the pelican breif

A detailed Summary of the pelican breif

The movie I had to review for criminal law and procedure is the

"Pelican Brief." At first I was unhappy to get this movie because I

have never heard of it before. After watching it I was glad to get a

The plot of the movie is as follows: In the opening scene of the

movie they show Denzel Washington who is a reporter named Gray

Grantham interviewing a Supreme Court Justice named Rosenberg.

Then a scene later they show Darby Shaw, who is Louisiana, in a law

class. The next thing that happens is a person who's name was not

given goes to a hotel and was given an envelope with a picture of all

the Supreme Court Justices in it and just two of them circled.

About Two minutes later both of them were murdered. One of

them in his house and the other one in a adult cinema. Then they

show Darby in the house of her law professor whose name was

Thomas Calahan. Who happened to be a clerk for Justice

Rosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affair

with that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. They

show the President talking with his advisor and they are saying if the

FBI can not solve who killed the Justices then maybe they should get

Justices. He traces the phone call to a pay phone and then goes

asks what Darby wants and she tells them she wants a flight to

story is published on the front page of the Washington Herald and the

face in the picture. One person who is in a Mental Hospital does. His

Darby goes and gets the material out of the box and finds out

head of the FBI who is Denton Voyles. He comes down there and

an unknown person at the time, and is talking about the murders and

Approximate Word count = 892
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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