Entertainment & Sports
Feb. 10, 2023
Stream it Tonight! Let Him Have It (1991)
The judge’s comments are less a summing up than a dressing down of the defendants; he does everything but order the jurors to return guilty verdicts.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? A rush to injustice resulted in a conviction and execution that stained British justice and was instrumental in leading the U.K. to abolish the death penalty.
In 1953, Chris Craig, a 16-year-old gangster wanna-be, convinces Derek Bentley, age 19, to help him burgle a London warehouse. Bentley barely understands what Craig has asked him to do because of brain damage that Bentley suffered during the World War II bombing of ...
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