In Justice s01e04 Episode Script

How many more innocent people are gonna have to go to prison? Every trial results in a verdict, That cop set up my brother.
You're my last hope.
- We only have one shot.
- We're taking the case.
but not every verdict results in the truth I want you to focus! When I want to know the meaning of injustice, I look here.
Turn it down, freak! Die, sucker.
You're dead.
Don't bang on my walls.
Get out, you freak! Get out of my room! I said get out of my room! What is wrong with you? You're dead.
Mom! Dad! That's it.
And I went to my mom and dad's room, and they phoned the cops.
So tell us why you did it, Kevin.
Why did you kill her? I don't know.
I just We were moving to Denver, and I didn't want to move to Denver.
"I didn't want to move to Denver.
" Chilling.
Kids who kill Why do they do it? Why does a 15-year-old suddenly murder his sister then drink a glass of milk over her body? Don't torture me with this, Charlie, please.
For the last half hour, "the prosecution files" has taken you where few have ever been.
We have shown you internal D.
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Memoranda, the confidential case files of Kevin Rounder and others.
Putz.
He'd be on public access if it weren't for his illegal source in the D.
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's office.
All right, David.
Look, the cop's shirtwhat color is it? - It's white.
Why? - Okay, hang on.
Charlie, the Rounder family didn't contact us, right? No.
And their lawyer never phoned? All right, so I'm confused.
What are you doing? Kevin Rounder says he confessed after being interrogated for 16 hours, but the cops say they only taped the last five minutes.
We've got hundreds of cases out there, Charlie, and you're trying to drag in something from late-night tv.
- What's this really about? - What do you mean? Come on.
It's not about Connelly.
Okay.
The detective.
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what color is his shirt, David? I told you, it's If they only taped the last five minutes, then how did the cop have time to change his clothes? - All right, I'm paying attention.
- That cop went home, came back the next day and started in on him again.
And the prosecution never turned over the tapes to the defense.
Kevin Rounder's turning 18 next week.
They're transferring him from Juvie to San Quentin.
Interesting.
There's D.
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D.
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could prove it wasn't him.
Kevin? I'm Charles Conti.
I talked to your parents.
Yeah, they said.
Good.
They're waiting in court.
Just so we're clear, this hearing's about blood evidence.
They think the killer caught his hand on the blade, so.
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They said that was mine.
Right, that's because it matched your blood type.
But they never did a D.
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test because you confessed.
So that's why that's why we want the judge to allow a D.
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test now.
So what I need to know from you, Kevin-- is there some reason your blood might be on the knife? I mean, is there some reason we shouldn't do the test? - I didn't do it.
- Right.
- I really didn't.
- Good.
That's all I need to know.
I'll see you in there.
- Can I ask you something? - Yeah.
You ever been to San Quentin? Yes.
That's where they're thinking of sending me.
I know.
Is it really as bad as they say it is? Court is in session.
The honorable judge Wilkins presiding.
What did I do to deserve all of this attention? Don't adjust your jumpsuit.
I want it to look big.
I remember running a pretty fair trial, Mr.
Swain.
We're not questioning the trial, your honor.
We're requesting D.
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testing so that my client A request I see the district attorney personally is opposed to.
Your honor, counsel has to show a reasonable probability the D.
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would have changed the outcome of the case.
Yes, but as Ms.
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that would change the outcome of the case.
Not if your client confessed.
The law is full of nasty little catch-22s, now isn't it, Mr.
Swain? Yes, sir.
But it is our belief that the confession was coerced, and the prosecution withheld 16 hours of interrogation tapes.
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Mr.
Swain's alleging a discovery violation? He's about three years too late.
Not if the violation is material to guilt or innocence.
Can you prove it? How can I? I don't have the tapes.
Your honor, presumably trial counsel talked with his client 3 years ago.
He could've challenged the confession then.
How is a 15-year-old expected to know he was coerced? He knows how many hours he was interrogated for.
He knows if he was given food and water.
He would have known if he'd been allowed to go to the bathroom.
He should've alleged the facts.
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- We're alleging them now.
But counsel didn't do it then.
Instead, he chose to go with an intoxication defense.
He waived the issue.
Now Mr.
Swain Your honor, this is absurd.
The prosecution was obligated to turn over those tapes.
I was obligated to turn over the statements the defendant made that I intended to use at trial.
I did that.
That is the most strained reading of the discovery statute I have ever heard.
Okay, okay, that's enough.
I understand your frustration, Mr.
Swain, but I do have to follow the law.
Defense counsel waived that motion in 2003, and I'm not about to do do-overs.
Therefore, no D.
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Unless you have something else.
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Request you deny the motion without prejudice.
Fair enough.
I can give you one week.
Bring me back something more specific, and I'll reconsider.
One more thing, your honor.
My client is assigned for transfer to San Quentin.
I ask this be delayed, pending your decision.
Granted.
Next case.
Great.
- You're gonna be fine.
- This way.
Okay.
So now he's out of San Quentin.
We got a week.
Kevin Rounder.
Second degree murder.
The judge has given us a week to convince him to order D.
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testing.
But without these interrogation tapes, the original attorneys went for an intoxication defense.
They argued that A.
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, meds and heavy metal music pushed Kevin over the edge.
They couldn't poke any holes in the prosecution's case.
Meaning we're gonna have to start mostly from scratch.
All right.
Where do we start? Come on.
- Oh, uh, the knife.
- Right.
Good.
- The blood evidence.
- Good.
Cuts on Kevin's hands.
Good.
Right.
Kevin said they were from a skateboard fall, so let's see if they line up with the blade.
Who's on that? - Uh, Sonya.
- Yeah.
There is the evidence that is was an inside job.
Right.
The cops focused on Kevin because of the locked doors.
Also there were fingerprints on the window.
Now the police concluded that Kevin tried to make it look like an intruder did it.
So let's see if that theory still um David? - Just let me.
- What's wrong? - Nothing.
- Thanks.
After the confession, the police moved too quickly from investigating to proving.
So let's do what they didn't Canvass the neighborhood, check Megan's list for sex offenders, okay? And check for local break-ins.
Who wants that? Anybody? Um Jon.
Okay.
All right, we got a week.
Let's get to it.
Brianna, can I talk to you for a minute? Yeah.
So, uh, I didn't want to talk about it over there.
- What? - Well, Kevin's parents.
If it was an inside job, we'll have to treat 'em as suspects, right? Oh.
What? Nothing.
I just I thought you were letting me go.
With Sonya, you seem to be giving her all Nothing.
I'll just, uh, shut up now.
Okay.
Look, we're going out to the crime scene, and I want you to talk to Mr.
Rounder alone.
Keep an eye on his reaction.
I want to know exactly how he reacts.
- Okay.
- Good.
But why me? You look a bit like Ashley, Kevin's sister.
Brianna - You're doing a good job.
- Thanks.
Okay.
- What was that about, Charlie? - Oh, nothing.
Below your pay grade.
Did you find out where he is? Oh, yeah.
Victoria? My clubs! Sorry.
There.
It's off now.
I hope that wasn't my fault.
What do you want, Swain? Just a friendly afternoon game.
Mind if I join you? Aren't the municipal links more your speed? I thought your clients still buried bodies over there.
Caught your show the other night "kids who kill.
" Really grabbed me.
I had no idea heavy metal music was so influential.
Just telling it like it is, Swain.
At least I sleep nights.
Must be easy with all those underage hookers.
That' ll work.
Listen, I'm gonna keep this nice and sweet.
I know you're in possession of illegally obtained evidence copies of interrogation tapes.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Kenny, your editorial slip is showing.
You used cuts from tapes the defense didn't know existed.
Somebody in the D.
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's office leaked them to you, and you broadcast them on national tv.
Maybe you've heard of a little thing called the first amendment? Yeah, love it almost as much as something called an evidentiary subpoena.
Bring it on.
I know who your D.
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source is.
All those evidentiary goodies I'll bet they dry up when I expose him and he's fired.
You're fishing.
It's not a he.
Yeah, it is.
Why are you so concerned about security, Mr.
Rounder? Ash had some friends who were killed in a car accident, and I didn't want to be one of those one of those parents who regrets, you know? Funny, huh? Did anybody else have keys to the house-- grandparents, housekeepers, friends? No.
I'm sorry.
We don't really come up here much.
- Is that the window? - Yeah.
Do you mind if I The police said it must have been opened from the inside because of the lock and it being too high to climb.
- What did you think? - My son didn't do it.
I don't know how someone got in, but someone got in.
Has anything changed, like a trimmed hedge or a trellis or something? No.
Police went right to Kevin.
They said he wasn't reacting the way they thought he should.
He just found his sister's body.
He just saw her blood.
How was he supposed to react? I'm sorry.
No.
I'm sorry.
Mr.
Rounder, I have to ask you, if you don't mind Did the police ever ask you where you were? - When? - At the time of death.
Yes.
- Downstairs in the master.
- Asleep? I didn't hear anything, if that's what you're asking.
Yes.
And you and your daughter got along fine? She was my daughter.
I loved her.
Did the police get a blood sample from you, Mr.
Rounder, to check against the D.
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Would you mind if we do? No.
I wouldn't mind.
Yeah? Conti, it's Jon.
I'm a couple blocks away from the Rounder house.
We checked the 9-1-1 calls made from the area, and there was one on the night of the murder, a block away from the Rounder house.
How about some kugel, Jon? - I'm sorry.
Some what? - It's a noodle dish.
Say no.
Just try a spoonful.
1185 North houseman.
She saw somebody.
Okay.
I'll swing by later.
I make it with raisins.
So I don't usually call 9-1-1.
There was just something about this fella.
He seemed a little odd.
Can you, uh, can you describe him? Actually, there was one thing I do remember.
He had burn scars on his arms from here to here.
This was strange Aren't you going to try it? Oh, yes.
Of course.
What was strange? He kept asking for some woman Dee-Dee.
I could barely see him through the peephole, but he just kept ringing the bell and saying, "is Dee-Dee there?" It was very scary.
He looked He looked dangerous.
So there was a crazy man knocking on doors in the Rounders' neighborhood.
We're looking into homeless shelters, clinics.
Uh, good show? Kenneth Long sent over his copies of the interrogation tapes Oh, great.
Along with a present.
- What? - Look.
Ha ha! An industrial magnet.
That's more wit than I'd expect from him.
I think he has writers.
It erased everything.
You're gonna have to bite the bullet on this, Charlie.
Yeah, well, not looking forward to that call.
"Hey, congratulations on your engagement to my ex.
"How about those tapes?" Conti, we checked the photos of Kevin's hands.
The cuts could be from a skateboard or a knife.
Also I was thinking about coming out and questioning Kevin with you.
Oh, yeah.
Actually, Brianna's going.
Well, do you want me to talk to the dad, maybe, as a possibility? Yeah, Brianna's on that, too.
Maybe you could help Jon on the shelter search.
Yeah.
Good.
I'm on it.
So he was a homeless man.
Uh, he was tall, short hair.
Burn scars on his arms.
Did Ashley ever mention anyone like that? No? Okay, what about Dee-Dee? Did anyone call her Dee-Dee, or did she know anybody called Dee-Dee? No.
So, um If we lose on friday, they transfer me then? Well, actually, uh What did your parents say? "We're gonna win.
" "Don't worry.
We're gonna win.
" All right, what usually happens is transpo waits until there are enough transfers commissioned.
That's usually the first of the month.
So if we do lose, you'd probably have a week or two.
I hear the best thing to do is try to get, like, inside work, you know, like laundry.
Yes.
On the yard, don't get friendly with the guards.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
Every step of the way, we did everything they asked.
The police, the D.
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, our attorney.
Mrs.
Rounder, did Ashley have any friends on the gym team? Yes.
Dylan Avarello.
He was on the gym team with her.
He used to drive her there and back.
Drive her? So he was older? Yes, 16.
Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that.
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an older kid.
- Were they dating? - No.
Theywe had rules.
They did homework together.
They'd get together with other kids for pizza, things like that.
I still didn't The difference between 13 and 16 is huge.
It's harder on somemore than others.
On him, it's hard.
- Well, call if there's anything.
- All right, will do.
- Thanks, Mike.
- Yeah.
You said burn marks on his arms? Yeah, on his forearms.
Do you know him? Well, sounds like Victor.
He's not in any trouble, is he? No, no.
No, no.
In fact, he might have some money coming to him.
Really? All right? What money? Well, I'm not familiar with all the particulars in this case.
Sonya, you It's an estate matter, so we really can't say.
Okay.
Do you know his last name? Uh, VictorEgri.
He was only here for a couple of months, and we're mostly for recovering drug addicts.
But we get some mentally ill coming through, too.
You wouldn't happen to have a picture of him, would you? You know what? I might.
Come on.
Let's see.
Somewhere around here.
Yeah, Victor was a pretty sad story, really.
He burned his arms trying to save his little girl from a fire.
She didn't make it.
Was his little girl's name Dee-Dee? I don't know.
Sorry.
Here we are.
He worked with his friends on a community work crew picking up trash around the neighborhood.
Where? Oh, just north of here, past the park.
You know what, guys? I'm really sorry, but I gotta get this meeting going.
If you don't mind? - Sure.
Past the park, that's near the Rounder house.
Um, sorry, mr.
Deakins, I left my notepad back there.
Sure.
So, Dylan, Mrs.
Rounder said you were Ashley's friend on the gym team.
Yeah, that's right.
But nothing more than that? What do you mean? You weren't boyfriend/girlfriend? No.
You weren't having sex? No.
Where did you get that? Age difference was a little weird, wasn't it, Dylan? 16-year-old hanging out with a 13-year-old? I thought you guys were trying to defend Kevin.
We are.
Did you spend much time in Ashley's room? Sure.
Doing homework, talking Quite a climb, Ashley's window.
You need some gymnastic ability to get up there.
Have a seat.
Look, I had protective parents, too, and I remember getting pretty good at sneaking boys in after hours, so Okay.
I think you guys need some more information here.
Ashley was on my team, but she wasn't on my team.
I mean, I had a boyfriend.
I know her mom got the wrong idea.
I just didn't think the right idea was gonna help matters much.
I have an alibi for that night if you need it.
Did Ashley ever complain about someone bothering her, someone who, uh, looked like that? - No - Sure? Sorry.
And her relationship with her father, how was that? He could be pretty hard.
We were out late one night.
Mr.
Rounder almost lost it when he had to let her in.
So Ashley started hiding this key in the yard because she didn't want to always have to She hid a key? Yes.
Why? Okay, so the police assumed it was an inside job 'cause there were only four keys, and all were accounted for.
Somewhere in this yard is a fifth key, but Dylan did not know where.
Now the last prints on any container could be the killer's, so don't touch it when you bag it, all right? Look for magnetized hideaway key containers, hollow bricks, rocks.
Okay, let's get started.
Hey.
Phone me if there's anything.
So what's up with Brianna and Conti? Did you say Brianna and Conti? - Yeah.
- What's up with them? - Yeah.
- The two of them.
Forget I asked.
No, what? What? Brianna and Conti Imagine my surprise finding one of my A.
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s failed to release 16 hours of interrogation.
So you're being a good guy? I'm being the district attorney of Oakland.
Contrary to popular opinion, that means freeing the wrongly convicted, too.
Charlotte didn't get you to do this? Want to know the real reason I'm doing this? I watched the tapes.
There's nothing illegal.
Please, can Ican I.
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have a rest for a second? When you give me some answers.
I don't have any answers.
Yes, you do, Kevin.
No, I don't.
I swear.
Please.
Come on.
You have to believe me Hi.
I came to pick up Richard, but he's got a jury out, so so I'll let you get on with your Little Gino's! Sausage and roasted garlic.
- Go ahead.
- I couldn't.
I think you could.
But I didn't! How many times do I have to tell you? What do you want from me? - We want the truth.
- I'm telling you, I didn't do it! I'm getting tired of this, Kevin.
Please, can I--can we rest for just one minute? When you give me some answers.
- I don't have any answers.
- Yes, you do, Kevin.
No, I don't Come on, they read him his rights.
He was given an option.
Yeah, but they told him it would take longer if a lawyer got involved.
Do you consent to a kind of lie detector test? It's a voice stress analyzer test.
It says if you're telling the truth.
Those things aren't even accurate.
Richard said there was nothing illegal.
You're allowed to lie to a suspect.
And it tells us whether he's lying Charlotte, just look at this kid.
I'm looking, and I don't see a problem.
And you know what? There was one time when you didn't either.
Yes.
Is George Bush the president of the United States? Yes.
- Did you kill Ashley? - No.
- Are you 15 years old? - Yes.
- Are your eyes blue? - Yes.
Easy, right? So what what do you do now? Well, I just look at these graphs, and then I tell you what it says.
What? Let me show you something, Kevin.
Now you see that dip right there? That says you're lying.
- Well, it can't.
- It does, and it's right there.
Well, I don'tI don't that doesn't make any sense.
I don't know why it would say that.
Kevin, look, this computer doesn't lie.
You've seen "csi," right? Well, then you know that people lie.
Science doesn't.
I swear to god, I am not lying! Please! Can I go home? So once you get the suspect to feel like nothing he says will make a difference, what next? The final step.
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to convince him his only hope is to confess.
Please continue.
If you just admit what you did if you just take responsibility, the judge will take that into consideration.
- But I - But if you don't I spoke to your parents.
You know what they said? They said they know you did this, and they never want to see you again.
No! No! Mr.
Conti, do you have a professional opinion about the truth or falsehood of Kevin Rounder's confession? Yes.
In my opinion, the confession is false.
Mr.
Conti, did these detectives do anything illegal? - No, they didn't.
- In fact, the supreme court has said it's okay to lie to a suspect about evidence, hasn't it? Yes.
It's also legal to question a minor without telling his parents.
Yes.
Mr.
Conti, over the seven years you were a homicide detective, you got a lot of people to confess using the very same techniques, didn't you? Yes.
Joseph Penfold.
He confessed to murder in the second degree.
You interrogated him for ten hours.
Was he guilty? Yes.
Tom Ledsam.
Robbery in the first degree.
17 hours of interrogation.
Did he falsely confess? No.
How about Brendan Rowen? Ramon Vasquez? Bobby Weeks? - Are we done yet? - Let me get this straight.
When you were a detective, these techniques were valid.
But now that you work at the national justice project, they're not.
You've made your point, Ms.
Fulbright.
I have no further questions.
Mr.
Conti did you ever get anyone to confess who turned out to be innocent? Yes.
Who? Andrew Connolly.
You suspected him of a rape and a murder, correct? Yes.
How long did you interrogate him? 15 hours over 2 days.
- And you lied to him.
- Yes.
What did you tell him? I told him three eyewitnesses saw him at the scene.
I told him he failed a polygraph examination.
- Which he hadn't.
- The results were inconclusive.
Anything else? I told him we found semen on the victim, and the D.
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matched.
Also not true.
His attorney had it tested after he was convicted.
It matched someone who later confessed to the crime.
So did Mr.
Connolly get out of prison? No.
Before the D.
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came back, he committed suicide.
So, Mr.
Conti I've heard enough.
You can sit.
Mr.
Conti, thank you.
You're excused.
I presided over this trial three years ago.
It is a difficult case, and I am extremely moved by what I saw in that videotape.
That being said, I'm not convinced this confession is involuntary.
I must consider the importance of finality in criminal cases.
The defendant's motion for D.
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testing is denied.
- You gotta be kidding me.
- Excuse me? Are you saying that finality is more important than the truth? Counselor, you heard my ruling.
Now sit down.
I'm not gonna sit down.
We're talking about a boy's life here.
This is not a technicality.
- Enough! One more word from you, and I'll hold you in contempt.
Good.
Well, then I'll choose that word very carefully, your honor - "Travesty" comes to mind.
- That's it.
Bailiff, arrest Mr.
Swain! You're in contempt, sir.
Fine, because I find these entire proceedings contemptible! You want to disrespect this court? You're damn right I'm gonna disrespect this court! - You will pay dearly.
Bail is set in the amount of $5,000.
- You are so farup the D.
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's pocket, you can't even see straight! This is not over, your honor! This is not over! All right.
Suspects.
Look, the only way we're gonna win this thing is to go whole-hog.
Come on! The father, Larry Rounder.
Yes, right, the father.
Uh, excuse me, Billy.
Didn't mean to wake you there.
All right, good.
We got the father.
Who else? Come on.
- The mother.
- The mother.
Good, yeah.
There's no way the parents did it.
Well, then who? Give me something.
- The friend Dylan.
- Yes.
- Well, I thought he was gay.
- Gay people can't kill? He rebuffs her.
She threatens to out him.
There's your motive.
Okay, he had an alibi, but I can double-check.
You know, we still got Victor Egri, that crazy guy that - Good.
Let me see that.
Jimmy, you got any tape? There you go.
Thank you, Charlie.
Okay.
Victor Egri.
Where are we with him? Excuse me.
We're working here.
Anybody get.
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I said, we're working here.
Would you mind getting out of the way? - Sorry.
- Thank you.
Come on, people, what about Victor? Wake up! Well, he was near the Rounder house the night of the murder.
The home had a community service crew that would pick up trash in the area, so maybe he saw Ashley hide the key then.
Good, good, good.
Now we're talking.
Let's find him.
Well, the home said he was from Oregon or Washington, so we're checking on - Wait.
Wait.
What? He's got that look.
This group with Victor one of them's army.
How do you know? That patch--first cavalry.
Good, Charlie.
All right, check V.
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hospitals.
Come on, people.
We are the weather underground.
Venceremos! Venceremos, Charlie.
Right.
The judge set bail, so you don't have to stay here.
Let's go - No place I'd rather be.
I stay here, I get the press.
- How's my coverage? - Kyoq is covering it.
Okay, Kyoq, that's good.
Anything national? Not yet.
What do you mean, "not yet," Charlie? This has to go national or we don't--Sam.
Where have you been, man? Thanks.
- We got a caramel no-foam latte.
- Oh, that's mine.
Yeah, hi, I'm calling from Dade men's group home.
I'm looking for a Victor Egri.
Yeah, E-G-R-I.
Thing is, I used to hear from my dad all the time, and he hasn't called in years, and I just thought-- I'm getting emotional.
I apologize.
No, that's okay.
All right, thanks for checking.
You sure no one by that name? Conti.
When? - What happened? - Early transfer.
Kevin! Kevin, listen to me.
I want you to remember exactly what I say, okay? At San Quentin, first time on the yard, ask any hispanic con you see for Damian Rojas.
Say the name.
Damian Rojas.
Don't ask any white or black cons, just hispanic, okay? You tell Damian my name and say, "if you protect me, Conti will protect Mickey.
" You understand? Say it back to me.
"If you protect me, Conti will protect Mickey.
" Right.
Right.
I want you to do one other thing for me.
You have to promise.
Don't let anybody see you cry.
Understand? If you need to cry, you do it in bed.
I understand.
Name? Kevin Rounder.
Yeah.
Okay.
Early morning cloudiness, but then sunshine for the rest of the day.
Later in the week, there's a 20% chance of rainfall.
Hello, Victor.
Hello.
Who's Dee-Dee? January 18th, 2003, 10:15 P.
M.
You knocked on the door of Miss Bonnie Levin asking for Dee-Dee.
- Are you with the hospital? - January 18th, 2003, Victor.
You were staying at Hopkins group home, 12 blocks from Ashley Rounder.
- I think I better go - Sit down! I don't care how crazy you are, Victor.
I don't give a rat's ass.
All I care about right now is what you were doing on january 18th, 2003.
Ashley Rounder.
You saw her when you were picking up trash near her house.
You saw where she kept her key.
You went back.
Remember? No.
I don't remember that.
Please.
You were knocking on doors asking for Dee-Dee.
I don't remember.
All right, look.
Hopkins group home, Victor.
Three years ago.
See? That's you.
Dee-Dee? Dee-Dee.
You were knocking on doors looking for Dee-Dee.
- D.
D.
- D.
D.
? That's D.
D.
Douglas Douglas Deakins.
Mr.
Deakins.
Hi.
Look, I just wanted to apologize to you in person.
Jon made a mistake lying to you and taking this.
Say you're sorry, Jon.
Sorry.
Oh.
That's okay, guys.
You see, he actually works for the national justice project, and we're investigating the murder of Ashley Rounder.
Who? She was a 13-year-old killed in the neighborhood 3 years ago.
We thought Victor might be involved, but it was a mistake.
You get a lot of false leads in this business.
Yeah, I bet.
But you know what? Here's a funny thing.
It seems you supervised his work crew, which means you could have seen Ashley at her house.
Is that when you first became obsessed with her? What are you talking about? Victor said you were in the neighborhood the night Ashley was killed.
He was looking for you, so he went wandering.
He saw your car.
Excuse me, gentlemen.
I need to lock up.
We ran your name through Megan's list, Douglas.
But we didn't find anything.
- I said I have to lock up.
But you know what we did find? An arrest in Denton, Texas.
.
Someone named Douglas Deakins breaking into the home of 12-year-old Trisha Harlstrom.
- That never went to trial, okay? - I know, and you've tried to make up for it ever since by helping the less fortunate.
But you left some blood on the knife that killed Ashley Rounder, and the judge allowed us to do a D.
N.
A.
test.
And guess what? It's yours.
- I don't believe you.
- That's fine with me, 'cause you left your prints at the scene.
You saw her hide it under her bike seat when she came home one night, didn't you? You probably just wanted to hold her, just take her away and hold her.
But Ashley was strong.
She fought back.
Shut up! No, no.
You never take the D.
A.
's first offer.
I mean, he's just trying to clear you off the docket.
What you want to do is hold out for the best So Douglas Deakins confessed.
You want to get out? I don't know.
I'm kind of enjoying this.
Me too.
Charlie? I'm just very glad that my brief incarceration has kept this issue in the public eye.
Because without the press coverage, judge Wilkins might never have reversed his ruling on the D.
N.
A.
.
You weren't there.
It wasn't my place.
Thank you.
Okay.
Congratulations.
Oh, thanks.
- You too.
- Thanks.
So there's something I don't understand.
The police lied to get Kevin to confess.
You lied to get Deakins to confess.
What's the difference? You don't have an answer.
No.
Life is complicated? That works.
You want to go get a drink? Uh, just to talk.
Maybe another time.
Right.
- Another time.
- Right.
Conti.