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Frederick Aiken:
[in closing summary, to courtroom]
For the lawyer as well as the soldier, there is an equally imperative command. That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent, to protect the weak from oppression, and when necessity demands, to rally to the defense of those being wronged
[in closing summary, to courtroom]
For the lawyer as well as the soldier, there is an equally imperative command. That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent, to protect the weak from oppression, and when necessity demands, to rally to the defense of those being wronged
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For the lawyer as well as the soldier
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there is an equally imperative command
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That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent
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to protect the weak from oppression
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and when necessity demands
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to rally to the defense of those being wronged
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Movie Summary
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
