This film is very well done, of course, being in the capable hands of Barry Levinson and a fantastic cast. I was pulled into it 100% until the trial. I find it not only hard to believe, but IMPOSSIBLE to believe, that any lawyer, under ANY circumstances, could ever have gotten the prison guard/witness/friend/co-worker of the murder victim to admit to the abuses that he committed (along with the murder victim) while a guard at the reform school. In my opinion, anyone as callous and cold-hearted as he was, as a multi-repeater rapist and torturer of children, wouldn't have even a shred of humanity left wherein he could be made to feel guilty in a court room. So that's where this movie fell apart for me.
