SPOILER !!!!!!!!
The plot fails. It took me three days to figure out why. There was a substantial amount of misdirection involved. The issue: Richard RETURNS to the house to kill FRANK. That makes it premeditated, for which bail might have been allowed, but it would be substantially higher, and the possibility of getting off virtually nil. The prosecutor clearly failed to sufficiently interview the witnesses to have missed this.
To hang the plot on the factual assertion of Frank's wife becomes irrelevant, once this is realized.
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Sissy was wonderful. Tom Wilkinson was very good, given some of the issues. Nick Stahl is quite believable as a malleable youth.
The plot fails. It took me three days to figure out why. There was a substantial amount of misdirection involved. The issue: Richard RETURNS to the house to kill FRANK. That makes it premeditated, for which bail might have been allowed, but it would be substantially higher, and the possibility of getting off virtually nil. The prosecutor clearly failed to sufficiently interview the witnesses to have missed this.
To hang the plot on the factual assertion of Frank's wife becomes irrelevant, once this is realized.
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Sissy was wonderful. Tom Wilkinson was very good, given some of the issues. Nick Stahl is quite believable as a malleable youth.