An
Ordinary Crime
A
FRONTLINE- Documentary
(120 min.)
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An
Ordinary Crime |
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It
was a robbery gone wrong, and when it was over, a woman had been shot in the
head. Fingerprint evidence identified one of the suspects who quickly named his
two accomplices: a friend and the friend's cousin, a man he knew only as "Terrance."
And that's where the problem with this ordinary crime begins. Police
apprehended 16-year- old Terence Garner and charged him with the crime. Garner
insisted he was innocent. The co-defendants said they had never met him.
Another man with the name "Terrance" surfaced and confessed to the
crime, then recanted and was let go. FRONTLINE investigates a bizarre case of
injustice where two men with the same name are implicated in the same crime and
one -- Terence Garner -- is sentenced to 32 years in prison. |
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