Runaway Jury Page #4

- 1.5 each. That's 7.5 total.

- Well, I'll take it.

Do you have any additional plans

for this pittance?

- Matter of fact, I do.

- Lonnie Shaver. Manager here?

- All day.

- Ernie Strode.

I'm gonna put you gentlemen

in the grocery business.

Grocery business?

We're in the process of

acquiring your store.

...meeting with all the store managers

to discuss their future roles

in the organization...

Poor bastard

hadn't had a promotion in five years.

Not all employees

are gonna make the transition.

We've identified you

as one of our candidates

for the Superhouse program.

How soon can we fly you up?

Mr. Shaver, in subtle and unspoken

ways, will be made to appreciate

the terms of advancement

in the Hammond Foods empire.

- I don't like the looks of this one.

- Ex-Marine drill instructor.

These people are looking for a leader.

They'll follow Frank Herrera.

And if they elect someone else foreman?

Whoever they vote for will be following me.

Just like in Cincinnati

and Oakland and Pittsburgh.

Gentlemen, trials are too important

to be left up to juries.

God save this state

and this honorable court.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

You may take your seats.

- Who's next?

- Herman Grimes.

Who? Who'd did he say?

Is there a Herman Grimes

in the court?

Mr. Grimes is not on my list.

There's a swinging door

ahead of you, honey. You got it?

then 20 degrees to your right.

Uh, hold on a minute there, Mr. Grimes.

There's no need for you

to have come down here today.

You're excused for reasons of disability.

And what if I do not

wish to be excused, sir?

Well... I've never known

a blind man to serve on a jury,

and I must say,

I can't recall any case or law

or statute that would permit or prevent...

State v. Jack, Your Honor.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has held

that it is a violation of

constitutional due process

to just automatically dismiss

the visually impaired...

- He's right.

... from jury service.

Well, Mr. Grimes, that's very impressive.

Why are you smiling, sir?

Mr. Rohr, Mr. Cable, any objections

to Mr. Grimes serving on this jury?

The plaintiffs would welcome

Mr. Grimes to our jury, Your Honor.

- "Our jury. "

- Mr. Cable?

As would we on the defense, Your Honor.

- Who's next?

- Nicholas Easter.

Mr. Easter?

- Mr. Rohr.

- Your Honor.

- Good morning, Mr. Easter.

- Good morning.

Well, it says here that you work

in an electronics store.

Yes, sir, that's correct.

How would you feel

if you knew there was a gun

behind the counter in case of a robbery?

- Well, we're in the mall, sir.

- But I think you'd agree

that robberies take place

in malls on occasion, do they not?

Yes, but we're in the Esplanade Mall,

which is right across the street from

the sheriff's office in Jefferson Parish.

Yes, I'm familiar where it is.

Well, I mean, you'd have to be on crack

to try to rob it. I guess that's my point.

I see. Well, tell me...

Mr. Easter, that's the second time

you've looked at your watch.

Are we keeping you from something?

No, Your Honor.

I wouldn't presume to waste your time.

I just... I think if you knew my situation,

you might be inclined to excuse me from...

- Your situation, Mr. Easter?

- Yes, Your Honor.

- It's the Madden Challenge.

- The Madden what?

You know, "Madden Football. "

It's a video game.

Well, you'd be surprised at

how many people play. At any rate,

every year, they choose the best

to compete in a kind of

tournament, you know,

- against NFL players and celebrities...

- I'm not following you.

It's like this, Your Honor: The prize

is $100,000. So I just don't know

if I can afford to pass up the opportunity

to make that kind of cash. It's a big deal.

I'd like this boy to have

a lesson in civic responsibility.

Do you have any objection

to that, Mr. Rohr?

Your Honor, it's something

I've been doing for a very long time.

The jury system

was originated, Mr. Easter,

because, for thousands of years

before that, an individual judge

had the power to hang, for example,

any young man he simply did not like.

- Yes, Your Honor.

- Any objections, Mr. Rohr?

I have no objection whatsoever,

Your Honor.

- Mr. Cable?

- What do I do?

- Any time today, counselor.

- Harkin sandbagged us.

- Go ahead and take him. Take him.

- Uh, no objections, Your Honor.

- Enter Mr. Nicholas Easter as a juror.

- Freeze that right there, will ya?

Freeze it.

have taught me this:

There's always a loose end.

Everybody has a secret

they don't want you to find. Find it.

First group, Ms. Monroe: Rikki Coleman,

Sylvia Deshazo, Vanessa Lembeck.

Mr. Klein:
Herman Grimes,

Millie Dupree, Eddie Weese.

Mr. Garson:
Loreen Duke,

Lonnie Shaver, Frank Herrera.

Mr. Lamb:
The three alternates.

Lydia Deets, yoga teacher,

Phillip Seville, shrimp fisherman.

Henry Wu.

Let's find out everything we don't know.

Mr. Doyle, you know the city

better than anyone.

You take Jerry Fernandez,

Stella Hullic, Nicholas Easter.

These are your babies, people.

This is what you live for.

I think you got the wrong apartment.

What are you gonna do?

Call the cops? Hm?

- You weren't there today.

- I couldn't. I was too nervous.

What are you gonna do?

You gonna hit me in the head with my...

my George Foster big stick?

What are you nervous about, huh?

You are not juror number nine

in the biggest case of the year.

You're kidding. You're kidding me!

- You're kidding me!

- No, I'm not kidding you.

- How'd you do it?

- Let go of that thing.

- How'd you do it?

- Madden Challenge.

It was a thing of beauty.

The judge even threatened to hang me.

- Juror number nine.

- Juror number nine.

What do you have for me?

I love St. Catherine.

- How do I look?

- Handsome.

- Do I look honest and trustworthy?

- Hm... To an innocent eye.

Good enough to survive

Don't say that. It's bad luck.

Look... We're not gonna be

seeing each other for a while.

They're gonna be watching us.

You have to come back to bed. Now.

We're just gonna have to

be more careful then, aren't we?

- How much do you think it's worth?

- 10, 15 million. Maybe more.

Look, that's enough. Come back to bed.

We only need eight of them for a verdict.

Everybody's got a button.

We just gotta find out where and push.

You have them.

We don't have anything yet.

...Celeste Wood.

You'll recall that two years ago,

Wood's stockbroker husband Jacob

was gunned down in a mass slaying

inside the brokerage firm

where he worked.

...two years ago by a failed day-trader

who later turned the gun on himself.

Never before has a jury found

the gun industry liable for murder.

You might remember also

the former mayor of the city...

...after her husband was gunned down

in the prime of his life.

The man leading this: Famed

New Orleans attorney Wendall Rohr...

Mr. Cable, do you feel

that this lawsuit is frivolous?

Uh, it's capricious. I find

it's unfortunate that Mr. Rohr has chosen

to use Miss Wood

and the courts as vehicles...

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