00:00Perjury?
00:03That is an outrageous accusation.
00:05It's an accurate one.
00:06Your client under oath said that she never
00:08tested for a blood clotting disorder.
00:09But she did order that test and deliberately
00:12concealed that fact.
00:14Now, your lawyer will tell you that perjury one
00:16is a class D felony.
00:17That's punishable by up to seven years in state prison.
00:20You can't be serious.
00:21I'm dead serious, doctor.
00:22And you would send me to jail for this, a mistake?
00:24A mistake?
00:25This is not a mistake.
00:28You hid that test from the mother.
00:31You hid it from ACS.
00:33And you hid it from the initial grand jury.
00:35And then you lied about it.
00:38Why?
00:39Because that baby was in imminent danger
00:41from a mother who was incapable of providing him
00:43with a stable, secure environment.
00:46The baby had a genetic disorder.
00:48That's what caused his injuries.
00:50Oh, you know that for a fact.
00:53No, you don't.
00:54Like you, I can only look at the evidence before me.
00:58And if there's reasonable doubt.
01:00Reasonable doubt means nothing to a dead child, Captain.
01:03I'm on the front lines.
01:04I am sometimes the only chance a child has at survival.
01:08Better safe than sorry, right?
01:09Better alive than dead.
01:11Then why hide it, doctor?
01:13Why change the medical records?
01:14Why lie to the grand jury?
01:15Because they didn't have the capacity to understand
01:18the complexities of what I'm trying to do.
01:19No, no, no.
01:20You hid it because you knew that you were wrong.
01:24And here we are.
01:29What do you want?
01:31I'm not interested in seeing your client go to prison.
01:35But the way I see it, you got two options here.
01:37Now you can go forward with this perjury trial.
01:40You'll get convicted.
01:42You're probably going to do two to four years.
01:44Your medical license that gets terminated along the way.
01:49Or you give up your medical license now.
01:54No conviction.
01:56No felony record.
01:58And more than likely, you'll never have to hear our names again.
02:00I need to confer privately with Dr. Allen.
02:06He's got an hour.
02:13Does this make children safer?
02:15Does this help anyone but the abusers I've put in prison?
02:21I don't know, Dr. Allen.
02:23I really don't.
02:25But what I do know is that a couple of kids
02:29have a chance to go home to their parents now,
02:32parents that love them.
02:35And for that, my conscience is clear.
02:40How about yours?
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