A documentary featuring boxers Tyrene Manson, George Walton, Noel Santiago, trainer Harry Keitt, manager Mickey Marcello and Randy Little. Produced and directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen. One of them is sent to prison, although she is apparently innocent. The most amazing thing about the trial and conviction of Tyrene Manson is not that it happened.
Justice miscarries all the time in America, frequently when poor black defendants are involved.
No, what is amazing is that the lawyer, the prosecutors and the judge allowed themselves to be filmed as they toyed recklessly with Tyrene Manson's life. You'd think that even the most indifferent of jurists would be on good behavior before the camera. Perhaps the camera itself explains their lack of prudence. But it did and won the Special Jury Award at Sundance. Now they know.