Scenes of the Crime

Scenes of the Crime 2001 Full Movie Download In English 720p 

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If you watch “Scenes of a Crime” — and you very much should — be prepared to be outraged. A cool documentary that makes the blood boil, it examines how people can be psychologically manipulated into confessing. Not only to crimes they may not have committed but, even worse, to crimes that may never have happened.Hard to sit through but even harder to turn away from, “Scenes” won the grand jury award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The movie manages, through intense focus on one particular case, to make points that resonate throughout our entire criminal justice system.Scenes of the Crime 2001 Movie Download.

Though it’s an article of faith with many people that an innocent person will never admit to a crime, this film, co-directed by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh, not only calls that truism into question but, through access to a remarkable video document, actually shows us how it happens.That video is a complete record of a 10-hour interrogation, spread out over two days in September 2008, in Troy, N.Y. Police officers were convinced — for what turned out to be questionable reasons — that a man named Adrian Thomas had killed his 4-month-old son, and they systematically set out to get him to confess. It is not a pretty picture.

Key excerpts from the video are the heart of “Scenes,” but they’re supplemented by extensive interviews with significant figures in the case. These include the police officers who did the interrogation, the district attorney’s office lawyers who prosecuted the case, the public defenders who stood up for the other side, jurors who handed down the verdict, and a variety of expert witnesses.Roused to action by this declaration, detectives looked around for likely suspects, saw one in the infant’s very large father, and turned the situation into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Armed with the zeal of the righteous, they believed nothing would do unless Thomas could be made to confess in exactly the way they thought he should.

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