Normally the homicide that Dennis Farina and Jesse Martin caught that evening would be what is called a public service homicide. The victim was the owner and sometimes operator of a trucking company that had a real nice pay no taxes sideline in smuggling illegal aliens. When he's murdered on a New York City street as his truck is stopped, the illegals scatter. A lot of potential witnesses scatter.
It doesn't take too long for Farina and Martin to track down a real misfit Daniel Roebuck who is a member of some rightwing citizen's patrol group concerned with illegal aliens. But Roebuck as the shooter is just a jerk, he was manipulated by others in the group like Stephen Lang who have their own reasons for shooting the victim.
It's also hard to work up sympathy for the victim as he is responsible for the death of other illegals when he left them off in the Arizona desert with no water, no food, and no shelter. There's also another issue in that Aixa Rosario Medina who is an illegal nanny happened to be the witness who fingered Roebuck. For being a better citizen than a lot who are citizen she gets thrown to INS courtesy of Roebuck's lawyer and a judge who has no sympathy with illegals.
Those victims in the Arizona desert offer a compelling reason for jury nullification. It all becomes a matter of spin for the defense and the prosecution team of Sam Waterston and Annie Parisse.
This case is some sinkhole. Only the illegals in the desert and Medina deserve any sympathy.
It doesn't take too long for Farina and Martin to track down a real misfit Daniel Roebuck who is a member of some rightwing citizen's patrol group concerned with illegal aliens. But Roebuck as the shooter is just a jerk, he was manipulated by others in the group like Stephen Lang who have their own reasons for shooting the victim.
It's also hard to work up sympathy for the victim as he is responsible for the death of other illegals when he left them off in the Arizona desert with no water, no food, and no shelter. There's also another issue in that Aixa Rosario Medina who is an illegal nanny happened to be the witness who fingered Roebuck. For being a better citizen than a lot who are citizen she gets thrown to INS courtesy of Roebuck's lawyer and a judge who has no sympathy with illegals.
Those victims in the Arizona desert offer a compelling reason for jury nullification. It all becomes a matter of spin for the defense and the prosecution team of Sam Waterston and Annie Parisse.
This case is some sinkhole. Only the illegals in the desert and Medina deserve any sympathy.
