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W Nowym Jorku, wraz z rodziną mieszka Jerry Rosenberg (Tony Danza). Pewnego dnia mężczyzna niesłusznie zostaje oskarżony o udział w napadzie na sklep, podczas którego ginie dwóch policjantów. Rosenberg zostaje osadzony w więzieniu i skazany na karę śmierci. Więzień, dostrzegając brak rzetelności w prowadzeniu procesu, sam postanawia prześledzić kodeks karny. Wkrótce mężczyzna uświadamia sobie, jak wiele błędów i zaniedbań popełniono w jego sprawie. Załamany Jerry postanawia wykorzystać pozostały mu czas na korespondencyjne studia na wydziale prawa. Niebawem udaje mu się zmienić wyrok śmierci na karę dożywotniego więzienia. Jerry występuje też w roli adwokata w procesie przeciwko więziennemu lekarzowi.
Tony Danza stars in this riveting drama based on the true story of Jerry Rosenberg - the world's first convict turned attorney. When two cops are dead, and he's the chief suspect, Jerry finds himself in a maximum security prison awaiting the death penalty. One night, as a fellow inmate...
Also known as ‘Truth or Die.’ A mediocre made-for-TV film based on the true story of Jerome (Jerry) Rosenberg, a small-time Brooklyn criminal who hit the big time in 1962 when he and an associate were charged and convicted of the murder of two policemen during a robbery. Sentenced to die by electric chair, he was saved after New York first abolished the death penalty (with killing Police one exception), after which he mounted a successful legal challenge to his own death sentence.
When the film was made, Rosenberg was still in jail, unable to get parole.* The filmmakers skirt around the issue of whether he was actually guilty of the murders (he steadfastly maintained his innocence), but are ultimately sympathetic to him; like The Birdman of Alcatraz the film takes the view that whatever he’d done, he deserved another shot at freedom. In a country that imprisons people at seven times the rate of my home State, advocating the release of a man who killed two Police (if he did it) after just 16 years (24 by the time the film was made) is brave, strange, or both.