A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he disappoints his son for the last time. Yes, this is a legal movie. It is....seriously. Okay so there's some laughs along the way. Just deal with it. The trial scene DOES get pretty deep and emotional so take that! 13. Presumed Innocent (1990) Error: please try again.
A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics. 8. Bad Lieutenant (1992) Error: please try again.
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
Frank Clifford Carson June 29, 1954 - August 11, 2020 Stanislaus County has lost a great crusader for justice and speaking the truth. Frank spent his whole life fighting injustices, and saving innocen
The family of a Long Island woman found strangled to death at a Club Med on Turks and Caicos in 2018 has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit, the I-Team has exclusively learned.
Modesto defense attorney Frank Carson, acquitted of an alleged murder-for-hire plot in the 2012 death of Turlock resident Korey Kauffman, filed a federal lawsuit against several law enforcement officials, claiming they lied to procure an arrest warrant, withheld evidence of his innocence and forced confessions in order to frame him for murder and destroy his reputation.
A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder. Criminal defense attorney Frank Carson walks toward the Modesto courthouse on June 5, 2019. The controversial lawyer had been on trial — one of the longest in California history — for the murder of a scrap metal thief and meth addict.
There, a brutally protracted murder trial was unfolding, one of the longest in California history. There, for 17 months, Carson had taken his seat at the defense table — not as the attorney but as the accused.
Carson relished impossible cases, and the combat of trial, and he began to develop a profound distrust of police. It made sense to him why defendants lied, he would say, but to find a cop prevaricating felt like a personal betrayal.
Carson portrayed the case against him and his codefendants as a monstrous fiction based on lies, coerced testimony and a tunnel-vision obsession with winning, confirming what he had been saying all along about the men and women sworn to guard justice in Stanislaus County.
Carson announced he would use the trial to expose the rancid underbelly of local politics. He argued that his client was the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy of local potentates. He railed against the judge, who slapped him with five contempt-of-court citations.
In better days, he swaggered, the flamboyant terror of cops and prosecutors and judges. Now it hurt Carson just to get up the steps, and his Vicodin had not kicked in. It was a Monday morning in June 2019.
When people talked about the trials that made Carson’s reputation — his ability to elevate the emotional temperature, his jugular instinct, his success — they invoked his defense of the former Modesto mayor, Carmen Sabatino.
A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder. Criminal defense attorney Frank Carson walks toward the Modesto courthouse on June 5, 2019. The controversial lawyer had been on trial — one of the longest in California history — for the murder of a scrap metal thief and meth addict.
There, a brutally protracted murder trial was unfolding, one of the longest in California history. There, for 17 months, Carson had taken his seat at the defense table — not as the attorney but as the accused.
Carson relished impossible cases, and the combat of trial, and he began to develop a profound distrust of police. It made sense to him why defendants lied, he would say, but to find a cop prevaricating felt like a personal betrayal.
Carson portrayed the case against him and his codefendants as a monstrous fiction based on lies, coerced testimony and a tunnel-vision obsession with winning, confirming what he had been saying all along about the men and women sworn to guard justice in Stanislaus County.
Carson announced he would use the trial to expose the rancid underbelly of local politics. He argued that his client was the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy of local potentates. He railed against the judge, who slapped him with five contempt-of-court citations.
In better days, he swaggered, the flamboyant terror of cops and prosecutors and judges. Now it hurt Carson just to get up the steps, and his Vicodin had not kicked in. It was a Monday morning in June 2019.
When people talked about the trials that made Carson’s reputation — his ability to elevate the emotional temperature, his jugular instinct, his success — they invoked his defense of the former Modesto mayor, Carmen Sabatino.