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In the movie “Fracture”an engineer whose name is Ted Crawford witness his wife jenifer Crawford and lieutenant rob nunally in the swiming pool in a hotel. When jenifer go back home. Crawford confronting his wife,crawford shoots her wife on her head
In Los Angeles, the structural engineer Ted Crawford witnesses his wife Jennifer Crawford and her lover Lieutenant Robert 'Rob' Nunally in the swimming pool of a hotel. When Jennifer comes back home, he shoots her on the head and then he shoots three times against the windows. The gardener Ciro calls the police and the negotiator Rob, who does not know the last name of his lover, gets the murder weapon and a confession from Ted. Meanwhile, the young and efficient but arrogant prosecutor Willy Beachum is resigning his position in the low-pay public service work to join the private civil-law firm Wooton Sims but decides to accept the case, which is his assessment is easily resolved. Ted asks the judge to represent himself in court and Willy accepts. But sooner the winner Willy learns that the evidences can not be accepted in the trial and despite knowing that Ted is the killer, the murder weapon is missing and he needs to get new evidences otherwise he will lose the case and Ted will be a free man.
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In the movie Fracture a man shoots his wife who lives and is in a coma. He is charged with attempted murder. He is aquited on grounds of not enough evidence. Later he then uses his legal power of attorney to kill his wife by pulling the plug. At the end he is charged with murder in the 1st degree even though his shot was not the couse of death. She was killed legally and therfore he should not of been able to have been charged with murder. In addition a doctor reported that she would of actually outlived her husband. Since the shot had nothing medically to do with her death and her killing was in the peramiters of the law is it legally posible to charge the man with murder in the 1st degree.

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