First, my take on the twist. I did not see it coming, but it made a bad film even worse. The story was OK, but the film wasn't made very well, IMO.
Just because there is a twist, it doesn;t make it good.
Anyway, my question is this, the DA (Michael Douglass) knows that men he has framed and put away, are going to get the death penalty. Will he be accused of Murder?
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In real life it would depend on the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.
I would assume that if any of the people sentenced were sentenced to death, that they would charge the DA with attempted murder, or at least as an accessory, because the DA knew the man he framed was probably innocent and could have died by his action of framing him.
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Once again, as you said, I think it would depend on the details of each case, details we know nothing of, but it does seem that the DA truly believes the people he is putting away are guilty, and he is only creating the false evidence because he believes it's the only way he will win the case, not to frame an innocent person.
shareGood point. I don't think his actions were to intentionally frame an innocent person, but by inventing evidence he definitely increased the risk of convicting an innocent person. But although his intentions may have been to put only guilty people away, if his actions resulted in the death of someone he could (and should imo) still be charged with murder (or at least manslaughter) because he fabricated evidence that lead to a murder convicton and thus the convicted person's death. This is especially true if the fabricated evidence was the only significant evidence of the cae and that the entire case rested on it.