The Penalty Phase (1986) — drama, thriller, tv-movie film. Directed by Tony Richardson. Starring Peter Strauss, Jonelle Allen, Karen Austin, Jane Badler. This page maps 8 characters and 8 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A judge challenges an apparently certain conviction after discovering that its evidence was obtained illegally.
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie · 5.3/10 · 96 min · 1986
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor Jansen could not have been more relentless, conservative and incisive. Furthermore, the jury already had a verdict: guilty of the more than 30 charges against him. But suddenly Judge Kenneth Hoffman finds out that the evidence was not obtained legally, so the procedure is void. Judge Hoffman is in the middle of this legal storm, although he wants to apply the law strictly, he will find everybody against him.
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