The Star Chamber Page #3

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You know, I watched you grow up.

You love to suffer.

You wear it like one of them corduroy jackets

with the patches on the sleeves.

Me, I just don't complain about it.

I do something about it.

You do what?

Pork with the silly pancakes.

What the hell do they call that?

- What do you do?

- I want soup. Soup, yeah.

Detective Lowes? I'm Picker.

I made the call. It's over this way.

My partner found him.

We were on foot,

doing a routine patrol...

when we noticed something

in the bushes over there.

- We went over to take a look.

- Anybody touch anything?

Well, the lab guys got here

about five minutes ago.

Looks like the same M.O.

As the other ones.

Christ, it's a mess too.

- Any identification on him?

- No, sir. This is my partner, Nelson.

- Any signs of a struggle?

- No, sir.

Looks like the body

was dumped here afterwards.

He's just a little kid.

There is a set of indentation marks in

the grass from a vehicle of some kind.

Maybe good enough to make a cast of.

The body had to be driven here.

Oh, sh*t.

Bushes aren't disturbed.

There's no blood stains on the grass.

It happened somewhere else.

He's just a little kid.

Look, uh, why don't you, uh,

take your partner back to the car?

Yes, sir. Come on.

- I've never seen anything like it.

- I know.

Just a little kid.

I got a little boy.

- I never...

- Come on, let's just get out of here.

Just a little kid.

How could anybody do that?

- Come on.

- Why?

Hey, fellas! Here come de judge.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- You want a drink?

- No, thanks.

Well, I saw the news on television.

I think you need a drink.

- Hi, guys.

- Hi, Dad.

Just a sec.

How about the bottle and a straw?

You want breezy patter,

or do you want to talk about it?

I'll take the patter.

Thank you.

Some weather we're having, huh?

Do you think the Dodgers

will win again this year?

- How about those freeways?

- I'll talk.

I love you.

And I love you.

- Hello, freakos.

- Turn on some music, man.

The Monk is here, little freakos.

What are we doing here, man?

Nobody's got sh*t worth taking.

Shut up, man!

Just shut your f***ing mouth!

I'm not talking about the freakos.

There's a liquor store

a couple of blocks from here.

Just a couple of blocks.

The Monk knows, right, little freakos?

Hello, little store.

Wait! Just be cool.

Let's just check this little place out.

- Oh. Let's get out of here, man.

- No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Big score, a**hole!

The market.

The all-night market, it's up here.

It's big. There's always people.

Pull up behind that blue van.

- What's the matter?

- I don't like it.

- What about it?

- I don't know. They're cruising kinda slow, don't you think?

One-Adam-41. Request want

and warrant on light blue Ford van.

One-Adam-Thomas-George-one-niner-three.

One-Adam-41. Roger.

- I wanna listen to some music.

- No! No, I gotta think.

One-Adam-41. Blue Ford One-Adam-

Thomas-George one-niner-three:

No want. Two moving warrants.

One-Adam-41, roger.

Oh, sh*t. Cops!

Be cool.

We ain't done nothing wrong.

- You all right?

- I'm all right. I'm all right.

I'll take the driver.

What's the problem, Officer?

Can I see your driver's license

and registration, please?

Sure, sure. Wh-What'd I do wrong?

There are two outstanding traffic warrants

on this vehicle.

Whoa. Must be some mistake.

I paid those tickets.

I really did. A long time ago.

- Can I see your license and registration, please?

- Yeah, sure. Uh...

- Your name Lawrence Monk?

- Yeah, that's me.

- May I see your license, please?

- Sure, sure.

Wallet!

What are you guys

doing around here this hour?

Nothing. Just driving, you know.

- Just driving?

- Just driving.

- Hey, Nelson, you smell something?

- What?

- You smell marijuana?

- Aw, sh*t, man!

- I don't know.

- What the f*** are you guys doing?

- We ain't been smoking. You know it.

- I smell marijuana.

- You think maybe they got more inside?

- You want me to check inside?

Do it.

Freeze! Freeze!

The pretrial hearing of Lawrence Monk

and Arthur Cooms is set to begin tomorrow.

Monk and Cooms are accused of the mutilation

and murder of 10-year-old Daniel Lewin.

The District Attorney's office

has confirmed to Eyewitness News...

that the murder of the Lewin boy

was part of a child-pornography ring...

in which small boys were kidnapped,

drugged...

used in pornographic films

and then murdered.

Precisely why did you stop the vehicle

driven by the defendants?

We ran a D.M. V. Check on the vehicle...

and the response was that

there were outstanding warrants.

- And then what did you do?

- I informed the driver.

- Mr. Monk?

- Right, Mr. Monk.

I informed him

that the warrants were outstanding.

And what was Mr. Monk's response?

He said that he thought

there must be some mistake...

that he had already paid

his traffic tickets.

Well, I told him I didn't have any choice.

The warrant was there.

And then I asked him for his driver's license

and his registration.

- Did he produce them for you?

- Yes.

- Were they in order?

- As far as I could tell.

Then why, if the driver of the vehicle...

had a valid driver's license

and registration for his vehicle...

if he was fully cooperative...

if all you say he had done

was fail to pay a few traffic tickets...

then why, Officer Picker,

did you conduct a search ofhis van?

I smelled marijuana.

- You smelled marijuana?

- Yes, sir.

Were either of the defendants

acting in a manner...

that would indicate

that they were intoxicated...

or in any way

under the influence of marijuana?

Were they stoned?

Well, I can't say that.

But I did smell the marijuana.

When you searched the vehicle,

did you find any marijuana?

No.

- You didn't find any?

- No. That's what I said.

You're excused.

- Did you smell marijuana?

- Well, uh...

- I'm not sure.

- Either you did or you didn't.

I can't say I actually did.

- Yet you searched the vehicle.

- My partner instructed me to.

I see. Tell me, Officer Nelson...

the shoe in question, the black sneaker...

could you see it in the van from the outside?

- What do you mean?

- I mean, was it in plain sight?

Or could you only see it after you

opened the side door during the search?

After I opened the door, I saw it.

- Thank you, Officer Nelson.

- I'll never forget it.

- You're excused.

- Never.

- Thank you, Officer.

- Your Honor, the, uh, defense...

moves for the exclusion

of the child's shoe as evidence.

I'm sure the prosecution

plans to introduce it in the case.

- On what grounds?

- On the grounds, Your Honor...

that the police had no right

to conduct the search in the first place.

Your Honor,

under the Ross Decision...

of the United States Supreme Court...

the police do have the right to conduct

a search of the vehicle...

if an officer suspects

the presence of contraband.

It is specifically stated in that decision...

that a police officer's assertion

that he smells marijuana...

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