COULD AN INNOCENCE PROJECT HAVE FRAMED AN INNOCENT MAN?
*NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE YESHIVA UNIVERSITY INNOCENCE PROJECT IN NEW YORK CITY.

THIS FILM PROVES THE MOST DRAMATIC WRONGFUL CONVICTION REVERSAL IN U.S. HISTORY WAS A FRAUD.

The 1999 release of Anthony Porter, once 48 hours from his scheduled execution, was a story that stunned the nation. Porter had already filled out the menu for his last meal and was measured for his coffin, when a determined group of journalism students took advantage of a temporary stay in the case to re-investigate it themselves. A few short months later the students and their professor, together with a private investigator, built a case against a new suspect, eventually gaining Porter's release.

The near execution was a wake-up call. A powerful example of why the death penalty needed to be abolished. The story was amazing - but was it a lie?  A lie eagerly re-reported by journalists who failed to check even the basic facts of the case?

As questions arose, journalists clung to the "confession" of the "real killer." A confession coerced after an armed home invasion by police-impersonating private detectives hired by the University. 

Now, 16 years after Alstory Simon's coerced confession was used to spring a double murderer, the facts have finally come to light.

This powerful documentary lays out the entire case, from the August 1982 murders of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green, to the Cook County State's Attorney's year-long re-investigation of the case.

Alstory Simon, pictured at Illinois' Jacksonville Correctional Center.

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