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Anatomy of a Murder Page #10
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- 1959
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Can you recall what Lt. Manion
told you about the rape?
Yes, sir.
He said he'd been asleep
He was waked up by some noise,
screams, he thought.
He got up,
opened the trailer door and went outside.
His wife came running out of the dark
and fell into his arms.
You saw his wife in the trailer.
How'd she look?
She was a little hysterical.
She'd been pretty badly beaten up.
She had big, black bruises
over her face and arms.
Did Mrs. Manion tell you
about this rape and beating?
She did.
Did she take you to where it happened?
Yes, the next morning.
Did you find anything?
Any evidence pertaining to the story
that Mrs. Manion had told you?
On the lane in the woods,
we found tyre tracks and dog tracks...
...and a leather case
with some horn-rimmed glasses inside.
We also looked for a certain undergarment
of Mrs. Manion's, but we didn't find it.
Will the attorneys for both sides
approach the bench, please?
Mr. Biegler, you finally got
your rape into the case...
...and I think all the details
should now be made clear to the jury.
Do you agree, Mr. Lodwick?
Absolutely.
What exactly was the undergarment
just referred to?
Panties, Your Honour.
Do you expect this subject
to come up again?
Yes, sir.
There's a certain light connotation
attached to the word "panties."
Can we find another name for them?
call them anything else.
I'm a bachelor, Your Honour.
That's a great help. Mr. Dancer?
When I was overseas during the war,
Your Honour, I learned a French word.
I'm afraid it might be slightly suggestive.
All right, gentlemen, back to your places.
For the benefit of the jury,
but more especially for the spectators...
...the undergarment referred to
in the testimony was, to be exact...
...Mrs. Manion's panties.
I wanted you to get
your snickering over and done with.
This pair of panties will be mentioned
again in the course of this trial.
When it happens, there will not be
one laugh, one snicker, one giggle...
...or even one smirk in my courtroom.
There isn't anything comic
about a pair of panties...
...which figure in the violent death
of one man...
...and the possible incarceration of another.
Proceed, Mr. Biegler.
Did you give Mrs. Manion
a lie-detector test?
Objection. A polygraph test
is inadmissible evidence in our courts.
I only asked if he gave the test.
I didn't ask the results.
He may answer that.
I gave her a lie-detector test
at her request.
Now, after all this investigation,
did you believe Mrs. Manion?
I did.
- Even after the lie-detector test?
- I object to that question.
It constitutes flagrant subterfuge
on the part of the defence counsel.
Objection sustained.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
a polygraph or lie-detector test...
...is not admissible in evidence,
because no one has ever been sure...
...that some people couldn't lie
to a lie detector and get away with it.
Go ahead.
In any case, Sgt. Durgo, you, yourself,
in your own heart and mind...
...are quite convinced
of Mrs. Manion's honesty.
- Yes, sir.
- That's all.
Just a moment.
Did you look for the panties
elsewhere than the lane in the woods?
We looked in Barney Quill's car
and his room in the hotel.
We didn't find the panties.
Do you know why Mrs. Manion
requested a lie-detector test?
- I know what she said.
- What was that?
She wanted everybody to believe her story
as she knew it would help her husband.
Was that the only reason she gave?
Said she'd already sworn to her husband
and she wanted everybody to believe it.
One moment please, Your Honour.
Ask him in what manner she swore.
Did Mrs. Manion say
how she had sworn to her husband?
Yes, sir.
She said she had sworn on a rosary.
Sergeant, this lane in the woods:
What's it used for? Where does it go?
It used to be a logging road.
Doesn't go any place, just stops.
Who uses it now?
I think it's a road kids drive down to park.
- It's a lovers' lane?
- I think so, yes.
- The witness is yours.
- No more questions.
The witness may step down.
In view of the evidence concerning rape,
which Your Honour has ruled admissible...
...we ask for a 30-minute recess
in order that we may...
...bring in a witness
we had not anticipated using.
All right, we'll take a 30-minute recess.
Recess.
Why didn't you tell me about that rosary?
We forgot it.
We didn't forget it. Manny said,
maybe we shouldn't tell that again.
It might've looked like something else.
Like I didn't believe her.
How much more didn't you tell me?
Everything else.
We told you everything else.
Is that right, Laura?
Yes, everything else.
All right, now get this, both of you:
When you get up on that stand,
I want you to tell the truth.
I don't want you to tell anything
but the truth.
Don't try and lie or conceal anything,
or you'll get skinned alive.
This fellow Dancer's gonna move in.
Doctor Dompierre, did you have occasion
to come to the county jail...
...the night of August 15 of this year?
I did.
- Who called you to the jail?
- The police authorities.
What did they want you to do?
They wanted me to make a test
for the presence of sperm...
...on the person
of a Mrs. Frederick Manion.
I made the test.
In making this test,
what was your conclusion?
Negative. There was none.
Your witness, Mr. Biegler.
did you notice any bruises or marks...
...on Mrs. Manion at that time?
I did.
Were you asked about
I was not.
Where did you do the lab work
on your test for sperm?
St. Margaret's Hospital in this city.
- Who worked up the slides for you?
- A technician at the hospital.
Wouldn't it have been better to have
these slides worked up by a pathologist...
...or an expert in this field?
Yes, but the police were in a hurry.
I knew this fellow came on at 7:00 a.m.
Wouldn't it have been better
to wait for the expert...
...if the possible question of rape
hung on the result?
It would've been.
In the newspaper,
on the evening of August 16...
...it was stated you found
no evidence of rape. Is that true?
It is not true. I made no such statement.
Did you form an opinion as to
whether Mrs. Manion had been raped?
- No.
- Why didn't you form an opinion?
It's impossible to tell if a mature,
married woman has been raped.
That's all.
Did you have an opinion about whether
she'd had any recent relations with a man?
Insofar as no sperm was present...
...it didn't appear that she had had
recent relations with a man.
Just one more question:
The fact that no evidence was present
in her body...
...does not mean that she was not raped,
does it?
No.
Do you know what constitutes rape
under the law?
Yes, sir. Violation is sufficient for rape.
- There need not be a completion.
- No further questions.
The witness may step down.
The People recall Alphonse Paquette
to the stand.
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