After Innocence

Powerfully explores the struggles faced by those whom DNA testing has exonerated after years behind bars.

What emerges from these stories is a picture of the fallibility of the system and the vulnerability of innocent citizens, whom even scientific evidence cannot protect from incompetence, ego and prejudice, and of the courage of the exonerated victims to make meaning of their tragedies.

A powerfully affecting documentary.

The embittered men make fascinating subjects.

Gut-wrenching.

Puts a human face on the failings of the American judicial system and the growing importance of DNA in legal proceedings.

Taylor does her cause no real favors by trotting out only the most articulate, most clearly railroaded exonerees. It should be just as chilling to learn that even the shady get screwed.