judicial error

Provides an account of the rape and beating of twenty-eight-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili in New York's Central Park in April, 1989, and the subsequent convictions of five African-American and Latino teens who confessed to the crime but later recanted, and discusses what the case reveals about racism in American society.

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.

Chronicles Rubin Carter's twenty-year imprisonment, discussing why he was accused of three murders he did not commit, how racial issues affected the outcome of his trial, how he earned the support of celebrities, and why a group of Canadians decided to help him prove his innocence.