From the Boston Herald:

Who says Attorney General Martha Coakley is thin-skinned?

After watching Hilary Swank call her an “evil bitch” in the new film “Conviction,” Martha came out of Tuesday night’s sneak preview convinced that Swank’s portrayal of the doggedly determined Betty Anne Waters is “the best thing (Swank) has ever done.”

As a movie fan, Martha Coakley found it easy to be swept up in what she called “a modern parable of a young woman’s determined and heroic effort to find justice for her brother.”

But as the former Middlesex district attorney, who plays a small but crucial role in the real-life story of Kenneth Waters’ ultimate vindication in June of 2001, Coakley found it impossible to completely suspend her disbelief regarding a key fact Hollywood chose to gloss over.

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