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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “ *think of having her arrested for attempted murder?! Judge, the judge was beyond the generation gap, way beyond. He was alive during the f that war? He's a Geritol freak. We sent him, Julius Geritol Hoffman, we sent him so much fuckin Geritol that Ted Mack came down and tried to audition him. They wanted him to play a judge. Julius, Julius was a typical kind of judge. (Indistinct) the last button had Julius’ face on it, it said you seen one judge you seen them all. Julius sat there like some reptilian creature guarding his little section of the ooze against these invaders. He had not, by the time we got there he had had twenty-four straight jury triale sesverv single oan =k & Gt OF = FT wee =A oh - F ae on ® ‘) Fe] ea rt Fr Hil¢y vand = a oh =F Sih Wh ad miccand ste a OF oF We el ? one about five years ago and got so pissed he sent one of the jurors to jail for two years for reading a clipping about the trial and said ‘If I didn't have the jury I would have got him eure as hell.’ That's the judge. It‘ts like he's running a candy store, you know. If you come walking in the door, you know, if you're a defendant, well you gotta buy something--you gotta have some time. Because if you're not guilty, what the fucker you doing there? That's the premise that the judge starts from. He selected the jury in a record two hours an 1 He did not allow our lawyers to ask them a single question, uh, of the jurors. He didn't ask them anything like were you on the 17