Leo meets his lawyer, MAYA (30s, exhausted, brilliant). They walk the perimeter fence.
LEO Respectfully, Your Honor, the victim is the truth. The state convicted me of killing Rachel Dawes based on the theory that I am a murderer. I am simply offering them an alternative murder. They can choose. But they can’t have both.
MAYA You’d be admitting to a murder you didn’t commit.
MAYA That’s insane. He died in a crash. LIFE SENTENCE Script
MAYA So?
MAYA Then what’s the angle, Leo? Because I’ve got nothing.
Leo hands her the legal pad. She stares at the Venn diagram. Leo meets his lawyer, MAYA (30s, exhausted, brilliant)
The loophole closed. The life sentence remains.
HARRIS This is absurd. Double jeopardy applies to the same offense . Killing one person and killing another are not the same offense.
Maya stops walking.
LEO Because they’re the same facts. I didn’t kill Rachel Dawes.
JUDGE CARTER Not for murder, Mr. Vance. There is no statute of limitations on murder.
LEO No, Your Honor. I’m arguing I have a right not to be killed twice by the state. INT. JUDGE’S CHAMBERS - DAY The state convicted me of killing Rachel Dawes
MAYA (reading his notes) “Autrefois convict” – already convicted. So?
LEO Cole is dead. He can’t confess.