Over the years, cinema has provided some notable examples of courtroom drama, some fictional, some based on real-life criminal cases. Helping to set the scene inside the halls of justice are the lawyers, those who defend or prosecute the accused. Along the way, legal plotlines can twist and turn towards an often surprising verdict. And sometimes, just sometimes, the guilty literally get away with murder.
If you have no objections, click through the following gallery and bear witness to these courtroom movies, and the lawyers making their case.