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　　TERRY
　　No students work for me.
　　
　　LAMBEAU
　　Could you just check， because the young
　　man who works in my building--
　　
　　TERRY
　　Which one’’s your building？
　　
　　LAMBEAU
　　Building two.
　　
　　Terry checks a list behind his [own] desk. Looks up.
　　
　　TERRY
　　Well， if something was stolen， I should
　　know about it.
　　
　　LAMBEAU
　　No， no. Nothing like that. I just
　　need his name.
　　TERRY
　　I can’’t give you his name unless you
　　have a complaint.
　　
　　LAMBEAU
　　Please， I’’m a professor here and it’’s
　　very important.
　　
　　TERRY
　　Well， he didn’’t show up for work
　　today……
　　
　　Terry takes a beat. Holding all the cards.
　　
　　TERRY （cont’’d）
　　Look， he got his job through his P.O.
　　so you can call him.
　　
　　Terry goes through a stack of paper on his desk. Takes out a
　　card and hands it to Lambeau. Lambeau looks blankly at the
　　card which reads: "PAROLE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM."
　　
　　INT. COURTROOM -- DAY
　　
　　Will stands before JUDGE MALONE （40） being arraigned. It is
　　fairly unceremoniuous， the coutroom nearly empty， save Will
　　and the PROSECUTOR. Lambeau walks in from the back.
　　
　　WILL
　　There is a lengthy legal precedent，
　　Your Honor， going back to 1789， whereby
　　a defendent may claim self-defense
　　against an agent of the government
　　where the act is shown to be a defense
　　against tyranny， a defense of liberty--
　　
　　The Judge interrupts to address the prosecutor.
　　
　　JUDGE MALONE
　　Mr. Simmons， Officer McNeely who signed
　　the complaint isn’’t in my courtroom.
　　Why is that？
　　
　　PROSECUTOR
　　He’’s in the hospital with a broken
　　knee， Your Honor. But I have
　　depositions from the other officers.
　　
　　WILL
　　Henry Ward Beecher proclaimed， in his
　　"Proverbs From Plymouth Pulpit" back in
　　1887， that "Every American citizen is
　　by birth， a sworn officer of the state.
　　Every man is a policeman." As for the
　　other officers， even William Congrave
　　said; "he that first cries out ’’stop
　　thief’’ is ’’oft he that has stolen the
　　treasure."
　　
　　PROSECUTOR
　　Your Honor--
　　
　　Will cranks it up.
　　
　　WILL
　　（to Prosecutor）
　　I am afforded the right to speak in my
　　own defense by our constitution， Sir.
　　The same document which guarantees my
　　right to liberty. "Liberty，" in case
　　you’’ve forgotten， is "the soul’’s right
　　to breathe， and when it cannot take a
　　long breath laws are girded too tight.
　　Without liberty， man is a syncope."
　　（beat， to Judge）
　　Ibid. Your Honor.
　　
　　PROSECUTOR
　　Man is a what？
　　
　　WILL
　　Julius Caesar proclaimed-- Though he
　　be wounded--"Magna……"
　　
　　The Judge interrupts.
　　
　　JUDGE MALONE
　　Son，
　　（a beat）
　　My turn.
　　
　　The Judge opens Will’’s CASE HISTORY.
　　
　　JUDGE MALONE （cont’’d）
　　（reading）
　　June， ’’93， assault， Sept. ’’93
　　assault……Grand theft auto February