Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi. Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark …
The trio spoke to Deadline ahead of the launch of the series about the collaboration, their individual episodes and their thoughts on the timing of the series, coming in the midst of a global pandemic.
Garbus, meanwhile, looked into the case of Thomas Haynesworth, who was arrested for the sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults of five women in Richmond, Virginia in 1984. Haynesworth was sentenced to 74 years in prison. In 2009, he was proven innocent by DNA evidence in two of the cases, and in 2011 he was absolved on the others based on mistaken identity. He was fully exonerated. Haynesworth had spent 27 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.
While each of these filmmakers have made films about crime and the criminal justice system before, it was unusual to bring them together under a banner.
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