You can't hear yourself think!
OK, you can't hear yourself think,
now will you get to the point?
OK, let's try and tie two pieces
of evidence together.
No 1, the old man in the apartment downstairs,
he swears that he heard the boy say
"I'm gonna kill you" and then a split second later
what sounded like a body falling to the floor.
- One second later, am I right?
- Right.
OK. Now the woman across the street,
she swears that she saw the stabbing
through the windows of the last two cars of an
elevated train, the last two cars, am I right?
What are you making here?
Alright, we agreed that it takes
10 seconds for an elevated train
to pass a given point.
If the woman witnessed the stabbing through
the last two cars, then we must assume
that the body fell just as the train was passing by.
Therefore, it was roaring by the old man's window
for a full 10 seconds before the body fell.
The old man, now, according to his own testimony,
hearing the boy say "I'm going to kill you"
and the body falling, must have heard that statement
while the el was roaring by right under his nose!
It's not possible that he could've heard it.
It's idiotic! Sure he heard it!
You really think so, eh?
The old man said the boy yelled it
out, that's good enough for me.
Well, whatever he heard, he couldn't have
identified the voice with that el roaring by.
You're talking about a matter of seconds here,
nobody could be that accurate!
Well, I'll tell ya, I think the testimony that can send
a human being to death should be that accurate!
- I don't think he could've heard it...
- Yeah, maybe he didn't hear it with all that el noise.
What are you people talking about?
- Well it stands to reason.
- It's crazy!
Why should he lie?
What's he got to gain?
Attention, maybe.
You keep coming up with these bright sayings. Why
don't you sell'em to the Reader's Digest, they pay $50.
Why do you keep talking to him like that, hah?
No, a guy who talks like that to an old man
ought to get stepped on, know what I mean?
You oughta have little respect!
You go ahead, you say whatever you
want! Noone's gonna stop you!
Why do you think the old man might lie?
Well...
...it's just that I looked at him for a very long time...
The seam of his jacket was split under the arm.
Any of you notice it?
I mean, to come into court like that.
He was a very old man with a torn jacket
and he walked very slowly towards the stand.
He was dragging his left leg
and trying to hide it,
because he was ashamed.
I think I know him better than anyone here.
This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant
old man who's been nothing, all his life.
Never had recognition, never seen
his name in the newspapers.
Nobody knows him. Nobody quotes him.
Nobody seeks his advice after 75 years.
You know...
...that's a very sad thing, to be a nothing.
A man like this needs to be recognised,
to be listened to, to be quoted, just
once. That's very important.
He would find it hard to recede into the background,
when there's a chance for him to become a...
Wait a minute, wait a minute! Are you trying to tell
us that the guy would lie just to be important once?
He wouldn't... really lie!
But perhaps he'd make himself believe that
he heard those words and recognised the boy's face.
That's the most fantastic story I've heard in my life!
How can you just make up some stuff like that?
What do you know about it?
Sit down!
You sit down!
Sit down!
Jentlemen, let me remind you, this case is based
on a reasonable and logical progression of facts.
Please, let's keep it.
Facts may be covered by the personalities
of the people who present them.
Let's not forget that.
- Would anybody like a cough drop?
- Yeah, I would, thank you.
Say what you like fellas...
I still don't see how anybody
could think this kid's not guilty.
There's one thing I did wanna
talk about for just a minute.
I think that we have proven that the old man
could not have heard the