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that ever happened to me.

They'd just brought in a new

dean, Charles Hamilton Houston.

Turned that place around,

taught me everything I know,

including how to sue

the University of Maryland.

You sued them?

You bet your ass I did.

Soon as I passed the bar.

And?

Supreme Court ordered the

bastards to integrate.

You argued in the United

States Supreme Court?

What?

No, the Maryland Supreme Court.

I didn't argue in front of the US

Supreme Court until last year.

Your boy is ready for you.

Spell.

Lawyer's here to see you.

Mr. Spell, I'm Thurgood

Marshall with the NAACP.

You heard of us?

- You a lawyer?

- I am.

This is Sam Friedman.

He's a lawyer too.

You can go.

Got no money for lawyers.

Anybody ask you for money?

Did you rape that woman, Joseph?

No.

Why does she say you did?

I don't know.

She says you raped her and tried

to kill her. -She's lying.

I was up in White Plains,

at a club.

Come on, Joseph.

All night long?

No, not all night.

I was at the house but couldn't

sleep, so I went to play cards.

Got back

maybe 6:
00, 6:30.

Anybody see you at the club?

Yeah, but I don't know

their names or nothin'.

For an alibi defense,

you need witnesses, Joseph.

Otherwise it's her

word against yours.

And who do you think

they're gonna believe?

There was a cop.

A cop?

Stopped me in Port Chester

on the way to the club.

Looked at my license, then let me go.

What time was that?

I don't know.

Maybe 3:
00 in the morning.

I'm telling you this up front.

The NAACP,

we're not like most lawyers.

We only represent

innocent people,

people accused

because of their race.

That's our mission.

You understand?

So I need to know this...

Look at me now.

Did you do

what they said you did?

I never touched that woman.

Okay, Joseph.

You got lawyers now.

Go ahead.

Change the station.

What do you know

about the prosecutor?

Lorin Willis.

Graduated Yale

the day he was born.

Unless you came over on the

Mayflower, you're nothing to him.

They're grooming him

to be senator, I hear.

What do you know about the judge?

Judge Foster?

Former law partner

of Willis's father.

I'll move your admission

Monday morning, and then...

Back to fighting off

those insurance claims.

Yeah, I know.

So you like

Langston Hughes?

Of course.

Don't you?

I don't give a damn

about no poetry.

Come on.

I actually went to school

with Langston.

I just wish he'd do something

more worthwhile with his time.

Another bourbon, Mr.

Marshall? Sure.

You know, Tad's got a law degree too.

From Fordham.

You told me you were a driver.

Yep.

The state of Connecticut decided to not

allow me a license to practice law.

They were generous enough to give

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