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A well-planned murder with a defensible lawyer turns out to be innocent
Maybell 2022-12-10 06:23:13
The film truly restores the process of court proceedings. The lawyer himself defends a child who has enough evidence to be found to have killed his father; the beginning of the film is also the beginning of the defense, and the defense and the prosecution each develop their own evidence plots. The first half is relatively boring, mainly the testimony of the witnesses. The small climax, that is, the turning point, came after Mike appeared in court; Mike personally stated in court that he had been raped by his father; this situation would instantly determine that Mike was sentenced. The judge who executed the death sentence was also surprised, and the final verdict was that Michael was acquitted. In the end, after thinking that his mother killed his father, Mike wanted to take the blame for his mother, and injured his own handprint on the knife inserted in his father's chest. And when the police officers interrogated later, they found the lawyer's watch in the gap of their carpet! Be patient and watch it, it will be a movie that keeps surprising people.
Extended Reading
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Ramsey: At some point, every defense lawyer has to choose between his own need to know the truth and the best interests of his client.
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[first lines]
Ramsey: [narrating] When the court officer smiled at me on the morning of trial, I knew I was fucked. They weren't taking bets on this one. Mike had killed his father, Boone Lassiter - left his handprint on the knife - confessed.
Ramsey: Half my cases had evidence this bad. I just pled them out, got manslaughter and moved on. But this was Mike, and I'd known him all his life. He was going to college and probably law school, and I doubted his mother could survive him going to the penitentiary.
Ramsey: But I knew Boone, I had that. And I knew enough about the Lassiter household to know that Mike had a defense - if he would just talk to me.