The movie opens with Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) in his workshop getting ready for dinner with his wife and daughter. Clyde answers a knock at his front door, when he answers it two men, named Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) and Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart), knock him out, kill and rape his wife, and kill and possibly sexually assault his daughter. A year later comes the trial, where Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), Clyde’s attorney, is given the option to make a deal with Darby to put Ames on death row, in exchange for a drastically shorter sentence for Darby. Despite Clyde’s pleading for justice, Rice takes this deal, causing Clyde to form a hatred for the justice system. Fast forward ten years, Clyde is on an intricate and mind boggling killing spree, targeting …show more content…
Although he killed not one but two people prior to his confession, there was no evidence against it. The second he gave his confession on tape, he became an offender. In the textbook, it describes an ideal offender as “an outsider, stranger, foreigner, intruder lacking ‘essential human qualities’ that are beyond rehabilitation.” (Chapter 2, page 56). The description that most fits Clyde Shelton is the portion that says “beyond rehabilitation”. Clyde Shelton was always going to go through with his killing, despite whether Nick realized he needed to change or not. The way he spoke about the people he killed and the ideals that led to it, portrayed that he was too far gone. Despite Clyde Shelton being the ideal offender, he does not fit the full description. The book quotes, “...most offenders are normal people reacting to extreme circumstances in their lives, conditions that produce evil actions.” (Chapter 2, page 56) Prior to the home invasion of the Shelton household, it can be seen that Clyde was pretty much an upstanding citizen. His care for his daughter and humor with his wife showed that he wasn’t always an offender, far from it
Bill goes to trial for the death of Mary and they sentence him guilty. Mary’s mom cried after the verdict was announced. Ralph hears the news about Bill and he begins to break down and feels guilty, he keeps saying that he needs to see Jack. Ralph finally sees Jack and beats him up, which finally escalates till Mae to call the police. The drug raid was busted and all the people involved in the operation were arrested. Blanche tells the police what really happened, that Bill was framed by Ralph and it was all their faults. Bill got off of trail because there was new evidence that corroborated his innocence. Blanche then jumps out of the window right before she was going to either be prosecuted for accessory to murder or going to be used as a suspect against Ralph. Before she actually jumped she reminisced about how she affected and basically ruined Bill’s life since he cheated on her then got his girlfriend killed. Then Ralph is put through a mental institution because they believed he had to be crazy to act the way he did. Then the original guy at the beginning says his last few words about how marijuana could take over anyone’s
Lance Lowry began his 20 year career in Texas’s criminal justice as a cadet in 1994 in South Texas’s Police Academy. He worked as a police officer in Alice, TX, a town of about 20,000 starting in 1995. In 2000, Lance left police work to become a TDCJ Correctional Officer. From 2000-2003, Lance worked as Correctional Officer in Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas and then transferred to Holliday Unit, also in Huntsville. From the Holliday Unit, Lance worked at James H. Byrd Unit (Huntsville), which was formerly the diagnostic intake unit for DR inmates prior to being transferred to Polunsky. It was at Byrd Unit that Lance was promoted to Sergeant. He went to the Gib Lewis Unit in Woodville, Texas and he was promoted to Lieutenant. After one or two years in Woodville, Lance took a voluntary demotion to be able to return to Huntsville, where he continued his TDCJ career as sergeant. Today, Lance is a Sergeant in the Byrd Unit, in Huntsville, Texas.
The movie Runaway Jury starts with a shooting in a business office. The movie then continues to people receiving jury summons and people taking pictures of them. It goes on to show Rankin Fitch and the defense committing electronic surveillance during the jury selections. This movie shows how Fitch and the defense attempt to influence the jury to vote for the defense. The movie continuously shows a person by the name of “Marlee” who talks to Fitch and Rohr trying to persuade them to pay her in order for the jury to be “swayed” their way. “Marlee” is Nick Easter’s girlfriend. As the movie progresses, the viewer realizes that Nick was pretended to get avoid jury duty in order to secure a spot in the jury. The movie ends with the jury voting against the gun company and then Nick and “Marlee” blackmailing Fitch with a receipt for $15 million and they demand that he retire immediately. They inform him that the $15 million will benefit the shooting victims in the town of Gardner.
Not able to remember much about this particular part of the movie, I believe this introductory scene's purpose was to either enhance the realism of the setting by emphasizing the court building's efficient, business like manner or to provide a timeslot in which to roll the credits for producer, director, stars, etc. The settings aren't only built upon through the use of scenery and extras in the movie. Invisible and distant in the play, we see in the movie the judge, bailiff, those witnessing the trial and most importantly of all- the defendant. This is an important change because in the case, we are free to come up with our own unbiased conclusions as to the nature and identity of the defendant, whom we only know to be a 19 year boy from the slums. Seeing his haggard and worn face in the movie changes all of that, yet for better or worse, it engages the audience deeper into the trial as they surely will sympathize with him and can gain some insight into why, later, Juror 8 does so as well.
The next scene is in a courtoom where a lawyer is questioning a man. " I was upset. I was confused and drunk. I mostly wanted to scare them ", Andrew Dufresne tells the lawyer that was cross-examing him. " This was revenge", the lawyer shouts in his summation speech. The verdict is guilty and the sentence is two life sentences, back to back.
The movie did not really go into much of the activities before the pretrial. The action really happened with the court drama. There are several points that are in the movie that are more for show than for true effects. In the pretrial the Judge went a little
The night of September 13, 1986, Jonathan Nobles was consumed with a combination of drugs and alcohol when he broke into the house of Mitzi Johnson-Nalley and Kelly Farquar. Nobles brutally stabbed both Nalley and Farquar more than 20 times to death. He severely wounded Nalley’s date, Ron Ross, who barely survived with a lost eye and 19 stab wounds. During the time of the attack, Nobles was on parole for about 4 months. He was also employed by the Central Texas Crime Prevention Association of Round Rock. A week after he escaped the night of the murder scene, the police had enough physical evidence to put him in custody. That is when he confessed and showed all the evidence he had hidden. He said he did not remember everything that happened the night of the murders because of his impairment from drugs and alcohol. In 1987, Nobles was found guilty and placed on death row for the murder of Nalley and Farquer. Nobles was not rehabilitated. He knew right from wrong given that he was on parole for theft and employed at a crime prevention association, he showed no remorse when he plead insanity at his trial, and he used the media to convince the public that he changed.
Darry goes crazy over Johnny's death and decides to rob a convenience store. The cops chase him, Dallas fires a few shots at them with his gun.
This movie goes to show how such crucial facts and minuet evidence if not processed fully and clearly can change the outcome in such a big way. In this jury you have 12 men from all different walks of life, 12 different times, and 12 different personalities. Who have an obligation to come to one conclusion and that's whether or not the young man on trial is guilty of murdering his father or is innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. Under much frustration and lack of patience these 12 men began to get unruly and unfocused. Throughout this distraction key terms get misused, facts get turned around and more importantly emotions start to cross making it hard for these men to produce a verdict.
Bonnie Parker grew up with a normal childhood went to school every day was an above average student. She was born in Rowena Texas on October 10, 1910. Her father Charles Parker was a brick layer, but he died when bonnie was only four. After her father’s death the family moved in with her grandparents by Dallas Texas. She met Roy Thornton and soon after they got married, but Thornton got in trouble with the law and sentenced to five years in prison leaving bonnie on her own. She had a waitress job but was unhappy after Roy left. Until went to visit a friend in West Dallas where she then met Clyde Barrow. Clyde was born March 24, 1909 in Telico Texas. Clyde Barrow’s father was Henry Barrow who was a share cropper. He was one of eight children in the family. Clyde’s academics was anything but consistent. When his father quit farming the family moved to West Dallas which was were his dad opened a service shop. Clyde started high school but that was short lived he dropped out of school. Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas at a mutual friend’s house .Bonnie’s life prior to their crime spree was completely normal for a teenage high school student job at a café, showing no signs of becoming a notorious robber. Clyde on the other hand was the complete opposite. After dropping out of high school he went out with his brother selling stole...
“Runaway Jury,” directed by Gary Fleder and based on the novel by John Grisham, is a riveting legal thriller that delves into the machinations of jury manipulation. The film stars John Cusack as Nicholas Easter, a seemingly ordinary man summoned for jury duty in a high-stakes case against a powerful gun manufacturer. Gene Hackman plays Rankin Fitch, a ruthless jury consultant for the defense, while Dustin Hoffman portrays Wendell Rohr, the determined attorney for the plaintiff. The plot centers around the efforts of both sides to manipulate the jury in a landmark case where a widow is suing a major gun manufacturer for the death of her husband. The film explores themes of justice, corruption, and the lengths to which both sides will go to secure
The movie is about a man who is condemned to serve two life-terms, for a crime that he claimed to have not committed in connection with the killing of his wife and her lover after he had caught them in action. But the judge was quite satisfied with the arguments presented in the court and condemned an “innocent man”, Mr. Dufrense. But the convicted person pleaded for his innocence. The only reason for his condemnation was that the woman who was killed happened to be the condemned person’s wife and the other man was the secret lover of his wife. So, he was sentenced to serve two life sentences, in a maximum-security prison.
While on the train, a former inmate of Oscar’s recognizes him from when they were in prison together; their battles had continued to the present day, and the man started a fight with Oscar. As loyal friends, his friends jump in and there is chaos all throughout the
I've experienced this in this courtroom. I don’t have any animosity toward you” (19:41). While this statement was included in the movie, the film does not include victims’ testimonies in the traditional sense and only offers oblique glimpses of Bundy’s horrific crimes. Subsequently, the perspectives of devastated victims and their loved
While he is in jail he makes a deal to get a T-bone Steak for the location of the Clarence’s attorney And he gets his steak but not in enough time and then the Attorney runs out of oxygen and suffocates to death. While they are gone investigating Clyde retrieves the bone out of the steak and stabs his cellmate in the neck with said bone and gets transferred to solitary confinement. He then kills the judge through her phone, and sets off car bombs killing several more people. He then kills another lawyer using a modified EOD bot. He then attempts to kill the mayor of the town and he was outsmarted by Nick Rice because they found the bomb and planted it into his cell and when Clyde called the phone bomb he called it under his bed and the bomb exploded killing him and ending his reign of terror. Now my essay is about how they could have stopped his entire plan if they had not have given Clyde his Steak he would not have even began his reign of