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PLEA
With Eduardo Franco, from Hoppers
Directed by Joseph Oppenheimer · Starring Kyle Isao, Eduardo Franco, Kate Morgan Chadwick, Leona Hedges · 2017
A public defender has minutes to save her teenage client from a life sentence for a murder he only technically committed, but saving him means condemning him.
A tight, ticking-clock legal drama about the impossible choices inside the juvenile justice system.
A Public Defender has minutes to help her juvenile client avoid a life sentence for a murder he only technically committed but to save the teenager she will have to condemn him.
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