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- ♪ Oh, honey ♪
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- A confession.
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- Is that what they call it?
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- Billy Lyons was thrown in jail
- for three days
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- without cause.
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- In the case of Inez Washington
- v. the CR&L Bus Company,
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- gentlemen, I have reviewed
- all the papers and briefs in my chambers
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- and I am prepared to rule.
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- The court finds that
- service of the complaint
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- was in fact made at
- the wrong address,
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- as Attorney Friedman has argued.
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- Therefore, the defendant's
- motion to dismiss
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- is granted.
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- Thank you, Your Honor.
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- Great work, Friedman.
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- And to get their confession,
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- Special Agent Cheatwood,
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- sent by the governor himself,
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- took this club...
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- his "nigger beater,"
- he called it.
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- He tied Billy Lyons
- to a chair...
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- and he pounded Billy Lyons
- in the head with it.
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- And still Billy Lyons insisted
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- he had not committed
- these murders.
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- We had this one
- pegged as a loser.
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- You've got a real knack
- for spotting technicalities.
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- Thank you,
- Mr. Sprague.
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- I'll be sending some more files your way,
- if you've got the time.
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- I will make the time.
- Good.
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- They forced him into their car
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- and hauled him off
- to the murder scene.
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- The bodies had been burned
- and were decomposing.
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- They took some of the bones
- of these dead bodies,
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- put them in a pan and placed them
- in Billy Lyons' hands.
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- They admitted this.
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- Delirious
- with exhaustion and pain,
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- Billy Lyons confessed to a crime
- he did not commit.
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- And it is based upon
- that confession alone
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- that they now seek to hang
- Billy Lyons by the neck...
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- until he is dead.
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- You'll get them the next time, baby.
- There may not be a next time.
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- We needed this one.
- All right.
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- When you coming home?
- I'll be on the next train to Knoxville.
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- I should be home
- by midday Wednesday.
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- Okay. Be safe. I love you.
- I love you too.
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- Bye, baby.
- See you soon.
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- Hey, boy.
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- Boy, what do you think
- you're doing here?
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- What you gonna do, nigger?
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- All aboard.
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- I'll see you boys another time.
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- That son of a bitch.
- Let's go scare him.
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- Shoot him.
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- NAACP.
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- Please hold.
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- Good morning, Mr. Marshall.
- Good morning.
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- Welcome back.
- Thank you.
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- Thurgood,
- you're going to Bridgeport.
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- What? Now?
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- No, I swore to Buster
- I would...
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- How many Thurgoods are there?
- Five or 10? There's only one.
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- And that one is gonna get his ass
- on the train tomorrow.
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- Why?
- Why?
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- "Nightmare in Greenwich."
- That's why, Thurgood.
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- "Wife Attacked by Negro Driver."
- That's why, Thurgood.
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- How about,
- "Fear Grips Connecticut"?
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- What's the reaction?
- Fear.
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- Getting calls from all over the country.
- Negroes getting fired.
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- White families afraid
- to have us in their home.
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- If we can't work as domestics,
- Negro families are going to starve.
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- And this is a hell of a time
- to lose half of our staff.
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- It's got everything, doesn't it?
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- "Eleanor Strubing,
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- fair-haired
- Greenwich socialite,
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- was the victim of a beastly attack
- in her own bedroom."
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- Yes, and the boy that they're holding
- is straight out of Native Son.
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- Look at that.
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- Wow.
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- "Joseph Spell.
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- Uneducated Negro servant
- with a criminal past."
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- A fable that the New York City press
- is gonna feed on to the last morsel.
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- Yeah. They're starving for this one.
- So are we.
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- We win this thing, our big donors
- are coming right back, Thurgood.
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- There's only 13 million Negroes
- depending on you.
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- Irwin said
- I would find you here.
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- What?
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- Your brother said I would find you here.
- You know, swimming.
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- Nice swimsuit.
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- Who the hell are you?
- Tad Lancaster.
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- Bridgeport High.
- Remember?
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- Trombone?
- Yeah!
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- Still blowin' it too, man.
- What are you doing here, Tad?
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- Oh, I am, uh, working
- with the Bridgeport NAACP.
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- Actually, I am the Bridgeport NAACP,
- and I need a little favor.
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- Do you know that Spell case?
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- The guy who attacked the
- girl from Greenwich? Yeah.
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- Now, National is sending a lawyer from
- the city to handle his defense,
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- and we need a local guy
- to get him admitted.
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- Uh, sorry, no.
- I'm not gonna do that.
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- - There's nothing else required.
- - I'm not interested.
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- Think about the publicity.
- That's exactly what I'm thinking of.
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- - Your brother seems to think...
- - My brother is an absolute idiot.
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- Listen, Tad, thank you so much
- for thinking of me.
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- Honestly, I'm grateful.
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- But I don't handle
- criminal cases. Okay?
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- Find someone who wants
- that kind of attention.
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- Irwin already filed the papers
- with the court.
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- He did what?
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- ...scattered
- over many parts of the country.
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- Nazi aircraft were reported over the
- south coast, the midlands... Paper, please.
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- As well as over the London area.
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- Thurgood Marshall.
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- National Association for the Advancement
- of Colored People.
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- Sam Friedman.
- Um, Friedman and Friedman.
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- Good to meet you, Sam.
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- Give me a hand with these, would you?
- Sure.
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- What have you got in here?
- Cement?
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- Guns.
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- Books, Mr. Friedman.
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- My law library.
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- It goes where I go.
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- Look, I told Tad Lancaster
- I'll get you admitted, as a favor.
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- But I can't get involved with a
- case like this. Yeah? Why not?
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- Well, I do insurance defense.
- You know, accident cases.
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- I've got a reputation
- to think of.
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- Ah.
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- That must be difficult.
- What?
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- Having a reputation to think of.
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- You meet our client yet?
- Your client. And no, I was waiting...
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- Well, come on then.
- Let's get to it.
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- Got another one coming in.
- Okay.
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- University of Maryland
- Law School.
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- Was walking distance from home.
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- But they didn't accept colored,
- so I had to go to Howard.
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- An hour and a half
- each way by bus,
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- and well-known
- as a school for failures.
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- That's too bad.
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- No. No, it was the best thing
- that ever happened to me.
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- They'd just brought in a new dean,
- Charles Hamilton Houston.
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- Turned that place around,
- taught me everything I know,
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- including how to sue
- the University of Maryland.
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- You sued them?
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- You bet your ass I did.
- Soon as I passed the bar.
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- And?
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- Supreme Court ordered the bastards
- to integrate.
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- You argued in the United States
- Supreme Court?
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- What?
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- No, the Maryland Supreme Court.
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- I didn't argue in front
- of the US Supreme Court until last year.
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- Your boy is ready for you.
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- Spell.
- Lawyer's here to see you.
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- Mr. Spell, I'm Thurgood Marshall
- with the NAACP.
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- You heard of us?
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- - You a lawyer?
- - I am.
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- This is Sam Friedman.
- He's a lawyer too.
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- You can go.
- Got no money for lawyers.
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- Anybody ask you for money?
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- Did you rape that woman, Joseph?
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- No.
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- Why does she say you did?
- I don't know.
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- She says you raped her
- and tried to kill her.
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- She's lying.
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- I was up in White Plains,
- at a club.
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- Come on, Joseph.
- All night long?
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- 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:51,076
- No, not all night.
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- 00:11:51,078 --> 00:11:54,579
- I was at the house but couldn't sleep,
- so I went to play cards.
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- Got back
- maybe 6:00, 6:30.
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- Anybody see you at the club?
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- Yeah, but I don't know
- their names or nothin'.
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- 00:12:02,889 --> 00:12:06,324
- For an alibi defense,
- you need witnesses, Joseph.
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- 00:12:06,326 --> 00:12:08,993
- Otherwise it's her word
- against yours.
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- 00:12:08,995 --> 00:12:11,463
- And who do you think
- they're gonna believe?
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- 00:12:12,231 --> 00:12:14,165
- There was a cop.
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- A cop? Stopped me in Port Chester
- on the way to the club.
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- Looked at my license, then let me go.
- What time was that?
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- I don't know.
- Maybe 3:00 in the morning.
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- I'm telling you this up front.
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- The NAACP,
- we're not like most lawyers.
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- We only represent
- innocent people,
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- 00:12:36,523 --> 00:12:38,523
- people accused
- because of their race.
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- That's our mission.
- You understand?
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- 00:12:42,528 --> 00:12:44,763
- So I need to know this...
- Look at me now.
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- Did you do
- what they said you did?
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- 00:12:50,069 --> 00:12:52,504
- I never touched that woman.
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- 00:12:55,207 --> 00:12:57,475
- Okay, Joseph.
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- You got lawyers now.
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- 00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:16,094
- Go ahead.
- Change the station.
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- 00:13:18,398 --> 00:13:21,232
- What do you know
- about the prosecutor?
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- 00:13:21,234 --> 00:13:23,234
- Lorin Willis.
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- 00:13:23,236 --> 00:13:25,837
- Graduated Yale
- the day he was born.
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- Unless you came over on the Mayflower,
- you're nothing to him.
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- 00:13:28,441 --> 00:13:31,442
- They're grooming him
- to be senator, I hear.
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- 00:13:31,444 --> 00:13:34,345
- What do you know about the judge?
- Judge Foster?
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- 00:13:36,148 --> 00:13:38,216
- Former law partner
- of Willis's father.
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- 00:13:47,526 --> 00:13:50,428
- I'll move
- your admission Monday morning, and then...
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- 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:53,298
- Back to fighting off
- those insurance claims.
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- 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:55,066
- Yeah, I know.
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- 00:14:09,648 --> 00:14:12,884
- Ah. So you like
- Langston Hughes, huh?
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- Of course.
- Don't you?
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- 00:14:14,621 --> 00:14:17,488
- I don't give a damn
- about no poetry.
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- 00:14:17,490 --> 00:14:20,058
- Come on.
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- I actually went to school
- with Langston.
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- I just wish he'd do something
- more worthwhile with his time.
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- Another bourbon, Mr. Marshall?
- Sure.
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- You know, Tad's got a law degree too.
- From Fordham.
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- You told me you were a driver.
- Yep.
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- The state of Connecticut decided to
- not allow me a license to practice law.
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- 00:14:41,014 --> 00:14:44,215
- They were generous enough
- to give me a driver's license, however.
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- I see.
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- 00:14:47,854 --> 00:14:49,988
- What about you, Irene?
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- 00:14:49,990 --> 00:14:52,857
- What are you gonna be when you grow up?
- A nurse like your mother?
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- 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:55,426
- No.
- A lawyer then?
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- 00:14:55,428 --> 00:14:58,897
- No.
- A fighter pilot.
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- A fighter pilot?
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- 00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:05,737
- Well, I feel a whole lot
- more safe knowing that.
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- 00:15:05,739 --> 00:15:09,140
- All right, say good night
- to Mr. Marshall, Renie.
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- 00:15:10,376 --> 00:15:12,343
- Good night.
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- 00:15:12,345 --> 00:15:14,946
- You got kids?
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- 00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:18,283
- Uh, Buster and I have been trying
- for a while.
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- 00:15:18,285 --> 00:15:22,220
- Buster is my wife. Sometimes people
- think I'm talking about my dog.
- 222
- 00:15:22,222 --> 00:15:25,857
- You should get a dog and name it "Mrs.
- Marshall." Ah!
- 223
- 00:15:25,859 --> 00:15:28,793
- So, you think this boy did it?
- 224
- 00:15:30,129 --> 00:15:32,096
- Hey, whose side you on?
- 225
- 00:15:32,098 --> 00:15:35,867
- Women don't just go around
- lying about being raped, Mr. Marshall.
- 226
- 00:15:35,869 --> 00:15:38,770
- You're going to have to figure out
- why she'd do such a thing.
- 227
- 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:41,272
- Burden of proof is on the State.
- Is it now?
- 228
- 00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:43,908
- Hey there.
- 229
- 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:46,811
- So what can you tell me
- about this Friedman guy anyway?
- 230
- 00:15:46,813 --> 00:15:49,981
- Sam and me played trombone together
- in the high school band.
- 231
- 00:15:49,983 --> 00:15:52,550
- You trust him? Sam? Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- 232
- 00:15:52,552 --> 00:15:56,654
- If you dropped a nickel while kicking him
- in the balls, he'd return it to you.
- 233
- 00:15:56,656 --> 00:15:58,723
- Mmm.
- 234
- 00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:02,827
- Couldn't play trombone
- for shit though.
- 235
- 00:16:02,829 --> 00:16:05,797
- Gentlemen! Can I have a minute, please?
- 236
- 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:08,433
- Just a minute!
- Who is this, a relative of Spell?
- 237
- 00:16:08,435 --> 00:16:10,902
- I'm Mr. Spell's attorney.
- Thurgood Marshall.
- 238
- 00:16:10,904 --> 00:16:12,470
- I thought you were
- Spell's lawyer, Mr. Freeman.
- 239
- 00:16:12,472 --> 00:16:16,474
- It's Friedman.
- Sam Friedman.
- 240
- 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:19,143
- Of Friedman and Friedman.
- Local counsel. That is all.
- 241
- 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:21,612
- - The defense team, huh?
- - Is your boy innocent, Mr. Friedman?
- 242
- 00:16:21,614 --> 00:16:26,117
- He is not my... Let me state this to you all
- clearly and unequivocally.
- 243
- 00:16:26,119 --> 00:16:30,021
- Our client, Joseph Spell,
- is an innocent man.
- 244
- 00:16:30,023 --> 00:16:32,557
- Well, let's get
- a picture of you two.
- 245
- 00:17:01,653 --> 00:17:03,087
- All rise.
- 246
- 00:17:04,456 --> 00:17:06,691
- Superior Court
- is now in session.
- 247
- 00:17:06,693 --> 00:17:09,794
- The Honorable Carl Foster
- presiding.
- 248
- 00:17:14,366 --> 00:17:17,135
- You may be seated.
- 249
- 00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:23,241
- The State of Connecticut
- v. Joseph Spell.
- 250
- 00:17:23,243 --> 00:17:25,176
- Are the parties
- ready to proceed?
- 251
- 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:27,378
- The State is ready, Your Honor.
- 252
- 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,048
- Ah, Mr. Willis.
- Good morning.
- 253
- 00:17:30,050 --> 00:17:32,016
- How's your father doing?
- 254
- 00:17:32,018 --> 00:17:34,819
- He's better. Thank you.
- That's kind of you to ask.
- 255
- 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:39,390
- Uh, the defense is ready as well,
- Your Honor.
- 256
- 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:41,292
- Well then, let's get on with it.
- 257
- 00:17:42,361 --> 00:17:44,495
- Mr., uh...
- 258
- 00:17:44,497 --> 00:17:46,597
- Mr. Friedman.
- 259
- 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:49,767
- You filed an application to admit
- an out-of-state attorney?
- 260
- 00:17:49,769 --> 00:17:53,604
- Yes, Your Honor. Attorney Thurgood
- Marshall of the Maryland Bar.
- 261
- 00:17:53,606 --> 00:17:56,741
- I have the application
- in front of me, Mr. Friedman.
- 262
- 00:17:56,743 --> 00:17:59,143
- Uh-huh.
- 263
- 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:04,916
- Why do we need to admit this lawyer,
- Mr. Friedman?
- 264
- 00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:07,618
- Does he have a long-standing relationship
- with the defendant?
- 265
- 00:18:07,620 --> 00:18:09,754
- Uh, no, Your Honor,
- uh, but...
- 266
- 00:18:09,756 --> 00:18:12,690
- - How long has he known him?
- - Not long, Your Honor, but...
- 267
- 00:18:12,692 --> 00:18:14,292
- Exactly how long?
- 268
- 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:19,430
- Well, he met him for the first time
- a few days ago.
- 269
- 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:21,399
- However...
- 270
- 00:18:21,401 --> 00:18:23,634
- A few days ago?
- 271
- 00:18:23,636 --> 00:18:27,638
- Well, then what possible reason
- could there be to admit him?
- 272
- 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,442
- You're a perfectly capable attorney,
- are you not, Mr. Friedman?
- 273
- 00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:33,878
- You have tried cases before,
- haven't you?
- 274
- 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,281
- Only civil cases, Your Honor.
- But Mr. Marshall is with the NAACP.
- 275
- 00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:40,551
- And they are concerned that their defendant
- receive a fair trial.
- 276
- 00:18:40,553 --> 00:18:43,321
- So are we all,
- Attorney Friedman.
- 277
- 00:18:43,323 --> 00:18:44,956
- So are we all.
- 278
- 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:46,924
- But he's not a member
- of our bar, is he?
- 279
- 00:18:46,926 --> 00:18:48,826
- No, he's not.
- 280
- 00:18:48,828 --> 00:18:51,829
- However, Your Honor,
- Mr. Marshall is a respected attorney.
- 281
- 00:18:51,831 --> 00:18:53,998
- He argued in the United States
- Supreme Court.
- 282
- 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,900
- That has no bearing
- on this case.
- 283
- 00:18:55,902 --> 00:18:57,802
- Your Honor, may I be heard?
- 284
- 00:18:57,804 --> 00:19:00,004
- No, you may not.
- 285
- 00:19:01,273 --> 00:19:03,074
- The court has heard enough
- and will rule.
- 286
- 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,514
- The court sees
- no legal requirement
- 287
- 00:19:09,516 --> 00:19:11,782
- to admit out-of-state counsel
- in this case.
- 288
- 00:19:11,784 --> 00:19:14,085
- But, Your Honor...
- However,
- 289
- 00:19:14,087 --> 00:19:17,155
- the court not only wishes to be fair
- to all of the parties,
- 290
- 00:19:17,157 --> 00:19:20,591
- but to maintain the appearance of fairness
- as well.
- 291
- 00:19:20,593 --> 00:19:23,661
- Therefore, the court
- will allow Mr. Marshall
- 292
- 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:25,696
- to enter his appearance
- for the defense...
- 293
- 00:19:25,698 --> 00:19:27,098
- Respectfully...
- 294
- 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:30,368
- His written appearance,
- Mr. Willis.
- 295
- 00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:33,171
- Mr. Marshall
- may sit at counsel table.
- 296
- 00:19:33,173 --> 00:19:36,507
- However, he may not speak.
- 297
- 00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:39,143
- Your Honor,
- I must speak for the client.
- 298
- 00:19:39,145 --> 00:19:42,680
- He may not speak, argue,
- or examine witnesses.
- 299
- 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:46,817
- If he violates this ruling,
- he will be held in contempt of court.
- 300
- 00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:49,153
- And you as well,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 301
- 00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:51,522
- You will conduct this case.
- 302
- 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:53,858
- Me?
- Yes, you.
- 303
- 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:56,961
- The trial will begin
- a month from today
- 304
- 00:19:56,963 --> 00:19:58,062
- at 10:00 a.m.
- 305
- 00:19:59,131 --> 00:20:00,531
- Court adjourned.
- 306
- 00:20:00,533 --> 00:20:03,067
- All rise.
- 307
- 00:20:03,069 --> 00:20:04,569
- What the...
- 308
- 00:20:04,571 --> 00:20:06,971
- What the hell just happened?
- 309
- 00:20:06,973 --> 00:20:10,174
- What just happened here?
- Shut up and be quiet. Let me think.
- 310
- 00:20:10,176 --> 00:20:12,076
- I can't do this. You know that.
- Shut up.
- 311
- 00:20:12,078 --> 00:20:13,644
- Excuse me?
- 312
- 00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:18,282
- That son of a bitch.
- 313
- 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:24,155
- I've tried cases before judges
- who were Grand Dragons of the Ku Klux Klan,
- 314
- 00:20:24,157 --> 00:20:26,824
- who forced me to enter
- through the back door,
- 315
- 00:20:26,826 --> 00:20:28,859
- but this horseshit is a first.
- 316
- 00:20:28,861 --> 00:20:31,329
- I cannot get involved
- in a case like this.
- 317
- 00:20:31,331 --> 00:20:33,898
- Are you listening to me?
- It would destroy my practice.
- 318
- 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,933
- This is not my problem.
- 319
- 00:20:35,935 --> 00:20:37,301
- The hell it isn't.
- 320
- 00:20:39,371 --> 00:20:42,440
- No, you heard the judge.
- 321
- 00:20:42,442 --> 00:20:46,110
- Until we can find somebody better,
- it's you and me.
- 322
- 00:20:49,348 --> 00:20:51,015
- It's our problem now.
- 323
- 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:53,918
- Uh, Mr. Marshall...
- 324
- 00:21:10,402 --> 00:21:12,303
- According to
- Eleanor Strubing's account,
- 325
- 00:21:12,305 --> 00:21:17,275
- Spell rapes her at home,
- ties and gags her, then drives up here.
- 326
- 00:21:17,277 --> 00:21:21,045
- He stops approximately 60 feet
- onto the bridge, like so...
- 327
- 00:21:21,047 --> 00:21:24,382
- Joseph! Please!
- 328
- 00:21:24,384 --> 00:21:26,350
- Takes her out of the car...
- 329
- 00:21:27,486 --> 00:21:29,854
- No! No!
- 330
- 00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:33,257
- Then pushes her
- over the guardrail,
- 331
- 00:21:33,259 --> 00:21:35,393
- into the reservoir,
- right about here.
- 332
- 00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:43,834
- He throws rocks at her,
- then drives away.
- 333
- 00:21:43,836 --> 00:21:45,736
- Somehow she gets to shore.
- 334
- 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:49,507
- Dripping wet.
- 335
- 00:21:49,509 --> 00:21:51,842
- Then climbs up to the road.
- 336
- 00:22:01,953 --> 00:22:03,421
- Ah.
- 337
- 00:22:04,856 --> 00:22:06,991
- Awfully scary down there though.
- 338
- 00:22:10,762 --> 00:22:12,730
- Go take a look
- where she climbed out.
- 339
- 00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:16,233
- Me? These are
- my best shoes.
- 340
- 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:21,205
- Please try to
- make yourself useful.
- 341
- 00:23:07,552 --> 00:23:09,687
- Stop. Stop!
- 342
- 00:23:11,591 --> 00:23:13,157
- Stop.
- 343
- 00:23:15,026 --> 00:23:17,995
- This is where
- the truck driver found her.
- 344
- 00:23:29,608 --> 00:23:31,342
- What do you want with those?
- 345
- 00:23:31,344 --> 00:23:34,912
- It's an old Negro superstition.
- 346
- 00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:37,515
- Always take a little piece
- of the earth with you.
- 347
- 00:23:37,517 --> 00:23:39,417
- Really?
- 348
- 00:23:50,696 --> 00:23:53,831
- Mr. Friedman, your picture's
- on the front page with Mr. Marshall.
- 349
- 00:23:57,536 --> 00:24:00,738
- Oh.
- Not a bad picture.
- 350
- 00:24:00,740 --> 00:24:02,740
- Of me, anyway.
- 351
- 00:24:02,742 --> 00:24:06,076
- - Also, your wife called.
- - Oh, Sam. Perfect.
- 352
- 00:24:06,078 --> 00:24:06,825
- Where you been?
- 353
- 00:24:06,837 --> 00:24:09,113
- Out getting the cutlery
- I need to castrate you.
- 354
- 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:11,615
- You must be Irwin.
- I am.
- 355
- 00:24:11,617 --> 00:24:13,551
- Mr. Marshall. Pleasure to meet you.
- Pleasure.
- 356
- 00:24:13,553 --> 00:24:15,619
- Sam, listen, I have great news.
- 357
- 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:17,988
- I made some calls.
- Harry Gruber, he wants the case.
- 358
- 00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:20,591
- Harry Gruber.
- The Communist.
- 359
- 00:24:20,593 --> 00:24:22,793
- Sam, at least he handles
- criminal defense.
- 360
- 00:24:29,334 --> 00:24:31,435
- Can you get Gruber
- on the line, Ruth?
- 361
- 00:24:31,437 --> 00:24:32,970
- Sure thing.
- Thank you.
- 362
- 00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:35,639
- This is not
- a cut-and-dry case.
- 363
- 00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:39,977
- You should really consider whether or not
- this is something you want to commit to.
- 364
- 00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:42,246
- You want the Communist Party
- taking over?
- 365
- 00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:44,415
- They'll martyr Spell
- for their own cause.
- 366
- 00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:46,684
- Not my problem.
- 367
- 00:24:46,686 --> 00:24:49,787
- You think he did it.
- That's for a jury to decide.
- 368
- 00:24:49,789 --> 00:24:54,191
- You think he raped this woman
- and drove her to the reservoir to kill her?
- 369
- 00:24:54,193 --> 00:24:56,861
- People have done
- stranger things.
- 370
- 00:24:56,863 --> 00:25:00,498
- That's right. People do all sorts
- of strange things, horrible things.
- 371
- 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:04,034
- But throw a woman over the bridge, into the
- water, not check to see if she's dead,
- 372
- 00:25:04,036 --> 00:25:06,203
- then drive back to her house?
- 373
- 00:25:06,205 --> 00:25:08,672
- You've gotta have a pretty dim view
- of Negroes
- 374
- 00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:11,842
- to think any one of us would do anything
- so goddamn stupid.
- 375
- 00:25:17,816 --> 00:25:21,051
- The papers say he was dishonorably
- discharged from the army.
- 376
- 00:25:21,053 --> 00:25:23,621
- This isn't
- a court-martial.
- 377
- 00:25:23,623 --> 00:25:25,689
- He was fired from his last job
- for stealing.
- 378
- 00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:27,658
- No charges were brought.
- 379
- 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:31,362
- He left behind a wife
- and two kids in Louisiana, Thurgood.
- 380
- 00:25:31,364 --> 00:25:34,565
- Yes, he's got baggage.
- Criminal defendants usually do.
- 381
- 00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:37,801
- They're not perfect citizens
- like you and me.
- 382
- 00:25:37,803 --> 00:25:40,538
- But none of that makes him guilty
- of this crime.
- 383
- 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:43,674
- I got Gruber on the phone.
- What do you want me to tell him?
- 384
- 00:25:43,676 --> 00:25:45,709
- I don't know.
- Tell him he's a schmuck.
- 385
- 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:48,546
- - Sam, come on.
- - Irwin! Genug, huh?
- 386
- 00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:53,517
- Why me?
- 387
- 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,853
- I need someone who will do
- as I say.
- 388
- 00:25:55,855 --> 00:25:58,389
- What makes you think
- I will do as you say?
- 389
- 00:25:58,391 --> 00:26:01,191
- You have no choice.
- You don't know what you're doing.
- 390
- 00:26:01,193 --> 00:26:03,561
- You're quite a salesman.
- 391
- 00:26:03,563 --> 00:26:05,229
- There's no time for that.
- 392
- 00:26:07,666 --> 00:26:10,034
- You want me to try this case.
- 393
- 00:26:10,036 --> 00:26:13,337
- No, I need you to try this case.
- 394
- 00:26:15,006 --> 00:26:18,709
- "And the Lord commanded Moses
- to enlist his brother's help.
- 395
- 00:26:18,711 --> 00:26:20,945
- He shall speak for you
- to the people."
- 396
- 00:26:20,947 --> 00:26:22,913
- "He shall be your mouth,
- 397
- 00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:25,249
- and you shall be
- as God to him."
- 398
- 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:35,159
- Tell Gruber to go fuck himself.
- 399
- 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,561
- All right.
- 400
- 00:26:37,563 --> 00:26:40,197
- And find the cop who stopped Spell.
- We need a witness.
- 401
- 00:26:40,199 --> 00:26:42,132
- Okay. I'm on it.
- 402
- 00:26:45,804 --> 00:26:47,771
- What is this?
- 403
- 00:26:47,773 --> 00:26:51,241
- You say you've never tried
- a criminal case before, right?
- 404
- 00:26:51,243 --> 00:26:53,143
- Yeah, that's right.
- 405
- 00:26:53,145 --> 00:26:54,425
- You'd better start reading then.
- 406
- 00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:59,216
- You've got one month.
- 407
- 00:27:10,495 --> 00:27:13,797
- Hey, look who's back.
- You coming tonight?
- 408
- 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:15,966
- No, not tonight.
- 409
- 00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:19,069
- Oh, man, I was really looking forward
- to catching up with you.
- 410
- 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,576
- All right, you need to stop feeling sorry
- for yourself.
- 411
- 00:27:25,578 --> 00:27:27,945
- I am the one who's been sick...
- 412
- 00:27:27,947 --> 00:27:29,380
- every morning...
- 413
- 00:27:30,615 --> 00:27:32,016
- for the past month.
- 414
- 00:27:32,018 --> 00:27:33,917
- What?
- 415
- 00:27:33,919 --> 00:27:36,987
- You better not be lying.
- Look at the bump.
- 416
- 00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:39,490
- Oh! I see it.
- 417
- 00:27:39,492 --> 00:27:41,258
- You see it?
- Mmm!
- 418
- 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:44,695
- Mmm, mmm.
- 419
- 00:27:44,697 --> 00:27:46,664
- I'm not going anywhere
- after this.
- 420
- 00:27:46,666 --> 00:27:48,198
- Hmm.
- 421
- 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,933
- What?
- 422
- 00:27:49,935 --> 00:27:52,603
- You don't believe me.
- No, I don't.
- 423
- 00:27:52,605 --> 00:27:54,538
- I swear.
- 424
- 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:56,140
- You swear.
- 425
- 00:27:56,142 --> 00:27:58,709
- I swear I swear.
- Nowhere, nowhere.
- 426
- 00:27:58,711 --> 00:28:00,611
- I swear.
- Mmm!
- 427
- 00:28:08,286 --> 00:28:11,055
- ♪ Trouble in mind ♪
- 428
- 00:28:11,057 --> 00:28:12,890
- ♪ Guess I'm blue ♪
- 429
- 00:28:15,226 --> 00:28:17,795
- ♪ But I won't be blue always ♪
- 430
- 00:28:17,797 --> 00:28:20,297
- ♪ Sun is gonna shine ♪
- 431
- 00:28:20,299 --> 00:28:22,266
- ♪ In my back door someday ♪
- 432
- 00:28:24,002 --> 00:28:26,537
- Langston, he swore
- on his mother's life
- 433
- 00:28:26,539 --> 00:28:29,173
- that he wouldn't be going
- anywhere anytime soon.
- 434
- 00:28:29,175 --> 00:28:32,543
- My mother's name was never mentioned.
- 435
- 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:36,146
- Well, this case is all anybody in this city
- is talking about.
- 436
- 00:28:36,148 --> 00:28:39,883
- Which only means that the inevitable loss
- will be that much more devastating.
- 437
- 00:28:39,885 --> 00:28:42,886
- Don't bet against me.
- You're not even trying the case, baby.
- 438
- 00:28:42,888 --> 00:28:46,090
- Every single word that man
- utters in that courtroom will be mine.
- 439
- 00:28:46,092 --> 00:28:49,059
- I'm just making the point
- that a Negro charged with ravishment
- 440
- 00:28:49,061 --> 00:28:50,928
- by the Greenwich gentility
- 441
- 00:28:50,930 --> 00:28:54,331
- should probably save himself the time
- and unpleasantness of a trial.
- 442
- 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:56,700
- Langston, maybe you should
- just go back to Spain.
- 443
- 00:28:56,702 --> 00:28:59,069
- Or back to Russia.
- 444
- 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:03,107
- Write your little poems,
- explore big ideas with your comrades.
- 445
- 00:29:03,109 --> 00:29:05,743
- I was fighting Fascists
- in Spain.
- 446
- 00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:08,712
- Well, you were writing about
- fighting Fascists in Spain.
- 447
- 00:29:08,714 --> 00:29:11,415
- Listen, by the time the baby comes,
- 448
- 00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:14,118
- Thurgood's gonna be
- out of a job.
- 449
- 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,354
- Do none of you
- have any confidence in me?
- 450
- 00:29:17,356 --> 00:29:20,124
- I'd say you have enough confidence
- for us all,
- 451
- 00:29:20,126 --> 00:29:22,126
- misplaced as it may be.
- 452
- 00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:27,030
- Great to see you!
- 453
- 00:29:27,032 --> 00:29:29,266
- God, here comes Zora.
- 454
- 00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:31,268
- Probably leaving dinner
- with Charles Lindbergh.
- 455
- 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,403
- - Don't you dare...
- - Zora!
- 456
- 00:29:33,405 --> 00:29:35,105
- Sit down!
- 457
- 00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:37,107
- Come on over here.
- 458
- 00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:39,710
- Zora Neale Hurston!
- Hi!
- 459
- 00:29:39,712 --> 00:29:41,011
- How y'all doin'?
- 460
- 00:29:42,313 --> 00:29:44,648
- Langston Hughes.
- Zora.
- 461
- 00:29:45,483 --> 00:29:46,717
- Mmm.
- 462
- 00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:54,057
- - And who is this?
- - I'm August.
- 463
- 00:29:54,059 --> 00:29:56,260
- - I've heard so much about you.
- - Huh.
- 464
- 00:29:56,262 --> 00:29:59,396
- That's funny, 'cause I haven't heard
- a thing about you.
- 465
- 00:29:59,398 --> 00:30:01,265
- Huh, Langston?
- 466
- 00:30:01,267 --> 00:30:03,634
- ♪ Oh, trouble in mind ♪
- 467
- 00:30:12,011 --> 00:30:13,544
- You had it now, girl!
- 468
- 00:30:18,983 --> 00:30:21,385
- Okay, guys.
- We ready to go?
- 469
- 00:30:26,925 --> 00:30:29,493
- You're still not talking to me.
- 470
- 00:30:29,495 --> 00:30:31,862
- It's...
- It's not my fault.
- 471
- 00:30:31,864 --> 00:30:35,165
- You have no idea how persuasive
- this guy can be.
- 472
- 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:54,685
- Shh.
- Stella.
- 473
- 00:30:54,687 --> 00:30:56,787
- What on earth is Sam thinking?
- 474
- 00:30:56,789 --> 00:30:59,056
- With all that's going on
- in the world today,
- 475
- 00:30:59,058 --> 00:31:01,358
- we don't need this kind of attention
- focused on us.
- 476
- 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,728
- Well, he wasn't looking for it, Rose.
- Irwin got him involved.
- 477
- 00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:10,133
- Well, you tell him that everybody
- is terrified by what this man did.
- 478
- 00:31:10,135 --> 00:31:12,402
- Sophie Gittelson
- fired her girl today.
- 479
- 00:31:12,404 --> 00:31:15,472
- She's been with them
- for 11 years.
- 480
- 00:31:15,474 --> 00:31:18,208
- They fired Gladys?
- Why? She's lovely.
- 481
- 00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,844
- Yeah, she's lovely.
- 482
- 00:31:20,846 --> 00:31:23,413
- But what if one of her relatives
- comes to visit?
- 483
- 00:31:23,415 --> 00:31:25,148
- They have their daughter
- to think of.
- 484
- 00:31:25,150 --> 00:31:28,085
- I would've done the same thing.
- 485
- 00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:42,232
- Well, if it isn't
- Mr. Friedlansky.
- 486
- 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,034
- Mr. Weisman.
- 487
- 00:31:44,036 --> 00:31:47,838
- Dora and I couldn't remember.
- Were you born here or in Minsk?
- 488
- 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,008
- We, uh... We came over
- when I was one.
- 489
- 00:31:51,010 --> 00:31:52,643
- That's what I thought.
- 490
- 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:58,916
- So you feel like a really big shot, I bet,
- defending that schvartze.
- 491
- 00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:03,287
- What do you think
- your father would say?
- 492
- 00:32:03,289 --> 00:32:05,188
- I could not tell you.
- 493
- 00:32:08,526 --> 00:32:11,161
- I think he'd say he was proud.
- 494
- 00:32:13,364 --> 00:32:14,831
- For the defense.
- 495
- 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:17,701
- Don't mention it.
- 496
- 00:32:19,737 --> 00:32:21,271
- To anyone.
- 497
- 00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:45,395
- Eew!
- 498
- 00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:56,974
- Jury selection, gentlemen.
- 499
- 00:32:56,976 --> 00:32:59,176
- Clerk, call the first
- venire person.
- 500
- 00:32:59,178 --> 00:33:01,545
- Lester Gilman of Norwalk.
- 501
- 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,748
- Mr. Gilman.
- 502
- 00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:13,523
- Mr., uh, Gilman,
- 503
- 00:33:13,525 --> 00:33:18,428
- um, in this case a colored man is accused
- of raping a white woman.
- 504
- 00:33:18,430 --> 00:33:20,998
- Could you be fair
- in deciding such a case?
- 505
- 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:23,934
- I think so.
- 506
- 00:33:23,936 --> 00:33:25,268
- No further questions.
- 507
- 00:33:28,373 --> 00:33:30,340
- Accepted by the defense.
- 508
- 00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:35,379
- To tell you the truth, I don't know much
- about them, the colored.
- 509
- 00:33:35,381 --> 00:33:37,748
- We don't have too many
- in Stratford.
- 510
- 00:33:48,459 --> 00:33:50,027
- Excused.
- 511
- 00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:58,201
- I'll be honest with you.
- I don't like the colored.
- 512
- 00:33:58,203 --> 00:34:00,937
- Seems to me they're always getting into
- some sort of trouble.
- 513
- 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,907
- I don't think much
- of Hebrews either.
- 514
- 00:34:05,176 --> 00:34:06,843
- Excuse me?
- 515
- 00:34:06,845 --> 00:34:10,714
- Well, you're one of them...
- I figured.
- 516
- 00:34:12,417 --> 00:34:15,352
- Thank you for your candor,
- Mr. Wright.
- 517
- 00:34:15,354 --> 00:34:16,987
- Uh, no further questions.
- 518
- 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:20,257
- Excuse for cause.
- 519
- 00:34:20,259 --> 00:34:22,192
- Counselor?
- 520
- 00:34:22,194 --> 00:34:26,329
- Your Honor, we move to have Mr. Wright
- excused for cause.
- 521
- 00:34:26,331 --> 00:34:28,198
- On what grounds?
- 522
- 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,833
- - Bias.
- - I know.
- 523
- 00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:31,268
- He just admitted he's biased.
- 524
- 00:34:32,703 --> 00:34:35,439
- Mr. Wright, you are
- a law-abiding citizen.
- 525
- 00:34:35,441 --> 00:34:37,707
- Wouldn't you say?
- That's right, Your Honor.
- 526
- 00:34:37,709 --> 00:34:42,946
- If I instructed you that the law requires
- that you set aside your bias,
- 527
- 00:34:42,948 --> 00:34:44,815
- would you obey my instruction?
- 528
- 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,217
- Guess I'd have to.
- 529
- 00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:49,853
- The challenge for cause
- is overruled.
- 530
- 00:34:49,855 --> 00:34:51,588
- You may use
- the peremptory challenge.
- 531
- 00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:53,990
- - Your Honor, with all due respect...
- - I've made my ruling.
- 532
- 00:34:58,029 --> 00:35:00,297
- Excused.
- 533
- 00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:02,466
- Mr. Ellis,
- you agree, do you not,
- 534
- 00:35:02,468 --> 00:35:06,236
- that as a colored man you could not fairly
- pass judgment on Mr. Spell.
- 535
- 00:35:06,238 --> 00:35:08,371
- No, sir.
- 536
- 00:35:08,373 --> 00:35:10,807
- You agree you could not be fair.
- 537
- 00:35:10,809 --> 00:35:14,177
- No. What I mean is, yes, if he's guilty,
- I'd have to convict him.
- 538
- 00:35:15,413 --> 00:35:17,781
- I'll use a challenge.
- 539
- 00:35:17,783 --> 00:35:19,616
- Object.
- 540
- 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:21,551
- On what basis?
- Just do it.
- 541
- 00:35:21,553 --> 00:35:23,086
- Uh, Your Honor, I object.
- 542
- 00:35:23,088 --> 00:35:25,055
- Grounds?
- 543
- 00:35:25,057 --> 00:35:27,991
- He can't use the challenge to discrim...
- 544
- 00:35:27,993 --> 00:35:29,826
- I heard that,
- Mr. Marshall.
- 545
- 00:35:29,828 --> 00:35:32,929
- It's a peremptory challenge,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 546
- 00:35:32,931 --> 00:35:35,065
- The State may use it
- for whatever reason it wants.
- 547
- 00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:39,102
- Mr. Willis, you have four left.
- The defense has one.
- 548
- 00:35:39,104 --> 00:35:41,171
- What was the point of that?
- 549
- 00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:44,508
- Every single time they discriminate,
- we're going to object.
- 550
- 00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:46,943
- Recognize it.
- Now.
- 551
- 00:35:46,945 --> 00:35:49,579
- Mrs. Richmond,
- do you reside in Greenwich?
- 552
- 00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:51,715
- Yes, Mr. Willis.
- I do now.
- 553
- 00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:54,985
- And if the State
- proves its case,
- 554
- 00:35:54,987 --> 00:35:56,920
- you could convict the defendant?
- 555
- 00:35:56,922 --> 00:35:59,389
- Yes, of course I could.
- 556
- 00:36:01,125 --> 00:36:04,394
- Thank you, Mrs. Richmond.
- That's all I wanted to know.
- 557
- 00:36:10,801 --> 00:36:14,938
- Mrs. Richmond, I notice you have
- an accent.
- 558
- 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:20,177
- Really? Here I thought you were the one
- with the accent, Mr. Friedman.
- 559
- 00:36:20,179 --> 00:36:21,411
- Fair enough.
- 560
- 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,447
- Mrs. Richmond,
- 561
- 00:36:24,449 --> 00:36:26,349
- where did you live
- before moving here?
- 562
- 00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:28,285
- Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 563
- 00:36:28,287 --> 00:36:31,354
- But now you live in Greenwich.
- Yes, that's right.
- 564
- 00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:34,224
- So if you live in Greenwich,
- you must have heard about this case.
- 565
- 00:36:34,226 --> 00:36:37,227
- It's all anybody talks about.
- 566
- 00:36:37,229 --> 00:36:41,231
- I assume, then, that you've come
- to some sort of conclusion
- 567
- 00:36:41,233 --> 00:36:43,266
- regarding the defendant's guilt
- or innocence?
- 568
- 00:36:44,335 --> 00:36:46,336
- You assume incorrectly.
- 569
- 00:36:46,338 --> 00:36:48,738
- I don't have all the evidence,
- now, do I?
- 570
- 00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:51,141
- Have you met
- Mrs. Strubing?
- 571
- 00:36:51,143 --> 00:36:54,678
- In passing, at parties
- and community events.
- 572
- 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,180
- I believe we belong
- to the same club.
- 573
- 00:36:57,182 --> 00:37:00,016
- Do you really think then,
- Mrs. Richmond,
- 574
- 00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:03,920
- that with all of these connections...
- the club, the parties...
- 575
- 00:37:03,922 --> 00:37:06,523
- that you could really
- just set all of that aside?
- 576
- 00:37:06,525 --> 00:37:09,326
- I don't see why not.
- 577
- 00:37:09,328 --> 00:37:12,462
- Thank you.
- No further questions.
- 578
- 00:37:15,933 --> 00:37:17,968
- The State accepts
- Mrs. Richmond.
- 579
- 00:37:19,437 --> 00:37:21,071
- Your Honor...
- What?
- 580
- 00:37:21,073 --> 00:37:22,572
- No. Absolutely not.
- 581
- 00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:25,275
- Mr. Friedman.
- 582
- 00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:29,179
- Your Honor, may we have five minutes,
- please?
- 583
- 00:37:32,016 --> 00:37:33,950
- Fine with me, Your Honor.
- 584
- 00:37:33,952 --> 00:37:36,620
- The court will recess
- for exactly five minutes.
- 585
- 00:37:36,622 --> 00:37:39,022
- But we're not gonna make a habit of this,
- are we, counselor?
- 586
- 00:37:39,024 --> 00:37:41,591
- No. No, of course not.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
- 587
- 00:37:44,763 --> 00:37:47,631
- We have one challenge left.
- It was made for this woman.
- 588
- 00:37:47,633 --> 00:37:49,366
- Just trust me on this.
- 589
- 00:37:49,368 --> 00:37:51,368
- She's a Southerner.
- Lives in the same town.
- 590
- 00:37:51,370 --> 00:37:53,136
- Take her.
- I'm not your goddamn puppet.
- 591
- 00:37:53,138 --> 00:37:54,771
- I'm getting rid of her.
- 592
- 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:58,108
- She's smart, she's confident,
- she resists authority.
- 593
- 00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:00,644
- Did you see the way
- she talked back to you?
- 594
- 00:38:00,646 --> 00:38:03,613
- The other jurors will listen to her.
- Which is exactly the problem.
- 595
- 00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:06,549
- She knows Mrs. Strubing.
- They run in the same social circles.
- 596
- 00:38:06,551 --> 00:38:08,485
- And she doesn't
- put her on a pedestal.
- 597
- 00:38:08,487 --> 00:38:11,488
- Maybe Mrs. Strubing
- is a drinker.
- 598
- 00:38:11,490 --> 00:38:15,325
- Maybe she has a boyfriend in town.
- This woman may know things.
- 599
- 00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:17,794
- You are stabbing in the dark.
- 600
- 00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:20,730
- Maybe, but this I do know.
- 601
- 00:38:20,732 --> 00:38:24,501
- The one thing Southerners like her hate
- more than the colored...
- 602
- 00:38:24,503 --> 00:38:26,369
- arrogant Yankee pricks
- like Willis.
- 603
- 00:38:27,672 --> 00:38:30,407
- Were you watching her?
- 604
- 00:38:30,409 --> 00:38:33,643
- She folded her arms and sat back
- when Willis spoke.
- 605
- 00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:36,413
- When you began, she opened up,
- 606
- 00:38:36,415 --> 00:38:39,949
- leaned forward,
- removed her glasses.
- 607
- 00:38:39,951 --> 00:38:42,185
- These are signs.
- 608
- 00:38:42,187 --> 00:38:43,653
- Signs of what?
- 609
- 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:46,222
- She likes you.
- 610
- 00:38:54,098 --> 00:38:56,132
- No, my gl...
- my glasses!
- 611
- 00:38:56,134 --> 00:38:57,901
- I need my glasses.
- 612
- 00:39:03,307 --> 00:39:05,241
- - Well, it's about time.
- - Yeah.
- 613
- 00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:15,752
- Mr. Friedman?
- 614
- 00:39:17,621 --> 00:39:19,456
- The defendant
- accepts Mrs. Richmond.
- 615
- 00:39:21,292 --> 00:39:22,959
- Am I missing something?
- 616
- 00:39:22,961 --> 00:39:26,796
- Mrs. Richmond, you've been accepted
- by both of the parties
- 617
- 00:39:26,798 --> 00:39:30,367
- and will serve as
- our 12th and final juror.
- 618
- 00:39:30,369 --> 00:39:33,370
- The evidence will begin
- tomorrow morning at 10:00.
- 619
- 00:39:33,372 --> 00:39:36,706
- Hey, hey! Hey, hey! Mr. Friedman!
- Mr. Friedman.
- 620
- 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:39,676
- What do you have to say
- about today's comments by the NAACP?
- 621
- 00:39:39,678 --> 00:39:42,645
- - What comments?
- - The press release by Walter White?
- 622
- 00:39:42,647 --> 00:39:45,014
- He says that, "The Spell case
- will show the world
- 623
- 00:39:45,016 --> 00:39:47,717
- that a colored man cannot get a fair
- trial in the United States of America."
- 624
- 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,986
- - Do you agree, Mr. Friedman?
- - I have nothing to say about that.
- 625
- 00:39:49,988 --> 00:39:51,721
- What about you,
- Mr. Marshall?
- 626
- 00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:54,991
- Hasn't it been proven
- in this courtroom already?
- 627
- 00:39:57,596 --> 00:40:01,398
- How can a man have a fair trial
- when he's denied counsel of his choice?
- 628
- 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,168
- When the members of his race
- are eliminated from service on his jury?
- 629
- 00:40:05,170 --> 00:40:09,239
- When fear and bias against his race are the
- central points of the case against him?
- 630
- 00:40:09,241 --> 00:40:11,408
- In Europe right now,
- 631
- 00:40:12,877 --> 00:40:15,211
- the forces of tyranny
- have mobilized
- 632
- 00:40:15,213 --> 00:40:19,215
- behind the vision
- of a so-called master race.
- 633
- 00:40:19,217 --> 00:40:23,253
- But here in America,
- our differences aren't supposed to matter.
- 634
- 00:40:23,255 --> 00:40:27,357
- Here we're promised
- equal protection under the law.
- 635
- 00:40:27,359 --> 00:40:29,092
- Separate but equal!
- 636
- 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:31,194
- Nothing complicated about that.
- 637
- 00:40:31,196 --> 00:40:35,799
- That promise has not been realized,
- not even close.
- 638
- 00:40:35,801 --> 00:40:40,136
- Not in Birmingham, Alabama,
- nor in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
- 639
- 00:40:40,138 --> 00:40:42,705
- and certainly not here
- in Bridgeport, Connecticut...
- 640
- 00:40:44,910 --> 00:40:48,845
- where your bigotry is simply covered
- by a northern accent.
- 641
- 00:40:51,215 --> 00:40:54,551
- But a fair jury can always
- render a just verdict.
- 642
- 00:40:54,553 --> 00:40:56,653
- That's what we're striving for
- here today.
- 643
- 00:40:56,655 --> 00:41:00,123
- The Constitution was not written for us.
- We know that.
- 644
- 00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:02,559
- But no matter what,
- we're gonna make it work for us.
- 645
- 00:41:02,561 --> 00:41:06,262
- From now on
- we claim it as our own.
- 646
- 00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:25,482
- What's bothering you?
- 647
- 00:41:25,484 --> 00:41:27,083
- Sam.
- Not now.
- 648
- 00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:29,018
- What's bothering me?
- 649
- 00:41:29,020 --> 00:41:32,188
- You insulting the judge on the courthouse
- steps. That's what's bothering me.
- 650
- 00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:35,258
- Just relax.
- 651
- 00:41:35,260 --> 00:41:37,527
- Excuse me?
- 652
- 00:41:37,529 --> 00:41:40,096
- I have to live in this city
- after you're gone. Understand?
- 653
- 00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:42,699
- No more public statements
- until this trial is over, or I'm gone.
- 654
- 00:41:42,701 --> 00:41:44,601
- Let me make this clear.
- 655
- 00:41:44,603 --> 00:41:47,604
- My people will decide what to say
- to the newspapers and when to say it.
- 656
- 00:41:47,606 --> 00:41:49,973
- The newspapers should have
- no place in this trial.
- 657
- 00:41:49,975 --> 00:41:52,642
- But they already do. People are losing
- their jobs because of these stories.
- 658
- 00:41:52,644 --> 00:41:54,811
- - Those people are not my clients!
- - Well, they are mine!
- 659
- 00:41:54,813 --> 00:41:59,682
- My jury isn't just the 12 people in that
- jury box. It's the whole goddamn nation.
- 660
- 00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:02,527
- You just focus on this
- case, try your best not
- 661
- 00:42:02,539 --> 00:42:05,455
- to screw it up and leave
- the big picture to me.
- 662
- 00:42:05,457 --> 00:42:08,124
- Sam.
- 663
- 00:42:08,126 --> 00:42:10,727
- What is it, Irwin?
- Don't you have something to do?
- 664
- 00:42:12,162 --> 00:42:14,130
- There's someone waiting for you
- in my office.
- 665
- 00:42:14,132 --> 00:42:16,332
- Yes?
- And who is this someone?
- 666
- 00:42:16,334 --> 00:42:18,401
- Uh, Officer McCoy.
- 667
- 00:42:18,403 --> 00:42:21,170
- And who the hell
- is Officer McCoy?
- 668
- 00:42:21,172 --> 00:42:23,973
- The cop who pulled Spell over
- that night.
- 669
- 00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:36,419
- I just did what you said.
- 670
- 00:42:36,421 --> 00:42:40,890
- I drove around Port Chester,
- pulling over police cars, and I found him.
- 671
- 00:42:40,892 --> 00:42:43,259
- Attaboy, Irwin.
- Attaboy.
- 672
- 00:42:43,261 --> 00:42:45,328
- What time did you pull over
- Mr. Spell?
- 673
- 00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:51,234
- Did you hear the question?
- 674
- 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:56,673
- 3:37 a.m.,
- according to my notes.
- 675
- 00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:00,143
- Why'd you stop him?
- 676
- 00:43:01,879 --> 00:43:03,313
- It didn't look like...
- 677
- 00:43:04,848 --> 00:43:07,183
- a man like that
- would drive that car.
- 678
- 00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:10,987
- Was anyone with him in the car?
- 679
- 00:43:12,222 --> 00:43:15,024
- No. He was alone.
- 680
- 00:43:15,026 --> 00:43:17,460
- You're willing to
- testify to that in court?
- 681
- 00:43:17,462 --> 00:43:20,096
- If I have to.
- 682
- 00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:24,133
- Irwin, get a sworn statement from
- Officer McCoy, then escort him out.
- 683
- 00:43:24,135 --> 00:43:25,668
- Officer.
- 684
- 00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:33,943
- Wow.
- 685
- 00:43:34,778 --> 00:43:36,346
- An honest policeman.
- 686
- 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:44,320
- See what your publicity
- stirs up?
- 687
- 00:43:44,322 --> 00:43:47,156
- No, it just brings 'em out
- where you can see 'em.
- 688
- 00:43:48,759 --> 00:43:50,493
- Give us justice!
- 689
- 00:43:50,495 --> 00:43:52,528
- That doesn't look
- anything like me.
- 690
- 00:43:53,731 --> 00:43:55,198
- Does it?
- 691
- 00:44:05,442 --> 00:44:08,244
- The State of Connecticut
- v. Joseph Spell.
- 692
- 00:44:08,246 --> 00:44:09,979
- Are counsel ready to proceed?
- 693
- 00:44:09,981 --> 00:44:12,148
- Ready for the State.
- 694
- 00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:13,750
- We are, Your Honor.
- 695
- 00:44:13,752 --> 00:44:16,586
- Mr. Willis, you may call
- your first witness.
- 696
- 00:44:16,588 --> 00:44:19,856
- The State calls Greenwich Police
- Captain Burke to the stand.
- 697
- 00:44:28,932 --> 00:44:31,467
- Would you identify these photos,
- Captain Burke?
- 698
- 00:44:31,469 --> 00:44:34,003
- Yes, sir.
- That's the Kensico Reservoir.
- 699
- 00:44:35,372 --> 00:44:37,707
- Did you find any evidence
- at the scene
- 700
- 00:44:37,709 --> 00:44:39,342
- that pertains to this case?
- 701
- 00:44:39,344 --> 00:44:41,944
- Yes, sir, we did.
- 702
- 00:44:41,946 --> 00:44:44,681
- We found Mrs. Strubing's sealskin coat
- floating in the reservoir,
- 703
- 00:44:44,683 --> 00:44:47,116
- under the bridge, about here.
- 704
- 00:44:47,118 --> 00:44:50,987
- Then about here, on the guardrail,
- we found some strands of fabric.
- 705
- 00:44:50,989 --> 00:44:53,489
- I believe they were stuck
- to some bird droppings.
- 706
- 00:44:53,491 --> 00:44:56,492
- Were you able to
- identify the fabric?
- 707
- 00:44:56,494 --> 00:45:00,363
- Yes, sir. It matched the fabric
- from Mrs. Strubing's sealskin coat.
- 708
- 00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:05,034
- Thank you.
- Nothing further.
- 709
- 00:45:07,171 --> 00:45:09,038
- Your witness,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 710
- 00:45:16,647 --> 00:45:18,147
- Bird droppings.
- 711
- 00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:20,316
- Sorry?
- 712
- 00:45:20,318 --> 00:45:24,020
- Uh, bird droppings,
- Captain Burke?
- 713
- 00:45:24,022 --> 00:45:25,455
- Yes, that's right.
- 714
- 00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:29,358
- Were you able to
- identify the bird?
- 715
- 00:45:31,995 --> 00:45:34,330
- May I?
- 716
- 00:45:34,332 --> 00:45:36,032
- Thank you.
- 717
- 00:45:36,034 --> 00:45:38,201
- Now...
- 718
- 00:45:38,203 --> 00:45:42,739
- on one side of the bridge is the reservoir,
- placid as a lake.
- 719
- 00:45:42,741 --> 00:45:48,544
- On the other side is a 30-foot drop
- onto a jagged rock bed.
- 720
- 00:45:48,546 --> 00:45:50,847
- - Is that correct?
- - You could say that.
- 721
- 00:45:50,849 --> 00:45:54,117
- And the fabric that you found
- was on the lake side,
- 722
- 00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:56,519
- right about here,
- 723
- 00:45:56,521 --> 00:45:58,588
- around 60 feet onto the bridge.
- 724
- 00:45:58,590 --> 00:46:00,890
- Sixty-seven feet,
- four inches.
- 725
- 00:46:00,892 --> 00:46:02,925
- Okay.
- 726
- 00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:08,698
- Did you conclude, then, that Mrs. Strubing
- fell or jumped off the bridge?
- 727
- 00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:12,135
- - I concluded that she was pushed.
- - Pushed?
- 728
- 00:46:12,137 --> 00:46:13,803
- To murder her.
- 729
- 00:46:13,805 --> 00:46:15,638
- That's right.
- 730
- 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:20,209
- As a trained
- crime investigator, Captain,
- 731
- 00:46:20,211 --> 00:46:22,078
- did you ever ask yourself,
- 732
- 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,248
- if someone wanted
- Mrs. Strubing dead,
- 733
- 00:46:25,250 --> 00:46:29,585
- why not push her onto the sharp, jagged
- rock bed rather than the still lake water?
- 734
- 00:46:29,587 --> 00:46:32,455
- Object.
- Asking for speculation.
- 735
- 00:46:32,457 --> 00:46:35,992
- Sustained. The jury will
- disregard the question.
- 736
- 00:46:37,895 --> 00:46:40,930
- Now...
- Mrs. Strubing told you
- 737
- 00:46:40,932 --> 00:46:44,367
- that after pushing her
- into the water,
- 738
- 00:46:45,602 --> 00:46:47,837
- Joseph threw rocks at her
- from the bridge.
- 739
- 00:46:47,839 --> 00:46:49,772
- Is that correct?
- Yes.
- 740
- 00:46:49,774 --> 00:46:52,575
- Mm-hmm.
- Were there any rocks on the bridge?
- 741
- 00:46:53,677 --> 00:46:56,078
- I don't know.
- There may have been.
- 742
- 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,981
- But there were rocks in the area
- around the bridge. Is that correct?
- 743
- 00:46:58,983 --> 00:47:00,650
- Yes, there were.
- 744
- 00:47:00,652 --> 00:47:03,286
- About how big were they?
- 745
- 00:47:03,288 --> 00:47:05,188
- I really couldn't say.
- 746
- 00:47:10,427 --> 00:47:11,727
- Were they...
- 747
- 00:47:13,630 --> 00:47:15,932
- any bigger than this, Captain?
- 748
- 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,237
- I can't say they were.
- 749
- 00:47:29,613 --> 00:47:33,115
- This... This is a pebble,
- isn't it, Captain?
- 750
- 00:47:33,117 --> 00:47:34,917
- You could call it that.
- 751
- 00:47:36,553 --> 00:47:37,854
- What would you call it?
- 752
- 00:47:40,157 --> 00:47:41,691
- A pebble.
- 753
- 00:47:44,529 --> 00:47:47,697
- A pebble.
- 754
- 00:47:47,699 --> 00:47:51,868
- So, in summary, Captain,
- 755
- 00:47:51,870 --> 00:47:54,670
- it is your belief that this man
- 756
- 00:47:54,672 --> 00:47:58,908
- threw Mrs. Strubing
- into a placid lake,
- 757
- 00:47:58,910 --> 00:48:01,911
- then gathered pebbles
- to toss at her
- 758
- 00:48:01,913 --> 00:48:04,146
- while she waited patiently
- under the bridge.
- 759
- 00:48:04,148 --> 00:48:06,148
- Object.
- 760
- 00:48:06,150 --> 00:48:08,251
- Withdrawn.
- 761
- 00:48:08,253 --> 00:48:10,920
- No further questions,
- Your Honor.
- 762
- 00:48:10,922 --> 00:48:13,189
- Captain Burke, you are excused.
- 763
- 00:48:13,191 --> 00:48:15,157
- Court is adjourned.
- 764
- 00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:16,459
- All rise.
- 765
- 00:48:20,397 --> 00:48:21,797
- Mr. Friedman.
- 766
- 00:48:23,033 --> 00:48:25,134
- Well done.
- 767
- 00:48:26,036 --> 00:48:28,337
- Well done.
- Let's go.
- 768
- 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,174
- Why are you smiling?
- 769
- 00:48:32,176 --> 00:48:35,011
- I think we scored
- some points there.
- 770
- 00:48:35,013 --> 00:48:37,446
- This isn't a sporting event.
- 771
- 00:48:37,448 --> 00:48:39,782
- A man's life is on the line.
- 772
- 00:48:39,784 --> 00:48:41,550
- A word with you, Friedman.
- 773
- 00:48:41,552 --> 00:48:43,519
- Yes, of course.
- 774
- 00:48:43,521 --> 00:48:44,921
- Alone.
- 775
- 00:48:46,189 --> 00:48:48,391
- Or to you both.
- 776
- 00:48:48,393 --> 00:48:51,794
- The doctor who examined Ellie
- is testifying tomorrow.
- 777
- 00:48:51,796 --> 00:48:54,630
- It's rather personal, of course.
- 778
- 00:48:54,632 --> 00:48:55,932
- These are
- private people...
- 779
- 00:48:55,934 --> 00:48:58,034
- Please get to the point.
- 780
- 00:48:58,036 --> 00:48:59,368
- Excuse me?
- 781
- 00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:04,273
- I've spoken with John Strubing,
- and he's willing to consider a plea.
- 782
- 00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:05,942
- It's my decision, of course,
- 783
- 00:49:05,944 --> 00:49:08,611
- but plead your boy and I'll recommend
- a sentence of 20 years.
- 784
- 00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:10,513
- - Otherwise, he gets life.
- - No.
- 785
- 00:49:11,648 --> 00:49:13,549
- No deals.
- 786
- 00:49:15,252 --> 00:49:17,186
- Mr. Friedman?
- 787
- 00:49:18,455 --> 00:49:20,423
- Not my call.
- 788
- 00:49:20,425 --> 00:49:22,892
- Of course. You have to
- speak to your client.
- 789
- 00:49:22,894 --> 00:49:25,361
- I'll expect a different answer
- in the morning.
- 790
- 00:49:29,833 --> 00:49:31,567
- Even with good behavior,
- 791
- 00:49:31,569 --> 00:49:33,970
- you'd be locked up
- at least 14 years.
- 792
- 00:49:35,772 --> 00:49:37,707
- I could maybe do that.
- 793
- 00:49:41,244 --> 00:49:43,412
- They don't know we found the cop,
- Joseph.
- 794
- 00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:46,816
- We don't even know
- if Strubing will show up.
- 795
- 00:49:46,818 --> 00:49:49,919
- - You could walk out of here a free man.
- - But if she does...
- 796
- 00:49:49,921 --> 00:49:51,420
- - If you wrong...
- - Listen.
- 797
- 00:49:51,422 --> 00:49:53,723
- The decision is yours.
- Sam.
- 798
- 00:49:55,192 --> 00:49:57,626
- I need to talk to Joseph.
- 799
- 00:49:57,628 --> 00:50:00,830
- - Are you asking me to leave?
- - Of course not.
- 800
- 00:50:00,832 --> 00:50:02,999
- He's your client.
- 801
- 00:50:03,001 --> 00:50:04,900
- I'm asking you to listen.
- 802
- 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,208
- When we first met,
- 803
- 00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:14,235
- I told you I'd only
- defend you if you were
- 804
- 00:50:14,247 --> 00:50:16,379
- innocent, and you told
- me you were innocent.
- 805
- 00:50:16,381 --> 00:50:19,482
- You remember?
- I remember.
- 806
- 00:50:19,484 --> 00:50:22,451
- Did you lie to me?
- No, I didn't lie.
- 807
- 00:50:22,453 --> 00:50:26,255
- So I'm gonna ask you again.
- Did you commit this crime?
- 808
- 00:50:27,524 --> 00:50:30,693
- No.
- But you're willing to say you did.
- 809
- 00:50:30,695 --> 00:50:33,029
- If I got to.
- For the deal.
- 810
- 00:50:33,031 --> 00:50:34,897
- If you "got to"?
- 811
- 00:50:40,303 --> 00:50:42,972
- My great-granddaddy
- was a slave.
- 812
- 00:50:45,242 --> 00:50:47,276
- Were your people slaves, Joseph?
- 813
- 00:50:48,845 --> 00:50:51,914
- When we were slaves we had to do
- what the master said.
- 814
- 00:50:51,916 --> 00:50:54,884
- But... we're not slaves now,
- are we?
- 815
- 00:50:54,886 --> 00:50:57,219
- No, we ain't slaves.
- 816
- 00:50:57,221 --> 00:50:59,355
- You say that like it's nothin'.
- 817
- 00:50:59,357 --> 00:51:03,659
- We ain't slaves because we rose up and
- we fought and we fought and we fought
- 818
- 00:51:03,661 --> 00:51:05,294
- till we got our freedom.
- 819
- 00:51:06,363 --> 00:51:08,264
- Isn't that right?
- 820
- 00:51:10,167 --> 00:51:12,735
- My granddaddy escaped
- when he was 15.
- 821
- 00:51:14,237 --> 00:51:17,239
- Fought off four men and an attack dog,
- my mama said.
- 822
- 00:51:17,241 --> 00:51:20,709
- Okay, then you tell me this.
- 823
- 00:51:20,711 --> 00:51:23,412
- After what your granddaddy did
- to get his freedom,
- 824
- 00:51:23,414 --> 00:51:26,949
- you're just gonna give it right back
- for nothing,
- 825
- 00:51:26,951 --> 00:51:28,818
- for something
- you didn't even do?
- 826
- 00:51:30,387 --> 00:51:32,254
- Understand this.
- 827
- 00:51:32,256 --> 00:51:35,925
- If you want your freedom,
- you're gonna have to fight for it.
- 828
- 00:51:35,927 --> 00:51:38,694
- But you don't have to fight alone.
- That's why I'm here.
- 829
- 00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:42,198
- We've got weapons now, Joseph.
- 830
- 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,733
- Our people do.
- 831
- 00:51:44,735 --> 00:51:46,635
- Weapons we didn't have before.
- 832
- 00:51:49,606 --> 00:51:51,540
- We've got the law.
- 833
- 00:51:52,709 --> 00:51:55,811
- And you've got Sam,
- 834
- 00:51:55,813 --> 00:52:00,983
- one of the finest young trial lawyers
- in this country, on your side.
- 835
- 00:52:04,387 --> 00:52:06,222
- You really think we can win?
- 836
- 00:52:08,425 --> 00:52:11,193
- I wouldn't be here if I didn't think
- we could win.
- 837
- 00:52:15,265 --> 00:52:18,033
- Dr. Sayer, please tell the jury
- your field of specialty.
- 838
- 00:52:19,269 --> 00:52:21,937
- I specialize
- in the field of gynecology,
- 839
- 00:52:21,939 --> 00:52:25,307
- and I deliver babies.
- 840
- 00:52:25,309 --> 00:52:25,972
- Aww!
- 841
- 00:52:25,984 --> 00:52:28,010
- On the morning she was
- discovered in the reservoir,
- 842
- 00:52:28,012 --> 00:52:31,947
- did you have occasion to examine
- Mrs. Eleanor Strubing?
- 843
- 00:52:31,949 --> 00:52:33,649
- Yes.
- 844
- 00:52:33,651 --> 00:52:36,585
- She was brought to my home
- by the police at, uh...
- 845
- 00:52:37,754 --> 00:52:40,890
- Let's see.
- 6:30 in the morning.
- 846
- 00:52:41,958 --> 00:52:43,726
- Did she tell you
- what had happened?
- 847
- 00:52:45,295 --> 00:52:47,029
- Objection. Hearsay.
- 848
- 00:52:47,031 --> 00:52:48,998
- Overruled.
- 849
- 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,432
- Doctor?
- 850
- 00:52:51,434 --> 00:52:53,702
- I've forgotten the question.
- 851
- 00:52:53,704 --> 00:52:55,504
- What did Mrs. Strubing
- tell you?
- 852
- 00:52:56,773 --> 00:52:59,208
- She told me
- that she had been raped
- 853
- 00:52:59,210 --> 00:53:01,243
- by a colored man
- who worked for her.
- 854
- 00:53:03,213 --> 00:53:07,016
- What was her mental state
- during all of this?
- 855
- 00:53:07,018 --> 00:53:10,953
- She was severely distraught,
- weeping.
- 856
- 00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:14,523
- She kept repeating, "Am I pregnant?
- Am I pregnant?"
- 857
- 00:53:15,725 --> 00:53:18,894
- - Did you then examine her?
- - Yes.
- 858
- 00:53:18,896 --> 00:53:21,897
- My wife assisted
- by removing her clothing.
- 859
- 00:53:21,899 --> 00:53:24,733
- It was torn, wet, and muddy.
- 860
- 00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:29,538
- I noted bruises
- on her arms and legs
- 861
- 00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:32,441
- and numerous abrasions and contusions
- on both extremities.
- 862
- 00:53:33,577 --> 00:53:35,911
- I then performed
- an internal exam.
- 863
- 00:53:35,913 --> 00:53:39,148
- Do you have an opinion,
- based upon reasonable medical certainty,
- 864
- 00:53:39,150 --> 00:53:41,317
- as to whether or not
- she had been raped?
- 865
- 00:53:42,819 --> 00:53:44,386
- Beyond question,
- Mr. Willis.
- 866
- 00:53:44,388 --> 00:53:47,790
- It was all consistent with rape.
- 867
- 00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:50,960
- Thank you.
- 868
- 00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:53,729
- Your witness.
- 869
- 00:53:53,731 --> 00:53:55,664
- Get the records.
- 870
- 00:53:57,267 --> 00:53:59,068
- Medical records.
- Get them.
- 871
- 00:53:59,070 --> 00:54:01,270
- Your Honor, may we please see
- the medical records of Dr. Sayer?
- 872
- 00:54:01,272 --> 00:54:03,439
- Object.
- These are personal.
- 873
- 00:54:05,175 --> 00:54:06,875
- Overruled.
- 874
- 00:54:06,877 --> 00:54:09,945
- I'm sorry, Mr. Willis,
- but the witness referred to them.
- 875
- 00:54:09,947 --> 00:54:12,314
- - They must be turned over.
- - Thank you, Your Honor.
- 876
- 00:54:13,550 --> 00:54:15,484
- May I?
- 877
- 00:54:34,804 --> 00:54:39,475
- Abrasions and contusions. Those are
- scrapes and cuts, aren't they, Doctor?
- 878
- 00:54:39,477 --> 00:54:42,077
- Yes. Scrapes,
- scratches, bruises.
- 879
- 00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:43,946
- Right.
- 880
- 00:54:43,948 --> 00:54:46,715
- Well, the fall from the bridge and
- the climb through the pine forest
- 881
- 00:54:46,717 --> 00:54:49,018
- could be responsible for cuts and bruises,
- could it not?
- 882
- 00:54:50,053 --> 00:54:51,287
- It's possible.
- 883
- 00:55:02,132 --> 00:55:05,034
- You did an internal exam
- and you found...
- 884
- 00:55:06,403 --> 00:55:09,805
- "edema, swelling,
- traces of blood."
- 885
- 00:55:09,807 --> 00:55:12,308
- - Yes.
- - Mm-hmm.
- 886
- 00:55:12,310 --> 00:55:15,844
- And it was based on this that you
- determined that she was raped?
- 887
- 00:55:15,846 --> 00:55:17,846
- Indeed.
- 888
- 00:55:17,848 --> 00:55:19,381
- But those same findings...
- 889
- 00:55:20,817 --> 00:55:23,419
- are equally consistent
- with a woman who took a lover
- 890
- 00:55:23,421 --> 00:55:26,588
- and engaged in vigorous sexual intercourse
- over the course of an evening.
- 891
- 00:55:26,590 --> 00:55:29,858
- Objection. How dare you.
- There is no evidence of any lover.
- 892
- 00:55:29,860 --> 00:55:31,460
- Sustained.
- 893
- 00:55:31,462 --> 00:55:34,430
- There's no place for that in my courtroom,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 894
- 00:55:35,765 --> 00:55:38,300
- Um, of course, Your Honor.
- 895
- 00:55:38,302 --> 00:55:40,903
- I-I'm sorry.
- 896
- 00:55:50,213 --> 00:55:52,781
- - Hello?
- - Hey, baby.
- 897
- 00:55:54,117 --> 00:55:56,385
- No, they just pulled me
- out of proceedings.
- 898
- 00:55:56,387 --> 00:55:57,920
- The baby...
- 899
- 00:55:59,656 --> 00:56:01,256
- didn't make it.
- 900
- 00:56:04,027 --> 00:56:07,596
- And it was just so much worse this time.
- The bleeding was just...
- 901
- 00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:09,998
- It wouldn't stop.
- 902
- 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,300
- I'm so sorry.
- 903
- 00:56:13,871 --> 00:56:15,904
- I should be there.
- 904
- 00:56:21,311 --> 00:56:22,644
- Buster?
- 905
- 00:56:24,848 --> 00:56:26,315
- Buster, are you there?
- 906
- 00:56:27,384 --> 00:56:28,784
- Yeah, I'm...
- 907
- 00:56:30,353 --> 00:56:31,720
- I'm here.
- 908
- 00:56:33,556 --> 00:56:34,957
- Where are you?
- 909
- 00:56:38,862 --> 00:56:41,163
- Do you have any further questions,
- Mr. Friedman?
- 910
- 00:56:59,716 --> 00:57:02,518
- Mrs. Strubing told you
- that she resisted her assailant?
- 911
- 00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,420
- Yes, she did.
- Mm-hmm.
- 912
- 00:57:04,422 --> 00:57:06,889
- And you looked under her fingernails
- too, didn't you,
- 913
- 00:57:06,891 --> 00:57:08,957
- to see if you could find
- any traces of skin?
- 914
- 00:57:08,959 --> 00:57:10,459
- I did.
- 915
- 00:57:10,461 --> 00:57:13,262
- What did you find?
- 916
- 00:57:13,264 --> 00:57:15,431
- Splinters,
- dirt in some...
- 917
- 00:57:15,433 --> 00:57:17,566
- - Any skin, Doctor?
- - No, Sam.
- 918
- 00:57:17,568 --> 00:57:20,402
- Yes. I was just
- about to get to that.
- 919
- 00:57:20,404 --> 00:57:22,371
- Excuse me?
- 920
- 00:57:22,373 --> 00:57:23,839
- There was skin.
- 921
- 00:57:27,277 --> 00:57:29,745
- Wh-Where...
- 922
- 00:57:29,747 --> 00:57:33,816
- Where in these records does it say anything
- about finding traces of skin?
- 923
- 00:57:33,818 --> 00:57:36,952
- It's not in the records.
- 924
- 00:57:36,954 --> 00:57:41,056
- My wife took the notes. She did not
- write down that bit of information.
- 925
- 00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:45,894
- Why not, Doctor?
- Why would she not record that?
- 926
- 00:57:47,497 --> 00:57:51,400
- Out of respect for the patient's privacy,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 927
- 00:57:52,902 --> 00:57:55,003
- It was the skin
- of a colored man.
- 928
- 00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:02,678
- No further questions.
- 929
- 00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,148
- It wasn't in the records.
- They got a doctor to lie under oath.
- 930
- 00:58:06,150 --> 00:58:07,716
- How do we fight against that?
- 931
- 00:58:08,818 --> 00:58:10,853
- You asked the exact question
- 932
- 00:58:10,855 --> 00:58:12,788
- Willis wanted you to ask.
- 933
- 00:58:12,790 --> 00:58:15,691
- - What were you thinking?
- - Where the hell were you? Hmm?
- 934
- 00:58:15,693 --> 00:58:17,593
- Getting instructions
- from Walter White?
- 935
- 00:58:17,595 --> 00:58:20,963
- See what happens when I don't hold
- your hand? You panic like an amateur.
- 936
- 00:58:20,965 --> 00:58:23,265
- You should have let him
- take the deal.
- 937
- 00:58:23,267 --> 00:58:27,102
- Goddamn it, would you shut up about
- the deal? We have an alibi witness.
- 938
- 00:58:27,104 --> 00:58:28,670
- What don't you get?
- 939
- 00:58:28,672 --> 00:58:32,541
- They will have McCoy change his testimony.
- Just watch.
- 940
- 00:58:32,543 --> 00:58:36,144
- Let them. We'll take his sworn statement
- and shove it up his ass.
- 941
- 00:58:36,146 --> 00:58:40,115
- No, tomorrow morning I'm asking Willis
- if the offer is still on the table.
- 942
- 00:58:40,117 --> 00:58:43,285
- The NAACP
- isn't taking any deals.
- 943
- 00:58:43,287 --> 00:58:46,038
- The NAACP isn't the one with
- its life on the line here.
- 944
- 00:58:46,050 --> 00:58:47,289
- Yes, it is, goddamn it.
- 945
- 00:58:51,194 --> 00:58:53,862
- You're using him.
- 946
- 00:58:53,864 --> 00:58:55,797
- That's all this is.
- 947
- 00:58:55,799 --> 00:58:57,900
- Just like you said
- the Communists would.
- 948
- 00:58:57,902 --> 00:59:01,737
- We're giving him the best possible defense
- under the circumstances.
- 949
- 00:59:01,739 --> 00:59:03,839
- Mmm. Yeah.
- 950
- 00:59:03,841 --> 00:59:07,809
- I'm sure he'll feel really lucky as
- he sits in prison for the rest of his life.
- 951
- 00:59:07,811 --> 00:59:10,979
- Let's not act like it's Joseph Spell you're
- concerned for all of a sudden.
- 952
- 00:59:10,981 --> 00:59:13,482
- What is that supposed to mean?
- 953
- 00:59:13,484 --> 00:59:16,818
- From the moment you got involved in this,
- you've been looking for a way out.
- 954
- 00:59:16,820 --> 00:59:19,688
- Play nice with the DA,
- earn yourself a favor,
- 955
- 00:59:19,690 --> 00:59:22,558
- maybe they'll let you in their neighborhood
- or their club one day.
- 956
- 00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,760
- Well, get this
- through your head.
- 957
- 00:59:24,762 --> 00:59:27,763
- The only way to get through a bigot's door
- is to break it down.
- 958
- 00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:33,368
- Must be easy
- for you to say, huh?
- 959
- 00:59:33,370 --> 00:59:36,171
- See, it's my life
- that is on the line here.
- 960
- 00:59:36,173 --> 00:59:39,074
- My family, my practice,
- my future.
- 961
- 00:59:39,076 --> 00:59:43,946
- What do you have?
- You have nothing to lose.
- 962
- 00:59:43,948 --> 00:59:48,584
- No, you just sweep through town,
- stirring up all kinds of ugliness,
- 963
- 00:59:48,586 --> 00:59:50,519
- then move right on.
- 964
- 00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:55,991
- No one will ever
- even remember you were here.
- 965
- 00:59:58,094 --> 01:00:00,662
- Oh, fuck you, Sam.
- 966
- 01:00:02,565 --> 01:00:04,499
- Fuck you.
- 967
- 01:00:23,886 --> 01:00:26,622
- Hey.
- You two okay?
- 968
- 01:00:40,069 --> 01:00:42,504
- Please take the stand,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 969
- 01:00:53,950 --> 01:00:55,917
- Mrs. Strubing,
- you reside in Greenwich?
- 970
- 01:00:57,820 --> 01:01:03,592
- Yes. My husband John and I moved
- from Philadelphia about a year ago.
- 971
- 01:01:03,594 --> 01:01:06,595
- Is your husband here
- in the courtroom today?
- 972
- 01:01:06,597 --> 01:01:08,196
- Of course.
- 973
- 01:01:08,198 --> 01:01:10,098
- Sitting in the front.
- 974
- 01:01:12,268 --> 01:01:17,706
- Mrs. Strubing, do you remember the night
- you were attacked?
- 975
- 01:01:17,708 --> 01:01:20,275
- Mr. Willis, I assure you,
- I will never forget it.
- 976
- 01:01:22,045 --> 01:01:23,745
- Please tell the jury
- what happened.
- 977
- 01:01:26,849 --> 01:01:30,652
- My husband was away on business,
- 978
- 01:01:30,654 --> 01:01:34,222
- as he is often, I'm afraid.
- 979
- 01:01:34,224 --> 01:01:37,459
- I had dinner with friends...
- the Moores.
- 980
- 01:01:37,461 --> 01:01:41,863
- And I arrived home
- around ten o'clock
- 981
- 01:01:41,865 --> 01:01:45,534
- and then I decided
- to shower before bed.
- 982
- 01:01:45,536 --> 01:01:49,037
- And I was fixing my hair.
- 983
- 01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:53,709
- And he came in the room.
- 984
- 01:01:53,711 --> 01:01:56,378
- He came after me
- and started chasing me.
- 985
- 01:02:00,750 --> 01:02:02,484
- He had a knife.
- 986
- 01:02:02,486 --> 01:02:04,653
- The knife was pointed
- at my throat,
- 987
- 01:02:04,655 --> 01:02:07,055
- and I...
- 988
- 01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:08,990
- I thought of screaming, but...
- 989
- 01:02:10,259 --> 01:02:11,993
- I couldn't.
- 990
- 01:02:11,995 --> 01:02:14,262
- He... He penetrated me.
- 991
- 01:02:15,198 --> 01:02:16,832
- I couldn't make him stop.
- 992
- 01:02:18,034 --> 01:02:20,268
- His body was crushing me.
- 993
- 01:02:21,604 --> 01:02:23,505
- What happened next,
- Mrs. Strubing?
- 994
- 01:02:26,843 --> 01:02:29,211
- He said he wasn't finished
- with me.
- 995
- 01:02:31,848 --> 01:02:33,415
- And then he did it again.
- 996
- 01:02:33,417 --> 01:02:35,751
- Did what?
- 997
- 01:02:38,354 --> 01:02:39,855
- Raped me, Mr. Willis.
- 998
- 01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:43,458
- And then what happened?
- 999
- 01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:48,363
- When it was over, he said,
- "We're going for a ride, Mrs. Strubing."
- 1000
- 01:02:48,365 --> 01:02:50,632
- After all that,
- 1001
- 01:02:50,634 --> 01:02:53,101
- he still called me
- "Mrs. Strubing."
- 1002
- 01:02:54,804 --> 01:02:57,005
- Then he tore my dress
- with his hands...
- 1003
- 01:02:58,574 --> 01:03:00,509
- and gagged me.
- 1004
- 01:03:01,911 --> 01:03:05,480
- I show you Exhibit "H."
- 1005
- 01:03:05,482 --> 01:03:08,750
- - Is this the dress?
- - Yes. That's it.
- 1006
- 01:03:08,752 --> 01:03:12,654
- And is this, Exhibit "I,"
- taken from that dress,
- 1007
- 01:03:12,656 --> 01:03:15,323
- similar to the gag
- he used on you?
- 1008
- 01:03:15,325 --> 01:03:17,793
- - Identical.
- - Then what happened?
- 1009
- 01:03:17,795 --> 01:03:19,561
- We started driving.
- 1010
- 01:03:19,563 --> 01:03:24,966
- I had to lay down on the floor
- so that I wasn't seen.
- 1011
- 01:03:24,968 --> 01:03:28,170
- He came around,
- pulled me out of the car.
- 1012
- 01:03:28,172 --> 01:03:31,473
- And I remember
- feeling weightless.
- 1013
- 01:03:34,644 --> 01:03:36,912
- Suddenly I was freezing.
- 1014
- 01:03:36,914 --> 01:03:39,548
- Rocks were hitting around me.
- 1015
- 01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:42,651
- Mrs. Strubing,
- 1016
- 01:03:42,653 --> 01:03:44,986
- do you see the man who raped you
- 1017
- 01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:47,789
- in this courtroom today?
- 1018
- 01:03:47,791 --> 01:03:49,224
- Yes.
- 1019
- 01:03:51,194 --> 01:03:52,994
- He's right over there.
- 1020
- 01:03:52,996 --> 01:03:55,163
- The colored man.
- 1021
- 01:03:56,532 --> 01:04:00,569
- For the record, Mrs. Strubing,
- which colored man?
- 1022
- 01:04:02,205 --> 01:04:04,072
- The one in the brown suit.
- 1023
- 01:04:06,776 --> 01:04:08,243
- Thank you.
- 1024
- 01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:14,382
- One more question,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1025
- 01:04:14,384 --> 01:04:18,954
- Did you encounter anybody else
- during your time with Mr. Spell?
- 1026
- 01:04:18,956 --> 01:04:21,623
- Yes, as we were driving
- toward the reservoir,
- 1027
- 01:04:21,625 --> 01:04:23,658
- the car suddenly filled
- with red light.
- 1028
- 01:04:23,660 --> 01:04:27,295
- It was the police.
- I thought, at last, I was saved.
- 1029
- 01:04:27,297 --> 01:04:29,564
- And then Joseph said
- to get down back there
- 1030
- 01:04:29,566 --> 01:04:32,701
- and if I made a sound,
- that he would cut my throat.
- 1031
- 01:04:32,703 --> 01:04:35,370
- Then I heard the policeman.
- 1032
- 01:04:35,372 --> 01:04:38,073
- And I thought,
- please, please, just look.
- 1033
- 01:04:38,075 --> 01:04:40,242
- But he didn't.
- 1034
- 01:04:40,244 --> 01:04:42,210
- He-He spoke with Joseph
- and then he left.
- 1035
- 01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:47,449
- I'm so sorry.
- I did not want to cry.
- 1036
- 01:04:48,184 --> 01:04:49,885
- I'm so sorry.
- 1037
- 01:04:49,887 --> 01:04:52,921
- You've been very strong,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1038
- 01:04:52,923 --> 01:04:55,223
- She certainly has, Your Honor.
- 1039
- 01:04:55,225 --> 01:04:57,158
- No more questions.
- 1040
- 01:05:30,860 --> 01:05:32,627
- Hi there.
- 1041
- 01:05:32,629 --> 01:05:35,096
- Name, sir?
- Sam... Friedman.
- 1042
- 01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:37,432
- Sam Friedman.
- Friedman.
- 1043
- 01:05:37,434 --> 01:05:39,467
- I don't seem to have
- your name here, sir.
- 1044
- 01:05:39,469 --> 01:05:41,970
- Actually,
- I'm a friend of...
- 1045
- 01:05:41,972 --> 01:05:43,972
- Hold onto this for me.
- 1046
- 01:05:43,974 --> 01:05:46,541
- Sir, you can't go back there.
- 1047
- 01:05:46,543 --> 01:05:48,410
- Gentlemen, you must leave now!
- 1048
- 01:05:48,412 --> 01:05:50,946
- Marshall, this is not the kind of place
- you want to make a scene.
- 1049
- 01:05:50,948 --> 01:05:52,714
- I know.
- I used to work in a place just like this.
- 1050
- 01:05:52,716 --> 01:05:54,916
- That's exactly
- what my father said.
- 1051
- 01:05:54,918 --> 01:05:57,552
- If we just let the Reds
- and the Nazis fight it out,
- 1052
- 01:05:57,554 --> 01:05:59,287
- they'll take care
- of each other beautifully.
- 1053
- 01:05:59,289 --> 01:06:03,091
- This club is
- for members only, boy.
- 1054
- 01:06:03,093 --> 01:06:07,896
- Lorin, it appears that you have
- some rather unique admirers.
- 1055
- 01:06:14,771 --> 01:06:18,273
- - This is a private club.
- - She wasn't in the car, Lorin.
- 1056
- 01:06:18,275 --> 01:06:20,976
- - Excuse me?
- - You had her lie on the stand today.
- 1057
- 01:06:21,978 --> 01:06:23,912
- Are you accusing me of a crime?
- 1058
- 01:06:23,914 --> 01:06:27,082
- Yeah. That's exactly
- what I'm doing.
- 1059
- 01:06:29,151 --> 01:06:31,252
- Who do you think you are?
- 1060
- 01:06:31,254 --> 01:06:35,357
- We have a sworn statement from an Officer
- McCoy that Spell was alone that night.
- 1061
- 01:06:35,359 --> 01:06:38,793
- I don't care what you have.
- 1062
- 01:06:38,795 --> 01:06:40,929
- Ellie Strubing told the Greenwich
- police everything
- 1063
- 01:06:40,931 --> 01:06:43,431
- when she first recounted
- the crime.
- 1064
- 01:06:43,433 --> 01:06:46,201
- If she wasn't in the car, how could she
- have known the car had been stopped, hmm?
- 1065
- 01:06:46,203 --> 01:06:48,403
- Here.
- 1066
- 01:06:50,973 --> 01:06:53,475
- Read it.
- What is this?
- 1067
- 01:06:53,477 --> 01:06:55,877
- Another sworn statement.
- 1068
- 01:06:55,879 --> 01:06:59,948
- This from Ellie Strubing the morning
- they found her. Dated, timed, notarized.
- 1069
- 01:06:59,950 --> 01:07:03,118
- Everything she told
- the Greenwich police.
- 1070
- 01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,055
- This is fraudulent.
- 1071
- 01:07:07,057 --> 01:07:09,090
- Get out of my club.
- 1072
- 01:07:19,835 --> 01:07:21,636
- I've had better.
- 1073
- 01:07:41,023 --> 01:07:43,291
- Are you okay, sweetie?
- 1074
- 01:07:45,327 --> 01:07:46,961
- You look blue.
- 1075
- 01:07:48,531 --> 01:07:52,133
- And a man as good-looking as you
- has no cause to be blue.
- 1076
- 01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:16,691
- Where is he?
- 1077
- 01:08:21,063 --> 01:08:22,497
- Attorney Friedman.
- 1078
- 01:08:29,038 --> 01:08:31,706
- I'm not much of a conversationalist
- tonight.
- 1079
- 01:08:32,808 --> 01:08:35,510
- It's okay. I am.
- I'm Jen.
- 1080
- 01:08:36,545 --> 01:08:38,546
- Thurgood.
- Pleasure.
- 1081
- 01:08:39,982 --> 01:08:41,983
- I've never
- seen you here before...
- 1082
- 01:08:46,622 --> 01:08:48,523
- Attorney Friedman.
- 1083
- 01:08:49,725 --> 01:08:52,727
- Attorney Friedman,
- hold on a minute.
- 1084
- 01:08:52,729 --> 01:08:54,996
- What do you want?
- 1085
- 01:08:54,998 --> 01:08:57,132
- We're just eager
- to introduce ourselves.
- 1086
- 01:08:58,567 --> 01:09:01,736
- To you and the nigger lawyer.
- 1087
- 01:09:01,738 --> 01:09:04,806
- You don't want to have anything to do
- with this man, miss.
- 1088
- 01:09:08,944 --> 01:09:10,078
- Excuse me.
- 1089
- 01:09:12,948 --> 01:09:16,584
- You gentlemen
- are making a big mistake.
- 1090
- 01:09:18,020 --> 01:09:20,755
- There's no mistake.
- We know who you are.
- 1091
- 01:09:24,860 --> 01:09:27,095
- Bet you wish you had
- your nigger lawyer friend now.
- 1092
- 01:09:35,505 --> 01:09:37,739
- Get out of here. Get out of here.
- Hey!
- 1093
- 01:09:38,807 --> 01:09:40,408
- Hold him up.
- 1094
- 01:09:42,044 --> 01:09:43,811
- Let him go! Hold on.
- 1095
- 01:09:43,813 --> 01:09:46,080
- You liking this?
- You kike!
- 1096
- 01:09:47,016 --> 01:09:49,284
- Let him go!
- Let him go!
- 1097
- 01:09:50,386 --> 01:09:52,086
- Let him go!
- 1098
- 01:09:56,693 --> 01:09:58,526
- - Go, go!
- - Kike bastard!
- 1099
- 01:09:58,528 --> 01:10:00,094
- Sam!
- 1100
- 01:10:13,909 --> 01:10:16,277
- This here
- is Mr. Thurgood Marshall.
- 1101
- 01:10:18,147 --> 01:10:21,382
- This man is an attorney.
- 1102
- 01:10:21,384 --> 01:10:25,553
- You'll be showing Mr. Marshall
- all the respect he deserves.
- 1103
- 01:10:25,555 --> 01:10:26,821
- Understand?
- 1104
- 01:10:37,566 --> 01:10:39,000
- Sit down
- and finish your bourbon.
- 1105
- 01:10:39,935 --> 01:10:41,636
- Say something!
- 1106
- 01:10:43,339 --> 01:10:44,472
- You're late.
- 1107
- 01:10:49,778 --> 01:10:51,980
- What happened?
- Huh?
- 1108
- 01:10:54,717 --> 01:10:56,551
- I didn't mean to start trouble.
- 1109
- 01:10:56,553 --> 01:10:58,319
- It's not your fault.
- 1110
- 01:10:59,288 --> 01:11:01,022
- Here.
- 1111
- 01:11:01,024 --> 01:11:02,590
- It's okay.
- 1112
- 01:11:13,135 --> 01:11:15,703
- Listen.
- 1113
- 01:11:15,705 --> 01:11:17,272
- Men are men...
- 1114
- 01:11:19,908 --> 01:11:22,010
- and women are women.
- 1115
- 01:11:22,978 --> 01:11:24,579
- Right?
- 1116
- 01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:28,483
- Right.
- 1117
- 01:11:28,485 --> 01:11:30,885
- The Nazi masters of Germany...
- 1118
- 01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:35,423
- have made it clear
- that they intend
- 1119
- 01:11:35,425 --> 01:11:39,093
- not only to dominate all life and thought...
- 1120
- 01:11:39,095 --> 01:11:41,162
- in their own country,
- 1121
- 01:11:41,164 --> 01:11:43,965
- but also to enslave
- the whole of Europe.
- 1122
- 01:11:43,967 --> 01:11:46,334
- There's flanken.
- 1123
- 01:11:46,336 --> 01:11:48,169
- Why are you so...
- 1124
- 01:11:49,505 --> 01:11:52,240
- My God, Sam.
- What happened to you?
- 1125
- 01:11:53,609 --> 01:11:57,245
- I... I could use some ice.
- 1126
- 01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:01,416
- Hey. What is it?
- What's wrong?
- 1127
- 01:12:01,418 --> 01:12:03,718
- I got in the first punch.
- 1128
- 01:12:07,756 --> 01:12:09,324
- Wh-What's wrong?
- What is this?
- 1129
- 01:12:09,326 --> 01:12:11,526
- You've been crying.
- 1130
- 01:12:12,661 --> 01:12:15,263
- No. Not now. Let's...
- 1131
- 01:12:16,198 --> 01:12:17,398
- Tell me.
- 1132
- 01:12:20,035 --> 01:12:22,236
- My cousin Anna, in Kraków.
- 1133
- 01:12:24,673 --> 01:12:26,574
- They took her?
- 1134
- 01:12:36,685 --> 01:12:39,120
- Who is that?
- I don't know.
- 1135
- 01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:41,889
- Stand back.
- 1136
- 01:12:46,662 --> 01:12:48,129
- Yeah.
- 1137
- 01:12:57,874 --> 01:13:00,808
- Who is it?
- It's me.
- 1138
- 01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:04,045
- Thurgood. Your co-counsel.
- Open up!
- 1139
- 01:13:09,585 --> 01:13:11,486
- What happened to you?
- 1140
- 01:13:11,488 --> 01:13:14,922
- Did I come at a bad time?
- What do you want, Thurgood?
- 1141
- 01:13:14,924 --> 01:13:17,859
- I have thoughts about tomorrow.
- 1142
- 01:13:17,861 --> 01:13:19,694
- Tomorrow?
- Get out of my house.
- 1143
- 01:13:19,696 --> 01:13:21,429
- No.
- 1144
- 01:13:21,431 --> 01:13:23,297
- Not until I tell you
- why I'm here.
- 1145
- 01:13:36,278 --> 01:13:38,179
- Hear me out.
- 1146
- 01:13:39,915 --> 01:13:41,682
- You were right.
- 1147
- 01:13:42,918 --> 01:13:45,319
- I had it all wrong all along.
- 1148
- 01:13:46,455 --> 01:13:48,689
- Spell was with her all night.
- 1149
- 01:13:48,691 --> 01:13:51,058
- Spell lied.
- 1150
- 01:13:51,060 --> 01:13:52,727
- This is your big epiphany?
- 1151
- 01:13:52,729 --> 01:13:55,730
- Eleanor Strubing lied too.
- 1152
- 01:13:55,732 --> 01:13:57,832
- Neither of them have
- been telling us the truth.
- 1153
- 01:14:00,602 --> 01:14:04,972
- Thurgood, you have just
- broken this case wide open.
- 1154
- 01:14:04,974 --> 01:14:08,643
- My God, you really
- are a legal genius.
- 1155
- 01:14:09,778 --> 01:14:11,846
- Men are men and women are women.
- 1156
- 01:14:13,549 --> 01:14:17,351
- Men are men
- and women are women, Sam.
- 1157
- 01:14:24,827 --> 01:14:26,594
- You think it was consensual.
- 1158
- 01:14:26,596 --> 01:14:29,330
- It's the only explanation
- that makes sense.
- 1159
- 01:14:31,266 --> 01:14:33,401
- How can we be certain?
- 1160
- 01:14:37,739 --> 01:14:40,675
- We need to talk.
- Talk about what?
- 1161
- 01:14:40,677 --> 01:14:44,479
- Listen to me carefully now.
- 1162
- 01:14:44,481 --> 01:14:46,914
- Did you have sexual intercourse
- with Eleanor Strubing?
- 1163
- 01:14:47,983 --> 01:14:50,351
- No. Why you
- keep asking me that?
- 1164
- 01:14:50,353 --> 01:14:52,920
- I never asked you that before.
- 1165
- 01:14:52,922 --> 01:14:55,089
- Did you have sex with her?
- 1166
- 01:14:56,291 --> 01:14:58,659
- Speak, goddamn it.
- I told you I didn't.
- 1167
- 01:14:58,661 --> 01:15:01,596
- She says she was in that car
- when it got stopped.
- 1168
- 01:15:01,598 --> 01:15:04,499
- You hear her say that in court?
- I heard, but she's lying.
- 1169
- 01:15:04,501 --> 01:15:07,368
- No, she's not lying.
- 1170
- 01:15:08,670 --> 01:15:12,106
- - You're lying.
- - Why are you taking her side?
- 1171
- 01:15:12,108 --> 01:15:14,275
- The cop...
- The cop never searched the car.
- 1172
- 01:15:15,711 --> 01:15:17,545
- She was in the back seat,
- wasn't she?
- 1173
- 01:15:17,547 --> 01:15:19,881
- No. Look, I'm telling you...
- 1174
- 01:15:19,883 --> 01:15:21,616
- Get this through your head.
- 1175
- 01:15:21,618 --> 01:15:24,018
- She gave a statement to the police
- early that morning.
- 1176
- 01:15:24,020 --> 01:15:25,753
- She knew then the car
- had been stopped.
- 1177
- 01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:35,062
- Okay.
- Okay, she was there.
- 1178
- 01:15:36,498 --> 01:15:38,699
- And did you have sex
- with her that night?
- 1179
- 01:15:38,701 --> 01:15:40,768
- Mmm.
- 1180
- 01:15:41,904 --> 01:15:43,738
- Answer me.
- Answer me now!
- 1181
- 01:15:43,740 --> 01:15:45,273
- Yes.
- 1182
- 01:15:46,308 --> 01:15:48,109
- How many times?
- 1183
- 01:15:49,344 --> 01:15:50,912
- Two times.
- 1184
- 01:15:50,914 --> 01:15:54,215
- So, you're guilty.
- 1185
- 01:15:54,217 --> 01:15:56,017
- - You've been lying all along.
- - No!
- 1186
- 01:15:56,019 --> 01:15:57,685
- It wasn't rape.
- 1187
- 01:15:57,687 --> 01:16:02,023
- What about the skin under her nails?
- The doctor lying too?
- 1188
- 01:16:02,025 --> 01:16:04,725
- When we got to the reservoir,
- I parked the car.
- 1189
- 01:16:04,727 --> 01:16:07,228
- But she starts screaming,
- opens the door to run out.
- 1190
- 01:16:07,230 --> 01:16:09,263
- So I grabbed her
- just to keep her there.
- 1191
- 01:16:09,265 --> 01:16:11,432
- That's when she scratches me.
- 1192
- 01:16:13,001 --> 01:16:15,202
- - You lying to me again?
- - No.
- 1193
- 01:16:15,204 --> 01:16:16,971
- It's the truth.
- 1194
- 01:16:18,907 --> 01:16:21,208
- Why didn't you tell me the truth
- in the first place?
- 1195
- 01:16:21,210 --> 01:16:23,611
- Because I-I was confused.
- 1196
- 01:16:23,613 --> 01:16:25,546
- That's not good enough, Joseph.
- 1197
- 01:16:25,548 --> 01:16:28,215
- Willis is gonna ask you why you lied,
- sure as you're standing here.
- 1198
- 01:16:28,217 --> 01:16:30,017
- He's gonna ask you
- in front of everyone.
- 1199
- 01:16:30,019 --> 01:16:32,119
- The jury's gonna be studying you
- with all 24 eyes.
- 1200
- 01:16:32,121 --> 01:16:34,589
- And you're just gonna say you were
- confused? I couldn't think straight.
- 1201
- 01:16:34,591 --> 01:16:36,557
- That's not gonna swing it.
- 1202
- 01:16:36,559 --> 01:16:38,859
- You lied in a sworn statement.
- 1203
- 01:16:38,861 --> 01:16:41,395
- Why would you do that?
- 1204
- 01:16:41,397 --> 01:16:44,865
- Because I was scared.
- All right?
- 1205
- 01:16:46,802 --> 01:16:49,837
- I was scared what they'd gonna do to me
- if they find out.
- 1206
- 01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,041
- My father told me once,
- 1207
- 01:17:28,744 --> 01:17:31,412
- "If anybody calls you nigger,
- 1208
- 01:17:31,414 --> 01:17:33,648
- you not only got my permission
- to fight him,
- 1209
- 01:17:33,650 --> 01:17:35,983
- you got my orders
- to fight him."
- 1210
- 01:17:38,086 --> 01:17:42,723
- Your father say anything
- about being called a kike?
- 1211
- 01:17:45,327 --> 01:17:48,362
- No.
- 1212
- 01:17:48,364 --> 01:17:50,331
- Not to me anyway.
- 1213
- 01:17:54,302 --> 01:17:56,737
- You look like
- a real fighter now, Sam.
- 1214
- 01:17:59,541 --> 01:18:01,575
- Like a Jewish Joe Louis.
- 1215
- 01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:04,478
- Nah.
- 1216
- 01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:06,747
- Barney Ross is my guy.
- 1217
- 01:18:08,950 --> 01:18:10,751
- Barney Ross it is.
- 1218
- 01:18:20,729 --> 01:18:23,764
- - Good morning.
- - Good morning, Mr. Friedman.
- 1219
- 01:18:24,966 --> 01:18:26,867
- Mrs. Strubing,
- 1220
- 01:18:26,869 --> 01:18:29,236
- you're originally from Philadelphia,
- is that correct?
- 1221
- 01:18:29,238 --> 01:18:30,638
- Yes.
- 1222
- 01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,540
- College grad?
- 1223
- 01:18:32,542 --> 01:18:34,909
- Bryn Mawr,
- Mr. Friedman.
- 1224
- 01:18:34,911 --> 01:18:37,044
- And you were an athlete,
- I understand?
- 1225
- 01:18:37,046 --> 01:18:40,081
- Yes, I was on the swim team.
- 1226
- 01:18:40,083 --> 01:18:42,717
- Ah.
- 1227
- 01:18:42,719 --> 01:18:45,386
- You and your husband moved to your estate
- in Greenwich
- 1228
- 01:18:45,388 --> 01:18:47,054
- last spring, is that correct?
- 1229
- 01:18:47,056 --> 01:18:49,090
- I don't know
- if I'd call it an estate.
- 1230
- 01:18:49,092 --> 01:18:52,093
- I'm sorry. A mansion?
- 1231
- 01:18:52,095 --> 01:18:55,496
- John and I moved here, to Greenwich,
- rather, last May.
- 1232
- 01:18:55,498 --> 01:18:57,431
- Mm-hmm.
- 1233
- 01:18:57,433 --> 01:19:01,035
- But your husband was away on the night
- of this incident. Is that right?
- 1234
- 01:19:01,037 --> 01:19:03,738
- Yes, as I said, on business.
- 1235
- 01:19:06,441 --> 01:19:10,010
- You've testified that you went out
- on the evening in question.
- 1236
- 01:19:10,012 --> 01:19:13,447
- That is correct.
- To the Moores'.
- 1237
- 01:19:13,449 --> 01:19:17,017
- Did you, um... Did you drink
- at the Moores' home?
- 1238
- 01:19:18,253 --> 01:19:20,187
- As I recall, I drank some wine.
- 1239
- 01:19:20,189 --> 01:19:22,022
- How many glasses, would you say?
- 1240
- 01:19:23,725 --> 01:19:25,593
- I don't remember.
- 1241
- 01:19:25,595 --> 01:19:26,994
- But it was more than one.
- 1242
- 01:19:29,030 --> 01:19:31,632
- I didn't say that.
- I said I didn't remember.
- 1243
- 01:19:32,534 --> 01:19:33,868
- Mm-hmm.
- 1244
- 01:19:33,870 --> 01:19:37,638
- When you drove home,
- were you tipsy?
- 1245
- 01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:40,407
- I never drink enough
- to get tipsy.
- 1246
- 01:19:40,409 --> 01:19:45,613
- Okay. So you went straight up to your
- room to shower. Is that correct?
- 1247
- 01:19:45,615 --> 01:19:47,381
- Yes.
- 1248
- 01:19:47,383 --> 01:19:49,817
- And when you came out
- of the shower,
- 1249
- 01:19:49,819 --> 01:19:53,988
- you say Joseph
- was waiting for you.
- 1250
- 01:19:53,990 --> 01:19:56,824
- I didn't see him at first.
- 1251
- 01:19:56,826 --> 01:19:59,460
- I had no reason to believe
- that I wasn't alone.
- 1252
- 01:19:59,462 --> 01:20:00,895
- But then...
- 1253
- 01:20:02,597 --> 01:20:04,031
- he was there.
- 1254
- 01:20:10,605 --> 01:20:13,140
- You were attracted to Joseph,
- weren't you, Mrs. Strubing?
- 1255
- 01:20:13,142 --> 01:20:15,142
- - Objection! That's an absurd accusation!
- - What?
- 1256
- 01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:16,907
- You invited him into
- your bed, didn't you?
- 1257
- 01:20:16,919 --> 01:20:17,511
- Your Honor!
- 1258
- 01:20:17,513 --> 01:20:20,481
- He attacked me! Strike the question
- and answer from the record.
- 1259
- 01:20:20,483 --> 01:20:24,485
- Mr. Friedman, no more of this.
- You understand me?
- 1260
- 01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:26,554
- Yes, Your Honor.
- Yes, of course. I'm sorry.
- 1261
- 01:20:28,323 --> 01:20:32,092
- Now, your bedroom is just below the room
- where the maid slept?
- 1262
- 01:20:32,094 --> 01:20:33,627
- Yes.
- 1263
- 01:20:33,629 --> 01:20:36,130
- Did you scream for help?
- 1264
- 01:20:36,132 --> 01:20:38,132
- I couldn't.
- He had a knife.
- 1265
- 01:20:38,134 --> 01:20:40,835
- Did he hold the knife
- as he removed his clothing?
- 1266
- 01:20:41,870 --> 01:20:43,537
- He must have.
- 1267
- 01:20:43,539 --> 01:20:47,908
- So he removed his pants, belt,
- zipper, whatever, with one hand?
- 1268
- 01:20:49,511 --> 01:20:51,045
- Apparently so.
- 1269
- 01:20:52,113 --> 01:20:53,814
- You told Mr. Willis
- 1270
- 01:20:53,816 --> 01:20:55,816
- that you fought him,
- but he overpowered you.
- 1271
- 01:20:55,818 --> 01:20:58,152
- - Is that right?
- - Yes.
- 1272
- 01:20:58,154 --> 01:21:01,789
- There was a phone
- right next to your bed.
- 1273
- 01:21:01,791 --> 01:21:05,392
- - Did you attempt to use it?
- - No. I was terrified.
- 1274
- 01:21:05,394 --> 01:21:09,730
- Afraid to use the phone or scream for help,
- but not afraid to fight back?
- 1275
- 01:21:09,732 --> 01:21:12,433
- You have no idea what it feels like
- to be so afraid.
- 1276
- 01:21:13,501 --> 01:21:16,036
- But at no point...
- at no point
- 1277
- 01:21:16,038 --> 01:21:18,806
- during the hours and hours
- that the two of you were together
- 1278
- 01:21:18,808 --> 01:21:22,743
- did you ever attempt to make any calls,
- to escape, to raise your voice for help?
- 1279
- 01:21:22,745 --> 01:21:25,746
- - Object. This is argument.
- - I was scared for my life!
- 1280
- 01:21:25,748 --> 01:21:27,848
- Sustained.
- The jury will disregard the question.
- 1281
- 01:21:27,850 --> 01:21:30,150
- You knew you had been unfaithful
- to your husband.
- 1282
- 01:21:30,152 --> 01:21:32,519
- You were terrified of what he would do
- to you if he found out.
- 1283
- 01:21:32,521 --> 01:21:34,588
- And you wanted to get away.
- He is badgering the witness!
- 1284
- 01:21:34,590 --> 01:21:37,691
- That is not true! I was forced
- to leave the house. He bound me!
- 1285
- 01:21:37,693 --> 01:21:40,327
- He gagged me
- and he dragged me to the car.
- 1286
- 01:21:40,329 --> 01:21:42,663
- The police stopped the car?
- 1287
- 01:21:42,665 --> 01:21:45,032
- Yes.
- But still you did not scream?
- 1288
- 01:21:45,034 --> 01:21:49,536
- - He had a knife!
- - Right. Right. The knife.
- 1289
- 01:21:49,538 --> 01:21:53,173
- As you testified, you were afraid that
- he was gonna slash your throat
- 1290
- 01:21:53,175 --> 01:21:55,542
- from the front seat
- of the car, was it?
- 1291
- 01:21:55,544 --> 01:21:57,678
- I couldn't make a sound.
- 1292
- 01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,915
- - Because of the gag?
- - Yes.
- 1293
- 01:22:02,117 --> 01:22:04,752
- Mrs. Strubing,
- 1294
- 01:22:04,754 --> 01:22:07,454
- this Exhibit "I" is identical to the gag
- that he used?
- 1295
- 01:22:07,456 --> 01:22:09,690
- Yes.
- 1296
- 01:22:09,692 --> 01:22:12,259
- Let's just show the jury
- what he did then.
- 1297
- 01:22:12,261 --> 01:22:17,932
- Mrs. Strubing, please, please instruct
- Mr. Marshall, if you would.
- 1298
- 01:22:21,102 --> 01:22:24,204
- The gag was between your lips.
- Is that correct, Mrs. Strubing?
- 1299
- 01:22:24,206 --> 01:22:26,340
- Yes. That's correct.
- 1300
- 01:22:34,783 --> 01:22:38,218
- Is this about right?
- 1301
- 01:22:38,220 --> 01:22:41,622
- No, it was a bit tighter than that.
- 1302
- 01:22:44,993 --> 01:22:46,994
- How 'bout this, ma'am?
- 1303
- 01:22:46,996 --> 01:22:48,529
- Yes, that's about it.
- 1304
- 01:23:01,476 --> 01:23:04,878
- Now, you could have
- done that, Mrs. Strubing.
- 1305
- 01:23:06,114 --> 01:23:07,848
- He would have killed me.
- 1306
- 01:23:07,850 --> 01:23:11,452
- - Who would have killed you? Your husband?
- - Objection!
- 1307
- 01:23:11,454 --> 01:23:13,620
- - Quiet, Mr. Marshall.
- - How dare you speak to me that way.
- 1308
- 01:23:13,622 --> 01:23:15,561
- There was a policeman
- standing not three feet
- 1309
- 01:23:15,573 --> 01:23:17,524
- away from you. You did
- not call out for help.
- 1310
- 01:23:17,526 --> 01:23:19,209
- Instead, Joseph drove
- on to the reservoir.
- 1311
- 01:23:19,221 --> 01:23:20,427
- I'm warning you. No speaking!
- 1312
- 01:23:20,429 --> 01:23:23,297
- You bolted from the car because
- you were ashamed of what you had done
- 1313
- 01:23:23,299 --> 01:23:25,499
- - with another man, with a colored man!
- - Objection!
- 1314
- 01:23:25,501 --> 01:23:29,103
- One more word out of you and
- I will hold you in contempt!
- 1315
- 01:23:29,105 --> 01:23:32,106
- You were afraid of what your husband
- would do to you if he found out.
- 1316
- 01:23:32,108 --> 01:23:34,274
- Afraid that you were pregnant
- with a colored child.
- 1317
- 01:23:34,276 --> 01:23:36,377
- - Objection! This is argument!
- - Sustained.
- 1318
- 01:23:36,379 --> 01:23:39,346
- - Jury will disregard.
- - You jumped into that water.
- 1319
- 01:23:39,348 --> 01:23:41,882
- - You wanted to end it all.
- - Jumped? I was thrown.
- 1320
- 01:23:41,884 --> 01:23:45,986
- I was thrown. My hands were tied.
- He tried to kill me!
- 1321
- 01:23:45,988 --> 01:23:50,791
- Your hands were not tied,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1322
- 01:23:50,793 --> 01:23:53,360
- You were able
- to remove your coat
- 1323
- 01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:56,196
- and let it float in the water
- as you swam to shore.
- 1324
- 01:23:56,198 --> 01:24:00,167
- That's not true. That's a lie.
- He gagged me. He tied me.
- 1325
- 01:24:00,169 --> 01:24:01,435
- Raped me.
- 1326
- 01:24:05,573 --> 01:24:11,111
- I am so... so sorry for your unhappiness,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1327
- 01:24:13,648 --> 01:24:15,049
- No more questions.
- 1328
- 01:24:16,251 --> 01:24:19,787
- - Mr. Willis?
- - I have no questions.
- 1329
- 01:24:28,863 --> 01:24:31,598
- How can we put Spell on the stand
- with all this baggage?
- 1330
- 01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:33,767
- The jury needs
- to hear him deny it.
- 1331
- 01:24:33,769 --> 01:24:36,203
- And you bring out
- all the bad stuff yourself.
- 1332
- 01:24:36,205 --> 01:24:38,572
- Don't leave anything for Willis.
- 1333
- 01:24:38,574 --> 01:24:40,874
- What happens to the organization
- if we lose?
- 1334
- 01:24:40,876 --> 01:24:43,010
- I don't even want
- to think about it.
- 1335
- 01:24:44,913 --> 01:24:47,414
- You could blame me.
- 1336
- 01:24:47,416 --> 01:24:49,450
- You're one of us now, Sam.
- 1337
- 01:24:49,452 --> 01:24:51,852
- Haven't you noticed?
- 1338
- 01:24:51,854 --> 01:24:56,356
- In the papers they write, "Sam Friedman
- and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP."
- 1339
- 01:25:02,397 --> 01:25:05,332
- Joseph, please tell the jury
- where you were raised.
- 1340
- 01:25:06,401 --> 01:25:07,835
- Louisiana.
- 1341
- 01:25:09,737 --> 01:25:13,640
- - You have a wife and two children, right?
- - Uh-huh.
- 1342
- 01:25:13,642 --> 01:25:17,711
- Even though you have a wife, you have
- another woman in White Plains, is it?
- 1343
- 01:25:17,713 --> 01:25:19,413
- Yes.
- What's he doing?
- 1344
- 01:25:19,415 --> 01:25:21,748
- - Ever served in the army, Joseph?
- - Yes, sir.
- 1345
- 01:25:21,750 --> 01:25:24,818
- Fort Benning, Georgia,
- six years. Discharged.
- 1346
- 01:25:24,820 --> 01:25:27,488
- That was
- a dishonorable discharge?
- 1347
- 01:25:27,490 --> 01:25:29,389
- Yes.
- 1348
- 01:25:29,391 --> 01:25:32,259
- Then you moved north?
- That's right.
- 1349
- 01:25:32,261 --> 01:25:35,762
- Before working for the Strubings,
- you worked for another family in Greenwich?
- 1350
- 01:25:35,764 --> 01:25:36,964
- Yes, sir.
- 1351
- 01:25:36,966 --> 01:25:39,099
- They accused you of stealing
- and fired you.
- 1352
- 01:25:39,101 --> 01:25:40,934
- Yes, sir.
- 1353
- 01:25:40,936 --> 01:25:42,669
- And when you worked
- for the Strubings,
- 1354
- 01:25:42,671 --> 01:25:44,972
- did you run into
- any other difficulties?
- 1355
- 01:25:44,974 --> 01:25:48,809
- - No, sir.
- - Did the Strubings treat you well, Joseph?
- 1356
- 01:25:48,811 --> 01:25:51,178
- She was always real nice to me.
- 1357
- 01:25:51,180 --> 01:25:53,480
- What about Mr. Strubing?
- 1358
- 01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:00,554
- Was he mean to you?
- 1359
- 01:26:01,589 --> 01:26:03,624
- He was mean to everybody.
- 1360
- 01:26:03,626 --> 01:26:06,059
- It is what you did.
- Don't lie to me.
- 1361
- 01:26:08,596 --> 01:26:11,265
- - Watch where you're standing.
- - Yes, sir.
- 1362
- 01:26:20,441 --> 01:26:22,409
- Just a second, Joseph.
- I'm sorry.
- 1363
- 01:26:24,045 --> 01:26:25,913
- That's quite all right, ma'am.
- 1364
- 01:26:30,552 --> 01:26:33,320
- On the night of this incident,
- 1365
- 01:26:33,322 --> 01:26:35,856
- why did you go into
- Mrs. Strubing's room?
- 1366
- 01:26:35,858 --> 01:26:39,793
- To ask her for money. I had to pay
- a man I'd been playing cards with.
- 1367
- 01:26:41,062 --> 01:26:42,729
- What happened
- when you got to the room?
- 1368
- 01:26:51,539 --> 01:26:53,774
- I knocked on the door.
- 1369
- 01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:56,710
- Come in.
- 1370
- 01:26:56,712 --> 01:26:59,880
- I could tell she'd been sad.
- She was crying.
- 1371
- 01:26:59,882 --> 01:27:02,649
- - Are you okay, ma'am?
- - What do you want, Joseph?
- 1372
- 01:27:03,985 --> 01:27:06,053
- It can wait, Mrs. Strubing.
- 1373
- 01:27:06,055 --> 01:27:08,222
- But she told me to stay,
- ask my question.
- 1374
- 01:27:08,224 --> 01:27:10,824
- I told her I needed some money.
- She asked what for.
- 1375
- 01:27:12,060 --> 01:27:13,794
- There's a man I owe.
- 1376
- 01:27:14,896 --> 01:27:16,630
- Ah.
- 1377
- 01:27:24,372 --> 01:27:26,673
- So she went to the bureau.
- 1378
- 01:27:29,611 --> 01:27:32,779
- She said, "Is this enough for you, Joseph?"
- I said, "Yes, ma'am. Thank you."
- 1379
- 01:27:32,781 --> 01:27:34,948
- But she didn't give it to me.
- Then she asked me...
- 1380
- 01:27:34,950 --> 01:27:39,019
- I'm not awful like him,
- am I, Joseph?
- 1381
- 01:27:39,021 --> 01:27:41,021
- No, ma'am.
- 1382
- 01:27:50,198 --> 01:27:52,399
- Joseph.
- 1383
- 01:27:52,401 --> 01:27:55,002
- She asked me not to
- leave her alone that night.
- 1384
- 01:27:55,937 --> 01:27:59,172
- And, uh... I didn't.
- 1385
- 01:28:22,430 --> 01:28:24,431
- Then what happened?
- 1386
- 01:28:24,433 --> 01:28:26,833
- Well, we went down to the living room,
- me and her.
- 1387
- 01:28:26,835 --> 01:28:29,970
- - We had a drink together.
- - What did the two of you talk about?
- 1388
- 01:28:31,606 --> 01:28:33,373
- She told me he beats her.
- 1389
- 01:28:34,175 --> 01:28:35,642
- Who beats her?
- 1390
- 01:28:42,917 --> 01:28:44,851
- Who did that?
- 1391
- 01:28:47,922 --> 01:28:49,389
- My husband.
- 1392
- 01:29:14,682 --> 01:29:17,117
- Did she ever resist you, Joseph?
- 1393
- 01:29:17,119 --> 01:29:20,087
- No, she didn't.
- Not at all.
- 1394
- 01:29:22,623 --> 01:29:24,658
- What happened next?
- 1395
- 01:29:24,660 --> 01:29:28,095
- We were lying on the sofa.
- 1396
- 01:29:40,408 --> 01:29:43,043
- Oh, God.
- 1397
- 01:29:43,045 --> 01:29:46,413
- - And she heard some dogs barking.
- - Joseph.
- 1398
- 01:29:46,415 --> 01:29:49,716
- She was convinced somebody was gonna
- come to the house and find us together.
- 1399
- 01:29:49,718 --> 01:29:52,285
- Get up. Get up!
- 1400
- 01:29:53,488 --> 01:29:55,655
- Nobody gonna wake up.
- 1401
- 01:29:55,657 --> 01:29:59,059
- She started panicking. I told her there's
- no one coming. Everything's fine.
- 1402
- 01:29:59,061 --> 01:30:01,862
- But she was insisting on,
- "We gotta get out of here.
- 1403
- 01:30:01,864 --> 01:30:05,365
- We gotta get out of here right now."
- So we left the house.
- 1404
- 01:30:05,367 --> 01:30:09,336
- We go down to the car,
- and we drive around for a bit.
- 1405
- 01:30:09,338 --> 01:30:13,006
- She sat in the back,
- so it don't look wrong.
- 1406
- 01:30:13,008 --> 01:30:15,976
- Then the cop car
- come up from behind.
- 1407
- 01:30:17,445 --> 01:30:19,212
- She get real scared.
- 1408
- 01:30:19,214 --> 01:30:21,214
- She say...
- Why don't you lie down and keep quiet?
- 1409
- 01:30:21,216 --> 01:30:22,849
- I can't be seen
- with a colored man.
- 1410
- 01:30:22,851 --> 01:30:25,285
- I say, "You lie down
- and keep quiet then."
- 1411
- 01:30:25,287 --> 01:30:27,521
- Don't move. Shh. Shh.
- 1412
- 01:30:28,723 --> 01:30:30,357
- Oh.
- Shh, shh.
- 1413
- 01:30:34,929 --> 01:30:37,397
- Where'd you get this car, boy?
- 1414
- 01:30:37,399 --> 01:30:40,834
- I'm a chauffeur, sir. Belongs to John
- Strubing. Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1415
- 01:30:43,137 --> 01:30:45,005
- Identification.
- Yes, sir.
- 1416
- 01:30:54,215 --> 01:30:56,049
- Drive slower, boy.
- Yes, sir.
- 1417
- 01:30:56,051 --> 01:30:57,984
- Get your ass
- out of Port Chester.
- 1418
- 01:30:57,986 --> 01:30:59,553
- On my way right now, sir.
- Thank you.
- 1419
- 01:30:59,555 --> 01:31:01,254
- What happened next?
- 1420
- 01:31:01,256 --> 01:31:05,192
- We get to the reservoir,
- and, uh, she scream at me.
- 1421
- 01:31:06,327 --> 01:31:07,928
- Joseph, stop the car.
- Stop the car!
- 1422
- 01:31:07,930 --> 01:31:10,096
- Joseph, stop the car!
- 1423
- 01:31:10,098 --> 01:31:12,165
- What's the matter?
- 1424
- 01:31:12,167 --> 01:31:14,568
- She keeps shaking her head
- and saying, "What have I done?"
- 1425
- 01:31:14,570 --> 01:31:16,770
- Everything's gonna be fine,
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1426
- 01:31:16,772 --> 01:31:19,072
- Just take a deep breath,
- okay? No, no, no, no.
- 1427
- 01:31:19,074 --> 01:31:22,108
- No, you don't understand.
- 1428
- 01:31:22,110 --> 01:31:25,512
- Maybe we should just
- go back to the house, huh?
- 1429
- 01:31:25,514 --> 01:31:28,815
- You don't understand.
- You don't understand.
- 1430
- 01:31:28,817 --> 01:31:32,819
- She keeps saying, "I'm gonna get pregnant."
- "No, you ain't," I said.
- 1431
- 01:31:32,821 --> 01:31:35,455
- - You're not gonna get pregnant.
- - I can't have a colored child.
- 1432
- 01:31:35,457 --> 01:31:37,858
- You're not gonna have
- no babies at all, okay?
- 1433
- 01:31:37,860 --> 01:31:40,827
- I say,
- "Just let me take you home."
- 1434
- 01:31:41,796 --> 01:31:43,129
- And she screamed at me.
- 1435
- 01:31:43,131 --> 01:31:44,965
- Let me out of the car!
- 1436
- 01:31:44,967 --> 01:31:46,700
- I'm gonna tell everybody
- you raped me!
- 1437
- 01:31:47,969 --> 01:31:49,636
- She go to open the door,
- and I grabbed her.
- 1438
- 01:31:49,638 --> 01:31:51,771
- Let me go!
- Just to keep her there.
- 1439
- 01:31:51,773 --> 01:31:54,975
- That's when she scratches my arm.
- Mrs. Strubing.
- 1440
- 01:31:54,977 --> 01:31:56,776
- Hey. Hey!
- 1441
- 01:31:58,112 --> 01:32:00,313
- Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 1442
- 01:32:00,315 --> 01:32:03,283
- Mrs. Strubing,
- what you doing up there?
- 1443
- 01:32:03,285 --> 01:32:05,318
- I yell at her
- to come back, but...
- 1444
- 01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:08,121
- Come on down right now.
- Let's get in the car and go home.
- 1445
- 01:32:08,123 --> 01:32:09,823
- She just turned away.
- 1446
- 01:32:09,825 --> 01:32:11,591
- Mrs. Strub...
- 1447
- 01:32:26,874 --> 01:32:31,444
- Joseph, did you rape
- Mrs. Strubing?
- 1448
- 01:32:33,314 --> 01:32:36,883
- No. I did not.
- 1449
- 01:32:38,052 --> 01:32:39,986
- Thank you, Joseph.
- 1450
- 01:32:42,857 --> 01:32:44,291
- Your witness.
- 1451
- 01:32:47,662 --> 01:32:49,496
- Not bad.
- 1452
- 01:32:49,498 --> 01:32:52,165
- You wouldn't lie to the jury, would
- you, Joseph? Not bad at all.
- 1453
- 01:32:52,167 --> 01:32:53,833
- No, sir, I wouldn't.
- 1454
- 01:32:53,835 --> 01:32:55,735
- But the fact is,
- you are a liar, aren't you?
- 1455
- 01:32:55,737 --> 01:32:57,671
- Objection!
- Argumentative.
- 1456
- 01:32:57,673 --> 01:33:01,174
- Overruled.
- It's cross-examination.
- 1457
- 01:33:02,777 --> 01:33:04,210
- He's okay.
- 1458
- 01:33:04,212 --> 01:33:07,247
- When you married
- your first wife, Hattie,
- 1459
- 01:33:07,249 --> 01:33:10,550
- you swore to God you'd be faithful to her,
- did you not?
- 1460
- 01:33:10,552 --> 01:33:14,487
- - Yes, sir.
- - But you weren't. It was a lie.
- 1461
- 01:33:15,890 --> 01:33:17,691
- You could say.
- 1462
- 01:33:17,693 --> 01:33:20,360
- You told her you'd take care
- of your children, didn't you?
- 1463
- 01:33:20,362 --> 01:33:23,163
- Yes, sir.
- But you haven't, have you?
- 1464
- 01:33:24,465 --> 01:33:26,866
- Not so much as I should.
- 1465
- 01:33:26,868 --> 01:33:30,704
- Then you were in the service
- and you swore to honor your country.
- 1466
- 01:33:30,706 --> 01:33:32,739
- But that was a lie too.
- No.
- 1467
- 01:33:32,741 --> 01:33:37,377
- Then you came north and you stole from
- your first employer?
- 1468
- 01:33:37,379 --> 01:33:39,172
- When the police picked
- you up, you lied to
- 1469
- 01:33:39,184 --> 01:33:41,114
- them about your whereabouts
- the night before.
- 1470
- 01:33:41,116 --> 01:33:43,783
- - Didn't you?
- - Yes, I did.
- 1471
- 01:33:43,785 --> 01:33:47,454
- You gave a statement under oath
- that you were in a bar all night.
- 1472
- 01:33:47,456 --> 01:33:49,456
- Yes.
- 1473
- 01:33:49,458 --> 01:33:52,292
- So you lied to your wife,
- you lied to the State of Louisiana,
- 1474
- 01:33:52,294 --> 01:33:54,828
- you lied to the police,
- you lied to God.
- 1475
- 01:33:54,830 --> 01:33:57,097
- Why should anyone
- believe you now?
- 1476
- 01:33:57,099 --> 01:34:00,800
- I don't know why they should,
- except it's the truth.
- 1477
- 01:34:00,802 --> 01:34:06,506
- The truth? If it's the truth,
- why not tell it from the beginning?
- 1478
- 01:34:06,508 --> 01:34:09,743
- If you're an innocent man,
- why lie?
- 1479
- 01:34:11,979 --> 01:34:14,748
- Why lie, Mr. Spell? Answer the question.
- Tell him, Joseph.
- 1480
- 01:34:14,750 --> 01:34:19,486
- If you were an innocent man,
- why would you lie?
- 1481
- 01:34:19,488 --> 01:34:22,956
- I tell the police I was with her,
- it was what she wanted?
- 1482
- 01:34:22,958 --> 01:34:25,091
- If it's the truth.
- 1483
- 01:34:25,093 --> 01:34:29,262
- In Louisiana, you know what they do to me
- for being with a white woman like that?
- 1484
- 01:34:29,264 --> 01:34:32,132
- If they don't kill me
- right then and there,
- 1485
- 01:34:32,134 --> 01:34:36,202
- soon enough the others come,
- they drag me off, they tie me up,
- 1486
- 01:34:36,204 --> 01:34:38,238
- they cut off my manhood.
- 1487
- 01:34:40,541 --> 01:34:43,276
- And then I'd be swingin'
- off the branch of some tree.
- 1488
- 01:34:43,278 --> 01:34:47,347
- So... why'd I lie,
- Mr. Willis?
- 1489
- 01:34:48,716 --> 01:34:51,117
- Because the truth
- gets me killed.
- 1490
- 01:34:51,119 --> 01:34:53,086
- That's why.
- 1491
- 01:34:54,055 --> 01:34:55,588
- I move the answer be stricken.
- 1492
- 01:35:11,373 --> 01:35:13,273
- The answer will stand.
- 1493
- 01:35:20,848 --> 01:35:22,449
- Mr. Willis?
- 1494
- 01:35:25,686 --> 01:35:27,721
- Nothing further, Your Honor.
- 1495
- 01:35:42,104 --> 01:35:44,070
- You know what?
- 1496
- 01:35:44,072 --> 01:35:46,840
- It finally looks like a respectable
- law office in here.
- 1497
- 01:35:49,677 --> 01:35:51,344
- Come in.
- 1498
- 01:35:53,114 --> 01:35:55,515
- There's someone here
- to see you, Mr. Marshall.
- 1499
- 01:35:58,052 --> 01:35:59,486
- Walter?
- 1500
- 01:36:01,689 --> 01:36:04,090
- What are you doing here?
- Can we talk?
- 1501
- 01:36:05,426 --> 01:36:08,762
- I'll just move
- to Irwin's office.
- 1502
- 01:36:12,634 --> 01:36:14,467
- Come on, Walter.
- 1503
- 01:36:14,469 --> 01:36:16,302
- What is this?
- 1504
- 01:36:16,304 --> 01:36:19,239
- Fourteen-year-old boy in Mississippi.
- They say he killed a cop.
- 1505
- 01:36:19,241 --> 01:36:22,075
- He needs a lawyer.
- 1506
- 01:36:22,077 --> 01:36:25,078
- - And I have to leave tonight?
- - Uh-huh.
- 1507
- 01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,247
- He ready with the summation?
- 1508
- 01:36:27,249 --> 01:36:30,083
- Sam? He will be.
- 1509
- 01:36:30,085 --> 01:36:33,353
- Then there's no reason for you to stay.
- I'll take care of everything.
- 1510
- 01:36:48,235 --> 01:36:49,803
- You get the picture
- Renie left you?
- 1511
- 01:36:50,404 --> 01:36:52,305
- Ah, yes.
- 1512
- 01:36:52,307 --> 01:36:56,042
- Now, what kind of plane is this?
- 1513
- 01:36:57,144 --> 01:37:01,080
- She said
- it's supposed to be you.
- 1514
- 01:37:01,082 --> 01:37:03,349
- Those are ears, not wings.
- Ah!
- 1515
- 01:37:04,819 --> 01:37:06,719
- She's quite a talent.
- 1516
- 01:37:08,856 --> 01:37:10,623
- You were right, you know.
- 1517
- 01:37:10,625 --> 01:37:13,993
- About what?
- "Why would she lie?"
- 1518
- 01:37:13,995 --> 01:37:15,662
- Mmm.
- 1519
- 01:37:15,664 --> 01:37:17,730
- That is the question
- we needed to answer.
- 1520
- 01:37:18,933 --> 01:37:20,400
- Well...
- 1521
- 01:37:22,203 --> 01:37:27,574
- I'm thankful Renie got to see there's men
- like you in the world.
- 1522
- 01:37:31,378 --> 01:37:34,347
- I don't understand how you can leave
- before closing arguments.
- 1523
- 01:37:34,349 --> 01:37:38,218
- Doesn't do anyone any good having me
- sit around waiting on a verdict.
- 1524
- 01:37:38,220 --> 01:37:40,320
- What if something comes up?
- 1525
- 01:37:40,322 --> 01:37:42,989
- The case is in, Sam.
- 1526
- 01:37:42,991 --> 01:37:45,992
- Walter will represent the NAACP.
- 1527
- 01:37:45,994 --> 01:37:47,460
- And you'll be there for Spell.
- 1528
- 01:37:54,802 --> 01:37:57,837
- Sam, did you know
- I only have one testicle?
- 1529
- 01:37:57,839 --> 01:38:00,874
- Um... no.
- 1530
- 01:38:00,876 --> 01:38:02,809
- Yeah.
- 1531
- 01:38:02,811 --> 01:38:07,180
- In my college years, I found myself running
- from a gang of bigots
- 1532
- 01:38:07,182 --> 01:38:10,717
- in a part of town they didn't believe
- I should be in.
- 1533
- 01:38:10,719 --> 01:38:12,919
- My buddies, they're ahead of me
- in a truck.
- 1534
- 01:38:12,921 --> 01:38:15,221
- I jump for the back,
- and I'm pulling myself up,
- 1535
- 01:38:15,223 --> 01:38:19,559
- but there's a jagged spike
- of metal I don't see.
- 1536
- 01:38:19,561 --> 01:38:22,662
- It slashes
- right through my sack.
- 1537
- 01:38:22,664 --> 01:38:24,163
- Yeah.
- 1538
- 01:38:25,532 --> 01:38:27,834
- Why am I telling you this?
- 1539
- 01:38:27,836 --> 01:38:31,004
- Well, I want you to know
- 1540
- 01:38:31,006 --> 01:38:33,172
- that even sitting
- in the back of that pickup,
- 1541
- 01:38:33,174 --> 01:38:35,008
- my scrotum torn,
- 1542
- 01:38:35,010 --> 01:38:38,044
- every bump sending shocks
- of pain down my leg,
- 1543
- 01:38:38,046 --> 01:38:41,114
- even that wasn't as excruciating
- as sitting there
- 1544
- 01:38:41,116 --> 01:38:44,217
- watching you argue this case
- these past few weeks.
- 1545
- 01:38:50,725 --> 01:38:53,192
- - But I did learn something.
- - Huh?
- 1546
- 01:38:54,728 --> 01:38:58,531
- I need an army of lawyers
- just like you, Sam.
- 1547
- 01:38:58,533 --> 01:39:02,101
- Lawyers who don't even know
- they want to make a difference,
- 1548
- 01:39:02,103 --> 01:39:05,805
- who with just a little bit of training
- can be just as capable as me.
- 1549
- 01:39:09,076 --> 01:39:12,011
- Well, almost as capable.
- 1550
- 01:39:14,748 --> 01:39:17,083
- And until then what?
- 1551
- 01:39:17,085 --> 01:39:21,154
- You just travel around the country
- on this crusade?
- 1552
- 01:39:21,156 --> 01:39:24,424
- Putting out fires
- in Mississippi,
- 1553
- 01:39:24,426 --> 01:39:27,994
- Oklahoma, Bridgeport?
- 1554
- 01:39:27,996 --> 01:39:31,230
- It's not really fires
- I'm after, Sam.
- 1555
- 01:39:32,967 --> 01:39:34,734
- It's fire itself.
- 1556
- 01:39:38,005 --> 01:39:39,706
- Get out your pen now.
- 1557
- 01:39:41,775 --> 01:39:44,811
- Here's the closing argument
- you're gonna give.
- 1558
- 01:39:44,813 --> 01:39:47,113
- Who is telling the truth?
- 1559
- 01:39:47,115 --> 01:39:51,918
- A woman from a fine family
- with an unblemished background,
- 1560
- 01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:54,253
- or a depraved man,
- 1561
- 01:39:54,255 --> 01:39:56,656
- a repeat criminal
- with no morals,
- 1562
- 01:39:56,658 --> 01:40:00,994
- a man whose whole life has been composed
- of a series of lies?
- 1563
- 01:40:02,629 --> 01:40:06,132
- Did this decent, church-going,
- intelligent woman,
- 1564
- 01:40:06,134 --> 01:40:07,967
- the graduate of a top college,
- 1565
- 01:40:07,969 --> 01:40:12,005
- engage in voluntary sexual relations
- with her Negro servant
- 1566
- 01:40:12,007 --> 01:40:14,307
- and then jump
- into the water, for what?
- 1567
- 01:40:14,309 --> 01:40:17,710
- For pleasure,
- as the defense would have you believe?
- 1568
- 01:40:17,712 --> 01:40:20,113
- Of course not.
- 1569
- 01:40:20,115 --> 01:40:23,783
- Joseph Spell raped
- Eleanor Strubing.
- 1570
- 01:40:23,785 --> 01:40:27,353
- Then he hurled her over the bridge to kill
- the only witness to his crime.
- 1571
- 01:40:27,355 --> 01:40:31,724
- Acquit him, and you will set
- a wild panther loose in our midst
- 1572
- 01:40:31,726 --> 01:40:33,693
- to stalk more victims,
- 1573
- 01:40:33,695 --> 01:40:35,895
- to threaten the safety
- and security
- 1574
- 01:40:35,897 --> 01:40:38,698
- of each and every woman
- in the State of Connecticut.
- 1575
- 01:40:38,700 --> 01:40:42,135
- As a jury, you have been exposed
- 1576
- 01:40:42,137 --> 01:40:45,371
- to the darkness
- of a sinister man's soul.
- 1577
- 01:40:48,142 --> 01:40:51,511
- But you're also in a position
- of great privilege.
- 1578
- 01:40:51,513 --> 01:40:54,080
- Because you...
- 1579
- 01:40:54,082 --> 01:40:56,716
- you have the power
- 1580
- 01:40:56,718 --> 01:41:00,286
- to do justice
- on behalf of all of us.
- 1581
- 01:41:01,722 --> 01:41:03,623
- Bullshit.
- Thank you.
- 1582
- 01:41:04,525 --> 01:41:06,459
- And God bless.
- 1583
- 01:41:14,201 --> 01:41:15,802
- Mr. Friedman.
- 1584
- 01:41:18,605 --> 01:41:22,909
- Why would a woman
- like Eleanor Strubing
- 1585
- 01:41:22,911 --> 01:41:27,780
- consent... no, encourage...
- sexual relations
- 1586
- 01:41:27,782 --> 01:41:30,083
- with a man like Joseph Spell?
- 1587
- 01:41:30,085 --> 01:41:32,418
- Let me tell you why.
- 1588
- 01:41:32,420 --> 01:41:37,457
- Eleanor Strubing's story
- is nothing less than tragic.
- 1589
- 01:41:37,459 --> 01:41:40,393
- She is a respectable woman
- from a fine family.
- 1590
- 01:41:40,395 --> 01:41:42,095
- She attended the best schools.
- 1591
- 01:41:42,097 --> 01:41:45,698
- She went to church
- each and every Sunday.
- 1592
- 01:41:45,700 --> 01:41:49,302
- As the good book says, she was "spotless
- as the lamb of God."
- 1593
- 01:41:49,304 --> 01:41:53,139
- She was "spotless
- as the lamb of God."
- 1594
- 01:41:53,141 --> 01:41:55,908
- She and her husband John
- move to Greenwich.
- 1595
- 01:41:55,910 --> 01:41:57,977
- Oh, he travels frequently,
- 1596
- 01:41:57,979 --> 01:42:01,114
- leaving her alone in a new town,
- 1597
- 01:42:01,116 --> 01:42:02,982
- away from her friends
- and family,
- 1598
- 01:42:03,817 --> 01:42:05,985
- in a vast, empty house.
- 1599
- 01:42:05,987 --> 01:42:09,255
- The pangs of loneliness
- hit hard.
- 1600
- 01:42:09,257 --> 01:42:11,691
- She has some drinks.
- 1601
- 01:42:12,626 --> 01:42:14,026
- A knock at the door.
- 1602
- 01:42:15,629 --> 01:42:17,897
- - Joseph.
- - Joseph.
- 1603
- 01:42:17,899 --> 01:42:21,234
- She was not expecting this.
- 1604
- 01:42:21,236 --> 01:42:24,103
- A young man, a handsome man.
- 1605
- 01:42:24,105 --> 01:42:27,640
- In a moment of weakness,
- her judgment impaired
- 1606
- 01:42:27,642 --> 01:42:29,308
- by the alcohol
- of the evening...
- 1607
- 01:42:29,310 --> 01:42:31,677
- Consumed by loneliness,
- 1608
- 01:42:31,679 --> 01:42:35,414
- she invites him to share her bed
- to ease her pain.
- 1609
- 01:42:35,416 --> 01:42:38,651
- As the evening goes on,
- she becomes panicked
- 1610
- 01:42:38,653 --> 01:42:40,520
- that they will be discovered.
- 1611
- 01:42:40,522 --> 01:42:44,157
- She must leave the house,
- must escape her sin.
- 1612
- 01:42:45,592 --> 01:42:48,094
- - What if she is pregnant...
- - And with a colored child?
- 1613
- 01:42:48,096 --> 01:42:51,664
- What if her husband were to find out?
- What would he do to her?
- 1614
- 01:42:51,666 --> 01:42:55,468
- She cannot live
- with the fear, the shame.
- 1615
- 01:42:55,470 --> 01:42:58,971
- So then there they are,
- at the reservoir.
- 1616
- 01:42:58,973 --> 01:43:03,776
- An opportunity to escape
- her life, her despair.
- 1617
- 01:43:03,778 --> 01:43:07,313
- Joseph tries to hold her back,
- but she wrangles free, runs from the car.
- 1618
- 01:43:07,315 --> 01:43:11,317
- And she plummets into the water.
- 1619
- 01:43:11,319 --> 01:43:14,787
- Only as soon
- as she hits the surface,
- 1620
- 01:43:14,789 --> 01:43:17,223
- her years of training take over.
- 1621
- 01:43:17,225 --> 01:43:19,692
- See, she is a swimmer.
- 1622
- 01:43:19,694 --> 01:43:22,662
- And she simply cannot drown.
- 1623
- 01:43:22,664 --> 01:43:25,164
- With the zeal
- to end her life gone,
- 1624
- 01:43:25,166 --> 01:43:27,333
- her only escape...
- 1625
- 01:43:27,335 --> 01:43:28,901
- She must accuse him.
- 1626
- 01:43:28,903 --> 01:43:31,470
- And so a story is created.
- 1627
- 01:43:31,472 --> 01:43:32,805
- A web of...
- 1628
- 01:43:35,075 --> 01:43:37,343
- desperate lies
- 1629
- 01:43:37,345 --> 01:43:42,882
- filled with inconsistencies,
- absurdities,
- 1630
- 01:43:43,717 --> 01:43:45,518
- reasonable doubts.
- 1631
- 01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:49,055
- The State must prove its case
- beyond a reasonable doubt.
- 1632
- 01:43:49,057 --> 01:43:51,424
- It must be a clear case.
- 1633
- 01:43:51,426 --> 01:43:55,294
- No scream for help
- all night long.
- 1634
- 01:43:56,430 --> 01:43:58,030
- Doubt.
- 1635
- 01:43:58,032 --> 01:44:01,167
- No call on
- the four family phones.
- 1636
- 01:44:01,169 --> 01:44:03,269
- Doubt.
- 1637
- 01:44:03,271 --> 01:44:06,172
- No cry to the officer
- just a few feet away.
- 1638
- 01:44:06,174 --> 01:44:07,540
- Doubt.
- 1639
- 01:44:07,542 --> 01:44:10,376
- No rocks on a bridge.
- 1640
- 01:44:10,378 --> 01:44:11,577
- Doubt.
- 1641
- 01:44:11,579 --> 01:44:14,580
- Doubt, doubt, doubt.
- 1642
- 01:44:16,283 --> 01:44:18,884
- The doubt, my friends,
- 1643
- 01:44:18,886 --> 01:44:20,620
- is overwhelming.
- 1644
- 01:44:20,622 --> 01:44:25,691
- This is why you must find
- Joseph Spell not guilty.
- 1645
- 01:44:25,693 --> 01:44:28,127
- Ladies and gentlemen
- of the jury,
- 1646
- 01:44:28,129 --> 01:44:30,596
- you've heard the arguments
- of counsel.
- 1647
- 01:44:30,598 --> 01:44:34,333
- You may now retire to the jury room
- to begin your deliberations.
- 1648
- 01:44:35,402 --> 01:44:36,836
- Court is in recess.
- 1649
- 01:44:48,215 --> 01:44:50,416
- Who is it?
- 1650
- 01:44:50,418 --> 01:44:51,951
- It's me.
- 1651
- 01:44:57,758 --> 01:44:59,225
- Mmm!
- 1652
- 01:45:02,396 --> 01:45:04,430
- You're supposed
- to be on a train.
- 1653
- 01:45:04,432 --> 01:45:06,532
- I have a little time.
- 1654
- 01:45:13,573 --> 01:45:15,908
- I heard you were looking for me.
- 1655
- 01:45:17,444 --> 01:45:20,246
- Well, Friedman, it seems you have
- beginner's luck.
- 1656
- 01:45:20,248 --> 01:45:22,682
- John Strubing just called me.
- 1657
- 01:45:22,684 --> 01:45:25,751
- This whole thing has been a terrible
- strain on Ellie, as you can imagine.
- 1658
- 01:45:25,753 --> 01:45:28,254
- They want it over, now.
- 1659
- 01:45:28,256 --> 01:45:30,823
- I'm prepared to offer
- one final deal.
- 1660
- 01:45:30,825 --> 01:45:33,359
- What is it?
- Five years.
- 1661
- 01:45:33,361 --> 01:45:36,996
- He'll have to enter a guilty plea right
- away and admit he lied on the stand.
- 1662
- 01:45:39,032 --> 01:45:41,434
- I'll speak with him.
- Do it now.
- 1663
- 01:45:41,436 --> 01:45:43,903
- If the jury comes back in,
- the deal is off.
- 1664
- 01:45:48,842 --> 01:45:52,511
- You'd be out after three years,
- with good behavior.
- 1665
- 01:45:52,513 --> 01:45:56,382
- Possibly sooner.
- You think I should take it?
- 1666
- 01:45:56,384 --> 01:45:58,384
- I don't know
- what the jury will do.
- 1667
- 01:45:58,386 --> 01:46:01,287
- It's a good deal.
- 1668
- 01:46:01,289 --> 01:46:03,823
- And if they convict me?
- 1669
- 01:46:03,825 --> 01:46:06,692
- Most likely you'll spend the rest
- of your life in a prison cell.
- 1670
- 01:46:08,962 --> 01:46:11,097
- And I got to decide right away?
- 1671
- 01:46:13,367 --> 01:46:15,267
- What I gotta do for the deal?
- 1672
- 01:46:18,171 --> 01:46:21,474
- Admit that you raped her and that you lied
- on the witness stand.
- 1673
- 01:46:23,076 --> 01:46:25,344
- Can I talk
- to Mr. Marshall?
- 1674
- 01:46:25,346 --> 01:46:28,547
- He's on a train probably somewhere
- in Tennessee by now.
- 1675
- 01:46:28,549 --> 01:46:30,783
- I would never be able
- to reach him in time.
- 1676
- 01:46:32,552 --> 01:46:34,453
- What do you think he would say?
- 1677
- 01:46:44,065 --> 01:46:45,598
- Ah.
- 1678
- 01:46:50,570 --> 01:46:52,405
- So, give me good news.
- 1679
- 01:46:53,507 --> 01:46:55,307
- No deal.
- 1680
- 01:46:57,010 --> 01:46:59,111
- You did advise him
- to accept, hmm?
- 1681
- 01:46:59,113 --> 01:47:01,747
- I told him it was a good offer.
- 1682
- 01:47:01,749 --> 01:47:03,682
- I told him
- what the alternative is.
- 1683
- 01:47:03,684 --> 01:47:06,852
- I told him if it was me,
- I would take it.
- 1684
- 01:47:09,055 --> 01:47:13,325
- And I told him that no man should ever
- confess to a crime he did not commit.
- 1685
- 01:47:17,197 --> 01:47:20,299
- I thought Jews were supposed
- to be smart.
- 1686
- 01:47:20,301 --> 01:47:22,301
- But you sound
- just like the Negro.
- 1687
- 01:47:25,138 --> 01:47:27,773
- Why, thank you, Lorin.
- 1688
- 01:47:27,775 --> 01:47:30,676
- That's possibly the greatest compliment
- you could've given me.
- 1689
- 01:47:57,437 --> 01:47:59,205
- There's a verdict.
- 1690
- 01:48:10,083 --> 01:48:11,517
- Will the foreman please rise.
- 1691
- 01:48:11,519 --> 01:48:14,220
- I'm the forewoman, Your Honor.
- 1692
- 01:48:15,956 --> 01:48:17,690
- Very well.
- 1693
- 01:48:17,692 --> 01:48:19,525
- Have you reached a verdict?
- 1694
- 01:48:19,527 --> 01:48:21,093
- We have, Your Honor.
- 1695
- 01:48:22,262 --> 01:48:24,530
- Mr. Spell.
- 1696
- 01:48:24,532 --> 01:48:27,366
- Rise and face the jury.
- It's time.
- 1697
- 01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:34,406
- Madame Forewoman,
- what is your verdict?
- 1698
- 01:48:36,443 --> 01:48:39,378
- We, the jury, find,
- on the charge of rape,
- 1699
- 01:48:39,380 --> 01:48:41,480
- that the defendant,
- Joseph Spell,
- 1700
- 01:48:41,482 --> 01:48:43,182
- is not guilty.
- 1701
- 01:48:56,063 --> 01:48:57,596
- Order.
- 1702
- 01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:02,735
- Is this your verdict,
- so say you all?
- 1703
- 01:49:02,737 --> 01:49:04,837
- We do, Your Honor.
- 1704
- 01:49:04,839 --> 01:49:06,338
- That's it, Joseph.
- 1705
- 01:49:06,340 --> 01:49:07,973
- We did it.
- 1706
- 01:49:07,975 --> 01:49:11,410
- Mr. Spell, the jury
- has found you not guilty.
- 1707
- 01:49:11,412 --> 01:49:12,778
- You are released from custody.
- 1708
- 01:49:14,014 --> 01:49:16,815
- Jury is dismissed.
- Court is adjourned.
- 1709
- 01:49:16,817 --> 01:49:19,218
- All rise.
- 1710
- 01:49:38,204 --> 01:49:40,506
- - Congratulations, Mr. White.
- - Thank you.
- 1711
- 01:49:44,878 --> 01:49:47,580
- Mr. Spell.
- 1712
- 01:49:47,582 --> 01:49:49,915
- Hi.
- I'm Tad Lancaster.
- 1713
- 01:49:49,917 --> 01:49:53,252
- Mr. Marshall thought you might need a place
- to sleep tonight.
- 1714
- 01:49:53,254 --> 01:49:54,987
- Oh, Mr. Marshall.
- 1715
- 01:50:06,766 --> 01:50:08,167
- Hello?
- Hello.
- 1716
- 01:50:09,469 --> 01:50:11,570
- Sam.
- 1717
- 01:50:11,572 --> 01:50:14,106
- Sam, I can barely hear you.
- 1718
- 01:50:14,108 --> 01:50:17,977
- - Is there a verdict yet?
- - Yeah. Yeah, it's me.
- 1719
- 01:50:17,979 --> 01:50:19,912
- Sam, are you there?
- Yeah.
- 1720
- 01:50:19,914 --> 01:50:22,581
- Yes, can you hear me?
- Sam?
- 1721
- 01:50:22,583 --> 01:50:25,217
- Not guilty! We did it!
- 1722
- 01:50:26,319 --> 01:50:27,953
- - What?
- - Not guilty!
- 1723
- 01:50:27,955 --> 01:50:29,888
- Not guilty!
- 1724
- 01:50:29,890 --> 01:50:31,657
- Not guilty.
- 1725
- 01:50:31,659 --> 01:50:34,226
- Not guilty!
- Sam!
- 1726
- 01:50:34,228 --> 01:50:35,761
- Yes!
- Oh!
- 1727
- 01:50:35,763 --> 01:50:37,196
- Yes. We won!
- 1728
- 01:50:38,665 --> 01:50:40,566
- Sam, I told you.
- I told you.
- 1729
- 01:50:40,568 --> 01:50:42,635
- I told you you could bring it home.
- I told you.
- 1730
- 01:50:42,637 --> 01:50:44,603
- Yeah! Yes, we did it!
- 1731
- 01:50:47,608 --> 01:50:50,075
- Ah.
- 1732
- 01:50:50,077 --> 01:50:52,177
- Thurgood,
- I'm having trouble hearing you.
- 1733
- 01:50:52,179 --> 01:50:54,513
- Sam, are you there?
- Are you there?
- 1734
- 01:50:54,515 --> 01:50:58,517
- Thurgood!
- 1735
- 01:51:56,342 --> 01:51:58,977
- Oh, Luis.
- Marshall!
- 1736
- 01:51:58,979 --> 01:52:01,013
- Your wife still putting up with you?
- Look at me.
- 1737
- 01:52:01,015 --> 01:52:02,981
- She dress me from head to toe.
- 1738
- 01:52:02,983 --> 01:52:05,818
- Got me looking as sharp as you.
- 1739
- 01:52:05,820 --> 01:52:08,053
- God bless you.
- We really need your help.
- 1740
- 01:52:08,055 --> 01:52:11,090
- I promise you I'll do everything
- in my power to help him.
- 1741
- 01:52:11,092 --> 01:52:12,825
- Thank you for coming,
- Mr. Marshall.
- 1742
- 01:52:12,827 --> 01:52:14,727
- We really need you in Mississippi.
- My pleasure.
- 1743
- 01:52:14,729 --> 01:52:16,495
- Let's get going.
- 1744
- 01:52:17,897 --> 01:52:19,865
- Are you hungry?
- 1745
- 01:52:19,867 --> 01:52:24,236
- You know, I very nearly
- ate my briefcase on that train.
- 1746
- 01:52:24,238 --> 01:52:27,539
- Well, when we get to the house,
- I'll fix you a nice supper.
- 1747
- 01:52:27,541 --> 01:52:32,077
- That'll be nice. You can fill me in on
- everything that's going on down here.
- 1748
- 01:52:32,079 --> 01:52:35,080
- Can you slow down a little?
- I got my good Sunday shoes on.
- 1749
- 01:52:44,624 --> 01:52:49,628
- ♪ You can have all the money
- In your hands ♪
- 1750
- 01:52:49,630 --> 01:52:54,032
- ♪ All the possessions
- Anyone can ever have ♪
- 1751
- 01:52:54,034 --> 01:52:56,702
- ♪ But it's all
- Worthless treasure ♪
- 1752
- 01:52:56,704 --> 01:53:00,239
- ♪ True worth is only measured
- Not by what you got ♪
- 1753
- 01:53:00,241 --> 01:53:03,542
- ♪ But what you got
- In your heart ♪
- 1754
- 01:53:05,078 --> 01:53:09,414
- ♪ You can have
- You can have everything ♪
- 1755
- 01:53:09,416 --> 01:53:13,619
- ♪ What does it
- What does it mean? ♪
- 1756
- 01:53:13,621 --> 01:53:17,790
- ♪ It all means nothing ♪
- 1757
- 01:53:17,792 --> 01:53:23,662
- ♪ If you don't stand up
- For something ♪
- 1758
- 01:53:23,664 --> 01:53:26,999
- ♪ You can't just talk the talk ♪
- 1759
- 01:53:27,001 --> 01:53:29,635
- ♪ You got to walk that walk ♪
- 1760
- 01:53:29,637 --> 01:53:31,637
- ♪ Yes, you do ♪
- 1761
- 01:53:31,639 --> 01:53:35,774
- ♪ It all means nothing ♪
- 1762
- 01:53:35,776 --> 01:53:40,946
- ♪ If you don't stand up
- For something ♪
- 1763
- 01:53:40,948 --> 01:53:46,018
- ♪ And I stand up for you ♪
- 1764
- 01:53:46,020 --> 01:53:49,955
- ♪ And I stand up for you ♪
- 1765
- 01:53:49,957 --> 01:53:53,492
- ♪ Yes, I will, yes, I will ♪
- 1766
- 01:53:53,494 --> 01:53:57,763
- ♪ You do the best that
- Do the best that you can do ♪
- 1767
- 01:53:57,765 --> 01:53:59,932
- ♪ Then you can look
- In the mirror ♪
- 1768
- 01:53:59,934 --> 01:54:03,001
- ♪ Proud of who's
- Looking back at you ♪
- 1769
- 01:54:03,003 --> 01:54:05,504
- ♪ Define the life
- You're living ♪
- 1770
- 01:54:05,506 --> 01:54:07,940
- ♪ Not by what you take
- But what you're giving ♪
- 1771
- 01:54:07,942 --> 01:54:09,842
- ♪ And if you bet on love ♪
- 1772
- 01:54:09,844 --> 01:54:13,879
- ♪ There's no way
- You'll ever lose ♪
- 1773
- 01:54:13,881 --> 01:54:16,548
- ♪ Take a stand, make a stand ♪
- 1774
- 01:54:16,550 --> 01:54:18,984
- ♪ For what's right ♪
- 1775
- 01:54:18,986 --> 01:54:22,654
- ♪ It's always worth
- Always worth the fight ♪
- 1776
- 01:54:22,656 --> 01:54:26,825
- ♪ It all means nothing ♪
- 1777
- 01:54:26,827 --> 01:54:32,631
- ♪ If you don't stand up
- For something ♪
- 1778
- 01:54:32,633 --> 01:54:35,968
- ♪ You can't just talk the talk ♪
- 1779
- 01:54:35,970 --> 01:54:38,570
- ♪ You got to walk that walk ♪
- 1780
- 01:54:38,572 --> 01:54:40,572
- ♪ Yes, you do ♪
- 1781
- 01:54:40,574 --> 01:54:44,676
- ♪ It all means nothing ♪
- 1782
- 01:54:44,678 --> 01:54:49,915
- ♪ If you don't stand up
- For something ♪
- 1783
- 01:54:49,917 --> 01:54:52,351
- ♪ And I stand up for you ♪
- 1784
- 01:54:52,353 --> 01:54:56,822
- ♪ Stand for respect, dignity ♪
- 1785
- 01:54:56,824 --> 01:55:01,894
- ♪ If that's all you got
- Then you got all you need ♪
- 1786
- 01:55:01,896 --> 01:55:05,998
- ♪ And without that
- You don't have a thing ♪
- 1787
- 01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:07,766
- ♪ Oh, no, no ♪
- 1788
- 01:55:07,768 --> 01:55:09,768
- ♪ Rise up
- Love, lift your hands ♪
- 1789
- 01:55:09,770 --> 01:55:12,204
- ♪ I stand with you
- 'Cause I understand ♪
- 1790
- 01:55:12,206 --> 01:55:14,873
- ♪ Ain't here to judge
- Just to take a stand ♪
- 1791
- 01:55:14,875 --> 01:55:17,409
- ♪ The greater plan's
- The creator's plan ♪
- 1792
- 01:55:17,411 --> 01:55:20,012
- ♪ Let's all rise
- Like the day began ♪
- 1793
- 01:55:20,014 --> 01:55:22,447
- ♪ Reach out and touch
- With the savior's hand ♪
- 1794
- 01:55:22,449 --> 01:55:24,783
- ♪ On rock, we stand
- Like this native land ♪
- 1795
- 01:55:24,785 --> 01:55:26,919
- ♪ Let the ways of love
- Be the ways of man ♪
- 1796
- 01:55:26,921 --> 01:55:30,956
- ♪ And it all means nothing, oh ♪
- 1797
- 01:55:30,958 --> 01:55:36,361
- ♪ If you don't stand
- For something ♪
- 1798
- 01:55:36,363 --> 01:55:39,731
- ♪ You can't just talk the talk ♪
- 1799
- 01:55:39,733 --> 01:55:42,301
- ♪ You got to walk that walk ♪
- 1800
- 01:55:42,303 --> 01:55:44,202
- ♪ Yes, you do ♪
- 1801
- 01:55:44,204 --> 01:55:48,473
- ♪ It all means nothing ♪
- 1802
- 01:55:48,475 --> 01:55:53,779
- ♪ If you don't stand up
- For something ♪
- 1803
- 01:55:53,781 --> 01:55:58,951
- ♪ And I stand up for you
- Oh, yeah ♪
- 1804
- 01:55:58,953 --> 01:56:03,822
- ♪ I stand up for you ♪
- 1805
- 01:56:03,824 --> 01:56:10,062
- ♪ And I stand up for you ♪
- 1806
- 01:56:10,064 --> 01:56:13,065
- ♪ Stand up for you ♪
- 1807
- 01:56:13,067 --> 01:56:17,803
- ♪ Yes, I will, yes, I will ♪
- 1808
- 01:56:55,141 --> 01:56:56,775
- You know, there's so many people...
- 1809
- 01:56:56,777 --> 01:56:59,945
- indeed, my own sons, at times...
- 1810
- 01:56:59,947 --> 01:57:02,347
- look at me with an expression
- on the face
- 1811
- 01:57:02,349 --> 01:57:06,218
- that they don't believe
- what happened in the past.
- 1812
- 01:57:09,789 --> 01:57:13,992
- There are movements by
- the different branches in this government
- 1813
- 01:57:13,994 --> 01:57:16,762
- that are set to push back.
- 1814
- 01:57:18,131 --> 01:57:22,768
- Oh, now it's being done,
- you know, cleverly.
- 1815
- 01:57:41,254 --> 01:57:44,122
- ♪ Mm-mm-mm ♪
- 1816
- 01:57:46,526 --> 01:57:50,128
- ♪ Mm-mm-mm ♪
- 1817
- 01:57:52,198 --> 01:57:55,467
- ♪ Mm-mm-mm ♪
- 1818
- 01:57:57,603 --> 01:58:01,506
- ♪ Mm-mm-mm ♪
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