It was certainly a cheap plot point to resolve the court case story-line. In reality, the prosecutor (Linney) would be canned and her boss (John Locke) would be forced to retry the case with a new prosecutor. The only way in reality this would have gone the way it did in the movie is if Richard Gere's character obtained more scandalous videos involving the D.A., mayor and more members of the Chicago archdiocese.
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Rolltide (964)
4 years ago
The judge's main concern was that Vail was trying to convince the jury to think that Aaron was insane and not responsible for his actions despite never pleading that. So then she gives him what he wants? How corrupt!
Of course multiple personalities is no real defense. Even if you have 14 personalities that are gentle if one is violent and kills people then you have no business living in a civilized society. A person is on trial for murder not a personality within that person.
Look at Richard Kuklinski who was a middle class family man to most people who encountered him but he killed dozens of people in some of the most brutal and terrible ways. Or BTK killer who was a nice family man and loved in his Lutheran church.
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Rolltide (964)
4 years ago
Let's remember that Vail had no defense. He had nothing! My client passed out and the real killer got away and in the meantime my client was full of the victim's blood. That is nothing!
Discovering that the Archbishop was corrupt and liked making sex videos did nothing to prove that his client was innocent it actually proved motive. The Shaughnessy testimony was appropriately stricken.
He had nothing!
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