女检察官卡罗琳被人奸杀,她的同行拉斯蒂受命调查此案。拉斯蒂与死者曾是一对情人,他的妻子芭芭拉也知道他们曾有过暧昧关系,所以不时指责他对这个案子陷得太深。拉斯蒂在调查过程中发现卡罗琳手中有一份档案B失踪了,这份档案涉及对一位政府官员行贿的调查。不久拉斯蒂被指控是谋杀卡罗琳的...更多>
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Rusty Sabich:
[voiceover] I'm a prosecutor. I'm part of the business of accusing, judging and punishing. I explore the evidence of a crime and determine who is charged, who is brought to this room to be tried before his peers. I present my evidence to the jury and they deliberate upon it. They must determine what really happened. If they cannot, we will not know whether the accused deserves to be freed or should be punished. If they cannot find the truth, what is our hope of justice?
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Rusty Sabich:
[voiceover] The murder of Carolyn Polhemus remains unsolved. It is a practical impossibility to try two people for the same crime. Even if it wasn't, I couldn't take his mother from my son. I am a prosecutor. I have spent my life in the assignment of blame. With all deliberation and intent, I reached for Carolyn. I cannot pretend it was an accident. I reached for Carolyn, and set off that insane mix of rage and lunacy that led one human being to kill another. There was a crime. There was a victim. And there is *punishment*.