

After Shelton confesses to torturing and killing Darby, Rice locks him up in a maximum-security prison. But Shelton survives to see him get sentenced to a mere decade in prison after cutting a sweetheart deal with assistant district attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx, who does his best with a thankless role).īy the time Darby is released, an unhinged Shelton has had 10 years to plot his revenge on virtually everyone involved in the case. We just know that Darby-the kind of psycho hillbilly who’s become obligatory in this kind of scenario-is going to slaughter Shelton’s family with true backwoods gusto. They force Shelton to watch as head lowlife Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) rapes his wife. Unfortunately, this unique skill set doesn’t do him any good when two lowlifes invade his home. Watch the trailer for Law Abiding Citizen.īutler’s Clyde Shelton is a government-funded techno-geek who dreams up novel ways of killing people by remote control.
