True Crime (1999 film)

True Crime is a 1999 American mystery drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, and based on Andrew Klavans 1995 novel of the same name. Eastwood also stars in the film as a journalist covering the execution of a death row inmate, only to discover that the convict may actually be innocent.

Everett, despite instructions to the contrary from his editor, investigates the background to the case and comes to suspect that Beechum has been wrongly convicted. He gets permission from his editors boss to investigate, and is told that the top editor would call the Governor, and that would do the job, if Everett gets hard proof. He thus has a little overhours to confirm his hunch and save Beechum.Everett interviews a prosecution witness, Dale Porterhouse Michael Jeter, who saw Beechum at the store where the shooting took place and said in his statement to the police that he saw him carrying a gun. Everett questions Porterhouses account, saying that, because of the layout of the store, he could not have seen a gun in Beechums hand and that he maybe said what he did in order to impress his coworkers. ........

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