Just Cause
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:17:02
I'm impressed.
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Good.
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I've always been that climb-out crab.
:17:09
My mother OD'd on heroin
when I was 13 up in Newark.

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Grandma got me and brought me here.
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I was high school valedictorian.
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I got a full scholarship to Cornell, but...
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...they treated me like an outsider.
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How do you like Grandma?
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She's something else.
:17:33
She's very determined.
But why did you send her up to see me?

:17:37
Because you are from a small town,
like me.

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Fife, Scotland. First in your family
to attend a university.

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Magna from Cambridge. Columbia Law.
:17:46
Youngest assistant DA, 1960-69.
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Joined a law firm, 1970.
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1980 to the present...
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...Harvard professor of law...
:17:54
...author of Process and Law,
and six books since.

:17:58
I've read them all.
:18:00
Enough.
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Let's start.
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Joanie Shriver.
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The victim.
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Eleven years old. White girl.
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Snatched from the Ochopee
Elementary School, March 4, 1986.

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Found a day later, raped and cut up
in the Glades.

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A teacher ID'd the car
as somewhat like mine.

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Officer Tanny Brown come and lock me up.
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-I read the transcript.
-I'll tell you this:

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Down here, if the chief head-banger
takes a dislike to you...

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...your ass is his.
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He's a nigger who likes being a big fish--
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He's black?
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Yes.
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In the new South, they've got black cops
to torment your black ass.

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It's called affirmative action.
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Tell me about your confession.
:18:54
My confession?
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I was slapped.
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I was punched.
:18:59
Beaten with a phone book.

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