:20:01
For my daughter,
for my son-in-law,
:20:03
and for my 3 grandsons.
:20:06
I'm thankful that both my
brothers are home, and
:20:11
I'm most thankful
:20:16
to my husband, to Arnie.
:20:22
Anything you want
to say, Mr. Friedman?
:20:25
Are you guilty?
:20:26
Did you do all they say you did?
:20:29
No comment.
:20:30
I was the first to visit
my brother in prison.
:20:35
And that was a moment in
my life I'll never forget.
:20:41
He came into the room.
:20:42
I was sitting at this
table, a lot of tables,
:20:44
and they were crowded.
:20:45
Just awful surroundings.
:20:46
And he didn't have
his glasses on.
:20:48
Without his glasses,
he was blind as a bat.
:20:50
They'd taken them off and
broken them, stepped on them.
:20:54
He had a smell of urine.
:20:55
They were throwing urine at him.
:20:56
They were threatening to
throw him down the stairs.
:20:58
They knew what
he was in there for.
:21:00
It was all over the media.
:21:02
And he was half-blind and
hadn't shaved in two days
:21:05
and shivering and cold
and scared out of his wits.
:21:09
The first words out
of his mouth were,
:21:11
"Howie, they're gonna kill me.
Get me out of here. "
:21:17
The People versus Arnold
Friedman and Jesse Friedman.
:21:21
Indictment 67430.
:21:23
Step up, please.
:21:25
So began the very first time
cameras were permitted
:21:28
in a Nassau County courtroom.
:21:30
Fifty-six-year-old
Arnold Friedman
:21:32
and his 18-year-old son Jesse
:21:33
heard the court clerk read off
a 91-count indictment
:21:37
charging them with
sodomy and sexual abuse.
:21:40
Arnold Friedman, how do you
plead to this indictment?
:21:43
Guilty or not guilty?
:21:44
Not guilty.
:21:45
And Jesse Friedman, how do you
plead to this indictment?
:21:48
Not guilty.
:21:49
My brother and Jesse kept
saying they're innocent.
:21:51
"This is trumped up charges. "
:21:53
And they got
a McMartin's, you know?
:21:54
They somehow got one kid to,
:21:58
they got the police to be
able to convince the kids,