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We're all Savannahians.
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Our paths cross from time to time.
:55:13
We greet each other.
:55:15
Smile here. Nod there.
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But even if we don 't know each other...
:55:21
...we have one thing in common.
:55:24
This beautiful place where we all live.
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And as one Savannahian...
:55:30
...to 12...
:55:32
...I'd like to thank you
for your civic pride...
:55:36
...for your diligence...
:55:37
...and here in this courtroom...
:55:40
...for your rapt attention.
:55:41
I've watched you taking notes.
:55:45
The prosecution
started this whole thing...
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...quoting someone
by the name of Hobbes.
:55:51
I don't know who that is...
:55:53
...but...
:55:54
...I do know who Perry Mason is.
:55:58
You watch Perry Mason?
:56:00
I do.
:56:02
And I got to thinking...
:56:04
...if some TV writer...
:56:06
...was to come to Perry Mason
and say...
:56:08
..."Here you are, Mr. Raymond Burr,
here's a story like this."
:56:12
You know what I think he'd say?
:56:14
I think old Raymond would say...
:56:16
"That's not a very good story.
:56:19
I wouldn't have to be
a very good lawyer...
:56:22
...to get that man off,
now would I?"
:56:25
He'd be right!
:56:28
Because...
:56:29
...by all the evidence,
Jim Williams is an innocent man.
:56:35
But I'm not Perry Mason.
:56:38
I'm not some TV lawyer.
:56:41
So I got to scratch and tear
at the prosecution's case...
:56:46
...trying to whittle it down to nothing.
:56:50
And darned if I don't think I have!
:56:54
Because the fabrication
of the prosecution's case is in pieces.
:56:59
When you consider
how Detective Boone...