"Reckless endangerment, suspend time." "Let's all go home." " Funny." " Excuse me?" " "Funny."" " Come back with something." " I did." " With funny?" " Funny." " Helen." " Bobby." " This man is a respected doctor." " He's beloved in the medical community." " Which makes his crime more offensive." "If he's a role model, I have to worry about the example he sets, as well as the crime." " Which is murder." " You'll never get a murder conviction." "The Supreme Court considered legalizing doctor-assisted suicides." "Not for long, 9-zip." "You're in the ladies' room." " I'll win this." " Bobby." " Helen." " It would be inappropriate for me to hike up my skirt and bend over." "But if I did, you'd see a huge bug up my..." " Helen." " Bobby." "What your guy committed was murder." "It's pay-the-piper time." " Pack, we're going to trial." " She wouldn't take the plea?" " Bug up her ass." "Lindsay?" " With Mr. Malzone." "Notify the witness." "Call the client." " One o'clock?" "I can't believe it." " She turned down manslaughter?" "I can't go to jail." "My wife don't work." "I got grandkids." "I can't go to jail." "Mr. Malzone, if we don't take the deal and we lose which we will, you're gonna go away for a lot longer." "I don't understand." "He hasn't hurt anybody." " Why do they wanna put him in jail?" " They don't." "They're going after some of the higher-ups, and they want Carl to help them." " Lindsay." " But my husband never hurt nobody." " Unfortunately, they don't care about that." " I got grandkids." " Helen, how well do you know her?" " Why?" "Because she's taking a hard line on Dr. Richards." "Any other DA would plead this out, but she's pressing for Murder 2." "She's a conservative DA, pretty much." "But I don't know." "Maybe she's mad over losing the last one." "That's what I'm afraid of." "I gotta steal Ellenor." " Okay." " Well, I can jump in." "My desk is clear." "Yeah, thanks, Jimmy, but Ellenor's more up to speed on this." "How'd you like to do the Malzone case with me?" " The bookie?" " We lost the entrapment hearing." "Best we can chip it down to is 18 months, unless he agrees to turn state." " I can jump in." " This is more Eugene." "Ellenor and I were thinking United States of America." " For a bookie?" " It's all we got." "Come on." " I'll cover your child molester." " He jumped bail." "You start tomorrow?" "Facts are simple:" "Completely guilty." "We have no defense." " It's right up your alley." " Meaning?" "Come on, Eugene." "For your country?" "And I repeated that I thought the dosage would be fatal." "What did the defendant say then, Ms. MacKenzie?" "He said, "Nurse, when I give you an instruction it's not your function to question it."" " What happened then?" "Well, I did question it, and I refused to do it." "I don't kill my patients." " Objection." " Sustained." "What happened next?" "He stepped in, and he turned up the morphine drip himself." "Two thousand milligrams." "Three hours later, she was dead." "Did Dr. Richards say anything when he turned up the drip?" "He said, "She's suffered enough and it's time for God to take her."" "Thank you, Ms. MacKenzie." "Mr. Donnell?" "The patient suffered from ovarian cancer." "Isn't that right, Ms. MacKenzie?" "It was morphine that killed her, not cancer." "Ma'am, I think we all understand that you're taking a position in this." "I would like you to answer my questions without trying to be an advocate." " Is that fair?" " Yes." " Fine." " Except one thing." "I know what you lawyers do." "You're gonna try to beat up on me." "And I'm telling you now, I won't take it." "So proceed against me at your own risk." "Ms. MacKenzie I have a bladder the size of a small cashew." "Let's cut down the nonsense." "Just answer his questions." "Jane Crewson's cancer was terminal, wasn't it?" " Yes." " And she was in considerable pain." " That's true too, isn't it?" " We don't go around killing everyone in pain, counsel." "There was a man screaming over a kidney stone." "Should we put him out of his misery?" "Ma'am, that's Jane Crewson's family sitting right there." "That's her husband, her son and her two daughters." "Are you telling them that you equate her cancer with a kidney stone?" " I didn't say that." " Yeah, you did, Ms. MacKenzie!" "That's exactly what you just did!" "If that's the sensitivity you lend to your patients then let's add to this tragedy that on top of cancer Mrs. Crewson had a nurse with zero compassion!" " Objection!" " This man did see her pain!" " Objection!" "This man did see the difference between cancer and a kidney stone!" " Objection!" " Objection!" " All right." "Quiet!" "Ms. MacKenzie if you wanna fight the dog, I have no choice but to unleash him." "I suggest you answer the questions and that's it." "Fine." "Jane Crewson wanted to die." " Did she not?" " She suffered from dementia." "Now, hold on." "Do you feel that you really answered the question he just asked?" " No, Your Honor, you hold on." " I beg your pardon?" "The question assumed Jane Crewson's capacity to make a competent decision." "The witness correctly took issue with that assumption." "Ms. Gamble, take your seat." " Mr. Donnell, take yours." " I'm not finished yet." "Indulge me." "At the risk of both parties moving for a mistrial which I won't grant let me save us all a lot of time." "The prosecution put this delightful personality up here to establish that the victim died as a result of the defendant turning up the morphine drip." "The defense doesn't dispute any of this." "There really was no point in Nurse MacKenzie even testifying other than to get in her condemnation." "To counter that condemnation the defense wants to establish that the victim was terminal in severe pain, and that her family sitting there requested that she be allowed to die." "The prosecution doesn't dispute any of that." "You see, the facts being offered by this witness are a given." "This is all about presentation." "I just saved you a full day." "She got to make her presentation, I didn't get to make mine." " As if I care." " I don't know what you're complaining about." "I'm the one that got hurt." " What?" " How?" "You were hostile to my chief witness." "You basically discredited her." " She was hostile." " Give me a break." " Could I speak?" " Your witness got her story." " I didn't get my cross." " We could just miss all the witnesses." " Make the whole trial about you." " Hey!" "See what I'm talking about?" "Here are my rules." "We're gonna try this case with no crap." "No argumentative grandstanding." "None of that stuff you typically pull that makes people call you what they call you." " What do they call us?" " Lawyers." "We're gonna march into that room, and we're gonna try something new." "We are going to limit this case to this case." " He's a blowhard." " Big one." " Look, how could you not plead this?" " Because I can't." " So you'd rather lose?" " Yep." " Fine, you will." " Fine." " Fine." " Fine." " You're prosecuting?" " Lucky me." " Chris and I used to date." " Then lucky us." " That's grounds for dismissal." " Right." "Chris, come on." "He's a smalltime bookie." "And if he gives up the bigtime bookie, he goes free." " You know that's not an option for him." " Mr. Kelton, this isn't the guy you want." "He can't give you the guy you want." "That sticks us all between a rock and a hard place with a case none of us want to try." "Kick this one and we'll owe you." " You'll owe me?" " Yes." " Owe me what?" " A favor." "Everything goes around here." "One day you'll need a favor from us." "And when the time comes, think how relieved you'll be that we owe you." "It's not the way I operate, Mr. Young." "One day you will." "I think I'll try the case." "That didn't work, Eugene." "I didn't ask you to intimidate him." "I didn't." "Obviously." "You think he's ever gonna give me a case?" " Excuse me?" " Bobby." "I sit around here counting paper clips." "It's not like we ain't busy, Rebecca." "We got about 100 cases." "I mean, that's like 15 per lawyer." "And how many per paper clip?" " Why won't he give me a case to run with?" " Bobby knows you're a good lawyer." "Right." "Why won't he give me a case?" "Why don't you think about it?" "She didn't want her body and her mind to go on disintegrating." "She didn't want her children to see." "This was a very vibrant woman." "A proud..." "Was it her decision to die?" "Yes." "And as her legal guardian, you concurred?" "She was in pain." "There was no quality to her life anymore." "She was slipping in and out of comas." "It was too hard on her." "It was too hard on my children." "And when you approached Dr. Richards about..." "What...?" "What did he tell you?" "He said that, legally speaking that he couldn't euthanize her." "That all he was permitted to do was to increase her medication but that the consequence of that would be that she would die." "And what did you say to that, sir?" "Sir?" "I said do it." "It was a blessing." " She did suffer from dementia, right?" " Off and on." "Some days, she'd be remarkably coherent." "She wanted to die." "Three months prior to her death you petitioned the court for guardianship, right?" " Yes." " You cited as a reason:" ""She was no longer mentally competent to make decisions in her life."" "She was of clear mind in her wish to die." "I was married to her for 22 years." "I would know!" "I would know." "The court did find her mentally incompetent." " Isn't that correct, sir?" " That was a legal ruling." "Yes, and legally, since she was, in fact, judged incompetent this had to be your decision to let her die." " Isn't that right, sir?" " Yes." "You spoke of your pain." "Having to watch your wife deteriorate this way." "Would it be fair to say this pain was immense for you?" "It would be fair." "Have you ever been through anything more painful?" " No." " I hate to ask this, sir." "But can we really be sure you were of sound mind through all this?" "Let's make it quick." "I'm a busy man." "Twenty times on the Patriots, times two on the Steelers Cowboys and Dolphins each." "Ten times on the Raiders." "Detective, does that videotape accurately reflect the events of December 19, 1996?" "It does." "You placed bets with Mr. Malzone on National League football games?" " I did." " Thank you." "Yours." "You actually put money on the Raiders?" "It wasn't about trying to win the bet, counsel." "Clearly." "Did Mr. Malzone solicit you in any way to make these wagers?" " Or did you go to him?" " I went to him." "Part of a big sting to get big fish in a big organized gambling mob." " Wasn't that it?" " Basically." "And is this the fish you were looking to get?" "Or were you looking to trade up?" "The latter." " No point to putting the daughter..." " You don't know what I'll ask." " You'll be putting the law on trial." " Her testimony will go to the facts." "It'll be a tear-jerk fest, we all know that, with nothing relevant." "Say that to the jury." "Nothing relevant to the daughter whose mother died." " That's the type of pandering..." " Great idea." "Quiet, now." "I have a question." "Do you ever talk?" "Do I need to?" "Look, the witness has no relevant testimony which goes to the issue." "I'd ask you to rule not from your heart, but your head." " I'd even settle for your bladder." " Cute." "Look, she's right." "This is a reach." "This is a criminal case." "I should get some rope." "Don't hang yourself with it." "I won't." "Short leash." "The daughter can testify." "The bladder crack cost you." "What?" "You seem a little crisp." "You know what?" "All these murder trials we're getting?" "They started pouring in after we got Gerald Braun off." "That made Bobby the hot lawyer in town for getting people off." "It all started with the Braun trial." " So?" " So it was my strategy." "I had the idea for jury nullification." "Same strategy he's using on this doctor trial." " So?" "So I shouldn't be treated like I'm some second-class lawyer." "You came here after getting fired from a bank for falsifying loan documents." "For this office!" "To help people here!" "Last week, you were arrested for picking up a hooker." " For which I was cleared." "I was innocent." " Yeah." "Details." "Jimmy, this is Boston." "Half of what you are as a lawyer is what the judge and other lawyers think of you." "Jimmy, right now they think you're a hack." "Bobby knows you're a good lawyer." "You have to lay low a little longer." "I run some numbers." "Small time." "Football, boxing." "I usually do good." "Mr. Malzone, let's cut to it." "Do you work for a larger gaming organization?" "Not really." "I'm kind of retired." "They allow me to work to pick up some money." "Most of my clients are long-time friends." "So who are the people you work for?" "I can't tell you that." "Why not, sir?" "Because there's a code of loyalty." "These people have been loyal to me." "I stay loyal to them..." "We're family." "And that's why you won't reveal their identity?" "Because of loyalty?" "That, and they'd kill me." "He's so cute." "Why can't you kick him?" "Oh, because it sends the wrong message to all the other cute bookies out there." "You bet on football, Chris." "Come on." "Okay, tell you what." "This is unorthodox, but if you're willing to go for it..." "What?" " One kiss." " Excuse me?" "Yeah, for old times' sake." "One kiss, a good kiss the case melts away." " Grow up." " I'm serious." "Lips and deal have to stay sealed, though." "You're serious?" "You'd actually kick this if I kissed you?" "No, I'm not serious." "You considered it for a second." "I saw it in your eyes." "Why don't you just kiss me for free and then you don't have to think of yourself as for sale." "You just think you're too cool, don't you?" "I can't drop the case." "I've got marching orders." "What's with your office?" "You're after a smalltime guy prosecuting a doctor for turning up a morphine drip." "That's Gamble, not the office." "In fact, they suggested she pull back on that, and she refused." " Really?" "Why?" " You know her better than I do." " Blow!" " It is my birthday." "Blow!" "That was four years ago?" "Yes, her 45th." "Happy birthday, Mommy." "I love you." "That was about a week before she died." "Julie, can you tell us a little bit about the day your mother passed away?" "Well, she knew it was probably one of her last." "She wasn't completely alert but she could recognize all of us." "Can you talk about the last few hours?" "Well..." "We had put up pictures." "Large, blown-up photographs all around the room." "Pictures of when we were little, and so forth." "The..." "The doctor came in around noon, and we all had to..." "He wanted to make sure that we were all sure." "We can take a break any time you want." "No, I'm okay." "After he turned up the morphine we knew she had about an hour left of consciousness." "We all held hands." "My sister and I sang." "She used to love it when we would..." "We all held hands." "We told her how much we loved her." "She told us how much she loved us." "And then she faded off into sleep." "Julie the prosecution is trying to convict Dr. Richards of murder." "Yeah, which to me, is sick." "My mother had a good death." "It was peaceful." "I mean, she could have gone out with pain and bed sores and instead she died without hurt." "She died with her family there loving her." "And with her knowing that." "It was a good death." "And I am so grateful, and so was my mother." "We put Richards up and that should be it." "Where are we on Malzone?" "Dead." "Got it on tape and Carl won't plead out." "Well, you better make him plead." "Jimmy?" "Everything okay?" "Sure." "I'm just sitting here doing nothing." "It's my niche." " Well, maybe we could talk about it later." " Sure." "I can pencil "later" into my schedule." "Okay, Ellie, let's go." "Make him take the plea." "The term we use for it is "managed death."" " Does that mean you cause the death?" " No." "It means that faced with an inevitable death managing it to relieve suffering." "In the case of Jane Crewson, that meant turning up the morphine drip?" " Yes." " To a potentially lethal dosage?" "Yes." " And the patient consented?" " That's correct." " As did her family?" " Yes." "Now, did you clear this decision with the hospital authorities?" "No, I did not." "Really?" "Isn't this kind of a big thing?" "Hastening a patient's death?" "Of course, it is." "It is also a privacy issue." "Even so, you'd think the hospital might have something to say on this." "Well, I hate to be blunt to the point of sounding cold but if hospitals took time out to review every decision that was made to let a patient die the system would choke." "So you mean this goes on a lot?" "Seventy percent of all deaths in hospitals are due to decisions to let the patient die." " Seventy percent." " Most deaths aren't that dramatic." "It's doctor and patient and family deciding it's time." "And in your medical opinion, sir, it was time for Jane Crewson?" "No, the medical opinion was that all we could do was prolong her life with various treatments." "Prolong her suffering." "Her personal decision, supported by her family was that it was time." "Now, given the law against euthanasia, doctor weren't you tempted to deny their request?" "Again, the morphine drip was not meant to euthanize her." "It was meant to relieve pain." " But you did know that..." " The likely result." "Yes." "But legally, I believe I stayed within bounds." "And morally." "When a terminal patient in severe pain asks that she be allowed to die with a modicum of decency I listen." "And I listened to Jane Crewson." "Thank you." "I got it down to a year." "That's pretty good, Carl." "A year in jail at my age?" " That could be a death sentence." " It won't be a death sentence." " What will I do?" " Mrs. Malzone we have to consider the lesser of two evils." "What do you think, Eugene?" "Well, it's tough." "If you lose, you're looking at three to four." "This isn't even a close call." "They had you on videotape." "It's your third time." "The jury knows that." "Take the plea." "I wanna hear you say it." "Let's roll the dice." "Eugene, could I speak to you in private a second?" "Excuse us." " Hey!" " Are you nuts?" "!" " We got a shot." " With United States of America?" "How?" " It was your idea." " We're desperate." "So desperate it's malpractice not to take the plea!" " I can win." " You can't." " I can." "You know what?" "This is..." "This..." "You're all goosed over the challenge." "This is fun for you." "You're not thinking of him." "This is about how deep a hole you can jump out of!" " Hey!" " No, you "hey."" "No, you "hey." You brought me in on this to try it." "I think I can win it." "In fact, I know I can." "Funny, I had planned to cross-examine you with:" ""Hey, if we let you do it what's to stop all the other doctors from doing it?"" "But you said, "They're already doing it."" "Seventy percent of all hospital deaths." "That's not my statistic." "It comes from The Journal of the American Medical Association." "Yes, and you use that statistic to say you're right." "Where I'd use it to say I'm right." "This is what happens when you let doctors start killing their patients." " Objection!" " Sustained." "Tell me, doctor." "I have a shooting homicide next week." "If the defendant correctly points out that the leading cause of death in teenage boys is gunshots should that excuse his pulling the trigger?" " Objection!" " Sustained." "No, I'd like to respond." "For you to equate what I did to a shooting homicide sickens me." "If you're sick, please don't go to a doctor who's quick with the morphine." " Objection!" " Sustained." "Please take your seat, Dr. Richards." "You seem impulsive." "You make decisions at impulse?" " Objection!" " Objection!" "The cashew beckons." "I'll see lawyers in chambers, please." " What's going on?" " What?" " Attack dog isn't your style, Helen." " You've looked for a fight since we started." " I don't know what you're talking about." " Don't feed me that." "Both of you are too loaded for bear." " What am I missing?" " Nothing from me." " Nothing from me." " It must be me." "Or not." "Aside from the fact that you're hostility is borderline contempt, it's bad lawyering." "Tough to convince a jury of anything when they don't like you." "Whatever's going on, dial it back." "More than words, seeing is believing." "Thanks to that videotape, you're all eyewitnesses." "You saw the defendant engage in illegal-gaming activities." "Usually, I stand before the jury at the end and I say, "Trust what I tell you."" "And today, I'll only ask you to trust yourselves." "You saw it." "You better be good." "Most criminal trials, the key testimony comes from the victim." "But they didn't put a victim on the stand here, did they?" "Because there is no victim." "Nobody to come forward to complain, "I've been hurt," because nobody got hurt." "Oh, they'll say society suffered." "It's against public policy." "Gambling is against who and what we are." "But that's a lie, isn't it?" "I mean, we love gambling." "I could run down the street now and buy a lottery ticket." "Take a cab to Suffolk Downs, lay some money on a horse hop on a plane to Las Vegas, Atlantic City." "Maybe take one of those cruises with the big casinos on it." "Kathie Lee might even hug me." "Gambling is in the fabric of this country." "Even the word itself:" ""The man gambled." "He went for it." "He defied the odds." "He rolled the dice."" "These are terms we use to describe heroes in this country." "Heroes." "This is America and gambling is in our blood." "Now, what bothers me most about this trial is the blatant hypocrisy of it all because we don't just tolerate gamblers in this country, we breed them." "Flip open the sports page, you'll see the morning line." "Turn on the tube to watch the NFL." "You got special commentators to give you the point spread, their picks." "They'll help you make that bet, and that's on a Sunday." "We spend millions of dollars..." "No, no, no." "Make that a billion dollars advertising lottos." "The government encourages you to bet." "Massachusetts is in the business of gambling." "They use the lottery to raise money to lower your taxes." "And they're coming after him because he helped somebody put a nickel down on the Patriots." "The hypocrisy." "Now, they're only going after Carl Malzone because they're trying to extort him to fork over somebody bigger." "And the gaming charge is the only card they have to play." "It stinks." "This man is a grandfather who has never hurt anybody." "And they're trying to put him in prison." "It stinks terrible." "And not just because of what they're trying to do to him but because they're trying to do it here in this very room." "A courtroom." "A courtroom in the United States of America." "This is forum for justice." "It is not a prosecutorial tool to extort people." "And if you let them do this here if you let them use our justice system as a weapon to oppress then what's next?" "What is next?" "That's not what a courtroom is for." "Not in the United States of America." "How many patients would you say you have on the average, Dr. Richards?" "On average?" " Well, maybe 100." " A hundred." "Did you know Jane Crewson more or less than the other 100?" "Maybe a little more, but my relationship with her was fairly typical." " You weren't her primary physician." " No, I'm an oncologist." "Did you know what Jane Crewson did for a living?" " Objection." "I don't see the relevance in this." " I have to admit, I don't either." "I'm trying to get a sense of how well the doctor knew his patient." "He made a judgment that Jane Crewson was competent to make a pretty big decision here." "The decision was made by Mr. Crewson since legally, he was the appointed guardian." "Okay, fine." "How well did you know Mr. Crewson?" " Objection." " No, no, no." "Go ahead." "Did you know Mr. Crewson more or less than you knew Jane?" "Less, obviously." "About how many hours in total did you spend with him?" " I don't know." " Less than 10?" " Yes." " Less than five?" "I would say over the various meetings about five hours." " Did you know he was in therapy?" "It doesn't surprise me considering what he was going through." " You mean the pain and all?" " Yes." "His wife was dying." "Yes." "I'm sure that could cause some emotional havoc." " Couldn't it?" " Of course." "And if a person were making serious decisions while in the middle of emotional instability..." " Objection." " Overruled." "It was my belief that Mr. Crewson was of completely sound mind." " Did you ever speak with his therapist?" " No." " So you made this determination yourself?" " Yes." "Based on your history with him going back five hours." " Objection." " She's doing nothing here but trying to ridicule the witness." " This is the man that flipped the switch." "He's saying it was Jane Crewson's decision and her husband." "How well he knows these people is certainly relevant to his ability to judge their capacity for competence." "I'm going to allow it." "What did you know of Mr. Crewson's insurance situation?" " Nothing." " Nothing?" "Would it surprise you to know had Jane Crewson continued to live it would have worked a severe financial hardship on her husband?" " Objection." " Overruled." " Your Honor?" " I've ruled." "Did you ever make any attempt to examine Mr. Crewson's motives for wanting his wife to die?" " I didn't have to." " You didn't?" "He says, "Time's up," and you just take his word for it?" " Move to strike that." " Overruled." "It's a nasty question, but it's a fair one." "I weighed this man's capacity for competence as I did with Jane." "And I determined that they were able to make the decision." "Yes." "And I suppose if a hospital were to stop and ask questions every time one family member wanted to kill another the system would choke." " Ms. Gamble!" " No comment." " Ms. Gamble, how...?" " Do you understand English?" " I said, no comment." " Haven't you said enough, Helen?" "Please excuse me." " I won't excuse you." " Bobby?" "You went over the line." "What are you running for?" " Get that mike out of my face!" " What?" " It's basic decency, you know!" " You could show some." "They lost a person they love, and you go after them!" " Let's go!" " They are!" "They murdered a woman!" "Why don't you go to hell!" " Mr. Donnell!" " Ms. Gamble?" "Just a comment." "Just give us a comment, Ms. Gamble." "What is going on?" " I wasn't gonna let her get away with that." " You made a giant ass of yourself with cameras clicking." " Shut up!" "Just shut up, Ellenor." "I'm sorry." "This may be an emotional case, Bobby." "But there is nothing, nothing, to excuse what just happened out there." "And nothing to excuse you talking to me like that." "I apologize." "My God, Bobby." "You'd think it was you on trial here." " Oh, hey." "Verdict?" " Jury's coming in at 10." " They deliberated 40 minutes." " What do you think?" "We have a chance." " Eugene broke out the golden shovel." " I heard that." " How are you doing?" " He's about to get up." "What he'll say, who knows?" "He's just gone totally into orbit on this one." "Technically, I could argue he only acted to relieve pain." "It was just coincidental that she died." "But nobody's kidding anybody here about what's going on." "We are putting a law on trial here more than a man." "This is just as much about you and me as it is about him." "I don't think the district attorney will think me too out of bounds if I tell you I knew a woman who was dying of cancer." "And when this cancer seeped into her brain she couldn't even recognize her husband." "Her son." "She was only 61." "She was dying." "In pain." "The doctor..." "It was agreed that the respirator would be turned off." "Should be turned off." "And he wouldn't do it." "It fell to the husband." "And the husband..." "You see, he..." "He just couldn't bring himself to do it." "So he asked his son." "And the son, to spare both his dad and his mom reached out to end their suffering." "And his hand started to shake to the point where he couldn't even feel that it was connected to his arm." "And he remembers thinking God has his hand now." "The hand..." "It finally did turn off the respirator." "And shortly after, his mother was at peace." "And the son..." "The son was just..." "He was just glad that the suffering was over." "And till this day, he knows he did the right thing." "But..." "Also to this day he wishes that he had a doctor like that one." "My mother said sometimes..." "Sometimes the hardest thing to do is an act of kindness." "My client, ladies and gentlemen is a very kind man." "The closing argument you just heard was wholly, totally objectionable." "The reason I didn't object is because I agree with the defense counsel." "That this trial is not just about Dr. Richards." "It's about all of us." "Mr. Donnell had a story." "I'm sure we all do." "Sarah Washington Gamble." "My grandmother." "Cause of death:" "Respiration failure brought on by the morphine drip." "She had Alzheimer's and she was suffering from both pain and dementia." "And according to her, the doctors and most of her family she wanted to die." "But she didn't." "See, I was the granddaughter that spent every summer with her." "The one who lived with her when I was in law school." "And though she said she wanted to die, what she really felt was it was her duty." "She didn't wanna be a burden on her family anymore." "Sure, she said she wanted death." "As sure as I stand before you now she still wanted to live." "I know it." "See, the problem with going down this slope is you make suicide permissible." "Then acceptable." "Then possibly, in some people's minds, the right thing to do." "You plant the idea with the elderly:" ""It's selfish to hang on, to cling to life, exhausting financial resources having to make the children look at a sick person having to empty a bedpan."" "It's selfish to impose that on someone you love." "I'm sure someday I'll meet someone I love as much as I loved my grandmother." "But for now I wish I could be emptying her bedpans." "She didn't have long in the end, I know." "But she had another day." "And probably another day after that one." "And after that one." "The doctor, he had no way of really knowing her." "He had possibly 100 patients." "He was a very kind man." "But his act of kindness, it wasn't a blessing." "It hastened the death of a person I know wanted to cling just a little longer." "This trial is going to send a message." "I hope the message you send is there is a sanctity to life." "Let's not send the message that suicide or assisted suicide is noble." "That message may cost you dearly." "You can trust me on that." "Will the defendant please rise?" "The jury has reached a unanimous verdict?" " We have, Your Honor." " Let's have it." ""In the matter of The Commonwealth v. Carl Malzone on the charge of gaming, prohibited under Chapter 269, Section 14 we find the defendant not guilty."" "The jury is dismissed with the thanks of the court." " Thank you very much." " You're welcome." " You owe me." " I owe you." "I'd like to thank you too." "As an American citizen." "No problem." "And just to show you I'm a good sport..." "You're lucky you didn't touch lip." "I would have brought you up." "Your Honor?" "Counsel." "Going down?" "Well, you tell me." "Can I ask you a question at the risk of ex parte?" "Sure." "Worst-case scenario:" "I jail you." "You know, you let a lot in that had nothing to do with this case." "That depends on what you thought this case was about." "It was suppose to be about whether or not a defendant committed a crime." " Nothing more." " Yeah, well..." "You really think I should leave legislative policy up to the legislature?" "The book on you is that you study up a little on your lawyers before they appear in your courtroom." " Yeah?" "The book have pictures?" "You knew, didn't you?" "Bobby's mother." "Gamble's grandmother." " You knew." " All I knew was we'd have an exciting trial." "But I certainly never knew we'd have a verdict today." "Is this good?" "I don't know." " Have you reached a verdict?" " We have, Your Honor." "Will the defendant please rise?" "Read it to the court, please." ""Commonwealth v. Dr. Henry Richards on the charge of murder in the second degree we find the defendant guilty."" "I don't believe it." "We've got a lot of grounds." "Quick deliberation is another one." "The jury's work is completed." "You're done." "You can go." "We thank you." "Ask personal recognizance pending appeal, Your Honor." "Granted." "We're adjourned." " Doctor, right here." "Dr. Richards?" " Sir, the charges will affect your practice." "Doctor, could we interview you?" "Ten hours' community service." "No time." "She just told me no jail." "No jail." " Over here!" " Dr. Richards?" "Dr. Richards?" "Finally, a victory against jury nullification." " Way to go, Helen." " Thanks." "Good win, Helen." "Great job." "Oh, yeah." "Get out of here."