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A 1998 film starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Eric Stoltz, [[Without a Trace (TV)|Marianne Jean-Baptiste]] and [[Mark Pellegrino]]. It opens as the main character, Lawson Russell (Gooding), is taken to jail, acting as Narrator to explain [[How We Got Here]]. It began on Mardi Gras in [[The Big Easy|New Orleans]], when Lawson is wrestling with a new-found sense of conscience. Unbeknownst to him at the time, a man dressed as Satan picked the lock and slipped into his office, intending to kill him. Lawson cannot reconcile his duty as a defense attorney with the knowledge that his client, Thurman Parks III (Stoltz), the wealthy son of a former mayor of New Orleans, is guilty of murder after he gloats about having told his victim he would get off. The man has a gun on Lawson as he calls the judge and asks to be withdrawn from the case, which upsets His Honor. Seeing him doing this, the intrudes exits and leaves Lawson alive. The next morning, the judge rejects Lawson's request to be withdrawn, and Lawson turns on his own client, attacking him verbally, which causes the case to be declared a mistrial.
 
Lawson is disbarred, and while his friend Elizabeth Pope (Jean-Baptiste) praises his action on moral grounds, he goes off to Florida, working as a fishing guide. There he meets an old Englishman named Christopher Marlowe who retired there and greatly dislikes lawyers. He shows Lawson a manuscript of his called [[Title Drop|A Murder of Crows]] (from a group of crows being called a murder), about a [[Serial Killer]] who targets what he sees as morally corrupt defense lawyers. Lawson, who has been struggling to write a nover himself without success, thinks its brilliant. When Marlowe suddenly dies from a heart attack, he succumbs to temptation and passes off the work as his own. It quickly becomes an overnight success, climbing onto the bestsellers list despite criticism from the legal profession. One book signed by Lawson is sent out to a New Orleans detective, Cliffard Dubose (Berenger) who quickly recognizes a shocking fact-the murders in the book actually happened.
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[[Meaningful Name]]: Lawson, a defense attorney (before he was disbarred) and son of a judge.
 
[[Off Onon a Technicality]]: {{spoiler|The man who killed Corvus' family was let go due to one of these , triggering his [[Start of Darkness]]}}.
 
[[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|Professor Arthur Corvus, whose killings Lawson is suspected of committing due to a [[Frame-Up]]}}.
 
[[Start of Darkness]]: {{spoiler|Corvus' occurs when the hit and run driver who killed his family got [[Off Onon a Technicality]]. He saw that the man was remorseful, but his lawyer simply delighted in winning (and his pay of course). So he became Corvus first victim, and other [[Amoral Attorneys]] followed}}.
 
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