:57:02
All in this state know the truth.
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Now you need only find the courage...
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...to speak the words:
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"Carl Lee Hailey...
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...is guilty!"
:57:16
Guilty!
:57:17
Guilty!
:57:21
State rests, Your Honor.
:57:39
Now, I had a great
summation all worked out...
:57:43
...full of some sharp lawyering...
:57:47
...but I'm not doing it.
:57:49
I'm here to apologize.
:57:51
I am young, and I am inexperienced.
:57:55
But you cannot...
:57:57
...hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible...
:58:01
...for my shortcomings.
:58:03
In all this legal maneuvering...
:58:06
...something got lost.
:58:09
That something is the truth.
:58:16
It is incumbent upon us lawyers...
:58:18
...not to just talk about the truth...
:58:20
...but to actually seek it...
:58:22
...to find it, to live it.
:58:26
My teacher taught me that.
:58:30
Let's take Dr. Bass, for example.
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I would never knowingly put a
convicted felon on the stand.
:58:36
I hope you believe that.
:58:38
But what is the truth?
:58:39
That he's a disgraced liar?
:58:42
What if I told you...
:58:44
...the woman he was accused of
raping was 17, he was 23...
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...that she became his wife...
:58:49
...bore his child...
:58:51
...and is still married to him?
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Does that make his
testimony more or less true?