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When Mr. Eppolito's lawyer, Bruce Cutler, rose, he launched into an apocalyptic aria, singing in his Brooklyn basso of the spiritual and moral cancer that had descended on the country and replaced men of honor in the mob with reprobates and louts, meaning, of course, the government's witnesses, a species of humanity that Edward Hayes, Mr. Caracappa's lawyer, derided in his own opening statements. Mr. Cutler, who has a penchant for rhythmic repetition, described the witnesses as men who kill, kill, steal, make money, beat up, steal, kill, kill, make money, and the like. He had two essential points, one of them is that the jury could not trust witnesses like Mr. Kaplan, who when the jail door closes, wet their pants and call for mommy i.e. the government.