Just Cause (1995)

The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It seems that the educated, upstanding Earl has been railroaded by an overeager sheriff (Laurence Fishburne) zealously trying to solve the kidnapping and murder of a little girl. Once Armstrong arrives in Florida, he is able to locate the murder weapon and cast doubt on Earl's innocence, even identifying a much more likely c...
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ulprit in the homicidal genius Blair Sullivan (Ed Harris). All is not as it seems in the case of Bobby Earl, however, and Armstrong is going to end up regretting his interest in the case. Ruby Dee, Kate Capshaw, and Ned Beatty costar in this film from producer-turned-director Arne Glimcher.
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Een staatsgevangenis in Florida: Bobby Earl Ferguson, een zwarte student, wacht op de doodstraf voor een misdaad waarvoor hij onschuldig pleit: de verkrachting en moord van een schoolmeisje. Hij roept de hulp in van Paul Armstrong, een bekend jurist en journalist. Overtuigd als hij is, weet Armstrong het dossier te heropenen, en krijgt zelfs de vrijlating van de jonge zwarte voor elkaar. Een serie gruwelijke moordpartijen terroriseren echteral gauw de hele streek.

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A Harvard law professor takes up the case of a southern black man on death row for murdering a white woman, a crime he may not have committed. Discovering the truth proves difficult, as a Bible-spouting inmate and the brutal police officer who convicted the condemned man lead the professor down blind alleys and into treacherous waters.

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