summary presume innocent

Rusty calls on Sandy Stern. He is a top defense attorney with whom he has often clashed in court. Stern acknowledges Rusty as his "toughest adversary" but agrees to take the case. When it comes to trial, however, it is revealed that the beer glass has gone missing. This was a crucial piece of the prosecution's case and Stern persuades Judge Larren Lyttle to keep this from the jury.In the course of his investigation, Rusty discovered that Carolyn had acquired a B-file from Raymond which dealt with a bribery case involving law-enforcement officials. It concerned a man called Leon who paid a bride to get his case of public indecency thrown out of court. His probation officer, who set the whole thing up, was Carolyn (prior to her joining the P.A’s office) and the deputy prosecutor in charge of the case was Tommy Molto.The main thrust of Stern's defence is that Molto and Della Guardia have set Rusty up due to their personal loathing for him or, Stern hints, as part of a cover-up of the bribery case since it involves Molto. But then Lip tracks Leon down and he reveals that the official who took the bribe was in fact Larren, the very judge handling Rusty's trial.In the trial, Tommy and Nico begin show to the court about the murder scene. They show the witnesses and gather of the physical evidence. There are Rusty’s fingerprints, the phone records (MUDs), the vaginal smear, the blood and fibers.
But Tommy and Nico can not show the glass to the court. Because its miss from scene.

For inquires the witnesses, the prosecution’s first witness, Detective Harold Greer is a cop. He told about what he saw on Carolyn’s apartment. Next witness, Mrs.Krapotnik is a neighbor of Carolyn. She told the court about she saw someone at night that Carolyn was killed. It isn’t sure someone is Rusty. Next witness is Eugenia. She is a secretary of Rusty. She told last September, in answering phone, she picked up the wrong line. She heard voices Rusty and Carolyn conversation. Nico want to show the court know Rusty and Carolyn have relationship more than a partner. Whereas Sandy cross-examination her. There are something wrong issues from her word. Thus Sandy knows Eugenia’s perjury.

Nico wants to destroy Rusty by he allege Lip, he help to hide the glass and MUDs. But it isn’t success because Nico don’t have a subpoena to require MUDs. Thus it was dismissed.

Sandy prepares plan a defense case. He wants to discredit Tommy about Rusty’s fingerprint on the glass. They have only fingerprint. They can not bring the glass show the court. It can’t result Rusty is murderer.

Sandy wants to discredit Dr.Kumagai. He told about the murderer was not sterile because Carolyn use diaphragm. It made sperm dead. Whereas Sandy said it have something wrong to the autopsy. Sandy show his autopsy note that she can not conceive, her fallopian tubes are legated and separated. Thus Dr.Kumagai may be made up all evidence.

However, the conflicting nature of some of the evidence, its mishandling, the disappearance of the beer glass and the fact that Rusty will not openly admit to his affair with Carolyn (thus denying the prosecution motive) means that the case against him is a weak evidence and in a fair ruling. Judge Larren dismisses the charges and Rusty is freedom.Pressed by Rusty, Stern later admits, in private, that both he and Raymnd knew that Lyttle was taking bribes and that Carolyn was his courier. Larren was going through a bad period due to his recent divorce. He offered his resignation but Raymond believed that he was in fact a brilliant judge and should be given another chance. Stern appears to have kept the bribery issue hanging over Larren's head during the trial. On the other hand, it has to be said that Larren handled the case is a rightful manner.Lip later reveals to Rusty that he has the beer glass, which he never returned to the evidence room due to bureaucratic mishandling on Molto's part: i.e. Molto signed it as "returned to evidence" when in fact it was still at the lab and, when it was returned to Lip, he had already been taken off the case. Since nobody asked for it back he simply kept it in the drawer of his desk. As far as the cop is concerned: "The lady was bad news." The beer glass is destroyed.Rusty is in the clear, though he does not appear to be too pleased about the ways by which this was achieved.Some time later, while doing some work in his garden, Rusty comes across a small hatchet with blood and hair fibers on it and realises that they are Carolyn. He then confronts his wife. Somewhat demented, addressing herself in the third person, Barbara confesses that, following his affair, she fell into a state of depression and even considered suicide, before deciding that it would be better to destroy the destroyer, i.e. Carolyn. She did so by buying beer glasses similar to some given to Carolyn as a house-warming gift. She got Rusty's fingerprints on them and, after killing Carolyn, set up other evidence in order to make it look like a man attacked and raped her. She claims that she did not actually intend to frame her husband; she assumed that he would soon realize it was her and would file it under unsolved cases.Rusty cannot bring himself to separate his son from his mother and proceeds with a cover-up.