They are making it into a movie, "The Trial of Whitey Bulger!"
"Bulger jurors focused on victims, foreman says" by Shelley Murphy, Maria Cramer and Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, August 17, 2013
The trial was more riveting than any Hollywood movie....
Terry Fife, 49, a stay-at-home father, and two other jurors spoke during separate interviews Friday after the court released the names of the 12 jurors and six alternates. The three said the panel worked diligently while deciding the fate of one of Boston’s most notorious figures, after hearing 35 days of testimony from 72 witnesses....
“This was way better than the movies,” Fife said. “These were the real guys. . . . The cast of characters that came walking through that courtroom door and onto the witness stand each and every day, it was captivating.”
It was also sobering and at times horrifying, he said. Jurors were shown gruesome photos of bullet-riddled bodies and skeletal remains unearthed from secret graves....
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Related: This was a show trial
Maybe it was all a movie. I certainly think the timing of the arrest was scripted.
