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** ''[[Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash The Nightmare Warriors]]'' also presents another possible reason for why Freddy managed to walk - a time displaced FBI agent (long story) impulsively tampered with his file and the paperwork within.

* The film ''[[The Star Chamber]]'' is about a group of vigilante judges tired of crooks getting let off on technicalities.

** Ironically, one of the two illegal searches highlighted in the movie (when police officers searched a trash can where a serial killer had stashed his gun) [[~~You~~ ~~Fail~~ Law ~~Forever~~|would actually have been legal]] because the suspect wouldn't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in its contents. (The other search, in which they searched a child murderer's van because the DMV incorrectly reported it as unregistered, became legal a year after the film's release when the Supreme Court codified the good-faith exception.)

** Ironically, one of the two illegal searches highlighted in the movie (when police officers searched a trash can where a serial killer had stashed his gun) [[Artistic License Law|would actually have been legal]] because the suspect wouldn't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in its contents. (The other search, in which they searched a child murderer's van because the DMV incorrectly reported it as unregistered, became legal a year after the film's release when the Supreme Court codified the good-faith exception.)

* Played for laughs in ''[[Liar Liar]]'', {{spoiler|until the end.}}

* In the Al Pacino movie [[And Justice for All]], the character Jay has a nervous breakdown when a man he got off on murder kills a couple children.

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