POV | Presumed Guilty -- Trailer | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/pov/presumedguilty/ A documentary film by by Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete. Directed by Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith. Airing on July 27, 2010 at 10pm, POV on PBS (Check your local listings). Watch online: July 28 through August 4, 2010 at http://video.pbs.org/program/1154485580/ Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. The award-winning Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga. With no background in film, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete set about recording the injustices they were witnessing, enlisting acclaimed director Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon, POV 2009) to tell this dramatic story. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mexico
• Criminal
• Justice
• Law
• Trial
• Documentary

[JulieRebu07]

dats what they do in mexico everyday when ever they cant find the real person who did it and sometimes they know who did it but they are either cops or important people they go pick up someone from the street. and blame them and if they denied it they are torture to the point they just say they did it when they really didnt so they can stay alive. they do everyday in juarez they know who is killing those women but they blame it on other people

[TheMrfrawg]

i worked with a guy served 4 years in a mexican prison for talking up an officers love interest. TRUE STORY.

[adrianame7]

@angelmarine1292 

[EsqDave]

@JulieRebu07 Dats what they do in MEXICO? My friend - run a search on "West Memphis Three", that's 3 guys obviously wrongfully convicted in the USA. Or look at the innocence project's website - they've gotten over 250 wrongful convictions overturned. Or consider Claude Jones and Cameron Willingham, 2 people executed by Texas in the last year and now shown innocent (oops, sorry about that!)

[insaschaable]

@angelmarine1292

your comment is totally irrelevant. Do some reading hun!

[MegaGwen13]

the sad part is that rhis documentary is not only about the judicial system in Mexico, this happens everywhere, even in the 1st world countries, even today i heard on the news that 180 ex priest, charged with rape and battery are free! the only answer there is, is cause the law was made not to defend the innocent but to defend the powerful!

[TheBrigm]

IS A GOOD DOCUMENTARY. 10/10 (Y)

[samirc2]

@angelmarine1292 Really? I am not going to start an immature feud online with someone I don't know but I believe that your comment as short as it is, it's full of prejudice and ignorance.

[ambiguedad777]

the law in mexico is very bad because criminal codes are incorrect and contradictory, lack of legality

[JulieRebu07]

@angelmarine1292 what the hell does immigration have to do with this even if they go back their government wont change 

[luv2spin31]

@angelmarine1292 what does immigration have to do with it?