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A Case of Deadly Force

Genre: Drama
Countries: USA,
Release Date: April 09, 1986
Year: 1986
Runtime:1h 35min
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Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision.

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Richard Crenna     , John Shea     , Lorraine Toussaint     , Francis X. McCarthy     , Tom Isbell     , Dylan Baker     , Michael O'Hare     , Tate Donovan     , Anna Maria Horsford     , Anthony Heald     , Fred J. Scollay     , Elizabeth J. Fowler     , Paul O'Brien     , Tom Kemp     , John Prosky