Entertainment & Sports
Jun. 3, 2022
Stream It Tonight! Presumed Innocent (1990)
The film begins with a shot of an empty courtroom and Sabich’s voice-over solemnly explaining that if a jury “cannot find the truth, what is our hope of justice?”
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.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Why watch? The prosecutors and the judge take a big hit in this polished and wildly entertaining courtroom thriller, based on a classic novel by Scott Turow.
Rusty Sabich (played by Harrison Ford) is the chief deputy prosecuting attorney in Kindle County. He’d been having an affair with Carolyn Polhemus, a hard-charging and rather promiscuous prosecutor in his office. When Polhemus turns up dead, prosecutors Tommy Molto and Nico della Guar...
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