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OSVALDO CRUZ is slim, well built. He has a tattoo of a devil’s head on his left forearm and a tattoo of a dagger on the back of his right hand between the thumb and forefinger. FREDDY ALOU, 16 and tough, sits fiddling with a beeper he is trying to repair. STEVE is sitting with them.
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    FREDDY (to STEVE)
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    What school you go to?
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    OSVALDO
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    He goes to that faggot school downtown. All they learn there is how to be a faggot.
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    FREDDY
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    You let him dis you like that, man?
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    OSVALDO
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    He don’t have no choice. He mess with me and the Diablos will burn him up. Ain’t that right, faggot?
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    STEVE
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    I can kick your narrow butt any day in the week.
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    OSVALDO
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    Well, here it is, so why don’t you come and kick it?
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    FREDDY
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    You better chill; he hangs with some bad dudes.
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    OSVALDO
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    He don’t hang with nobody. He’s just a lame looking for a name. Ain’t that right, Steve? Ain’t that right?
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    STEVE
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    Why don’t you shut up?
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    OSVALDO
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    You ain’t got the heart to be nothing but a lame. Everybody knows that. You might be hanging out with some people, but when the deal goes down, you won’t be around.
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    STEVE
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    Yeah, and you will be, huh?
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    CUT TO: INTERIOR: COURTROOM. OSVALDO is on the stand.
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    OSVALDO (softly, timidly)
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    So Bobo said to me if I didn’t help him, he’d cut me up.
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    CUT TO: STEVE writing on pad.
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    CU: OSVALDO.
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    OSVALDO
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    He said he would cut me up and get my moms, too. I was, like, really scared of him.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Have you ever seen Bobo hurt anyone?
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    OSVALDO
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    I heard he messed up a dude in the projects.
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    BRIGGS
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    Objection.
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    JUDGE
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    Sustained.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Do you know as a matter of fact if Bobo has hurt anyone in the hood?
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    BRIGGS
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    Objection! Unless the prosecutor is going to pass out glossaries to the jury, I want her to use standard English.
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    JUDGE
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    Overruled.
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    OSVALDO
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    He told me he did some time for cutting a guy in the projects.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Do you know how old Bobo is?
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    OSVALDO
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    Twenty-two.
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    PETROCELLI
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    And how old are you, Osvaldo?
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    BRIGGS
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    Objection! Why are we suddenly on a first-name basis?
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    PETROCELLI
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    And how old are you, Mr. Cruz?
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    OSVALDO
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    Fourteen.
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    PETROCELLI
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    You live on 144th Street; is that correct?
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    OSVALDO
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    Yeah, across from the school.
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    PETROCELLI
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    I’m going to give you a series of names, and you will tell me if you know any of them. James King?
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    OSVALDO
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    Yeah, that’s him at that table in the blue suit.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Let the record indicate that Mr. Cruz has identified Mr. King. Steve Harmon?
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    OSVALDO
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    He’s the Black guy sitting at the other table.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Let the record show that Mr. Cruz has identified Steve Harmon. (Turning back to Osvaldo) All right. Did Mr. Evans, or Bobo, make a proposition to you?
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    BRIGGS
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    Leading!
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    PETROCELLI
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    Your honor, Mr. Cruz is a juvenile!
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    BRIGGS
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    He’s hostile? He’s a juvenile. Do you mean to say he’s hostile?
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    PETROCELLI
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    No, but you are.
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    JUDGE
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    That’s not necessary, Miss Petrocelli. You haven’t established Mr. Cruz as a hostile witness.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Mr. Cruz, how real did you think Mr. Evans’s—Bobo’s—threat was?
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    OSVALDO
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    I thought it was the real deal. You know, like I thought he would mess me up.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Were you afraid of Mr. King?
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    BRIGGS
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    Objection! If she wants to testify instead of the witness, fine. Swear her in, but she can’t lead the witness like that.
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    JUDGE
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    Sustained.
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    PETROCELLI
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    Did you participate in