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FRONTLINE; Ordinary Crime, An
01/10/2002
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Ordinary Crime, An
- Program Number
2008K1
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
It was a robbery gone wrong, and when it was over, a woman had been shot in the head. Fingerprint evidence identified one of the suspects who quickly named his two accomplices: a friend and the friend's cousin, a man he knew only as "Terrance." And that's where the problem with this ordinary crime begins. Police apprehended 16-year- old Terence Garner and charged him with the crime. Garner insisted he was innocent. The co-defendants said they had never met him. Another man with the name "Terrance" surfaced and confessed to the crime, then recanted and was let go. FRONTLINE investigates a bizarre case of injustice where two men with the same name are implicated in the same crime and one -- Terence Garner -- is sentenced to 32 years in prison.
- Duration
01:26:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- News
- Public Affairs
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Ordinary Crime, An,” 01/10/2002, GBH Archives, accessed January 29, 2022, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_53B6833606F740EFB648B31C020E150F.
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- APA: FRONTLINE; Ordinary Crime, An. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_53B6833606F740EFB648B31C020E150F