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Is there any statement you wish to make before sentence is passed?

3 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:32:37.581 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The jury will be taken to the jury room.

- Your honor, I request that the plea of the defendant in this case be changed from not guilty to guilty.

- Will the defendant rise? Do you understand the consequences of your attorney's request?

- Yes.

- The request is granted.

- The jury will not be recalled and a plea of guilty entered.

- I was on the jury.

- So was I.

- Is there any statement you wish to make before sentence is passed?

- Your honor, there's something I'd like to say in behalf of the defendant.

- When I took this case, I believed Nick Romano was innocent. I believed what he told me, and I believed what those men, Butch and Sunshine, told me.

- I believed because I wanted to believe.

- I wanted to believe that all the filth and fury and jumble of this boy's past had not produced a killer.

- But... Nick Romano is guilty.

[...]

Knock on Any Door (1949) Sound Clip

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

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