:58:08
I think there
was a recognition
:58:09
that Arnold's case was becoming
increasingly hopeless
:58:13
because of the child
pornography problem
:58:14
because of other people
coming out of the woodwork.
:58:17
So the strategy evolved to
:58:20
"What can we do to save Jesse?"
:58:23
Jesse's lawyer
very eloquently said to us
:58:27
"If there's a rowboat
and it's sinking
:58:30
and the rowboat
is tied to a rock
:58:33
you have to disconnect
the rowboat from the rock
:58:35
and save the rowboat
:58:37
even though the rock
is sinking"
:58:38
Meaning you had to separate
Arnold from Jesse.
:58:42
And Arnold was going to plead
:58:44
and Jesse would
in some way benefit.
:58:48
I was sitting there
potentially going to trial
:58:51
with no pornographic magazines
admitted into evidence
:58:53
without an adult pedophile
as a co-defendant
:58:56
and I understood
that sort of reasoning
:59:00
but it makes no sense
if my father pleads guilty
:59:03
and then I go to trial and say,
"I didn't do it"
:59:05
when all the jurors have already
read in the newspaper
:59:08
that my father plead guilty.
:59:10
And I did not want my father
to plead guilty.
:59:15
I arranged for Mr. Friedman
and his family
:59:17
to get a jury room
where they could sit
:59:20
and they could discuss
these plea options.
:59:24
And while I didn't go
inside the room
:59:27
except to knock on the door
and say where we're at
:59:30
in terms of what Mr. Friedman
wanted to do
:59:32
there was a lot
of yelling and crying
:59:37
and screaming going on,
coming out of that room.
:59:40
God damn it!
:59:41
When I screamed at Arnold,
I screamed
:59:44
"You must do it
because it'll help Jesse.
:59:47
Do it for Jesse. "
:59:48
And my brothers were
just furious at this notion
:59:53
that my father would go to court
and plead guilty.
:59:55
And at one point
in all of the chaos
:59:57
my father
just started screaming.