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And even then there's no guarantee that he'll testify, 544 00:39:55,728 --> 00:39:57,897 or that he'd have anything to testify about. 545 00:39:58,188 --> 00:39:59,398 In all fairness to my client, Your Honor, 546 00:39:59,690 --> 00:40:04,278 I cannot present a complete defense without this witness. 547 00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:05,321 - I'm sorry. 548 00:40:05,613 --> 00:40:08,824 Your request for a continuance is denied. 549 00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:12,912 Miss Riley? 550 00:40:14,288 --> 00:40:15,748 Please don't try to contaminate the process 551 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,002 with any backdoor comments about this witness in open court. 552 00:40:21,211 --> 00:40:25,299 How can I possibly contaminate this process? 553 00:40:58,165 --> 00:41:01,669 Opening statements, Mr. Stella. 554 00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:21,480 - Elizabeth Rose Quinn. 555 00:41:24,608 --> 00:41:25,442 She was 24. 556 00:41:27,903 --> 00:41:31,240 A clerk typist at the Justice Department. 557 00:41:32,366 --> 00:41:34,284 She made $17,000 a year. 558 00:41:35,244 --> 00:41:36,704 She was single. 559 00:41:36,996 --> 00:41:39,039 She liked to play tennis. 560 00:41:39,331 --> 00:41:43,961 She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Arlington. 561 00:41:44,253 --> 00:41:46,213 She wasn't very important. 562 00:41:48,298 --> 00:41:49,675 Especially in a city 563 00:41:49,967 --> 00:41:53,095 that's full of so many important people. 564 00:41:54,304 --> 00:41:57,808 She was just a decent, hardworking citizen. 565 00:42:01,478 --> 00:42:05,566 And on the night of December 18th, a week before Christmas, 566 00:42:08,861 --> 00:42:12,948 Carl Wayne Anderson, in cold blood cut her throat. 567 00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:24,168 I've prosecuted 43 murder cases. 568 00:42:24,460 --> 00:42:27,755 It's always a horror, it's always senseless. 569 00:42:28,047 --> 00:42:30,382 But of the murder cases I have prosecuted, 570 00:42:30,674 --> 00:42:32,885 this is the most horrible, 571 00:42:33,177 --> 00:42:36,472 the most senseless, the most indefensible. 572 00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:38,390 For $9.00. 573 00:42:42,144 --> 00:42:42,895 $9.00. 574 00:42:46,190 --> 00:42:48,275 $9.00, that's all she had. 575 00:42:50,444 --> 00:42:52,154 Is this what we've become? 576 00:42:52,446 --> 00:42:55,240 Is the value of human life so cheap? 577 00:42:58,202 --> 00:43:00,204 Elizabeth worked late that night. 578 00:43:00,496 --> 00:43:01,622 It was cold. 579 00:43:01,914 --> 00:43:04,917 She was tired and anxious to get home. 580 00:43:05,209 --> 00:43:06,919 She took the bus to the parking lot on K Street 581 00:43:07,211 --> 00:43:08,504 where her car was. 582 00:43:10,214 --> 00:43:12,216 That's as far as she got. 583 00:43:13,801 --> 00:43:15,469 We will show that Carl Wayne Anderson 584 00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:19,264 had been in that parking lot trying to break into cars. 585 00:43:19,556 --> 00:43:22,601 He had been sleeping in Elizabeth's car 586 00:43:23,769 --> 00:43:27,773 and a parking lot attendant had chased him away. 587 00:43:28,065 --> 00:43:29,608 But he had come back. 588 00:43:32,694 --> 00:43:37,199 And when he saw Elizabeth alone and defenseless, 589 00:43:37,491 --> 00:43:39,701 he beat her, dragged her down to the river, 590 00:43:39,993 --> 00:43:42,371 slit her throat and killed her. 591 00:43:47,292 --> 00:43:49,795 This isn't the 11 o'clock news. 592 00:43:51,797 --> 00:43:52,673 We can't just shake our heads, 593 00:43:52,965 --> 00:43:55,259 go to bed and forget about it. 594 00:43:56,218 --> 00:44:00,222 We have a responsibility to Elizabeth Rose Quinn. 595 00:44:01,807 --> 00:44:04,476 She is, after all, too important. 596 00:44:14,528 --> 00:44:16,363 - Miss Riley? 597 00:44:27,624 --> 00:44:32,171 Carl Wayne Anderson is not a decent, hardworking citizen. 598 00:44:32,462 --> 00:44:36,341 He is not a shining example of the American dream. 599 00:44:36,633 --> 00:44:39,761 Carl Anderson is the American nightmare. 600 00:44:46,101 --> 00:44:49,062 He's one of the nameless, faceless derelicts 601 00:44:49,354 --> 00:44:51,732 that wander aimlessly through the streets of our country 602 00:44:52,024 --> 00:44:54,651 every day by the thousands. 603 00:44:54,943 --> 00:44:56,445 We step over them in doorways. 604 00:44:56,737 --> 00:44:58,113 We cross the street 605 00:44:59,907 --> 00:45:01,700 in order to avoid actually having to come into contact 606 00:45:01,992 --> 00:45:03,327 with one of them. 607 00:45:03,619 --> 00:45:06,330 We look at them with a mixture of pity 608 00:45:06,622 --> 00:45:08,248 and contempt and fear. 609 00:45:09,291 --> 00:45:12,169 And we choose not to see that under their ragged blankets 610 00:45:12,461 --> 00:45:15,589 and their filthy clothes is a frightened, 611 00:45:15,881 --> 00:45:18,