Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps. Patty, 21, is on trial for her part in the S.L.A.'s April 1974 robbery of $10,600 from a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. In his effort to convict her of armed bank robbery?which carries a sentence of up to 25 years?Prosecutor James Browning, 42, plans to prove that she was there willingly. In response, Bailey will try to convince Patty's mostly middle-class jury of five men and seven women, only five with children of their own, that she took part in the holdup only because she had in effect been brainwashed...
...Prosecutor Browning rose to make his opening statement...
...Zonker Harris, a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture who carries on Socratic dialogues with his philodendron, gets busted for possession, discovers that the prosecutor has bugged his room, and tells the hidden microphone: "I hate grass. I just get high on life! And America...
Berger, an expert in the history of constitutional law, rose to national prominence in 1973, when Congress and the special prosecutor's office consulted him to determine whether former President Richard M. Nixon's claims of "executive privilege" in withholding evidence were unconstitutional...
...unwisely strayed from his style. His specialty is the fast-paced, linear form, where events are linked together in some exciting sequence and the movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic on the floor of the Palace of Justice in Vichy is shown over and over again--to the point where the audience's intelligence...