:37:02
...a year prior to his arrest
for Joanie Shriver's murder?
:37:05
Case went all the way to trial.
:37:08
Yeah, I bet "Mr. Victim" forgot
to tell you about that.
:37:12
And what was the result?
:37:16
Prosecution's case collapsed
on a technicality, I believe.
:37:22
Acquitted or thrown out of court?
:37:27
Look, Armstrong...
:37:30
...I knew Robert Earl was bad news
when I first saw him.
:37:33
See him hanging around the school
when I'd pick up my girls.
:37:37
Hanging around with his pretty-boy looks
and college-boy words.
:37:41
He just felt wrong.
:37:43
Wasn't just me who felt that way.
Every man in this department.
:37:46
-Everybody in town.
-I still don't hear any evidence.
:37:51
We didn't need any.
:37:54
We had a confession.
:37:55
If that's a confession...
:37:57
...my ass is a banjo.
:37:58
Damn arrogant Yankee son of a bitch!
He did it, goddamn it!
:38:04
That man is an asshole!
:38:06
Just calm the hell down.
:38:09
You tell me that man never laid a hand
on Bobby Earl in 22 hours?
:38:14
He slapped him once or twice.
:38:16
Which was it?
:38:18
You and I both know
it wasn't a textbook confession.
:38:22
But it was enough to convict him!
:38:24
This case hangs together by a thin thread.
:38:27
You come down here, you start picking
at them threads, it'll fall apart.
:38:33
I don't want that.
:38:35
I tell you something else.
:38:37
I want to see Robert Earl go to the chair
for what he did.
:38:43
Tell me, what is your policy on taking guns
into the interrogation room?
:38:49
Very simple: we don't.
:38:51
May I see your left ankle?
:38:55
Please?