Morally ambiguous.

That’s how some people have described situations like those portrayed in ‘Runaway Jury’. The crux of the movie, the crux of the theme in the movie, boils down to my favourite scene, a confrontation between Wendell Rohr and Rankin Fitch (Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman). Rankin Fitch is a ‘jury consultant’ hired by gun industry big wigs to defend a case brought forward by the widow of a gun-violence victim represented by Wendell Rohr. The scene takes place just after the prosecution’s main witness is “disappeared”.
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