He's guilty of having lived in the slums, of having had the wrong companions: the pickpockets and hoodlums, panhandlers and prostitutes of the worst district that ever disgraced a modern city.
12 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:33:49.867 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- I believed because I wanted to believe.
- But... Nick Romano is guilty.
- He's guilty of the pool rooms and bars that were open to him as a boy.
- He's guilty of the foul treatment of a primitive reform school.
- Keep the boy and civilize the boyhood.
- This boy could've been exulted instead of degraded, student instead of savage.
[...]