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Overview
Concept

Justice can be blind.

Story

The Cast of Injustice


 Rich Maloy 


 Bernice Wallace


 Alvin Frazier


 Hans Weiner


 Luis Lassen


 Nancy Mamais

 THE STORY


 Injustice tells the story of Jamar Cruz, a 18 year old teenager from The Bronx who’s accused of rapping and killing a 16 year old white girl from Greenwich, Connecticut…All the evidence shows that  Jamar is innocent but the Jury finds him guilty and the Judge sentenced him to prison to 25 years. After he’s released from prison an old man from his past follows him everywhere Jamar goes…

OUR PLAN

We’re planning on shooting this film mostly around the Bronx, and Manhattan in the winter of 2020. We’ve completed the short film version of Injustice which I also wrote, Produced and directed.  See the trailer on this page.  

We’re  shooting during 15 days. Your support is extremely important to us in order to finish this film.

REWARDS

Every person who donate to our campaign will get a reward. There are different types of rewards according to your donation. 


 The Persecution of Alfred Brown: Texas AG, Police Conspired to Punish Innocent Man 

The Persecution of Alfred Brown: Texas AG, Police Conspired to Punish Innocent Man Political forces are aligned against Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who was declared “actually innocent” after his conviction for murdering a Houston police officer. The Houston Police Officers’ Union urged the comptroller and the attorney general to deny Brown’s application for state compensation, and after staff of both offices met secretly in June, that’s just what happened.

Alfred Dewayne Brown (left) and Anthony Graves were both wrongfully convicted of murder and eventually declared innocent. (Courtesy photo)

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

On May 20th of 2015 two New York Police Officers knocked on my door’s apartment in the Bronx searching for me (on the day of my birthday). They asked me a few questions at my door, then they took me to the Police Station  where the interrogated me for hours, fingerprinted me  and they sent me to Central Booking where I spent 24 hours before seeing a Judge.  

While I was in Central Booking I thought  about all these men and women that has been incarcerated for 10, 20, 30,40 and sometimes 50 years for crimes they didn’t commit.  The US Justice System must change the wrongly convictions practices because it destroys not only the lives of the inmates but also the lives of their families and loves ones. 

This is a National tragedy that needs attention now. Wrongly Convictions in America must stop.

I was lucky enough to be out in 24 hours but what about the ones who are spending their lives behind bars?

WHO IS THIS FOR

This film is not for us, it’s  to honor  those men and women  who are wrongly incarcerated in jails across America. This movie is also dedicated to their families and friends.  We hope that this movie opens the eyes of many people regarding this American tragedy. 

Exoneree Huwe Burton and Staff Attorney Susan Friedman, training together. Photo by Sameer Abdel-Khalek/Innocence Project.

On the day I was exonerated, 30 years after I was wrongfully convicted of my mother’s murder, the reporters at the Bronx County Courthouse asked what I would do now that I was free. I told them I would run the New York City marathon.

    Running the marathon started as a joke in prison, where I told myself I’d run the race if I ever got the chance to go home. After saying it to myself over and over again, telling myself it was something I was going to do, life found a way to make it happen.
    “For the last 30 years, I’ve been running the marathon of my life.”
 

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

We need your help to complete principal photography and to cover all expenses to pay to our cast and crew.  We want to change the way Justice is wrongly served in America many times. 

 Another case:


 Austin T Burke was charged at 18 years old of murder and an unrelated robbery that were tried in the same case In Trumbull County Ohio. He was convicted by jury and sentenced to 58 years in prison.

The family of Charles Lorraine (who is sitting on death row from Trumbull County Ohio) pointed the finger at my son and had him convicted of murder through hear say in collaboration with the victims heroin addicted best friend. They are the kids who are products of this man and the Roupes of Niles, Ohio. Even though the victim’s family, And the detective knew that the victim and best friend were heroin addicts, They allowed him to lie on the stand in front of the jury. They knew that the victim had contacted his heroin dealer every 8 hours for a month, And the same dealer was the last person he talked to before never being seen again.

They told lies to the jury. The detective told lies to the jury that were directly contradicted in his own detective’s report, And the prosecutor indicted my son with no physical evidence whatsoever. A couple weeks later they used an unrelated robbery of a Pizza Joes, to frame my son and make him look more likely to have done this (Even though the 2 girls that were robbed, described the robber as being bi-racial with green eyes).

My family was demonized and dehumanized by Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker, and local media. The prosecutor personally called individuals that were friends or family of my son and other witnesses, and told them lies as if he had actually known us. And then he framed my son while he was incarcerated and awaiting trial – with ridiculous accusations of a deadly weapon in detention (broken plastic spoon), an absurd escape plan (through a 5th story, 6 inch by 6 inch, steel barred window), and threats to other inmates (that were disproved through video evidence during interior investigations).

This prosecutor still uses these ridiculous claims regard less of whether he was charged or actually convicted of any of these circus acts – In order to have him incarcerated in a maximum security prison. This teenage boy was forced and tricked into a plea bargain on the broken plastic spoon, And then subsequently given the maximum time (because the prosecutor said that the plea bargain was not “on the record”).

WHERE THE FUNDS GO

The funds are going to pay our cast and crew and also for Post-Production expenses: Editing, music, color correction, and  film festivals submissions.


THE TEAM:

Julian Roa

 Director of Photography; Julian Roa was born in the Dominican Republic.  He studied film at the prestigious School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Banos in Cuba. He’s a MFA in Film from Spain’s School of Film and Audio visual community. He’s worked in some films as a DP in his natal Dominican Republic and He is currently managing his own Production company in DR.


 Conrad Henry

Music Composer: Conrad is a native of White Plains. He studied music at Westchester Community College. He’s scored  some music for the following short films: Homeless the movie, La Maestra, and Drowned. He created his own music company in 2017 CW Productions based in New York. His love for music has been since birth but his courage to start his own company has been recent. His business flourishes locally with singers, rappers, musicians and small scaled filmmakers. 

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