Reasonable Doubt Page #3

that's beside the point.

I don't like to spend

too much time at home.

It brings back memories...

My wife and child.

Uh, yes.

I heard what happened

to your family.

I'm... I'm sorry.

Emanuel fryer.

Gunned down the next night

attacking someone else's family.

What do we know about the victim?

Cecil Ackerman...

registered sex offender;

two counts of child sex

abuse; Did two years inside;

was only out

on parole three months.

So a real loss to society.

So far there's no connection

between him and Davis.

- What about the murder weapon?

- Weapons.

The coroner couldn't be exact,

but he suggested these

wounds could be consistent

with the type of tools

and machine parts

found in the back of Davis's van.

- Could be?

- Well, they also found

significant amounts of oil

and grit in the wounds,

which corroborates Davis's

hit-and-run story.

True, but the Vic's

D.N.A. And blood were

all over Davis's clothes,

inside his van.

Which could've got there when he

lifted Ackerman into his van.

Yeah, or when he murdered him.

Davis has two counts

- of aggravated assault.

- At a time when his family

had just been murdered

in a home invasion.

He hasn't had so much

as a parking ticket since.

What's bothering you, Mitch?

I don't see motive.

Just got this audio file.

Here's the transcript.

It was a 911 call.

Somebody called in an accident

20 minutes

before Davis was picked up.

By the time the ambulance

arrived at the location,

there was no one there.

Okay, thank you.

Is there any way

we can find the caller?

- No, he used a payphone.

- How do you know that?

If he used his cell, it would

have his name, phone records.

Okay, 911 call's

potentially damaging,

but it's not conclusive.

And if we can't find the caller,

defense probably can't either.

Could be anyone in Chicago.

Mitch, where were you that evening?

- No, Mitch couldn't

string a sentence together

that night, right, Mitch?

- Yeah, thanks, Stu.

- If it was a hit-and-run,

all it takes is

for the guy who hit him

to come forward and confess,

and we're dead in the water.

What's the likelihood

of anybody doing that, huh?

Bottom line:
Do we have

enough for a conviction?

Davis was found with a

dead man in his van.

We have a ton of physical evidence.

No alibi, a documented

history of violence

and his public defender's

still in diapers.

Mitch will eat him for breakfast.

Charge him, murder one.

You examined the body, doctor.

In your professional... opinion,

what was the cause of death?

Blunt force trauma to the skull.

And what caused that trauma?

The back of the skull

was badly crushed,

so it's hard to narrow

it down to any one item,

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