‘The Innocence Files’: Liz Garbus, Roger Ross Williams & Alex Gibney On Exploring Wrongful Convictions In Netflix Doc Series
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deadline.comBy Peter White Television Editor Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi.
Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark analysis. A few months, later a second young girl was raped and murdered and Kennedy Brewer, the boyfriend of the victim’s mother was arrested and sentenced death for the crime, based on similar bite mark analysis.
Brewer subsequently wrote to The Innocence Project, which was able to get the pair exonerated and freed after having DNA evidence at the crime scene tested.
These cases form the first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files and were directed by American Jail director Roger Ross Williams, who
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