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Film Details

Released: 2002

Credits

Produced and directed by Pamela Yates.
Edited by Peter Kinoy.
Written by Kinoy and Yates.

Educational Resources

Special PBS Site for the film
- National Broadcast on PBS, Wednesday, October 23rd
- US Premiere San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
- Theatrical runs ROXIE Cinema, SF; Pioneer Cinema, NYC
- Sneak Preview Broadcast KQED, San.Fran., April 5th, 2002
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival NYC, June 24th, 2002
- Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival 2002 - 2003

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A Human Rights Watch recommended film.

Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders

"Television movies, not to mention cop and lawyer series, only dream of having the goods that "Presumed Guilty" has bursting out of its seams... Forget "The Practice" or "Philly" or any of the other courtroom dramas. "Presumed Guilty" is the real deal, and the richness the filmmakers extract from the public defenders’ real lives is riveting television."
- Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle

reviews

"Presumed Guilty" a hit on PBS

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This 2 hour Feature Length Documentary reveals the criminal justice system through the eyes of America’s most misunderstood and maligned profession, Public Defenders. Set in San Francisco, Presumed Guilty breaks new ground as it allows viewers to step inside holding cells, courtrooms, law offices, and police stations and into the inner sanctum of lawyer-client confidentiality while following two high-profile murder cases.

Presumed Guilty had a theatrical run in San Francisco and New York. It played at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and was selected for their traveling festival.

“Will Maas, who specializes in rape and murder cases, is a thorny, tortured figure who suggests Dostoyevsky...” - Dave Kehr, New York Times.

“The least glamorous end of the criminal justice system gets needed respect in Presumed Guilty.” - Jack Mathews, New York Daily News.

“Presumed Guilty - the articulation of the very stories the powerful want least to hear.” - Terry Diggs, The Recorder
Full Article/review by Terry Diggs

“Bottom Line: Best defense”
People.com

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