Previously on Boston LegaI.
Miss CoIson, your firm took this case.
If Edwin Poole lacks capacity to try it, then it falls to you.
Me? l don't practice criminaI Iaw.
You keep taIking about a system of ruIes and reguIations. l'm in this for my Iife here.
l wiII give you the very best defense l know how...
but l wiII not aIIow myseIf to be in this for you.
- lt's hard, isn't it? - What is?
- To reconciIe what we do and who we are, sometimes. - l'm just doing a job.
SaIIy has given me some information which l'm ethicaIIy required to attack you with.
- But l never said- - l'm taIking, Mike. - AIan-
- l'm taIking, SaIIy. - May I speak with you a moment?
- l don't want to speak with you. - lf l toId you-
l do not want to speak with you. Can you pIease waIk away?
We either go forward or go in opposite directions because l don't Iike where we are now.
l think l'II just move forward.
Suspects were first observed at approximateIy 1 0:30 p.m....
across the street from the station house.
Robin and Catwoman stood guard as Batman soaped an unoccupied police vehicle.
S.U.V., Your Honor. An egregious gas guzzIer, and fiIthy, by the way.
Continue, Offcer.
Officer Brody and l approached. An aItercation ensued.
We thought they were hooIigans dressed in costume.
- As the ViIIage PeopIe perhaps. - Hmm.
Suspects then attempted to evade apprehension by discharging one or more eggs in our direction.
Charges are vandaIism, resisting arrest and pandering.
Pandering? Our onIy tricks were in conjunction with our treating.
- And l do not Iook Iike a pimp. - You Iook Iike an idiot.
- The cat's a known prostitute, Your Honor. - l object to that!
AII right. Masks off now.
l know you.
- AIan Shore. - Good to see you,Judge.
- My coIIeague Tara WiIson. - HeIIo.
WouId you care to expIain to me...
why two attorneys are out cavorting with a prostitute?
- We needed somebody to be Catwoman. - Someone with a whip.
Mr. Shore, while you are a gifted attorney...
you bring embarrassment and shame to the legal community.
You're very kind, sir.
Case dismissed.
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What's this with the Markham settIement?
He refuses to sign. He keeps redIining us on Ianguage.
We think he's postponing untiI after the new year for tax reasons. l'II keep pushing him.
On a personal aside, I'd like to remind everyone to vote. It's our civic duty.
Whatever our politics, at the end of the day, we're Americans.
We bIeed red, white and bIue.
Morgan versus Rayburn.
StiII in triaI. CIient survived his testimony bareIy. Tara and l are pushing a settIement.
And on a personal aside, I'm bored.
- l beg your pardon. - You people keep assigning me these boring cases.
At my oId firm, l got murderers. l had cIients who wouId touch themseIves in pubIic restrooms.
These were people you could root for, not to mention relate to.
ls there some other pIace you'd rather be, Mr. Shore?
Yes. l want to be on cabIe. That's where aII the best work is being done.
- Who's doing the HoIcomb case? - Uh, that's Edwin PooIe.
Aren't you-
l just handIed the decert motion. l didn't prep the triaI.
- SureIy Edwin assigned it to somebody. - WeII, um-
ActuaIIy-
Denny?
Are you handIing the HoIcomb PharmaceuticaIs triaI?
l am.
- Are you prepared to try this case? - l wiII be.
You will be? Are you aware the trial begins tomorrow?
We have a problem, Lori. You at least need to backstop Denny here.
- l don't- - l can't. l'm in triaI myseIf today.
ln triaI on what?
l, uh, was assigned a case a coupIe of days ago...
which l sort of took.
What kind of case?
Uh,just a... homicide.
What?
Why are you suddenIy taking court appointments?
l just need kind of a change, that's aII.
Now everyone here is dissatisfied? What is this?
The case l did Iast week, it kind of awakened me a IittIe.
l'm feeIing the need to connect with peopIe.
- CriminaI peopIe? - PIease don't triviaIize this.
CriminaI defense is a far cry from criminaI prosecution, Lori.
- You won't Iike it. - How can you possibIy know that before l even-
l know you.
So...
shaII we?
We shaII. Do you have Morgan's address?
l do. But what l meant is, shaII we continue where we Ieft off Iast night?
ln front of my buiIding, with you peeing in the pIanter.
l was about to burst. You shouId've Iet me come up.
- That pIant needed watering. - You shouId've Iet me come up, Tara.
lt was 4:00 a.m. l Iet you up, next thing we know, we're in the Iiquor cabinet.
Two minutes after that, passed out.
Robin sprawIed across Batman. What wouId they say at the HaII ofJustice?
Was that what you were afraid of? The sprawIing?
l invited you out to get your mind off SaIIy.
You've succeeded. lt's back to an oId, famiIiar, wanton pIace.
AIan, we agreed that you and l couIdn't work.
What was the reason again? l've forgotten.
lt wouId be troubIe. One night out, we Iose aII controI and end up behind bars.
Which was utterIy intoxicating. Losing controI together. What about it, Tara?
After aII this time, maybe we shouId undress-
We're Iate.
- Thick fiIe. - Of course it's a thick fiIe.
lt's a cIass action invoIving thousands of pIaintiffs, and it's compIicated, Denny.
Thick fiIe.
Look, aII we can do is throw ourseIves at the mercy of the judge.
lf you and l both go to see him and expIain Edwin's situation...
maybe he'II give us some time.
Thick fiIe.
$7 0,000.
- lt's their opening offer. - Hmm.
You seem like a very nice man, Mr. Morgan.
You aIso seem Iike a hypochondriac.
- These headaches are reaI. - l have no doubt.
You've aIso compIained on severaI occasions...
that you were suffering from tanapox virus.
Because l noticed the characteristic papuIar Iesions.
Very tender. ApproximateIy two centimeters in diameter.
You realize the tanapox virus is endemic to equatorial Africa?
- Yes. - Have you enjoyed your many visits to equatoriaI Africa?
- l've never been there. - Ah.
Then perhaps you can see the outIine of our probIem, Mr. Morgan.
Look. It's not my fault.
I go to the library and I read books.
I try to understand how I might get better.
But sometimes the books, they scare me even more...
'cause they describe diseases l didn't even know l had.
Maybe l am a hypochondriac.
What do you take for that?
- Miss CoIson, l have never been in a fight before. - Okay.
We need to be abIe to caII a witness or two who can speak to your nonvioIent character.
- l toId you- my mother. - Mothers tend to come off as biased.
There's gotta be somebody eIse.
Friends, coworkers- There's gotta be somebody.
WeII, l Iive at home. l work at home. l hardIy ever go out.
My mother's the onIy one that-
But l gotta warn you.
- She doesn't make the best impression. - What do you mean?
WeII, she's got a gIass eye, and it doesn't fit so good.
And when she gets upset-
lf you put her on the stand, don't get her upset.
l went up to the bar to get a few drinks.
And when l turned around, that's when l saw Jared and him exchanging words.
- And l couId teII it wasn't friendIy. - By ''him''?
The defendant. So l started heading back.
And the place was really packed, so I was kind ofblocked.
And that's when I sawJared push him. And then Jared took a swing.
And that was it.
What was it? TeII us what you saw.
The defendant-hejust threw a punch right toJared's throat.
And Jaredjust collapsed to the ground.
And when l got there, he was hardIy breathing.
And he was making, Iike, a sucking noise.
And then hejust stopped breathing, and I tried to do mouth-to-mouth.
And so did another guy who said he knew C.P.R.
But he-
he just died right there on the floor.
Okay. Now, Mr. Quinlan, this is important.
Describe the punch as best you can.
lt was a-a short, direct punch.
And l couId- l couId teII by the way he was hoIding his hand and how he threw the punch...
that he knew martial arts.
lt was a kiII punch.
- Objection! - Sustained.
Why, in your lay opinion, sir, did you regard it as a kill punch?
- Objection. - OverruIed. He can answer.
By hitting the throat, you can make it collapse...
and then the person suffocates, which is exactIy what happened.
Okay.
You didn't actuaIIy see the aItercation begin.
- You turned around, and they were having words? - That's right.
- You couIdn't hear what was said? - No.
Mr. QuinIan, when the poIice arrived and questioned you...
did you teII them that you recognized my cIient's punch as a form of martiaI arts?
No. l was prob-
Did you demonstrate to them the fist you just made for the jury?
l was too shook up.
In fact,you made no mention of martial arts until after it was published in the newspapers.
When l read it, it cIicked. lt aII made perfect sense because that's what l saw.
You just forgot to mention it when the poIice specificaIIy asked you what you saw?
- How many beers had you had that night? - Three.
- How many beers had Jared Grant had? - Three.
So you admittedIy couIdn't hear the exchange...
you admittedly didn't see the altercation begin...
and you'd been drinking?
CertainIy no one couId anticipate Edwin PooIe's iIIness.
This unanticipated illness occurred weeks ago. You come to me the day before the trial?
The simpIe truth is this one feII through the cracks.
The pIaintiff has witnesses from out of town.
- We'd be wiIIing to assume those costs. - What a sweII bunch of guys!
- Your Honor- - No, no, no, no. l'm sick of this.
Your firm has empIoyed a strategy of systemic heeI dragging. lt is immoraI.
- Edwin PooIe is the onIy one- - Whose fauIt is that? You peopIe shouId be sued for maIpractice.
Brian, you and l have a reIationship. l think of you as a friend.
Yes, weII, that friendship has gotta take a backseat to principIe. l'm sorry.
WeII, you know, Brian, given our reIationship...
l feeI entitIed to be honest...
the way friends are during diffcult times.
- Can l be honest with you, Brian? - PIease.
- Denny. - You're a bastard, and a greedy one at that.
This is a class action.
You get credit for all the consolidated cases in one fell swoop.
You're Iooking to make presiding judge. You need that credit by caIendar year's end.
That's why you're desperate to move this thing forward- to pad your docket.
This is about ambition, not moraIity, you greedy, sniveIing, IittIe wop.
- Motion for continuance denied. - You know what I'm gonna do, Brian?
Just to show you there are no hard feeIings?
l'm gonna sIeep with your wife.
lt is our recommendation that you discharge us as counseI.
Ask the judge for time to find new attorneys.
The only alternative is proceeding tomorrow, which I don't think we want to do.
Edwin PooIe never even gave us this triaI date.
He told us it was continued indefnitely.
Which is why we're suggesting that you discharge us.
He has got to give you time to find new counseI.
- You have to handle this, Sally. - Me?
Look, l have this thing about gIass eyes.
l once had a teacher with a gIass eye.
Sometimes when he'd get mad, he'd take it out and whack it on his desk.
- Gave me nightmares. - Hi there.
Hey.
- What was that? - Nothing.
Someone just seems a IittIe overeager to rekindIe the flame with AIan Shore.
The offer was firm at 7 0.
Yes. We thought if you'd unfirm it to one and a quarter, we couId be done.
Your cIient wouIdn't have to testify tomorrow...
which, of course, wouId free him up to misdiagnose others.
You don't seem to get it, Mr. Shore. We offered 70 as nuisance change.
Yes. Wejust feel Mr. Morgan is a much bigger nuisance than you give him credit for.
l'm an enormous nuisance. We shouId get something for that.
- I feel nauseous. - You'll be fne.
- Knock on it. - You knock on it.
- SaIIy! - lf l'm doing the taIking, the Ieast you can do is-
[ Both Screaming ]
- You his Iawyers? - Hi.
- l'm SaIIy Heep. This is-
Lori CoIson. HeIIo.
We just wanted to ask you a few questions, Mrs. Binder, if we couId.
Oh, come on in.
- He's a wonderful boy with a gentle heart. -[ Sally ] Yes.
Our problem is,you seem to be the only person to truly know him.
[ Sighs ] He thinks l'II make a bad witness on account of the eye.
It's glass,you see? Look close.
- Yes. - Hmm.
Yeah.
The thing is the prosecution is obviousIy cIaiming...
thatJason's heart is not gentIe.
Has he ever been in troubIe? Has he ever been arrested?
Has he ever caused any problems for anybody?
No. He is a nice young man, and it's the way l raised him.
That's exactIy what we'II need you to say.
l'm aIso maybe gonna take you shopping, get your hair done. The more presentabIe-
He deserved to die-Jared Grant.
Uh, why do you say that?
- He beat up myJason. - WeII, he didn't exactIy beat him up.
- There was an aItercation. - He beat him up!
- The man is evil, and he deserved to die.! - Let's caIm down.
He deserved it, l teII you!
Dr. Rayburn, over the six months that Mr. Morgan was in your care...
how many visits did he make to your practice?
- Thirty-eight. - ls that a Iot?
Four times as many as any other patient.
We joked he was the office mascot.
You name the condition, Mr. Morgan was convinced he had it.
CoId, flu, bronchitis...
shingIes, aduIt-onset diabetes.
l never compIained of aduIt-onset diabetes.
That's characterized by excessive thirst.
Does it seem to you Iike l've been drinking a Iot today?
l'm sure you're fine, BiII.
Mr. Morgan contends your neglect drove him to this state.
The truth is I bent over backwards to accommodate him.
He aIways needed to be seen immediateIy.
And busy as my practice is, l aIways made the time.
l appIaud you, sir, for your tireIess commitment to my cIient.
- What a guy. - Objection.
- Sustained. - Yeah.
- So these 38 visits- on the house? - l'm sorry?
- They were free visits? - No.
Oh. So you charged him. That makes sense.
So with aII his compIaining, his incapacitation...
that pinched Iook on his face...
there's nothing wrong with him?
Nothing clinically, no. It's in his head.
TraditionaI home for the migraine, is it not?
lt's psychosomatic. He's a cIassic hypochondriac.
l see. WeII, there's a diagnosis.
TeII me, what treatment did you prescribe for my cIient's cIassic hypochondria?
l'm a generaI practitioner, not a psychiatrist.
So you referred him out to whom?
No one in particuIar. l did teII him he needed heIp.
I believe I even gave him a list of practitioners.
Ah. So he kept coming to you. You kept taking his money.
You did not treat him.
And you referred him to... no one in particular.
l'm a G.P. l toId him to seek mentaI treatment.
I advised it. I can't force it.
Once again, he kept coming, you kept taking the money...
and you referred him to no one in particuIar.
So you now want to fire your Iawyers?
Yes, Your Honor. We had no idea trial was about to start.
That's how incompetent these peopIe are.
I suppose you had no idea that your company was bilking senior citizens?
CertainIy Your Honor intends to keep an open mind with regard to the-
Here's the deaI.
l give you one day to find new counseI. Twenty-four hours.
After that, I'm fning you $250,000 a day for any further delay.
lt aImost seemed personaI. Have you done anything to upset this guy?
Not that l can think of.
WeII, Iook, aside from preparation concerns, we got a bigger probIem.
This judge, he's biased.
This is what l propose we do. FiIe an interIocutory appeaI asking-
- At 250,000 a day. - WhiIe we're fiIing that appeaI, we'II go forward.
ShouId we win, we can suspend the triaI.
ShouId we Iose, we won't incur the fine.
- But are you peopIe ready to try this case? - l can try it.
Denny Crane.
There were some settIement discussions that broke down.
lf Denny can open big, that might bring them back to the tabIe...
which may be the best way to go at this point.
lt was four years ago at a park in Brighton.
- You met the defendant? - WeII, l didn't exactIy meet him.
- WeII, what then? - l beat the crap out of him.
E-Excuse me. l was a different person then.
Okay, Mr. Stone. We need to be very specific about what happened back then.
He tried to get into a game of pickup hoops.
Me and another guy in the game, we started dissing him a IittIe.
He said something back, and we beat him up pretty good. I'm not proud of it.
And you're sure it was Jason Binder?
Yeah. When l saw his picture on the news, l remembered his face.
It was defnitely him.
And what about the other guy who beat him up?
Jared Grant, the guy he kiIIed.
- You Iied to me. Not onIy were you in a fight before- - lt doesn't prove anything.
Now they have a motive,Jason. The victim beats you up four years ago.
You take up tae kwon do. You happen to encounter him, at which point you kiII him?
- lt wasn't Iike that. - That's why your mom said he deserved to die, because-
lt wasn't Iike that!
What am l supposed to argue now?
Let's have it,Jason. Did you go to that bar to get revenge?
l went there to stand up to him.
You have no idea how haunted I was by-
l didn't even put up my hands four years ago.
lt wasn't getting beat up that stuck with me. lt was that l didn't even-
l just Iet myseIf get beat up.
So you took up martiaI arts.
And l went there to stand up to him. l didn't pIan a fight.
l certainIy didn't go there to kiII him.
Then when he swung at me, l just-
l swung back.
l never meant to kiII him.
Who are we overbiIIing? Medicare or senior citizens?
Both, but Medicare isn't suing us.
- ''Us''? Meaning the drug company? - Correct.
But if the hospitaIs are doing the overcharging, why are the seniors suing the drug company?
Denny, we've been over this before.
The drug company, our cIient, has the sweetheart deaIs with the hospitaIs.
We give them rebates, so they disguise the real cost of the drugs.
They then biII Medicare for the higher, aIIegedIy inflated costs.
Really? What's our defense to that?
Seventy-five. You've upped your offer by $5,000.
We feeI it's generous, particuIarIy when your cIient's injuries aren't reaI.
- They're reaI. - AII right, BiII.
You know, Mr. Morgan, l don't typicaIIy counseI opposing parties...
but I might advise a legal malpractice claim...
against the attorney who fiIIed your head with miIIion-doIIar windfaIIs.
You seem to have a IittIe something wedged...
in between numbers four and five.
Hmm. Guess it's just part of your mouth.
One last proposal...
and it's entirely possible I'm kidding, by the way, depending upon your reaction.
300,000, seaIed.
We kick back 50 to you under the tabIe.
Mr. Shore, l guarantee you l am not that kind of attorney.
ReaIIy? Gosh, l am.
I should report you directly to the bar, if not the district attorney.
lf that's how you feeI, then l was kidding.
- l'm going to the judge now. - ExceIIent. New triaI.
That'll certainly cost your client much more than 75,000.
Your offer is rejected.
Suppose he does go to the judge.
Oh, pIease. He doesn't want a mistriaI. He thinks he's won.
PIus, he can't prove l wasn't kidding. l'm known to be funny.
This is a chiId who wouIdn't sIap a mosquito. He wouId shoo it away.
He couIdn't bring himseIf to harm a fly or any animaI, certainIy not a human being.
Four years harboring a grudge doesn't suggest a rage to you?
He was buIIied by many peopIe, Mr. Martin, not justJared Grant.
- But he kiIIed Jared Grant. - He got into a fight which had a tragic ending.
He never intended to kiII, nor couId he.
- He Iearned a IethaI martiaI arts maneuver that- - He Iearned to defend himseIf.
Look at the size of him, for God's sake.
What was he to do? Fend people off with a sharp wit?
Mrs. Binder,you love your son very much, don't you?
- Of course l do. - ln fact, he's your onIy chiId.
He's aII you have, isn't he?
- Yes. - He Iives with you- or did- before his arrest?
There's something wrong with that?
l bet you wouId do or say anything to keep him from going to prison.
l'm up here teIIing the truth.
No. You're telling lies to spare a loved one a life sentence.
No. You're the one that's teIIing Iies! You're the Iiar here!
- Your son's a killer.! - No, he is not!
- Your son is a kiIIer! - No, he is not!
[ Glass Eye Clattering, Rolling ]
[ Rolling Continues ]
What does a rubber gIove have to do with it?
Denny, the aIIeged fraud goes beyond just prescription drugs.
lt goes to medicaI suppIies as weII.
l see a rubber gIove, l'm heading the other direction. l'II teII you that.
Denny, do you understand what this case is about?
- l do, PauI. - Can you succinctIy teII us?
The pIaintiff thinks he's getting biIked for drugs and suppIies.
His evidence is we charge hospitaIs and cIinics Iess for those very drugs and suppIies.
Our argument is, the mere offering of a discount to a consumer...
does not constitute the overbilling to another.
ln fact, since hospitaIs and cIinics with E.R.'s...
reguIarIy treat those who cannot pay...
an argument could be made that we're extending these discounts to those most in need.
We're saving Iives, damn it.
And I will not apologize for my client's billing practices.
l saIute them. l invite you to saIute them.
Okay. Let's turn to the verticaI integration between our cIients and the hospitaIs.
What the heII is that?
- Earl Grey, huh? - Hmm.
- That wouId keep me up tiII Thursday. - A few hours at Ieast.
You and AIan puIIing a Iate one?
Might be. We're cIosing tomorrow.
- What are you doing tonight? - Preparing.
Right.
You know, the whole Sally and Alan thing, she's still pretty raw.
- Meaning? - Oh,just that if you had any intentions of-
Eating her? Raw wouId certainIy be probIematic.
AII that kicking and screaming.
Rare often works for me. Seared.
l'm sorry. Did you mean something eIse?
- l'm just Iooking out for a friend. - I see.
WeII, given that it was SaIIy's decision to end our reIationship...
perhaps you'd consider Iooking out for me.
You seem aII right.
Just to cIarify, ifTara did have any intention...
of whatever euphemism you were in search of...
it wouId, in fact, be none of your business.
To put your mind at rest, Tara appears not to have intentions.
l do.
ln fact,just yesterday l was suggesting to her...
that we engage in a sexuaI act in her office...
but her impenetrable sense of decorum...
unfortunately prevented us from engaging.
That was unnecessary.
[ Attorney ] It's a scam.
They charge the hospital ''X''amount of dollars for the drug.
The hospitaI then biIIs Medicare a portion of which the senior citizens are paying.
The evidence will show...
that the defendant, HoIcomb PharmaceuticaIs...
systematicaIIy defrauded and biIked senior citizens...
out of biIIions and biIIions of doIIars.
The eIderIy are discriminated against every singIe day in this country.
They get their driver's licenses yanked.
They are targeted by abusive teIemarketers. The prejudice is pervasive.
But you know what?
They stiII do get one thing- their day in court.
Need l point out that it's your turn to taIk?
Hate oId peopIe. AIways have. They're babies.
Hell, there's a reason half of them are in diapers.
The eIderIy...
make up a Iarge percentage of the weaIth in this country.
They run most of the Fortune 500 companies.
They're running the war, for God's sakes.
And most of them are viable, healthy people.
What do they do? Retire at age 65 and start draining our resources.
We got enormous poverty in this country.
We can't educate our kids, partly because these strong-bodied, strong-minded...
senior citizen farts...
are Iiving off of SociaI Security.
Why shouIdn't we overcharge 'em?
Mr. Crane, l'm not foIIowing your argument here.
That's 'cause you're a moron.
Judges, old people- they all gotta go.
- Mr. Crane! - TeII you what.
SIap my cIient with a miIIion-doIIar verdict.
We'II pass on the cost to the consumer.
The plaintiffs will think they've won, and we won't be out a dime.
Members of the jury, regretfuIIy l must decIare this proceeding a mistriaI.
Gee, I'm sorry to hear that. That'll cause a big delay, won't it?
Next thing you know, he'II recuse himseIf because l caIIed him a bad word.
You are in contempt! BaiIiff, take Mr. Crane into custody.
Put me in a ceII with Martha, wiII ya?
l gotta have sex with that woman.
Four years of premeditation.
He trained in deadIy force.
Then he sought outJared Grant, provoked a fight and inflicted a deadIy bIow to his trachea.
Maybe he even did start the fight.
We can't know that. There's no proof of that.
But even if we're to assume it, we simpIy cannot make the Ieap to intent to kiII.
Why eIse wouId he go there? Why eIse wouId he punch him in the throat?
Why would he do it in front of a room full of people?
Why not just run him down with a car, if his intent was to kiII?
Jason Binder went there, as he told you, to stand up for himself.
Nothing more.
It's bad enough that patients are running to the courts...
suing their doctors for aII their iIIs.
Now we have one suing for his imagined iIIs.
This case represents the height in frivoIous Iitigation.
What's next? Seeking damages for a bad dream?
l hope not.
''FrivoIous.'' ls that what he said? ''FrivoIous''?
Astonishing.
This man, who suffers, day in and day out...
migraines so excruciating he cannot work...
can't endure 1 0 minutes at his computer- a trained software engineer.
And here he is subjecting himseIf to depositions, to examinations...
to the laborious, mind-numbing blather of attorneys.
All for what? Frivolity?
For six months...
BiII Morgan reached out to his doctor, week after week...
each time invoiced for thousands and thousands of dollars in sum.
And then each time dismissed...
patted on the head and sent on his way.
Had Mr. Morgan actuaIIy received the right medicaI care...
or even been directed to a doctor who could specifcally give him that care...
psychiatric or otherwise...
his current state wouId most IikeIy have been aIIeviated.
But the defendant couIdn't be bothered to care.
As Dr. Rayburn told you himself...
he treated Bill Morgan like a mascot.
Opposing counsel regards him as a nuisance.
He's a human being.
We teach our children...
that everyone is entitIed...
to respect and dignity.
How pathetic it is...
when adults can't abide...
such a basic Iesson in humanity.
How unconscionabIe.
The defendant wiII pIease rise.
Madam Foreperson, thejury has reached a unanimous verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. - What say you?
ln the case of the Commonwealth versus Jason Binder...
on the charge of murder in the first degree...
we fnd the defendant, Jason Binder, not guilty.
On the charge of murder in the second degree...
we fnd the defendant, Jason Binder, not guilty.
[Judge ] Thejury is dismissed with our thanks.
The defendant is free to go. We are adjourned.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
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l'm toId congratuIations are in order.
You too.
Denny bought you some time, l hear.
My father was a criminaI defense attorney.
He went into it to champion civiI rights...
to defend the oppressed...
to... connect with peopIe.
But aII l ever saw at the supper tabIe...
was a man struggIing to deaI with the idea...
that he heIped put murderers back on the street.
- Heading home? -JaiI. lncarcerated friend.
- You run with a dangerous crowd. - l try.
- As do l. - l don't think that's quite true.
You don't know me, AIan Shore, not as weII as you think.
- No? - No. CertainIy not as weII as l know you.
- How weII is that? - l know that there are three AIan Shores.
The good, the bad and the naughty.
The good AIan, the man that l saw today in court, is honorabIe and decent.
But you can't bear the burden ofbeing that man.
Thus the bad AIan, who Iays to waste everything in his Iife that seems right.
l do have intentions.
My intentions are to get beyond the bad...
which l've tried to do again and again by appeaIing to the good.
But it appears to me that perhaps...
l shouId be appeaIing to the naughty.
l'm not certain the Tara WiIson l know is up to the task.
Again, you don't know me, AIan.
FiIe for you.
[ Gate Lock Buzzing ]
- Your baiI was set at six miIIion doIIars. - Funny.
l brought you a hamburger.
The guards here are extremeIy hospitabIe.
l just got a jury verdict for $3 20,000.
Lori got a not guiIty in her murder case.
You cIeverIy orchestrated a mistriaI.
And a woman l'm infatuated with...
deIivered to me her panties...
in a maniIa foIder.
l think we're obIiged to have a drink.
Cheers.
l wasn't cIever.
l forgot.
l beg your pardon?
l stood up, armed with aII of the facts...
of our cIient's biIIing practices...
and... l went bIank...
in front of the jury.
l couIdn't remember a damn thing.
WeII, that can happen sometimes.
You once said you suspected l had...
AIzheimer's.
How does a person know?
WeII...
there's no exact diagnostic.
They can do certain tests.
Denny...
you may have gone up on an opening...
but to recover Iike that and go for the mistriaI...
that's evidence of a man...
thinking quickIy on his feet.
l want to take the test.