"you know?" "He was studying for his PHD in physics." "Mr. stone." " I know how painful this must be." " He had dinner with us every Sunday night." "The night that he was killed... honey." " We usually walked him to the bus stop." "That night... and you had to watch your game." "I'm so sorry about Danny." "dude." "I just wanted to tell you I didn't kill him." "come on." "Let's go." " Danny didn't do anything to that boy." " Except look different." " I assure you:" "Most Americans will not tolerate the murder of an innocent boy." " We should go. we found the body in an abandoned building." "He was already deceased when we arrived." "I assume." " It isn't counsel's place to assume facts not in evidence." " Rephrase:" "Did you merely happen by the building on south..." " counsel is leading the witness." "Rephrase:" "What brought you to that abandoned building." " An anonymous call from what we later learned was a tweaker who was squatting in the building." " What condition was Danny Nasiri in when you found him?" "He had been beaten to death with a tire iron that we found in an adjacent dumpster." " Is this how you found Danny Nasiri?" " It is." " And this?" " Yep." "Byron Welch?" " We learned from campus police there had been a prior altercation between him and Danny Nasiri." " And why did you eventually arrest Byron Welch?" " We found a sweatshirt that was stained with what turned out to be Danny Nasiri's blood." "It had been shoved into the back of Byron's closet under his dirty underwear." "knock it off." " You think this is some kind of joke?" "Stop." " How dare you?" "whoa." " No!" "Mrs. Nasiri!" " Order! brutalized a physics grad student named Danny Nasiri." "He left him to die in an abandoned building on south Kimbark." "or revenge?" " Danny was Muslim." " Ah." " Byron must have wiped the tire iron." "There were no prints on it." "But we did find traces of Danny's blood." "it gets better." "This wasn't Byron's only run-in with Danny. and broken ribs. but for some reason withdrew the complaint." "any motive? and class schedules." "There wasn't any obvious connection." "What can I say?" "It looks like a garden-variety but stone wants us to dot all the is." " Last time I was at a frat house..." "Never mind." " Come on." "You know you're gonna tell me eventually." " You do know there's free porn on the Internet now." "I didn't say anything about porn." " Mm-hmm." "stale beer and something nasty." "That's called hormones." "We're investigators from the state attorney's office." "better than cops?" "different." "there's no way he killed that guy." "He's a good dude." " As in he's a good beer pong partner?" "what was his problem with Danny Nasiri?" "why don't we all just get along?" "Uh..." " Are you saying Byron didn't like Muslims?" " You know what the school does for the towel heads." " Not now." "they're part of the soon-to-be white minority." "pal." " All Joey's trying to say is that the school bends over backwards for a small group of students..." " they play the damn call to prayer." "you know?" "Joey." " So Byron was just doing the majority a favor?" " Byron didn't even know the guy." "his brother was killed in Kabul. morose about Bobby." "so it could've been any Muslim?" "wrong place." " Maybe we can see Byron's room." "There's our motive:" "His brother getting killed in Afghanistan." "you've seen one Muslim..." " That's not what I meant. but we do seem to go out of our way to make them feel comfortable. we would drive past a mosque every day." "the people would scatter." "McKay buys an extra coffee... before he can get away." "we drive by..." "Ameer's there with a box of donuts. and his cousin Saad." " Donut diplomacy." "Why does Byron have a Koran?" " Maybe he wants to get to know the enemy." " "From Addie." Who is Addie?" "You knew Danny?" " He was a good friend." "I'm the one who convinced him to drop his complaint against Byron." " Why would you do that?" " Just doing my part in showing that Islam is a religion of peace." "I'm a member of come together." "We promote understanding between Muslims and students of other religions." "Byron felt really bad after he beat up Danny." "He came to a meeting." "That's when I met him." " And you gave him the Koran?" " I wanted him to see there's nothing in there about blowing up westerners." "The truth is I'm sure Byron didn't kill Danny." " Because he read the Koran?" " Because he was with me..." "All night." "Addie." "You didn't maybe think to tell someone?" "but..." "My dad..." "He doesn't know about me and Byron." " He wouldn't approve?" " My real name is Adara." "It means "virgin." "If he found out..." "Byron was only thinking of me." "He made me promise to keep my mouth shut unless things turned really bad for him." " They have." "Addie?" " We made it the night Danny was killed." " Proves Byron didn't hate all Muslims." "It's time stamped 12:30 A.M. the night Danny was killed." "he was with his buddies from about 9:30 to 11:00." " And that still leaves a gap in the timeline. and then makes a sex tape with his Muslim girlfriend?" " I once convicted a bookie who cut off his client's arm and then went to his daughter's bat Miitzvah." " That's different." "That's about money." "This is about..." "I don't really know what this is about." " So find out." "I would have six roomies in a place like this." " Saturday nights must have been fun." " "The Schrodinger equation." "Who writes a whole book on one equation?" "Same filing system I used." "Check this out:" "It's a receipt to a local dry cleaner." "addressed to Jafar Boustani." "Maybe Danny did have a roomie." " Maybe he knows something." " Danny and I were roommates for six years." "Admissions put us together when we were freshmen." "right?" " Did you and Danny get along?" " We lived in the dorms for four years." "And then we got an apartment off Ellis street when we started grad school." " You didn't really answer the question." " Yes." "We were great friends." "We're both studying theoretical physics." " Like the Schrodinger equation?" " Yeah." "Danny never quite got the hang of that." "why'd you move out?" " A girl." "I moved in with her." "Then we broke up. but he decided he liked to live alone." "Now I wish I would've insisted." "but we have to ask:" "Where were you..." " the night Danny was killed?" "Studying." "In the stacks." "Like every night." "right?" " You know Byron Welch?" " I was there the first time he attacked Danny." "It would've been a lot worse if I hadn't stopped it." " Your name wasn't on the police report." " I didn't want any trouble." "you don't know what it's like on campus." "I don't need enemies." "Jafar." " Of course." "Anything I can do to help." " Hey." "Your old girlfriend..." "What was her name?" " Melanie Burke." " Have a nice day." " Yeah." " You don't believe him?" " No." "There's no way that guy stops a lacrosse player like Byron Welch." " Jafar and I lived together for maybe a month." "He wasn't a bad guy." " Not exactly a rave review." " What do you want me to say?" "It didn't last." " We'd like to know why. but..." "I don't know the exact word for it... maybe." "Maybe paranoid." "you know?" "Like everyone hated him." " Yeah." "We met a couple of guys like that." "you didn't like the guilt by association?" " I'm dating a guy from Egypt now." " Did Jafar ever mention Danny Nasiri?" " Does all the time count?" "He was convinced that Danny was plagiarizing his research..." "Some science stuff nobody cares about. he'd hurt him bad." " You do know that Danny was murdered?" "sure." " And you never thought." "and be labeled an Islamaphobe?" "I got to get to class." " Yeah." "Thanks." "A fight between a couple of eggheads?" " As good a motive as any." " That's your guy Jafar leaving his building at 7:37 on the night Danny was murdered." "He doesn't return until 12:24." "Ty. but I doubt it requires a complete change of clothes." " But whacking someone with a tire iron might." "zoom in." "Lower." "The flu game." "Jafar changed everything but his shoes." " Doesn't prove anything." "Ty." "are you kidding me?" " Don't look at me." "You guys eliminated plagiarism as a motive." "Jafar lied to us." " And Danny's blood is on Byron's sweatshirt." "that is reasonable doubt." " That blood could've come from their first fight." " No way to prove it either way. but we'll need more if we're gonna try..." " because Jafar's Muslim?" " Because we already indicted someone else." "You didn't happen to find Danny's phone did you?" "It wasn't logged into evidence." "there might be something on his phone that's not on his computer. and we don't know where that was." " Find my phone." " Okay?" " That's the thing on the computer that tells you where your phone is." "don't we?" " Yeah." " It should be right here." " Let me see that." "He's right." "We should be standing on it." " Maybe we are." "Bingo." " Now all we have to do is get it." " That is why everybody loves a fireman." "not my department." " I'll take it to the communications lab." "Let's separate and canvass." "Somebody might have seen something." " Sorry." " Maybe you heard something" "I'm sorry. have you ever seen this man?" " No. and there were two boys fighting." " Was this one of them?" " Yes." "He's handsome." " You're sure?" "It was dark." " And right under the street light." "It's so bright it keeps me up at night." " Was this the other boy?" " No." "I think he was Muslim too." "you got a good look at him?" "thinner." "He was wearing a red t-shirt. and drove off." "Yes." "That's him." " Antiquarks have the same mass and spin as their respective quarks." "Excuse me." " This will just take a minute." " Stop!" "Police!" " Hey!" " Jafar!" "what are you doing?" "dude?" "Hey." "you're under arrest for the murder of Danny Nasiri." "You have the right to remain silent." "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "We think Jafar killed Danny out of jealousy." " And Danny's DNA was on Jafar's shoes." "someone putting those Muslim... but they begin with m and f..." "In their place." "mark? Jafar is a better defendant than Byron." " A Muslim?" "If you get the right jury." "but I can't believe what I'm hearing." "there's a lot more than the law and facts." " As long as you know that what you're both saying is... it starts with an R." " Republican?" " Racist." "If you don't need me anymore..." " What happened to the due respect?" " I thought it was a mistake from the get-go." "was any of it worth it?" "your honor." " You're excused." " Every Sunday." "Christ chapel of bucktown." "It was my parents' church." "Lucas." "He's in college." " He's a junior at Liberty university in Virginia." " Thank you." "She's fine." " Do you live in a house or an apartment?" " An apartment." " Do you own or rent?" "your honor." "I have two." "A boy and a girl." " Did they go to college?" " Jennifer went to Northwestern for two years." " She didn't like it?" " No... she liked it okay." "She just wanted to do something important." " Good for her." "What did she do?" " She joined the army." " And your son?" " He's in the marines." " Thank you." " Where'd your boy deploy to?" " He's in the UAE." "sir." " Everybody seems to be in on this but me." "O'Boyle let you stack the deck with..." "Anna." " I still don't understand why he'd want jurors who might be biased against a Muslim defendant." "too." " I'm good." "Mr. stone!" " Oh." " Honor to be in the courtroom" "Mr. O'Boyle." "huh? you know." "Everybody's innocent." "miss." " Thank you." "that eyewitness of yours." "The miss..." " Kalila Rafiq." " The names in this thing are just killing me." "I noticed she did not testify at the grand jury." " She was out of town." " And yet you still got an indictment?" "Mr. stone." "Be gentle." " Tell me about Kalila Rafiq." " We couldn't ask for a better witness. and she saw the whole thing go down." " From the fractures of the thyroid cartilage I determined that the cause of death was cerebral anoxia." "Strangulation." "The beating was definitely postmortem." " Were there ligature marks?" " No. and that caused him to empty his bladder." " And that's what's caused his DNA to end up on the soles of the defendant's shoes?" " That's correct." " Thank you." "are you aware that Mr. Boustani and the deceased were roommates?" " No." " Six long years." " Objection." " Withdrawn." " Do you live with a guy?" " Irrelevant." "I'm sure you have heard of this:" "Sometimes a guy..." "How do I put this?" "A guy will miss the pot he's trying to pee in." "and one roommate steps isn't it possible that roommate B would end up with DNA from roommate a on the bottom of his shoes?" " It is possible." " Was there any blood on Mr. Boustani's shoes?" " No." "isn't that odd?" "but no blood." "Nothing further." "Mr. stone." " The state calls Kalila Rafiq." "I move that the witness remove her face covering before she testifies." " Please approach." " The sixth amendment guarantees the defendant's right to confront all witnesses against him." "How is Mr. Boustani supposed to confront Ms. Rafiq if he can't see her face?" " The first amendment." "It guarantees everyone..." "Even the witness..." "The right to practice his or her religion." "The court cannot force Ms. Rafiq to do something her religion forbids." "judge." " Rock and a hard place." "Niqab and all." " I was reading in my bedroom when I thought I heard a scream." " And what happened then?" " I went to my window." "really." "They were fighting." "One had his hands around the other one's neck." " I show you what has been marked as people's exhibit 11." "Do you recognize the man in this photo?" " I do." " And how do you recognize him?" " He was the man being strangled." " And who was strangling him?" " The man sitting there." " Let the record show that the witness indicates" "Jafar Boustani." "Ms. Rafiq?" " The man in the photo..." "He went limp." " How limp?" " Like a dead weight." " Objection as to "dead."" " Sustained." " What happened after Danny's body went limp?" "the defendant..." "He pushed him into a car." " Did Danny resist at all?" "sir." " What happened then?" " The defendant got into the driver's side of the car." " Did Danny do anything?" " I could see him through the car window." "His head fell forward against the dashboard." "Ms. Rafiq." "I have nothing further." "Ms. Rafiq." "pardon me." "Is that the proper way to address you?" "I'm..." "I am unfamiliar with your culture." "I've lived in this country for over 20 years." "I am a citizen." "And I'm married." "You can call me Mrs. Rafiq." "you'll have to pardon me." "I couldn't see the ring." "there is." "I couldn't see your hands because your... your..." "What... what do you call that?" "That's a... a... hijab?" "sir." "does he?" " It's required by custom." "if you were to go to the beach..." " Objection." " What's the point" "Mr. O'Boyle?" "judge." "I promise." " Do it quickly." "walking to the market or to the post office... you... do you?" " I ask the court to admonish Mr. O'Boyle for making light of the witness's religious customs." "Mr. stone." "That almost the entire body's intake of vitamin d comes from direct sunlight?" " No." " Did you know that women who wear the full Niqab are chronically deficient in vitamin d?" " The witness is not a medical professional." " I'll allow it." " Did you know that a chronic deficiency in vitamin d leads to devastating disorders: diabetes?" "Ms. Rafiq?" " Yes." " And one of the consequences of diabetes is the gradual loss of one's eyesight." "Isn't that true?" " Yes." " Hmm." "When did you see the two men struggling?" " It was around 11:45." " At night." " Yes." "But there was a streetlight." "sir." " How do you know?" "Nothing further." "your honor?" " Go ahead." "do you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes?" " Type 1." " That's also called isn't it?" " Yes." " When were you first diagnosed?" " When I was three." " And when did you start wearing a Niqab?" " When I was 16." "could you please raise some fingers?" "Can you see how many fingers the deputy has raised?" " Yes." "Three." " And are you wearing contacts right now?" " No." " Nothing more." "Torrent downloaded from RARBG." " You killed it today." "That was the best redirect I have ever seen." " In your three years of practice? tom cruise kicking the crap out of Nicholson." " What if Kalila had adult onset diabetes?" "What if she said the deputy had two fingers raised?" "Hm?" " Never ask a question you don't already know the answer to." " I was naked out there." "Peter;" "I should've asked if she wore a..." " forget it." "Forget it." "right?" "2007." "Bottom of the ninth." "We're up one." "and it's an easy grounder to third... we lose." "the entire north side of Chicago..." "But the only person I blamed was myself. and we would've won." "Stone." "You're kidding." "Okay." " What?" " O'Boyle." "He's putting Jafar on the stand." " Good." "He'll hang himself." "maybe." " Six years... we were together since we were freshmen." " You were friendly?" " We were." " And then something happened to change that?" " Yes." " And that's why you moved out?" " Yes." "Jafar?" " Danny started watching videos of Anwar al-awlaki." " I'm unfamiliar." " He recruits Americans to jihad." " Order." "whoa." "So you're saying that Danny was a terrorist?" " Objection." " Sustained." "are you saying that you actually witnessed him watching these videos on his computer?" " No." "It was on his cell phone." " This is ridiculous!" " Order." " Did you see..." " Tell the truth!" " Order!" "that's the cell phone." "it's already marked "people's 23." "your honor." "Jafar." " Then there is no reason we shouldn't see what's there." "This is a good time to break." "We'll have a look." "My brothers and sisters..." "Come to jihad and feel the honor and happiness we are feeling." "What prevents you from attaining martyrdom and the pleasure of our lord?" " That's the video you saw Danny watching?" " One of them." " And how did you react to those videos?" " I told Danny he was being crazy." "He wouldn't listen." "He said that Christians have been oppressing Muslims and that jihad was the only weapon the weak had to conquer the powerful." "I thought Islam was a religion of peace." " Not to Danny." "He quoted the Koran to me." "Sura 47:4." ""So when you meet those strike their necks until you have inflicted slaughter on them." "that's harsh." " He took it all out of context." " So then what happened when you decided to move out?" " There was something different about Danny." "he asks me for money." " What did he want money for?" " He went to the gardening store." "He bought a 100-pound bag of fertilizer." "He lives in an apartment." " What then?" " He went to several electronics stores." "things like that." " You thought he was making an explosive?" " I knew it." "I tried to talk him out of it." "He wouldn't listen." "That's why I killed him." "you... you could've called the police." "You could've called the FBI." " And then what?" "Why moderate Muslims don't do anything to stop terrorism." "nobody takes us seriously." "Like the Orlando club." "The FBI knew the shooter was dangerous." "They knew it." "His first wife told them as much." "But they did nothing." "They didn't want to be called bigots." "I did something." "I'm a good American." "I'm a hero." "I am not a criminal." "Jafar." " Now it looks like we're prosecuting a damn hero." " I don't have videos like that on my cell phone." "Do you?" "a loving family." "I don't believe a kid like that would self-radicalize." "and Milwaukee burn down their own neighborhoods?" " I honestly don't know." " And you never will." "What I want to know is how Nasiri slipped under everybody's radar." " That's the funny thing about freedom." "It gives our enemies the freedom to destroy us." " O'Boyle said Jafar is not interested in a deal." " Of course he did." "He suckered you into picking his damn jury for him." "sir." " And a hero?" " That's right." "but wouldn't killing Danny have been sufficient?" " I don't understand." "you strangled Danny until he was dead." "That's what the me testified." "And then you dragged him into an abandoned building you brutalized him." "Mr. Boustani:" "Would a hero do all that and then try to pin it on another student?" "the answer is no." "Withdrawn." "Does Danny... does he have a storage locker?" " Not that I know of." " Did he have a car? or any timers." "your honor." "Mr. Boustani?" " It's an award given out by the physics department." " To the best student?" " Yes." " How many times have you won it?" " None." " How many times did Danny Nasiri win it?" " Four or five." "that must have pissed you off." "did you?" "You killed him out of jealousy." "Isn't that right? and then realize it's never going to happen?" " I've accepted my limitations." "your roommate..." "He didn't have to." "That would piss me off." "Dan..." "Danny..." "Danny might've been a better scientist than me." "He might've done great things someday that no one in this room can even imagine." "I admit that. when I killed him..." "That was the one..." "Probably the only..." "Great thing that I will ever do." " I usually love writing a closing argument." " Did you ever play the "would you" game?" "would you marry your high school prom date?" "Would you have stolen the formula for coke?" "Things like that. would you have killed him?" " It sounds like you approve of what Jafar did." "Danny may well have been a terrorist." "will we?" "not Danny." " Somehow I doubt a jury of patriots will see it that way." "What? he's overseas right now." "we keep in touch with that Skype thing." "he gets in touch with me and he lets me know and he..." "Blew his legs off. but he cut me off." "no." "We do it so you don't have to." "there's no issue." "He did it." "Jafar... he admitted he killed Danny Nasiri." "He killed." "He killed to prevent the deaths of god knows how many other innocent fellow citizens. say something." "Jafar..." "He saw something." "But he took it one step further." "He did something about it." "He did it so you don't have to." "So you don't have to." "I was being a clever lawyer." "Perhaps too clever by half." "because you went to church." "And your son... he's matriculated at Liberty university." "if I'm not mistaken." "sir." "You have a son in the marines and a daughter in the army." "I selected each one of you for a very specific reason." "You're patriots." "You believe in god." "You have law enforcement in the family." "You voted for the right politician." "you're all great Americans." "And I expected you to convict Jafar Boustani not because of what he did." "I forgot that that's not what great Americans do." "Great Americans look to the law that binds us together as a people. choosing instead what we as a civilized society have collectively determined is the right thing to do." "Why?" "Because that's the only way a great country stays great." "Someone had to do something about Danny Nasiri says our guts. without the constitutional guarantees that Mr. O'Boyle's nephew is risking his life for every day." "says our hearts." "But our heads..." "All I'm asking of you is that you continue to be great Americans... continue to fear whatever god you worship and you think of Mr. O'Boyle's nephew and his buddies and what they're fighting for when you determine the guilt or the innocence" "of Jafar Boustani." " Have you reached a verdict?" " We have." " In the people of the state of Illinois the jury finds the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. but the great ones drink scotch." "Mr. O'Boyle." "Would never have come up if the Niqab lady hadn't testified." " You know what?" "like physics." "It should be better than media and politics." "It should exist outside of race. we're all a tad racist." "we bend over backwards trying to avoid confronting it." " That's a pretty broad brushstroke." " It's our nature." "Everybody wants to be tolerant. blows away a black Bible study class." "What do we do about it?" "We ban the confederate flag. and we admonish each other not to blame the entire religion." "We are naturally racist." "we feel guilty about it." " Was Danny really a terrorist?" "you mean:" "Do I believe my client?" "right?" " I hated physics."