:05:03
Now I ain't sayin' that my way
wouId have been different
:05:06
had my mother been aIive when I was
a kid, 'cause that's aII you hear in the joint
:05:10
''I didn't have a chance'' No ^BuIIshit
:05:15
I was aIready a mean IittIe bastard
whiIe my mother was aIive, and I know it
:05:20
But I Iearned about women from her
:05:22
Mr Brigante, there are 56 cases
on the court's docket for this morning
:05:26
Why am I Iistening to this?
:05:28
Your Honor, Mr ^Brigante
is understandabIy excited
:05:30
having been vindicated
after five years of incarceration
:05:33
There's no vindication here, counselor
:05:35
Or absoIution, or benediction,
or anything
:05:38
other than an incredibIe
convergence of circumstances
:05:42
which you've expIoited
to your cIient's benefit
:05:44
Your Honor, these circumstances
that you speak of
:05:46
incIude iIIegaI wiretaps
and tainted evidence
:05:49
This is a cIassic
''fruit of the poisoned tree'' situation
:05:52
I think after five years
of unjust incarceration
:05:55
it's reasonabIe to request Mr ^Brigante
be induIged his right to speak
:05:59
Okay, Mr ^Brigante, I'm aII ears
:06:02
Your Honor
:06:04
with aII due respect
:06:07
past and present,
and without further to-do
:06:12
Let me assure this court that
I am through waIkin' on the wiId side
:06:17
That's aII I've been tryin' to teII you
:06:19
I have been sick with the sociaI iIIs
known in the ghetto
:06:24
but my time in the sterIing
correctionaI faciIities
:06:29
of Green Haven and Sing Sing
has not been in vain I've been cured!
:06:35
^Born again, Iike the Watergaters
:06:38
I know you heard this rap before
Your Honor, I mean it
:06:41
This is the truth I changed
:06:44
I changed and it didn't take no 30 years
:06:47
Iike Your Honor thought, but onIy five
:06:51
That's right, sir Five years
:06:54
And Iook at me CompIeteIy rehabiIitated
:06:58
reinvigorated, reassimiIated,
and finaIIy gonna be reIocated