By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole

Whose life is it anyway? Randall Dale Adams, released from a Texas prison in March, wants the courts to decide. When he was set free after serving 12 1/2 years, it was largely owing to Errol Morris, whose movie The Thin Blue Line uncovered exonerating evidence. Adams sold the rights for $10 in 1986, and though still grateful to the filmmaker, is suing to determine who owns them now. "Am I indentured to Morris for the rest of my life?" he asks. The bespectacled Morris denies blocking Adams from future profits. And the film is no Batman. Laments Morris: "I'm still paying off bills."