare with

sacko vincent yeah you tell me well they

first tried them on a minor charge too

it helped both cases no complaints wait

a minute mario what do you mean well you

have a famous case you try a man on

lesser charge the jury has already

figured him guilty in their minds

because they know he's going to be tried

for something terrible kid is guilty

mario mario you know the score yeah i do

know this now once he's had a conviction

the jury at the next trial hangs him too

because they figure he's guilty of

something

he's already been convicted they've got

him coming and going mrs humes i'm

seeing you because of my friendship with

mr sergeant here who used to work with

me

i've been reading about your son's case

in the papers like everybody else

he has a lawyer hasn't he

yeah but the court giving one

he don't have a child experience

the woman he is supposed to have

attempted to rape identified him

they've got a confession please

they even found a picture of the

murdered girl in his wallet

he's innocent

even if he is

the truth doesn't count for much in a

courtroom jake i'm sorry sorry i'm sorry

but i believe in telling the truth in

these matters

it's like being a surgeon a patient has

cancer tell them i believe in that

they've got enough to convict your son

ten times

they said you saved me

i can't save your son

the publicity the confession

the whole atmosphere makes it impossible

i'm sorry

i'm very sorry

goodbye

she's a nice woman saul

she managed to say goodbye even though i

told her i couldn't save her son

now you get out of here

if you ever bring anybody in here again

and make them false promises from me

i'll kill you

[Applause]

louis how are you how you feeling

listen

i'm gonna recommend something to you

i made a deal with the judge

he'll give you life

life you better face it lewis you have

two homicides in manhattan one attempted

rape and a homicide here it's a good

deal lewis uh

how is it gonna be a good deal when i'm

gonna be spending the rest of my life in

in jail

for something i ain't even do louis

listen what kind of chance do you think

you have it is your word against the

manhattan and the brooklyn police

departments

no

no more deals

he said

let me touch you

and then he put his hand under my coat

and under my uniform

and he said he wanted to

have intercourse with me

what was his exact language

i want to

have sexual relations

i'm gonna rape you

then i got hold of his hands

and then of his coat

and i started screaming

you recognize this coat

that looks like the code the man was

wearing that night

the man that was following me under

attacked

and this button

this is the button you took from the

code of the man who followed you and

attacked you

yes

thank you

now mrs alvarez

do you see the man in this court the man

who followed you and attacked you that

time

yes

i think you could stand down and walk

over and tap him on the shoulder

let the record show that mrs alvarez

have to defend anne on the shoulder

no further questions

detective black how many years have you

been on the force

eleven

have you ever received any uh citations

for bravery

i have

how many

19

19.

have you ever subjected a defendant at

any time to duress or threats

no

have you ever subjected any suspect at

any time to duress the threats never

well then how did you get the confession

out of the defendant

on a pad like this

in his own words he cooperated complete

absolutely completely thank you no

further questions

detective jack arena when you came into

the precinct

did you see any evidence that the

defendant had been beaten or coerced

into a confession no

did you see any bruises on his face or

on his body no

can you speak up please very difficult

no thank you

detective did you personally speak with

lewis humes the day that he arrived at

the precinct

yes

what do you two talk about

we had a casual conversation what was it

about

well we talked about his background i

asked if he'd

been working he said yes but he hadn't

worked steadily he'll tell you why

so he had problems

problems what kind of problems

people he had problems with people

problems with people

he'd tell you anything else about his

job uh he said he

sometimes got into arguments and that he

quit his job or be dismissed by his

employer

did he ever discuss with you at any time

anything regarding the attempted rape

yes

well he must have said more than that

could you elaborate for the court

he said that he put

his hand under her dress

and said shut up or i'll kill you

that's sufficient for me your honor

they stood me in front of the chair

and they called me alive

i told them

if i said i did it then

your honor could you please instruct the

defendant to speak up i cannot hear

words

i told him that

if i said i i did it that

i'd be lying

so every time i said i didn't do it i

got knocked back down the chair

then they stood me up this side of the

wall

they kept beating me

and beating me

i i

i just couldn't take no myself

i just shook my head

detective black beat him

patrolman stabile beat him

detective jackarino lied to him

now if you want to believe all of that

if you want to believe that as a result

of that

detectives are the finest police force

in the world they just go out and they

beat up anybody just to get confessions

adam

well in this society he's in a very sad

state indeed

but that is what you've got to believe

to believe lewis hume's story

either lewis humes is

either lewis humes has lied or uh

these police officers have lied very

nice likeness lewis

detective black

19 citations for bravery

detective jack arena

detective carrigan

they have all conspired to pick out

lewis humes out of all the people in the

whole world

so either lewis humes is lying

or they are all conspirators

ladies and

gentlemen isn't it true that we have

nailed louis humes on the button

i'll say you as for the first count of

the indictment accusing the defendant of

attempted rape in the first degree

children

i'll say it was the second count of the

indictment charging the defendant with

assault in the second degree guilty or

not guilty

well the defendant stand

the defendant having been found guilty

by a jury

is now directed by this court to be

committed to kings county hospital for

mental examination to determine whether

he is a perpetual sex menace

sense will be determined upon completion

of examination

is

always looking for gloria jake

aren't we all

i'm gonna make you another clarence

daryl

i am another clarence

yeah

see this

fbi report

elaborate has failed to prove any

connection between the button

and louis hume's code

does portela know about this

been on this desk for a week

when he made that charge of the jury

interesting

but not surprising

charges against lewis hume or phony

which one all of them what about the

confessions and kicked out of them

didn't they

i mean they found them as well as a

picture of the word girl picture the

girl was not joanne marcus

it was not joey and mark

well he's confessed to three murders and

an attempted rape what is he your dear

nothing

two coffees

you sure

i know where he was at the time the

marcus nelson made us

150 miles away

how do you know i've got eyewitnesses

reputable people

people in a small hotel and save you who

are with humes watching martin luther

king's speech on television

practically every black knows where they

were on that day

thank you ben

why are you doing this

i don't have to tell you what happens to

a

information

i know

well

i don't want to do it

i was expecting somebody else to do it

but no one is

on february 18th

another seemingly unrelated incident

happened this time in spanish

harlem is coming

i know he's coming he's saying things

about you you know how crazy he is what

a temper he has to kill you look i'm not

gonna run away from him

roberto

you ripped me off man

what the hell are you doing here stuff

you told me was no good

get out of here

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

hey i killed timoteo i killed him but

was in self-defense man he came to me

first ah we got you this time haven't we

bobby you're not a three-time loser

you're a four-time loser it's the

electric chair this time not necessarily

what do you mean go to nelson marcus

kings yeah well i know who wasted them

today

what do you want from us

i want to walk away from the timoteo

murder

come on

we already have someone on the marcus

nelson murders

hey don't you read the newspapers

you have someone

but you wouldn't be seeing me unless you

have your doubts

right

oh let's hear it

was the day of the thing

came to my apartment what was the man's

name

i want my deal man

i'll have to talk to my superior first

take him away

i guess the life of a puerto rican drug

pusher doesn't count for as much as the

lives of two white middle-class career

girls

because bobby martin

well he got his deal

sit down

thanks don't mind if i do

okay full immunity on the homicide of

roberto to mateo

no accessory after the fact in the

nelson markers murders

uh you really know the law don't you huh

i could teach you guys a couple of

things

okay

who is it

uh-uh

uh-uh

okay

no accessory after the fact and the

marcus nelson now who is it

guy by the name of teddy hopper

who

you know him

yeah i know this guy's lying he took you

in too huh get out of here go

talk to you later hey man easy on the

laundry

what makes you so sure he's lying

i know it's

betty he's not capable of things like

this what's he like

cad burglar

cat burglar that means he could have

made the jump i know him

in fact i was the first one who busted

him not out

women is not his back

hey theo

how are you doing

i'm getting too old for this stuff

hey i heard about you catching those

guys who are heist in the countries man

how'd you hear about that i read in the

newspaper i'm reading about you all the

time again

oh no he's over here in the kitchen

hey you remember joey don't you come

here joy

over here say hello to the nice job

say hi he's a nice child

hi joey

look teddy i got to speak to you alone

you don't mind do you joey hello

thanks hey joy come here come on that's

good thanks for the other one i'll do

they always build me landing

ah

see

very good

what are you even doing with yourself

teddy

i've been working as a lathe operator

it really keeps me busy too

you know what they call me down there

busy cockroach

i got something at you teddy where were

you last august

last august why where were you

well the beginning or the end

august 28th

august 28 last year

oh yeah that was my vacation week man

um

monday i went to orchard beach to get

some sun and the weather was really

lousy

and uh tuesday i went to visit the old

lady and she asked me to help her uh you

know clean up an apartment building

where she works as a super

the other people see you there

sure

hey man what is it what do you want

i can't tell you now teddy

get your call out

please do what i tell you just one

oh

josie

teddy what is it oh you remember

lieutenant cojet

no all right what's the

all

get your right teddy

hey bobby man what's up

i told him teddy

you told him

you told him what man

about the girls

about the girls

what girls

marcus nelson

marcus nelson there's no use man

i told him the whole thing

how you came to my apartments

the blood on your clothes everything you

say hey man are you kidding me

you putting this all on

marcus nelson

hey don't be taken in by that baby face

and that curly blonde hair

he iced him

he called the mum

you must be in bad trouble

all right wait outside

believe you man

sit down

you talk to the das

now you're gonna talk to me

see you're a murderer

you're a pimp you're a pusher

you put your old lady on a habit a red

light over her head

you showed teddy how to use the needle

and then you turned him in to save your

own sweet hide

all the details of the murders

which means if it wasn't teddy it was

you

so now you tell me again

he came to your place right you saw

blood on his t-shirt

yes

blood on his trousers

yes above the knees below the knees

above the knees

get a brown shopping bag

yes sir

what

yes sir

you're so polite

you make me sick

what was in the shopping bag

two white handkerchies why handkerchiefs

i think he took him to wipe the blood

off his clothes there was blood on them

what else was in the shopping bag

pink rubber gloves

pink rubber gloves yes

yeah he

always used them so there wouldn't be no

fingerprints

how to get into the building

to the basement

and how to get out

the same way

how to get into the apartment

through the window stand up

the service window

yeah

that's one hell of a jump

teddy makes those kinds of jumps

anything else you tell you remember

yeah he said the smell of blood almost

made him throw up

[Music]

you took too many this time

you took too many

[Music]

hey theo

how you doing hey teddy they thought you

weren't gonna make it for a while

it's only life man

you've been in uh prison so often i

thought you'd uh want to do a little

more with it

grandma cole jack what are you doing

here

you come to house on me two things uh

you were supposed to take a lie detector

test tomorrow

your overdosing had nothing to do with

it did it

hey man i'm not gonna take any lie

detector test

i mean you remember what happened to

lewis

humes the same exact thing could happen

to me except it could be worse

i've been in out of jail since i was 17.

you ought to know man you were the first

one that busted me

i don't trust them

the only cop in the world i trust is you

man

you did it didn't you teddy

are you kidding

no i didn't man

hey where's josie

um

she was exhausted

she was here for three days made sure

you were all right

then i persuaded her to go home

will you tell her to come back

quite a girl isn't she

yeah you don't know how she's taking

care of me i mean you don't know how

lucky i am

without her i'd been a corpse a long

time ago

all right i'll call

this isn't going to get in the papers is

it i mean my mother's sick you know and

i wouldn't want her to know about it no

one knows about it but me

hey thea

i didn't do it

i swear to you all my mother's life i

didn't

[Music]

hey teddy

hey man i had to make a deal i had to

save myself you understand

hey man

i wouldn't have gone through with it man

i would have made him look like fools

when we got into court

hey teddy

hey man you don't really believe that i

would turn into a brother do you i had

to make a deal you understand

hey man what's going on in here i don't

know man something about a bomb in the

building all right come on back it up

come on boys pack it up come on back it

up

[Music]

all the tenants too man

what are you doing i think the bombs

right here in this apartment or is it a

nice fat juicy bug huh

nice fat juicy bug

what are you talking about

wow

old friend theo really wants to find out

about me doesn't he

dig

oh wow teddy

will you please take it in one of the

most unprecedented procedures in

courtroom history your occupation jake

winehouse

asked for a mistrial in the alvarez case

you've been

he brought the jurors to trial

mr sack you were

a

juror in the attempted rape

case against lewis humes were you not

yes sir

did you hear a remark

made by another juror during the trial

yes uh

this

this is the remark

these kinds are all the same

they have got to have it

these fellows like their sex

did you hear other comments from another

juror yes

one of them said

it doesn't make any difference because

if they don't get him here

they'll get him in manhattan

thank you mr sack that'll be all

like to call mario portello to the stand

please

mr portello you have been a prosecutor

for the brooklyn district attorney's

office for how long 12 years

during those 12 years you have

prosecuted

how many cases

how do i know how many cases i've

brought hundreds maybe i don't

you believe in fair play don't you

of course i believe in fair play i

believe in justice too and i believe

that the police department you were the

prosecutor

people versus humes were you not

i didn't hear the question would you

repeat it please counselor

you were the prosecutor in the case of

people versus humes

i was

did you receive a report from the

federal bureau of investigation

laboratory which was an analysis of the

coat and the button in the case

yes and then the reports state that the

button you submitted

and the buttons remaining on the code

did not match in size design or

construction

that is correct

then how could you argue to the jury

that you have nailed lewis humes on the

button

there was other evidence what are the

evidence

testimony of mrs alvarez the findings of

our own laboratory the contrary opinion

from the federal bureau of investigation

didn't you that finding was not

conclusive conclusive not the opinion of

the fbi that the button did not match

the threat on the coat

that is correct and you do not think you

did anything wrong in withholding this

evidence from the jury and in saying

that you had nailed those humans on the

button

no i do not it is not my position to

show every piece of evidence to the jury

the administration of justice must not

only be above reproach but it must also

be beyond the shadow

of reproach

that the district attorney's silence was

not the result of guile or a desire to

prejudice matters little

for its impact was the same preventing

as it did

a trial that could in any real sense

be termed fair

court concludes that the conviction

cannot stand

the hearing revealed that prejudice

racial bias

entered that jury room

i hereby vacate and set aside the

verdict in the alvarez case

and i grant a new

tell you the trial jake i didn't know

you had this flare for publicity

i certainly don't believe the finest men

in our office frame louis humans no

pictures please

jake and all my i said no pictures

didn't i

know my years of being an attorney i've

never seen such a detailed confession i

mean your client louis humes must be

some kind of genius if you can remember

so many details huh how can he be not

guilty

maybe he was coached coach by whom me

detective matt black detected with 19

citations for bravery detective lou

giacorino detective dan corrigan two of

the finest cops on the force scenario

notes campaign speed what do you mean

campaign speeches what kind of cases

that's what this case is about

law and order

law and order for a man who's poor and

black

[Music]

hi teddy

hello mom

they're coming to talk to me

they're coming here to talk to you it's

all right

i want to talk to them i want to clear

you mom

don't let this beat you because i'm

dying

it's why you take drugs isn't it i know

i know

because life is too much for you

because you can't face it

i'm sorry ted

how do you feel

i'm all right

will come back when you're feeling

better it's all right

i want you to question me

miss hopper you work as a superintendent

at 334 east 83rd street

i wash the stairs and clean the holes

do you know where your son was on the

day of the marcus nelson murders

yes

where was he

he was at home

how do you remember so clearly

he helped me clean the halls

when did he start

i woke him about 8 30 in the morning

i had to wake him

he's a lazy bones he likes to sleep late

how long did he stay

until late in the afternoon you're sure

yes

miss hopper

teddy is your son

would you lie to save him

no

i wouldn't

hey teddy

[Music]

hey man i heard about your mother i'm

sorry man

it's tight man i need to fix it i can't

get it nowhere wanna come on with me

[Music]

hey man

hey how can you get it

when nobody else can huh

they want me to trap you

so they got me wired for sound

they give me immunity to trap you

man we can't even get arrested if we

walk down the street smoking the joint

the cops is going to support our habits

it's junky heaven man

you're going to have all the bombitas

and the coke you ever dreamed

[Music]

the new trial on the alvarez attempted

rape began

the courtroom was packed

it always was for a trial that jake

winehouse was part of

does he look like a black-skinned negro

to you

will the court direct the witness to

answer the question mrs alvarez

would you please answer

no

does he look like 165 pounds

no does he look like 25 years old to you

how did i go through enough

hasn't lois hume's gone through enough

he didn't

he knows it i know it and god knows it

no more outbursts please

you yourself said that he was a stocky

165

pound

black-skinned negro of 25.

these are the descriptions that you

yourself gave patronus to meal of the

man

sit down by the way

do you have any interest other than as a

witness in this particular case your

honor i object to this line there's no

relevancy in this question your honor i

shall make the

relevance plain in just a moment proceed

in other words you have nothing to gain

or lose whether the defendant is

convicted or quit is that correct of

course not now do you know an attorney

by the name of nick delias

yeah and do you know another lawyer by

the name of tom flaherty

yeah did you speak to them

yeah only after that

discussion did not the name of louis

humes come up

yeah

and didn't this discussion involve the

collection of a ten thousand dollar

reward

offered for the conviction of anyone

of the marcus nelson murders

one more question

judy judy come on out of that bathroom

you've been in there all morning brother

mike wants to get in there i just got in

here don't give me no lip she's been

making a home in that bathroom

you've kept the suspense long enough

what is it

it's an article about teddy

let me see that

come on jenny come on

take this

there's a new prime suspect in the

marcus nelson case

let's call him eddie for the purpose of

the story

a one one-faced young dope attitude

that lives with a woman

twice his age

one face

let me see your face then

i'm so warm from the side

look a little warm from the side though

you know they're making them look better

and better looking like now he's a

college kid

a nice innocent kid

you know before they tried to make him

look as ferocious as possible

now they're trying to make him look

sweeter man nicely angelic

say can we go to the store and you do

what to which go outside go to the store

you have to go outside to go to the

store don't you first get a warm jacket

may i go to the store is correct may i

go to the store

please usually i come and use a question

like that

don't please may i go to the store

yes

you may

trudy get some rubbers

oh mama oh no go on and get some rubbish

you know the cops are coming to talk to

me again tomorrow

right

someone's gonna have to watch the kids

well i know who that someone is gonna be

only i ain't gonna pay him nothing

though

listen teddy

teddy

i gotta get you to rap a little bit

you know what i mean

huh

come on

cause like uh

i don't know what they're gonna hit me

with

right

hey hey all right

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come on like the window

huh come on you remember the time we

talked about the open window

remember like you said come on remember

you said you got in through the window

come on teddy i'm trying to help you hey

hey tell him

tell him he got him through the uh

service entrance door instead of the

window yeah

don't make a comical case out of this

listen we're going to have them all in

the car because we're going to get a

teddy bear because of you teddy

teddy the glasses paul

teddy i didn't tell him you got the

glasses off did you get the glass off my

daddy

you had to get the glass off her because

she wasn't wet and then when they found

her right that's her

listen

teddy

i got some really good stuff

didn't your mama tell you to put on your

rubbers oh my mom oh no

get your rubbers

you heard what your mama said

all right hey come here little man let

me button your coat

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did you pinch my nose

don't you know i don't allow my nose to

be pissed by no nose bitching you

i'm gonna pick you don't know

come on

all righty no my nose pinching you

hey be careful watch your brother cross

the street yeah watch your judy

the cops are after us to take that lie

detector test teddy

you give me that

i don't think i should take no lighter

take the test

you did you don't have to take no test

if we don't want to do it

hey

hey dig it man

you two take the test right and beat it

how we gonna do that sanic oh you can

man here's how you can do it too

when they ask you to teddy kill those

girls

you just think to yourself that a very

nervous upset person did it right

[Laughter]

which really isn't me i mean you just

get this in your mind that it was a very

nervous upset person that did it i dig i

think i mean but it isn't me man you

know it was a crazy man that killed

those girls why don't you take that

tested

why don't you take the lie detector test

hey

i could just plant it in my mind that

you made this up

that didn't happen you know

like i would take the test

if i could just put that day out of my

mind man i could just put that day out

of my mind

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louis do you see anybody in this

courtroom who may have hit you or struck

you

yes

you do who might that be

detective

black protect the black huh detective

black would you stand please

this the man that hit you louis yes

let's sit down detective

and by the way louis do you have

breakfast in the precinct that day

yes

how long did the beating take place

i don't know

where were you struck

all over

exactly where were you struck

my stomach my back and my shoulders

what were you beating with you remember

this

fist

is that right yes closed fist like that

yes

how many punches would you say you

received

10

150 what would you say

50 50.

were they hard punches lose

yes

very hard punches lose yes

50 hard punches

with close fit

what about breakfast when did you say

you had breakfast before or after

before after before or after the beating

after

that

so they beat you with their fists 50

times closed fists very hard punches and

then you sat down and you had breakfast

no further questions you're on you may

step down louis fumes

may i have

detective corrigan on the stand please

detective cardigan please

do you swear to challenger at the altar

nothing but the truth so i'll help you

god i do

detective you have elicited

many confessions haven't you

yes

and when you question a suspect you

don't

tell him that he did something you ask

him did he do it is that correct

yes sir

and you speak to him in a tone of voice

such as you are using to us here is that

correct

yes sir polite

calm

mind correct

that's right

where did louis humes tell you that he

found

this picture objecting your honor that

picture has to do with the marcus nelson

case we are not trying that case here

the prosecution suggests that the marcus

nelson case does not affect the outcome

of this case

your honor we are not trying that case

right here we are trying to decide the

credibility of detective corrigan

and the other detectives who questioned

louis humes who got a confession

objection your honor

denied

so

where did lewis hume tell you that he

found this picture

he said he found it in a dump and savior

but you didn't believe him when he told

you that he found it in a dump in

seaview new jersey is that correct

that's right sir were you looking at his

stomach when he said that

sir did you notice his stomach when he

said that he found it in a dog in

seaview new jersey

i'm sorry i don't know what you mean did

you notice whether the stomach was

jumping in and out and up and down

i don't know

but you did not believe him you thought

he was lying is that correct yes sir

now lewis humes

is a young

black boy correct

that's right

didn't you tell mr goodman

and detective kojak that you could

always tell when a black man was lying

by looking at his stomach because it

jumped up and down when he lied

i don't remember you don't remember

saying to mrs goodman the defective

kojak then

that's right

you don't remember saying it or you

didn't say it which

i'm not saying i didn't say it i'm

saying i don't remember saying but you

may have said

i might have

now didn't you tell lewis humes that you

talked to the two girls on the telephone

and that they weren't mad at him

i might have

did you

no i don't remember

i said i might have you

might have

yes

and if you did that was a lie wasn't it

well that depends on you misled lewis

humes didn't you objection or don't you

think that you did anything wrong your

honor will you stop this harassment of

the witness i do think that'll be enough

i'm sorry your honor

but law and order is being used in this

country as a

catchphrase for stop the [ __ ]

officer here doesn't think he did

anything wrong

there's a wonder why there is violence

there is no justice there

is violence objection

well you scored a few points i scored

nothing you think the jury is going to

take the word of a vagrant kid

black

against cops with citations for bravery

particularly when they think he sliced

up two white girls in manhattan

but it's time they know everything about

the marcus nelson case

i think we got one too many murderers on

this baby

[Music]

teddy

this is it

[Music]

over there

today's day you're gonna tell the truth

so

look

at this

oh wow

all right

sure right sit down

and this

tell him

he brought you here to tell you that

i've been working with him

all along

my lawyer's name is jerry blog his

number is

614-7402 it's all over baby we forget

the lawyer

tomorrow the jury comes in with a

verdict on humes

today

you're going to tell us the truth he

needs some stuff man he needs it bad got

it all teddy

remember when you talk to your friends

about beating the lie detector test

remember how you said for them to think

it wasn't you who did the killings it

was a very nervous and upset person but

we got that too

we even got your dreams

we heard what you said when you trained

oh you don't know what you said that

night but we do you ask god to take you

that's what you said

give me a spoon first things first come

on man give me a spoon we don't get

anything until we get a full confession

again the next one both of you

you realize how many people you're

destroying

a five-year-old boy oh come on man give

me josie

your mother i need a spoon i was in the

hospital where they questioned your

mother uh come on hit me

she wasn't in any condition to talk to

anybody but she wanted to give you an

alibi

right now she's trying to explain away

your actions

teddy you got to give us something we

realize what pressure you've been under

waiting all these months for the axe to

fall what tension

i'm a catholic

just like you

last night i went to church and i said a

prayer for you

i prayed that you would make your peace

with god i don't want to make peace with

god you don't name that damn right i do

man

don't give me that

i'm a dead man hey what do you mean

you're a dead man if you're dead give us

something come on you're the only one

that can you're the only one that can

help yourself give us something to help

you with it's me you want to help huh

couldn't be you want to cover yourselves

with glory huh

well i'm sick give me a fix will you

give us the answers now we have things

by tonight your face will be known all

over town

your son will see it

josie will see it

your mother in the hospital will see it

you know what you'll hear them say

that you're some creep who ought to be

locked away for the safety of some girl

in an apartment or some little kid in

the street i'm sick man you want me to

have compassion for you who do you have

compassion for what about louis humes

he's gonna die you don't give a damn

about him don't you understand that i'm

sick i said i'm sick creep you carved up

those girls and now you're gonna tell me

you're gonna tell me

you're doing exactly what you said the

guys in brooklyn did

[Music]

i have a note here from the jury

we are hopelessly deadlocked

what does this mean

it means we have to go to trial again

i'm sorry mrs

again

hey hey stay awake

in a million years

hey teddy how are you

as well this can be expected i guess man

you want some culture or something to

eat all right some coffee

what do you got

ham and cheese and corned beef

give me corn beef

known each other for a long time huh

well i like you

you can't be particularly what you like

i guess

i've seen a lot of guys try to make it

i never wanted anybody to make it more

than you

you screwed up kid

hey who won the game last night

the yankees

that don't get many hits uh three for

four

i want to pull a lousy burglar in

or end up killing two girls

[Music]

what happened teddy

saw the open window and

i came in

we went into the apartment

[Music]

she was lying there

yeah

she pulled the sheet up around

what happened then

i decided to have her

yeah

i took that a knife

then what happened

she said don't hurt me

would you do that

yeah

dark-haired girl what's her name um

kathy came she stood in the door and she

said

what's going on in here

i see what's going on in here

she turned started to run towards the

door

i was going to leave the apartment but

something told me i had to kill him

[Music]

i got two soda bottles and i struck both

girls over the head

and then what did you do

just kept stabbing them

i just kept stabbing them

i hit a ribbon cathy's back

did you know joanne before you went in

that day

no

you had gloves on all the time

yeah

where'd you buy the gloves

five and ten uh

89's in the third how would you pay for

them

i don't know man

29 39 cents whatever where were the

buddies when you left the apartment

hey i don't want to think about it man i

just want to erase it out of my mind you

dig

let's erase it out of his mind

i told you

if you played a stream with me i'd help

you

now let's see your mother and josie

do you want me to tell them

just um

just tell him to forgive me man

teddy harper was indicted and helped

with trial and demarcus nelson made us

who his humans

was freed in his own recognition

the charges of the marcus nelson and the

other laws and murders dropped it's the

first time you've been out of jail in

two years

it's gonna be good to see the sky again

oh he's not here

here he is now hold on there's a call

for you

louis hughes wants to invite you to a

party

your friend louis

hello kid

how you doing

we're having a party over here and i was

wondering if you could come over

look uh louis i'm a little busy

i wanted you to come over because uh you

know like if it happened for you man

i wouldn't even be walking around

[Music]

wow

[Music]

[Music]

so

tonight

i've been invited to the party is louie

here

who is that

lieutenant kojak come on in and make

yourself at home everybody this is

lieutenant kojak i told you all about

him

what are you doing mr kojak this is my

girl lorraine hi

come on and meet mama

charles turn off that television set i

want to see lewis on six o'clock news

we're not sure he's gonna be on

this is mama

oh and this is my oldest son abe

nice to meet you and over here is

grandpa

hello

and this hair is sunny sunny boy

i think it's time for the cake

[Applause]

oh little teddy louis did those drawings

there and uh he did these here too

i did these over here

oh i just

i want to give you something

i hope it's not insulting no no she gave

me a lot of hair

and i'm good-looking

i made this cake now you all better

enjoy

somebody found a larger hat for lewis

you look foolish man tell me i look

foolish

don't ever tell me how i look for once

again

a piece forever

[Music]

and an extra big piece for you

lieutenant hey there he is there's lois

and you still believe that lewis humes

is guilty of the marcus nelson murders

we still say that he knew details that

only the murderer could know you and i

are interested in having a clean decent

place in which to live right

it is dreadful to think that in this

country i mean right here in brooklyn a

woman can be taken grabbed right off the

street

assaulted an attempt made to rape her

we are going to proceed with the rape

charges against lewis humes

why don't you let the kid go mario

hasn't been through enough

donnie make sure i get the

superintendent of corrections in albany

make sure i get him before he goes to

lunch

i'm sorry i can't let him go theo

we got an eyewitness identification

and we can't let a rapist on the streets

he's no rapist

and you know it

theo i really feel sorry for you i know

you went out on a limb

[Applause]

hey

nail those humes by the button

and all the time the fbi report in your

desk

the kid wasn't given a lineup

an hysterical woman looking at him into

a peephole description

missing on all important points

and even if he was guilty what was he

supposed to have done

gone up to a woman and yelled some dirty

words theo you think the boy is innocent

i think he's guilty you can't admit to

yourself that he's innocent you want to

know why

because to admit it you'd have to admit

how corrupt you really are

you and i no longer have anything to say

to each other

the right man on the right job

you know i've never been naive about

human beings

but it's a surprise that people will let

this kid go down the drain

and you want to know what overwhelms me

they don't see anything wrong in it

so what's gonna happen now i don't know

they're gonna try to prove you're guilty

of something makes them look too bad if

you aren't

[Applause]

hey hello

just in time the judge is going in i

still can't get used to wearing my

glasses

oh lois oh yeah

hello

how the hell can you say hello to him

i guess he was just trying to get ahead

you say jake

he brought out the same old witnesses

again

he tried to rape me

he knows it

i know it and god knows it

black talked about his 19 citations

jack arena reluctantly and distastefully

put in a knife again

but nobody cared anymore

there was no packed courtroom

and i felt that nobody really believed

that lewis humes was guilty

he had to be found guilty

to protect reputations

it was as though we were all

sleepwalkers watching a terrible pageant

that nobody cared about anymore

lewis humes was found guilty of

attempted rape

sentence

five to ten years

but

i didn't do nothing

[Music]

i understood for the first time what

jake wanhouse meant when he said

when there is no justice

there's violence

i remember the first time i walked a

beat

i thought we were doing the most

wonderful job in the world

i thought of us as

watches of the city

protecting what was best in it

some people say the community gets the

police force it deserves

i say the police force is the community

that was the end of the humes case

except for the fact that it changed my

life

and yours

the lewis humes case was cited in the

miranda decision of the supreme court

which demands

that his constitutional rights be read

to a man under arrest

matt black

still working as a police detective

mario potello

was elected an assemblyman

lewis humes

still in jail today

for an offense that normally a man

without a previous record would be given

a suspended sentence

as for me you know there's a dream i

keep having

i walk into mcniel's office right

i throw my badge on his desk

and then i tell him where he can stick

it

the truth is

i still go on 23rd precinct

right away

[Music]

i still go out coloring squeals

people like teddy who was convicted of

killing two girls because he may have

been terrified of going back to prison

and louis humes

who never had a chance from the

beginning

[Music]

some people walk with their heads in the

clouds

and they never break through to the sky

hello don't you let me be as blind as

some people

living and wondering why

some people listen to what folks are

saying

and some people only can talk

but i've got to please me and know where

i'm going don't give me a road i can't

walk

don't give me a road i can't walk

don't give me a path i can't handle

don't give me a song i can't sing

like the road i can't walk

leading to nothing

[Music]

some folks get by on what i can't rely

on and

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

don't give me the day that you must turn

away

we can't sit and talk

friend there's a road i can't walk

[Music]

you