The Pelican Brief Essays -- essays research papers

The pic I had to review for criminal law and procedure is thePelican Brief. At first I was unhappy to give out this movie because Ihave never heard of it before. After watching it I was glad to get amovie that was interesting to me.The plot of the movie is as follows In the opening scene of themovie they show Denzel Washington who is a reporter visitd GrayGrantham interviewing a Supreme Court Justice named Rosenberg. therefore a scene later they show Darby Shaw, who is Louisiana, in a lawclass. The next thing that happens is a person whos name was notgiven goes to a hotel and was given an envelope with a picture of allthe Supreme Court Justices in it and just two of them circled.About Two minutes later both of them were murdered. One ofthem in his house and the other one in a adult cinema. Then theyshow Darby in the house of her law professor whose name wasThomas Calahan. Who happened to be a clerk for JusticeRosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affairwi th that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. Theyshow the chairperson talking with his advisor and they are saying if theFBI can not solve who killed the Justices then maybe they should getsomeone else. After a while they go back to Gray who is on the tele reverberate, withan unknown person at the time, and is talking about the murders andthe person on the telephone is saying that he knows who killed theJustices. He traces the phone call to a pay phone and then goesthere and...