false imprisonment

A prosecuting attorney Ted Jaffe who, twelve years after condemning a convicted murderer to death row, returns to the courtroom to save that same man's life.

Recounts the true story of the 1999 scandal in the small Texas town of Tulia, where more than forty African-American men and women were arrested for dealing drugs and later convicted based soley on the testimony of an undercover officer who was later exposed as a liar.