| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| [00:44] | Your car is… 17 minutes away. | |
| [00:59] | Guess what I did today. | |
| [01:02] | I played hooky. | |
| [01:05] | Had my teaching assistant cover my two classes. | |
| [01:08] | And I went to a pub, sat by myself | |
| [01:10] | and read something that I did not have to read. | |
| [01:17] | What the hell are you doing over there? | |
| [01:26] | Where are you going? | |
| [01:28] | Not going anywhere. | |
| [01:30] | I just thought this thing takes up so much room in the closet. | |
| [01:34] | Might make more sense keeping it… | |
| [01:36] | under the bed, but… doesn’t fit. | |
| [01:39] | Really? | |
| [01:47] | Not going anywhere? | |
| [01:51] | Who do you think you’re messing with… | |
| [01:54] | Haven’t we… | |
| [01:55] | already been through this? | |
| [01:57] | I wasn’t… I needed to get away for a bit | |
| [02:00] | just to… to write and to think. | |
| [02:02] | That’s a bunch of crap, Kate. | |
| [02:04] | That is a bunch of crap! | |
| [02:08] | We both know that you don’t write. | |
| [02:10] | Okay, buying garbage on the Internet | |
| [02:12] | that you don’t need is not writing. | |
| [02:15] | Reading articles that other people wrote is not writing. | |
| [02:20] | I’m sorry. | |
| [02:22] | I should have… I should have told you, | |
| [02:24] | not surprised you. | |
| [02:27] | I just… I knew you’d be upset. | |
| [02:32] | You have any idea | |
| [02:34] | how stupid that accent makes you sound? | |
| [02:38] | Say it again. | |
| [02:43] | Say “I’m sorry,” and say it without the accent. | |
| [02:48] | I’m… sorry. | |
| [02:51] | I’m so s-sorry. | |
| [02:55] | Okay. | |
| [02:57] | You can do it. | |
| [03:00] | Let’s see what else you can do. | |
| [03:15] | No. | |
| [03:18] | No, this is Kate Martin’s husband. Who’s this? | |
| [03:21] | I’m sorry. | |
| [03:24] | Yeah, she changed her mind. | |
| [03:26] | Yeah, Kate Martin isn’t going anywhere today. | |
| [03:36] | Katie, what are you doing? | |
| [03:39] | Doesn’t matter where you go. | |
| [03:43] | I’m gonna find you… | |
| [03:46] | and I’ll bring you back here. | |
| [03:51] | I did it before. | |
| [03:54] | I’ll do it again. | |
| [05:08] | Hey, where’s Benny? | |
| [05:10] | Downstairs, I think. | |
| [05:12] | All right. | |
| [05:14] | And that’s… | |
| [05:15] | that’s an amazing gift. | |
| [05:16] | Well, she’s an amazing girl. | |
| [05:18] | Benny? | |
| [05:19] | Your sister called me three times last night. | |
| [05:21] | Hung up before I could answer. | |
| [05:23] | Something I should know about? | |
| [05:25] | You got me, but if she called you, you should call her. | |
| [05:28] | I did. I left a couple of voicemails; She never returned. | |
| [05:32] | Can’t be an alimony thing. | |
| [05:34] | I mean, it’s not an alimony thing, right? | |
| [05:36] | I have no idea, but you know Izzy. | |
| [05:38] | She’s not shy. | |
| [05:40] | If she has something important to tell you… | |
| [05:42] | Point taken. Yeah.. | |
| [05:51] | Good morning to you, too. | |
| [05:52] | Sorry. I just have a bad feeling about something. | |
| [05:55] | Well, I want to warn you. | |
| [05:56] | I-I just put Dr. Grint in your office. | |
| [05:58] | Dr. Grint from the Survivors’ Justice Project? | |
| [06:00] | Is she looking for money? | |
| [06:01] | – I have no idea. – ‘Cause now is not the time. | |
| [06:03] | Izzy’s been calling me, and I… I just have a sense | |
| [06:06] | something’s up, and it’s gonna cost me. | |
| [06:07] | All I know is she said it was important. | |
| [06:10] | Okay. | |
| [06:14] | Dr. Grint. Marian. | |
| [06:16] | For the millionth time… Marian. | |
| [06:19] | What can I do for you… Marian? | |
| [06:22] | Dr. Bull, you once told me if I ever needed a favor… | |
| [06:25] | I’ve been seeing her on and off for two years, | |
| [06:26] | urging her to get out. | |
| [06:28] | – And of course she didn’t. – Of course she didn’t. | |
| [06:30] | Now she’s being charged with murder. | |
| [06:32] | Well, that’s what happens when you kill someone. | |
| [06:34] | She’s been appointed a public defender. | |
| [06:36] | Sounds about right. | |
| [06:37] | And I was hoping you might whisper in his ear | |
| [06:40] | about juries and who to look for | |
| [06:42] | and all that good stuff that | |
| [06:43] | you’re so wonderful at. | |
| [06:44] | Happy to do it, but the truth is, | |
| [06:46] | I’m sure whoever they’ve given your client is more | |
| [06:48] | than up to the task, and I don’t need to tell you, | |
| [06:50] | the courts see a lot of these kinds of cases. | |
| [06:53] | And there’s nothing unusual or exotic about it. | |
| [06:56] | She shot him in the back. | |
| [06:59] | Okay. That makes it a touch more complicated, | |
| [07:01] | but presumably, it was self-defense, so… | |
| [07:04] | While he was fast asleep. | |
| [07:08] | That’s a tough one. | |
| [07:14] | What have we here? | |
| [07:16] | Dr. Jason Bull, this is Mark Burns. | |
| [07:18] | Mark has been appointed Kate’s public defender. | |
| [07:21] | Mark, Dr. Jason Bull. | |
| [07:23] | I’m, just here to help. It’s your show. | |
| [07:26] | Well, it’s pretty cut and dried. It’s not rocket science. | |
| [07:28] | It’s one of those stories I can pretty much | |
| [07:30] | tell you the ending of right now, but I’m happy | |
| [07:32] | to listen to anything you have to say. | |
| [07:33] | Is she with us? | |
| [07:35] | That’s the enemy. | |
| [07:38] | That’s A.D.A. Amy Lake. She’s a tough one. | |
| [07:40] | But I’ve been talking to her, | |
| [07:41] | seeing if we can’t find some common ground. | |
| [07:43] | What’s she doing here? | |
| [07:45] | Same thing I’m doing, waiting for the judge. | |
| [07:47] | The girl’s banged up pretty good. | |
| [07:48] | She’s got a couple of broken ribs and a punctured lung. | |
| [07:50] | They’re still doing some tests, but… | |
| [07:52] | they want to do the arraignment here in the hospital. | |
| [07:57] | You think I can have a few minutes with her? | |
| [07:59] | The accused, I mean? | |
| [08:01] | Of course. | |
| [08:11] | Sorry. | |
| [08:12] | I should have warned you. | |
| [08:16] | They do look somewhat alike, don’t they? | |
| [08:20] | She and her husband | |
| [08:21] | have been married almost four years. | |
| [08:23] | He taught writing at Hudson. | |
| [08:25] | Apparently, he’s one of their most popular teachers. | |
| [08:29] | It didn’t help that he was smart. | |
| [08:31] | He only hit her in places that clothing covered… | |
| [08:35] | until now. | |
| [08:37] | And she was the kind of wife… never went to the police. | |
| [08:42] | She went to the emergency room once last year. | |
| [08:46] | Paid cash, gave a false name. | |
| [08:48] | Still. | |
| [08:51] | He was sleeping. | |
| [08:52] | It’s really gonna be a tough sell. | |
| [08:57] | Why now? | |
| [09:00] | You her family? | |
| [09:02] | If she wakes up, tell her we just got the test back. | |
| [09:05] | The baby’s fine. | |
| [09:13] | Aren’t we being a little dramatic? | |
| [09:16] | You got something against hospital cafeterias? | |
| [09:18] | They serve coffee. They have… walls. | |
| [09:23] | Did you know she was pregnant? | |
| [09:25] | Nine weeks. | |
| [09:26] | Doesn’t change anything. | |
| [09:28] | She shot him in the back while he lay sleeping. | |
| [09:30] | That’s all the jury’s gonna hear. | |
| [09:32] | You ever heard of “battered woman syndrome”? | |
| [09:34] | They have a syndrome now? | |
| [09:36] | My older sister was married to a gym teacher. | |
| [09:39] | Ran the youth ministry at church. | |
| [09:42] | Chaired the big school carnival | |
| [09:43] | to raise money for cancer research. | |
| [09:46] | And when they’d fight… | |
| [09:47] | which apparently was more than anybody realized… | |
| [09:50] | he’d get her on the ground and… kick her. | |
| [09:54] | He weighed 215. | |
| [09:55] | She weighed 122. | |
| [09:57] | And one day, he kicked her too hard. | |
| [10:01] | Ruptured her spleen. | |
| [10:04] | And six hours later, she was gone. | |
| [10:07] | I’m sorry. | |
| [10:08] | But I know that you know that has nothing to do with this. | |
| [10:11] | I’m telling you, I have this handled. | |
| [10:13] | I’ve been huddling with the A.D.A. | |
| [10:15] | They’re gonna try her for first-degree murder… | |
| [10:16] | Is that your applause line? | |
| [10:18] | Reducible to second degree manslaughter, which means | |
| [10:21] | that all we have to do is create some kind of doubt, | |
| [10:24] | and then we’ve got a 90% chance that the jury’s gonna convict | |
| [10:26] | on the lesser plea, and she’s looking | |
| [10:28] | at seven to eight years instead of life. | |
| [10:29] | You’ve given up on her already. | |
| [10:31] | Her being found innocent isn’t even on your menu. | |
| [10:34] | She isn’t innocent. She shot him in the back | |
| [10:36] | while he was sleeping. | |
| [10:38] | Have you spoken with her? | |
| [10:39] | Have you conferred with your client? | |
| [10:40] | No. She’s been sedated, but what is it | |
| [10:42] | that you think she would say? | |
| [10:44] | You’re fired. | |
| [10:46] | Excuse me? | |
| [10:48] | Okay. Two things. | |
| [10:50] | I didn’t ask for this job, | |
| [10:51] | You’re not the one who hired me. | |
| [10:53] | Trust me. By the time you get downstairs, | |
| [10:56] | I’ll make sure you’re fired, | |
| [10:58] | unless you go to the judge and you demand | |
| [11:00] | that she be tried on first- degree murder charges, | |
| [11:03] | only first-degree. | |
| [11:06] | It’s all or nothing. | |
| [11:08] | You’re out of your mind. | |
| [11:09] | And you’re out of your depth. | |
| [11:12] | And you’re fired. | |
| [11:14] | Fine by me. | |
| [11:17] | I’m sure it is. | |
| [11:24] | Benjamin Colón. | |
| [11:26] | It’s time to go to work. | |
| [11:41] | This happy couple is Kate and Brian Martin. | |
| [11:44] | He was a writing professor at Hudson College. | |
| [11:46] | She had her master’s and was working on her first novel. | |
| [11:49] | In addition to being a serial adulterer, | |
| [11:51] | Kate claims he physically and psychologically abused her | |
| [11:55] | for at least the past three years. | |
| [11:57] | Last week, while eight weeks pregnant | |
| [11:59] | with their first child, she shot him in the back while he slept. | |
| [12:05] | Then she went to sleep while he bled out next to her. | |
| [12:08] | God. | |
| [12:09] | Sounds horrible. | |
| [12:10] | – I gather she’s our client? – Yes, she is. | |
| [12:13] | And it is horrible. | |
| [12:14] | It’s also daunting from a legal perspective. | |
| [12:17] | I mean, how do you prove that shooting someone | |
| [12:19] | while they slept is, in fact, self-defense? | |
| [12:22] | Between you and me, I don’t think you can. | |
| [12:24] | Your opinion notwithstanding, Bull believes she’s innocent. | |
| [12:28] | In fact, he believes it so strongly | |
| [12:30] | that he and I argued in front of a judge yesterday | |
| [12:32] | that the only charge that the jury should consider | |
| [12:36] | is first-degree murder. | |
| [12:37] | No lesser charges, | |
| [12:39] | no manslaughter, no assault with a deadly weapon… | |
| [12:42] | it’s all or nothing. | |
| [12:44] | Life in prison or no jail time at all. | |
| [12:47] | Right now there is precious little evidence to offer | |
| [12:49] | with regard to Brian’s propensity for violence. | |
| [12:52] | Kate didn’t talk about it with anyone. | |
| [12:54] | So I need the two of you to drill down | |
| [12:57] | on Brian’s romantic life | |
| [12:59] | and find some other victims… | |
| [13:00] | victims willing to testify on Kate’s behalf. | |
| [13:03] | Finding exes online? That’s my area. | |
| [13:06] | Can I ask a highly inappropriate question? | |
| [13:09] | How much of this has to do with Bull’s sister? | |
| [13:13] | How did you know about Bull’s sister? | |
| [13:15] | I came here from the FBI. | |
| [13:17] | I wasn’t about to change jobs | |
| [13:19] | without knowing everything I could about my employer. | |
| [13:21] | Wait a minute. | |
| [13:23] | What do you guys know that I don’t know? | |
| [13:25] | I got to go. I’m meeting Bull. | |
| [13:29] | And I have a jury pool list | |
| [13:31] | I need to pick up from the county clerk. | |
| [13:35] | Danny? | |
| [13:37] | You have a keyboard. Use it. | |
| [13:39] | Professor Jameson. | |
| [13:42] | Professor Jameson. | |
| [13:45] | You failed me. | |
| [13:47] | I did nothing of the kind, Mr. Palmer. | |
| [13:48] | You failed yourself. All I did was record | |
| [13:51] | and aggregate an average of your grades in my class. | |
| [13:53] | Grades that you gave me. | |
| [13:55] | Grades that I’m convinced reflect your biases | |
| [13:56] | far more than they reflect my work. | |
| [13:58] | You’re entitled to your opinion, Mr. Palmer. | |
| [14:00] | It’s not my opinion. | |
| [14:01] | I got A’s in my other two courses. | |
| [14:04] | Well, I can’t speak to your work in other courses, | |
| [14:06] | but in mine, your work was deficient, | |
| [14:08] | and your grade reflects that. | |
| [14:09] | And by the way, I don’t take kindly | |
| [14:11] | to being shanghaied in the hallway. | |
| [14:13] | Well, I tried for a week to get an appointment with your office, | |
| [14:15] | but no one returned my calls. | |
| [14:16] | I can’t imagine why. | |
| [14:18] | Is it just that I work for a trial scientist? | |
| [14:21] | Or is there more? | |
| [14:23] | What does it matter? | |
| [14:24] | I’ll almost certainly never see you again, | |
| [14:26] | and you’ll almost certainly never see me. | |
| [14:27] | I prefer to focus on the positive. | |
| [14:30] | I prefer to focus on that. | |
| [14:33] | Good day, Mr. Palmer. | |
| [14:37] | She told me she left once before. | |
| [14:39] | Headed down to Florida. | |
| [14:40] | Within a week, he found her, begged her to return, | |
| [14:43] | said that it would be different, that he had changed. | |
| [14:45] | Apparently, on their whole car trip back to New York, | |
| [14:48] | he was wonderful… funny, charming, loving. | |
| [14:51] | And then as soon as they got back | |
| [14:53] | in the apartment, he broke her collarbone. | |
| [14:55] | Boy, I’d love to get somebody to testify to that… | |
| [14:57] | a doctor or insurance adjustor… | |
| [14:59] | They don’t exist. | |
| [15:01] | He covered his tracks very well. | |
| [15:03] | And because she loved him, she helped. | |
| [15:06] | And having fled once, she realized… | |
| [15:09] | running wouldn’t solve anything. | |
| [15:11] | That no matter where she went, | |
| [15:13] | he’d find her and keep hurting her, | |
| [15:16] | and, by extension, hurt the baby. | |
| [15:18] | So… | |
| [15:20] | no witnesses, no hospital records. | |
| [15:22] | How do we get the jury to understand | |
| [15:24] | what her life was like? | |
| [15:25] | For that matter, what kind of jurors are we looking for? | |
| [15:28] | It’s actually easier for me to tell you | |
| [15:29] | who we’re not looking for. | |
| [15:31] | We’re not looking for people who are rigid and rule-bound. | |
| [15:34] | They’re just gonna follow the law | |
| [15:35] | and send our lady to prison for life. | |
| [15:37] | Forgive me, but how do you find something like that out? | |
| [15:40] | How do you see if a person is rigid or rule-bound? | |
| [15:43] | It’s all about the questions. | |
| [15:45] | It’s Christmas morning, and your kids are opening up presents. | |
| [15:48] | Lots of toys to put together. | |
| [15:50] | Anybody here actually look at the instructions? | |
| [15:55] | Your Honor, we’d like to thank and excuse this juror. | |
| [15:58] | Once we weed out the rule-bound, | |
| [16:00] | we need to identify folks with strong survival instincts, | |
| [16:04] | people who listen to their intuition | |
| [16:05] | when it comes to dangerous situations | |
| [16:08] | and act on it without fear of the consequences. | |
| [16:11] | You’re on the street, and you see an older man | |
| [16:13] | with a child who seems frightened and is pulling away. | |
| [16:16] | What do you do? | |
| [16:17] | What do you mean? | |
| [16:18] | How do you know it’s not the kid’s father? | |
| [16:20] | Maybe the kid’s being difficult? | |
| [16:22] | I’m not sure there’s anything to do. | |
| [16:24] | Your Honor, we move to strike this juror. | |
| [16:26] | We’re looking for people who, | |
| [16:28] | when confronted with a potentially dangerous situation, | |
| [16:31] | don’t hesitate, don’t ask if it’s the right move… | |
| [16:34] | they just act, like Kate did. | |
| [16:37] | And you, sir, what do you do? | |
| [16:38] | If I’m reading it as a dangerous situation, | |
| [16:40] | maybe I pretend to be the kid’s dad. | |
| [16:42] | Get him away from the guy so I can find the real parents. | |
| [16:45] | This juror’s acceptable to the defense, Your Honor. | |
| [16:54] | Nice to see you again, Kate. | |
| [16:56] | You’re looking better. | |
| [16:57] | I’m guessing they’re weaning you off the sedatives? | |
| [17:00] | I was never on a lot to begin with | |
| [17:02] | because of the baby. | |
| [17:05] | Kate, remember… | |
| [17:08] | you did what you had to do. | |
| [17:12] | You can’t let go of that. | |
| [17:22] | A.D.A. Lake. | |
| [17:24] | Dr. Bull. | |
| [17:26] | I have been staring at you from across the courtroom, | |
| [17:29] | and last night I finally got the chance | |
| [17:32] | to do a little homework and find out something about you. | |
| [17:34] | A.D.A. Lake, | |
| [17:36] | you’ve been assigned to the Domestic Violence unit | |
| [17:38] | for the past 15 years. | |
| [17:40] | You’ve made a career out of putting abusers away, | |
| [17:43] | protecting people like my client. | |
| [17:46] | What’s wrong with this picture? | |
| [17:47] | Nothing’s wrong with this picture, Dr. Bull. | |
| [17:51] | Sometimes it’s harder than you might think | |
| [17:53] | to tell the abused from the abuser. | |
| [18:03] | Sometimes it’s harder than you might think. | |
| [18:17] | My God. | |
| [18:18] | His whole family is here. | |
| [18:20] | Maybe I made a mistake. | |
| [18:21] | Maybe I should have let you call my family. | |
| [18:25] | It’s okay. | |
| [18:26] | We’ll make some calls after court. | |
| [18:32] | It’s been said | |
| [18:34] | that every marriage is its own secret society, | |
| [18:37] | with its own rules and customs and understandings. | |
| [18:40] | Was abuse part of the Martin marriage? | |
| [18:43] | Yes, it was… | |
| [18:45] | on both sides. | |
| [18:47] | That’s not what happened at all. | |
| [18:49] | Were there infidelities? | |
| [18:51] | Yes, as we will prove, on both sides. | |
| [18:55] | That woman certainly can spin a yarn, can’t she? | |
| [18:58] | Officer Levy, | |
| [19:00] | can you please tell us about your visit | |
| [19:02] | to the Martins’ home some two years ago | |
| [19:05] | on April 8, 2016? | |
| [19:06] | A noise complaint was called into the station. | |
| [19:09] | I responded. | |
| [19:10] | And what did you find? | |
| [19:11] | I arrived on scene, where the defendant and her husband | |
| [19:14] | had clearly been fighting. | |
| [19:16] | Broken pictures, knickknacks on the floor, | |
| [19:18] | laptop computer looked like it’d been thrown against the wall. | |
| [19:21] | They had apparently calmed down prior to my arrival. | |
| [19:24] | And both assured me everything was okay. | |
| [19:27] | While I didn’t see any evidence of physical abuse, | |
| [19:30] | I followed protocol, separated the defendant and her husband, | |
| [19:33] | urged Mrs. Martin to speak candidly to me. | |
| [19:36] | It’s a tiny apartment… Brian could hear everything. | |
| [19:39] | And what did she say? | |
| [19:41] | She appeared calm. | |
| [19:42] | Said it was a misunderstanding. | |
| [19:44] | And what happened the next day? | |
| [19:46] | Mr. Martin reached out to me at the station. | |
| [19:49] | He was interested in filing a restraining order | |
| [19:51] | against Mrs. Martin. | |
| [19:56] | I thought it couldn’t get any worse, | |
| [19:57] | but it actually has. | |
| [20:00] | What restraining order is he talking about? | |
| [20:03] | I-I have no idea. | |
| [20:04] | Danny here. | |
| [20:05] | Look, no restraining order was ever actually issued. | |
| [20:08] | And no official report was filed with the station house. | |
| [20:11] | So are you saying | |
| [20:13] | that the victim was afraid of his wife, | |
| [20:15] | that he felt the need to protect himself? | |
| [20:17] | Objection, Your Honor. | |
| [20:18] | There is no restraining order, | |
| [20:21] | not that we’ve been able to determine, | |
| [20:22] | and not that the prosecution offered in discovery. | |
| [20:26] | Can I answer? | |
| [20:27] | Go ahead. | |
| [20:29] | I never said Mr. Martin actually filed the order. | |
| [20:32] | I only said that he inquired about the process. | |
| [20:34] | I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear about that. | |
| [20:36] | Bearer of bad news here. | |
| [20:38] | The jurors find Officer Levy credible, | |
| [20:39] | and they’re buying into the idea | |
| [20:41] | that Brian could have been afraid of Kate. | |
| [20:43] | It’s all feeding into the prosecution’s story. | |
| [20:46] | Officer Levy, | |
| [20:48] | isn’t it true that sometimes people seek out | |
| [20:50] | restraining orders for duplicitous reasons? | |
| [20:54] | People can and do abuse the system, sure. | |
| [20:57] | And isn’t it true that sometimes abusive partners | |
| [21:00] | will go through the motions of taking out a restraining order | |
| [21:04] | against their victims to… create a false narrative | |
| [21:08] | or to neutralize a situation | |
| [21:10] | should they ever be taken to court? | |
| [21:11] | Objection. | |
| [21:12] | That is not a question. | |
| [21:14] | Jury heard it, though. | |
| [21:16] | Ask a question, Mr. Colón. | |
| [21:18] | Are restraining orders ever sought as a preemptive defense? | |
| [21:22] | So, in case the abuser | |
| [21:25] | ever got caught, they could point | |
| [21:26] | to the order and say that they were defending themselves. | |
| [21:29] | Sure. | |
| [21:31] | I’ve heard of that happening. | |
| [21:33] | Not a lot, but… | |
| [21:35] | But you are aware of it, aren’t you? | |
| [21:38] | I am. | |
| [21:39] | Thank you, Officer Levy. | |
| [21:41] | No further questions. | |
| [21:45] | Good job, Benny. | |
| [21:46] | We finally picked up a juror. | |
| [21:48] | One down, 11 to go. | |
| [21:55] | A girl’s first day in court… a memory I’ll always cherish. | |
| [22:00] | And by the way, I was never unfaithful | |
| [22:02] | to my husband, and I never struck him. | |
| [22:07] | It’s easy to get discouraged. | |
| [22:09] | Just remember, nobody’s heard our side yet. | |
| [22:13] | Okay? | |
| [22:23] | So, you and Izzy connect yet? | |
| [22:26] | Nope. I left her three messages. | |
| [22:30] | I guess whatever the reason for her call was, | |
| [22:33] | she decided it wasn’t so important after all. | |
| [22:36] | Well, no matter what, I’m your guy. | |
| [22:40] | Okay. | |
| [22:42] | I don’t remember asking for a loyalty oath, | |
| [22:44] | but I appreciate the gesture. | |
| [22:47] | You know… | |
| [22:49] | I’ve never felt less prepared to do my job | |
| [22:52] | than I did today. | |
| [22:53] | We know precious little about this woman. | |
| [22:56] | Now wait a second. | |
| [22:57] | Dr. Grint… Marian… | |
| [22:59] | from the Survivors’ Justice Project, she… | |
| [23:01] | Marian is not a lawyer. She’s not a detective. | |
| [23:03] | She is a doctor of social work. | |
| [23:07] | She knows what Kate tells her. | |
| [23:10] | I know you trust her. | |
| [23:11] | I know she did everything she could to help your sister. | |
| [23:15] | I don’t know. | |
| [23:17] | Two and a half years and all these supposed beatings, | |
| [23:20] | not a-a single doctor to testify for us? | |
| [23:23] | Not a single hospital bill? Not a single friend? | |
| [23:26] | Everybody’s working. Everybody’s trying. | |
| [23:28] | I know. I know. | |
| [23:30] | Like I said, I’m your guy. | |
| [23:34] | But I need you to know | |
| [23:36] | that I don’t have a lot to work with. | |
| [23:39] | And I just don’t want to let you down. | |
| [23:53] | I just went through the witness statement | |
| [23:54] | for Alyssa Bell, Brian’s current teaching assistant | |
| [23:57] | and the woman he was having an affair with when Kate shot him. | |
| [23:59] | According to her, he wasn’t violent, | |
| [24:02] | he never struck her, barely even raised his voice. | |
| [24:05] | Not to pile on, | |
| [24:06] | but I’ve gone through all of his social media | |
| [24:08] | and even hacked his e-mail. | |
| [24:09] | The guy was clearly a dog. | |
| [24:11] | I mean, every semester, he would get a new T.A., | |
| [24:13] | and by “get,” I’m pretty sure you guys know what I mean. | |
| [24:17] | But I guess I’d be lying if I said there was even a hint | |
| [24:20] | that anyone was afraid of him | |
| [24:22] | or concerned for their physical safety. | |
| [24:24] | I was able to get a set of medical files | |
| [24:27] | from the walk-in clinic that she told us she went to | |
| [24:29] | in the fall for her collarbone injury. | |
| [24:31] | The problem is, is the patient name she used | |
| [24:34] | when she checked in is Jane Doe, | |
| [24:36] | and the doctor who attended to her no longer works there. | |
| [24:41] | Any other discouraging news on the investigative front? | |
| [24:48] | Excellent. | |
| [24:50] | We need to talk strategy for tomorrow. | |
| [24:51] | The A.D.A. is gonna call Brian’s sister to the stand. | |
| [24:54] | – Surprise, surprise. – We need to get ahead of it. | |
| [24:57] | Counteract what we know is gonna be emotional testimony | |
| [25:00] | without making it look like we are attacking a woman | |
| [25:02] | who just lost her brother. | |
| [25:04] | You think she knew about Brian’s abuse? | |
| [25:07] | Judging from the way she and everyone else in her family | |
| [25:09] | are glaring at Kate… | |
| [25:11] | I don’t think she had a clue. | |
| [25:13] | Can’t we use that in our favor? | |
| [25:15] | How do you mean? | |
| [25:16] | She’s just like the jurors. | |
| [25:18] | In her mind, there’s no abuse. | |
| [25:20] | There’s no possible justification for what Kate did. | |
| [25:23] | But if we can educate her, | |
| [25:25] | show her while she’s on the stand | |
| [25:28] | what she didn’t know about her brother, | |
| [25:29] | make her see the truth, | |
| [25:31] | the jurors are gonna see it, too. | |
| [25:34] | That’s a nice plan, Chunk. | |
| [25:35] | Unfortunately, we have no evidence | |
| [25:37] | to support any of Kate’s assertions. | |
| [25:40] | Can’t just say things to the woman | |
| [25:42] | without being able to back them up. | |
| [25:45] | Well, I’ll get to work on this list of exes. | |
| [25:47] | Yeah, I’ll keep hacking away. | |
| [25:49] | Maybe one of the T.A.s texted a friend | |
| [25:51] | or their mother… something we can use. | |
| [26:07] | You gonna be okay? | |
| [26:09] | No. | |
| [26:13] | They’re all correct, you know. | |
| [26:17] | I’ve done a stupid thing. | |
| [26:20] | Relied on a faulty piece of calculus. | |
| [26:23] | Helping this woman will not change the fact | |
| [26:25] | that I did nothing to help my own sister. | |
| [26:30] | It’s true. You failed at being God. | |
| [26:33] | You are responsible for everyone and everything. | |
| [26:35] | Just indulge me. | |
| [26:36] | Let me wallow in my own self pity. | |
| [26:39] | You know what, Jason? | |
| [26:40] | Your sister was an adult. | |
| [26:42] | She made her own decisions, | |
| [26:44] | her own choices about who to be with. | |
| [26:46] | And nothing you could have done would have changed that. | |
| [26:49] | You loved her. | |
| [26:52] | And that is really your only obligation | |
| [26:54] | as a brother. | |
| [26:56] | As for our client, you can only do what you can do. | |
| [26:59] | She’s giving you very little to work with. | |
| [27:03] | Get some sleep. | |
| [27:05] | Tomorrow is gonna come | |
| [27:07] | whether we’re ready for it or not. | |
| [27:11] | And as a brilliant trial scientist | |
| [27:14] | once said to me, if anyone tells you they know | |
| [27:18] | how a criminal proceeding is gonna end, | |
| [27:20] | they’ve never been to more than one. | |
| [27:23] | See you in the morning. | |
| [27:30] | My brother had a really good heart. | |
| [27:32] | He loved his wife. | |
| [27:34] | He always spoke so highly of her. | |
| [27:36] | It was like he was constantly selling her to us. | |
| [27:39] | I was like, “We already bought her.” | |
| [27:41] | We love her.” | |
| [27:43] | I just… | |
| [27:48] | I don’t understand. | |
| [27:52] | Objection, Your Honor. | |
| [27:54] | Relevance? | |
| [27:55] | Take your seat, Mr. Colón. | |
| [27:58] | You may continue. | |
| [28:00] | What do you mean? | |
| [28:01] | What don’t you understand? | |
| [28:02] | All of it. | |
| [28:03] | How you can say you love a man and then kill him. | |
| [28:07] | Can’t say you love him | |
| [28:09] | knowing you watched him bleed out on your bed. | |
| [28:13] | Now, Kate and Brian | |
| [28:16] | were married almost four years. | |
| [28:18] | In all that time, | |
| [28:19] | how often would you say you visited their apartment? | |
| [28:23] | Actually, I’ve never been to their apartment. | |
| [28:26] | Really? | |
| [28:27] | I find that surprising. He was your brother. | |
| [28:31] | Well, they lived in Brooklyn. | |
| [28:33] | It’s hard to get to from where we are. | |
| [28:35] | But they invited you, right? | |
| [28:37] | Tried to get you over? | |
| [28:39] | Actually, I’m not sure that they did. | |
| [28:41] | I mean, he was always talking about | |
| [28:43] | how small the apartment was, | |
| [28:45] | and-and I’m not sure that they felt comfortable | |
| [28:48] | entertaining there. | |
| [28:49] | We had a house. | |
| [28:50] | But they visited you. Am I correct? | |
| [28:53] | All the time. | |
| [28:55] | Brian loves… | |
| [28:57] | loved my daughters, his nieces. | |
| [29:00] | He and Kate would play with them for hours. | |
| [29:03] | I always thought when the time was right, | |
| [29:05] | they would have a beautiful family of their own. | |
| [29:08] | She really had no idea. | |
| [29:09] | No. | |
| [29:11] | What about vacations? Did you all vacation together? | |
| [29:14] | We’d try, but Brian’s schedule was so unpredictable. | |
| [29:17] | Something was always coming up. | |
| [29:19] | What about the Hawaii vacation last summer? | |
| [29:24] | They had to cancel. Um, something at the university. | |
| [29:27] | What if I told you Brian canceled | |
| [29:30] | because he didn’t want anyone seeing Kate in a bathing suit | |
| [29:33] | with all her various bruises and injuries on display? | |
| [29:36] | Objection. No foundation. | |
| [29:38] | Your Honor, I have a good faith basis | |
| [29:40] | for asking the question. | |
| [29:44] | Answer the question, please. | |
| [29:46] | Well, that’s just not true. | |
| [29:48] | I-I don’t, I don’t understand what you’re saying. | |
| [29:51] | He-he had a meeting come up, a lecture, something. | |
| [29:54] | What about the hiking trip last fall? | |
| [29:58] | What if I told you that Brian fractured Kate’s clavicle | |
| [30:01] | just two days before the trip? | |
| [30:03] | Objection. Facts not in evidence. | |
| [30:05] | Your Honor, I’d like to submit | |
| [30:07] | the following Chelsea West Walk-In Clinic records | |
| [30:12] | under the name Jane Doe, | |
| [30:13] | which our client was just able to provide us with this morning. | |
| [30:17] | I’ve got medical records, X-rays. | |
| [30:20] | May I please show the witness? | |
| [30:22] | I’ll allow it, subject to future verification. | |
| [30:32] | Well, that’s fine. I… | |
| [30:34] | But I don’t know what I’m looking at here. | |
| [30:36] | It’s what your brother did to his wife. | |
| [30:38] | Objection. No one has authenticated those images. | |
| [30:41] | My apologies, Your Honor. I’m getting ahead of myself. | |
| [30:44] | Now, let’s just talk about… the long sleeves in the summer. | |
| [30:48] | The fact that you never met Kate’s family. | |
| [30:50] | The fact that Kate never spoke | |
| [30:52] | for herself when Brian was there… | |
| [30:55] | and he was always there. | |
| [30:56] | Perhaps ’cause he was afraid of what she might say. | |
| [31:00] | What she’d tell you. | |
| [31:02] | What she’d show you. | |
| [31:04] | Objection, Your Honor. | |
| [31:05] | They were a beautiful couple. He adored her. | |
| [31:09] | Your Honor, those are not questions. | |
| [31:11] | Counselor, ask the witness a question | |
| [31:14] | and give her a chance to answer. | |
| [31:16] | Actually, I have no further questions, Your Honor. | |
| [31:19] | Wow, Bull. You and Benny just doubled our green jurors. | |
| [31:22] | Meaning we have two jurors out of 12. | |
| [31:25] | We’re like a runaway train. | |
| [31:27] | So, in all your time together, | |
| [31:29] | you never saw a propensity to violence? | |
| [31:31] | He never lost his temper? Um, never made you feel afraid? | |
| [31:37] | Okay. Well, um, I appreciate | |
| [31:39] | you taking the time to speak with me. | |
| [31:41] | Enjoy your new home. Enjoy Florida. | |
| [31:44] | I found one more, and she’s local. | |
| [31:47] | Hailee Sparks. | |
| [31:49] | She dropped out of the grad program a couple years ago, | |
| [31:51] | transferred to a different school. | |
| [31:53] | Cross your fingers. | |
| [31:55] | Maybe he scared her away. | |
| [31:59] | We made some progress today. | |
| [32:01] | I know. I felt it. | |
| [32:03] | What’s our next move? | |
| [32:07] | You’re our next move. | |
| [32:11] | It’s time for us to tell our story, | |
| [32:13] | and we have no one to tell it but you. | |
| [32:15] | But isn’t that a risky thing to do? | |
| [32:18] | I’ve always read that you try | |
| [32:19] | to never put an accused murderer on the stand. | |
| [32:22] | That’s true. | |
| [32:23] | But we really have no choice. | |
| [32:25] | My best guess is | |
| [32:26] | we have two jurors on our side. | |
| [32:28] | If no one in the jury room | |
| [32:30] | is able to-to sway them during deliberations… | |
| [32:34] | best case is you’re looking at a hung jury and a mistrial. | |
| [32:37] | With ten jurors ready to convict, | |
| [32:39] | the district attorney’s office is | |
| [32:41] | definitely going to move to retry, | |
| [32:43] | which means you spend a year in prison… pregnant… | |
| [32:48] | having watched your baby | |
| [32:49] | taken from you and put into foster care. | |
| [32:55] | You testifying is the best chance we have | |
| [32:57] | to change some minds. | |
| [32:59] | I think we have to take it. | |
| [33:11] | Did you know your husband Brian was having an affair? | |
| [33:15] | I assumed he was having an affair. | |
| [33:17] | I realized shortly after our first anniversary | |
| [33:20] | that he was always having affairs. | |
| [33:23] | Affairs were his oxygen. | |
| [33:25] | I think they made him feel better | |
| [33:28] | about just being the most popular professor, | |
| [33:30] | instead of the acclaimed novelist, | |
| [33:32] | which is really what he always wanted to be. | |
| [33:34] | In her opening statement, the A.D.A. mentioned | |
| [33:36] | that you were also having extramarital affairs. | |
| [33:40] | Is that true? | |
| [33:42] | Not only have I never cheated on my husband, | |
| [33:45] | my husband is actually the only man I’ve ever been with. | |
| [33:49] | I met him when I was 19, and I was instantly besotted. | |
| [33:54] | I love that word. | |
| [33:55] | Brian taught me that word. | |
| [33:57] | So let me ask you the million-dollar question. | |
| [34:00] | If you knew your husband was having an affair, | |
| [34:03] | if he beat you, as you claim, why not leave? | |
| [34:08] | Because I loved him. | |
| [34:11] | And… maybe I… | |
| [34:14] | I hated me a little bit. | |
| [34:18] | And also, because he’d always sense when it was too much, | |
| [34:21] | and he’d tell me he was sorry, | |
| [34:23] | that he was putting a stop to it, and I believed him. | |
| [34:27] | Our ten to two just | |
| [34:28] | became nine to three. | |
| [34:30] | But isn’t it true that you tried to leave once before? | |
| [34:33] | Yes. I left once. | |
| [34:36] | Why? What happened between you | |
| [34:39] | that finally made you willing to leave? | |
| [34:41] | He was drunk. He came home. | |
| [34:45] | Told me I was boring. | |
| [34:48] | He told me I was a boring person, | |
| [34:51] | a boring woman, | |
| [34:54] | and most of all… | |
| [34:57] | a boring writer. | |
| [34:59] | And that was the straw that broke the camel’s back? | |
| [35:04] | No. | |
| [35:06] | He, punched me in the vagina. | |
| [35:09] | Objection. | |
| [35:11] | Your Honor, this woman, this murderer | |
| [35:12] | is telling stories about a dead man | |
| [35:14] | that no one can corroborate. | |
| [35:16] | Sit down, please. | |
| [35:17] | You’ll have your chance to cross-examine. | |
| [35:20] | Continue, Mr. Colón. | |
| [35:24] | What happened? | |
| [35:26] | Um… he… found me, | |
| [35:28] | drove me home, promised to change. | |
| [35:32] | Broke my collarbone. | |
| [35:34] | Can you tell the jury | |
| [35:36] | what compelled you to leave this last time? | |
| [35:42] | A hundred things. | |
| [35:44] | A million things. | |
| [35:47] | And then I… I found out that I was eight weeks pregnant. | |
| [35:53] | No further questions, Your Honor. | |
| [35:55] | I’m staring at eight red and four green. | |
| [36:00] | It’s not good enough. | |
| [36:03] | I know you feel I sent you out there half-naked, | |
| [36:05] | but for what it’s worth, you acquitted yourself beautifully. | |
| [36:10] | She acquitted herself beautifully. | |
| [36:11] | I only wish it were enough. | |
| [36:13] | Yeah, I know what you mean. | |
| [36:15] | If only there were one other person, | |
| [36:17] | someone who would testify | |
| [36:18] | that this guy was genuinely dangerous. | |
| [36:20] | Actually, there is. | |
| [36:23] | Two years ago, I T.A.’d his class. | |
| [36:25] | Helped with lectures, small groups, that sort of thing. | |
| [36:29] | He was charming, flirty… aggressively so. | |
| [36:33] | I knew he was married, I knew it was wrong, | |
| [36:37] | but I started sleeping with him anyway. | |
| [36:40] | I told myself | |
| [36:42] | I didn’t really have a choice. | |
| [36:43] | He was on the faculty board in charge of my scholarship, | |
| [36:46] | grading my thesis. | |
| [36:48] | It was easier to just go along with it. | |
| [36:52] | I wish I had been smarter, stronger. | |
| [36:55] | Objection. Relevance? | |
| [36:57] | Overruled. Continue, please. | |
| [37:00] | Did you ever have occasion to meet with Mrs. Martin | |
| [37:03] | during your relationship with her husband? | |
| [37:05] | I did. Sort of. | |
| [37:08] | There was this one night. It was winter. | |
| [37:11] | I went back to the office late, which I never did. | |
| [37:14] | I had left my laptop there. | |
| [37:16] | Anyway, there’s an outer office | |
| [37:18] | where I worked and an inner office where Brian worked. | |
| [37:22] | And as I unlocked the front door, I could hear him in there. | |
| [37:26] | And I could hear a woman’s voice, as well. | |
| [37:28] | So, anyway, I didn’t flip on the light, | |
| [37:31] | didn’t do anything. | |
| [37:33] | Just stood there in the doorway. | |
| [37:35] | They were yelling, fighting. | |
| [37:39] | Brian had this tone. I had never heard it before. | |
| [37:43] | It was… it was so vicious. | |
| [37:46] | He was calling her names, | |
| [37:48] | calling her “stupid,” calling her his “bitch wife.” | |
| [37:53] | And then the woman was crying, | |
| [37:55] | telling him she was going to go to the police. | |
| [37:58] | And then he laughed, and then… | |
| [38:01] | there was this sound. | |
| [38:03] | I didn’t know if he punched her or if he kicked her, | |
| [38:06] | but you could hear him make contact, | |
| [38:09] | and you could hear her moan. | |
| [38:11] | And then I heard him | |
| [38:12] | tell her that if she ever went to the police, he’d kill her. | |
| [38:15] | And what did you do? | |
| [38:18] | God. | |
| [38:20] | I did nothing. | |
| [38:22] | I was just kind of frozen. | |
| [38:24] | And then, like, a second later, | |
| [38:26] | the inner door office opens, and it’s Brian, | |
| [38:28] | and he sees me standing there, | |
| [38:29] | and I must have just had this look on my face. | |
| [38:32] | Why? What did he do? | |
| [38:34] | He just blew by me, just disappeared, | |
| [38:38] | through the door, down the hall, just left the building. | |
| [38:41] | And what did you do? | |
| [38:44] | Once I knew he was gone, I called out. | |
| [38:48] | I didn’t leave the doorway, but I called out. | |
| [38:52] | I asked if whoever was in there was all right, | |
| [38:54] | and she said she was, | |
| [38:57] | so I grabbed my laptop and I left. | |
| [39:00] | Next morning, I withdrew from school. | |
| [39:03] | Never saw Brian again. | |
| [39:06] | And I’m so, so sorry. | |
| [39:21] | What you feeling, boss? | |
| [39:23] | Nine days. | |
| [39:25] | We certainly know they thought about it, struggled with it. | |
| [39:31] | That’s all we know. | |
| [39:34] | Why did I plead with that judge | |
| [39:35] | to disallow manslaughter or any other lesser charge? | |
| [39:38] | What possessed me to go for all or nothing? | |
| [39:41] | I should have left those jurors a door to walk through. | |
| [39:46] | Okay. | |
| [39:47] | But I think you need to pull yourself together, Bull. | |
| [39:50] | That girl is depending on you. | |
| [39:54] | I know. | |
| [39:56] | I know you know. | |
| [40:00] | Good afternoon, Dr. Bull, Mr. Colón, | |
| [40:03] | Dr. Grint. | |
| [40:07] | I’m sorry. I… I can’t stop shaking. | |
| [40:11] | Here. | |
| [40:15] | Hold on to me. | |
| [40:21] | That’s better, isn’t it? | |
| [40:24] | Now you just hang on and don’t let go, ’cause I’m here. | |
| [40:28] | This thing’s gonna go one of two ways. | |
| [40:32] | Either it’s all been one big bad dream | |
| [40:34] | and you’re about to become a free woman, | |
| [40:36] | in which case I’m gonna take you for a walk, | |
| [40:39] | because walking is very good for pregnant women, you know. | |
| [40:44] | My sister told me that. | |
| [40:48] | Or… | |
| [40:51] | if, for some reason, things don’t… go our way in there… | |
| [40:58] | well, you’re not rid of me, ’cause… | |
| [41:01] | we’re just gonna appeal the living daylights | |
| [41:02] | out of this thing. | |
| [41:04] | I mean, you are gonna be so sick of me. | |
| [41:06] | Not possible. | |
| [41:09] | You’ll see. | |
| [41:11] | I’m very unusual. | |
| [41:13] | I’m actually an acquired dislike. | |
| [41:32] | We the jury find the defendant, | |
| [41:35] | Kate Martin… | |
| [41:38] | not guilty of murder in the first degree. | |
| [41:47] | Thank you for your service. | |
| [41:48] | This court is adjourned. | |
| [42:09] | Good call on | |
| [42:10] | the all-or-nothing strategy. | |
| [42:12] | Hey, when you’ve been doing this as long as I have… | |
| [42:18] | And you should reach out to your family. | |
| [42:21] | You’re gonna need them, now more than ever. | |
| [42:34] | It’s okay. Let him go. |