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Graham was convicted largely on the strength of one eyewitness's testimony. That witness holds fiercely to her story: She saw Graham at the murder scene. Two other eyewitnesses, who emerged after the trial, apparently took a look at a lineup that included Graham and told police, "He's not in there." Many defense lawyers maintain that a single eyewitness's testimony should not be enough to convict on a capital charge: Several lawyers called on to pontificate over Graham's fate brought up the recent case of a rape victim who positively identified her attacker and was absolutely sure...
Martin Lawrence plays an undercover FBI agent who is sent to Georgia to protect a mother and her son from an escaped convict. In order to do this, he must take on the identity (and the heavyset physique) of an old grandmother. For his scenes as Big Momma, Lawrence dons a prosthetic "fat suit" (a l Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor and Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). The result is a frighteningly realistic, bad-mouthing Southern granny with an attitude. Prior to filming, Lawrence made headlines when he collapsed from a heat stroke...
...percent of those arrested. But they also represent 46 percent of all juveniles referred to adult criminal courts, 40 percent of those sent to juvenile prisons and 58 percent of those incarcerated in adult prisons. These racial disparities are introduced during the decisions to arrest, to file charges, to convict and to sentence. Furthermore, because judges, rather than juries, often make the determination of guilt, the statistics show that the discrimination--intentional or not--is located within the justice system...
Sometimes Norton is the soft guy: a lawyer helping a porn king (Larry Flynt), a fellow whose girlfriend falls for a convict (Everyone Says I Love You), a despondent drone surrendering to the spell of a pummeling anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...
...Much in the same vein as "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," a Finnish television dating game unwittingly paired a female contestant with an ex-convict bank robber. She has been in fear of her life...