They are the pillars around which facts, names and dates accumulate like snowdrifts, and supporting characters swirl, including Robert Downey Jr. as a dissolute crime reporter; Brian Cox as flamboyant attorney Melvin Belli swept up in the public spectacle; Elias Koteas and Donal Logue as small-town police caught in the case's jurisdictional sprawl; and Philip Baker Hall, as a handwriting expert wh