The Thin Blue Line
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1:03:03
Grigson testified for...
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two and a half hours
about all these degrees he's got.

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He's been here, and he's been there,
and he's studied here.

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He called me Charlie Manson.
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He called me Adolf Hitler.
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He said I'm the type of personality...
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that can work all day and creep all night.
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He testified, Grigson...
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that the future seriousness...
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of my mental state...
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would be such that if they released me...
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I would go crazy and
probably butcher half of Dallas County.

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Even though he talked to me 15 minutes...
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I have no prior convictions,
no prior arrests...

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I was nonviolent for 28 years.
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On one instance...
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and that's saying if I did this,
which I didn't...

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he's stating that, that's enough...
For the rest of my life, watch me.

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Don't ever turn your back on me.
And he talked to me 15 minutes.

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He's crazy.
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You can understand why a man
might steal if he needs money...

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to put food on the table.
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I can understand why a 17-year-old
boy who doesn't have a car...

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would steal one to ride around in.
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I can understand
why the heroin addict needs heroin.

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But it's very hard to understand
why anybody has to kill a police officer.

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It just doesn't have to be.
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When I'm asleep
and I close my eyes and think...

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"Why would he do it?
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"He had no background
that would lead to murder...

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"no reason to commit a murder."
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And I look at the facts of the case and say...
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David Harris knew the car was stolen,
knew the guns were there...


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