Teddy Barnes agrees to meet with Jack Forrester with the caveat that she won’t defend him unless she believes in his innocence. It is the type of high-profile case that can set her up for life. But when Teddy visits her long-time friend, Sam Ransom ( Robert Loggia), a former DA investigator who worked with her on the Styles case, he convinces her to take the Forrester case. The last thing she wants is to get mixed up with the likes of Krasny again and be responsible for another man’s life. Due to all of that when Jack Forrester asks Teddy Barnes to defend him she flatly refuses. Coincidentally, just as the Forrester investigation is getting started Teddy learns that Styles has hanged himself. Teddy Barnes has been living with the guilt of not having said anything about Krasny’s actions while knowing the innocent Henry Styles is rotting in a jail cell. As a former prosecutor, Teddy quit criminal cases after the Henry Styles case, a case that resulted in the conviction of an innocent man thanks to the legal misconduct of the lead attorney on the case – Thomas Krasny. Teddy Barnes ( Glenn Close) has a long and reputable law resume under her belt, but she hasn’t practiced criminal law for years. A devastated Jack Forrester walks Teddy Barnes through the scene of the crime Forrester would want to bring that point home to twelve jurors with the help of a female attorney from a prominent law firm who believes him. And I’ll be damned if Krasny’s point is not a great one! Indeed, it’s difficult to wrap your head around the possibility that the gorgeous Jack Forrester might be capable of committing a crime such as was committed. In fact, Krasny admits that, “If I were to kill my wife, that’s exactly the way I would do it.” In other words, Krasny would go to an incomprehensible extreme. Unfortunately for him, however, DA Krasny ( Peter Coyote) doesn’t buy into Forrester’s story from the get-go. He needs to sell the image of perfection he exemplifies. And once charged Jack Forrester realizes that’s his best defense. Forrester mutilated with the jagged edge knife, but the word “bitch” was written on the walls with her blood, an act that points to a deep-seated hatred and loss of civility that Jack Forrester doesn’t demonstrate. In other words, he’s not the kind of man who would commit a murder better suited for a madman. The handsome Jack Forrester (played by the equally handsome Jeff Bridges) is stylish, sophisticated and measured. Except things are not always as they seem in Jagged Edge. Forrester is a young, successful publisher set to inherit his wife’s huge estate. Spouse on spouse murders can have complicated psychological issues behind them that are not easily deciphered, but when money enters the picture the why of the crime usually becomes clear. Jack Forrester paints this kind of clear picture. The opinion of a famous District Attorney is valuable, but one really doesn’t have to be an expert to understand why Page Forrester’s husband is charged with her murder almost as soon as her body is discovered in the bedroom of the couple’s beach house. He is prosecuting Jack Forrester who is accused of brutally murdering his wife Page and their maid with a jagged edge hunting knife in Richard Marquand‘s Jagged Edge (1985). Krasny’s latest case fits that bill perfectly. Just ask San Francisco Assistant DA Thomas Krasny who has had a lot of experience prosecuting murdering low life spouses. In fact, that specific type of crime is the oldest one in the world. are three times as likely to be killed by a male intimate partner such as a husband or boyfriend than males in similar partnerships. Crime statistics may rise and fall depending on the year, but one manages to remain steady: female homicide victims in the U.S. That’s particularly true with regards to the female member who is the likely victim. And if either member of the couple is unhappy and feels tied to the other – as in by marriage – ugly things can and do result fairly often. Those are a lot more common, the crimes that involve one person turning the violence against the other. Perhaps more interesting, however, are the smaller crimes involving couples of unlike minds. The melding of two like-minded individuals in constant close proximity has led to crimes and crime sprees of historic proportions. Crime and punishment have been matters involving couples ever since Adam and Eve.
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