Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Nick is on trial for killing policeman point-blank and faces execution if convicted, Fact2: crimes committed by people, Fact3: people are forced to live in such miserable conditions, Fact4: Romano is victim of society, Fact5: Morton 's strategy does not have desired result on jury to badgering of Kernan
Output (English): Against the wishes of his law partners, lawyer Andrew Morton Humphrey Bogart takes the case of Nick Romano John Derek, a troubled young man from the slums, partly because he himself came from the same slums, and partly because he feels guilty for botching the criminal trial of Nicks father years earlier he was innocent. Nick is on trial for viciously killing a policeman pointblank and faces execution if convicted the event is shown in a dark opening scene, but the killers face is not seen. Mortons strategy in the courtroom is to argue that slums breed criminals and that the community is partly to blame for crimes committed by the people who are forced to live in such miserable conditions. Through flashbacks, Morton demonstrates that Romano is more a victim of society than a naturalborn killer. Yet, Mortons strategy does not have the desired result on the jury thanks to the badgering of District Attorney Kernan George Macready. Morton, however, does manage to arouse sympathy for the plight of those trapped by birth and circumstance in a deadend existence.