The Trials of Cate McCall Page #3

I was in your victim's

rights seminar at UCLA.

Did you learn a few things?

More than a few.

Glad to hear it.

Mr. Barker...

Apparently I was Miss McCall's law

professor, do you have a problem with that?

No sir.

Miss McCall, do you have a problem with

my sitting on the bench in this case?

As I recall, you passed me, sir.

I'll take that as a no.

Well, Miss McCall...

Your petition raises...

Sufficient reasons to wonder at the quality of

justice administered in Miss Stubbs' trial...

I'm going to grant your request

for unlimited discovery.

Your Honor, I'm concern that without

limits the discovery process...

Would become

unreasonably burdensome.

Mr. Barker.

Miss McCall can very well get to

the bottom of whether or not...

This case was prosecuted in the manner

befitting the grade state of California...

Unless she has all the facts

and evidence before her.

Can't she?

The hearing is set forth...

November 7th.

Coupons from Dunkin Donuts.

Dry cleaning receipts.

They're trying to bury us

under an avalanche of crap.

You want to hear your horoscope

for June 16th, 2006?

Phone leads from 7 other cases.

You'll be on a learning curve

as your horizon are broaden.

A memo says...

Police took a statement from a neighbor

named CeeCee Claymans, day of.

No.

- No?

- Don't have it.

When was this?

Before I lost it.

Did you hear what he said?

No, play it again.

Do you recognize this?

Yeah.

It's my earring. I...

- Rusty?

- Yup.

Lacey said she loves it,

so I gave it to her.

You gave this earring to Lacey?

When was this?

Before I lost it.

They're coaching him.

- But he still can't get it right.

- No.

It's unbelievable.

Do you have any idea why the cops

might want to protect Rusty?

They hang out sometimes.

They were friends?

Welch and Rusty played poker together

a few times, and paintballs.

Maybe it wasn't so

much they were...

Protecting Rusty as they

were hurting me though.

Why would they want to hurt you?

If your story doesn't make sense, we're

gonna lose, do you understand that?

Why would the cops want

to hurt you, Lacey?

I don't know.

How about number 48?

Can you make out what that says?

Yes, it looks like "earring".

Any idea what earring

that might refer to?

I believe that was a CZ stud...

Belonging to Lacey Stubbs, which

we found in the Cole residence.

If I remember correctly,

there was blood on it.

Rusty Berkhart has a

pierced ear, also.

Is it possible that the earring

might have belonged to him?

I questioned him about it, and he stated

that he had given it to Miss Stubbs.

If you had Lacey Stubbs' earring

with Jen Cole's blood on it...

Why wasn't it admitted into

evidence at the trial?

It got lost.

It got lost?

Yeah. That's right.

Detective Welch, prior

to Jen Cole's murder...

Did you know Rusty

Berkhart socially?

I'd seen him around.

Ever played poker with him?

No, I mean.... Maybe.

Ever played paintball

with Mr. Berkhart?

I don't remember.

What about Lacey?

What about her?

Did you ever see her socially?

No.

She wasn't around when you're

playing poker with Rusty?

I have no idea.

You think you might

remember if she had been?

She's an attractive girl, right?

- Somebody a man might notice.

- This is bullshit.

Did you and Lacey ever date?

I'm a married man.

Is that a no?

I don't know what you're

trying to do here, but...

I've never done anything

with Lacey Stubbs...

I never said that you did.

I just asked if you've dated her.

Okay, for the record...

For the record, I never talked to her, never

looked at her, never laid a hand on her.

- Until I arrested her.

- Never laid a hand on her.

F***, I'm done.

- We need to take a break.

- It's okay, it's all I have.

You can tell that f***ing c*nt, if she

wants to talk sh*t about me again...

She's gonna regret it.

Lacey, I need to know what happened

between you and Detective Welch.

I can't.

He said he'd hurt my baby.

I gotta go.

Hello...

Ma'am, you mind coming with me?

I wasn't drunk.

Somebody hit me.

It's just routine.

Take a nice breath please.

I'm so sorry.

I called your cell a million times.

Are you okay?

I'm okay, my car is destroyed.

Somebody tried to run

me over the road.

The police had me

file a report, then...

Paramedics didn't want me to leave.

Okay, we'll just...

We'll schedule another session.

No, I'm okay. Please, I'm here.

- Can we just...

- I'm sorry, I have another appointment.

Sorry...

If I go and tell the judge...

That the cops framed

you for murder...

He's gonna want to know why.

I called the cops, wanted him

arrested, he beat my face.

He just went ballistic.

I got the police later, the

day before my 18th birthday.

Welch and another cop showed up,

asking if I want to press charges.

I said no, cause we

already made up.

Then Welch started acting all

weird, and asked me if I'm alone.

I got a sick feeling, and tried

to keep them outside, but...

They were both on me.

And I could see Rusty...

Staring on me from the yard.

They held me down, and Welch

punched me in my face.

He said, he heard I liked it rough.

Cause Rusty told them,

that's why he did it.

They took turned.

Why didn't she report?

Who's she gonna report it to?

Her boyfriend rapes her...

The cops rape her, she goes to

jail and the guards rape her.

It's amazing she's

as intact as she is.

Intact for a murderer.

I don't think she did it.

Really?

Cops needed a guilty party.

They're afraid Lacey will nail them on the

rape, and she gets the death penalty...

They kill two birds with one stone.

The DA isn't gonna

play along with this.

They didn't know.

They rely on what the cops gave

them, the cops fed them Lacey.

It's f***ing Deja vu.

We're all waiting, Miss McCall.

Of course.

Lacey Stubbs maybe guilty in

having bad taste in boyfriends.

Of being naive.

Of standing by an abusive man

and lying to protect them.

But she's not guilty in

murdering Jennifer Cole.

When I first took this case,

I believed she was guilty.

I'd read the news reports...

She looked like a bad girl,

straight out of the tabloids.

But that's not the

real Lacey Stubbs.

This is.

This photo was taken two months before

Lacey started dating the real killer...

Rusty Berkhart.

Rusty transformed

Lacey to his taste.

Attempting to change a girl next

door to a dangerous femme fatale.

He didn't actually succeed.

Lacey Stubb is not the dangerous

person in this court today.

They are.

Quiet.

It sounds outrageous, doesn't it?

But Lacey's in prison not

because she's actually guilty.

But because DA Brinkerhoff and

the Hawthorne County PD...

Decided she was guilty and set about

fabricating a case against her.

They withheld evidence.

They suppress witness statements.

They coerced the defense witness

to change key testimony...

And then they invited the real killer,

Rusty Berkhart, to take the stand...

And claimed that

Lacey had confessed.

To him.

Police and prosecutors

considered Lacey Stubb trash.

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