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and documents, I mean the emotional baggage. Doesn t this job just make you
hate men?
I laughed at that one. Maybe Goldman wasn t as smart as I had initially
thought, to ask such a hackneyed question.
No, of course not. The people who commit these crimes are deviants, Ellen.
This is really extreme, aberrant behavior.
Most of the men I ve ever met in my life are incapable of this kind of
conduct. I am not one of the women who believes that all men are potential
rapists. That s one of the main reasons I can deal with these cases. And it
really doesn t carry over into my relationships with men not for a moment.
But if you want to know what makes me hate men, I thought to myself, this is
the right day to ask me.
Are you seriously involved with someone now, Alex?
This investment banker you were out with last night?
Did I tell you who I was going out with yesterday? I shot back at her.
I wasn t aware I mentioned- I told you I ve done my homework. I ve already
interviewed a lot of your colleagues.
What branch of the Israeli military did you serve in Intelligence?
Not so lucky. I was in a special patrol force on the West Bank.
Actually an elite antiterrorist unit. Not a cushy desk job doing background
checks.
I was impressed.
Listen, Ellen. Can we go off the record for a few minutes?
Sure. Off the record.
Whatever you heard about the investment banker and whoever s been talking
about it, you need to know it s over. I ll give you other stuff personal stuff
if you have to have it but I beg you to leave the romance angle out of it.
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He s not a part of my life anymore and I don t want to see anything about us
in print.
Please.
Yeah, sure, I m really sorry. People had been telling me you were very happy
together. Picture-perfect couple and all that kind of thing. Of course I won t
write about it if it s not true. Is this all very recent?
It was a Catch-22. I couldn t get her off the subject without going on to
explain why it didn t make sense for her to stay on the subject.
Recent? Let s just say if you had asked me the same question before you left
me in my office yesterday afternoon, you would have had a different answer.
History, Ellen, it s over.
I was relieved to see Cerone s court-appointed attorney come out of the door
which led from the holding pen behind the courtroom. The clerk stepped back
and knocked on the judge s robing room and I couldn t hear what Ellen murmured
to me as the court officer announced All rise. when Hadleigh mounted the
three steps to his seat at the bench.
The clerk called the case from the calendar, directed both counsel to state
our appearances for the record, and arraigned the defendant for sentence. He
went on to ask, Does the assistant district attorney wish to be heard?
Yes, Your Honor. I recalled for the judge the facts of the case, referring
to actual pieces of testimony about the victim s ordeal which I had pulled
from the transcript. In greater detail, I described her mental condition and
the vulnerability that handicap also endowed her with. Her legal guardian had
called to tell me that, even to this day, the young woman awakened with
nightmares, screaming the name of the defendant and pleading for help. I
closed by urging the Court to impose the maximum sentence, a range of eight
and one-third to twenty-five years in state prison.
Cerone s lawyer spoke next. He still disputed the verdict of the jury, arguing
that his client would be vindicated by an appellate review of the facts. He
assailed the descriptions that had been given about the woman s mental
capacity, saying that there really wasn t anything wrong with her at all: she
was just slow.
There is nothing in the trial record to indicate that this was a violent,
brutal attack, like the People claim.
Your Honor, he continued, I must also call your attention to the history of
this complaining witness. Ms. Cooper mentioned the victim s guardian, who
reports her nightmares to the district attorney. May I remind you that the
reason she lives with a guardian is that she had to be removed from her
natural home because she had been the victim of years of sexual abuse by her
father and her brothers. All of those events, Judge Hadleigh, have had some
kind of impact on this witness and all of those abuses occurred before the
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and documents, I mean the emotional baggage. Doesn t this job just make you
hate men?
I laughed at that one. Maybe Goldman wasn t as smart as I had initially
thought, to ask such a hackneyed question.
No, of course not. The people who commit these crimes are deviants, Ellen.
This is really extreme, aberrant behavior.
Most of the men I ve ever met in my life are incapable of this kind of
conduct. I am not one of the women who believes that all men are potential
rapists. That s one of the main reasons I can deal with these cases. And it
really doesn t carry over into my relationships with men not for a moment.
But if you want to know what makes me hate men, I thought to myself, this is
the right day to ask me.
Are you seriously involved with someone now, Alex?
This investment banker you were out with last night?
Did I tell you who I was going out with yesterday? I shot back at her.
I wasn t aware I mentioned- I told you I ve done my homework. I ve already
interviewed a lot of your colleagues.
What branch of the Israeli military did you serve in Intelligence?
Not so lucky. I was in a special patrol force on the West Bank.
Actually an elite antiterrorist unit. Not a cushy desk job doing background
checks.
I was impressed.
Listen, Ellen. Can we go off the record for a few minutes?
Sure. Off the record.
Whatever you heard about the investment banker and whoever s been talking
about it, you need to know it s over. I ll give you other stuff personal stuff
if you have to have it but I beg you to leave the romance angle out of it.
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He s not a part of my life anymore and I don t want to see anything about us
in print.
Please.
Yeah, sure, I m really sorry. People had been telling me you were very happy
together. Picture-perfect couple and all that kind of thing. Of course I won t
write about it if it s not true. Is this all very recent?
It was a Catch-22. I couldn t get her off the subject without going on to
explain why it didn t make sense for her to stay on the subject.
Recent? Let s just say if you had asked me the same question before you left
me in my office yesterday afternoon, you would have had a different answer.
History, Ellen, it s over.
I was relieved to see Cerone s court-appointed attorney come out of the door
which led from the holding pen behind the courtroom. The clerk stepped back
and knocked on the judge s robing room and I couldn t hear what Ellen murmured
to me as the court officer announced All rise. when Hadleigh mounted the
three steps to his seat at the bench.
The clerk called the case from the calendar, directed both counsel to state
our appearances for the record, and arraigned the defendant for sentence. He
went on to ask, Does the assistant district attorney wish to be heard?
Yes, Your Honor. I recalled for the judge the facts of the case, referring
to actual pieces of testimony about the victim s ordeal which I had pulled
from the transcript. In greater detail, I described her mental condition and
the vulnerability that handicap also endowed her with. Her legal guardian had
called to tell me that, even to this day, the young woman awakened with
nightmares, screaming the name of the defendant and pleading for help. I
closed by urging the Court to impose the maximum sentence, a range of eight
and one-third to twenty-five years in state prison.
Cerone s lawyer spoke next. He still disputed the verdict of the jury, arguing
that his client would be vindicated by an appellate review of the facts. He
assailed the descriptions that had been given about the woman s mental
capacity, saying that there really wasn t anything wrong with her at all: she
was just slow.
There is nothing in the trial record to indicate that this was a violent,
brutal attack, like the People claim.
Your Honor, he continued, I must also call your attention to the history of
this complaining witness. Ms. Cooper mentioned the victim s guardian, who
reports her nightmares to the district attorney. May I remind you that the
reason she lives with a guardian is that she had to be removed from her
natural home because she had been the victim of years of sexual abuse by her
father and her brothers. All of those events, Judge Hadleigh, have had some
kind of impact on this witness and all of those abuses occurred before the
events she testified about in this court. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]