HARRIS This is absurd. Double jeopardy applies to the same offense . Killing one person and killing another are not the same offense.
LEO Life sentence. Singular. They can’t give me two. We see Leo file a Pro Se “Motion to Reassign Culpability.” The court is baffled. Headlines:
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 (reading his notes) “Autrefois convict” – already convicted. So? LIFE SENTENCE Script
LEO Double jeopardy. I can’t be tried twice for the same act. But what if the act isn’t the same?
LEO I’m never getting parole anyway. I’m serving life.
HARRIS He’s playing chess with the penal code. If we grant this, every convict will claim they meant to kill someone else. HARRIS This is absurd
LEO Cole is dead. He can’t confess.
MAYA That’s not a loophole. That’s a suicide pact with logic.
Harris slams the table.
GUARD Geometry don’t open gates.
Judge Carter, Maya, Harris. No stenographer.
Beat.
Maya stops walking. Turns.
LEO A murder the state can’t charge me for, because they already convicted me of a different murder during the same time period. The statute of limitations on brake tampering is 10 years. It’s been 12.