Nov. 10, 2024

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In this episode, I explore the intricate narrative of loyalty and moral conflict in "Thicker Than Water." The story centers on Nick Wedge, a defense attorney navigating the treacherous waters of a murder trial involving his client, Benny Bleeker. From a mugging gone tragically wrong to the intense courtroom battles that ensue, I dissect the dynamics of familial ties and the ethical dilemmas that shape Wedge’s journey.
As witness testimonies unfold and evidence mounts, Wedge confronts his own beliefs and professional limits, challenging courtroom conventions with innovative forensic approaches. The emotional stakes heighten as the relationships between the characters deepen, revealing the powerful forces of love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice.
Join me as I reflect on this poignant tale, illustrating the harsh realities of the judicial system and the enduring complexities of human loyalty.

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Well, well, well, so nice to have you back, my dear.

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I see you are well, very good, very good. What's that?

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Oh?

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Well, I'm about as good as one one can be

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in my situation. Situation, Why don't you kick back and relax?

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I know, I know the weather has been up and down,

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back and forth side to side, spinning its head around

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in three hundred and sixty degrees? Or is that? Well?

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I don't get out much, but I do hear things.

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So let me put another log on the fire, because

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the night always tends to be so very cold cold.

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Allow me to warm you a hot couple of tea,

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perhaps as we listen to a story, story all about

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what is true thicker thicker than water.

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Want I meet you, Marshall, before you cross our threshold,

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Perhaps i'd better warn you about something. If you can't

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stand the sight of blood, you may not want to

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hear our latest domping, because come in, welcome, I meet you, Marshall,

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before you cross our threshold. Perhaps I'd better warn you

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about something. If you can't stand the sight of blood,

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you may not want to hear our latest donfing because

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this is a story all about blood. Blood in its

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three variations of meaning, the blood ties of family loyalty,

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the blood of violent crime, and just plain human blood.

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I think you can take it very well. Please come in,

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pick out a comfortable chair, and try not to be

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too squeamish. Our mystery drama Thicker Than Water was written

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especially for the Mystery theater by Henry Splesser and stars

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Jay Gregory. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor

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Division and Einheuser Busch Incorporated Breweries of Budweiser. I'll be

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back shortly with Act one. Excuse me, sir, but do

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you know what happens this time of year? Right on

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file I happen to know that right about now, a

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freak blizzard falls on Dumont, New Jersey, and they're snowed

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in for the rest of the summer. Nope, you see

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what happens this time of year is that you can

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get a particularly good deal on what is perhaps the

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most luxurious mid sized car on the market, the mid

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sized Buick Century Regal. What goods a car when you're

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hopelessly snowed in? Well, that's a point. Hey, ma'am, what's

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for dinner? Ay, ma'am, what's she can? What's for dinner?

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Your shop Right Supermarket suggests choice b first cut chuck

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steaks just fifty nine cents a pound this week. Save

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two on smoke tam shank portion sixty nine cents a pound,

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but portion seventy nine a pound. For a quick meal,

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try Swanson's frozen Hungry Man Dinner is just ninety nine

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cents each. For dessert, Shop Rights Produce Department is featuring

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fresh honeydew melons seventy nine cents each. They're great topped

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with ice cream. There's lots more for a little less

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at your shop right, so stop in soon, dud.

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She loves the family, She wants the best. She does

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all she can't do. She dots Shop Right to the

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hey maw, what's for dinner? Shop Right has the answer.

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You're listening to what some people think of as jungle noises,

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But in this case, the jungle is what they think.

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Our large metropolitan cities have become stalking places for predators

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who prowl the darkened streets, the foliage of our parks,

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the isolation booths of our elevators and hallways, looking for

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victims to satisfy their greed, their hunger, or their simple

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lust for blood. But the well dressed man who walks

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down this particular dark and quiet street in a neighborhood

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of crumbling tenements and menacing shadows doesn't seem to be

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aware of lurking danger until danger stops lurking and strikes

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Hold it, mister, what is this? Oh? Shut up? Shut

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up and hand it over. Where's walle here? Give me that?

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Now here's something for you? Help me? Somebody help me?

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May I can vose?

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Yes, come on in, Oga.

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Thanks. I didn't bring you any flowers, but from the

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looks of this room you didn't need any.

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I wish somebody would get them out of here. Place

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looks like a funeral home.

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Well, is it all right to ask how you feel?

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Go ahead and try how do you feel?

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Don't ask?

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No.

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I knew i'd fall for that old gag. Now, seriously, Nick,

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how are you?

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You certainly look like.

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Your old self? Yes, I'm my old self Oga with

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something extra an eight inch cash in my side. Fortunately

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it wasn't very deep. I keep telling me I'll heal nicely.

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Whatever nicely means you, poor man? Why did this have

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to happen to you? Why not people get mugged in

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nicer parts of town and the place I was at.

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I guess the police were right about what they asked me.

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Why I was dumb enough to be walking around that

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neighborhood like a fat cat at eleven thirty at night.

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They say, I was just baiting for it.

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Why were you there?

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I told you I had an appointment with roy Otis

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talk to him about the Parsons case. I thought I

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could ge him drop the charges if I went to

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his home personally and reason with him. Funny thing is

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I succeeded. I was feeling so pleased with myself and

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I didn't think about what I was doing.

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So you walked right into the arms of the mugger.

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I don't know what I'm gonna do with you, boss.

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I suppose you've seen the morning paper.

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No, I haven't story in this of course, the story

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isn't it. And guess what they say.

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I can imagine legal defender of muggers gets smugged. I'm

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sure they got a big kick out of that. Headline

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writers dig irony.

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Well, they don't actually call you a defender of muggers,

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but you are sort of number one in the.

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Field, aren't you. This That Wilson boy the Frederick's k I.

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Never meant to specialize, and I can tell you one

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thing will be a long time before I go to

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court defend some knife wielding punk.

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I knew you'd feel that way.

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Can you blame me? No?

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I guess I can't, But that isn't going to satisfy

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mister Bleeker.

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Who Why don't you remember all.

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Those phone messages I've been giving you for days from

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mister Arnold Bleeker.

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Yes, I remember the name. I told you to tell

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the guy that I'm hardly in any position to take

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on a new case.

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Well, from what you said about your condition, you will

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be going back to work soon, right, Yeah, I'll be

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back at the old desk in a week. I guess

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that's what I told mister Bleeker.

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Olga, will you please explain that funny look in your face.

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It's because mister Bleeker wants you to defend his son.

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He's desperate to have you defend him.

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What's his son charged with?

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Mugging? Of course? What else? Mister Wedge's office?

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Oh yes, missus Hamilton, how are you? No, he is

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in conference at the moment, but I think I know

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the answer to your question. The hearing will be held

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at the Municipal court on the twenty seventh. Oh, yes,

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of course, and mister Wedge will be talking to you

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before then. Yes, I'll tell them goodbye, good morning. Oh hello,

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mister Blaker.

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I uh idi, you're not so happy to see me,

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are you.

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Miss Well, it's not that, mister Bleaker. It says that

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well that I've told you. It won't do any good.

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Mister Wedge simply isn't able to take any more clients.

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At the moment.

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I got to get a lawyer soon. I got to

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have a lawyer right now. The judge told me either

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I get somebody or the court or appoint somebody.

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You could do a lot worse than the court appointed attorney,

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mister Bleaker. Even mister Wedge does that sort of thing

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now and then he does. Yes, most criminal lawyers do

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well without these.

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Well, then let him do it now for me, for

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my son. But I'll pay him. I'll pay him anything

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you want.

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We ain't, mister Bleacher. It isn't a matter of money.

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Yeah, yeah, I know, I know you look at me,

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you see a poor man. But I'll pay I'll get

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the money somehow old, do you still have the file

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out on the Fredericks, Mister Weggs. Please, I gotta talk

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to I've been trying to talk to you for days.

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Would you be mister Bleacher by any chance? I'm sorry,

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Nick I told them, man, you gotta say ten words

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to you. How you got the time to get ten

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words on somebody? All right, mister Bleaker, come on it,

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thank you, thank you. Have a seat. No, no, I'll stand.

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I'm too nervous to sit down, mister Bleaker. I can

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save you some words. I know about your case. I

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know that your son has been arrested for stabbing that man.

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Only he didn't do it, that's the thing. It was

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somebody else, and they arrested my Benny. Well, I'm not

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saying that isn't possible. I know it's true. My son

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told me it was true, and I believe it's fine.

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That's the way it should be between a father and

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the son. But if he really is in a mister Bleeker,

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the chances are excellent that he'll go free. No, a

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chance is rotten. The way things look, there's almost no chance.

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That's why I need somebody like you, somebody who got

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other boys out of trouble. I'm not a mastermind, mister Bleker. Yeah,

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but you got them all off, all those other boys

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I heard about. You asked around. I talked to all

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kinds of lawyers, and they all say, you get Nick Wedge,

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Nick Wedge, you'll get your boy off well, as I said,

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if he's really innocent, any decent attorney, I'll pay you

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what you want, anything. Just get my little boy out

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of that place. He's not too little, isie eighteen. He

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looked me straight in the face and said, Pop, I

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didn't do it. I den'ty for that man. You believe me, Pop,

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He said, I'm swearing it our mother's grave. Mister Bleeker,

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I'm really sorry. My schedule was full and I was

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hoping to get away for a vacation at the end

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of the month. You see, I had a little accident myself.

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For recent papers made it sound so bad. They said

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there are witnesses. They say people saw Benny with the

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knife in his hand. How can they say that? People strangers?

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Why would they say that about my boy, mister Bleeker.

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I don't say he's an angel. He runs around, he fights,

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boy without a mother. It's a wild boy sometimes. How

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what can I do? I got a twenty four hour business.

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I'll drive a fuel truck. I'll sell it, mister Wedge.

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You can have whatever I get for the truck. Mister

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Bleeker listened to me after you started coming here. I

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looked into the case as much as I could. I

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can tell you this much. It's not going to be

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easy to prove innocence. Maybe impossible, but it is the

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first offense, and with a charge of armed robbery, well

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the court might be ling it. So you looked into

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the case. Huh, it didn't look far enough, mister Wedge.

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It didn't keep up. What do you mean the man

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who was stabbed, he died last night. Who are you?

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I'm your lawyer, Benny. Maybe you're the lawyer my father

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told me about one who gets everybody off. If that's

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what he's told you, he's wrong. Sit down, Benny. We

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have things to talk about. When can I get out

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of here? They told me I get out soon as

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I got a lawyer. Whoever told you that was wrong too?

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What about bail? My father said he can raise bail

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for me. Biale has been refused. Why you heard me?

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And this is a capital offense. The victim is dead,

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the charge is now homicide. The court has refused bail.

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Do you mean, I gotta stay in this crummy place

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until the trial. Yes, Wednesday, Russias. We need every minute

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of delay we can get. I don't think this is

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going to be easy. Why shouldn't it. But I didn't

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stick that guy. I didn't have nothing to do with it.

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You admitted to the police that you were there when

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Kenneth Archer was staby. I'm sure I was there. I

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was hanging around with some guys. You were hanging around

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with a street gang called the Silver Stars. It's not

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a gang, it's like a club. We got a basketball

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squad and everything a team. We were all just walking

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down the street when this guy Archer came right in

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the middle of us. Now, maybe one of the guys

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stuck him. How should I know, Benny, what do you

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carry the Knight? It's only a boy scout knight. They

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sell them all over. I use it for carving things

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like you know, carving what totem poles? Hey, whose side

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of you are? All? Right? Sit down, let's go over

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facts the way the cops have them down. Anytime I

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say something that isn't true, you interrupt me. All right? Yeah.

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It was ten minutes to midnight on October ninth, You

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and four other guys, all members of the Silver Stars,

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were walking down Thurmann Street. Kenneth Archer was rounding the

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corner and bumped into you. Somebody shoved him and somebody

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called him a whino, and then there was a scuffle.

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Archer fell to the ground and everybody started running, everybody

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but you. You waited behind and bent over the guy. I

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wanted to see if he was okay. I don't want explanations.

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Just stop me when I say something that isn't factual.

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And you bent over Archer and then you ran off.

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By Now they were a couple of witnesses. Both of

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them say they saw you with a knife in your hand.

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When they reached Archer's side, he'd been stabbed in the chest.

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His wallet was gone. Okay, okay, so somebody stuck him.

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Why does it have to be me. Half an hour later,

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the cops caught up with you in your father's fuel

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supply office on Chester Street. A knife was still in

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your pocket. Well it wasn't me, are you saying it

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was one of you? Pass No, I don't even remember

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who they were. You mean you don't give their names.

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That's against the code, isn't it's a big club. This

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Silver Stars got maybe fifty sixty guys in it. I

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don't know them all. You're not helping yourself, Benny, and

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you're not helping me. But what do you want me

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to say? I didn't care that guy, That's all I know.

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The police have the knife. It's exhibit A. They have

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the knife, they have the witnesses, and they have you.

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Now what have I got. You're a lawyer, you tell me,

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all right, Benny, I'll tell you. I want you to

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cop a plea. I want you to plead guilty. You're crazy.

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It's the only thing that makes any sense. You put

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this case to a jury, you'll spend the rest of

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your life in a cage. Plead guilty and you'll get

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a break. I won't do it. I'm innocent. I'm not

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going to jail for something I didn't do. I'm talking

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sense to you, Benny, but I didn't do it. I

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swear it. I'm only trying to help your son. I'm

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not your son. I got a father. No, no, the wedge.

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Don't say that. You can't give up. You've got to

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help my boy. That's what I'm trying to do. I

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know how you feel about kids like many. I know

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what happened to you, and that has nothing to do

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with it. If your son won't take my advice. But

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if he takes your advice, if you please guilty to

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second degree murder, you'll go to jail for sure. Right, Yes,

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he'll go to jail for something he didn't do. Mister Bleeker.

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I know you're his father, but that doesn't give you

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the right to ignore the facts. Look, a father's faith

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is a wonderful thing, but it's not a defense. Yeah,

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you're right, I don't know what I'm talking about. I

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better go, mister Bleeker. Yeah, all right. It's the dumbest

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decision I ever made, But we will plead not guilty

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and then wait for a miracle. Well, it looks like

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mister Nicholas Wedge stands a fair chance of going into

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court with a losing case. They say that preparation is

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nine tenths of the battle for an attorney. But how

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does one prepare for a miracle? We'll find out shortly

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when I return with that two. At Suburban Savings in

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This is Wor in New York, your mystery theater station.

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Here we are in the Criminal Courts Building downtown and

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from the looks of the crowd, the case of the

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People versus Benjamin Bleeker has attracted more than usual interest.

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But it's not Benny Bleaker. They've come to see. Benny

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is just another young ruffian charge with just another street crime,

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but the star of the occasion, and he's the lawyer

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who will be defending him. And the point of curiosity

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is how will Nick Wedge succeed in saving his client

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in the face of some highly damning testimony. Mester Dankers,

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you reside at number eight Thurman Street, Yes, sir, have

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you lived there alone about ten years? Please describe the

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events that you personally witnessed on the night of October ninth. Well,

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I was sitting on the stoop getting the breath, and

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these kids come up the street. It was all wearing

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purple jackets. I didn't pay no attention on account if

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you see kids like that all the time. You know,

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they were marching like in a straight line, taking up

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the whole street, you know. And then this man comes

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around the corner, the man being Kenneth Archer. I didn't

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know the name at the time. He was just a

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man coming around the corner and he bumps into this

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line kids. Was there scuffle then? Oh yeah, there was

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a lot of pushing and shoving, all right. I mean

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these were the kind of kids who thought they owned

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the whole street. You know, objection, you're on her sustain

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just describe what occurred, mister Dunkers. Well, that's what I'm

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trying to do. Anyway. They all started pushing and shoving

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this man around just because he bumped into him. And

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then the next thing I know, he was on the ground.

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Had he been hurt in your opinion, or just knocked

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to the ground, Well, I couldn't tell, you know, I

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mean he was kind of on his hands and knees like.

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And what happened to the young man who knocked him down. Well,

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they all ran off, you know, I mean, kind of

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laughing and yelling stuff, all of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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all five of them run off. Only then one of

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them turns back all of a sudden and goes up

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to the guy. I saw him Ben do over him.

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Did he speak to the man? I don't know. I

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don't think so. I saw him reach down. I guess

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that's when he stabbed the objection justin Please don't volunteer information,

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mister Denkers. Just answer the attorney's question, all right, mister Dankers.

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What happened then? Well then he ran off just like

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the rest of them. But that's when I saw the

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knife in his hand. You actually saw the weapon. I

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should did but you didn't know that the knife had

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actually been used until you went up to Canada arch objection,

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your honor, The assumption that the wound was caused by

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the weapon that this witness presumably saw is unwarranted. All right,

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I'll be happy to amend my statements, your honor, that

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mister Dankers didn't know that a knife had actually been

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used until he went up to the fallen man. Well,

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that's satisfy your object I shouldn't, mister Wedge, Yes, sir, gone,

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mister Dankers. You say you ran up to the man

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to see how badly he was hurt. That's right. And

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by the time I got there, I saw this blood

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on the ground. Mister Dankers. How far away were you

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and all this happened, I don't know, maybe uh forty

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fifty feet. You got a good look at the people

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involved in this incident. Well, I don't remember what the

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kids looked like, the ones who ran away. But the

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one who came back, the one who did this, you

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know what I mean? Him? I saw clear as anything,

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and the knife in his hand. Do you see the

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man in the courtroom right now, Yes, sir, yes, I do.

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That's him over there. I had no further question. Towns

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for the Defense may cross examine mister Dankers. Do you

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always wear glasses? That's right? Actually, even with correction, your

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vision isn't very keen, is it. I'm sixty seven, mister

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whaley're my age. It was almost midnight on a street

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which is lighted by a street lamp. Actually thirty yards

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from your building, is that right? I never measured it. Well,

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I have, and you can take my word for it.

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The lamp is a good thirty yards from the scene

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of the crime. Yet you saw a small jack knife,

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this knife exhibit a look at it, mister Dankers. Yes,

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I saw it. It's not a very large knife, is it?

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But I saw it just the same. It was sort

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of flashing in the light, you know. To tell you

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the truth, I might not have noticed it at all

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if it wasn't for one thing. What's that missus Dankers?

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My wife she was sitting right next to me, and

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she said, look, so that boy's got a knife, all right, Benny,

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let me get this straight. You claim that you don't

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remember the names of the other boys who were with

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you that night. That's right, mister Wickerson, even though they

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were members of your own gang, god, pardon me, your

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own social club.

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I just met him.

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I mean, look, see, we all came out of this

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movie together. I mean I didn't even talk to him.

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I see, Benny. You do carry a knife, don't you. Yeah,

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I mean yes, sir, but just a boy scout knife,

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not a not a switchblader, anything like that game. In fact,

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you were carrying this night, on the night of October

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the night well, yeah, I always carry it. In fact,

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it was still in your pocket that night when the

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police picked you up. Yes, sir. Uh by the way, son,

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where are you a boy scout? Ohoh me? No, uh

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huh no further questions. You're honored, Nick.

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Would you like your coffee?

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News? Oh yeah, well go bring it in. If you

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have some whiskey, bring that into. In fact, forget the

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coffee if you got whiskey.

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Sorry, boss, but it has to be cocky.

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All right, thanks Nick.

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It's not going so well, is it.

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Well that's the understatement of the year.

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Do you think you made a mistake putting the boy

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in the stand.

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I didn't know what else to do. I don't have

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any rebublal witnesses. I don't have anyone to get up

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there and say that Benny Bleecker didn't have that knife

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in his hand, that he didn't kill Kenneth Archer. I

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figured the kid's own sincerity had to be my witness.

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Well, do you really think he came off since here?

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What do you think? Me?

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Oh, I just sharpen the pencils and make the coffee,

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and judging from your expression, not very well.

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Well, it's not the coffee, it's me. I've got a

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bad taste in my mouth. It's called premonition of disaster.

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You're going to lose, aren't you. As far as I know,

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there's only one person in the whole world convinced of

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that kid's innocence. Unfortunately that person is his father.

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Too bad, you can't get him on the stand.

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It will make a convincing character witness. Although he did

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a good job on me, didn't he hadn't been for

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that guy, I'd never have taken this case.

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Nick, You know something, You don't look well.

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Losers never look well.

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When this is over. You ought to see your doctor again.

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Maybe that knife wound is acting up.

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A headshrinker, That's what I ought to seen.

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No, I mean a doctor.

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You know something. It's a thought, maybe I ought to

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see Doc Haggerty. Who's he? You remember Haggerty on the

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hostel case nineteen sixty nine.

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Oh, he's not the kind of doctor I'm any of

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this sort of biochemist, isn't he.

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That's right, he's got an opposite Dugan hospital. I'm going out.

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If anybody wants me, I'll be back around four.

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You mean you aready to see him now.

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Yes, to find out if he's got any good medicine.

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I don't understand you, Nick. You say the police have

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already examined the boy's knife for bloodstains using this andred

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benzadeine test. It's right, it didn't show any but that

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didn't mean anything. They claim that naturally Benny would wipe

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the knife clean. Well, that stands the reason. But you

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00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:12.279
told me once that there was a more sensitive test

461
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:16.119
for bloodstains. Remember, yes, there's another test. It's called the

462
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.599
reduced phenopathalin test. It's far more sensitive in my opinion,

463
00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:26.160
but it's not universally accepted. Why do you ask, doc

464
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.559
I want to make that test? Well, all right, get

465
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.200
me the boy's knife. I can't do that. It's court property.

466
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:38.440
Exhibit A for the prosecution. But could you demonstrate the

467
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:41.279
test for me with another knife, one just like it?

468
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:44.960
I suppose, So if you have one like it, I

469
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:47.720
do right here. I picked this up on the way over.

470
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.480
It's identical to the knife Benjamin Bleaker carried pretty cheap too,

471
00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.000
but ninety eight, Well, cheaper the better. Why do you

472
00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:01.440
say that? I'll show you. First, I'll mix up some

473
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:08.720
of the reduced phenopythaline solution. Then when it's done, we'll

474
00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:11.680
dip the knife blade into some whole blood, wipe off

475
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.319
every trace, and dip it into the solution. And even

476
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.119
after its wipe the stain might appear. Well, that's what

477
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.119
I meant by a cheap knife being better. In a

478
00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.480
cheap knife, the blade is porous, so it retains microscopic

479
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:30.720
quantities of blood even after it's wiped off. Well, let's

480
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:40.720
see what happens, all right, Nick, you ready for the test?

481
00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:46.400
Ready when you are? CB? Okay? Now, first we'll dip

482
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.559
the blade into the whole blood where you get that

483
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:55.359
stuff from vampires. All right. Then we'll wipe it absolutely clean.

484
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:02.759
Yeah said, look clean to you. Okay. Now we'll place

485
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:09.440
it in the solution and watch carefully, Hey, stuffs changing

486
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:13.599
color turning pink. You see what I mean? What appeared

487
00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:16.880
to be a perfectly clean blade isn't clean at all.

488
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.200
The blood tells the story. That's really amazing, duck. In fact,

489
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:25.799
the blood stains might have been there years ago, and

490
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:29.079
this test would still show them up. So if I

491
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.200
took the kid's knife, put it into the solution and

492
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:37.200
it turned pink, you'd be one lousy lawyer, Nick, you'd

493
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:43.839
be sending your client to prison. Yeah. Maybe, and maybe

494
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.200
unfairly too, because you see, the test doesn't prove whose

495
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.519
blood is on the knife. Even if your client just

496
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:54.599
cut his own finger once it had work just the same,

497
00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:00.039
he'll look just as guilty. All right, That's something I

498
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:11.599
can straighten out with him right now. Hello, Benny, Hi,

499
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.440
mister witch, Benny, I want you to listen to me

500
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:19.000
very carefully. I got something important to ask you. I've

501
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:20.920
got an idea that may save your skin. But I

502
00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.440
have to know something, and it's got to be the truth.

503
00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:27.119
But is it. There's a test, Benny, a test that

504
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:29.359
can determine whether or not there was ever blood and

505
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:31.519
that knife of yours ever? Understand?

506
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:31.839
Yeah?

507
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.680
So what well? I intend to make that test in

508
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:39.400
court tomorrow If it's negative, the jury will know that

509
00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.200
you didn't kill Kenneth Arch. I don't understand that kind

510
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.240
of stuff. I'm not asking you to understand. If you

511
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:47.880
stab that man, a jug full of chemical is going

512
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:50.960
to turn pink and you can kiss your freedom goodbye.

513
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.400
But there's something else. If you ever cut anybody with

514
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:58.799
that knife, even yourself, that chemical will turn pink. So

515
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.519
I want you to tell me, now, was there ever

516
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.400
blood on that knife? Hey, you're trying to trick me.

517
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.720
Answer the question. I told you I didn't cut that guy, Benny. No,

518
00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:13.039
I was brand new. I never cut nothing with it.

519
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:16.799
Are you sure? Absolutely sure? Not even your own finger.

520
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:16.960
No.

521
00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:20.920
You can fool me, kid, but you can't fool a

522
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:26.160
test tube. I'm telling you the truth, all right, Benny.

523
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.319
We'll see how true it is. We'll give that knife

524
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.599
a bath tomorrow, and God help us both. If you

525
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:40.519
lied to me, Well, it looks like Nicholas Wedge is

526
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:44.640
facing a real test in that courtroom tomorrow. He'll be

527
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.079
putting his own convictions on the line in order to

528
00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:53.240
avoid conviction for his client. Personally. I plan to attend

529
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:56.599
that court session, and you will too, simply by staying

530
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.720
right where you are until I returned shortly with that. Three.

531
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:16.240
When you say when you say you see a lot

532
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.799
of things nobody else to see. When you say that

533
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.079
you've gone five you can go to get there. When

534
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:27.920
you said.

535
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:32.519
You call the world, you make away.

536
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:38.599
When you said you see your God, you love me

537
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:57.000
worries me when you say that you said it, and

538
00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:58.200
I was a boye Saint Louis.

539
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.119
This is Marty Glickman with this week's Jets Biz this

540
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.000
Sunday afternoon of the New York Jets play the Chicago Bears,

541
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.039
Don't you John Me and Jetstar Dave Herman for all

542
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.840
the live jet action from Soldiers Field in Chicago.

543
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:18.320
At one thirty five. That's one thirty five for the

544
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:22.320
Jets Bear game this Sunday afternoon, right here over WR Radio,

545
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:36.840
flagship station of the Jets Network. Once again. The trial

546
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.880
of Benjamin Bleeker is a well attended affair, but the

547
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:42.719
spectators have no idea that they're about to witness a

548
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:47.360
dramatic experiment in which chemical science will be matched against

549
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.559
high witness testimony. But let's quiet the courtroom now because

550
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:57.320
the judge has something to say. Mister Wickers, is the

551
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:01.880
prosecution prepared to make it summary, Yes, your honor, Your honor, Yes,

552
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.360
mister Edge, your honor, something has occurred which I consider

553
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.559
of paramount importance to this case. I ask the court's

554
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:12.760
permission to introduce new evidence for the defense objection. The

555
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.840
defense has had efficient time for the introduction of evidence.

556
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.760
I suggest this is a delaying tactic. What sort of evidence,

557
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.039
mister Edge. It's a demonstration, your honor, A demonstration which will,

558
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.239
in my opinion, clearly establish my client's innocence or for

559
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:32.719
that matter, is guilt, Your honor. If mister Wedge would

560
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.639
like a false faut, I don't want a postponement. I

561
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.639
want to make this demonstration now. If I may be

562
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:41.039
permitted to describe it to the court, mister Wickers, if

563
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:45.239
the prosecution has no objection, Ah, right, very well, your honor.

564
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.840
Thank you, mister Wickers. If I may come forward, your honor.

565
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:54.639
What is it you have there, mister Edge? This box,

566
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:57.760
your honor, contains a beaker with a chemical solution formulated

567
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:02.719
for the detection of blood stains. One moment, mister Edge,

568
00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:06.920
are you introducing expert testimony? Please indulge me, your honor,

569
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.360
Just let me explain what it's all about very well,

570
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:17.360
if I may have exhibit a thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

571
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:19.559
You've seen this exhibit many times in the course of

572
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:24.079
this trial. The knife which presumably killed Kenneth Archer, the

573
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.719
knife which was in the possession of Benjamin Bleaker on

574
00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:30.800
the night of the slain. Now, when someone is killed

575
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.760
with a knife, what happens to that weapon? Invariably it

576
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.599
becomes covered with blood. And yet during this entire trial,

577
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:41.920
not one mention has been made of that word. Well,

578
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:48.119
I mention it now blood. Oh, look carefully at this weapon.

579
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:50.719
I'm sure you all know that it has never left

580
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:54.239
the court's possession since my client was arrested. I look

581
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:57.480
at this blade. See how clean and shiny it is.

582
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.880
That's not surprising. Knife is new, purchased only a few

583
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:05.719
weeks ago. But what may surprise you is that this clean,

584
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:10.840
shiny blade can still tell a story of guilt or innocence. For,

585
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.639
as every chemist knows, there is a virtually infallible test

586
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.480
which can determine whether an object of such porous metal

587
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:24.039
has ever touched even one drop of blood. Your honor,

588
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:26.920
I intend to prove once and for all, whether I

589
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.559
have been defending a young man falsely accused or a

590
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.320
lying murderer. I intend to dip the blade of this

591
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.920
knife in a solution of reduced phenophthaline, the most sensitive

592
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.960
of all blood detection chemical. At one moment, mister wedd Yes,

593
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:48.000
mister Wickers, you say the best baker contains what well?

594
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:50.239
I'll try to pronounce it a second time, mister Wickers,

595
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:55.000
although the first was tough enough reduced phenophthaline, and how

596
00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:59.639
can we be certain that it contains? This solution could

597
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.519
be as far as we know. I have a statement

598
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:05.880
here from doctor Harold Haggerty of the Dugan Hospital, testifying

599
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:08.199
as to the content I one moment, Please, if you

600
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:12.639
plan to produce expert testimony, why isn't that expert here

601
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.920
to testify. I don't plan to call a witness, mister Wickers.

602
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:19.440
I plan only to make this test. But you are

603
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.880
aware that the accepted blood test in this county is

604
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.880
the Benstein test, which, if the prosecution will allow me

605
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.599
to conclude my statement. Mister Webs, do you presume to

606
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.239
be a greater expert in forensic chemistry than the County

607
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:35.559
Police laboratory. I'm not presuming anything. I'm telling you that

608
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.400
if the knife blade turns the solution pink. It will

609
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:41.440
prove beyond the doubt that there was blood on Benjamin

610
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:44.760
Bleeker's knife. But if it remains clear, you're on our objection.

611
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.320
Stand your objection, counselor. This is the most ridiculous and

612
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.840
flamboyant thing I've ever seen in the courtroom. The police

613
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:56.719
laboratory has already made the standard test of the weapon

614
00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.880
and found no bloodstains on the knife. It was white, Queen,

615
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.840
But your honor, the sensitivity of this test. There's no

616
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:07.159
time during this trial has the prosecution denied that absence

617
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:11.599
of bloodstains. Mister Wedge is planning to demonstrate something we

618
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.519
already know using a test which is not accepted as

619
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:20.559
standard laboratory procedures. I suggest that this soul called demonstration

620
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.960
is pure theatrics intended to mislead and confuse the jury.

621
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:32.320
Mister Wedg, your court must agree with the prosecution. You

622
00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.559
are not a qualified expert in forensic chemistry. The cooperation

623
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:41.639
of the police laboratory report is cantuitous evidence which must

624
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:46.239
be considered inadmissible. But my client was willing to have

625
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:49.719
me make the test, don't you see he knew the

626
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:54.719
chance he was taking sorry, the demonstration is improper. Objection

627
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:58.599
is a stand, But your honor, Grand mister Edge, you

628
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:07.760
cannot make the a test. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

629
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:13.840
I believe that Benjamin Bleeker is innocent. I believe this

630
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:17.119
because of a test which I was not permitted to make.

631
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.920
This boy knew that the results of this test might

632
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.960
have condemned him to life in prison, and yet Benjamin

633
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.159
Bleeker told me to proceed. What could be more obvious

634
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:43.800
that no guilty person would have done so? Will the

635
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:49.920
foreman of the jury please rise? Has the jury reached

636
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:51.679
its verdict in this case?

637
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.559
We have your honor.

638
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.719
How do you find the defendant Benjamin Bleeker guilty or

639
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.679
that it's guilty.

640
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:05.280
We find the defendant not guilty.

641
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:17.639
Bless you, mister Wedge, God bless you for what you

642
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:20.800
did out there. Yeah, you really did a job on

643
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:24.159
a mister Wedge. Jay, thanks a lot. I didn't ask

644
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:28.719
you in here to congratulate me. I had another reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

645
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.199
I know we should talk about the fee. No, mister Bleacher,

646
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.320
it's not my fee. I'm worrying about. It's my conscience.

647
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:43.880
Your conscience. Why because of what I just did? Yeah,

648
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:49.400
but you say, my boy, Yes, I know, but in

649
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.639
order to do that, I had to resort to exactly

650
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:58.320
what the prosecuting attorney called pure theatrics. What I uh,

651
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.679
I don't understand. I didn't want to make that test.

652
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:07.719
Do you understand? I didn't want to make it, didn't

653
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.239
even plan on making it. I would have had to,

654
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.320
I suppose if there was no objection, But that was

655
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.840
the chance I took it. Man, you you didn't want to.

656
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.800
If the stuff in this beaker had turned pink, it

657
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:27.920
would have been all over for your son. I was

658
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:32.880
counting on the prosecution objecting. I wanted their objections because

659
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.000
I thought the jury would be impressed simply by the

660
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:40.920
fact that we were volunteering this experiment. Yeah, but if

661
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.199
you had made the test, it would have been all

662
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:49.960
right too. How do you know WHOA? Because it would

663
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:55.000
have been because what my son said was true. Well,

664
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:57.719
there's only one way we can really know that, isn't there.

665
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:01.599
You see this, mister blake Kery, that's my knife. That's

666
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.960
right Exhibit A. What are you going to do? We're

667
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.320
going to make the test that judge wouldn't allow. We're

668
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.320
going to make it privately, just for us. But why

669
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.519
what does it matter now? It matters to me. That's why.

670
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:23.679
Hand me that knife, please, the knife, Give it to me.

671
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:31.800
Don't you want to know the truth too? The truth? Papa?

672
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:36.960
What are you doing? What are you doing with that knife? How?

673
00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:42.320
Cutting myself? What? Mister cutting my hand? Well? Hop, are

674
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:50.639
you crazy there here? Mister Wedge? HESI and knife? Make

675
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:59.920
your tests now? Well, that's what I would call up

676
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:05.079
bloody good demonstration of fatherly affection. Maybe Nicholas Wedge will

677
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:08.000
never know whether his client was guilty or innocent, but

678
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:11.639
he'll never forget that he's seen vivid proof that blood

679
00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:17.480
is indeed thicker than water. I'll be back shortly. Pardon

680
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:19.840
me message? Huh? Can you tell me what happens this

681
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:20.559
time of year?

682
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:24.119
Bob reaches its peak? Nope, Muskmelon reaches its peak?

683
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:24.239
No?

684
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:27.320
No, does it in any way involve something reaching its peak?

685
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.960
No? Not really. What happens this time of year is

686
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.400
that you can get a really outstanding deal on Buick's

687
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:36.760
small but surprisingly elegant Apollo, And with what's happening to Price's,

688
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.480
you may never have a better chance to buy a Buwer. Hey,

689
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:40.679
I know what.

690
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:43.639
Happened the Buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio.

691
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:47.800
Oh I thought of that. Our cast included Jay Gregory,

692
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.760
Robert Dryden, Bob Caliban, Grace Matthews, and Ira Lewis. The

693
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.239
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.

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Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Bush Incorporated,

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brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.

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This is E. G.

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Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.

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The Worr Mystery Theater has been brought to you by

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Shopwright Supermarkets, where you get a lot more for a

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little less, by Suburban Savings with offices throughout North Jersey,

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and by Dubinet a whine to go before your meal,

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made to make what comes after better. The preceding Mystery

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Theater program was furnished by the CBS Radio Network.

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Oh well, I see you know what it means when

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I put the record on record. Well, my dear, it's

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about time for you to head back and for me

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to go back to wherever it is I came from.

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But I do hope you will take your time on

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the walk home in the dark. Or was that, Oh no,

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they're not a problem, not this time of year anyway.

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But as you make your long jaunt home across the street,

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through the river, not quite to grandmother's house at all. Well,

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when you get home, when you lay down in that warm,

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cozy bed of your orders, as your eyes get heavy

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and you prepare to enter into the wonderful land of nod,

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please take a moment and be thankful. Thank you for

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what you have. I'll be here next time.

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Calling him, call them Comma ramadi, commas the wrong, bring down,

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bringing you, brombling you, mumbling tim think of break