Plea Bargain In Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen is a movie about how easy it is for a criminal to get out of harsh punishment the easy way and how one man dedicates his time to prove the justice system is flawed. In the movie, this man’s name is Clyde Shelton and his family is murdered right in front of him. A plea bargain is made by his lawyer, Nick Rice with one of the murderers. The plea bargain causes Clyde to seek justice in his own way and try to prove the American justice system is flawed by setting an example of cheating his way through certain laws. Clyde uses his engineering and CIA skills to do what he can to try and fix the flaws in the American justice system. While he is seeking justice, he hurts some innocent people along the way. Clyde did what he did …show more content…
“Prosecutorial budgets would only allow prosecution in those cases where there was strong evidence to convict” (Devers, Plea and Charge Bargaining). Therefore, Clyde’s lawyer offered a plea bargain to Darby because he did not believe there was enough evidence to convict Darby and his accomplice. So instead of trying to get the justice that Clyde and his family deserved he allowed Darby a plea bargain so that his conviction rate would not go down. “Plea bargaining is a defining, if not the defining, feature of the federal criminal justice system” (Devers, Plea and Charge Bargaining). This means that plea bargaining takes a big role in the justice system, some believe that without plea bargaining the number of cases coming to trial would be reduced. Plea bargaining is just an easy way out for criminals like Darby to get a minimum sentence instead of what he deserved and Clyde is not going to let that happen. Clyde just wanted Nick to learn not to make deals with …show more content…
When he said, “I’m gonna pull the whole thing down, I’m gonna bring the whole freaking diseased, corrupt temple down on your head. It’s gonna be biblical,” (Gray, Law Abiding Citizen). He was not kidding. He murdered many people just to prove his points and to make people more aware of how corrupted the justice system is. In the movie, everything he did led to the next step of his plan and the justice system was doing everything he wanted it to do. All he wanted was to prove the justice system was flawed and attempt to fix it. In his mind it was necessary to do the things he did in order to try to fix the corrupted justice