In the movie A Time To Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher, the viewer stumbles upon a lawyer and his assistant trying to save a father on trial for murder. In this movie there are several aspects of law that we have learned that include the evidence rules, court procedure, and justice. The plot includes racial tensions involving the Ku Klux Klan, corrupt officials, southerners, Yankees, and many others. .
The evidence rules that were portrayed in A Time To Kill was carried out with grave dramatic emphasis. The officials began with investigating two redneck men who had raped Carl Lee Hailey's 10 year old daughter. Carl Lee shows up at the court house when the two rednecks were to be arraigned and shoots them to death, injuring one officer. He is then taken into custody. He than later on was tried for murder. In those southern times there was racism against coloured by the Ku Klux Klan. One of the rednecks that was shot down, his brother stepped up to the Ku Klux Klan and started hounding Carl Lee's lawyer and his associates that were involved in the case to free Carl Lee. They try to get Carl Lee of with the reason of insanity, with chances not too bright. To complicate matters, the judge is the District Attorney's good friend. The head of the Ku Klux Klan gets a lot of help from a corrupt officer. The movie also deals with most aspects of homicidal law.
All the terms, terminology and methodology are dealt with in detail. Eyewitness evidence was found in this movie when the two rednecks mother testify on what she had seen happen when Carl Lee shot both of the two men dead. Physical evidence was also shown in the film with Carl Lee's little girl and her bruises and the fact that she cannot produce children if she had the chance was evidence against the rapists as well as the shoe that had been found in the back of the yellow truck that the rednecks were driving in. Expert witness evidence was included in A Time To Kill with the psychiatrist that also testified in court, two of them to be exact one for the defence and one for the district Attorney.
