In the movie Compulsion John Wilk was given a job that seemed practically impossible. He was to defend Judd and Artie the confessed murderer of the Kessler boy. Before he was given the job the boys had already confessed to the cold blooded murder. There was really no way that he could convince the judge that the boys weren’t sick and that they deserved to live in prison instead of being hanged. But he …showed first 75 words of 438 total…

…showed last 75 words of 438 total…lives of two very sick boys. The courts acts would have been just as severe as Judd and Artie’s. If I was the judge in this case I would have clearly realized that the men were indeed sick and just because they were rich still is no excuse for the crimes, but hanging them wouldn’t bring happiness to the Kessler’s any easier. This obviously was the perfect argument for “the perfect crime”.