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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 guilty. Lori Jackson never gave up.
When a white woman is brutally raped and stabbed by an unknown black assailant on a southern military base, Marine Corporal Lindsey Scott the onIy African American on the base, becomes the prime suspect. Despite the overall lack of evidence against him, Scott's hopes fade as he confers with the iIl-prepared, incompetent miIitary defense attorney assigned to his case.
ln desperation, he contacts civil rights activist Lori Jackson Having no Iegal training and Iittle time to prepare a case, Jackson is unable to prevent Scott from being found guiIty.
StiII, Jackson refuses to give up the fight. Summoning all of her strength and courage, she gaIvanizes the media and the Iegal community to come to the defense of one Ione 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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