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*** You're forgetting that Scorpio did all that while wearing a balaclava.
**** The fact that Scorpio has a fresh knife would exactly like the one Harry gave the guy in the balaclava and the same voice would be enough for a conviction.
**** And while its a bit early for DNA matching, a simple blood type matching between Scorpio and what the masked assailant left all over Harry's knife would add more circumstantial evidence to the pile.
** The movie makes one legal error when it invalidates the evidence Harry finds in Scorpio's audience due to lack of a search warrant. Since Scorpio is not a legal tenant of the groundskeeper's shack (while the groundskeeper was letting him use it, since the groundskeeper does not have the authority to rent stadium space to tenants its still not ''legal'' without the groundskeeper getting permission from someone more senior to him, which he did not. Analogy: the landlord can legally let someone stay in an apartment building for free, the janitor can't.), under the relevant case law at the time Scorpio has no reasonable expectation of privacy and nobody needs any warrant to search his stuff for anything. ''Today'' this would not be true, but court precedents were different in the 1970s.
** The same thing happens at the beginning of ''[[Sudden Impact]]'', although we only see the trial.
* [[Oh Crap]]: In ''Sudden Impact'', when the man that raped Jennifer Spencer and his friends are about to repeat the "experience" when one of them says "Crap". Cue Harry Callahan with a [[BFG]], ready for the men to make his day.
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