Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City and, like thousands of others, he was wrongfully imprisoned. “Presumed Guilty” is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga. With no background in film, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete set about recording the injustices they were witnessing, enlisting director Geoffrey Smith (“The English Surgeon,” POV 2009) to tell this dramatic story.
Watch POV Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 10pm.
Watch Presumed Guilty Trailer on PBS. See more from POV.
