Two prisoners, A and B, suspected of committing a robbery together, are isolated and urged to confess.
Apparently, officials said, they confided criminal pasts to each other and spoke of committing a robbery together.
The prosecution's case was based heavily on the testimony of Robert Noyer, a former police officer who said he and Captain Sindone had committed the robbery together when both men served on the Bronx Homicide Task Force.
Suppose that the police have arrested two people whom they know have committed an armed robbery together.
En route, he acquires Rey (Pattinson), the brother of one of the thieves, whom they had left for dead at the scene of a botched robbery, and together they chug through the Australian desert, now a glowering, lawless land 10 years after a global economic collapse.
Sometimes they were together during the robberies, sometimes separate.
His father and stepfather are currently serving 25 years to life in prison for a robbery and murder they committed together in 1995.
Saying that their complaints were ignored by jail officials, inmates accused of murder and robbery became jailhouse lawyers, banding together to file scores of handwritten lawsuits claiming that they were being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
A little like old World War II movies where a platoon served as a crucible for an idealized cross-section of America — the softhearted tough guy from Brooklyn, the standoffish bookworm, the fast-talking card shark, et al. — a bank robbery in "The Nine" throws together an array of contemporary archetypes.
"No tribe could hold together if murder, robbery, treachery, & c. were common… A contented, happy tribe will flourish better than one that is discontented and unhappy….
