Was Elizabeth Quinn, the murder victim, blackmailing the judges in the film with her knowledge of the old case? If not, how did she find out about the case, and how did the judges find out that she knew about it? I think I might've just answered my own question, but it's kind of murky in the film.
shareI don't think so. It's been a while since I've seen it, but if I remember correctly, she was just warning them, perhaps? Or giving them the opportunity to come clean on their own? I don't believe there was any suggestion that she was offering to keep it quiet. I think she came across some discrepancies during the transcribing of the case (or switching the files from hard copy to computerized, or something???), told the judge and the attorneys what she had discovered, and warned them that she was going to out them to correct the injustice. I think she was trying to do the right thing, not take advantage of the situation. Then again, I could be way off on any or all of this. Like I said, it's been a while.
shareI wssumee the envelope the judge gave her at the beginning was money butnit was probably the tape
shareYes, she wasn't blackmailing them, she was to advise them that the truth of that one trial they all took bribes on would be publicly exposed after his death. She was killed because she had that knowledge and the tape from her boss, who had killed himself.
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Killing yourself over a fixed trial seems a tad extreme. Half of the american judicial bureaucrats would be dead by now.
Loved the movie though, and I specially adore John Mahoney!
I assumed it was end-of-life guilt. I haven't seen it in a while (just turned it on for the first time in a long time) but don't they mention over radio early in the film that he had health problems? Was the suicide as a result of that or the crime he'd committed?
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