another chance. Lipranzer meets with Rusty and reveals the missing beer glass, explaining that he never returned it to evidence when the investigation was turned over to Della Guardia and Molto. Rusty throws it into a river. At his home, Rusty discovers a small hatchet covered with Carolyn's blood and hair on it. As he washes the tool, Barbara admits that she murdered Carolyn, her motive being Rusty's adulterous affair. She expresses that she had left enough evidence for Rusty to know that she committed the crime, but did not anticipate him being charged with the murder. In a voice-over, Rusty explains that Carolyn's murder has been written off as unsolved, since trying two people for the same crime is "a practical impossibility" and he cannot leave his son without a mother even if she could be tried. Rusty regrets that it was his own lust that caused his wife to commit murder. Cast Harrison Ford as Rozat K. "Rusty" Sabich Brian Dennehy as Raymond Horgan Raul Julia as Alejandro "Sandy" Stern Bonnie Bedelia as Barbara Sabich Paul Winfield as Judge Larren L. Lyttle Greta Scacchi as Carolyn Polhemus John Spencer as Detective Dan Lipranzer Joe Grifasi as Tommy Molto Tom Mardirosian as Nico Della Guardia Anna Maria Horsford as Eugenia Sab Shimono as Dr. "Painless" Kumagai Bradley Whitford as Quentin "Jamie" Kemp Christine Estabrook as Lydia "Mac" MacDougall Michael Tolan as Mr. Polhemus Jesse Bradford as Nat Sabich Joseph Mazzello as Wendell McGaffen Tucker Smallwood as Detective Harold Greer David Wohl as Morrie Dickerman Jeffrey Wright as Prosecuting Attorney Presumed Innocent is a "preunion" for the television series The West Wing. John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Jesse Bradford would go on to star together in that series. Production Development Scott Turow's 1987 novel Presumed Innocent had first attracted film producers a year before it was published. The film rights were the subject of a bidding war among a host of established studios and producers. David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck made the first bid of $75,000. Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer initially offered $300,000, financed by Paramount Pictures, but backed down when bids climbed to $750,000. Peter Guber and Jon Peters, and Sydney Pollack and Mark Rosenberg of Mirage Enterprises made $1 million bids of their own money. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Irwin Winkler also made bids, while Universal Pictures passed on the project. After Pollack and Rosenberg acquired the rights