is defense ready for closing statements Mike Mr Ross yes your honored um ladies and gentlemen of the jury I think most of us you guys heard evidence earlier in the trial that I have a photographic memory and I do but the way it works I don't just take a snapshot of something see I read it and then I understand it and once I understand it then I never forget it but I've been trying to memorize my speech but I can't because it's because I said hi I am you see the truth is is that I am guilty of being a fraud my whole life value wanted to be a lawyer so that I could help people like Clifford Dan or people who have no one else to fight for them no one who believes in them but instead all I've done as a lawyer is working night and day to put money into the hands of rich people I was given a gift and I wasted it and I'm ashamed of myself and and as a final insult I paraded this morning woman out in front of you just as a way to get you to admire me thank you [Music] I'm so sorry Gloria and all I can say is that I promise you whether these people find me innocent or not I am going to spend the rest of my life fighting for the Clifford danners of this world [Music] I Will Not Waste that gift again you can believe it or not but I am a lawyer and I always will be [Music] thank you [Music] well it's an interesting thing really how criminals can play with our emotions Mike Ross is articulate and persuasive and passionate and listening to his closing argument I almost want to let him go myself except for one thing he's a liar he didn't commute to Harvard one day a week as he so laughably claims he didn't go to college there is no paper record of his enrollment no applications to law school no picture in the yearbook no class rankings no one at all who even remembers him except for that one indebted friend with a lot to lose and if you believe his testimony I got a bridge over Brooklyn I'd like to sell you and whether he says it or not he's banking on the fact that you are going to think this is a victimless crime but if you acquit him you're giving permission to everyone to say hey I'm going to pretend to be a lawyer I'm gonna say I'm a doctor help you know what today imagine one day you woke up the operating to discover the man who was about to crack open your chest is not really a doctor [Music] my grass this is better he thinks he doesn't have to play by the savings but we know he does these and Children of the children might rots [Music] is a fraud [Music] [Music]