01x03 - The Accusation

[bunniefuu]

TWO YEARS EARLIER

JUNE 20TH, 2015

[ominous music playing]

MR. ACP'S VERSION

[ACP] It was about 10:00 a.m.

I arrived at the store,

and noticed a vehicle in front of

Mr. Antonio's convenience store.

We saw them start the engine

with no problem.

And they drove slowly,

looking at us in the store.

It was Saturday,

and we were closing at 2:00 p.m.

We went towards Ciudad Pemex.

We went slowly, keeping our distance

from the suspicious vehicle.

Over by the church,

we saw the truck and we slowed down.

But right then, two cars came out

and blocked the road,

but I was able to avoid them.

Fifty meters before the gas station,

I had to stop

because the truck blocked me.

And the driver of the Jetta

aims at me with a g*n.

He hits my car

so I had to come to a complete stop.

I grabbed the .22 that I kept,

and when he reached in the window,

I shot.

[g*nsh*t]

ACP As I said to Roberto,

"If your sister was kidnapped,

someone tried to kidnap your brother,

and someone steps to you

with something in their hand,

you don't know if they want to kidnap you,

rob you, k*ll you or what.

I would have been armed too,

and I would have shot the guy.

But that would be a mistake because

maybe I k*ll some guy carrying a pizza,

and then I'm screwed for life, right?

A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES

[theme music playing]

[Andrés] Let's see.

The time is 11:35 a.m.

We're not in the hearing.

I'm being notified.

I have the right to film

what they tell me.

If you want, we can go outside.

- [clerk] Yes.

- [Andrés] Okay.

- [officer] Do it outside.

- [clerk] Okay.

[Andrés] Just for the record,

it's June 9th, 11:35 a.m.

[clerk] Adi!

[Andrés] On the last day

of the Gladys public trial hearing,

a court official comes in

and says something to the chief judge.

That's when everything changed.

The administration has just informed me

that we need to take a recess

because we received an order for arrest.

The time and date

of the hearing there specified

overlaps with this hearing.

Why were the cameras turned off?

If I'm in the courtroom,

they should be recording.

[Andrés] I want it to be on camera.

It's 11:35

Let me speak to the judge.

You can't do that, sorry.

- [Andrés] Excuse me?

- Was he filming you?

[Andrés] I can't record

while you're notifying me?

In the court room

- [Andrés] No, outside.

- But it was inside.

[Andrés] I asked him

to notify me out here.

They were interrupting the hearing

in which the guys were

about to be declared innocent.

And they said that there was another trial

to attribute the attempted kidnapping

of ACP.

[Andrés] What exactly are you telling us?

That

there's an order for arrest

for Juan Luis,

Héctor Muñoz and Gonzalo García.

They wanted to make us out

to be kidnappers in front of the judges.

ACCUSED INMATE

They wanted to get the judges

to sentence us in any way that they could.

[Andrés] Our public trial hearing

has just been suspended

to tell us that, at the same time,

we have a hearing we didn't know about.

You know we have to be notified

24 hours beforehand, so we can prepare?

This is an urgent hearing.

It has to take place today,

because, constitutionally,

it needs to be today.

[Andrés]

The State General Attorney's office knew,

and we didn't.

You can ask all that in administration.

They wanted to surprise us, obviously,

but they didn't expect us

to accept the hearing right then.

So you want to avoid them being linked

to the trial so they aren't put in jail.

And if so, that they are not

put in jail while waiting.

How can you fight the process hearing?

In order to be linked in a process,

there's still a standard of evidence.

And you can't achieve

a standard of evidence

with only one piece of evidence

that's isolated and hearsay.

They need first-hand evidence.

RESEARCHER AND DOCUMENTARY MAKER

A process hearing is when they decide

if someone is going to be

accused of a crime.

[clerk] We're convened in courtroom two

of the Public Trial Court

to conduct the hearing

involving Mr. Juan Luis López García,

Mr. Gonzalo García Hernández

and Mr. Héctor Muñoz Muñoz

in the attempted kidnapping

of the victim with the initials ACP.

MR. ACP

VICTIM OF UNDISCLOSED IDENTITY

If they had convinced the control judge

that the events did not occur

in the manner that ACP stated,

they would be free.

But if they were linked in the process,

since this was for attempted kidnapping,

they would go to jail

just for being accused of kidnapping.

We were positive that

there was no link to the process.

We were afraid that

they would fabricate more evidence.

I need your help.

What I need now

is to see if we have anything,

testimonies, videos

Anything that will help me

prove to the control judge

that the events did not occur

as currently laid out.

When you say "if we have,"

would an eyewitness help?

That would be perfect.

[dramatic sting]

[Roberto] Oh, you're here.

They're coming with us?

[man] They know everything.

[tense music playing]

They're throwing the defense team

a curveball.

We have 50 minutes

to find someone who's willing

to come and testify

that they witnessed the events

at the gas station two years ago,

and who will state what actually happened.

[tense music continues]

- [man] Okay.

- [inaudible]

[Roberto] Now, you have the opportunity

for her husband, her brother

- Okay, but let's go over there.

- [Roberto] Yeah, let's go.

- We're out in the open.

- [Roberto] We can talk in the car.

[woman] Let's go.

When the sh**t-out happened,

it was a father and son.

They were in the same car?

EYEWITNESS

Yes, they were in the car when the guy

- When they shot the guy with the g*n.

- [Roberto] Mm-hmm.

[Miguelina] I was with my daughter

at the convenience store.

So then I saw the guy park his truck,

and the other guy got out

of his green car,

and then came running this way,

screaming to everyone for help.

He was screaming.

"They shot me! They shot me!"

She heard the accident,

she saw Héctor get out of his car,

she heard when ACP shot him.

She saw when Héctor ran away,

fearing for his life.

She saw that Gonzalo and Juan Luis

were already there,

and had absolutely nothing to do

with any of it.

She saw everything.

[Roberto] They've been in prison

for two years. Almost two years.

And we need a witness.

And the hearing

is in about 20 or 30 minutes.

Thanks to you

and the pictures that you took,

we know what really happened.

[Miguelina] I have to get my daughter

Because my daughter She's all I have.

She's at my house, but she's alone

because my husband dropped me off.

[Roberto] We'll pick her up.

But I'll go.

[dramatic music playing]

PUBLIC TRIAL COUR

[Roberto] She was dressed

in the uniform for the popsicles she sold.

So right away, the court sent her out,

and scolded her for entering the court

dressed the way she was.

Dressed so casually.

Instead of thinking about

what relevant information

the witness could provide,

the first thing they did

was discriminate against her.

They want her to remove her BonIce shirt.

They want her to dress differently,

not wear a hat.

They didn't care about

what she had to say.

They cared about how she was dressed.

[inaudible]

PUBLIC TRIAL COUR

We want to present the testimony

of María Miguelina Hernández Oramas.

Do you know why you're here?

Yes, I witnessed what happened

at the gas station.

Tell us what you saw.

From the beginning. What happened?

I was standing at the door of Oxxo.

The man pulled out a g*n and shot.

Who was this man?

I'm talking about Mr. Alfonso.

Your Honor.

[judge] Continue.

She didn't say his surname, so it's fine.

How do you know his name is Alfonso?

Because the police identified him.

"What happened, Mr. Alfonso?"

Right. You also said

that while all this was going on,

you recorded it with your phone.

I started recording because I saw

how those poor guys were being taken.

They were hitting them

as if they were criminals, as if

I saw they were just standing there,

they hadn't done anything.

[Miguelina] Those are not kidnappers.

They're customers.

[indistinct conversation]

[muffled scuffle]

Even if you couldn't see exactly

what happened,

what wasn't in question

was that Miguelina had been there

on the day of the events,

at the place of the events,

at the time of the events.

She was actually a witness

to what happened,

and that gave her testimony strength.

Did you see them try to kidnap the man?

No. The guys were there first,

they were already there.

Did you see, at any point,

any contact or communication

between the guy that was shot

and the guys in the truck?

[Miguelina] Not at all.

I'm very observant.

I saw everything, I was there.

I'm a witness because I saw it.

And my little girl reacted too.

She was terrified

when that man pulled out a g*n

and wanted to sh**t again.

I told him,

"Don't do it, you'll hurt my daughter."

"Look, there's a little girl here."

And he didn't care,

he was out of his mind.

And what did the police do

when they saw he was armed?

He hid the g*n really quickly.

He put his hand in his pants pocket.

He hid it, and signaled to me to be quiet.

But I'm not like that.

My daughter could've been hurt,

I wasn't going to stay quiet.

What do you do for a living?

I have been selling BonIce

for three years now.

[Andrés] Sorry, what do you sell?

The brand BonIce. Snacks, pork rinds.

I was selling that day,

and that man approached me.

"I want to talk to you," he said,

with his eyes wide open.

He threatened me. He said he'd f*ck me up.

Miguelina, when this man threatened you,

what did he want?

What did he ask you to do?

To stay silent about what I saw.

"Why would I stay silent?"

"If he pulls a g*n on me?"

"I won't stay silent, no way."

She knew ACP by first and last name,

because it's a small town

where everyone knows everyone.

He threatened her not to get involved,

not to say anything,

that he would k*ll her, etc.

It's clear that he would threaten anyone

who told the truth.

There's the attorney Delfín,

who was the prosecutor with Miguel Ángel.

They were there

when they arrested my brother.

They took him out of that safe house

because it isn't a prosecutor's office.

And she talked to me

when I took a letter from my brother

requesting release.

There wasn't an investigation,

and the prosecutor

who was handling the case

signed a release agreement.

RELEASE AGREEMEN

After that release agreement,

after that date,

there still wasn't an investigation.

Nothing.

Today, with that same information,

once the release was agreed to,

two years later,

she tries to start a process to link them

and start a new trial.

You've stated

that you have received threats, correct?

[Miguelina] Yes.

And those threats were made

by Mr. Alfonso, correct?

[Miguelina] That's right.

In regards to these threats,

have you reported them to the police?

[Miguelina] No.

Why not?

When you report something

to the authorities,

they always ask for witnesses.

It would be pointless to report him, then,

since they wouldn't do anything about it.

What this man is doing is unjust.

Using innocent people,

and having innocent people here. Honestly.

I think that they walk,

or the judge will sleep on it

and decide tomorrow.

I don't know which.

Well now, it's just a matter of waiting.

[sighs nervously]

Yes.

We have to wait a little longer.

[tense music playing]

At 11:25 p.m. on June 9th, 2017,

we deliver this verdict.

First of all, Mr. Juan Luis López García,

Mr. Gonzalo García Hernández

and Mr. Héctor Muñoz Muñoz

will be detained pending trial.

We won't give up. Don't you worry.

All the civil servants that were involved

in extending this unfair imprisonment

will pay for it, I swear.

I swear.

[dramatic music playing]

POLICE

[dramatic music continues]

861 DAYS IN PRISON

[guard calling]

[indistinct roll call]

[Héctor] In the morning,

they do roll call at, like, 7:00.

Sometimes, you don't have enough

to buy eggs,

and you have to eat the cafeteria food.

ACCUSED INMATE

And the food there is

You eat it because

you're hungry.

Lunch is at 2:00 p.m.

and you eat that because you're hungry.

Sometimes they serve breakfast again.

And you wait for afternoon roll call.

Then you go out and work, or exercise.

[indistinct chatter]

[Héctor] There's nothing else to do.

You walk around

and keep running into walls.

[scattered shouting, laughter]

[Héctor] You have to be patient.

We sit around in the afternoon

and take in the air.

We look at the sky, the clouds,

because that's all we can see.

Next day, same thing.

Same routine every day.

The more you lie around,

the more you think.

Think about what your family will do.

What your kids think.

What will happen in your case.

It gets tough. You get really bored.

ACCUSED INMATE

You're in prison, no money.

The work you do doesn't pay much.

We aren't from Macuspana,

so it's hard for people to visit us.

How much is a ticket now?

[Marina] A hundred and ninety-eight.

[Juan Luis] How much for him?

Fernando? 198.

Like an adult?

And Juan almost has to pay full fare.

But since he's short,

they think he's still a kid.

Juanito, are you a shorty?

Dad, you're a fatty.

[all chuckling]

[Marina] He's relentless.

[melancholic music playing]

[Marina] I would visit Juan Luis, but

when I saw that he went back to jail,

I was like It looked bleak.

That's when I distanced myself.

JUAN LUIS'S EX-PARTNER

I couldn't afford to keep visiting

because I had to work

to take care of the kids.

This has caused problems for me at home.

The expenses for my kids, their school

I was paying for all that.

Now she has to work.

She has to take care of the kids,

and go to work to make enough money

so they can keep going to school.

Every day it's more difficult

to be with my family.

There's a beach called Sacaolas.

Every year we'd go swimming there

for the whole day.

I was teaching Fernando

how to ride a motorcycle.

I would put him in front of me

and let him drive slowly.

And he went too fast and did a wheelie.

But I told him he would learn,

he just had to go slow.

I couldn't finish teaching him.

[faint voices]

I would love to think

that this is an isolated case.

That it's rare or difficult

to frame someone in this country,

to make up evidence,

to make someone seem guilty.

In most of the cases I've seen,

there usually isn't an investigation,

and what little investigation there is,

the goal is not to clarify the events.

The goal is to prove

whatever they want to prove.

[indistinct chatter]

[man] Exactly.

They took the car.

[pensive music playing]

[Andrés] We reconstructed the scene

putting the version given by ACP

and his son against Héctor's version.

That allows us to see

which version of events is true.

The two experts are important.

First off, because

they're professional experts.

They're well-known.

Dr. Edward Charles

Alexander Worrall González

and Dr. María Magdalena

Gutiérrez Escudero.

CORONER

What is the mechanics of lesion

according to the experts'

established opinion

by the State General Attorney's office?

[Magdalena] According to what

the prosecutor's medical examiner told us,

the b*llet enters

the back of the hand here,

at the fourth finger,

and comes out

in the thenar area of the palm.

That does not correspond

to what we see in the photos of Héctor,

because the wound with reversed

and irregular edges

is not on the palm.

It's in the back of the hand.

It was important for me to check Héctor,

so I requested entry to check him

and get his version.

When I did this, the b*llet went in here.

And out.

It coincides with what he said,

that it entered the lateral side

at the second finger,

and exited at the fourth finger

through the back of the hand.

And then, to defend, people do this

when they see a g*n.

[Andrés] Dr. Edward performed

a mechanical recreation of the events,

analyzing the versions

that ACP and his son gave

in different documents in the case.

Recreating them in the field,

to verify whether it was possible

for the wound on Héctor's hand

to have been produced

if the events were as they said.

The mechanical recreation will show us

which version of events

corresponds to the truth.

If the supposed victim

took out a g*n and shot,

this yellow line, this yellow row shows us

where the shot could have come from.

And remember, the red stick is

what the medical evidence shows.

In this set up, they are perpendicular.

So it couldn't have happened like this,

and that shows us

that it was a defensive maneuver,

which is why the b*llet enters here

and exits here.

If I do this, my hand holding the g*n

is facing you, and you sh**t me.

Where will the b*llet enter

if you sh**t me in the hand?

It'll enter here, right?

Not here.

Because the g*n the g*n is here.

You understand what I'm saying?

However, the b*llet, as Dr. Magdalena,

the medical examiner, clearly showed,

and the scars show as well,

entered here, right here, and exited here.

It is impossible,

and I emphasize that, impossible

for the events to have occurred,

as told by the supposed victims.

[police radio] Three, four, thirty,

seven, four.

[officer] In ten minutes.

[police radio] In ten minutes, 43211.

[officer] We identified ourselves

as municipal police

and asked them to exit their vehicle.

[ominous music playing]

892 DAYS IN PRISON

POLICE OFFICERS' TESTIMONY

They were just support,

to see if it was true or not.

But when the police arrived,

nothing that ACP told them was obvious,

because there was nothing there.

[Andrés] Did you check anything

in regards to the state of the truck?

No.

[Andrés] Did you identify or secure

any object inside the truck?

[officer] No.

[Andrés] Did you ask the gas station

for their security tapes?

No.

[Andrés] And the Oxxo's security tapes?

No.

[Andrés] Did you secure

the alleged victim's g*n?

No.

Did you secure any other object

besides the Jetta and the gray Ram

allegedly driven by Gonzalo and Juan Luis?

[officer] No.

Did you find or identify any b*llet case?

[officer] No.

[Andrés] Did you take them

to Villahermosa?

- [officer] We were ordered by

- [Andrés] Yes or no, please.

Yes, we did.

Are you personally certain of the alleged

kidnapping attempt of Mr. ACP?

[officer 2] No, I'm not.

You only know what you've been told.

- [officer 2] That's right.

- Nothing further.

What should happen is

that the first officer on the scene

secures the scene.

Then calls an expert to photograph

the evidence found,

then it gets collected, processed, filed.

The witnesses are interviewed.

If there were cameras,

the recordings are filed.

That's the obvious stuff,

and none of it was done.

[suspenseful music playing]

If an officer is trained correctly,

they know how to bridge the gaps

in the investigation,

how to get information, how to obtain

psychological interrogations,

how to obtain information

without having to resort to violence,

pressure or isolation.

So this way you can say,

"I'll give you these tools and training."

"Get me the results."

But if I don't train you

or give you the tools,

I don't give you the fuel,

I don't give you the weapons,

you don't know how to carry out

a scientific investigation.

It's hard to get any results from you.

[Roberto] They are victims of abuse

by the authorities.

They are victims of abuse

by the prosecutor's office.

They are poorly paid, fed poorly.

Mexico has one of the highest rates

of police homicide.

About 350 police officers

are m*rder*d every year.

That's almost one every day.

And even police murders

aren't investigated.

[dramatic sting]

[indistinct chatter]

[clerk] Good morning.

It's 11:04 on February 26th, 2018.

We're in courtroom two

of the Public Trial Court

of Macuspana, Tabasco,

to carry out the debate hearing

regarding lawsuit number 112/2017

involving Mr. Juan Luis López García,

Héctor Muñoz Muñoz

and Gonzalo García Hernández

for the aggravated kidnapping attempt

of the victim of undisclosed identity,

with the initials ACP.

STATE POLICE

[judge] We will now listen to

the opening statement from the prosecutor.

ACP'S TESTIMONY

FEBRUARY 26TH, 2018

[attorney] Life-changing atrocious acts.

Honorable Court, you will hear now

about the event

that has changed this person's life.

This person was a victim

of an attempted kidnapping

when walking the streets

of this municipality.

The crime was committed by the accused.

We will prove their full responsibility

beyond a reasonable doubt

for the attempted kidnapping

of the victim with the initials ACP.

[ACP] Hello?

Hello?

[attorney] Good afternoon.

MR. ACP

PROSECUTION WITNESS

Could you tell us your full name?

Sorry, your initials.

ACP.

Good afternoon, witness.

[ACP] Good afternoon.

[attorney] Please, tell us your age.

[ACP] I'm 67 years old.

Tell us your level of education.

[ACP] Sixth grade. Primary school.

[attorney] Please, tell the court

what your testimony will be about.

[ACP] It will be about what happened

on June 20th, 2015.

DAY OF THE ARRES

JUNE 20TH, 2015

[ominous music playing]

[ACP] At about 10:00 a.m.,

my son called me.

[ACC] I called him

about a client with an issue.

ACC

PROSECUTION WITNESS

He said he'd take care of it.

And I also told him

there was a suspicious truck.

[ACP] I got to the store

about half an hour later.

Effectively, I saw there was a vehicle

parked in front

of Mr. Antonio's convenience store.

At 2:00 p.m., patrol car 027 arrived.

[ACC] The police officers told us

the truck had apparently broken down.

But we knew it wasn't true,

because they started it

and slowly drove past our store,

looking at us.

We closed the store,

and thought they had already gone.

We drove slowly to Ciudad Pemex.

Suddenly, near the church,

two cars stopped.

[ACP] They blocked our way

and I managed to maneuver past them.

We hit two speed bumps fast,

and they kept driving behind us.

[ACC] He saw the two cars

had hit the speed bump too,

and said, "There's trouble."

[ACP] Fifty meters before the gas station,

I couldn't continue

because the truck blocked my way

and the two cars caught up with me.

The driver of the Jetta took his hand out

and pointed at me with a g*n.

He bumped into my car

and I was forced to stop.

He got out of the car,

and I saw he had a g*n.

That's when I reached for my .22 p*stol.

When he stuck his hand through the window,

my reaction was to sh**t.

[g*nsh*t]

[police sirens wailing]

[ACC] The patrol car got there

and talked to Mr. ACP.

They pointed at the truck, and the guys

pretended it had broken down,

but I saw they were up to something.

So Mr. ACP pointed at the guys

in the truck

and they were arrested.

The story is easy to understand

when you consider that Mrs. GLP

was kidnapped on May 26th.

Then they tried to kidnap

one of her brothers.

And after that, ACP is in a situation

where, under those circumstances,

understanding his mental state,

sees these vehicles.

And someone gets out

with pliers in his hand

as Héctor stated, very honestly,

looking for a fight.

And ACP reacted.

All I said was,

"Son of a b*tch, look what you did."

I was mad at them.

He leans forward in the truck

and I see that he has a g*n.

By understanding that context,

you can understand

the narration of events.

Of how they actually happened in reality.

[Andrés] Mr. ACP,

was the truck you found suspicious

and allegedly watching you

parked there from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.?

[ACP] I don't know.

I have other information now

- Yes or no, please, Mr. ACP.

- [ACP] Yes.

I didn't realize we were outside

Mr. ACP's store,

which I think was

to the right of where we were.

We didn't care which store it was

or who lived next door.

I just didn't want my truck to overheat.

[attorney] When the person

driving the Jetta got out of the car,

what did he say?

[Andrés] Objection, Your Honor.

One moment, please.

Reason for the objection?

[Andrés] The witness hasn't stated

he had communication with that person.

The prosecution is adding information.

The answer is reconsidered.

The question is, indeed, suggestive,

therefore, it shall not be accepted.

Did the individuals blocking your way

say something to you?

[Andrés] Objection, Your Honor.

[ACP] Yes, they did.

[judge] One moment.

He answered already.

Please, witness, I ask you again,

do not answer so quickly.

Do you understand?

[ACP] Yes.

The prosecution

is introducing new information,

asking suggestive questions,

and, the witness,

following their lead, is answering

what the prosecution wants to introduce

illegally in this trial.

I believe his answers are spontaneous.

You can answer.

Tell the court what they said to you.

[ACP] I'll repeat it.

The driver of the green Jetta

He stuck his hand out of the window.

He was holding a g*n.

He said,

"It's over for you, m*therf*cker!"

"This is a kidnapping."

The witness, after being asked 50 times,

and us objecting 50 times,

understood that the prosecution

wanted him to say the words,

"This is a kidnapping."

Because that's the only evidence

pointing to this being a kidnapping.

Otherwise, they couldn't show

that there was a crime.

NOTIFICATION OF PROBABLE CRIMES

[Roberto] ACP made four declarations

regarding the events at the gas station.

One of those declarations

is filed on the day of the events,

June 20th, 2015.

He says you were driving a green Jetta,

and that you pointed a g*n at him

and said, "This is it, you son of a b*tch.

This is a kidnapping."

"THIS IS A KIDNAPPING"

So, ACP goes to the prosecutor's office

and says to them,

"I thought these people

were trying to kidnap me."

He thought that.

He thought.

You are here because of ACP's testimony.

Photos from the Gesell chamber.

Instead of using this to discern

whether or not a witness,

or a victim can identify you,

they are using it to paint a picture.

To show guilt.

Not to see if a witness

can possibly recognize someone.

And since they identified you here,

they got an arrest warrant.

They get the arrest warrant,

and throw this away, don't use it.

It's just about proving arrests

for whatever event

they're supposedly trying to "resolve."

Most guys are in here for kidnapping,

and most of the accusations are false.

First they arrest them for a crime,

let them go,

then get an arrest warrant

for something else.

Most guys are in here for kidnapping.

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1110 DAYS IN PRISON

EXPERTS' TESTIMONY

Good afternoon. Please, state your name.

[man] Good afternoon.

Luis Antonio Rodríguez Ceballos.

Mr. Luis Antonio Rodríguez Ceballos

has credentials issued

by the State General Attorney's office

signed by Dr. Fernando Valenzuela Pernas.

He is a qualified coroner.

- Where do you work?

- [Luis] At the State Attorney's office.

Do you recognize any of these men?

Did you examine any of them that day?

[Luis] I did examine him.

Did you observe any injuries

on Héctor Muñoz Muñoz's body?

[Luis] Yes.

Could you tell us where were

the entrance hole and the exit hole?

[witness laughs]

According to what you said,

it entered through the metacarpus

and exited through the palm,

where exactly?

The b*llet hit the back of the hand,

fourth metacarpal bone,

and exited through the thenar eminence.

Could you also tell us

the size of these injuries?

[Luis] I don't remember now.

[Alberto] You don't?

The bone fragments, when they come out,

open up the skin.

Therefore, the exit wound

tends to have a bigger diameter.

[attorney] Specialist, I mean, doctor,

do you have credentials

as an expert coroner?

Objection, Your Honor.

The question is confusing.

There are no professional credentials

specifically for experts.

There are credentials

for bachelor's degrees,

master's degrees,

specializations and doctorates.

The wound does not match up

with the events reported.

[Andrés] Reported by who?

By ACP and ACC.

[attorney] Can you tell us why

you didn't request Mr. ACP's truck

for the reconstruction of events,

so it'd be more accurate?

I don't have that ability, sir.

So the reconstruction of events

wasn't exactly like the circumstances?

Objection.

The question is obscure and conclusive.

[judge] Sustained.

The fact that

the exact same vehicle wasn't used,

or the sun wasn't in the same place,

the same birds weren't on the same branch,

the same people involved

So, it's invalid.

That's their argument. It's stupid.

That's what they wanted to do.

But my testimony was recorded.

Yes, I think they understood.

I think so too.

Let's hope that's the resolution.

Because, at the end of the day,

there isn't any other evidence,

other than that which we just proved,

establishing what happened.

- They didn't do anything.

- Nothing.

[engine humming]

After a long day of work,

we were driving in two of my trucks.

We were with Edward and Magdalena,

and my wife and four-year-old daughter

were there as well.

When suddenly,

the vehicle stopped.

As we all got out, within twenty seconds,

the truck went up in flames.

[sirens blaring]

[Andrés] Don't get any closer.

Roberto, please call me

as soon as you can.

Something very serious happened.

Edward was driving one of my trucks,

I was in the other one,

and suddenly, out of nowhere,

it went up in flames.

We believe it's sabotage.

So it's terrible, really.

The f*cking extinguisher was useless.

Now the truck is on fire

and the tank is about to explode.

It's pretty bad. We already called 911.

[Roberto] Thanks.

Andrés thinks it's attempted homicide.

Because the truck almost crashed.

It went up in flames.

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