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To me, one of the outstanding values of our laboratory is not its power to convict the guilty, but to free the innocent.

10 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:38:34 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- He's been technical director of several movies dealing with crime and has worked on some eight thousand cases, hundreds of them, murders.

- As a 20th century Sherlock Holmes, tell us just how do you do it?

- Well, we have to deal in chemistry, ballistics, physics, toxicology, and handwriting.

- No one man can be outstanding in all fields.

- For the laboratory, combining experts in each field can come pretty close to solving any crime.

- To me, one of the outstanding values of our laboratory is not its power to convict the guilty, but to free the innocent.

- Hundreds of times evidence that might have otherwise convicted a perfectly innocent man, when examined in our laboratory, has freed him of every suspicion.

- I know that you are perhaps the nation's greatest expert in solving crime with the evidence of human hair. While you you might have some difficulties with me...

- What can you learn from those whose tresses are a bit more abundant?

- You'll do fine as long as you have a single hair left on your head.

- From that single hair we can usually learn a man's approximate age, his environment, the places he visited recently, his type of employment, his personal habits and frequently, his race.

[...]

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Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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