Criminal Law Page #4

The autopsy probably won't

even prove she was raped.

Let alone provide identifying evidence.

You're pretty sure she was raped.

Come on, Mesel.

We both know about cases like this.

More or less.

I know why Carl's here,

and I know why I'm here.

He found the body.

I've got one more question for you

you kind of skipped over it before.

What were you doing here?

Taking a walk.

I used to jog here.

I like it.

In the rain?

11:
00 at night?

And why'd you keep checkin' your watch?

I don't know.

Doesn't seem to be a whole hell

of a lot you do know, is there?

Sonny,

it would please me mightily

to see you sweat for once.

And you will.

You will if you don't start remembering

something useful real quick.

Ben.

Here. Give me a hand, and we'll

let Peggy get back to work.

He's a hard master.

You're telling me.

You're giving these away?

Your collection of quotations?

"I hate quotations.

"Tell me what you know."

Emerson.

"The power of the quotation"

"is as dreadful a weapon as any which"

"the human intellect

can forge."

Chapman.

I don't need weapons anymore.

I'm disarming.

Besides, some of these books can't

be much good, they quote me.

I quote you all the time.

It's the only immortality.

Remember when I told you

I was going into defense?

You said it was a lot

tougher than prosecution.

Instead of just trying to get the bad guys,

I'd have to defend all sorts of people.

Some with very dirty hands.

I was never afraid of disillusionment.

I enjoyed the game too much.

Sometimes I worried about burning out.

Not about my conscience.

I always thought I was so damn smart.

You are.

I never held it against you.

Now I'm going to do something

that's not so smart.

We were meant to act,

even if we make mistakes.

That's why we put a sharp point on a pencil

and why we put an eraser on the other end.

This might be indelible.

There's no other course of action

that will satisfy your conscience?

No.

Then you don't need the advice

of an old man in a library.

Who said that?

About the pencil?

I did. Just now.

It'll be in here next edition.

What do you think of her?

It's beautiful.

A bit cramped for me, maybe.

It's like a little island.

Even in the shadow of the

city, a boat is very private.

Away from everything.

You should try it.

You can afford it.

It may take several generations

to work up a full appreciation of boats.

I've only got as far as the snazzy car.

You should come out with me sometime.

I'm sorry about last night.

Sorry?

The police gave you a hard time.

You could've just left. You know,

you didn't have to call them.

I think I did.

But I didn't tell them why I was there.

Well, they'll come to me anyway.

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