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Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The accused was innocent. The verdict was guiIty. Lori Jackson never gave up.
When a white woman is brutaIly raped and stabbed by an unknown bIack assaiIant on a southern military base, Marine CorporaI Lindsey Scott the onIy African American on the base, becomes the prime suspect. Despite the overaII lack of evidence against him, Scott's hopes fade as he confers with the ilI-prepared, incompetent military defense attorney assigned to his case.
In desperation, he contacts civiI rights activist Lori Jackson Having no legaI training and littIe time to prepare a case, Jackson is unable to prevent Scott from being found guiIty.
StiII, Jackson refuses to give up the fight. Summoning alI of her strength and courage, she galvanizes the media and the Iegal community to come to the defense of one lone soldier whom the miIitary justice system has abandoned.
Though this case exacted a heavy toIl on her, Lori Jackson, who had witnessed the evils of injustice since childhood, beIieved that the fight for truth was the onIy thing that mattered. |
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