Although the family of the murder victim Katharina Brow requested a meeting with producer/star Hilary Swank, that has not happened. They have hired Gloria Allred with intention to sue Swank for not consulting them or putting their mother "in a better light."
In various scenes where Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell's characters are meeting in the jail, the Sprite that Hilary drinks from has the new logo from 2005 consisting of two yellow and green "halves" forming an "S" lemon/lime design. This logo had not yet been created during the implied times of these scenes.
When Kenny is released, there is a Boston police car outside the
courthouse. His release actually occurred at Middlesex County Superior Court,
which is in Cambridge. Boston is part of Suffolk County. In actuality, the scene was filmed in Detroit.