Night in West Texas | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 11 Episode 1101 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A wrongful conviction in Texas is reopened after 40 years.
After a gay Apache man is convicted of murdering a closeted priest in 1981 West Texas, new leadership in Odessa reopens the case four decades later. Unprocessed fingerprints and emerging suspects expose corruption, homophobia, and racism. Embedding with the Innocence Project, the film follows a rare alliance seeking justice in a state where exoneration is painfully rare.
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.
Night in West Texas | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 11 Episode 1101 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
After a gay Apache man is convicted of murdering a closeted priest in 1981 West Texas, new leadership in Odessa reopens the case four decades later. Unprocessed fingerprints and emerging suspects expose corruption, homophobia, and racism. Embedding with the Innocence Project, the film follows a rare alliance seeking justice in a state where exoneration is painfully rare.
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I don't know if we'll ever know.
Every morning I wake up.
I think about it.
This case is such a tangle.
Times have changed on racism and homophobia.
That jury was acting as if he was a throwaway person.
Because he was gay and Native American.
I will not do that.
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Clip: S11 Ep1101 | 1m 56s | New evidence emerges in a decades-old murder case, proving the innocence of the man convicted. (1m 56s)
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Clip: S11 Ep1101 | 3m 55s | James's legal team confronts him about his health. (3m 55s)
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.