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No Jail Time: The Movie
From the director of Primetime
Directed by Lance Oppenheim · 2017
Defense attorneys are commissioning tear-jerking mini-documentaries to plead for leniency, made for an audience of one: the judge.
A fascinating Op-Doc about films made to sway a single judge, by the director of Some Kind of Heaven.
To beg for leniency, defense attorneys are producing tear-jerking documentaries for an audience of one: the judge.
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