Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

1987 • Directed by

Richard T. Heffron

Drama, TV Movie

Before the Rodney King incident... Lenell Geter had a run in with the justice... Texas style.

This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.