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Criminal is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Ariel Vromen and written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. The film is about a convict who is implanted with a dead CIA agent's memories to finish an assignment. The film stars Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones, in the second collaboration among all three following the 1991 film JFK. The film also features Alice Eve and Gal Gadot, with the death of Ryan Reynolds's character, early in the film, setting the plot in motion.

Principal photography began on September 4, 2014, in London. The film was produced by Campbell-Grobman Films and Millennium Films and was released on April 15, 2016. It received generally negative reviews from critics and was a financial disappointment, grossing $38.8 million against its $31.5 million budget.

Desperate to find the Dutchman, Pope's supervisor Quaker Wells contacts Dr. Micah Franks, who has developed a treatment that could theoretically plant the memory patterns of a dead person onto a living one. Franks requests that they "graft" Pope's knowledge into the brain of convict Jerico Stewart, who received damage in his frontal lobe by being abused as a child and is effectively a sociopath.

After the operation, Jerico escapes custody and fakes his death. He steals a maintenance van and goes to Pope's house, where he holds Pope's widow Jillian hostage while he looks for the money. As time goes on, he experiences memory flashes of Pope's past, but all he can determine is that the bag of money was hidden behind a bookshelf, without identifying where it or the Dutchman is kept.

The CIA learns that the Dutchman is planning to sell the program to the Russians, believing that the CIA has betrayed him. Fortunately, they are able to find Jerico after he contacts Dr. Franks for medication using Pope's CIA codes. Jerico is beginning to develop emotions and draw on Pope's experience. As Jerico attempts to retrace the route Pope took to hide the Dutchman, Heimdahl creates a distraction at the airport that draws Wells' attention, allowing Heimdahl's accomplice and lover Elsa to try and capture Jerico, killing his CIA guards before Jerico escapes by driving a taxi off a bridge.

Jerico retreats to the Pope's house, where he encounters Jillian and explains the situation to her. Although she initially fears him, Jillian comes to accept Jerico as she sees him bonding with her daughter, Emma, allowing Jerico to stay the night. The next morning, Jerico realizes through a conversation with Jillian that the bag is hidden in the rare books collection at the University of London where she works. He attempts to retrieve the bag but is captured by Heimdahl and Elsa once he has found it. Heimdahl threatens to kill Jillian and Emma unless Jerico takes him to the Dutchman.

With the CIA and a Russian strike team now seeking the Dutchman, Jerico, who has now recalled that Pope hid the Dutchman in Jillian's office at the university, escapes Elsa using an improvised nitro-glycerine bomb, returning to the office to provide a hurried explanation to the Dutchman. Elsa finds them before they can escape, shooting Jerico in the shoulder and killing the Dutchman, but Jerico gets the upper hand and bludgeons her to death with a lamp.

Jerico steals an ambulance and takes the flash drive containing the wormhole program to the airfield where Heimdahl is attempting an escape. Jerico saves Jillian and Emma, even as Heimdahl shoots him. As Heimdahl's plane takes off, Jerico reveals to Wells that he had the Dutchman reprogram the wormhole so that it would target the source of the next transmission. This results in Heimdahl unwittingly destroying his own plane when he tries to fire a missile at the airfield.

A few months later, Jerico is shown on the beach where Pope and Jillian had their honeymoon. He is initially unresponsive to anything but automatic reflexes and responses. With all other options exhausted, Wells and Franks take Jillian and Emma to see him. The sight of Pope's family confirms that some part of Pope exists in Jerico as he responds with a nose-tap. This was Pope and Jillian's way of saying "I love you". Witnessing this, Quaker reflects that he will offer Jerico a job.

On June 20, 2013, it was announced that Millennium Films had acquired the script for Criminal, written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg, an action film in which a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a dangerous criminal, who is sent on a government mission.[2] J.C. Spink, Chris Bender, Matt O'Toole and Mark Gill were initially announced as producers, with Boaz Davidson later joining the production.[2][3][4] On September 13, Millennium set Ariel Vromen to direct the film.[5]

On June 17, 2014, Kevin Costner was cast to play a dangerous criminal with a dead CIA operative's skills, secrets, and memories implanted into him to finish a job.[6] On July 10, Gary Oldman was in talks to join the film to play the CIA chief.[7] On July 23, Tommy Lee Jones joined the film to play a neuroscientist who transplants the memories to the criminal, while Oldman's role was also confirmed.[8] On August 4, Ryan Reynolds was added to the cast.[9] On August 7, Alice Eve joined the cast.[3] On August 11, Jordi Moll joined the film in the villain role of Hagbardaka Heimdahl, who wants the dead CIA agent's secrets now implanted in the criminal's brain.[10] On August 12, Gal Gadot signed on to star in the film as Reynolds' character's wife.[11] On September 26, Antje Traue joined the film to play the villain's accomplice.[12]

On December 9, 2014, it was announced that Haim Mazar had signed on to compose the music of the film.[22] However, on June 10, 2015, it was announced that Brian Tyler and Keith Power had taken over scoring duties on the film, replacing Mazar.[23]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of 138 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Despite the valiant efforts of a game and talented cast, Criminal has little to offer beyond the bare minimum expected by the most undemanding of genre enthusiasts."[30] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[31]

In his review, Empire magazine's John Nugent wrote: "We can but pray that scientists invent a procedure to remove the memory of ever watching this film in the first place", and awarded the film 1 star out of 5.[32] Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Tim Robey called it "wanton, low-down entertainment" and awarded it 2 stars out of 5.[33] In his review for BBC, Mark Kermode placed it in fifth place in his mid-year list of the Worst Films of 2016.[34]

Miami-Dade County on behalf of The Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) has been awarded a 5-year grant to develop and implement Mental Health Awareness Training for Criminal Justice Stakeholders (MHAT) by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The project is designed to prepare and train criminal justice partners on how to appropriately and safely respond to individuals identified with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD). The project will train criminal justice stakeholders to recognize the signs and symptoms of behavioral health disorders as well as to learn skills to de-escalate potential volatile interactions. Stakeholders will include law enforcement, court employees, correctional staff, attorneys, social service partners and families.

You can obtain a copy of your Georgia criminal history record from most Sheriff's Offices or Police Departments. Contact your local law enforcement agency for specific requirements to obtain a copy of your Georgia criminal history record.

The information contained in a Georgia criminal history record includes the person's identification data (name, date of birth, social security number, sex, race, height, weight, etc.), arrest data (including arresting agency, date of arrest and charges), final judicial disposition data submitted by a court, prosecutor or other criminal justice agency and custodial information, if the offender was incarcerated in a Georgia correctional facility.

O.C.G.A. 35-3-34 provides that private persons and businesses may obtain the Georgia criminal history record of another person by providing a signed consent of the person whose records are requested on a form prescribed by the center, which shall include such person's full name, address, social security number, and date of birth. Contact your local law enforcement agency for information on how to request the Georgia criminal history record of another person.

O.C.G.A. 35-3-35 provides that the GCIC is authorized to make criminal history records maintained by the center available to public agencies, political subdivisions, authorities, and instrumentalities, including state or federal licensing and regulatory agencies or their designated representatives, under the following conditions:

Fixed GAPS fingerprinting sites for conducting Georgia criminal history background checks are located throughout the state. Results, including the Georgia criminal history record should be available for the agency to retrieve from the GAPS website within 24 to 48 hours after the applicant is fingerprinted and the transaction submitted to GCIC for processing. The GAPS website will handle collection of fees, which eliminates the need for agencies to collect and process fees for fingerprint-based checks. A valid photo ID is required at the fingerprint location. Visit the GAPS website for details on the GAPS fingerprint background check process, fees, and print site locations.

GCIC cannot correct or update inaccurate or missing Georgia criminal history record information without appropriate documentation and/or authorization from the submitting agency. As of December 1, 2008, a law enforcement agency must use the web-based Computerized Criminal History (CCH) User Interface to update or modify arrest and identification data submitted by the agency. All other criminal justice agencies such as courts, prosecutors and probation/parole offices are encouraged to transmit online updates or modifications, thereby reducing the time to complete the record update. Written requests submitted to GCIC must be on official agency letterhead, with the following information: full name of subject, date of birth, social security number, race, sex, and date of arrest; or State Identification Number (SID) and date of arrest or Offender Tracking Number (OTN) for that date of arrest; and the requested changes. The request cannot be processed if the above information is not included in the document.

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