legal drama

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legal drama

Inherit the wind

A play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925. Called the trial of the century, the main focus is on the two lawyers, Bryan and Darrow.
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--And justice for all

Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic, young lawyer, rebels against the corrupt judicial system when he is forced to defend a detestable judge accused of rape.

The rainmaker

Rookie lawyer Rudy Baylor gets in over his head on his first case when he agrees to take on a large insurance company for non-payment of claims, with only his partner Deck Shifflet--a man who has failed the bar exam six times--for help.

Twelve angry men

a play in three acts
1983
Presents the television drama, "Twelve Angry Men," which focuses on a murder trial and twelve male jurors who must decide the fate of a nineteen-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his father to death.

Twelve angry men

2006
A play in which a juror in a murder trial holds out on a guilty verdict and tries to get the other jurors to look at the situation without being swayed by their personal prejudices or biases.
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