Plot hole: For a convicted murderer who violated her parole and assaulted her parole officer while escaping custody, Ashley Judd moves around the country and even boards airplanes with little to no problems.
LorgSkyegon
6th Apr 2017
Double Jeopardy (1999)
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Suggested correction: She was simply careful. There's constant manhunts for much more serious felons and parolees on the lam who seem capable of moving around without getting caught.
How did she keep the gun if she flew across the country?
She could have checked the gun in her luggage. Most countries and airlines allow that.
But what about having to go through metal detectors and placing anything she's carrying with her through an X-ray machine? Either one of these would have caught her with an illegal weapon. Don't airports always check luggage to ensure nothing dangerous is being taken on board a plane?
In the United States, it is perfectly legal to carry an unloaded gun and ammunition in checked baggage. You are required to declare it and to store it in a locked, hard-sided container.
9th Sep 2020
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Corrected entry: Given the flimsy evidence of her husband's 'murder', (for a victim uttering his final words, he would not have been able to so state the exact coordinates of the boat). Any competent lawyer would have got her off. Also, her son Maddy then lives with daddy and his new girlfriend, aware that mummy is in prison for murdering him having visited her there. Surely he would have mentioned this to someone like his teacher etc?
Correction: After receiving the fake message, the police found her alone on the blood-covered boat with the murder weapon. That kind of evidence is hard to shake off. As for Matty, he may have visited her in prison but it's highly unlikely that he knows why she is there or even remembers at his age. Later, he reveals that his dad told him that she was dead. If she died in prison, that isn't something that he would likely want to tell teachers or classmates.