| 00:00:02 | THAT I COVERED. |
| 00:00:04 | I WENT TO THE COTS TO WATCH. |
| 00:00:05 | .. I WANTED TO WATCH JUST AN ORDINARY TRIAL, NOT A FAMOUS TRIAL IN ANY WAY, YOU KNOW, NOT A MULTIPLE MURDERER, NOT A DISSIDENT, NOT ANYTHING LIKE THAT, JUST AN ORDINARY TRIAL. |
| 00:00:21 | AND THAT WAS AT THE TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE REALLY BEGINNING TO WORRY ABOUT CRIME. |
| 00:00:28 | I MEAN, THEY WORRY ABOUT IT MUCH MORE NOW THAN THEY DID THEN, BUT THIS WAS JUST BEGINNING TO CUT INTO THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS. |
| 00:00:37 | AND SO THIS WAS A CASE OF A WIFE AND TWO. |
| 00:00:41 | .. A POLICEMEN AND A POLICEMAN' S BROTHER WHO WERE CONVICTED OF MURDERING THE WOMAN' S HUSBAND, AND HE WAS AN ANTIQUES DEALER. |
| 00:01:00 | AND ALL THESE ANTIQUES ARE. |
| 00:01:01 | .. BASICALLY, YOU CAN' T TAKE THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY. |
| 00:01:03 | IT' S ILLEGAL TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AND HE. |
| 00:01:06 | .. BUT HE SOLD THEM MOSTLY TO WESTERNERS AND TO FOREIGNERS. |
| 00:01:08 | AND SO HE WAS ESSENTIALLY VERY RICH. |
| 00:01:13 | THE COURT TESTIMONY WAS ABOUT WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN HE WAS, AND WHAT. |
| 00:01:17 | .. HOW HE... HOW HE BEAT HIS WIFE, AND HOW HE THREW HER OUT OF THE APARTMENT, AND THAT SORT OF THING, BUT WHAT INTERESTED ME ABOUT THE TRIAL ITSELF WAS THAT THESE. |
| 00:01:25 | .. THE ACCUSED WERE. |
| 00:01:28 | .. THE ASSUMPTION WAS FROMHE VERY BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL THAT THE ACCUSED WERE GUILTY, AND AT THAT. |
| 00:01:40 | .. >> WHO ASSUMED THAT? |
| 00:01:43 | >> THE STATE. |
| 00:01:44 | AND IT' S WHAT THEY CALL A PROSECUTORIAL SYSTEM. |
| 00:01:48 | THERE ARE SOME SYSTEMS LIKE THAT IN EUROPE THAT WORK VERY WELL, BUT WHAT THE SOVIET UNION HAD GIVEN THE COURT SYSTEM IN RUSSIA WAS BASICALLY A SYSTEM THAT SAID THE STATE IS RIGHT, AND NOBODY REALLY HAS A RIGHT TO QUESTION IT; " ONCE WE' VE DECIDED THAT YOU' RE GUILTY, YOU' RE ESSENTIALLY GUILTY. |
| 00:02:09 | " AND THE CONVICTION RATE WAS CLOSE |
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