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Ruthless streetwise tough guy Tom Powers (a terrific and electrifying performance by James Cagney in his star-making breakthrough role) and his loyal partner Matt Doyle (well played by Edward Woods) rise to the top of the criminal heap selling bootleg alcohol for the smooth, hard-nosed Paddy Ryan (a fine portrayal by Robert Emmett O'Connor) during the Prohibition era.

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They wanted to do something about what we all know, namely the revolving door of the criminal justice system.

And what the Veterans' Court did, was it treated each criminal as an individual, tried to get inside their problems, tried to fashion responses to their crimes that helped them to rehabilitate themselves, and didn't forget about them once the judgment was made.

Anyone would glom onto a criminal justice system that has this kind of a record.

So it really, really helps the criminal investigation to establish the cause of death, and in some cases also directing the investigation in the right direction to find out who the killer really was.

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