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What kind of person was Nuri ekerci?

Irrelevant. My client

doesn't have to answer.

He was a very good person.

A father and a decent man.

Tell us about your husband's priors.

These priors are known

to police and the court.

You're holding the file, read it!

I have read it.

Nuri ekerci was caught with 50 kg of hash

and served four years in prison.

Thank you.

Nuri ekerci isn't on trial here.

He's the murder victim.

Your Honor,

please ensure

the attorney's questions are relevant.

After release,

did your husband continue dealing drugs

or break other drug laws?

No.

I got pregnant right after his release.

Rocco's birth

was the best thing to ever happen to us.

Nuri never had anything

to do with drugs again.

But the police found marijuana,

cocaine and opium in your house.

My client lost her husband and child.

Understandably,

she tried to numb her inconceivable pain.

The quantities were for personal use.

My client need not incriminate herself.

Mrs. ekerci,

are you a drug addict?

No.

- Have you taken drugs today?

- No!

In the past year?

- No!

- My client...

On the day of the crime?

- No!

- My client refuses to answer!

I request

that the witness immediately undergo

a drug test and hair analysis

at the Institute of Forensic Medicine

in order to verify her perceptive faculty

and fitness to testify

at the time she allegedly saw

the suspect with the bike. Thank you.

The co-plaintiff must consent to that.

Do you consent, Mrs. ekerci?

The defense's request is intended

only to discredit the co-plaintiff.

It's irrelevant to the facts of the crime

and the defendants' guilt.

Katja ekerci was a loving, caring mother.

Her deceased husband

was a model of rehabilitation.

She has suffered unimaginable pain

for malicious and base reasons.

She needn't accept this humiliation!

She will not answer

the defense's defamatory questions.

Then I'll summarize.

The witness refuses to undergo

a drug test and psychological examination

and to answer the defense's questions on

her drug use. There's only one conclusion:

She wants to prevent

the court from establishing

that she made her supposed observations

and, shortly thereafter, her statement,

while under the influence of drugs.

Remember...

She saw someone walking away

and shouted something after her.

She claims to have memorized a face

she saw only for seconds!

Again, while she was on drugs!

Her attorney now claims

these drugs were taken later,

not to enhance

her perceptive or observational skills,

but "to numb her pain."

She took them to forget.

But let's not forget one thing.

A witness who was

under the influence of drugs

claims to have seen the accused,

Mrs. Mller, at the scene.

But as witness Makris stated and confirmed

with the document shown in court,

she was in fact vacationing in Greece.

Thank you.

Go ahead, Mr. Fava.

Witness ekerci described a woman

who left a bike with a top case

at the scene of the explosion.

She did so before forensics established

that the top case contained the bomb.

Forensics confirmed her statement

about the bike,

that it was new and unlocked,

and about the top case.

They also confirmed

that the woman Mrs. ekerci described

must be the perpetrator.

Mrs. ekerci described this woman

in the same detail

as the new bike with its top case.

That woman was the accused.

She's married to the co-accused,

whose garage happened to contain traces

of the same explosive that blew up

outside Nuri ekerci's office.

No drug,

drug test or psychological examination

can relativize this fact.

And anyone who tries to do so

has the same base motives

as the accused did who murdered

my client's husband and child.

And it disgusts me

to have to play the defense's game.

Thank you.

Order!

On behalf of the people,

the court returns the following verdict.

The accused, Andr Mller and Edda Mller,

are acquitted.

Away from each other!

F*** this court!

Behave or I'll clear the room.

The state will cover

the trial costs and related expenses.

The defendants will be compensated

for time spent in detention.

Please be seated.

Today's acquittal

is not based on the court's belief

that the defendants are innocent,

but that the evidence presented

leaves reasonable doubt as to their guilt.

Based on the "in dubio pro reo" principle,

this doubt requires that we acquit them.

The court considered

that the defendants did not provably

have sole access to the garage.

Others may have entered.

The key was accessible.

One set of fingerprints

could not be identified.

Co-plaintiff ekerci stated

that she recognized Edda Mller

as the person she saw at the crime scene.

We were unable to confirm

the accuracy of her observation.

The co-plaintiff

exercised her right to refuse examination

to assess her ability to testify.

Daddy, can we go in the water?

- Please.

- Go with Mom.

I want to go with you.

Go on.

OK, go, come on!

Mom, come on!

No, I just put on sunscreen.

Come on, Mom!

- Later.

- Now!

Please, Mom!

THE SEA:

Hi.

Welcome to Greece.

- I'm Katja.

- My name is Tala.

Let me show you the place.

Do you like it?

Yes.

TRIAL:

Hotel Old Dream

Do you speak English?

For sure.

Can I help you?

I'm looking for

two friends of mine

A couple, I think they might be

staying here from Germany.

Here is nobody from Germany.

Are you sure?

No Germans,

just Greek people.

FREE AND VACATIONING

AT STATE'S EXPENSE!

These are my friends.

Have you seen them?

I don't know these people.

OK.

Nico?

Can you give me your number

so I can call you

if I see your friends?

Sure.

It's, um, 0049

And what is your name?

Birgit.

It's not working.

Oh.

Stay here, you f***ing b*tch!

American Spirits, please.

Sh*t.

Take care.

She's not here by chance.

She's playing detective,

looking for evidence on the Greek alibi.

- Does she know we're here?

- How would she?

- She found that Greek pig.

- He has a website.

- Let's go home.

- They'll stick cameras in our faces!

What if she finds us?

If that Turk-whore comes near us,

I'll smash her skull!

I'll put her in the grave with them!

Hi, Danilo.

Katja, where are you?

I've left you 1,000 voice mails.

I know.

Let's file an appeal.

The deadline's tomorrow,

I have to submit the papers.

I don't want to anymore.

I know it feels like it's over,

but believe me, it isn't.

We'll keep going, Katja, we'll keep going.

We'll get them on an appeal.

We'll take this to Federal Court.

They'll get life.

Where are you? I'm coming.

Grocery shopping.

Let's meet when you're done.

No, today's no good.

Katja, listen to me.

Come to my office tomorrow

as early as possible. Everything's ready.

We'll go through the papers together.

I'll get pastries.

I need your signature.

Are you coming?

Yeah, OK.

Good.

Can you be here at eight?

I can do eight.

Great.

I'm looking forward to seeing you.

See you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.

Thanks for everything.

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