In the city of Los Angeles,
the people are represented
by two separate yet equally
important groups...
The police, who
investigate crime,
and the district attorneys who
prosecute the offenders.
These are their stories.
Hey, Kim.
Raccoon's been at it again.
Been like that
since this morning.
- Sorry. I'll tell Derrick.
We'll clean it up.
- You know, you've really
got to keep the lids on tight.
- Got it.
Thanks.
- Got to be kidding me.
Derrick.
Kim!
Oh, jeez.
- Neighbor I.D.Ed the victim
as Kim Lee.
She lives here with her
boyfriend Derrick Joyner.
Said she got home
just after 5:00.
- Where's Mr. Joyner
right now?
- Nobody's seen him.
- Multiple s*ab wounds.
Courtesy of
the French chef's Kn*fe.
- Looks like
she got clocked over the head.
- "Derrick Joyner,
project manager,
corrigan strategy group."
Receipt for his audi
dated today.
- So he was here.
- And now he's not.
So much for domestic bliss.
Hey, it's Jaruszalski.
I need a bolo out
on a Derrick Joyner,
male, African-American.
Registered owner...
Of an audi a6.
Plate number
3- John-Robert-queen-158.
He lives...
- Dad.
- Hold on.
- Hello. Is this Mr. Lee?
Mr. Lee, this is
detective Rex winters
of the Los Angeles
police department.
Sir, I need to speak to you
in person
about your daughter Kim.
No, sir.
We can talk about that in person
when we see you.
Derrick did this
with our daughter?
- You know this?
- No, sir, we don't.
Right now we just
need to talk to him.
Do you know where he might
go, his friends, family?
We don't know his friends.
He's from Chicago.
My sister started
dating him last year.
- Derrick
is a very bad man.
- Why do you say
he's bad, Mrs. Lee?
- He k*ll my daughter.
- Miss...Can we speak to you
for a moment?
Did Kim talk to you
about Derrick?
- Kim was very happy.
Derrick was lovely to her,
around me at least.
- But your parents
have a problem with him
because he's black.
- My parents
are very traditional.
And Kim was not.
She-she wanted
to make her own way.
She was a graphic designer.
She did the logo
for the clinic. See?
She was so talented.
- One more thing.
We found car keys
in your sister's purse,
but there's no car
registered under her name.
- She leased it
through dad's practice.
- Okay, we're gonna need
to get the plate number.
Derrick's car's in the shop.
We think he might have
taken your sister's.
- I'll get it for you.
- I had a slow morning,
so I took a twirl
around the lot
checking the plates and...
There it was.
- Nice work, Whitman.
- I got a parking lot ticket.
It came in at 6:14 last night.
- What are the odds
Derrick dumped the car
outside of union station
just to mess with us?
- 50/50?
Feelin' lucky?
Derrick Joyner paid cash for
a one-way ticket to San Diego
on the pacific surfliner
last night.
Train left at 6:30 P.M.
- with Joyner on board.
- The conductor
punched his ticket
20 minutes after
the train left the station.
He had to show I.D.
To buy the ticket
and I.D. To get on the train.
- You got alerts on his plastic?
- And we got a trace
on his cell phone.
- I checked Joyner's
phone records.
The only calls
to the San Diego area
are to a branch office of his
employer, corrigan strategy.
- Maybe Joyner found
someone there to help him.
- Mom. It's time.
- I'll be right there.
Lunch and then a tour
of the sh**ting range...Again.
- I love
"take your kid to work" week.
- He's not sold
on the cop gig.
Wants to be
a professional snowboarder.
- Being a cop is safer.
- I keep saying!
Talk to Joyner's boss.
- Anybody on this phone list
Derrick's close to?
- Not that I know for sure,
but the work can be
fairly intense.
My company helps get political
initiatives on the state ballot.
- Oh. What initiative
was Joyner working on?
- He was project manager
on prop 128.
- Oh, the California
marriage protection act,
the prop 8 reboot.
I'm up on current events.
- Derrick was working out of
the crenshaw field office.
I mean, that's where
he was yesterday.
He set up phone banks,
coordinated the people
gathering signatures statewide.
- So a lot of traveling,
and I noticed a lot of
ladies on this list.
Derrick have a rep?
- In the four years
he worked for me, sure.
I heard things.
Why not?
He's a handsome guy, single.
- Anybody he might reach out
to for assistance or money?
- He's got family
back in Chicago.
And he has
a company credit card.
Should I cancel it?
- No.
- No.
- These hired g*ns k*ll me.
One year they help pass
a prop to save the whales,
the next year they help
ban gay marriage.
Where's the consistency?
- What's inconsistent?
It's not like they're keeping
whales from getting married.
- Say they get prop 128
on the ballot.
How are you gonna vote?
- Uh-uh. Religion, politics,
and my dad's drinking-
three things we never discussed
in my family.
- Come on!
- Hey, we got him.
Garden grove police
arrested someone this morning
using Joyner's card-
a black male.
- Okay, Mr. p-dawg.
How'd you come by using
a credit card
belonging to Derrick Joyner?
- There was a dumpster
on euclid.
Wallet was in there.
Cards were inside.
Now, why y'all making
a big deal outta this?
Y'all know prison too crowded
to be wastin' space on me
for charging
on stolen plastic.
- The math changes when the card
belongs to a m*rder suspect.
- m*rder?
- You ever see this man?
- I never seen that brother,
and I don't know nothin'
about a m*rder.
The dumpster, it was behind
a yum yum donuts, okay?
I was lookin' to see
if they threw out any jellies.
- You said you found
the whole wallet.
What was in it?
- Everything.
Family photos.
Driver's license.
Like, everything.
Even cash.
58 bucks.
- Say he got off the train
at fullerton or anaheim.
Still doesn't make any sense
why he'd get rid of
his whole wallet.
- Certainly not the cash.
This man-on-the-run thing
isn't tracking.
- S.I.D. Processed Kim's car.
No blood.
But check this out.
The debris on the floor
of the driver's side-
a mixture of dirt,
rodent excrement,
and fiberglass insulation.
Last summer we had a family of
possums living under the house.
I had to go into
the crawlspace-
- let me guess-dirt,
rat turds, and insulation.
Derrick Joyner.
All this time.
- The only part of him
on the run was his wallet.
Joyner was
b*at and then strangled.
S.I.D. Found his blood
in the kitchen.
It was overlaid
with his girlfriend's blood.
- Meaning he was k*lled first.
She probably walked in on him.
- Well, the perp k*lled her,
stashed Joyner's body,
then staged
the fugitive routine
to make it look like
a domestic.
- Joyner was still
in his business suit.
The k*ller must have been
waiting for him
- when he got home.
- So Joyner was the target.
Who and why?
- His boss suggested
he's a ladies' man.
Maybe a jealous husband
or boyfriend?
- We found a taxi receipt
in Joyner's pocket-
442, the day he was k*lled.
His car was in the shop.
He took a cab home.
- If somebody
was waiting for him,
maybe the cab driver
saw something.
- Right here.
Here in my book.
It was a radio call
to pick up a Mr. Joyner
at an office on crenshaw.
That's him.
Uh, I dropped him off
on Moore,
and then I waited
until my next radio call.
- How long was that?
- A few minutes.
Then the sprinklers
went off on the curb.
I had my windows down.
I had to mop off the seats.
- Did you see anyone
talk to Joyner
or go up to his house?
- Uh, yeah, sure.
There was a black guy
parked a few cars behind.
He went up to the house.
I didn't see him go in.
- Can you describe him?
- A black guy.
If I knew I was supposed
to remember him,
I would have had
a better look.
Anyway, I had to roll
to my next call.
- Okay, thanks.
We may need to
talk to you again.
Joyner left work early.
If the k*ller
was waiting for him,
maybe someone tipped him off.
- Someone at Joyner's work.
- I called the cab
for Derrick.
He said he wanted
to work from home.
- Anyone else know
he was leaving early?
- Everybody knew.
With Derrick leaving,
I had to reschedule
three meetings.
- We need a list
of everyone you called.
- Of course.
Everyone here
is praying
that you find who did this.
- Do you know of anyone
who maybe isn't praying so hard?
- I can't imagine anyone here
who would do such a thing.
While you wait,
maybe you'd like to sign
the petition
to get this on the ballot.
- We'll think about it.
- Oh, I'm sorry, I...
Only rescheduled two meetings.
One had already been canceled
at the last minute.
- Last minute?
Why was that?
- The person running
the meeting, Roland Davison,
had a family emergency.
- Mr. Davison
worked with Mr. Joyner?
- Yes. Roland's cosponsor
of prop 128.
His father
is reverend Davison.
Prop 128
is the reverend's baby.
- The church is behind 128.
- We pray for gay people.
But marriage is marriage.
- Right. It's odd, isn't it,
Mr. Davison and Mr. Joyner
both being out of the office
unexpectedly?
- I guess so.
- They get along?
Mr. Davison seems like
a true believer in prop 128
while Mr. Joyner
was just a hired g*n.
- Politics is hard-nosed.
Everybody yells sometimes.
- Who was doing the yelling
that day?
- When I heard that Derrick
was wanted for m*rder,
I didn't believe it.
And then when he was found,
it was incomprehensible.
- You work closely
with Mr. Joyner?
- Well, for the last year.
We got prop 128
on the ballot.
We gathered nearly
500,000 signatures.
The county recorders have them.
The names are being certified.
The first big step,
and Derrick won't be here
to see it done.
- You saw him the day he d*ed.
- At the crenshaw office.
I'm...Sure you heard that we
bumped heads that morning.
- We did hear that.
- Well, as a secular person,
Derrick would sometimes
suggest strategies
that wouldn't reflect well
on my father's church.
But, uh...
We smoothed things out.
- How smoothly
did the rest of the day go?
- Oh, I, uh, I had a little
emergency at home.
My three-year-old
had a fever.
- How about between
4:00 and 7:00?
- Um...
- We're asking everybody.
- No, that's all right.
Um...I was fighting
my way to bellflower
for a fundraising dinner
at the promise women's shelter.
I got there around 7:00.
In time to hear my father
give the blessing.
- What time did you leave?
- 9:30. My father's
getting up in age.
He likes to get to bed
early now.
- Is there something
you'd like to add, Mr. Davison?
- I probably should have
told you this before...
But Derrick came to me
for counseling.
That's part of my ministry.
Derrick had issues
with monogamy.
He loved his girlfriend Kim,
but God help him,
he had an eye for the ladies,
including married ones.
- I guess his ministry includes
sticking it to dead men.
- His alibi for the time
of the murders is pretty thin.
But even if he got off
the train in fullerton,
it's not exactly
a hop and a skip
back to bellflower
in rush hour.
- I wouldn't count him out
just yet.
Look at this.
Looks like Roland's car
was hit by a sprinkler.
Same as the cab
that dropped Derrick off.
- Let's kick the tires
on Roland's alibi,
see how it holds up.
- Roland and reverend Davison
were both here for dinner.
- What time did
the reverend give the blessing?
- Just after 7:30.
He was waiting for Roland
to get here,
but Roland called
and told him to go ahead.
He was stuck in traffic.
- What time
did Roland show up?
- Uh, closer to 8:00, I think.
- How'd he seem
when he got here?
- Fine.
I have some calls to make.
- Miss, we understand
Mr. Davison and his church
support your center, but-
- they are the only reason
we exist.
They bring in more money
than all your westside liberals.
The davisons aren't just
passing through.
They're lifers.
- Excuse me.
Who designed your poster?
- Roland Davison got some
high-end design firm
to do it for us for free.
Roland knows how to
get things done.
Now, I really have to
make these calls.
- The signature.
Same as the pamphlet
in the dental clinic.
Kim Lee.
- Kim told me she did some work
for a charity.
She'd take on anything.
She didn't care about the money.
- Did she know Roland Davison?
- She met him through Derrick.
He's the one
that got her to do this.
- And there was nothing else
to their relationship
other than that.
- What do you mean?
- We found phone calls to her
from Roland.
Four of them the two days
before she was k*lled,
including a 20-minute call.
- You're misunderstanding.
Kim and I went to
Roland Davison's church
a couple of times
for gospel mass-that's all.
I'm sure they were just talking
about church and faith.
- You're sure about Kim
and Roland.
There was nothing else
goin' on.
- I knew my sister.
The only thing she shared
with Roland was religion.
Most people wear a cross
as a fashion statement.
Kim wore hers
as a sign of devotion.
- We saw. She was wearing it
when we found her.
- She was?
I thought you said she was
k*lled right when she came home.
- That's what we think.
Why?
- She went to the Korean spa
that afternoon.
She never took
her jewelry there.
She was afraid
it'd get stolen.
- Where'd she keep it
when she wasn't wearing it?
- A box on top of her dresser.
A heart-shaped box.
My parents gave it to her
when she was 14.
They whipped him
all night long
they whipped him
they whipped him
all night long
all night long
they whipped him
they whipped him
all night long
for me
sorry to interrupt.
Really.
The choir sounds great.
- Well, how can I help you?
- You mentioned
counseling Derrick.
Any of those sessions
occur at his home?
- No. We would meet
at his office.
- So you've never been
to his home.
- That's right.
- That's funny.
'Cause your fingerprints have.
You left a set on a jewelry box.
- Put your hands
behind your back.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait a minute.
What do you think you're
doing with my son?
- I'm arresting him for m*rder.
Two murders.
Let's go.
- Cheer up.
Maybe they'll sing
gather at the river for you.
Holand, is a husband,
a good father, and a good son.
- Your son m*rder*d
two people, reverend.
You don't have the evidence
to back that up.
My church is a pillar
of the black community,
and Roland is my pillar.
Don't pick a fight with me,
Jerry.
Not in an election year.
- There's only one way
your people vote, bill.
It's not republican.
- They can always stay home.
- If they stay home,
they can't vote for 128.
You've put a lot of time and
a lot of money into that one.
- People say you can't have
your cake and eat it too.
People are wrong.
- "The arc of history is long,
but it bends toward justice."
128 isn't justice.
Neither
is letting your son walk.
- Your dog...
Is showing a lot of teeth
quoting Dr. king to me.
- Life is long, bill.
And it's a small town.
That was totally unnecessary.
- You enjoyed it.
The arrogance of the man...
Using his pulpit
to oppress a minority.
- You just don't get it.
Gay marriage is a huge issue
in black churches.
- And a great way to get people
to open their checkbooks.
- That's a cheap sh*t.
- The reverend's right
about two things.
Your case is thin.
You have no motive.
- We're working on it.
What's the second thing
the reverend's right about?
- He has 20,000 parishioners.
When he speaks, they vote.
- On the basis of the presence
of the defendant's fingerprints
in the victim's bedroom,
of his prior statements
that he had never visited
the victim's home,
the people have established
probable cause
to proceed to trial.
- Your honor,
this so-called evidence
can be explained away simply.
- Well, we look forward
to his explanation.
- So do I.
Go ahead, Mr. Miller.
- The defense would like
to stipulate that Mr. Davison
was having an affair
with the victim, Kim Lee.
My client met her at her home
a week before she was m*rder*d.
That's how his fingerprints
got on the jewelry box.
- Besides the fact that we don't
believe there was an affair,
except perhaps
in Mr. Davison's mind,
his proposed stipulation does
not mitigate the other evidence.
- Alibi inconsistencies hardly
constitute conclusive evidence.
- I'm inclined to agree,
Mr. morales.
The fingerprint is your case,
and he's got an explanation
for it.
- Your honor...
Since Mr. Miller chose to
ambush us with his stipulation
instead of giving
the proper notice,
the people would like
to withdraw the charges
under 1382
and reserve the right
to refile later.
- So granted, Mr. morales.
The charges are withdrawn,
and the defendant
is released from custody.
- He tanned your hide.
- There are a dozen ways
to att*ck our case.
Partial fingerprints,
his alibi.
Why destroy
Roland's reputation
but publicly admitting
an affair?
- Because it's true?
- Well, even so,
there were better ways
to tan our hide,
ones that don't
provide us with motive.
Maybe...
The only reason
to offer up with the affair
is because the m*rder was about
something else entirely.
- Top three motives for m*rder-
love, money, revenge.
- They fessed up to love.
That leaves money and revenge.
- According to the news,
over 80 million bucks
is being spent
to get prop 128 on the ballot.
- A lot of that's being
funneled through church groups
like Roland Davison's.
- And we checked his financials.
So have state auditors.
He lives well enough
off his church salary.
- What about Joyner?
Maybe he and Davison
were embezzling together.
- No record of that
in his bank accounts.
- Maybe he's a spender.
Vacation home, fancy car.
- You might have just said
the magic word, price-car.
The one place we haven't looked.
- Oh, that's right.
It's in the shop.
Check this out.
It's a signature sheet
for prop 128
from the culver city area.
Names, addresses-
about a dozen highlighted.
What do you think?
- Nothing. Except it was
hidden in the car
of a guy
who was beaten to death
and stuffed in a crawlspace.
- Af-
afternoon, ma'am.
LAPD.
- Oh. Look at this.
- Looking for Trevor Watkins.
He gave this house
as his address.
- No. No Trevor here.
- How long have you
lived here?
- I moved in
with my second husband, uh...
17 years ago.
- You're sure about
Trevor Watkins.
- Sure as sure.
- 11 phony names?
Well, that does happen.
People sign all kinds
of crazy names on petitions.
- No, these weren't crazy names,
and they're real addresses.
- That's interesting.
- How do you verify
the signatures?
- We check them against
the voter registration rolls.
We don't actually
go out and ring doorbells.
- We have.
Do you mind?
Just the highlighted ones.
- "Trevor...Watkins."
There he is
on the voter rolls.
Domicile at 3367 la salle.
- Not according to the people
who actually live there.
- Well, that is interesting.
- All 11 names
were on the voter roles.
It's not just the petitions
that were messed with.
Somebody got into the voter
registration databank.
- Joyner's company's collected
over 500,000 signatures
for prop 128.
- We could be talking tens of
thousands of phony signatures.
- How much
are these signatures worth?
- Well, Joyner's employer
corrigan strategy
charges prop 128 sponsors $5
for every signature
they collect.
- Real signatures are harder
to collect than phony ones.
Corrigan saves on labor,
time.
- Corrigan's got
a nice little scam going.
- Not so little.
They've been involved
in over 20 ballot initiatives
in the last eight years.
- Maybe Joyner was in on it...
Roland found out they were
ripping off his church...
- Get a search warrant
for corrigan's office
and one for prop 128's
headquarters.
I gotta give Jerry a heads-up.
This is gonna give his favorite
reverend a coronary.
- Thank you.
As a result of the tragic
events of the past few weeks,
I initiated an internal audit
of signatures collected
under the supervision
of Derrick Joyner.
To my great dismay,
the auditors found
massive fraud.
Now, this fraud...
- What the hell is all this?
- That's corrigan.
- And ex*cuted by one man...
Derrick Joyner.
The fraudulent signatures
have been withdrawn,
and we will begin again
to gather more signatures
to ensure that prop 128
gets to where it belongs
on the ballot!
- My friends,
the work will go on.
Nobody said...
That the righteous road
is an easy one.
I see that deputy
district attorney morales
has come here today
to help us clean up this mess.
Clear a path for him now
so that he
and his good people
can begin their important work.
- He owns your hide now.
The auditors have just scratched
the surface of the signatures
corrigangathered for prop 128.
But of the ones
they've examined so far,
about 30% belong
to registered voters
who don't exist.
- 30%?
- We think as many
as 150,000 bogus signatures
are on those petitions.
- It doesn't stop there.
Some of the signatures
have turned up
on other ballot initiatives
corrigan's been involved with
the last few years.
- How many initiatives?
- Seven.
Four are now California law.
- Two you actually
campaigned for.
- Those laws could be
invalidated,
and the state can be plunged
into constitutional crisis.
- I'm just worried about
the little picture-
prosecuting these two murders.
We think the fraud is
the reason that Roland Davison
k*lled Joyner
and his girlfriend.
Corrigan's obviously involved.
He's the one who was profiting.
We're still sorting it out.
- Do that. I have to talk
to the Attorney General.
- Let's take another run
at Davison.
- Mr. corrigan's fraud
goes back years-
hundreds of thousands
of phony signatures.
We believe this is what
Derrick Joyner discovered
and what made him a thr*at
to Mr. corrigan
and to your
prop 128 initiative.
- And none of this proves
that my client did anything.
- It's enough to scare
Mr. corrigan.
And we guarantee you,
he will throw your client
under the bus in a nanosecond.
- One way or the other,
your client will be tried
for these murders.
Whether he faces the death
penalty's up to him.
If you wanna live...
Time to step up.
We want corrigan.
We're ready to deal for him.
- He pleads guilty
to two murders-
15 years each, concurrent.
Then you get corrigan.
- He actually said that
with a straight face.
- The terms are we drop
the death penalty,
he takes 30 to life.
- That's the only deal
you'll get, Mr. Davison.
- I didn't know anything about
any phony signatures
until corrigan called me.
He said Joyner had found
some irregularities
and he threatened
to report them.
Corrigan said that
my father would be ruined.
- Your father knew about
the fraud?
- No.
My father...
Staked his whole reputation
on prop 128.
Any scandal would sink him,
the church,
all he worked for...
And corrigan said that...
It was left up to me
to stop Joyner.
I went to his house...
And everything went sideways.
- You k*lled him?
I lost my temper.
Then Kim walked in...
And I panicked.
I knocked her out.
She was unconscious
and bleeding.
I didn't know what to do.
I called corrigan.
He was ten minutes away.
He came over.
And we-we were...
We were trying to decide
what to do,
and before I knew it...
He picked up a Kn*fe
and he stuck it in Kim.
He k*lled her.
- One lie after another
from beginning to end.
Roland Davison
wouldn't know the truth
if it kicked him in the head.
- We have enough evidence
to corroborate his statement...
Starting with the fraud.
- It was all Joyner and Davison.
My client
had nothing to do with it.
- Joyner only worked
for your client a short time.
When the jury hears this fraud's
been going on for years,
it's game over.
- You're assuming a lot,
Mr. morales.
- Why? You know something
I don't?
Off-limits?
When did this happen?
- Corrigan reached out
to someone in Sacramento.
You can't spend eight years
in the ballot initiative
business
without earning
some political pull.
- Well, let me get this
straight.
Apart from prop 128,
I cannot present evidence
that corrigan
used phony signatures
on other ballot initiatives?
- That's right.
The investigation
of those initiatives
has been taken over by
the Attorney General's office.
- Oh, you mean buried.
- I mean avoiding the Tsunami
of constitutional challenges
to the way the state chooses
the laws we live by.
- Oh. Just that.
You know what
this really means, Jerry?
You and the Attorney General
have just handed corrigan
a defense on a silver platter.
- You're overreacting, Ricardo.
- You watch.
- Derrick kept saying
he had to report it.
He said that corrigan
had been at it for years-
- objection.
Move to strike.
- Sustained.
Mr. Davison, limit your
testimony to prop 128.
- What else happened
at the house?
- Derrick tried to throw me out.
I grabbed him.
I had my hands around his neck.
I k*lled him.
Then Kim came home.
I slammed her
against the wall,
knocked her out.
I was scared.
All I could think about
was my father,
protecting my father.
I got Derrick's phone.
I called Ben corrigan.
He came over.
- And what did you
and Mr. corrigan do?
- Corrigan said we couldn't
leave a witness.
I didn't know what he meant.
And all of a sudden,
he grabbed a Kn*fe
and he stabbed Kim
through the heart.
She was dead
before I could stop him.
- What did you do then?
- Corrigan told me to hide
Derrick's body under the house
then drive Kim's car
to union station
and take the San Diego train
to make it look like
Derrick was on the run.
Before I left...
I saw that...
Kim didn't have the cross on
that she always did.
I found it in her room...
And it put it on her neck.
I took the train to fullerton.
I threw away Derrick's wallet,
and I met my father
at a charity dinner.
The call on Derrick's phone.
For all anyone knows,
it could have been Derrick
who made the call to discuss
business with his boss.
Isn't that right?
- No. I called corrigan.
- So you say.
You hoped one day to take over
your father's church, correct?
- I did once.
- But the church
you would inherit
had fallen on hard times,
attendance was down,
donations were down?
- That's right.
- Fair to say the reason
for the campaign for prop 128
against gay marriage
was to rally the troops,
fill the coffers?
- Not for my father.
He thought it was
the right thing to do.
- But for you, it was about
the money, wasn't it?
The power and the prestige
of the church
that was your birthright.
- No. It was about
obeying my father.
- The more signatures
you got on those petitions,
the stronger the church would
be, the stronger you would be.
- That didn't matter.
- Didn't it?
Isn't that why you made a deal
with Derrick Joyner?
He delivered to you tens
of thousands of bogus signatures
paid for with hundreds
of thousands of donated dollars.
- I didn't make a deal.
- Isn't it reasonable
to assume
that's what you argued about?
Money?
- That is not why...
- You think it more reasonable
to take the word
of a confessed m*rder*r?
I'm not-
I'm not...Lying.
- You've lied before in court.
You told a judge
you were having an affair
with Derrick Joyner's
girlfriend.
- I'm sorry
I lied about that.
Kim was a good person.
- That may be the one true thing
you've said today,
Mr. Davison.
- You'll only testify
about the specifics
of your contract with corrigan-
fees, payments,
that kind of thing.
- What about corrigan's lawyer?
He won't play by your rules.
- We'll object
if he gets off-topic.
Otherwise,
just tell the truth.
- Your parents
must be very proud of you.
- I wouldn't be here
without their help.
- Are they churchgoing folks?
- Yes. Every Sunday.
- Hmm. What about you?
- I try my best.
- You have a busy life.
It's all right.
I have but the one son and...
He made a plea bargain
to save his life.
What if it turns out
that, uh, he's lying?
- The deal'd be off.
He'd be tried for m*rder
and face the death penalty.
I see.
Well...
Good night, miss price.
- Yes. That's the contract
I signed with corrigan.
- And what fee
did you agree on?
- Oh,
there were different fees,
but it-
it boiled down to...
$4.65
for every valid signature
he delivered.
- Thank you.
Your witness.
- Reverend, did your son
ever tell you
there was a problem
with the signatures
Mr. corrigan was gathering?
- No.
- Did he ever tell you
"we should keep an eye
on Mr. corrigan,"
or, "maybe we shouldn't pay
Mr. corrigan"?
- No.
- No more questions.
- You may step down.
- Your honor, judge,
I- I'd like
to change my answers.
I have not told
the whole truth.
- Go on, reverend.
- A month before my son
committed his crimes,
I noticed an error
in a petition.
There was an address
that I knew.
Just six blocks
from the church.
I- I knew the lady
that lived there.
Lucy merryweather.
She-she lived there
her whole life.
But that wasn't the name
on the petition.
I noticed other mistakes.
I told Roland.
He said he'd look into it.
- And what happened?
- A few days later, he...
He told me that...
He'd straightened everything out
with Derrick Joyner.
That it was just, uh...
A clerical error.
- Just a clerical error.
In other words,
your son and Derrick Joyner
cooked up a lie
to cover their fraud.
- Your honor-
- withdrawn. Withdrawn.
Thank you.
- Your honor,
we're gonna need
time to prepare
for a redirect.
- Very well.
We will adjourn
until Monday morning.
- No. It's not true.
Why would he say that?
- He sunk you.
He told the jury
you knew about the fraud
weeks before
you said you did.
- But I didn't.
I didn't find out until later
from corrigan.
- He made it sound like
you and Joyner
had been conspiring
all along.
- He played right into
corrigan's defense.
- Why would he do that?
- Choose corrigan over you?
You tell us.
Is it possible
he was in on the fraud
with corrigan...
From the beginning?
- No. My father didn't
need to phony up signatures.
Donations had
been flooding in.
He said it was like a great
faucet had been turned on.
All summer, money had been
flowing into the church.
My father
didn't need to cheat.
- A great faucet.
- I should have said
something earlier,
but I did
what any father would do.
I was just trying to
protect my only son.
- Your son testified that he
only found out about the fraud
two days before the murders,
when Mr. corrigan told him.
But you testified that he knew
at least a month before that.
You understand
what that means, don't you?
- Yes.
My son lied.
- The night before you
testified, you asked miss price
what would happen to your son
if he lied.
You remember what
she said to you?
- Yes.
That Roland's deal
would be off.
He'd face the death penalty
for m*rder.
- The death penalty.
Because of your testimony
the other day.
- I had to tell the truth.
- "Do the right thing."
That's what you stand for.
It's what your church
stands for.
- I hope so.
- And your church does
a lot of the right things.
Like the promise
women's shelter.
The lighthouse nursery.
- Yes. Those are
all of our projects.
- And these projects enjoy
a great deal of financial
support from the community.
Uh, this donation,
for example, from last summer.
$20,000
for the promise women's shelter
from antoinette dunnet.
- Well, people are generous,
even in hard times.
- Would it surprise you to learn
that antoinette dunnet
is one of the phony names
from Mr. corrigan's petitions?
- Yes, it would.
- Well, how about this donation?
$5,000
for the lighthouse nursery
from hazel McBride.
Another phony name
off Mr. corrigan's petitions.
- Well, if you say so,
Mr. morales.
- In fact,
our auditors found
over a thousand donations
to your projects
using Mr. corrigan's
phony names
totaling $1 million.
Coincidentally,
the same amount
that Mr. corrigan
is accused of defrauding
from the prop 128 campaign.
- Are you asking me
a question?
You found out a while ago
that corrigan was tricking up
the petitions.
- No, I did not.
- But instead of reporting him
and possibly sabotaging
your prop 128 campaign,
you squeezed him up
for a $1 million donation
to your charities.
Isn't that right?
- No, it isn't.
- And now, he's squeezing you,
so you made up this story about
your son and Derrick Joyner.
- Isn't that right?
That was a question,
reverend.
- You have a very
cynical view
of how things are done
in my church.
- I'm cynical.
You marched
for civil rights in the '60s,
did you not?
- Yes.
With Dr. king.
- You faced police dogs,
fire hoses, beatings.
- Yes.
All for the cause
of human dignity.
- And here in Los Angeles,
you helped heal the wounds
after the watts riots,
after the Rodney king riots.
You even marched
with Cesar Chavez
all in the cause
of basic human dignity.
- Yes.
- But now you puff up
your church.
You fill your donation plates
with a campaign
that would deny a whole class
of people their civil rights,
their basic human dignity.
And you think I'm cynical?
- Mr. morales.
- Withdrawn, judge.
Withdrawn.
Reverend, let me ask you
one more question.
Do you consider yourself
and your church so indispensable
that you would sacrifice
your own son to save it,
so save your own skin?
- Judge...
Judge, I misspoke
the other day.
I'm not sure anymore when...
Or even if...
I spoke to my son
about the mistakes
on the petitions.
I'm not sure
if he said anything to me
about Derrick Joyner.
At my age,
events become...
Confused.
I'm sorry for
wasting the jury's time.
- The record will so reflect
your amended testimony.
Anything more, Mr. morales?
- No, your honor.
I'm done.
- We the jury
find the defendant Ben corrigan
guilty of one count of m*rder
in the first degree.
- Thank you
for your verdict.
The court will reconvene
tomorrow
to consider sentence.
01x19 - Carthay Circle
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