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The Trials of Darryl Hunt

The Trials of Darryl Hunt

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 15, 2007

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

The Trials of Darryl Hunt

Production Companies

Break Thru Films

Director

Ricki Stern

Description

"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the South and in the American criminal justice system.