Zoot Suit Page #5

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the defendants will stand...

Each time

their names are mentioned.

Objection, your honor!

If the prosecution

makes an accusation,

it will appear to be self-incrimination.

not necessarily.

You may cross-examine,

Mr. Prosecutor.

Ready for the verdict now,ese?

Chale.

Miss barrios, are you deliberately

concealing evidence from this court?

No. Are you covering

for henry reyna?

please stand.

No.

Then who was this guy you saw

beating another man on the ground?

It wasn't henry.

He was standing right beside me.

We were defending ourselves...

I didn't ask for your comment.

Why don't you ask me about the downey gang?

Answer my question!

But they attacked the party!

Maybe jos sanchez was already dead!

Your honor, will you instruct

the witness to be cooperative?

I must caution you,

young lady.

Answer the questions,

or I will hold you in contempt.

Sit down.

Now, Miss barrios, if your boyfriend

wasn't the guy with the big stick,

who was it?

It was too dark to tell.

How big a stick would you say it was,

Miss barrios?

As big as this one? Objection!

Your honor, no such club was ever found.

The prosecution is implying...

your honor, I'm not implying anything.

I'm merely using this stick

as an illustration.

Objection overruled.

- could it have been a lead pipe?

- no.

How about a blackjack?

A heavy chain? No. No.

A baseball bat?

No.

Did your boyfriend run over to jos sanchez,

hit him on the head and kill him?

He could hardly walk.

How could he run?

Did smiley torres?

Did joey castro? No. No.

Did tommy roberts?

Did henry reyna? No. No.

Henry reyna!

Henry reyna! Henry reyna!

Did henry reyna willfully

murder jos sanchez? No! No!

- no.

-

A-hoo-ah!

Ah-ha-ha-hi!

Whoo-hoo!

A-hoo-ah!

Objection!

Objection, your honor!

The prosecution is pulling out

objects from all over the place.

Objects that were never

found at the sleepy lagoon.

Objects that have never been proven to be

associated with my clients in any way.

Objection overruled.

If the court please, I wish to make an

assignment of misconduct by the bench.

Quite frankly,

Mr. Shearer,

I'm getting rather tired of your

repeated useless objections.

I have not made

uselessobjections.

I'm sorry. Someone

is using ventriloquism.

We have a charlie mccarthy

using Mr. Shearer's voice.

I'm going to assign that remark

of your honor as misconduct.

Fine! I would feel rather badly if you did

not make an assignment of misconduct...

At least twice

every session.

You'll have them,

your honor.

How would you like to get slapped with

a citation for contempt, Mr. Shearer?

Witness is excused.

However, I'm going to remand her to the custody

of the ventura state school for girls...

For a period of one year,

What?

To be held there

as a juvenile ward of the state.

Bailiff.

If the court please...

if the court please...

this court is at recess

until tomorrow morning.

I'm sorry about della, henry,

and I'm afraid it was my fault.

I shouldn't have

antagonized the judge.

I thought you said

we had a chance.

Now listen to me, son.

This case is

going to be won...

On appeal.

Appeal?

What did I tell you,ese?

You mean you know

we're gonna lose?

It's not unusual, henry.

It happens all the time.

Don't you see, henry?

Judge charles is hanging himself as we go.

I've already cited over a hundred separate

cases of misconduct by the bench.

It's all going

into the record.

Prejudicial error, denial of due process,

inadmissible evidence.

Sabes qu, george?

Don't give me any more

of your sh*t.

Henry.

Is there anything

I can do?

Ready now,ese?

Simn.

Then let's have it.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, your honor.

How say you?

We find the defendants guilty...

Of murder in the first

and second degrees.

Ay, hijo.

Hijo de mi vida.

The defendants will rise.

Henry reyna,

jos castro, thomas roberts,

ismael torres,

you have been tried

by a jury of your peers...

And found to be guilty of murder

in the first and second degree.

The barrio

needs you,ese.

The law prescribes the capital

punishment for this offense. Fight back.

Stand up to them with some style.

In view of your youth and...

Show the world hank reyna has some balls.

In consideration of your family,

and remember...

It is hereby the judgment of this court...

Pachuco yo, ese.

That you be sentenced to life imprisonment...

And sent to the state

penitentiary at san quentin.

24-528.

Torres.

24-527.

Roberts.

24-526.

Castro.

24-525.

Reyna.

Los Angeles, California,

may 5, 1943.

Dear boys, announcing

the publication by mimeograph...

Of theappeal news,

your very own newsletter,

to be sent to you twice a month...

For the purpose of keeping you

reliably informed of EVERYTHING:

The progress of the sleepy

lagoon defense committee...

we have a name now...

and, of course, the matter of your appeal.

We are going to stand beside you until

your names are absolutely clear.

I swear it.

Viva...

El cinco de mayo.

Your editor,

alice...

Bloomfield.

Hey, boys.

Any good news about the appeal?

One at a time.

Hey, how's my wife?

Tommy, this is from your mother.

Careful.

I think it's a cake. O"rale.

And this is cigarettes.

And "love from elena."

These are for henry.

And that...

Is for joey.

Oh, wow.

Thanks, grandma.

Do you mind

if I call you grandma?

No, I don't think so.

I like your zoot pants.

Ah, bonaroo, huh?

Solid!

Eres una ruca de aquellas.

I'm a what?

Aruca.a fine chick.

De aquellas.

De aquellas.

Oooh, all reet,esa.

Hey, look, Miss bloomfield.

I don't want my wife going around begging.

Oh, it's not begging.

It's fund-raising.

I don't care what you call it.

I don't like it.

There's no shame in asking

for money for a good cause.

It's not our custom. If that's what

it's gonna take, then count me out.

Smiley, wait a minute.

Okay. It's not your custom.

I won't ask your wife

to go door-to-door, okay?

So where's henry?

Isn't he joining us?

He couldn't make it.

Why not?

Look, that's his business.

Leave him alone.

I'm afraid I can't do that,

smiley. It's not my custom.

Joey, what's going on?

Okay, tommy, give.

Don't look at me, doll.

I didn't come here to do anything

but bring a few letters and...

listen, alice.

I know what you're trying to do for us,

and that's reet, see?

Sh*t. Most paddies would probably

like to see us locked up for good.

Now, I'm in here because I

hung around with mexicans,

but I grew up

with thesevatos,

and I'm pachuco too, see?

Simn, esa.

You'd better learn what

it means to be chicano,

and I mean PD.Q.

Hello, henry.

I'd like to

talk to you in private.

Youvatoswant any

of this okie corn bread?

O"rale."paddy cake,"ese.

Mmm. Mmm.

All reet,ese.

That's good.

What can I do for you?

For me?ni madre.

I don't understand.

I'm dropping out

of the case, alice.

You're what? You heard me.

I'm bailing out,esa.

Getting out of the case.

Henry, you can't.

Why can't I?

Because you c... you can't.

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