Frank Lucas murdered people, why wasn't he convicted for that?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — American Gangster
jameswhat — 13 years ago(October 14, 2012 05:32 AM)
I don't know how accurate the movie is, but it shows him killing many people and in real life probably countless others. So, even if he was released of his charges for cooperating with the police in terms of the drug dealing, why wasn't he punished for killing so many people? They couldn't find any evidence? Baffles me really.
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KingJohnTX — 13 years ago(February 21, 2013 11:47 AM)
They didn't have any evidence of him murdering anybody. Same thing with a guy like Al Capone, everybody knows he murdered or had people murdered but he was only convicted of tax evasion.
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cian_jm — 11 years ago(May 01, 2014 12:05 AM)
As far as I remember, the only person he was seen killing was his rival at the start. Presumably nobody reported it and the cops probably didn't care enough to follow it up, especially since he was a nobody at that time.
Other than that he kept his own hands clean so he would have been hard to convict for murder. Instead they got him on other charges that would have still normally added to 70 years in jail.