A Case of Deadly Force

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A Case of Deadly Force

Release Date: April 09, 1986

Year	:	1986
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Genres	:	Drama, TV Movie, Crime
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Director	:	Michael Miller
Producers	:	Bruce S. Pustin
Writers	:	Dennis Nemec
RunTime	:	95 mins.

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. Written by John Sacksteder