Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story(1987)

movie - first aired/released 1987-02-03 - audience 6.5

Directed by Richard T. Heffron

This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.