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Anatomy of a Murder Page #15
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right from wrong...
...but it wouldn't have made a difference.
- Is that what you said?
- Approximately.
So, at the time of the shooting,
he could have known the difference?
He might have, yes.
Dr. Smith...
...if the defendant could have known
what he was doing and that it was wrong...
...how can you testify
that he was legally insane?
I'm not saying he was legally insane.
I'm saying that in his condition
it wouldn't have made a difference...
...whether he knew right from wrong.
He would still have shot Quill.
Dr. Smith...
...are you willing to rest your testimony
in this case on this opinion?
Yes, I am.
Your Honour,
I'd like to ask for a short recess.
We would like to meet with Mr. Biegler
and the court in chambers.
- Mr. Biegler?
- Glad to oblige, Your Honour.
Short recess. The jury will remain.
Someday I'm going to horrify tradition
and lay a dense cloud of tobacco smoke...
...in that hallowed courtroom.
What's on your mind, Mr. Dancer?
In view of Dr. Smith's testimony,
the defence might like to change their plea.
- Change it to what?
- Guilty, of course.
No, we'll still go for broke.
No one's considered nuts
unless he didn't know right from wrong.
- Why don't you get this over with?
- Your Honour, would you turn to page 486?
What's that?
Appears to be a law book, Mr. Lodwick.
I'm sorry, Your Honour.
I make those to help me think sometimes.
- For perch?
- No, it's for frogs.
What case is he citing?
We gig frogs
down in my part of the country.
It's the same up here.
I'm a trout man,
but this is a new wrinkle I'm gonna try.
They do it a lot down in the bayou.
The idea is to get a great big long pole
and a 10-pound line.
Just drift along a high bank in a boat.
Then you see that great big old bullfrog
in a crevice, and you float this along...
...in front of him
and that old tongue snaps out.
You got frog's legs for supper.
I'll be darned.
Keep it. Try it sometime.
Thanks. I will.
- What is it, Your Honour?
Looks like a precedent.
Would you like to read it, Mr. Dancer?
No, thank you. I think I recall the case.
We're hooked, like the frog.
Dr. Harcourt, where did you receive
your university training?
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.
And where do you practise now?
I'm the medical superintendent
of the Bonder State Hospital for the insane.
It's been stated that dissociative reaction
or irresistible impulse...
...is not uncommon
among soldiers in combat.
- Do you agree with that statement?
- I do.
But not as it was put by Dr. Smith.
Where would you depart from Dr. Smith?
Dissociative reaction is not something
that comes out of the blue...
...and disappears as quickly.
It can only occur,
even among soldiers in combat...
...if the individual has a psychoneurotic
condition of long standing.
It has been testified here
that a psychiatric examination...
...of the defendant showed
no evidence of neurosis...
...and no history of dissociative reaction.
You've also heard it testified
that the defendant's behaviour...
...on the night of the shooting
was cool and direct.
- As an observer, do you remember this?
- Yes.
Have you formed an opinion
about the defendant's sanity...
...on the night of the shooting?
Yes. I'm of the opinion...
...that he was in sufficient possession
of his faculties...
...so he was not dominated
by his unconscious mind.
In other words, he was not in the grip
of irresistible impulse.
In my opinion, he was not.
Your witness.
Psychiatry is an effort to probe into
the dark, undiscovered world of the mind.
In there, the world might be round,
it could be square.
Your opinion could be wrong, Dr. Smith's
opinion could be right, is that true?
I'd be a poor doctor
if I didn't agree with that.
But, I believe my opinion to be right.
Might you have changed your opinion...
...if you'd examined the defendant
like Dr. Smith?
I don't believe so.
But Smith's opinion was made
under better circumstances?
If you mean that he was able
to examine the man, yes.
Yes. Thank you, Doctor.
That's all, Dr. Harcourt.
Is there more rebuttal?
We're over a barrel, Mitch.
We have to use him.
We call Duane Miller to the stand.
Will the sheriff bring in the witness?
What can he tell?
Nothing.
He can't tell anything.
Raise your right hand.
Do you swear the testimony you give...
...shall be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth?
I do.
State your name, please.
Duane Miller. Most folks call me Duke.
Where do you presently reside?
Across the alley, in the jail.
You know the defendant, Lt. Manion?
I got to know him recently.
His cell's next to mine.
When was your last conversation?
Except for "hello" this morning,
it was last night.
Did you discuss his trial last night?
Yeah, some.
Would you tell the court
what Lt. Manion said about the trial?
I said, "Are things looking up, Lieutenant?"
He said, "I got it made, buster."
He said, "I fooled my lawyer,
I fooled that head-shrinker...
"... l'm gonna fool
those corn-cobbers on the jury."
You're a liar!
I apologise for my client, Your Honour.
His outburst is almost excusable
since the prosecution has seen fit...
...to put a felon on the stand to testify
against an officer in the U.S. Army.
I don't know who is the worst offender:
Manion or his lawyer.
We're close to the end.
In the name of heaven, let's have peace
and courtesy for these last few hours.
Mr. Dancer, you will continue
your interrogation without comment.
Mr. Biegler, you will not sound off
at every opportunity.
The defendant will remain seated
and keep his mouth shut.
- Now, go ahead.
- Mr. Miller.
Are you certain that Lt. Manion said:
- "I've got it made, buster"?
- That's what he said.
- Did Lt. Manion say anything else?
- Yes, sir.
He said when he got out,
...was kick that b*tch
from here to kingdom come.
- To whom was he referring?
- To his wife.
Your witness, Mr. Biegler.
- What're you in jail for, Mr. Miller?
- Arson.
I copped out
and I'm waiting for a sentence.
How many other crimes
have you committed?
I was in reform school when I was a kid,
but that's all.
I'd like to see this man's criminal record.
Do you have his record?
Yes, sir.
Here it is.
Your record shows you've been in prison
six times in three different states.
Been in three times for arson,
twice for assault, once for larceny.
It also shows you've done
short stretches in four city jails...
...on charges of indecent exposure,
window-peeping...
...perjury and disorderly conduct.
Is this your true record?
How did you get the ear
of the prosecution...
...to tell them about this conversation
you had with Lt. Manion?
- The D.A. Was taking us to his office.
- Taking who?
Us prisoners, in the jail.
All at once, or one at a time?
One at a time.
Him and that other lawyer
took us to his office...
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