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that have known each other since

playing Little League baseball together.

That's a lifestyle.

They are a family.

Not the kind of family

the government talks about.

They would twist it.

They would make it evil.

But all we're asking for,

ladies and gentlemen...

is to let justice be done,

though the heavens may fall.

Thank you.

Okay.

Let's see who's next.

Mr. DiNorscio.

Mr. DiNorscio.

Isn't your attorney here?

Well, Your Honor,

I think I'm-I'm better off-

Say that again.

Uh, I- I wanna go pro se.

I'm gonna be my own lawyer.

Do you know what "pro se" means?

- Sort of.

- What do you mean, "sort of"?

Uh, if you defend yourself, it's called

"pro se. " I'm gonna defend myself.

Mr. DiNorscio, in a case of this

magnitude, I don't think it's advisable.

My Sixth Amendment right.

I mean, I got the right to defend myself.

Am I correct,Judge?

Yes. Yeah, you're correct.

Have you had any legal experience?

Uh, well, sort of.

What do you mean, "sort of"?

I've been in prison half my life.

Sometimes I think

I had too much legal experience.

Mr. DiNorscio,

have you heard the saying...

that a man who represents himself

has a fool for a client?

Now I have. Is it true,Judge?

Sometimes it is.

So that means sometimes it ain't, right?

Okay.

- Thank you,Judge.

- But I don't think it's advisable. It's up to you.

Uh, Mr. DiNorscio, you're on.

Hi, I'm Jackie DiNorscio.

Uh, I'm defending myself

in this case.

You'll have to excuse me,

I'm a little nervous.

You see, I'm no lawyer.

I only have a sixth-grade education.

And, uh, I'm not sophisticated in the law

like some of these other persons here.

But what I tell you

will come from the heart.

Four months ago...

we started to pick jurors for this trial.

And I wanna say right now...

that I'm satisfied

with everybody on the jury.

And I wanna thank Mr. Klandis...

for translating that Latin slogan

in front of the judge.

I thought it meant "No smoking. "

I was literally about to light up.

Like I said, uh...

I'm no lawyer...

uh, so I don't know where they

came up with this RICO law thing.

Should probably ask Mr. Kierney. I guess

if you're Italian,you should be in prison.

I've read the RICO Act, and

I can tell you it's more appropriate...

for some of those guys over in Washington

than it is for me or any of my fellas here.

- Are you through, Mr. DiNorscio?

- Uh, no,Judge.

How do I look, good?

You see this hat?

I'm wearing this hat

to make me look like a gangster.

'Cause that's what

that table wants me to be...

a gangster.

But I'm not a gangster,

ladies and gentlemen.

I'm a gagster.

This ain't even my hat.

Thank you, Mr. Washington.

Now, I'm sure Mr. Kierney...

will tell you I've been

in jail half my life, most of my life.

It's true.

I'd rather go to jail

for a thousand years...

than to ever rat

on any of my friends.

Do you know that this government...

this government offered me a deal...

to join their list of witnesses...

- and lie about these men here?

- Objection.

Sustained. Mr. DiNorscio.

- What?

- You will confine the opening statement-

- But I-

- to the evidence to be presented.

Thank you,Judge.

I got it. Okay.

Ladies and gentlemen...

the evidence will show that they

wanted me to lie about my friends.

- Objection. - Overruled. -

And I just could never do that.

I grew up with these guys.

How long I known you guys?

I've known them since

we were little babies.

I love these guys.

They're all I got.

But now all the prosecutor's got...

is a nutcase, two junkies

and a bank robber.

- Objection.

- Sustained. Mr. DiNorscio.

I got this,Judge.

They talk about us being extravagant.

You hear him before?

"To support their

extravagant lifestyles. "

Do I look extravagant?

One day, my wife asked me for $20

to buy a rump roast from the butcher.

I told her, "$20 for a rump roast?"

Of which I took her to the kitchen

where we got a full-length mirror.

I pull out a $20 bill out of my pocket.

I hold it up to the mirror.

I say, "Sweetheart, you see

that $20 bill in the mirror?

That one belongs to you.

This one belongs to me. "

And I'm out of there. It's over.

The next day, ladies and gentlemen,

I come home...

and I see roasted meats from

one end of the table to the other.

And I asked her, I said, "Honey,

where'd all the meat come from?"

So she took me back over

to the full-length mirror.

She lifts up her dress,

ladies and gentlemen.

She points to the mirror

and she says...

"The one in the mirror

is yours, honey.

This one belongs to the butcher. "

I mean, extravagant? Do I look extravagant?

- Mr. DiNorscio.

- I woulda wore a better suit.

Mr. DiNorscio.!

Hey, all right. Everybody,

please quiet down.

Please, you'll all

get a ch-chance to talk.

Max, how do you think it went?

Well, I haven't had a chance to talk

to Nick yet, but all in all, not a bad day.

Ben, I thought you were terrific.

Chris, Frank, Henry,

all of you, good work.

Then that f***in' lunatic gets up there,

and I don't know what to think anymore.

- I don't know if it's good or bad.

- Bad. All bad.

We got a major

RICO trial going on here...

and all of a sudden we gotta

contend with f***in' Shecky Green.

Ben, the guy's

a time bomb out there.

You know the cliche, "Never ask a question

you don't know the answer to"?

He's gonna ask a question,

or he's gonna say something...

or something is gonna pop out of that

sh*t-hole of a mouth that he's got...

and we're gonna get hurt.

Well, see, you know,

I'm not sure I agree.

I was stealing looks at the jury.

They were with him.

They were laughing with him.

So let me throw that other

cliche out at you.

"A laughing jury

is never a hanging jury. "

Let's sleep on this...

wait it out a couple of days,

see how it develops.

I can always rein him in later.

Nobody can take him seriously.

He's a clown up there.

- Jokes about his wife's twat. Are you kidding me?

- I agree.

I- In a week, they'll see him and

the rest of them for the morons they are.

I don't want 'em to see

those guys as morons.

I want that jury to see pimps, liars,

racketeers, arsonists and murderers.

It's an old saying,

but I believe it.

"A laughing jury

ain't a hanging jury. "

- And he had 'em laughing.

- I don't agree at all, Sean.

Laughing at him can indicate

disrespect as well.

I don't know if you noticed, but a couple of

the women in the jury looked deeply offended.

- He'll step over the line. You'll see.

- It's an act.

No, it's not an act. That's what makes him

dangerous. He's like some '60s pop tune.

"All you need is love. " F***.

Like some Deepak Chopra

with a pinky ring.

See you, Nick.

See you guys.

Good night, Nicky.

Counselor.

You're dead wrong, counselor.

You'll never rein him in.

He's f***in' crazy.

I've known him a long time.

He's out for number one. He'll have

that jury laughin', and he'll get off.

And we'll be standin' there

with our d*cks in our hand.

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