Barta Heiner credited as playing...
D.A. Pearlman
- D.A. Pearlman: You're not in a position to withdraw the charges.
- Cynthia Marten: But we're her parents.
- D.A. Pearlman: She assaulted you with a weapon.
- Cynthia Marten: She had a knife, but she wasn't going to use it.
- D.A. Pearlman: I'm talking about the telephone. The knife enters into it, but...
- Todd Marten: Look, we know she has problems. And we're going to get her whatever help she needs.
- Cynthia Marten: We think she's on drugs, maybe cocaine.
- D.A. Pearlman: There were no drugs found in her system. But whether there were or not, what I see here is a pattern of physical abuse. That's a crime.
- Cynthia Marten: Physical abuse? That's ridiculous. We--We're her parents.
- D.A. Pearlman: We're seeing more of this every day.
- Todd Marten: Can't believe this.
- D.A. Pearlman: We used to see it primarily in immigrant families, where the parents don't know the language and the children have all the power.
- Cynthia Marten: That's not us.
- D.A. Pearlman: I'm just saying that this seems to happen when those roles get reversed. When the children become the survival figures for their parents.
- Cynthia Marten: We're good parents. We have a good family. And we want Deena to come home.
- D.A. Pearlman: And I'm asking you to help me hold her accountable for what she did. I know that's hard. This is the only place in our entire justice system where the victim is asked to help prosecute someone they want to defend.