A Case of Deadly Force (TV)
- Original title
- A Case of Deadly Force
- Year
- 1986
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Book: Lawrence O'Donnell. Play: Dennis Nemec
- Cast
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- Richard Crenna
- John Shea
- Lorraine Toussaint
- Francis X. McCarthy
- Tom Isbell
- Dylan Baker
- Michael O'Hare
- Tate Donovan
- Anna Maria Horsford
- Anthony Heald
- Fred J. Scollay
- Paul O'Brien
- Tom Kemp
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
Telecom Entertainment Inc. Distributor: Alpha Filmes, Herbert Richers Produções Cinematográficas, Highlight Video, RHI Entertainment. Broadcast by: CBS- Genre
- Drama | Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. TV Movie
- Synopsis
- Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man’s widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband’s innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision.
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