A Bribed Juror - Law & Order

[Music] dave was a lifer he started here right out of grad school before we got computers what exactly did he do well he worked on budgets financial projections stuff like that was he any good at it detective this is a city job get the same cost of living increase if you're good or bad dave was competent did he ever mention a guy named john ferrini is he an accounting i doubt it so tell me what skeletons did dave have in his closet actually that's what we're here to ask you did we gamble drink nothing i know about girlfriend now his daughter emily she's away at some fancy school we didn't even know he was married he wasn't his wife divorced him about three years ago whoever did it must be disappointed excuse me he picked the wrong guy to mug david never carried more than ten dollars in his wallet hell he never had more than ten dollars well you never get rich working for the city believe me i know did he fall behind in his payments he did his best it's very understanding of him look we were married for 21 years it was great for one good for two maybe c-plus for the rest a lot of fighting wait a minute do you think i'm not thinking anything but i gotta ask i wish we fought at least then he might have shown some passion david went to work he came home the only two things he got excited about were weekly basketball and our daughter emily every nickel he made went into her education state college wasn't good enough private school well that's got to be about 20 grand per huh if you don't plan on eating anything did he have any outside sources of income like i said every penny went to m if he had anything else you wouldn't be driving an 83 buick all her classmates drive bmws your husband my ex-husband ex-husband did he ever mention a john ferrini but then again we hadn't talked in over a year since emily's 19th birthday party so what's it all about lenny did you bust your butt to buy your kid a beamer nothing wrong with wanting the best for your daughter right i like those pair of converses you bought julia well they're the best right all i know is no german cars for my kid your kid what rollerblades we're talking vet baby listen lempert needs a few extra bucks you think maybe fiorini was his banker yeah at 50 interest let's go see how lumber lived well he certainly wasn't stealing from the mob he's got 230 bucks in his checking account yeah he worked for the city for 20 years makes you think whoa three grey suits a wild and crazy guy i don't think he spent money on personal grooming either look at this you must have 20 bottles of shampoo from the arcadey hotel downtown so i got a bathrobe from grossingers a guy who steals shampoo huh he's going to spend money on a hotel that's a subway right away [Music] sure i remember him stay with us a little over three months last summer yeah well no offense but this doesn't exactly look like a vacation spot no offense taken and he wasn't a vacation detective he was a guest of the state jury duty this is where they sequestered him 12 people three months three meals a day great for business and the press didn't hurt either impress huh must have been some big shot on trial they don't get much bigger vincent the godfather they tried it for knocking off that labor guy o'malley small world lempert sits on dasso's trial one of daso's henchmen is at the scene that's not just a coincidence the jury hung mike there was no retrial why would they want to kill him i'm thinking limpard hung the jury the guy worked at a city computer all day he's not the usual target for a mob hit i still haven't heard a reason for making him dead lover was bought off maybe he wanted more or maybe his existence gave dasso agita i say we talk to those other jurors what are you gonna do look up anonymous juror in the yellow pages they weren't anonymous to everybody are you nuts they'd canned me before breakfast the trial's been over for six months who's it gonna hurt judge bruhman's got rules so does my lieutenant that doesn't stop me from taking a three-hour lunch break every now and then come on gibbons we're all working stiffs we're all on the same side here i'll deny everything so will we one name okay no tv radio newspapers or magazines wow three months is a long time it must have been health tell me about it no phone calls unless the court officers sit next to me we couldn't even leave our rooms for ice convicted felons get more privileges do you remember uh dave lempert remember him he would have been out of there a week if it wasn't for him saying he was the only holdout 11 people tell me the sky is blue i start to believe him i tell you what reasonable data two words i never want to hear again you ever get the feeling his mind had already been made up in advance he asked me was he bought off i don't see how court offices were all over us like flies on i get your point my opinion limp it was just a pain in the ass any time you get a defendant up on a murder charge juror safety and or potential tampering become a major concern was the danger more than hypothetical in daso's case well we assumed this guy was capable of anything so we cranked up security to the max had the guys on ot the works we even brought in the fbi's food taster in a consult maybe your ship wasn't as airtight as you thought i've been doing this 12 years detective i haven't lost a juror yet that you know about let me ask you this did anybody contact david lempert let's see yeah no visitors no medical requests no special foods what about phone calls every outgoing phone call is monitored by one of my men uh looks like he dialed a daughter in pennsylvania once a week what about incoming cough leopard had three off from his wife priscilla be back now didn't she say she hadn't spoken to him in over a year maybe she got her dates mixed up you remember the last time you spoke to your ex lenny july 17 1994 2 35 p.m i got to be honest with you mrs lemfort nothing bothers me more than being lied to i didn't lie i never called david also now it's the court officer's logbook that lied three separate times if you're not honest with us mrs lempert we can't help you please detective i'm not naive you're not here to help me but we can't arrest you for obstructing justice go ahead think about it mrs leopard every time you go out to buy groceries every time you go down to the corner to get a paper how safe are you gonna feel and you're going to protect me they killed your ex they know you know it do you really think they're gonna send you a sympathy card and forget about it and then they're gonna come after anybody you might have told like your daughter after the divorce money grew tight david was having trouble making emily's college payments we were talking about transferring her from swarthmore to suny and that was a big deal to david it was and then somebody came along to solve all your problems never told me his name i never asked he showed up here one night when david was at the jury he knew everything about us and you didn't get just a little bit suspicious i was scared all i had to do was call david at the hotel and then leave the apartment while they spoke after the trial david paid swarthmore in full i never asked where i got it is that the mystery man [Music] so [Music] you

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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020