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[reporter 1] It's been six months
since the boys were arrested
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in the Central Park jogger case.
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[reporter 2] Police believe the gang
confronted her here,
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then dragged her 200 feet into the woods,
where the assault took place.
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[reporter 3] ...a 28-year-old woman,
hitting her with fists and rocks.
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Four of them rape her
and leave her there, unconscious.
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[reporter 4] ...suffered two
skull fractures, extreme blood loss,
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and hypothermia.
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-[reporter 5] ...pants were found near...
-[reporter 6] She will not remember
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that she was viciously attacked
and raped...
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[reporter 7] Doctors say the odds
the patient will recover
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are still stacked against her.
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[man] "Details didn't matter
because there was no script.
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They were coming downtown
from a world of crack,
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welfare, guns, knives, indifference,
and ignorance.
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They were coming from a land
of no fathers.
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They were coming
from the wild province of the poor,
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and driven by a collective fury brimming
with the rippling energies of youth,
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their minds teeming
with the violent images
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of the streets in the movies.
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They had only one goal:
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to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape.
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The enemies were rich."
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And then...
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I need another for emphasis.
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Their enemies were white.
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Go. Daily News has got a file
on these already. Gotta move.
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Go.
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[reporter 1] Some of the young men
who have been arrested in the attack,
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so young as to be children, really,
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told police they were just out "wilding,"
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and that's why so many people
are so amazed
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-at the tragedy of this occurrence.
-[laughter]
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"Wilding." New York City police say
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that's new teenage slang
for rampaging in wolf packs,
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attacking people just for the fun of it.
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[reporter 2] Today,
seven of those teenagers
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were arraigned on a long list of charges,
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including rape and attempted murder.
The case made headlines...
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[reporter 3 on TV] Simple and solemn,
a makeshift memorial
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sits by the side of a road in Central...
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[reporter 4 on radio] The victim,
a 28-year-old investment banker,
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is out of a coma,
but remains in serious...
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[reporter 5] Some members
of the black community charge
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that the arrests are a racially motivated
rush to judgment.
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[man] He's saying that this is racist.
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I'm saying, let them decide it
in the courtroom
before they come out to protest
on the sidewalks.
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[reporter 6] And then what happened?
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[reporter 7] Only two of the suspects,
Antron McCray and Yusef Salaam,
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have posted bail.
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The other suspects were denied bail today
at a raucous hearing
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that turned into a screaming match.
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Korey Wise,
the only 16-year-old of the pack,
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will stay in holding at Rikers Island.
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[reporter 8] From atop Trump Tower,
New York's most flamboyant billionaire
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-looks out over Central Park...
-And a pack of Newports.
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[reporter 8] ...where police say
a pack of teenagers
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attacked a 28-year-old jogger.
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You better believe that I hate the people
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that took this girl
and raped her brutally.
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You better believe it.
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[reporter 8] Trump put his money
where his mouth is
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by taking out this full-page ad
in four New York City newspapers.
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"Bring Back the Death Penalty."
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Trump spent $85,000 on the ad...
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[cell door closes]
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[distant siren wailing]
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[key turns in lock]
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[handcuffs rattling]
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How you been, man?
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[cell door closes]
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[key turns in lock]
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Holding it down.
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[Kevin] Hey, Korey.
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What's up, man?
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You ready for today?
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-What is it?
-Some pretrial...
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-something. I don't--
-All right.
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That's okay. I done that.
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Just a step to get you to the big trial.
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Y'all together in juvie?
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Uh-huh. Yeah.
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Um, but I'm out soon, so...
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My mom's...
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almost got the bail...
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the bail money from church, so...
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[Kevin sniffs]
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[poignant music playing]
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I wish I was, uh...
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I wish I was in there with y'all.
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When you turn 16?
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La... Last year.
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Last year.
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Where Kane?
Yusef...
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Um...
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he got... he got bailed out...
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a little while ago.
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You know what he told me, though?
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The only reason that you got...
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you got caught up in all of this...
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is 'cause you went down there
to the station with him.
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To help him out, man.
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To be there for him.
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He's my friend.
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Yeah.
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[vehicle horn blares]
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Thanks for all your help, Reverend.
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[Sharonne] Yeah, thank you so much, truly.
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We wouldn't have made bail without you.
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My pleasure, honor, and duty.
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We put together a little fund
for all the families.
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There's a lot of folks
supporting these boys, know that.
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Yeah, well, we appreciate that, but...
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Yusef's case is not like the other boys.
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They talked themselves into they mess.
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That's not fair.
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[Sharonne laughs]
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"Fair"?
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[reporters shouting questions]
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[reporter 1] Is there anything
you would like to say?
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[reporter 2]
Are you glad your son is home?
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[shouting continues]
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[reporter 2] Ms. Salaam,
are you worried about the verdict?
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Have you been in touch with the parents
of the other boys?
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Do you have any response to Donald Trump
calling for the death penalty
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for your son?
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[crowd chanting] No peace! No justice!
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What did you say?
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[reporter 2] Donald Trump is calling
for the death penalty.
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[reverend] Mr. Trump...
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...is a real estate hustler...
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[tearfully] What did she say?
[sobbing]
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[Sharonne] What did she say?
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[inaudible speech]
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You watch them grow.
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You know?
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And you start to think
you did a good job.
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You know?
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[TV news report playing in background]
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-Girl, no.
-[Deloris] Listen,
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if there was ever a time you gonna drink,
you need to drink now.
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[Donald Trump on TV]
And I think sometimes a black may think
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that they don't really have the advantage
or this or that,
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but in actuality, today, currently,
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it's a great...
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I've said on occasion,
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even about myself,
if I were starting off today,
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I would love to be a well-educated black,
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because I really believe they do have
an actual advantage today.
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[TV news report continuing in background]
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What is a black?
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[sighs]
I don't know.
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But, hell, maybe he's right.
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Sometimes you gotta ask yourself,
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when is the white man gonna get a break
in this country?
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[both chuckling]
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Girl, don't make me laugh.
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Huh!
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[Sharonne] They need to keep that bigot
off TV is what they need to do.
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Don't worry about it.
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His 15 minutes almost up.
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They want to kill my son.
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That devil...
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That devil...
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wants to kill my son.
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You gonna take an ad out
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about killing my son.
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They gonna have to come for me first.
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Better yet, I'll come for him.
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Ain't nobody going nowhere.
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I think this will be what scholars call
"a piece of cake."
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Who are we dealing with?
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[man] Robert Burns.
He's a divorce lawyer in Harlem.
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And when I tell you
that's the full extent of his practice,
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-that's the full extent of his practice.
-[Burns] Yusef.
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-Hey.
-[Sharonne] Hi.
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-[Burns] Good to see you, sister.
-[Sharonne] You too.
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[Burns] It's gonna be okay.
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-You know I got your back, right?
-You always have.
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Always have.
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[man] Burns has no record of criminal law,
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and he's representing Yusef Salaam
at the trial.
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Next, we have Mickey Joseph,
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a criminal defense lawyer
for the Legal Aid Society.
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He'll defend Antron McCray.
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-[Lederer] I know him.
-[man] Yeah?
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He's stronger than you think.
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-So, Mr. Joseph, what's gonna happen--
-Mickey, please.
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How would you feel if I called you
Mr. McCray? Like an old fogey, right?
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-Yeah, I guess.
-[Joseph laughs]
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[man] For Korey Wise, there's some guy
he's got named Colin Moore.
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He's, I don't know, some kind of activist.
He's working pro bono.
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I can't imagine how you feel
not having him by your side,
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but I'm going to use everything I know how
to get him back to you.
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You ever hear of this guy Peter Rivera?
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Uh, there was an ADA in the Bronx
named Peter Rivera.
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One and the same.
He's also a former cop,
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and I have it on good authority
that he has political aspirations.
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-[Lederer] And who is he representing?
-[man] Santana.
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[Santana] Mr. Rivera?
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-[Rivera] Mr. Santana.
-Nice to meet you.
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[man] The last guy they got repping
Kevin Richardson is Howard Diller.
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You are such a good-looking family.
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Maybe we should get you out there more,
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show the public there's nothing
to worry about here.
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-Can I help you up the-- No? Okay.
-No, I'm fine.
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[man] I found something on him we can use
if it comes to that.
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Like I said...
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piece of cake.
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[Lederer] Okay.
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So, you see a couple of bad suits
and cheap haircuts
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and you figure "game over"?
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Let me tell you what I see.
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Opportunity.
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This is an opportunity
for every one of those guys
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to make a name for themselves,
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to be the victor
in something high-profile for once,
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attention for once, respect for once.
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So, don't underestimate
how that drives a person.
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They are coming at it
with everything they got.
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Well, we are too.
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[Joseph] Okay, let's start
with the biggest challenge:
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the admissions of guilt that
the boys made in the police station.
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The judge ruled the confession tapes
are admissible.
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Now, we all know they should be
interpreted as coercion and thrown out.
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Unfortunately, that's not the case,
but there is some good news.
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The DNA evidence from the cervical swab
is inconclusive,
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which means that there wasn't enough semen
present in the victim to test
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and it cannot be matched
to anybody else.
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Reports are that the victim,
Patricia Meili,
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has no recollection of the incident.
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So, there's no reason for the prosecution
to call her as a witness.
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So, no physical evidence,
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no eyewitness.
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The people's case is weak.
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[whispering] That's some chickenshit.
Like hers is the only one that's innocent.
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-[Sharonne] I didn't say he was.
-You didn't have to, Miss Thing,
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'cause your shirt is saying it for you.
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They said they found that woman's hair
in Kevin's underpants.
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But of course we don't believe it.
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But how are they saying that?
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I mean, how are they gonna prove something
that didn't happen?
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And can they say it in the news
like it's real with no proof?
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I mean, I know they can, but...
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can we do something about it?
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They're saying they found hair
that looked like the victim's, ma'am.
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Hair analysis is notoriously unreliable.
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Hey, don't worry,
we're gonna get an expert
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to challenge the science for Kevin.
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Not only is there no physical evidence,
the confessions are riddled with conflict.
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A jury will see that.
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We'll show that your boys were coerced
by law enforcement.
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They will, 'cause my son, Ray,
he didn't even eat for a day and a half.
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You know, I went to work
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and I came back
and they were still going at him.
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Okay?
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And now, you know...
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Well, he's in there still
and I ain't even got money for bail
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-and I don't know how much--
-[Rivera] Ray.
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-It's fine.
-Yeah, I'm sorry.
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-[Rivera] It's okay.
-They told us that Tron was coming home.
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[Joseph]
And promises for cooperation are illegal.
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This whole thing is illegal.
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[button clicks]
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[Korey] That's when
we came towards the rape.
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[Lederer] Who is "we"?
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-[Korey] Me...
-[beep]
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-[Korey] And...
-[beep]
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-[Korey] Yes.
-[beep]
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[Korey] ...ran in back of her
and she turned around...
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[beep]
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Sounds like the damn
Emergency Broadcasting System.
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That's what it sounds like when you comply
with the Bruton rule
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during a five-defendant trial.
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So, we got the tapes in,
but we can't use them.
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[Morgenthau] Because they're all
implicating each other and not themselves.
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You know what we have to do here?
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We have to separate the trials.
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It tanks the gang narrative, though.
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Not five trials. Two, maybe three.
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We just have to find the right combination
of defendants
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that requires the least amount of editing
of the tapes.
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Good. Let's dig into it.
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They're not gonna separate themselves.
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[indistinct conversation]
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We want a separate trial.
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Well...
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we all want separate trials.
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Look, if the jury sees
all five of those boys together,
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they're gonna think "wolf pack."
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It's no good. I agree.
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But the prosecution's never gonna agree
to five separate trials.
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Yusef never made a tape.
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He never signed a statement.
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I got him out of there before Fairstein
and those cops could trap him.
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So you're trying to say it's our fault
our boys are on tape?
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-I didn't say that.
-No, don't say that.
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-I didn't say that. I said...
-[Deloris] What you saying?
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...our situations differ.
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One thing we need to do more of
is control the narrative.
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People like Al Sharpton can help
with that.
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Oh, I don't know. I think it's a mistake
to make this about race.
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-[Deloris] Sweet Jesus.
-[Sharonne] What? Why?
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Tell that to Trump.
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-Exactly.
-[Ray Sr.] Rivera.
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Psst, Rivera,
you wanna just jump in there?
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The DA at some point
is gonna want to talk about a deal.
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I know you all want to believe
that your sons are innocent, but--
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-[Deloris] My--
-[Sharonne] They are!
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We are innocent! We ain't touch that lady.
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We're innocent! We didn't do this!
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[Rivera] You need to understand,
all of you,
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that this case was assigned
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to Part 59
of the New York State Supreme Court.
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That's Galligan's court.
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Why is that a big deal?
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One, they didn't spin the wheel and...
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Wait, what...
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what type of law
did you say you practice?
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[inhales sharply]
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I'm a divorce attorney.
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I handled Sharonne's case.
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Judge assignments are supposed to happen
by spinning a wheel, so it's random.
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They didn't do that with this case.
They gave it to Galligan.
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Rikers Island,
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they call it Galligan's Island.
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Ten times out of nine,
he sides with the state.
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They don't plan to lose this case.
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Shit.
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-Can they do that?
-[Joseph] It's already done.
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But we're not.
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[Morgenthau] We have useless tape,
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we've lost our gang narrative,
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we can't find DNA.
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We have a sock.
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Those little bastards shot their wad
into a sock, thinking we wouldn't find it,
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but we found it.
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We have DNA. Good.
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The match will nail this thing down.
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How did the NYPD miss this?
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Who cares? We have it now.
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And the kicker is none of the defense
is aware yet.
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So, we can test it right before the trial.
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Surprise!
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Surprise.
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[reporter] ...the accused
Harlem teenagers, most 14 or 15 years old.
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Initial reports suggested
they were quiet kids from stable homes,
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but neighbors now say some of the boys
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had been bad for a while.
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One of the boys, Kevin Richardson,
was an aspiring trumpet player.
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Another boy, Antron McCray,
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had dreams of becoming
a professional baseball player.
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-The trial will finally get underway...
-[man] Bobby, time to go home.
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-Go see that wife of yours.
-[reporter] ...Yusef Salaam,
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-Raymond Santana, and Antron McCray.
-[Bobby] Okay, Dave. See you tomorrow.
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[reporter] The jury selection
took an unusual length of time,
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as there were over 500 potential jurors.
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[woman on news report] The violence
and quality of life in this city
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is getting worse and worse every day.
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[coins clinking]
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[phone ringing]
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-Hello?
-[Bobby] Hey.
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-Hey. Everything okay?
-[Bobby] Yeah, yeah.
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Just calling to let you know
I ain't gonna make it home tonight.
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00:18:20,682 --> 00:18:22,522
Dave got caught up with some mess.
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So I'm gonna stay back
and work the double.
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Okay.
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-You sure there's nobody else who can--
-[Bobby] No. I'm gonna stay and do it.
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[Linda]
Bobby, tomorrow's the first day of trial.
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[laughs] Ain't like we don't need
the extra money, right?
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All right, yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, look, I gotta get back to work now.
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I love you.
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[Linda] I love you too.
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Bye.
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00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:09,270
[replaces receiver]
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[distant siren wailing]
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[Antron] He's probably out there
with a cab for us.
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You know how he do sometimes.
I'll bet he's there at the gate.
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Just watch. I bet he's there.
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[Antron] He ain't here.
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He coming with us?
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I don't know, baby. It's...
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[sighs]
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There's a lot going on right now, okay?
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Everybody's just doing their best.
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Come on.
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[poignant music playing]
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[reporter] In one of the most anticipated
trials in New York State history,
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three of the attackers
from the Central Park jogger case
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go before a Manhattan jury today.
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Five teens are charged
with multiple criminal counts,
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including rape, sexual abuse, and assault.
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All eyes are on
District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer,
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who's representing the victim
in one of the most horrific crimes
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this city has seen.
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-[reporter 1] Ms. Lederer, a moment!
-[reporter 2] Ms. Lederer!
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One question!
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[reporters shouting questions]
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[crowd chanting] Protect the black youth!
Protect the black youth!
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I'm here with Elombe and Nomsa Brath,
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two of Harlem's most prominent activists
and community leaders.
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We are here to assert the position
for the families
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and many in our community
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that there is injustice happening here.
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Injustice occurred in that precinct
when young boys, underage boys,
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were questioned without their parents,
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and were coerced by police and prosecutors
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to make false confessions,
leading to where we are today.
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We are here to point the finger
at the white press who have failed.
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You have failed
to properly investigate this.
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You have failed
to ask the right questions.
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[in Spanish] How do you feel about people
calling your son a rapist?
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Why are you repeating this shit?
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You don't know how we are suffering.
My son is innocent.
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You don't know him.
Don't make presumptions about him.
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[in English] You've been spoon-fed a story
and you've eaten it up.
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-But we're not here for stories.
-[woman] That's right!
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-[Elombe] We're here for the facts.
-[man] That's right!
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-[Elombe] For the truth.
-[man] That's right!
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[Elombe] And the facts are
that these boys are not a wolf pack.
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[crowd chanting]
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[Elombe] They're not animals.
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[woman yelling indistinctly]
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[Elombe] They're not thugs.
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[Nomsa] These boys, they are ours...
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and we will fight for them.
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["Love & Hate"
by Michael Kiwanuka playing]
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[elevator bell pings]
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[Joseph]
Neat trick getting Galligan assigned.
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Real magical.
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[Lederer] And congratulations to you
on getting the trials separated.
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[Joseph] Oh, do we get credit for that?
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I'm sure it didn't have anything to do
with cutting those videos down
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into nothing more than a dog whistle,
right?
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00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:13,330
We all knew you were the smart one.
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[chuckling]
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00:22:14,791 --> 00:22:17,091
You've done well for yourself.
You're starting in the lead.
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Please...
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do those kids you're so eager
to put into jail a favor.
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Just give them a fair fight.
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From now on, just fight fair.
That's all we ask.
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♪ Standing now ♪
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♪ Calling all the people
Here to see the show ♪
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00:22:39,941 --> 00:22:44,451
♪ Calling for my demons
Now to let me go ♪
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00:22:45,822 --> 00:22:47,162
♪ I need something ♪
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00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,580
♪ Give me something wonderful ♪
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00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,830
♪ You can't take me down ♪
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♪ You can't break me down ♪
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-[inaudible speech]
-♪ You can't take me down ♪
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[Lederer] Judge Galligan, thank you.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
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during this trial,
you will learn that the three defendants,
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Yusef Salaam,
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Antron McCray,
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and Raymond Santana,
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were among a group of 30 young men
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who went into Central Park
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to rob, beat,
and attack innocent New Yorkers.
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[Joseph] I want to highlight something
that Ms. Lederer did not say this morning.
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None of the victims,
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including Ms. Meili,
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has identified my client
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as a perpetrator in these crimes.
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These defendants are charged
with the rape,
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sodomy,
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attempted murder,
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assault,
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and sexual abuse of Patricia Meili.
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You will see video statements
from Antron McCray and Raymond Santana,
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where they describe in detail
how they participated
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in the rape and attempted murder
of Ms. Meili.
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And these tapes,
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these written testaments, these...
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are not as clean as the state
would have you believe.
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And you will find out
what went into making those tapes.
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These defendants told detectives
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that Kevin Richardson grabbed the jogger,
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and while Kevin and the jogger struggled,
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Yusef stepped up and hit her with a pipe.
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The police decided to solve this case,
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no matter what it meant to the rights
of a scared 14-year-old child.
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Carefully collected evidence
in a thorough investigation by NYPD
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will be presented to you
that will prove the guilt of this group
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beyond a reasonable doubt.
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During this NYPD investigation
that Ms. Lederer has described today,
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where they scoured Central Park
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for bodily fluids,
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for blood, for rocks, for a pipe,
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anything that might have
my client's fingerprints on it,
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and they did not find one.
493
00:25:28,818 --> 00:25:35,578
The only just verdict in this case
is a verdict of not guilty on all counts.
494
00:25:44,584 --> 00:25:45,424
Thank you.
495
00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,174
Ladies and gentlemen,
496
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:51,260
the evidence in chief
against Raymond Santana
497
00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:52,761
is a statement he made.
498
00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:58,522
And I submit to you that
that statement was coerced.
499
00:26:00,433 --> 00:26:01,773
And after you hear it,
500
00:26:01,851 --> 00:26:05,651
I'm sure you'll see that
the people have failed to prove their case
501
00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:08,571
against my client, Mr. Santana.
502
00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:10,856
Thank you.
503
00:26:11,152 --> 00:26:13,032
[woman whispering] Is he serious?
504
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:20,452
[Galligan] Mr. Burns.
505
00:26:21,496 --> 00:26:22,826
[Burns] Thank you, Your Honor.
506
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:24,920
Uh...
507
00:26:25,834 --> 00:26:26,924
Ladies and gentlemen,
508
00:26:27,794 --> 00:26:28,634
[sighs]
509
00:26:28,712 --> 00:26:29,712
the evidence...
510
00:26:31,631 --> 00:26:32,591
Uh...
511
00:26:33,174 --> 00:26:34,054
The evidence...
512
00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:36,635
is going to show that...
513
00:26:37,387 --> 00:26:39,887
until the body of the female jogger
was discovered,
514
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:44,806
the crimes which had been committed
and reported to the police that night,
515
00:26:45,812 --> 00:26:50,362
[stammering] they weren't treated with
the same degree of seriousness, of, uh...
516
00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:52,149
of intensity
517
00:26:52,736 --> 00:26:55,106
as the crime related to the white...
518
00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:57,449
female jogger.
519
00:26:58,533 --> 00:27:00,663
A lot of police became involved.
520
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,699
Sergeants, captains.
521
00:27:03,371 --> 00:27:04,251
Brass.
522
00:27:04,414 --> 00:27:06,374
And on the sidelines, you had the media,
523
00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:10,125
which learned of the female rape victim
524
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,510
and that the suspects
were all black or Hispanic.
525
00:27:16,384 --> 00:27:17,764
Conclusions were made.
526
00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:19,682
Quickly.
527
00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:21,513
And pursued in a vacuum.
528
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,061
There was a...
529
00:27:24,976 --> 00:27:29,186
strong motivation to solve
and close this case as soon as possible.
530
00:27:29,272 --> 00:27:31,862
So, in comes my client, okay?
531
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:35,316
Fifteen years old at the time.
532
00:27:35,570 --> 00:27:38,320
Never been in a precinct before
under any circumstances.
533
00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:39,952
And they work him.
534
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:42,326
And work him.
535
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:46,673
Until his mother comes down
and puts a stop to the interrogation.
536
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,540
It was neither a voluntary statement
nor a truthful one.
537
00:27:51,795 --> 00:27:53,505
And the evidence to support it...
538
00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:55,879
it isn't there.
539
00:27:57,092 --> 00:27:59,392
Which leaves us room for...
540
00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:01,548
reasonable doubt.
541
00:28:03,807 --> 00:28:04,677
Thank you.
542
00:28:09,938 --> 00:28:12,068
[Galligan] Ms. Lederer, first witness.
543
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:16,071
[woman] Oh, my God...
544
00:28:17,404 --> 00:28:20,124
[man] She was critically ill
and just barely alive.
545
00:28:23,243 --> 00:28:25,793
What specific injuries did you discover,
Dr. Kurtz?
546
00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:28,370
Many. She was suffering
from severe hypothermia
547
00:28:28,456 --> 00:28:31,836
and she was bleeding actively
when she entered the emergency room.
548
00:28:32,585 --> 00:28:34,665
[Lederer] Bleeding from what part
of her body, Doctor?
549
00:28:34,754 --> 00:28:35,674
[Kurtz] Her scalp.
550
00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:39,971
The blood was from scalp lacerations,
for the most part.
551
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:41,548
[murmuring]
552
00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:47,353
[Lederer] Ms. Dean, what do you remember
about that night of April 19th, 1989?
553
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:48,385
[Dean] Um...
554
00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:50,730
I don't remember much, but I...
555
00:28:50,937 --> 00:28:53,227
I do remember a...
556
00:28:53,773 --> 00:28:56,113
group of boys.
557
00:28:57,193 --> 00:28:59,283
And they were making these...
558
00:28:59,863 --> 00:29:02,913
these animal sounds, like...
559
00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:05,025
-grunting--
-Objection.
560
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,658
-[Galligan] Overruled.
-[Lederer] You were saying "grunting"?
561
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,036
So, my fiancé and I were riding our bike
562
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:14,423
and this entire group of kids
just started heckling us,
563
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,303
and, I mean, I...
564
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:18,545
We were completely terrified.
565
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:21,545
[Joseph] Mr. Loughlin,
566
00:29:21,634 --> 00:29:25,224
you reviewed a lineup with the intention
of identifying your assailant.
567
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:27,215
-Did you identify him?
-I did.
568
00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:30,975
[Joseph] And that was number...
four in the lineup.
569
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:32,020
Is that correct?
570
00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:33,645
I believe that is correct.
571
00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:37,030
Is the person that you identified
in this courtroom today?
572
00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:38,939
No.
573
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,704
[Joseph] Could you repeat that
a little louder?
574
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:42,610
[louder] No.
575
00:29:42,822 --> 00:29:44,702
[murmuring]
576
00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:47,793
[Joseph] Thank you, Mr. Loughlin.
No more questions, Your Honor.
577
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:54,920
[Lederer] I needed this DNA and the sock
to nail all this down.
578
00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:55,961
It doesn't match.
579
00:29:56,377 --> 00:29:58,167
So, five defendants, clean.
580
00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:00,719
Their DNA isn't there. It's not anywhere.
581
00:30:03,551 --> 00:30:07,181
So, there must have been another attacker.
One must have gotten away.
582
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:09,219
You honestly believe that?
583
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:12,346
I do if it helps a jury believe
what we know is true.
584
00:30:12,435 --> 00:30:14,725
Okay, but our case is built
on the assertion
585
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:18,023
that these boys are the rapists,
not some sixth unknown boy.
586
00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:23,280
So, we have semen in a sock
and it isn't theirs, any of them.
587
00:30:23,363 --> 00:30:24,743
So, what are we doing here?
588
00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:28,195
I'm the one who has to sell this to a jury
589
00:30:28,284 --> 00:30:30,584
and the whole city is watching,
hell, the country.
590
00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:32,622
So, do you understand
what is happening here?
591
00:30:32,705 --> 00:30:34,745
We've still got the cervical DNA.
592
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:36,173
Which was inconclusive.
593
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:38,291
Which means the five can't be ruled out.
594
00:30:38,378 --> 00:30:41,968
Deal with the sock DNA results, you know,
play up the cervical DNA--
595
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:45,088
[Lederer] Are you listening to yourself?
You sound delusional.
596
00:30:45,343 --> 00:30:48,013
You want me to pretend
that the sock never existed?
597
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:50,523
This is crossing a line.
598
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,560
What line, Elizabeth?
599
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:56,483
Where's the line for Patricia, huh?
600
00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:59,568
I'm sick of this shit.
Where's the line for her?
601
00:31:00,316 --> 00:31:03,026
Left for dead in the cold
in a pool of her own blood,
602
00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:06,071
running out of her body minute by minute
in the fucking bushes.
603
00:31:06,155 --> 00:31:08,115
She feels herself draining away.
604
00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:10,619
-[poignant music playing]
-Where's the line?
605
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,079
Huh?
606
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:17,384
Fucking city!
607
00:31:17,750 --> 00:31:21,210
We hear something gruesome,
we grimace and we move on.
608
00:31:21,296 --> 00:31:22,506
Well, not this time.
609
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,629
But these boys, Linda...
610
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:30,597
They were in the park beating people up
611
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,970
the same night that she's getting beat up
612
00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:35,227
and you're telling me
they had nothing to do with it?
613
00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:36,937
Bullshit.
614
00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:39,060
They said it themselves.
615
00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:40,980
They told us what happened.
616
00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:42,858
They were told.
617
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,280
Come on.
618
00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:48,494
The eye sees, but it cannot see itself.
619
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:52,583
They couldn't see the whole picture
of how their one part fit
620
00:31:52,660 --> 00:31:54,950
into the whole. That is all we did.
621
00:31:55,163 --> 00:31:56,543
[inhales deeply]
622
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:05,046
It's too late for this.
623
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,588
Like you said,
the whole country is watching.
624
00:32:09,677 --> 00:32:12,057
They are watching you.
625
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:14,767
This is your opportunity.
626
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:19,309
Remember her.
627
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,565
The people call Patricia Meili.
[murmuring]
628
00:32:33,493 --> 00:32:34,953
[murmuring continues]
629
00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:36,196
[door opens]
630
00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:38,286
[murmuring dies down]
631
00:32:38,748 --> 00:32:39,998
[woman whispering] Oh, Lord...
632
00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:52,351
Oh, man...
633
00:33:05,858 --> 00:33:06,858
What are you doing?
634
00:33:08,736 --> 00:33:10,486
Praying she got her memory back.
635
00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:24,132
[inhales deeply]
636
00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:25,797
Ms. Meili,
637
00:33:26,212 --> 00:33:28,172
will you tell us what you remember
638
00:33:28,506 --> 00:33:30,586
about April 19th, 1989?
639
00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:34,927
[ominous music playing]
640
00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:39,430
I remember being at work.
641
00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,685
And we had a meeting at lunch
642
00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:45,692
with the entire
643
00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:48,444
corporate finance department.
644
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:53,572
And I remember I had a phone call
at five o'clock
645
00:33:54,365 --> 00:33:56,735
to cancel a dinner with a friend.
646
00:33:58,619 --> 00:34:01,829
[Lederer] Do you recall what time
you left work on April 19th, 1989?
647
00:34:09,255 --> 00:34:10,335
No, I do not.
648
00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:13,886
[Lederer]
Do you remember jogging in Central Park?
649
00:34:15,470 --> 00:34:16,350
No.
650
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:20,100
[Lederer]
Do you have any memory whatsoever
651
00:34:20,975 --> 00:34:22,975
about what happened to you in the park
652
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,648
on April 19th, 1989?
653
00:34:37,033 --> 00:34:38,123
No, I do not.
654
00:35:01,390 --> 00:35:04,140
Ms. Meili, do you recognize
People's 33 in evidence?
655
00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:06,896
That's my shirt.
656
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,900
Prior to April 19th, 1989,
657
00:35:10,066 --> 00:35:11,396
what color was this shirt?
658
00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:13,487
It was white.
659
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,820
[murmuring]
660
00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:23,704
And do you recognize People's 13?
661
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:25,575
[Meili] Those are my running shoes.
662
00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:31,799
[Lederer]
Ms. Meili, as you sit here today,
663
00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:35,467
do you suffer any lingering injuries
from your attack?
664
00:35:41,264 --> 00:35:42,934
A few. Um...
665
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,274
I have trouble walking,
666
00:35:48,354 --> 00:35:49,524
as you could see.
667
00:35:51,399 --> 00:35:56,029
I have trouble with steps or stairs.
668
00:35:57,363 --> 00:35:58,363
I have...
669
00:35:59,198 --> 00:36:00,238
double vision.
670
00:36:01,909 --> 00:36:04,329
And I have lost my sense of smell.
671
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,245
I can't smell anything.
672
00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:16,219
Nothing further, Your Honor.
673
00:36:23,723 --> 00:36:25,603
She didn't say it wasn't them.
674
00:36:30,897 --> 00:36:32,607
[distant siren wailing]
675
00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:44,825
[siren wailing continues]
676
00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,811
How you doing, boy? Looking good.
677
00:37:10,186 --> 00:37:11,096
You a'ight?
678
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:14,816
I'm okay.
679
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:20,357
Why aren't you home?
680
00:37:21,739 --> 00:37:23,369
Trial's almost half over, and...
681
00:37:23,824 --> 00:37:25,084
I ain't seen you once.
682
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:27,078
[sighs] I mean, uh...
683
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:28,867
I'm just, you know...
684
00:37:29,789 --> 00:37:31,249
I'm working on some things.
685
00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:35,749
Taking care of some things for,
you know, for all of us.
686
00:37:39,298 --> 00:37:40,168
Trust me?
687
00:37:41,717 --> 00:37:43,717
[poignant music playing]
688
00:37:45,012 --> 00:37:45,852
Go on.
689
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,975
Here's some money for the cab ride
back and forth.
690
00:37:54,438 --> 00:37:56,228
[Antron] Wait... I thought...
691
00:37:59,151 --> 00:38:00,321
You're not coming, huh?
692
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:04,199
Not today.
693
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:11,084
I love you.
694
00:38:18,713 --> 00:38:21,513
We suggested,
myself and Detective Hildebrandt,
695
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:22,930
that maybe the mother...
696
00:38:25,094 --> 00:38:27,224
It might be better off
if the mother could leave
and Mr. McCray could stay inside the room.
697
00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:32,520
And once Mrs. McCray left the room,
did Antron say anything?
698
00:38:32,601 --> 00:38:36,361
Yeah, he admitted about the female jogger,
about who was holding her down,
699
00:38:36,439 --> 00:38:39,029
and about him getting on top of her
and penetrating her.
700
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:40,188
[murmuring]
701
00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:41,693
I never said that.
702
00:38:41,777 --> 00:38:44,067
And what was Antron's demeanor
at this point?
703
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,360
His voice was low,
704
00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:48,368
he was fidgeting,
and, uh, his eyes were tearing up.
705
00:38:49,118 --> 00:38:50,158
He was crying.
706
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:51,698
No, he wasn't crying.
707
00:38:51,954 --> 00:38:55,294
Your colleague Detective Gonzalez
testified that he was crying.
708
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:57,077
I didn't see that.
709
00:38:58,294 --> 00:38:59,134
[Joseph] Hmm.
710
00:38:59,378 --> 00:39:02,008
You testified that it was
Linda McCray's idea
711
00:39:02,089 --> 00:39:03,839
to remove herself
from the interrogation room.
712
00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:05,682
That's right.
713
00:39:06,093 --> 00:39:07,433
But isn't it the fact that...
714
00:39:07,928 --> 00:39:09,058
that was your idea?
715
00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:10,965
Yours and Detective Gonzalez'?
716
00:39:12,475 --> 00:39:13,725
We all decided together.
717
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,439
Detective Gonzalez testified
that Antron told him
718
00:39:18,522 --> 00:39:19,822
that he had penetrated the jogger,
719
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:23,399
but you just told the DA that Antron
was very clear with you
720
00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:25,316
that he did not penetrate her.
721
00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:30,028
So, which is it, Detective? Because
both of you can't be telling the truth.
722
00:39:30,117 --> 00:39:32,157
-Objection, argumentative.
-He ain't did nothing!
723
00:39:32,244 --> 00:39:33,254
-[gavel banging]
-Thank you.
724
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:36,669
-[clamoring]
-Order! Order! Sustained.
725
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:39,286
[Joseph] And because neither you
nor Detective Gonzalez
726
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:40,917
kept any notes of the interview,
727
00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:43,923
I guess we'll just never know
why a 14-year-old
728
00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:47,176
went from saying that he had
never heard of a rape in the park
729
00:39:47,301 --> 00:39:49,471
to allegedly confessing to it.
730
00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:52,349
Is that a question?
731
00:39:52,431 --> 00:39:55,391
Isn't it true that you promised
Antron McCray that he could go home
732
00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:57,516
if he would just give you a statement?
733
00:39:57,603 --> 00:40:02,113
All we did was ask Mr. McCray
what happened, and he told us.
734
00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:04,741
But you have no notes of the many times
that he told you
735
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:06,609
he had nothing to do with it.
736
00:40:07,363 --> 00:40:08,203
No.
737
00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:10,781
[Joseph] Just to be clear...
738
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:14,909
he told you multiple times
that he didn't do it.
739
00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:15,961
He may have.
740
00:40:16,288 --> 00:40:18,418
-[Joseph] Multiple times?
-Multiple times.
741
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:19,579
Yes.
742
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:23,588
Mr. McCray claimed to be innocent.
743
00:40:26,882 --> 00:40:28,012
Thank you, Your Honor.
744
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:34,560
Is it okay if I sit with Raymond
before they take him into Holding?
745
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,470
[Joseph] Sure.
746
00:40:44,191 --> 00:40:47,861
A'ight, here's the plan:
you take out the guards, I steal us a car,
747
00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:50,164
we'd be in Mexico in a few days.
748
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,989
I mean, you speak Spanish, right?
749
00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:55,158
I can say "tacos."
750
00:40:55,786 --> 00:40:56,746
That count?
751
00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:05,707
Man...
752
00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:09,335
I want to sleep in my own bed so bad.
753
00:41:11,427 --> 00:41:12,507
I want to go home.
754
00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:19,942
My dad don't even come to court no more.
755
00:41:22,771 --> 00:41:25,151
He say he knows what's gonna happen,
he's sorry.
756
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:31,322
That's what everybody's saying, man.
757
00:41:33,866 --> 00:41:35,446
It ain't looking good for us.
758
00:41:37,661 --> 00:41:38,831
Don't think like that.
759
00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,785
If we don't believe, man, we already lost.
760
00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:50,968
And as for the cervical swab,
761
00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:53,465
the semen sample recovered from the body,
762
00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:56,007
were you able to recover a DNA sample?
763
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,020
That's the pattern I informed
the district attorney was very faint.
764
00:42:00,226 --> 00:42:03,266
And based on your visual observation
of those two bands,
765
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:07,234
would you agree that the DNA pattern
is different than that of Antron McCray's?
766
00:42:07,441 --> 00:42:08,281
Yes.
767
00:42:08,442 --> 00:42:09,992
[murmuring]
768
00:42:10,444 --> 00:42:13,284
And did you find any trace
of Antron McCray's DNA
769
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:14,624
anywhere on the scene?
770
00:42:15,324 --> 00:42:18,834
No, but we only tested the cervical swab
and the sock.
771
00:42:19,411 --> 00:42:20,961
[murmuring]
772
00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:34,255
[hopeful music playing]
773
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,849
Agent, were you asked to test a sample
774
00:42:45,187 --> 00:42:46,937
on a sock recovered at the scene?
775
00:42:48,274 --> 00:42:49,114
Yes, sir.
776
00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:54,151
And what kind of sample was present?
777
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:56,697
There was a semen on the sock.
778
00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:00,740
A semen, singular?
779
00:43:01,203 --> 00:43:02,043
Yes.
780
00:43:04,164 --> 00:43:06,714
And would you say that your findings
are conclusive?
781
00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:07,924
Yes.
782
00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:14,471
Based on your analysis of that sock,
783
00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:18,216
does the DNA present match that
of Antron McCray?
784
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:23,095
-No. It was not his.
-[gasps]
785
00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:25,313
[excited murmuring]
786
00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:32,897
Does the DNA from that sample match
any of the DNA patterns of the defendants?
787
00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:39,988
No.
788
00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:41,287
[excited chattering]
789
00:43:41,368 --> 00:43:42,788
-[man] I told you!
-[gavel banging]
790
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:45,210
-[Galligan] Order!
-[man] They didn't touch her!
791
00:43:45,789 --> 00:43:47,079
[gavel banging]
792
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:48,036
[Galligan] Order!
793
00:43:48,208 --> 00:43:50,248
[excited chatter continuing]
794
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:52,840
[Galligan] Order!
795
00:43:52,921 --> 00:43:54,091
[Antron laughs]
796
00:43:54,173 --> 00:43:55,173
[Galligan] Order!
797
00:44:01,221 --> 00:44:02,811
-Elizabeth.
-Michael.
798
00:44:04,808 --> 00:44:06,638
Did you call me here to apologize?
799
00:44:07,186 --> 00:44:08,266
Apologize for what?
800
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:12,226
[sighs] You saying that the DNA evidence
was inconclusive. That's not playing fair.
801
00:44:12,566 --> 00:44:13,396
Fair?
802
00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:16,743
-What's that word mean, anyway?
-[Joseph chuckles]
803
00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,945
I don't know,
something to do with justice, I think.
804
00:44:20,115 --> 00:44:22,155
It's no longer about justice, Counselor.
805
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:23,906
It's about politics.
806
00:44:24,536 --> 00:44:26,746
And politics is about survival.
807
00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:29,501
And there's nothing fair about survival.
Survival at what cost?
808
00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:38,053
Those boys don't deserve
to pay the price--
809
00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:40,433
-I'm not interested in a philosophical--
-Then why am I here?
810
00:44:40,511 --> 00:44:42,391
I asked you here to talk about a deal.
811
00:44:43,722 --> 00:44:44,562
[door opens]
812
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,640
[optimistic music playing]
813
00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:50,400
The prosecution has a huge problem
with its physical case, and they know it.
814
00:44:50,479 --> 00:44:53,399
It's the only reason they're willing
to talk about a plea deal, but...
815
00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:56,363
it has to be all three of you.
816
00:44:57,361 --> 00:45:00,361
If we all plead guilty now,
you will do time,
817
00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:03,657
but it is a fraction of the time you'll do
if we see this thing through to the end
818
00:45:03,742 --> 00:45:06,292
and it doesn't go our way.
It's something we have to consider.
819
00:45:06,662 --> 00:45:08,462
-This is good news.
-[Joseph] Wait.
820
00:45:09,707 --> 00:45:13,037
We gotta be careful.
It's all gonna come down to those tapes.
821
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:16,091
If the tapes clearly show our boys
being coerced,
822
00:45:16,171 --> 00:45:17,921
it's a huge advantage to us.
823
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,012
This case could still go either way.
824
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:23,759
[both whispering indistinctly]
825
00:45:26,849 --> 00:45:28,679
[inaudible speech]
826
00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:31,097
[inaudible speech]
827
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,360
[indistinct chatter]
828
00:45:39,319 --> 00:45:41,319
[indistinct chatter continuing]
829
00:45:43,031 --> 00:45:44,071
We didn't do this.
830
00:45:44,408 --> 00:45:46,028
[chatter stops]
831
00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:49,656
No.
832
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:55,289
I don't think we should admit to something
that we didn't do.
833
00:46:03,302 --> 00:46:04,302
Yusef is right.
834
00:46:15,522 --> 00:46:16,572
Not gonna do this.
835
00:46:20,027 --> 00:46:20,897
Okay.
836
00:46:21,820 --> 00:46:22,650
So...
837
00:46:24,531 --> 00:46:25,531
we keep fighting.
838
00:46:32,414 --> 00:46:34,504
[inaudible speech]
839
00:46:36,335 --> 00:46:39,755
When Raymond said "I was kneeling"
when he was feeling her breasts,
840
00:46:39,838 --> 00:46:42,588
did you look to see if there was any mud
on his pants?
841
00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:44,514
No.
842
00:46:45,511 --> 00:46:48,931
Did you make any notations
about there being mud on the pants?
843
00:46:49,932 --> 00:46:50,772
No.
[Rivera] Oh.
844
00:46:58,732 --> 00:46:59,732
One more thing.
845
00:47:01,151 --> 00:47:05,531
Raymond placed the rape in the wrong part
of the park. Am I correct?
846
00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:06,913
Objection, leading.
847
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:08,159
You'll answer.
848
00:47:11,161 --> 00:47:13,161
Santana put the rape elsewhere.
849
00:47:13,747 --> 00:47:14,667
Where?
850
00:47:15,874 --> 00:47:18,714
Where "elsewhere," Detective?
851
00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:22,712
There's a lot at stake for this boy
and I want you to be specific.
852
00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:26,128
We don't need the commentary,
Mr. Rivera. You'll answer.
853
00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:30,260
He put the rape down there.
854
00:47:30,430 --> 00:47:32,020
[hopeful music playing]
855
00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:33,729
[murmuring]
856
00:47:36,895 --> 00:47:37,765
Not...
857
00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:41,569
where it took place.
858
00:47:45,904 --> 00:47:46,864
No.
859
00:47:50,742 --> 00:47:52,372
No further questions, Your Honor.
860
00:47:58,333 --> 00:47:59,543
Glad you could join us.
861
00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:07,967
[Galligan] Ms. Lederer.
862
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:11,259
[Lederer] The people rest, Your Honor.
863
00:48:14,641 --> 00:48:16,811
She was raped and beaten so severely,
864
00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:19,104
she lost all memory of the attack.
865
00:48:19,479 --> 00:48:21,319
It's been a back-and-forth trial
866
00:48:21,398 --> 00:48:24,228
and so much is riding
on these taped statements.
867
00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:27,068
If what we're hearing is true
about those tapes,
868
00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:29,824
those boys will need a miracle
to convince a jury.
869
00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:32,657
[disheartening music playing]
870
00:48:52,846 --> 00:48:54,256
[door opens]
871
00:48:59,394 --> 00:49:00,234
[Bobby] Hey.
872
00:49:04,399 --> 00:49:07,279
[crowd chanting] Protect black youth!
Protect black youth!
873
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:11,701
Protect black youth!
Protect black youth! Protect black youth!
874
00:49:12,366 --> 00:49:13,616
[chanting continues]
875
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:15,830
[crowd chanting] No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!
876
00:49:19,122 --> 00:49:21,832
-No justice, no peace!
-[woman] We love you, Tron!
877
00:49:21,917 --> 00:49:23,957
[crowd chanting] No justice, no peace!
878
00:49:24,461 --> 00:49:26,131
No justice, no peace!
879
00:49:27,255 --> 00:49:29,255
No justice, no peace!
880
00:49:29,925 --> 00:49:32,215
No justice, no peace!
881
00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:34,973
No justice, no peace!
882
00:49:35,055 --> 00:49:37,555
[chanting continues]
883
00:49:37,724 --> 00:49:39,144
[chanting] They were framed!
884
00:49:39,226 --> 00:49:41,936
They were framed! They were framed!
885
00:49:42,104 --> 00:49:44,944
They were framed! They were framed!
886
00:49:45,023 --> 00:49:47,823
They were framed! They were framed!
887
00:49:56,451 --> 00:49:57,541
[door opens]
888
00:50:09,047 --> 00:50:10,007
Hey.
889
00:50:15,220 --> 00:50:16,050
"Hey"?
890
00:50:16,138 --> 00:50:18,138
[poignant music playing]
891
00:50:19,266 --> 00:50:20,726
'Cause you didn't wanna show up!
892
00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:24,860
You didn't wanna show up
for half of my trial!
893
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:30,320
Now you're trying to come here
and play the hero?
894
00:50:31,903 --> 00:50:33,163
I can make this right, Tron--
895
00:50:33,238 --> 00:50:35,118
Have you ever thought about
what would happen
896
00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:37,408
if you went up there
and say the wrong thing?
897
00:50:38,577 --> 00:50:39,997
[Antron breathing heavily]
898
00:50:40,328 --> 00:50:41,538
This is my life.
899
00:50:43,665 --> 00:50:44,705
This is my life.
900
00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:48,961
I know what's happening.
901
00:50:49,838 --> 00:50:51,878
I know why you're leaving us.
902
00:50:54,843 --> 00:50:57,263
Ain't nobody ever blamed you
for any of this.
903
00:51:00,307 --> 00:51:01,427
I blame myself.
904
00:51:05,145 --> 00:51:08,815
[door opens and closes]
905
00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:18,529
[Joseph] Did there come a time
when you left the room with the police?
906
00:51:19,201 --> 00:51:21,081
Uh, yeah. Yes.
907
00:51:21,161 --> 00:51:22,951
[Joseph] And what did they say then?
908
00:51:24,706 --> 00:51:26,036
[Bobby] They said, um...
909
00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:29,997
if my son didn't cooperate
that he was going to go to jail,
910
00:51:30,462 --> 00:51:33,222
and then they said I should go back
in the room
911
00:51:34,382 --> 00:51:35,722
and talk to him alone,
912
00:51:37,177 --> 00:51:38,217
without my wife.
913
00:51:43,558 --> 00:51:45,268
And what did you say to Antron?
914
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:49,980
I told him that I knew
he was telling the truth...
915
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:55,150
but he gonna need to say
what they wanna hear
916
00:51:55,237 --> 00:51:57,657
so that we can get outta here
and go home.
917
00:51:59,199 --> 00:52:01,329
I was trying to protect him.
918
00:52:04,412 --> 00:52:05,372
Help him.
919
00:52:05,705 --> 00:52:06,955
Trying to save him.
920
00:52:07,916 --> 00:52:09,626
[Joseph] And what did Antron say?
921
00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:13,627
[inhales deeply]
922
00:52:13,755 --> 00:52:14,755
He said, "Dad,
923
00:52:15,841 --> 00:52:16,881
I wasn't there.
924
00:52:18,385 --> 00:52:19,505
I'm not gonna lie."
925
00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:22,354
What happened then, Mr. McCray?
926
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,600
-[ominous music playing]
-I lost it.
927
00:52:28,895 --> 00:52:29,935
Threw a chair.
928
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,030
I was trying to get him to lie.
929
00:52:35,652 --> 00:52:38,452
And then the police came back in the room
and I looked at my son,
930
00:52:38,738 --> 00:52:40,948
I told him to tell them
what they want to hear.
931
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:43,450
I thought,
I'm trying to keep him out of jail.
932
00:52:43,535 --> 00:52:45,695
Know what I'm saying?
It's hard to come back from that. I--
933
00:52:45,912 --> 00:52:47,042
Thank you, Mr. McCray.
934
00:52:48,582 --> 00:52:50,172
No further questions, Your Honor.
935
00:52:53,962 --> 00:52:55,172
You threw a chair?
936
00:53:00,677 --> 00:53:02,257
Must have been pretty angry.
937
00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:04,306
Out of control.
938
00:53:04,389 --> 00:53:06,389
I was trying to get my son to lie.
939
00:53:06,474 --> 00:53:09,234
But when the taping began,
you didn't say anything like,
940
00:53:09,311 --> 00:53:12,691
"This is nonsense. I'm not gonna
let my kid answer these questions."
941
00:53:13,398 --> 00:53:14,568
They had told us
942
00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:16,612
if we cooperate,
943
00:53:17,485 --> 00:53:19,065
he would be a witness.
944
00:53:19,613 --> 00:53:21,493
They told us we could go home.
945
00:53:21,573 --> 00:53:23,833
[Lederer] Do you honestly expect us
to believe
946
00:53:23,909 --> 00:53:26,199
that after your son signed a statement
947
00:53:26,620 --> 00:53:28,830
admitting that he had beaten people
in a park,
948
00:53:28,914 --> 00:53:30,544
that he had been on top of a woman,
949
00:53:30,874 --> 00:53:33,674
that he had held her down
while people raped her,
950
00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:38,798
did you honestly believe that
he was gonna be allowed to go home?
951
00:53:41,509 --> 00:53:42,339
Yeah.
952
00:53:43,553 --> 00:53:44,553
Yes, I did.
953
00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,854
After we received that promise
from the police.
954
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:51,064
Do you believe, Mr. McCray, that...
955
00:53:51,478 --> 00:53:54,148
it's okay to lie to protect your family?
956
00:53:55,982 --> 00:53:58,322
Is that something
that you would teach your son?
957
00:54:04,324 --> 00:54:05,164
[Bobby] Yeah.
958
00:54:07,869 --> 00:54:09,619
Look, he didn't do this.
959
00:54:09,704 --> 00:54:11,254
But you weren't in the park
on April 19th,
960
00:54:11,331 --> 00:54:12,711
so you have no way of knowing that.
961
00:54:12,791 --> 00:54:14,961
I know my son, all right?
962
00:54:16,169 --> 00:54:17,549
Antron ain't no liar.
963
00:54:17,754 --> 00:54:18,884
That's right.
964
00:54:19,005 --> 00:54:21,545
If he say he ain't touched that woman,
he ain't touched that woman.
965
00:54:21,633 --> 00:54:23,433
So we can trust his words?
966
00:54:25,136 --> 00:54:26,426
Yeah. Yes, you can.
967
00:54:26,888 --> 00:54:29,428
Well, fortunately, we have his words.
968
00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:30,930
On tape.
969
00:54:32,936 --> 00:54:34,306
Saying that he did.
970
00:54:34,479 --> 00:54:36,479
[whispering]
971
00:54:42,112 --> 00:54:43,452
Nothing further, Your Honor.
972
00:54:49,244 --> 00:54:51,834
Thank you, Mr. Joseph.
973
00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:57,172
I know you did your best.
974
00:54:59,462 --> 00:55:01,172
This is not over yet, Antron.
975
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:12,021
[reporter] There was no solid evidence
linking the defendants to the crime,
976
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:14,940
no fingerprints, no blood matches.
977
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:18,900
The prosecution's strongest weapon
will come from the teenagers themselves
978
00:55:18,982 --> 00:55:21,232
in written and taped confessions.
979
00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:25,068
Defense lawyers argued the teenagers
were pressured into confessing,
980
00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:27,525
that they were victims
of a biased legal system
981
00:55:27,615 --> 00:55:30,235
anxious to solve a crime
against a white woman.
982
00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:32,367
That debate could go on,
983
00:55:32,454 --> 00:55:35,504
as two other teenagers
also charged with the rape
984
00:55:35,582 --> 00:55:37,002
prepare for trial.
985
00:55:37,083 --> 00:55:40,753
[Lederer] So on the night of April 19th,
when you entered the park...
986
00:55:42,547 --> 00:55:45,007
did you see [bleep] hit her in the head?
987
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:47,590
[Antron] Nah.
988
00:55:48,928 --> 00:55:50,138
I heard it.
989
00:55:52,098 --> 00:55:53,518
Actually, uh...
990
00:55:54,225 --> 00:55:55,135
I, uh...
991
00:55:55,810 --> 00:55:57,060
[stammering] I seen it.
992
00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:01,570
[Lederer] Who else had sex with her
besides Kevin Richardson?
993
00:56:01,649 --> 00:56:02,529
[Raymond] Uh...
994
00:56:03,026 --> 00:56:05,066
I didn't see anybody else on top, uh...
995
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:07,236
have sex.
996
00:56:11,785 --> 00:56:12,785
Just him.
997
00:56:14,704 --> 00:56:16,164
[Lederer] Then you got on top of her?
998
00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:19,918
But my penis wasn't in her.
999
00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:22,880
I just... I got on top of her.
1000
00:56:23,671 --> 00:56:25,421
For show. You know?
1001
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,340
[Lederer] And when he was on top of her
having sex,
1002
00:56:28,426 --> 00:56:31,176
how were you able to put your hands
on her breasts?
1003
00:56:34,265 --> 00:56:35,345
I was kneeling
1004
00:56:36,351 --> 00:56:37,311
to...
1005
00:56:37,394 --> 00:56:39,404
[poignant music playing]
1006
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,280
[Korey] Me, Kevin,
1007
00:56:46,069 --> 00:56:47,359
and...
I don't know the other ones.
1008
00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:54,195
The only ones who did it different
was me and Yusef.
1009
00:56:54,911 --> 00:56:56,001
Me and Yusef.
1010
00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:58,713
Me and Yusef was just playing with her.
1011
00:56:59,999 --> 00:57:01,039
I felt bad.
1012
00:57:01,835 --> 00:57:02,785
I felt bad.
1013
00:57:04,462 --> 00:57:07,842
This is my... This is my first extreme...
1014
00:57:08,216 --> 00:57:09,426
I did to any...
1015
00:57:10,260 --> 00:57:12,100
any kind of female.
1016
00:57:13,847 --> 00:57:14,677
Or...
1017
00:57:15,682 --> 00:57:16,812
[exhales]
1018
00:57:17,642 --> 00:57:18,892
This is my first rape.
1019
00:57:20,645 --> 00:57:23,305
This is my first experience,
this will be my last.
1020
00:57:27,277 --> 00:57:28,987
[Lederer] Were you trying to touch her?
1021
00:57:32,657 --> 00:57:34,447
Not... Not really.
1022
00:57:34,784 --> 00:57:37,004
[Lederer] Didn't you tell police
earlier today
1023
00:57:37,078 --> 00:57:38,288
that you had tried to grab her
1024
00:57:38,371 --> 00:57:41,001
-and that's when you got scratched?
-[Kevin] Um...
1025
00:57:41,875 --> 00:57:43,325
No, no, not like...
1026
00:57:46,671 --> 00:57:48,511
Like, not, like, feeling her up.
1027
00:57:49,757 --> 00:57:51,377
[Lederer] Okay, not like that.
1028
00:57:51,509 --> 00:57:52,639
No, like, um...
1029
00:57:53,887 --> 00:57:55,717
I was trying to stop it.
1030
00:57:56,764 --> 00:57:58,314
[Lederer] But you tried. You--
1031
00:57:58,391 --> 00:58:00,851
Like, I tried to grab her arm.
1032
00:58:01,603 --> 00:58:04,653
-[Lederer] You tried to grab her arms.
-[Kevin] Uh...
1033
00:58:05,607 --> 00:58:06,567
I was, uh...
1034
00:58:07,066 --> 00:58:09,186
I was trying to stop them.
1035
00:58:09,277 --> 00:58:11,277
[sobbing quietly]
1036
00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:19,624
And how many times did he slap you?
1037
00:58:20,413 --> 00:58:21,873
Uh, three times.
1038
00:58:23,208 --> 00:58:24,328
And what did you do?
1039
00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,125
I just took him serious.
1040
00:58:27,587 --> 00:58:29,837
I had no choice
but to take him serious 'cause...
1041
00:58:30,131 --> 00:58:33,221
Hartigan said I could go home
if I said I was at the rape.
1042
00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:36,045
[Moore] You didn't want to say it,
1043
00:58:36,846 --> 00:58:37,716
but you did.
1044
00:58:39,974 --> 00:58:44,234
Why did you say something
that wasn't true, Korey?
1045
00:58:45,855 --> 00:58:47,935
They said... They said if I was there,
1046
00:58:49,567 --> 00:58:52,397
and if I went along with it,
that I could go home.
1047
00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:53,779
And that's all I wanted.
1048
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,280
That's all I wanted, was to go home.
1049
00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:58,029
That's all I still want.
1050
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:04,205
No further questions, Your Honor.
1051
00:59:06,584 --> 00:59:08,844
So that punching gesture
that you're making in the video,
1052
00:59:09,295 --> 00:59:12,415
right, demonstrating how the boys
punched the jogger,
1053
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:14,797
did the police make you do that on tape?
1054
00:59:15,301 --> 00:59:17,221
Punching with both your fists?
1055
00:59:20,223 --> 00:59:21,523
[stammering] Somehow.
1056
00:59:22,642 --> 00:59:24,812
They tell you that you were supposed
to do that?
1057
00:59:25,937 --> 00:59:27,767
W... They was yelling at me.
1058
00:59:27,855 --> 00:59:31,185
They was screaming at me
and hitting on me, so I...
1059
00:59:31,734 --> 00:59:33,784
I figured I'd tell them what they wanted.
1060
00:59:33,861 --> 00:59:37,321
If I tell them what they wanted,
I could go home. So that's what I did.
1061
00:59:37,865 --> 00:59:40,075
[Lederer] In your statement,
did the police make you say
1062
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:42,289
that you hit her in the head with a pipe?
1063
00:59:43,871 --> 00:59:45,541
Is that... That's what it says?
1064
00:59:46,624 --> 00:59:48,844
Is that your signature on the page?
1065
00:59:49,043 --> 00:59:51,503
Permission to approach the witness,
Your Honor?
1066
00:59:51,588 --> 00:59:53,718
Is that your signature on your page?
1067
00:59:57,051 --> 00:59:58,551
Yeah. Yeah.
1068
00:59:58,636 --> 01:00:01,216
[Lederer] And above that,
what does the statement say?
1069
01:00:05,852 --> 01:00:06,852
Read the statement.
1070
01:00:08,521 --> 01:00:09,811
What does the statement say?
1071
01:00:10,648 --> 01:00:12,608
-Read what the sentence says.
-I can't read well.
1072
01:00:12,692 --> 01:00:14,862
-I can't read very well.
-Can you try to read it?
1073
01:00:15,111 --> 01:00:18,571
-I said I can't read very well.
-Just read what the sentence says.
1074
01:00:18,656 --> 01:00:21,276
What's wrong with this woman? I said
I can't read well. She pushing on me.
1075
01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:23,407
[Galligan] Can you read any of the words?
1076
01:00:24,245 --> 01:00:25,455
[Korey] Uh, maybe.
1077
01:00:26,623 --> 01:00:28,213
Maybe. I don't know. I can't--
1078
01:00:28,291 --> 01:00:31,591
Above your name,
does it say, "This statement is true"?
1079
01:00:31,753 --> 01:00:33,673
I don't know what it says
'cause I ain't write it.
1080
01:00:33,755 --> 01:00:36,085
So I don't know what it says.
I ain't write it.
1081
01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:38,178
Did you skip school
1082
01:00:39,135 --> 01:00:40,755
on April 19th, 1989?
1083
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:44,854
-Yeah.
-[Lederer] And isn't it true that
1084
01:00:44,932 --> 01:00:48,902
you were truant from school
before this date, April 19th, 1989?
1085
01:00:49,687 --> 01:00:50,557
"Truant"?
1086
01:00:50,647 --> 01:00:52,147
That means you skipped school.
1087
01:00:52,940 --> 01:00:55,280
-I had a reason.
-[Lederer] You skipped a lot of school?
1088
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:56,320
Objection.
1089
01:00:56,611 --> 01:00:57,611
Asked and answered.
1090
01:00:57,945 --> 01:00:59,815
Overruled. You can answer.
1091
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:02,196
I had a reason.
I was threatened in school.
1092
01:01:02,283 --> 01:01:03,373
That's why.
1093
01:01:03,951 --> 01:01:06,001
What's that...
What's that have to do my case?
1094
01:01:06,079 --> 01:01:11,169
And is that the reason that
you skipped school for all of April 1989?
1095
01:01:11,626 --> 01:01:13,416
[panicked] What does that
have to do with my case?
1096
01:01:13,503 --> 01:01:15,173
You're here to answer questions.
1097
01:01:15,421 --> 01:01:16,961
I don't want to answer
her questions anymore,
1098
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,878
answering a question's what
got me here in the first place. So I...
1099
01:01:19,967 --> 01:01:22,177
-I don't want to answer her questions.
-Answer the question.
1100
01:01:22,261 --> 01:01:23,601
-[clamoring]
-Why I gotta answer?
1101
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,020
-[man] He already answered!
-What does that have to do with my case?
1102
01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:27,809
-[gavel banging]
-[Galligan] Get them out of here!
1103
01:01:27,892 --> 01:01:29,892
What does that have to do with my case?
1104
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:56,665
[cries]
1105
01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,149
[Lederer]
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
1106
01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:14,308
these boys...
1107
01:02:14,939 --> 01:02:20,069
they had their fun in Central Park
on April 19th, 1989.
1108
01:02:20,153 --> 01:02:22,953
Today, they have no one to blame
but themselves.
1109
01:02:23,030 --> 01:02:25,030
[ominous music playing]
1110
01:02:25,950 --> 01:02:30,330
[Lederer] They were acting in concert
with one another and others in the park.
1111
01:02:31,038 --> 01:02:34,458
They committed the vicious attack
on Patricia Meili
1112
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:38,171
and the brutal beating
of Loughlin and Lewis.
1113
01:02:41,883 --> 01:02:45,553
Not one person
has walked into this courtroom
1114
01:02:45,762 --> 01:02:48,972
and said that Antron McCray
attacked Patricia Meili.
1115
01:02:50,516 --> 01:02:52,096
Or anyone, for that matter.
1116
01:02:52,894 --> 01:02:57,864
There is not one shred of physical
or scientific evidence that proves
1117
01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:01,360
that Antron McCray committed these crimes
or any crimes whatsoever.
1118
01:03:01,652 --> 01:03:03,322
All the police had to do
1119
01:03:04,071 --> 01:03:06,661
was make one and one equal two.
1120
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:09,664
So detectives, they start talking,
1121
01:03:10,161 --> 01:03:11,371
asking questions.
1122
01:03:12,288 --> 01:03:13,248
To kids.
1123
01:03:14,290 --> 01:03:15,710
Who have not had any food,
1124
01:03:16,334 --> 01:03:18,094
who've not been allowed to sleep.
1125
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:21,125
And they questioned them for hours
1126
01:03:21,714 --> 01:03:22,844
and hours
1127
01:03:23,174 --> 01:03:24,134
and hours.
1128
01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:25,797
Then even more hours.
1129
01:03:26,010 --> 01:03:30,350
You seemed to have a hard time
watching the confession tapes.
1130
01:03:30,765 --> 01:03:33,765
But if you watch closely
and watch for yourself,
you will see the truth, and you did.
1131
01:03:39,148 --> 01:03:40,438
The evidence...
1132
01:03:41,025 --> 01:03:42,185
is so conflicting.
1133
01:03:43,319 --> 01:03:45,859
Emotions have run so high.
1134
01:03:46,405 --> 01:03:47,275
And...
1135
01:03:47,865 --> 01:03:49,775
there are racial overtones
1136
01:03:50,201 --> 01:03:53,201
that even the blind Lady Justice can see.
1137
01:03:54,163 --> 01:03:58,293
Acting with an entire group
of more than 30 people,
1138
01:03:59,544 --> 01:04:01,254
they went wild in the park,
1139
01:04:01,879 --> 01:04:03,169
beating, kicking,
1140
01:04:03,631 --> 01:04:05,091
using bricks and stones,
1141
01:04:05,174 --> 01:04:06,844
striking anybody they could find.
1142
01:04:06,926 --> 01:04:10,676
They admitted all of this in their written
and taped statements to police.
1143
01:04:10,763 --> 01:04:13,473
You saw Patricia Meili's shirt
soaked in blood,
1144
01:04:13,558 --> 01:04:18,148
but there is not one drop of blood
on Antron's clothes, not one drop.
1145
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:19,059
Why?
1146
01:04:19,397 --> 01:04:22,647
Because Antron is innocent
of these crimes.
1147
01:04:22,859 --> 01:04:25,609
Why was there no blood
on the defendant's clothing?
1148
01:04:25,903 --> 01:04:29,413
Because Patricia lost most of her blood
from head wounds.
1149
01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:31,827
They didn't come in contact
with her head.
1150
01:04:31,951 --> 01:04:35,161
They were on top of her pelvic area
and her torso.
1151
01:04:35,246 --> 01:04:40,246
Imagine the frenzy of these teenagers
as they were gathering around her,
1152
01:04:40,501 --> 01:04:44,171
reaching hands to grab her,
ripping off her clothes.
1153
01:04:44,255 --> 01:04:47,295
In the chaos, are you surprised
that the defendants,
1154
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:51,103
when they were questioned,
don't remember the exact details?
1155
01:04:51,846 --> 01:04:55,266
And just because there is DNA evidence
1156
01:04:55,641 --> 01:04:57,891
that someone else was present
at the scene,
1157
01:04:57,977 --> 01:05:01,517
that doesn't mean that these defendants
are innocent.
1158
01:05:02,023 --> 01:05:05,533
They can still be guilty of rape
under the law.
1159
01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:07,275
If they were present,
1160
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:10,070
if they did nothing to stop her agony,
1161
01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:11,446
then they are guilty.
1162
01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:18,503
[poignant music playing]
1163
01:05:31,802 --> 01:05:33,432
[Sharonne] You watch them grow.
1164
01:05:40,186 --> 01:05:42,556
And you start to think
you did a good job.
1165
01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:52,816
And then one night...
1166
01:05:56,494 --> 01:05:57,544
you look away.
1167
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:12,717
One night.
1168
01:06:20,768 --> 01:06:23,518
[inaudible speech]
1169
01:06:24,021 --> 01:06:25,271
[man] Kevin Richardson...
1170
01:06:26,315 --> 01:06:27,265
please stand.
1171
01:06:29,026 --> 01:06:31,236
Antron McCray, please stand.
1172
01:06:33,114 --> 01:06:35,664
Yusef Salaam, please stand.
1173
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:39,079
Raymond Santana, Jr., please stand.
1174
01:06:40,162 --> 01:06:42,212
Korey Wise, please stand.
1175
01:06:43,708 --> 01:06:45,998
In the matter of the State of New York...
1176
01:06:46,460 --> 01:06:49,170
as to the count of rape
in the first degree...
1177
01:06:51,090 --> 01:06:53,720
[court clerk] As to the count of assault
in the first degree...
As to the count of assault
in the second degree...
1178
01:06:57,805 --> 01:07:00,095
[court clerk] As to the count of riot
in the first degree...
1179
01:07:00,182 --> 01:07:01,812
As to the count of rape
in the first degree...
1180
01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:03,982
Count of robbery...
Count of attempted murder
1181
01:07:04,061 --> 01:07:05,771
in the second degree...
Count of sodomy...
Count of sexual abuse
in the first degree...
1182
01:07:07,648 --> 01:07:10,568
And to the count of attempted murder
of Patricia Meili...
1183
01:07:12,778 --> 01:07:14,408
the jury finds the defendant...
1184
01:07:16,449 --> 01:07:17,279
guilty.
1185
01:07:17,366 --> 01:07:19,576
[cries of anguish and outrage in courtroom
slowly fading]
1186
01:07:19,660 --> 01:07:21,660
[ominous music playing]
1187
01:07:34,550 --> 01:07:36,390
-[inaudible speech]
-[court clerk] ...guilty.
1188
01:07:40,681 --> 01:07:43,231
On the count of assault
in the second degree,
1189
01:07:43,934 --> 01:07:47,484
-the verdict is guilty.
-[cries of anguish and outrage continuing]
1190
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:50,943
[court clerk] ...the verdict is guilty.
1191
01:07:52,985 --> 01:07:53,935
...is guilty.
1192
01:07:55,279 --> 01:07:56,489
[woman] That's my baby!
1193
01:07:56,989 --> 01:07:59,159
[court clerk] ...the verdict is guilty.
1194
01:07:59,617 --> 01:08:04,617
[inaudible speech]
1195
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:15,128
[plays plaintive note]
1196
01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:19,679
[plaintive trumpet playing continuing]