Suspect (1987 film)

Suspect is a 1987 American legal thriller film directed by Peter Yates and starring Cher, Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson. Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Fred Melamed and Philip Bosco.

In the film, a female law clerk investigates an old case and questions the trial judge. Shortly afterward, the judge commits suicide and the clerk is murdered. A deaf-mute Vietnam veteran is charged with the murder, but a public defender and a political lobbyist suspect that he has not killed anyone. The dead judge's cassette tape recordings reveal that he was involved in an intentional wrongful conviction nearly two decades ago, and the clerk was killed to cover up that confession.