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In the criminal justice system,
The people are represented by two separate,
Yet equally important groups,
The police who investigate crime
And the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
These are their stories.
- Make it last, hoss. - Cool, man.
- How were the waves?
- Could be better. Could be worse.
Get your deliveries done? - Record time.
- You brought one back? - Uh, it's brampton.
The family said her white count flat-lined,
She went in her sleep.
Nobody beats stage four, trevor.
Hey, I told you, you can't buy weed here.
- Doing you a favor, bro.
There's a narc and a lowrider eyeballing your door.
- Go away. - Come on, man.
- Trouble? - Nothing I can't handle.
- We've got spatter out front and in here,
And at least three different sets of footprints.
- Beat him down, dragged him to the safe,
Pressed his print to the biometric lock here.
There's blood on the scanner pad.
- If this is the same four-man crew
That hit the other dispensaries, it's a big escalation.
- Maybe he didn't want to give up the safe.
- A gang of heavily strapped guys shove guns in your face,
You give up the safe.
- Not if you're trevor knight.
He was a pro surfer out of hawaii.
Huge talent.
He probably had a hot temper
With a rep for hitting the bottle.
- A real laid-back surfer dude.
- What's more laid-back than dead?
- When did you find the body?
- Uh, just before 6:00.
Trevor has me come in early to pick up deliveries
For shut-ins.
- Door-to-door service.
- Yeah, it's cut-throat competition, man.
Some of grow-ops are offering facials
And foot rubs... and all kinds of stuff.
- These gouge marks on the side of your boss' truck,
Any idea who did that?
- Probably one of the neighbors.
They don't really like having a dispensary next door.
- Any of them dislike it more than others?
- I couldn't say, man.
You know, some kid stopped in yesterday
And claimed there was a narc in a blue lowrider
Casing the place, but...
I don't know, man.
- Do you know how much was in the safe?
- Trevor handled the cash,
I took care of dope and deliveries.
- We'll need to see the books.
- Trevor's wife deena's got the books.
Uh, trevor kept them at home to protect the customers.
- From what?
- Zealot cops looking to pad arrests.
Oh, like that doesn't happen?
- Why don't you just give us her address?
- It's legal dope.
So you wanna see my prescription card,
Or the head scarf speak for itself?
- It's okay.
I saw your son win the open at huntington.
- He and deena should've been back in hawaii
Where he could train properly.
Me and my little friend melanoma.
- We need to see the financial records of the grow-op.
- I have them upstairs.
- How long has the storefront been open?
- Nine months.
He was using it to pay for my chemo,
While he restarted his surfing career.
- I know this is difficult,
But can you think of anyone at all
Who might have had a dispute with your son?
- I know my son's reputation.
But he gave up fighting
When he quit drinking and married deena.
He was thinking of starting a family.
You're good at that.
- A misspent youth and three years in vice.
- They didn't have to kill him.
- It wasn't my choice to come back to the mainland.
It wasn't my choice to sell weed.
But once trevor made up his mind...
Bank statements and vendor accounts.
- You happen to know the weekly take at the grow-op?
- Around $20,000.
It was peanuts compared to other storefronts.
But trevor never viewed it as a permanent business.
- How about the safe?
You have any idea how much was in there?
- A little over $100,000.
The armored car company
Was supposed to collect the money every week,
But trevor kept missing the pick-ups
Every time he had to take his mom to the hospital.
The company warned us about keeping too much cash on hand.
That's why they insisted we install that safe last month.
Not that it made a damn bit of difference.
- Munchies? I checked with narcotics.
The blue lowrider was definitely not surveillance.
- So maybe it was a robbery crew.
- Okay, we got five jobs over a two month period.
Hit and split pros.
Until they drop a body
Making it open season on drug dealers.
- State-sanctioned dealers.
- The robberies are spread across lapd
And sheriffs' jurisdiction.
The dispensaries all used different armored car companies.
All varied their pickup schedules.
- Okay, let's restart from the freshest case.
$100,000 taken from a newly installed safe.
Who knew how much would be in the safe?
- The victim, the wife, and the armored car company,
Security arms.
- All my people were vetted, printed, and polygraphed,
Including the secretaries.
- Any recent hires? Anyone suddenly leave?
- Nope.
- Your client was killed with $100,000 in his safe,
Which you installed.
- Knight's security was a mess.
He was missing deposits every other week.
The safe was better than nothing.
- That green truck, isn't that your competition's?
- It used to be.
Our parent company went on a buying spree last year,
Bought out a bunch of the smaller players.
We're still consolidating operations.
- Are wellfort and t.W.Z. Securities
Two of those smaller players?
- Yeah.
- In other words,
All the dispensaries are being serviced by one company.
- These operations you consolidated,
Is one of them the dispatch office?
- Yeah.
- Am I in some kind of trouble?
- We're just reviewing everyone's paperwork.
We noticed you used your maiden name
On your job application.
- Getting a divorce.
- Oh, is that your idea or his?
- Mine. My ex is not a good guy.
- When's the last time you saw him?
- Not long enough ago. I'll tell you that right now.
- So that's like, what, ten days ago?
This is your signature on the visitor's log
From vacaville 10 days ago, yeah?
Husband's a prisoner there. Armed robbery.
- I told you. He's a bad guy.
- Not so bad that he didn't rate a conjugal visit.
That's what it says in the visitor's log.
One-hour conjugal visit.
- Here's what we think...
You used your maiden name to conceal the fact
That you're married to an armed robber
So you could get a job here.
- We also think that your husband,
The armed robber,
Has somethinto do with stick-ups
At the five dope dispensaries
Serviced by your company's armored cars.
- I want a deal. - You want it, earn it.
My husband owed a guy a favor he met inside.
Chuck roker.
I gave him a list of ten dispensaries.
- Was trevor knight in harbor city on the list?
Right at the top.
Knight kept missing pick-ups.
Cash was piling up in his safe.
- Where do we find roker? - I just got a phone number.
- We're gonna give you one chance to help yourself.
You're going to call... look at me.
You're gonna call roker
And you're gonna tell him that you have another target.
- Look at those little red hairs.
Must be from the d.E.A.
The feds always get the best dope.
- Keep talking like that,
The sses are gonna have you peeing in a cup.
- You surfed but never smoked?
- Surfing was rebellion enough in my house.
- Got a tan-panel van heading in.
- All right.
- Hold, hold, hold.
Got a civilian bogie.
- Hey, you guys got that bubble gum?
- We got all the flavors. You pick.
- I don't want anything too sleepy,
You know what I'm saying? Just want a nice mellow.
- Come on, any time, kid.
- All right, I'll take that bubble gum
And that afghani black. A quarter each.
J.R.A., man, juvenile rheumatoid.
- Yeah, right.
- No, it's a condition.
- You got to go out the back.
- What? - Don't fight me, kid.
- You guys are cops. - We're compromised.
- Hey, narcs, man! They're narcs in there!
- They're all cops in there!
- What the hell are you doing?
- I told you they were all cops.
Badge number 8238 at your service.
- Show them now! Out!
Get them up! Get out here!
Let's go! Let's go! Hands up!
- Cheeseburger for your thoughts?
- You can't talk to me.
- Mr. Roker invoked.
Looks like he made good use of the prison library system
During his last visit.
- Yo, I know my rights.
And you, you got nothing.
Nothing except maybe a two-bit gun charge.
- We got a story.
Two handsome detectives were chasing this crew.
Real pros.
Had control the second they breached a door.
Until at a storefront in harbor city,
Someone dropped a body,
Sticking the whole crew with a murder beef
And a ticket for a hot shot from the state of california.
The end.
- What? - Eat up.
- Wait, no, get back here.
- No, you know your rights. You invoked.
- Well, so give me a damn waiver.
I'm not gonna let you pin a murder on me.
- What happened in harbor city?
- Nothing happened in harbor city.
We were never in harbor city.
Okay, yeah, we did the other ones, okay?
Inglewood, commerce. But harbor city was not us.
- We heard it was top of your list.
- I staked it out. Yeah, but I got chased off.
- Chased off a big, bad boy like you?
- You'd bail too if big-ass samoan
Shoved a sawed-off mossberg in your face.
- Paint us a picture of this samoan.
- Big. Really big. Gang tats.
He told me that harbor city belongs to s.O.S.
Sons of samoa?
- You catch a name?
- No, the dude drove off before I could ask.
- Describe the samoan's car.
- It's a, uh, a lowrider. Impala.
Light blue. Early '60s maybe.
- I think you're looking at joey fatu.
35, old-school s.O.S.
Pinched for robbery. Then again for manslaughter.
Currently out on parole.
- Fatu own a blue impala?
- Nothing listed. What's your interest?
- A robbery crew was casing a harbor city weed store.
We think he ran them off
So he could rob the place himself.
- S.I.D. Found three sets of shoe prints on the scene.
Any idea who he'd be working with?
- Well, fatu's kind of low man on the pecking order.
Could be s.O.S.
Could be he branched out on his own.
- Any emergency contacts on the booking reports?
- The contact he gave his parole officer
Is a deena peeko knight, rolling hills.
- Trevor knight's wife.
- It's not what you think. - Really?
'cause right now, it looks like
You and joey fatu conspired to kill your husband.
- You didn't want to move here.
You didn't want to sell weed.
And $100,000,
Well, that'd get you a nice start back in hawaii.
- Are you telling me that joey killed trevor?
- You know different?
- Joey and I used to be married, okay?
It didn't last long. It was a mistake.
- I'd say he still has feelings for you
If he gave your name to his p.O.
- Joey was trevor's silent partner.
- He lent trevor the money to start the grow-op.
$30,000.
Joey was the only one we knew with that kind of cash.
Trevor gave him a cut every week.
- Dealing with your ex didn't bother trevor?
- Pro-surfers don't make anything unless they win.
That's why trevor was training so hard.
So he could get back on the circuit
And we could walk away from the grow-op.
- What did joey think of your exit plan?
- I... I don't know.
I mean, trevor dealt with him, not me.
I wouldn't even know how to find him.
- She spins a good story.
- Assuming it's true,
Maybe joey tried to squeeze a bigger cut out of trevor.
- Why settle for 10% when you can get 100%?
- The old hippie who worked for trevor,
He might know something about joey.
-
You okay, mr. Toomey?
- Yeah. Yeah. I just... I came home and found this mess.
I, uh, I... I guess I got robbed.
- Why don't you come on out here?
Come on. Come to me.
It used to be you could park at the beach
And leave your door wide open for days.
Now it's all punk-ass kids and 30 people fighting
For the same bit of sand.
- That's a nasty looking cut on your cheek.
And the way you're holding those two fingers,
I'd say they're broke.
- Tripped on something in the parking lot.
- Well, that thing you tripped on
Didn't happen to look like him, did it?
- You know who that is though.
- Yeah.
- Did you know joey fatu was partners with trevor?
Is that who paid you a visit?
- He came in. He tore my place apart.
He thought I killed trevor and took the money.
- Joey told you that?
- Funny thing, I said I thought he might've done it.
And he just said if he'd wanted to kill trevor,
He'd done it clean back at the beach.
- Which beach? - Uh, lunada bay.
- There's knight.
- Look what we have here, the big blue bomber.
Blow that up.
Registered to a tracy mathers, hermosa beach.
- Still warm.
Tracy mathers, it's the police!
We have a warrant!
- Police!
- Baby, you're too much.
- Yo, joey, get your hands up! - No, don't hurt him!
- Ma'am, get out of the way! Joey, we have a warrant for you!
- Get out of my house! - Joey, step away from the girl!
- You bastards, get out!
- Give me a taser.
- No, no, no, no.
- No, you bastards! No, don't shoot him!
- Help! Get him off me! I can't breathe!
Get him off!
- Another quiet night in the hotel california.
- I didn't do knight. - Knight took your woman.
- I was long done with her, and jealousy ain't my stripe.
- Deena didn't play up to you to get the $30,000
To open the grow-op?
Make you think she still cared?
- Maybe she did.
Maybe you and her killed knight.
- Knight was my meal ticket.
- Knight was planning to close the grow-op.
- The grow-op was nothing
Compared to what I was gonna make off of knight's surfing.
- What do you mean? - Endorsements.
Surfing gear, clothing, boards.
Once knight got back on tour,
I was gonna front all his expenses in return
For 40% of everything.
- And he agreed to that?
- We were negotiating.
- You mean you were muscling him.
- I was looking to help the guy.
- How were you gonna help him?
- Knight was gonna surf this tourney next month.
I put a hand on the one guy who could've beat him.
Del broadleaf.
I told him not to show up.
- Real sorry about trevor.
Man had all the talent in the world.
- How did you two get along?
- As well as t got along with anybody.
- You make a nice stick. - Thanks.
- You see him around much lately?
- Couple of weeks ago,
This big samoan tried to scare me off
From surfing against trevor at a tourney.
Didn't sound like trevor,
So I went by his house to check it out.
- What'd he say?
- He said the samoan was out of line.
Said I should come out and surf
So he could kick my ass fair and square.
A week later, he comes by, apologized again.
Said he wanted to buy a new competition board.
His favorite was all bashed up
Like somebody had taken a hammer to it.
- The samoan?
- Some dudes up at lunada bay.
- Any dudes in particular?
- Trevor didn't say. It's surfing, you know?
Too many bodies, only so many waves.
- Most of these look like variations of the same tag.
M.B.C. Or m.B.G.
I can't quite tell.
- Waves are all closed out.
- That's bad right?
Check out the rainbow knife.
- Looks like you're expecting trouble.
- Sharks.
- Sharks put those dings in your board?
- Hey, can't you people read theigns?
You're trespassing.
- Go back inside, sir.
- When you get off my land.
- The beach is public property from san ysidro
All the way to oregon.
Or do you need me to come up there and draw you a map?
- It's only public to the high-tide line.
- This idiot's out here shaking his fist every day.
Thinks if he makes it hard enough to use the beach,
People will stop trying.
- So those sharks,
They have anything to do with those tags over there?
- You know sharks can't write. - We're trying to help.
- Guy's got to carry a knife to go surfing?
If it's such a hassle, why bother?
- Get a board and catch one good wave.
Come on, let's see if we can I.D. These sharks.
- M.B.C. Moon bay crew.
I worked a call four months ago
Where those mutts beat down a 17-year-old kid from torrance.
Three on o. Real predators.
- What happened with the case?
- Disappeared into thin air. Kid decided he fell.
- So the m.B.C. Put a scare into the kid?
- Bought him off is more likely.
Now, the moon bay crew,
They're a bunch rich-boy surfers with surplus attitude.
Even got their own web page.
- The moonay crew.
Carlton campbell, logan rudman, patrick scott.
Nothing on their sheets,
But all three have sealed juvie records.
- I'm seeing luxury vehicles and high-end sports equipment.
Who's got the deep pockets?
- Dmv shows a land rover registered to campbell
Rudman has a lexus.
- And patrick scott? - Patrick drives a '98 p.O.S.
- Well, there's your target then.
- Because he's poor,
That makes him the softest touch?
- No, but it makes him the one with the worst lawyer.
- Patrick scott?
Whoa. We should see the other guy, huh?
- Wiped out on the rocks. - That's funny.
When I go over the falls,
I'm busted up all over the place,
Not just my hands.
- Maybe you're not as good as me.
- Yeah, skill doesn't matter
When the washing machine takes you.
Yore just along for the ride.
I wasn't figing.
- Yeah? Those cuts, those are teeth marks.
And what do you wanna bet they match the dental records
Of a very dead man?
- Kid lawyered up. Won't budge.
- I'll talk to him.
Alone. Turn the camera off.
How are you, jimmy?
Jimmy and I have tried, what, eight cases against each other?
- My client invoked his right to remain silent.
- Yeah, don't worry, jimmy, one of these days,
I'll let you win one.
- Don't push it. - All right. All right.
I'm here to offer your client a deal
If he'll testify against his friends.
- No.
- You're not o.J., kid. You're not robert blake.
Those guys had money for big time lawyers.
No offense, jiy.
See, that's the difference between you and your friends.
They have money. You tag along.
And no matter how hard you try,
They know you're not one of them.
And you know it too.
You're all alone here.
- What do I have to do?
- Just tell me what happened.
- This is all off the record till we have a signed deal.
- Of course. - And the camera?
It's already off.
- We just wanted to teach knight a lesson.
For weeks he'd cut us off, taking swell after swell.
Claimed he was training.
- Well, apparently he was. - Still.
It was logan's idea we should bang on him.
You know, bust his board, key his ride.
But knight wouldn't back down.
- Who suggested you visit knight at his storefront?
- Carlton.
Carlton campbell.
He punched knight. He knocked him down.
He kicked him in the head.
There was all this blood.
We... we panicked.
Logan saw the safe.
Says his dad has one just like it.
Said we should make it look like a robbery.
- Where's all e money now?
- With carlton.
He took it.
- Guess we were expected. - I'm gray campbell.
This is my house.
You have arrest warrants to show us?
- That's right.
For carlton campbell and logan rudman.
We also have a search warrant for your house.
- I need you boys to stand up. Now.
- You're going to be fine, carlton.
I'll be right behind you. Don't answer any questions.
Are we clear? - Yeah.
- Our sons have invoked their rights.
Video has been taken to document their physical condition
So don't even think of getting rough with them.
- Don't worry, mr. Campbell.
We leave the rough stuff to choirboys like your son.
- Your people almost done ripping our home apart?
- Just your son's room and the communal areas.
Don't worry.
We're king video
To show we haven't roughed up your decor.
- Did I do something to earn your resentment?
- With all due respect, mr. Campbell,
You're not being victimized.
Neither is your son. - My son is innocent.
His only crime is befriending a borderline sociopath
Like pat scott.
It's a petition.
- To limit beach access?
- Homeowners have the right toeel safe
In their own backyards.
- The beach belongs to everyone.
Spare me the "greater public good."
Public good ends when I catch it pissing on my hydrangeas.
- Maybe you should petitioning for more public toilets.
You know, back in the day,
My dad used to pack me and my brothers up in a camper,
Drive to the beach all the way from boyle heights,
Spend the whole day swimming in the surf.
Fall asleep listening to the waves.
Made the rest of the week bearable.
The california promise.
That promise didn't come free, mr. Morales.
And now the bills are due.
If you'll excuse me,
I don't believe your warrant covers this room.
- People v. Carlton campbell and logan rudman.
Murder with gang enhancement
And the special circumstance of robbery.
How do you plead?
- Not guilty. - Not guilty.
- People on bail?
- Given the severity of the charges,
The people request the defendant be held
Without bail, your honor.
- Your honor, my clients have no priors.
They also have deep family and community ties.
- They face counts that carry the death penalty.
They have the financial means to flee the jurisdiction.
- I'm with ms. Price.
Defendants will be remanded without bail.
- My clients had nothing to do with knight's murder.
Pat scott acted alone.
- And you're gonna convince a jury
He somehow used three pairs of shoes?
The footprint sizes match your clients.
- Lots of people wear sizes 9 and 11.
And your star witness is a sociopathic liar.
- What's this?
- Sworn affidavit stating that pat scott raped a girl
At carlton campbell's house.
It's always good to see you, ricardo.
- She was drunk. We all were.
I mean, she was halfway passed out.
- Meaning she couldn't legally consent.
Meaning you raped her.
- Logan and carlton were the ones
Pushing me to do it.
They cheered me on.
- And when the girl sobered up and realized what happened?
- Carlton's dad covered it up
Just like he did with the kid we beat up outside paco-paco's.
- Gray campbell paid off a victim?
- It was just like the thing with knight.
We were in it together
And things got out of control.
- If our only witness is an admitted rapist,
Our case just went from thin to translucent.
- Three dumb kids did not commit the perfect crime.
- S.I.D. Couldn't find anything at campbell or rudman's house
To link them to knight's murder.
No bloody clothes or shoes. No money.
- Look at this.
Gray campbell's study.
There's a bottle of lighter fluid
Next to the fireplace.
It's a gas fireplace.
Something must've been hard to burn
If they needed a boost from lighter fluid.
- Carlton burned evidence in daddy's fireplace.
- Or daddy burned it for him.
- The study wasn't covered under the search warrant.
- The lighter fluid's in plain sight.
Talk to the judge.
Maybe we can get a second bite at the apple.
- Lab tests from the chimney and fireplace
In mr. Campbell's study.
Traces consistent with the burning
Of a neoprene wetsuit.
Just like the one his son and his friends wore
When they killed trevor knight.
- Lot of things e made out of neoprene.
- The police also found traces of rag paper...
25% cotton, 75% nen...
Used exclusively by the bureau of engraving.
- Nobody burns money unless you're ridiculously rich.
Or it's stained with blood.
Or both.
- Here's the good part.
We found the same evidence on the fire tools
Along with your fingerprints.
- You don't need to respond to that.
- Your son's the killer, mr. Campbell.
He's the one we want.
- If there's nothing else...
- My family and I have done nothing wrong.
- Tell the detectives I'm filing on mr. Campbell.
I want him booked and processed by tonight.
- We can't prove he destroyed evidence.
- I'm not charging him with destroying evidence.
I'm charging him with willful promotion
Of felony gang activity.
You're just doing this because he's arrogant.
- I'm doing it because he's "guilty under the law."
Isn't that what you always say?
- I actually mean it.
You only say it when you're pissed off.
- I'm charging him.
-
- Felony gang activity?
Your honor, these charges are simply an attempt
By mr. Morales to bully my client
Into testifying against his own son.
- Mr. Morales, if you're wasting this court's time
With frivolous charges...
- Your honor, under the legal definition,
Mr. Campbell is a member of the moon bay crew,
And the people are perfectly willing to offer proof
Of his criminal liability.
- A gang member? Gray campbell?
- The people kindly refer defense counsel to 186.22.
- We know the statute, ricardo.
- Good.
Then we can settle this with a preliminary hearing
And sort out whether the people's charges
Warrant a trial.
- Under california law,
A criminal street gang is any ongoing association
Or group of three or more persons,
Formal or informal,
That commit crimes as one of its primary activities.
A gang has a common name, identifying sign,
And members that have engaged in an on-going pattern
Of criminal gang activity.
- Would defending your territory through intimidation, assault,
And vandalism... that qualify as criminal gang activity?
- Yes. - How about murder, rape?
- Yes. No doubt.
- Detective rivas,
In your opinion as a 14-year veteran
Of the lapd anti-gang unit,
Does the moon bay crew qualify as a criminal street gang?
- Yes. Absolutely.
- So tell me, detective, aside from defending their turf,
What is the primary activity of the gangs you've battled
In your 14 years?
Is it drug dealing? - Yes.
- Gun running? - Yes.
- Prostitution? - Yes.
- All criminal activities.
And what is the moon bay crew's primary activity?
It's surfing, is it not?
Correct me if I'm wrong,
But surfing is still legal in the state of california.
- Yes. - Thank you.
- It was a Thursday afternoon.
I was at the beach.
I'd only moved out from tucson six weeks before.
These three boys came up.
They were surfers.
They said that this was their beach and I was trespassing.
One of them, his name was carlton,
He said they were having a party at his house
With a bunch of other kids.
It was this big house up on the hill.
- What did you do then?
- I went with them to the house.
We all started drinking.
- And what happened next?
- I remember...
Someone on top of me.
And people chanting, like, "go, go."
When I woke up,
My panties were gone
And I knew that I'd had sex.
That I had been raped.
- Did you or anyone call the police?
- No.
This man...
Him... he came in the room.
I was crying.
He said he was carlton's dad.
He said that I should protect myself.
He told me how calling the police
Would destroy the rest of my life.
How rape victims get humiliated
And nobody ever believes them.
- What did mr. Campbell do next?
- He offered me money.
$5,000.
Then he drove me to a bus stop
So I could wait for the bus back to long beach.
- Carlton told me what pat scott did to that poor girl
So I went in to talk to her, to offer some comfort.
I did offer to pay for her medical costs...
After all, it happened in my house.
But I did not bribe or threaten her.
- Well, now, mr. Campbell, how often do you go out
With your son and his friends to commit a robbery?
- I don't.
- What about sell drugs or beat people up?
- I don't do any of those things and neither does my son.
- You must recognize this?
- It's gibberish. - Thank you, mr. Campbell.
Your witness.
- Mr. Campbell, if you knew that amy reynolds had been raped
In your home, why didn't you report it?
- I had no first-hand knowledge.
And truthfully, it would be up to the girl to report it
Since she's the one who'd ve to endure the investigation.
- And your $5,000 convinced her not to.
- Spare us the editorial, mr. Morales.
- Mr. Campbell, do you recall paying $10,000
To a young man named peter markham?
I'll refresh your memory.
This is from the statement given to the police by peter markham.
He was assaulted by your son and his friends four months ago
Outside a beach cantina in palos verdes.
Mr. Markham is from torrance.
He made the mistake of surfing in lunada bay.
- That was a misunderstanding.
My son and his friends apologized.
And the money was for medical expenses.
- And again, criminal charges never materialized.
- One has nothing to do with the other.
- Except that you were aware that your son and his friends
Were involved in felonious conduct such as rape
And assault, weren't you?
- I don't...
- And thanks to your checkbook,
You facilitated such conduct, didn't you?
- No. No, that's not true.
- Isn't it a fact your son is 100% financially dependent
On you?
- He's enrolled in college.
- You pay for his food, his housing, his car,
His surfing equipment.
You pay his credit card charges,
Including charges for spray paint.
I don't keep track of what he buys.
- But when it comes to keeping strangers out of lunada bay,
When it comes to defending your turf,
You and your son's gang friends are all of one mind,
Are you not?
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- You formed a group called
"palos verdes concerned citizens," I am correct?
- To organize a neighborhood watch.
- To petition county government to limit beach access.
That's the prime focus of your group,
To keep non-residents of palos verdes off the beach?
Off the public beach?
- To keep them off our property.
- The truth is you don't really want anybody
Who can't buy into your neighborhood
Anywhere near your beach.
You don't want them spoiling that view
With their campers and their screaming babies,
And their $5 beach chairs.
- You're just trying to make me look like a terrible person.
- I'm describing what you are...
A thug defending his turf.
- Objection. - Withdrawn.
- Your honor, the state has failed to show
That gray campbell participated in any illegal activity.
They failed to show that he is a member of the m.B.C.
Failed to show how 186.22 might even possibly apply to him.
And why is that? Because it doesn't.
The prosecution's case is simply an insulting attempt
To stretch the boundaries of the statute
To ensnare an innocent man.
Thank you.
- Van ness gangsters, eight-trey crips,
Rolling 60s.
Street gangs are known by the territory they claim.
The territory they defend through force and intimidation.
It's no different for the moon bay crew.
No matter that the turf they defend
Is a crescent of water bordered by multimillion-dollar homes.
In our state the beach is the great leveler.
Everybody's the same.
Shorts, cooler, floppy hat.
No kings, no princes.
But mr. Campbell doesn't agree.
He believes the beach should belong to an elite.
He drilled that belief into his son.
He then materially supported his son
As his friends harassed those who would venture
Into their turf.
When the m.B.C. Turned to assault,
He helped cover it up.
When they turned to rape, he helped cover that up.
He is up to his elbows in their bloody activity.
Thank you.
- Never a dull moment with you, is there, mr. Morales?
All right, it is the view of this court
That the people have met the minimum standard
And shown there is sufficient evidence
To take this case to trial.
Mr. Campbell will remain free on bond.
We are adjourned.
- How can you ask me to turn on my own child?
- Because if you don't,
You'll be going to jail with him.
Or maybe I should just cut a deal with him against you
As a co-conspirator in the murder of trevor knight.
After all, you filled him with so much entitlement,
He stomped another man to death for riding a wave.
- Can he do this?
- You're already part of the gang, mr. Campbell.
It's a very short jump to murder-conspiracy.
- I came home.
There was smoke.
Carlton was in my study
Trying to burn some things in the fireplace.
There was all this money covered in blood.
I couldn't understand how this could've happened.
I just knew I had to fix it.
That's what fathers do.
We fix it.
- Are the people satisfied?
- We are, your honor.
- Pursuant to a plea agreement,
With respect to the charge of second degree murder,
I hereby sentence carlton campbell
And logan rudman to a term of 15 years to life
In the state penitentiary.
With respect to the amended charge
Of voluntary manslaughter,
I sentence patrick scott to six years
In the state penitentiary.
We are adjourned.
- Should've known there was a catch
When you offered to buy lunch.
- Oh, you don't like the beach?
- Gritty sandwiches, lousy parking, skin cancer?
Not really my thing.
- You don't know what you're missing.