Paul Biegler's Anatomy Of A Murder

The film our group has recently watched, an American courtroom crime drama film “Anatomy of a murder”, is considered to be “the finest pure trial movie ever made". Among other important aspects of trial, it reveals the extremely important role of a defense attorney and the power of words. Actually, the job of a defense attorney is to reach the best possible outcome for the client by hiring and managing investigators, gathering information from witnesses and studying similar cases. In some cases, talented attorneys manage to convince the jury and the judge in the innocence of an accused person or to commute a sentence in his favor, even if the circumstances seem hopeless.

In “Anatomy of a murder”, a former district attorney Paul Biegler is

The defense attorney found a precedent in a court record when a man accused of a crime was acquitted on the grounds of “irresistible impulse”. However, this version is put under question as two psychiatrists give conflicting testimony to Manion's state of mind at the time that he killed Quill. Moreover, the fact that Barney had had no manifestations of mental disorder before the murder was not in his favor, as well as his well-known skill to use a gun. But the attorney, with his propensity for courtroom theatrics, managed to win over the

Al Pacinos’s character, attorney Arthur Kirkland, defends a guilty judge Henry T. Fleming who is accused of raping a girl. From the legal point of view, Fleming can’t be sentenced as there is lack of evidence, but his attorney is well aware of his guilt and disgusted with the whole case. At the end of the film, on the last trial of his client Kirkland first speculates on the ultimate objective of the American legal system and criticizes the principle of competition. Soon he gets overwhelmed with emotions and announces that his “honorable” client should go to jail. When the judge tries to call the attorney to order, he replies: "You're out of order! The whole trial's out of order!” It is doubtless that Kirkland behaved unprofessionally, but what if his sense of justice strongly resisted the acquittal of a