Outrage (1973 TV Movie)

Byron Mabe: Vance Chandler's Attorney

Quotes 

• Judge William Vernon : [annoyed that both Werner and Chandler's parents are not present at the hearing]  It was specifically urged that the parents of these boys be present for this hearing.

  [to Werner's attorney] 

  Judge William Vernon : Did you gentlemen make that quite clear to the parents concerned, Mr. Farady?

  Ron Werner's Attorney : [stands up]  Mr. and Mrs. Werner are presently vacationing in the Caribbean, your honor. However, I was able to contact them by telephone and they both express their faith in their son's innocence and their confidence in my ability to convey that innocence to the court.

  Judge William Vernon : I see. And why are neither of the Chandler boy's parents here?

  Vance Chandler's Attorney : [stands up]  Your honor, Vance's father is a builder. He was compelled to be present at a construction site in the Palm Desert area, today.

  Judge William Vernon : What about the mother?

  Vance Chandler's Attorney : Mrs. Chandler wasn't feeling well and it was my judgement, your honor, that her presence here, today, could serve no useful purpose.

  Judge William Vernon : She must have feeling very poorly, indeed, to have wished herself absent from a hearing so vitally important for her son.

  Vance Chandler's Attorney : Yes, sir.

  [sits down] 

  Judge William Vernon : You begin to see, I think, gentlemen, the root of the problem that we're dealing with here. Parents absolve themselves from all responsibility for their sons by giving them material things instead of guidance! Now, I am going to postpone this hearing until September the 15th at 8:30 AM, in this department, and I want one parent for each of these boys present. Now, is that understood? And if they don't come here voluntarily, by heaven, I'll subpoena them!