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Randall "Randy" Borland is a racist who murders a Chinese American high school student at the behest of his mother Marian, because the boy won a school prize that his younger brother wanted.

Background[]

Randy is the oldest of Ron and Marian Borland's two sons and works with his father in the family's fishmonger business. He is less intelligent than his younger brother Carl, a math prodigy bound for MIT, but he is smart enough to know that he is not his parents' favorite child. Like his mother, Randy is a racist who especially dislikes Asian-Americans, considering them "not real Americans". He and Marian are both therefore angered when Carl's Chinese American friend and classmate Tim Chong wins a prestigious academic scholarship that Carl had wanted, and they both make several harassing, racial slur-laden phone calls to the Chong family. Finally, Marian entreats Randy to kill Tim so Carl, as the next best student in his class, will get the scholarship; Randy, desperate to please his mother for once, agrees. He and Marian wait outside Tim and Carl's school until Tim walks out, and then Randy opens fire with his father's gun, killing him. They then flee the scene before the police arrive.

Intolerance[]

NYPD Homicide Detectives Phil Cerreta and Mike Logan investigate Tim's murder, and soon find out about the harassing phone calls that Randy and Marian made to the Chongs. The detectives also find out that Randy and Marion lied about their alibis, which gives them probable cause to search the Borland family's house. They find a gun that matches the weapon used to kill Tim with Ron's fingerprints on it and arrest him, but forensic tests eventually prove that Ron planted his fingerprints on the gun in a misguided attempt to protect his wife and son, so they ultimately arrest Randy and Marian.

The trial judge rules that the weapon is inadmissible because the search warrant was improperly obtained, so Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Paul Robinette offer Randy and Marian a plea bargain in which they would plead guilty to manslaughter, which carries a less severe prison sentence than murder. Randy wants to take the deal, but Marian refuses. When Tim's girlfriend, Katie Silver, testifies that she saw Randy and Marian kill Tim, the jury finds them both guilty of murder. Soon afterward, however, Cerreta and Logan uncover evidence proving that Katie was facing away from the gunfire at the time of Tim's murder, and thus could not have seen who fired the shots. The judge dismisses her testimony, which overturns Randy and Marian's guilty verdicts, and they are set free without spending a day in prison. (L&O: "Intolerance")

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