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[0:04] Tonight on Night Line, Undercover

[0:07] Mother. The extraordinary story of how

[0:09] one woman transformed her appearance,

[0:12] lived a double life, and entered a world

[0:14] she hardly knew. All to prove her son's

[0:17] innocence. Sex, lies, and audio tape.

[0:21] Months spent wearing a secret tape

[0:23] recorder.

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[0:41] with British Prime Minister Gordon

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[0:45] >> From the global resources of ABC News

[0:47] with Terry Moran, Martin Basher, and

[0:50] Cynthia McFaden in New York City. This

[0:53] is Night Line, March 3rd, 2009.

[0:58] Good evening. We begin tonight with a

[1:00] tale of devotion and deception. A story

[1:03] that if it wasn't true would rival

[1:05] anything that Hollywood might create. A

[1:08] 19-year-old college student is murdered.

[1:11] A young man is convicted and sentenced

[1:13] to life in prison. The killer's mother

[1:15] is distraught and yet utterly convinced

[1:18] that her son is innocent. But instead of

[1:20] allowing the appeals process to run its

[1:23] course, she takes matters into her own

[1:25] hands. She creates a secret identity and

[1:29] then befriends one of the jurors who

[1:31] sent her son to jail. And all the while,

[1:34] a tape recorder is rolling.

[1:40] >> Police investigating the death of the

[1:42] 19-year-old are asking the same

[1:43] questions his parents did when they came

[1:45] to this neighborhood yesterday.

[1:47] >> This is the story of an horrific crime.

[1:50] >> Fischer, an honor student, was shot

[1:52] inside a vehicle and then thrown

[1:54] outside. A college football star

[1:56] executed on the sidewalk.

[2:00] The prime suspect, a 20-year-old male

[2:03] who'd welcomed the victim to his home.

[2:05] He

[2:05] >> was lying face down. He was he was

[2:08] bloodied.

[2:09] >> And a mother who would do anything to

[2:11] prove her son's innocence.

[2:15] 19-year-old Mark Fischer, after a night

[2:18] trolling the bars of New York, ended up

[2:20] at a party in Brooklyn around midnight.

[2:22] It was the home of John Juker. Four

[2:25] hours later, Fischer was found dead with

[2:28] five bullets in his chest just two

[2:30] blocks from the house. On the strength

[2:33] of witness testimony, Juker was later

[2:35] found guilty of murder and sentenced to

[2:37] 25 years to life. There was no forensic

[2:41] evidence and from the beginning, his

[2:43] mother believed he was innocent.

[2:45] >> I'm I'm devastated. I'm heartbroken.

[2:48] John is innocent. John did not do this.

[2:52] After the trial, Dorene Giuliano says

[2:54] there were rumors that one juror, Jason

[2:57] Aloe, hadn't been honest with the judge,

[3:00] that he knew some of the defendants,

[3:02] something Aloe denies. So, Dorene set up

[3:05] an extraordinary and elaborate sting

[3:07] operation in order to befriend the

[3:09] juror. First, she would adapt her

[3:12] appearance. changed my hair color and I

[3:15] wore a lot of makeup and a push-up bra

[3:18] and just tight fitting clothes instead

[3:20] of uh my jeans and sweatshirt that I'm

[3:23] used to.

[3:24] >> Then she rented an apartment.

[3:26] >> Uh this is the apartment that I rented.

[3:28] Um I called it the Sting apartment.

[3:31] >> The plan worked. Dorene got chatting to

[3:33] Alo near a local subway station and he

[3:36] gave her his number. How did it feel

[3:38] when you had that phone number?

[3:39] >> Uh I was shaking in my boots. Her

[3:41] transformation was complete. Dorene

[3:44] Giuliano had become D. Quinn, as seen in

[3:47] this Vanity Fair photo shoot, and D

[3:50] invited Jason round for dinner.

[3:52] >> And uh between you and me, I'm not very

[3:55] good at cooking, so I bought it. And

[3:58] everything was staged.

[3:59] >> Dorian and Jason would have a series of

[4:01] gettogethers between September and

[4:03] December 2007, eating ready-made meals

[4:07] and drinking wine.

[4:08] >> Hello. Hello. I don't know if you can

[4:11] tell.

[4:12] >> And unknown to Jason, it was all on

[4:15] tape. Dorene recorded conversations

[4:18] ranging from the mundane

[4:20] >> and you want to blend.

[4:22] >> No.

[4:23] >> To the sweet.

[4:24] >> You trying to put your little to sleepy

[4:28] spider.

[4:30] >> You were prepared to do anything,

[4:32] weren't you? If it would get some

[4:34] information out of this young man.

[4:36] >> I was prepared to do anything within the

[4:38] law. Did you have a sexual relationship

[4:41] with him?

[4:42] >> I didn't have a sexual relationship with

[4:44] him.

[4:45] >> Would you have had sex with him on that

[4:47] basis if he'd wanted?

[4:48] >> If I had to, yes,

[4:52] >> absolutely.

[4:53] >> Were you prepared to do that?

[4:54] >> I was.

[4:55] >> And slowly she moved the conversation

[4:58] toward the trial. In October, they

[5:01] discussed how Jason might have avoided

[5:03] jury duty altogether.

[5:05] >> And you could have got excused. There's

[5:08] no number one excuses. It's a good

[5:09] excuse.

[5:10] >> Number one excuse. I'm prejudic.

[5:12] >> You want

[5:13] >> I hate Jews.

[5:15] >> That would have been perfect for you.

[5:16] >> Exactly. That's how most people get out.

[5:19] >> According to Dorine, it became apparent

[5:21] that Alo had no regard for her son, even

[5:24] believing he was Jewish.

[5:26] >> They tried to make him out to be like

[5:27] Tony Soprano, but he was a clown, too.

[5:31] He's a tall, skinny Jewish kid with

[5:34] glasses. He described my son as a tall,

[5:37] skinny Jewish kid with glasses

[5:40] and proceeded to tell me how he hated

[5:42] Jews.

[5:43] >> That doesn't prove though that

[5:47] your son's conviction was wrong.

[5:50] >> Yes, I agree. Mhm. Right. But if you

[5:55] come to a guilty verdict based on that,

[6:00] then is that a fair trial? Their

[6:04] meetings continued for a number of weeks

[6:06] and then in December, Jason Alo began to

[6:08] say things that she thought suggested he

[6:11] shouldn't have been on the jury at all.

[6:14] >> By law, I knew I even been in that jury.

[6:18] >> Say that you had food.

[6:21] >> I shouldn't even been in that jury

[6:23] because I not you're

[6:26] by law. You're not supposed to be. They

[6:29] ask you in the beginning when they when

[6:30] you go for judge duty if they read you a

[6:33] list of all the witnesses and everybody

[6:36] who's going to if you know or affiliated

[6:38] with these people in any way you have to

[6:39] let them know. Alo admits that he

[6:42] shouldn't have even been on that jury

[6:45] because

[6:47] they read a witness list to you. And on

[6:50] the witness list

[6:53] was some friends of Alos, mutual friends

[6:57] of Aloss and John Jukers. And he keeps

[7:01] quiet. He knew

[7:04] friends of John's and what they do and

[7:07] their lifestyle.

[7:09] their lifestyle

[7:13] was prejudicing him against John.

[7:16] >> And then on another occasion, Elo

[7:18] suggested he had some inside knowledge

[7:21] about those who were on trial.

[7:23] >> I told you this, but I never tell

[7:25] anybody else.

[7:29] I actually had some kind of information

[7:32] >> um about uh

[7:36] told you that they hang out over here

[7:38] sometimes,

[7:38] >> right?

[7:46] >> Okay.

[7:47] >> Well, it's not even a friend. It's my

[7:49] cousin. She wouldn't lie about something

[7:51] like that.

[7:52] >> So, what did she say? I rather say, but

[7:58] she overheard them talking like shortly

[8:01] after this happened.

[8:04] >> The group,

[8:05] >> right? The guys that hang out together.

[8:06] >> So, they were out of Oh, okay.

[8:08] >> The whole the whole group of guys,

[8:10] >> right?

[8:10] >> I mean, John and Russo.

[8:13] >> We wanted to ask Jason Alo if he'd

[8:15] failed to tell the judge that he knew

[8:17] some of the defendants and also whether

[8:19] he'd made alleged anti-semitic comments.

[8:22] When we come back, the juror and his

[8:24] lawyer answer those questions.

[8:26] >> Can you tell me, Jason? Can you recall

[8:28] ever saying such a thing

[8:30] >> to anybody ever?

[8:32] >> Can't say yes. I can't say no.

[8:35] >> Is it the sort of thing that you imagine

[8:37] you might have said in the past?

[8:38] >> What is What does that have to do with

[8:40] giving you a question?

[8:41] >> But it it doesn't make sense.

[8:42] >> It Well, it does cuz I'm coming to a

[8:44] point.

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[11:56] Back now to undercover mother Dorene

[11:59] Giuliano. She'd won the trust of one of

[12:01] the jurors who'd convicted her son of

[12:03] murder, all while wearing a secret tape

[12:06] recorder. She believes the recordings

[12:08] are enough to overturn her son's

[12:10] conviction. Now, the juror speaks out

[12:13] for the first time.

[12:16] Dorene Giuliano believes that Jason Alo

[12:19] should never have been on a jury that

[12:21] convicted her son of murder. So she

[12:23] created a false identity and secretly

[12:26] recorded conversations with Aloe where

[12:28] she says he made certain admissions that

[12:31] might have excused him from jury duty.

[12:34] >> No excuse. I'm prejudice.

[12:37] >> You want to

[12:38] >> I hate Jews.

[12:39] >> Jason Alo agreed to be interviewed but

[12:42] only in the presence of his lawyer.

[12:44] >> On one of the tape recordings

[12:46] you are heard to say in explaining why

[12:50] you shouldn't have been a juror. The

[12:52] number one excuse is I'm I'm gonna have

[12:54] to interrupt there. I' I've I've I've

[12:57] heard the tape recordings. He's never

[12:58] said that. Have you heard the tape

[13:00] recordings?

[13:00] >> I have heard the tape recordings.

[13:01] >> He's never said that.

[13:03] >> Can I just quote the tape to you, Jason?

[13:04] You say you say the number one excuse is

[13:06] I'm prejudiced. I hate Jews. Do you ever

[13:08] recall saying anything like, "I hate

[13:10] Jews."

[13:10] >> Not at all. Is that something he would

[13:12] never say?

[13:12] >> He would never say anything like that.

[13:14] >> Can you tell me, Jason, can you recall

[13:16] ever saying such a thing

[13:17] >> to anybody ever? Can't say yes. can't

[13:21] say no.

[13:22] >> Is it the sort of thing that you imagine

[13:24] you might have said in the past?

[13:25] >> What is What does that have to do with

[13:26] the

[13:27] >> I'm just asking him the question,

[13:28] >> but it it doesn't make sense.

[13:29] >> It Well, it does because I'm coming to a

[13:31] point.

[13:31] >> All right. Go ahead. Don't answer.

[13:33] There's no reason to answer.

[13:34] >> See, in one of the tape recordings, you

[13:37] say, uh, you hate Jews.

[13:40] >> That's that's that's your interpretation

[13:42] of the tape recordings.

[13:43] >> No, the words are, I hate Jews. That's

[13:46] what he says in the tape.

[13:47] >> Let me tell you something, uh, Martin.

[13:50] I've known Jason now for about three,

[13:52] four months and he hasn't shown an ounce

[13:55] of bias or prejudice against anyone.

[13:58] >> In another tape recording, Dorian

[14:00] Giuliano says Aloe appears to admit that

[14:03] he shouldn't have been on the jury at

[14:04] all.

[14:06] >> By law, if I knew that even been in that

[14:08] jury

[14:11] had food,

[14:13] >> I shouldn't even been in that jury. Can

[14:15] you ever remember saying in the presence

[14:18] of D as she described herself,

[14:22] I shouldn't have been in that jury. Can

[14:24] you ever remember saying that?

[14:26] >> He doesn't remember saying that, Mark.

[14:27] >> Do you, Jason? Ever?

[14:28] >> No, I don't.

[14:29] >> Can I ask you then, generally, um, did

[14:33] you know any of the boys in that group?

[14:36] >> Again, again, again, we're going to

[14:38] steer away from that question.

[14:40] >> Do you think that you committed perjury

[14:42] in the Voadia process? Absolutely not.

[14:45] >> Did you withhold information about

[14:47] things that you knew at the time of jury

[14:49] selection?

[14:50] >> No, I didn't.

[14:51] >> Were you lying to the judge when he

[14:53] asked you if you knew anything about

[14:55] >> this is ridiculous. This is the most

[14:56] ridiculous questions I've ever heard.

[14:58] These questions are nothing but tidbits.

[15:01] This is a bunch of malarkey. I could ask

[15:03] you a bunch of question. Did you ever

[15:05] rape a girl, Martin? Did you ever get a

[15:07] girl drunk to have sex with her? They

[15:09] sound really good coming out cut coming

[15:11] out. I can answer all of those questions

[15:13] very clearly and honestly.

[15:14] >> But that's but Martin but Martin, it

[15:16] sounds terrible coming out of my mouth

[15:18] when I'm answering asking you those

[15:20] questions. You understand what I'm

[15:21] trying to say here?

[15:22] >> Because I'm happy to answer.

[15:23] >> Believe me, I'm one of the best

[15:24] cross-examiners there are.

[15:25] >> Okay. I'm just asking this again, Jason,

[15:29] just for clarity and for us to

[15:31] understand the truth of the situation.

[15:34] During the voadia process, do you feel

[15:36] that you were completely honest about

[15:38] everything you knew?

[15:41] I do.

[15:42] >> Did you withhold any information at all

[15:44] about people you may have known in that

[15:46] group during that process?

[15:50] >> No.

[15:53] >> Okay. Should we waterboard him?

[15:55] >> Our interview lasted 45 minutes, but

[15:58] Jason Alo would barely answer a single

[16:00] question without his lawyer

[16:02] interrupting.

[16:03] >> So, just so I understand it, Jason, you

[16:06] don't remember what the forensic ev

[16:08] evidence was on the case. You're not

[16:10] prepared to talk about the jury

[16:11] deliberations and you're not prepared to

[16:13] comment on any of the recordings that

[16:17] Dorene has made.

[16:18] >> No, no, no. Is that correct? No, no,

[16:19] that's not correct. He doesn't recall.

[16:22] Okay. Maybe. Maybe.

[16:24] >> I'm asking him. Can you answer?

[16:25] >> No, no. I'm I'm going to answer it.

[16:27] >> Why can't Jason answer?

[16:28] >> Because he doesn't recall what happened

[16:30] three and a half years ago in a jury.

[16:32] >> Can he not say that?

[16:34] >> I guess that's why he hired me. Martin

[16:36] >> for Dorene Giuliano. All this drama and

[16:39] disguise was designed to get her son out

[16:42] of jail. But unless there's a retrial,

[16:45] he won't be eligible for parole for

[16:47] another 20 years.

[16:50] >> How do you feel when you reflect on the

[16:51] fact that your son is currently serving

[16:53] a 25ear sentence?

[16:56] >> How do I feel? I'm I'm devastated.

[17:00] John is innocent. John did not do this.

[17:04] And he's not going to go to jail for the

[17:06] rest of his life. Just give us a fair

[17:09] new trial. Fair is all I ask for.

[17:13] >> Dorian Giuliano submitted the tapes to

[17:15] the district attorney's office in the

[17:17] hope that her son might be granted a

[17:19] retrial, but the DA says that he doesn't

[17:22] believe the statements made in the

[17:23] recordings, even if true, would prove

[17:25] juror misconduct and says the motion

[17:28] should be denied. Both sides are now

[17:30] awaiting a judge's decision. And when we

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[21:31] Night Line continues from New York City

[21:33] with Martin Basher.

[21:36] Speaking earlier today about the

[21:37] relationship between the US and Great

[21:39] Britain, President Obama said, "It's not

[21:42] just important to me, it's also

[21:44] important to the American people." He

[21:46] was hosting British Prime Minister

[21:48] Gordon Brown, who's in Washington, to

[21:49] discuss the most important issue on both

[21:52] sides of the Atlantic, the economy. And

[21:54] my co-ener Terry Moran sat down with

[21:56] Gordon Brown for tonight's Night Line

[21:59] interview. Chemistry counts in

[22:01] international relations. So when

[22:03] reporters were called into the Oval

[22:04] Office today,

[22:05] >> where the where are the Brits?

[22:07] >> They're over there.

[22:09] >> They're everywhere,

[22:10] >> are they?

[22:11] >> There was curiosity about how these two

[22:13] leaders got along.

[22:15] >> Well, uh I will say that this is my

[22:18] third uh meeting with uh with Prime

[22:23] Minister Brown, and I'd like to think

[22:26] that our relationship is terrific.

[22:28] >> Americans got used to Tony Blair and

[22:30] George W. Bush chumming it up.

[22:32] >> We both use co Colgate toothpaste.

[22:37] >> The two shared an unlikely bond. Prime

[22:39] Minister Brown today suggested a way he

[22:41] and President Obama could spend some

[22:44] spare time.

[22:45] >> I don't think I could ever compete with

[22:46] you at basketball. Perhaps tennis

[22:48] tennis.

[22:49] >> Yeah, we could maybe have a shot. I I

[22:51] don't know for you. I think it'd be

[22:52] better. But there we are.

[22:54] >> Prime Minister. Later, we met Prime

[22:56] Minister Brown at the British Embassy

[22:58] and asked him about his relationship

[22:59] with President Obama.

[23:01] >> What do you and Barack Obama have in

[23:02] common?

[23:03] >> Well, we were talking today. I mean, we

[23:05] we're talking about our children. We

[23:07] were talking about his love of uh

[23:10] basketball, my love of tennis, and uh we

[23:13] both run quite a lot to try and try and

[23:15] keep fit.

[23:16] >> The way to get things done.

[23:17] >> But what really dominated this first

[23:19] meeting between the British prime

[23:20] minister and the American president was

[23:22] of course the economy. and it was clear

[23:24] they're on the same wavelength.

[23:26] >> I think President Obama's absolutely

[23:28] right and I think the history books will

[23:30] record that what he has done in his

[23:33] first uh well nearly 50 days of office

[23:36] has been momentous in setting the means

[23:39] by which we can see the economic

[23:40] recovery happening.

[23:42] >> But not many see the economic recovery

[23:44] happening now. On Capitol Hill today,

[23:46] Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernani

[23:48] said the turnaround may still be a long

[23:50] way off. We are in a situation though

[23:53] where we need to stabilize the financial

[23:55] system. If we don't stabilize the

[23:57] financial system, we have no hope of

[23:59] getting the economy back to normal

[24:00] state. Would you say that the world is

[24:03] facing a a depression?

[24:06] I think what we're going through is a a

[24:09] deep recession and I think that the

[24:11] issue before us is can we do more than

[24:15] we're doing at the moment uh to uh

[24:18] shorten uh both the depth of the

[24:20] recession and the length of the

[24:22] recession.

[24:23] >> Brown has sought to take a leading role

[24:25] in averting that catastrophe. He will

[24:27] host a grand summit in London of the

[24:29] leaders of the 20 biggest economies next

[24:31] month. And he's proposed what he calls a

[24:34] global new deal. Massive coordinated

[24:37] spending by world governments, a new

[24:39] world financial regulation system, and

[24:42] more.

[24:42] >> What it means is that every country

[24:45] should be contributing to bringing an

[24:47] end to this downturn. Uh that we've got

[24:49] to enlist all the energies of people in

[24:52] different parts of the world to deal

[24:53] with the problems that we all face. Is

[24:55] President Obama on board for a global

[24:58] new deal?

[24:59] >> I think President Obama and I agreed

[25:01] that uh first of all, we had to do more

[25:03] to persuade other countries that they

[25:05] should do uh some of the things that

[25:07] America and Britain and the rest of

[25:08] Europe have been doing. So, putting more

[25:11] resources into the economy to get

[25:12] economic activity, getting interest

[25:14] rates uh down so that uh again that

[25:17] helps speed up the recovery of growth. I

[25:20] think we're agreed also that uh banks

[25:22] around the world have got to face up to

[25:25] the new challenges.

[25:27] >> What if you can't achieve that level of

[25:31] international agreement and cooperation?

[25:33] Is there an economic catastrophe in the

[25:36] offing? If we don't,

[25:38] >> I believe that we've taken uh a large

[25:41] number of the measures that are

[25:42] necessary to get us out of this. Brown

[25:45] was Britain's top government official on

[25:47] the economy for a decade and many

[25:49] Britons say he deserves some blame for

[25:51] the crisis.

[25:53] >> Do you ever look in the mirror and say,

[25:56] "I should have seen it coming. I could

[25:58] have done better."

[25:59] >> I think I think if you look at the the

[26:01] challenges that we all faced for over

[26:03] the last 10 years, what people were

[26:06] worried about was inflation getting out

[26:07] of control. And so people wanted to keep

[26:09] interest rates uh down. They wanted to

[26:12] take action to make sure that we had a

[26:14] low inflation economy. We didn't have

[26:16] the scale of supervision that is

[26:18] necessary to make sure that markets and

[26:22] and banks in particular in this case are

[26:24] working in the public interest.

[26:25] >> And the question that you've been asked

[26:27] is was any of that your responsibility?

[26:29] >> Well, of course I take responsibility

[26:31] for for what happens in the in the

[26:33] economy.

[26:34] >> But that's looking backwards. Looking

[26:36] forward, Gordon Brown is calling on

[26:38] world leaders, including President

[26:40] Obama, to do something that's hard even

[26:42] in the best of times. Cooperate.

[26:45] >> In every country of the world, uh,

[26:47] parents and families and workers have

[26:50] similar fears uh to to to to fears in

[26:53] our own countries. And we've got to show

[26:55] that by working together, we can make

[26:57] the difference.

[26:58] >> A special partnership for special times.

[27:00] Our thanks to Terry Moran. And when we

[27:03] come back, should President Obama be

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[31:50] >> Why investigators think there may be

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[31:57] >> Former Portland Trailblazer Chris Dudley

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[32:26] >> Nightly news is straight ahead tonight.

[32:27] If there is a workable model for healthc

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