Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami(1988)

🎬134 min
📅1988-12-30
🎭Drama, TV Movie
6.0/10

Overview

There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.

Production

Robert Papazian Productions, Century Group Ltd., George Englund Productions

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Cast

Sam Waterston
as Jim Delmore
Ron Leibman
as Simon Resnick
Robert Davi
as Salim Ajami
Joe Morton
as Tandy
Jo Henderson
as Judge Bonner
Stephen Lee
as Ellis
Frances Conroy
as Lyn Kessler
Sheila Kelley
as Trish
James Greene
as George Flanders
Nick Angotti
as Major