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Jan. 21, 2022
Stream It Tonight! 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt'
Why? A plan to use an innocent man’s conviction to demonstrate the unfairness of death sentences based on circumstantial evidence goes horribly wrong in this great film noir.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why? A plan to use an innocent man's conviction to demonstrate the unfairness of death sentences based on circumstantial evidence goes horribly wrong in this great film noir.
Wealthy newspaper publisher Austin Spencer convinces his daughter Susan's fiancé Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) to implicate Garrett in the unsolved murder of Patty Gray. Spencer and Garrett keep careful records as they plant circumstantial evidenc...
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