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"I was very much afraid."
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So you did take the gun deliberately?
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Objection!
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The defendant has made
no such admission.
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My Lord...
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If the Prosecution will be patient,
I might be able to help.
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Please try to understand
what it means to be as she is...
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living in a world apart,
shut off from everyone...
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never hearing the warmth
of a human voice.
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Think of the loneliness and the fear.
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These people, although tutored,
are governed almost solely by intuition.
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Belinda's been instructed
in certain fundamentals.
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- She knows right from wrong...
- My Lord...
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...but something in her was stronger than
the precept, "Thou shalt not kill."
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My Lord, I object.
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Dr. Richardson is completely out of order.
He's not the counsel for the accused.
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Your Lordship, I insist this girl obeyed
an impulse older than the laws of man:
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The instinct of a mother
to protect her child.
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Any further breach of your capacity
as interpreter...
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I shall hold as in contempt of this court.
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Objection sustained.
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Now please proceed.
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When did you get the gun?
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After Locky McCormick came in?
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"Yes." Why?
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"I was afraid he would hurt my baby."
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And that was your only motive?
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Was there any other reason
why you were afraid of him?
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Your Lordship! The interpreter,
in rephrasing my question...
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is trying to coach the defendant.
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This man is totally unqualified.
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He's deeply involved in the case himself
and I can prove it.
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May I present new evidence?
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- Has it any bearing on this testimony?
- It has.
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Permission granted.
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Dr. Richardson, in your earlier testimony...
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didn't you deny being the father
of Belinda MacDonald's child?
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- I did.
- Did you write this?
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I did.
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I should like to read a passage
from this letter.
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"...physician takes a lot more time...
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"Work is hard. Be here soon.
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"I have found a house for us.
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"It is small but it has
a beautifully sunny room...
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"for our little son."