A Baltimore case and its aftermath
In 1983, a 14-year-old boy was killed at Harlem Park Junior High School in Baltimore. Three teenagers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Dawn Porter’s documentary traces the effects of those wrongful convictions on the men, their community and the witnesses who later recanted.
HBO’s account says witnesses described being pressured as teenagers to give false testimony. The film follows the consequences of those statements over decades, including what happened to the people who gave them.