Thesis on a Homicide Page #2

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It's not the act itself

what's judged.

The law does not protect us

from an aberrant act.

It only intervenes if that aberrant act

threatens the will of the powerful.

No, thanks.

We live in anarchy

and nobody seems to realize.

Every day somebody

wrings a butterfly to death

and no law can prevent it.

Interesting theory.

It's more than a theory.

Look, I have at least twenty arguments

to prove you wrong, but I'd like

- to give you some advice, may I?

- Of course.

You're twenty...

- Eight.

- Twenty-eight years old.

Try to get laid

as much as you can.

The rest comes on its own.

Do you know what time it is?

Around three or so.

It's half past three.

We talk some other time.

A judge

never has direct access

to the circumstances of a crime.

Before him,

there are eyewitnesses,

onlookers,

the security guard in the corner,

paramedics...

Even the typist...

I'm not exaggerating.

Sheet number 574

in the Lopez Paunero case.

It's in your handout.

"It can be inferred

from the first test

"that the phone found

only a few feet from the body

does not belong to the victim."

It took more than four years for them

to realize that instead of "phone",

it should have been "bone".

The judge who has to decide

if a defendant is guilty or innocent

does so groping in the dark.

Under those circumstances,

what's the judge's only valid tool?

The facts.

No, proving

the certainty of facts

is the goal of the judge,

not his tool.

The repetition of testimonies.

That's not it either.

If that was the case then a lawyer

would only have to get or buy

twenty witnesses to say

the same thing and case solved.

Details.

It's all in the details.

A judge undertakes

a slow discrimination

of what's contingent

and what's essential,

and it's the details

that tip the balance.

Sheet number 761...

"The defendant

testifies to visiting the building

"on Charcas 3956,

"but he's unable

to be specific about the time.

"He becomes

knowledgeable of the circumstances

and gives

his testimony to the Police."

There's someone

lying in the parking lot.

What?

There's a girl lying there.

Is she dead?

It looks like it.

What do you reckon happened?

Don't let any

of these a**holes get through.

Did you talk to the night guard?

Talk to him.

Step back, please.

How's that going?

Superintendent?

Let him through.

Deputy superintendent still.

We know justice is slow.

Yeah. Since when

do lawyers arrive before the doctor?

I have a ringside seat.

Of course.

- What happened?

- What didn't happen.

She was beaten up,

raped, cut and then murdered.

The works.

You knew her?

Death to women like her.

DEATH:

TO WOMEN LIKE HER

"Brutal murder in law school"

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