The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006)

--This is my own TV capture of this doc-- The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006) Program Info: Directors: Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg In 1984, Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper reporter, was assaulted, raped, sodomized and stabbed to death just blocks from where she worked in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though no physical evidence implicated him, Darryl Hunt, a 19-year-old black man, was ultimately convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison. Ten years later, DNA testing proved that Hunt did not rape Sykes, and cast serious doubts on his involvement in her murder, but he spent another decade behind bars for a crime he did not commit. The eye-opening HBO documentary THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT tells his riveting story - and the story of those who fought to clear his name. More than a decade in the making, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT examines a community and criminal justice system subject to racial bias and tainted by fear. Hunt was charged with Deborah Sykes' murder largely on the strength of an eyewitness identification by a former Ku Klux Klan member, and convicted by a jury of 11 whites and one black. It wasn't until 2004, through the help of an investigative series by Winston-Salem journalist Phoebe Zerwick, that he was finally cleared. Over that 20-year span, his defense attorneys and public supporters never stopped fighting for him. In February 2007, the city of Winston-Salem compensated Hunt $1.65 million for his wrongful conviction and incarceration, and he also received $358,545 in compensation from the state of North Carolina. Told from the point of view of the principal subjects - Mark Rabil, the unyielding defense attorney, and Hunt, the wrongfully convicted man - the film challenges the assumption that all Americans have access to unbiased justice. Hunt's real-life courtroom drama reflects systemic issues of broad national concern: the liabilities of cross-racial eyewitness identification, prosecutorial misconduct, inexperienced defense attorneys assigned to capital cases, racial bias in death penalty cases, and errors in police procedure. Featuring extensive personal narratives and exclusive footage from the two decades of the case, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT goes behind the scenes with Hunt, Rabil and their ever-increasing legion of allies, as the years pass and their hopes rise and fall with numbing frequency. The cameras reveal poignant moments between Hunt and Rabil at the prison, and capture the scene when a visibly distraught Rabil and community activist Larry Little learn that their second appeal has been denied, and then must tell Hunt the news. As Hunt's story unfolds, it becomes a textbook example of how the presumption of innocence can be subverted when a city's need to solve a gruesome crime, fed by sensational media coverage, leads to a rush to judgment that validates a flimsy case. In addition to clearing their own client, the defense team is ultimately instrumental in identifying the real killer, who is now behind bars. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance film Festival, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT won the Documentary Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Newport International Film Festival, the Audience Award and Director's Choice Best Documentary at the Sedona International film Festival, the Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Feature at the Nantucket Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh, and Best of Show and Audience at the Bend Film Festival. Ricki Stern's TV credits include directing and co-producing "In My Corner," and directing and producing the Emmy®-nominated "Neglect Not the Children," hosted by Morgan Freeman. Her HBO producing credits include the "Autopsy" specials and the documentary "Murder 9 to 5." Stern is the author of the children's book series "Beryl Bean: Mighty Adventurer of the Planet" and founded Break Thru Films, Inc. in 1990. The company is currently working on the feature film version of Darryl Hunt's story. Annie Sundberg produced the independent feature film "Tully," nominated for four 2003 IFP Spirit Awards (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Debut Performance, Best Supporting Actor). Her TV directing credits include "Trailer Fabulous" and "Behind the Bash with Giada De Laurentiis." Sundberg's TV producing credits include 1995's Oscar®- winning "One Survivor Remembers," a co-production of HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as "Family Plots" and "In My Corner." Sundberg and Stern most recently co-directed and co-produced the feature documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback," which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT is executive produced and directed by Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg; producers, Katie Brown and William Rexer II, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg; editor, Shannon Kennedy; 16mm cinematography, William Rexer II; additional cinematography, John Foster, Alan Jacobsen and Shannon Kennedy; original score, Paul Brill; sound editor, Brad Bergbom. For HBO: consulting editor, Geof Bartz, A.C.E.; supervising producer, Nancy Abraham; executive producer, Sheila Nevins. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446055/ Film's Site: http://www.breakthrufilms.org Buy The DVD: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000S0SYHI/105-5338634-1402831?SubscriptionId=0XYC6RPMBTE1GHZ4AQ02 Video Info: The.Trials.of.Darryl.Hunt.2006.704x352.xvid.mp3-snach.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 691 MiB Duration : 1h 46mn Overal bit rate : 908 Kbps Writing application : MediaCoder 0.6 Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Streaming Video@L1 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : 3 warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 1h 46mn Bit rate : 798 Kbps Width : 704 pixels Height : 352 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16/9 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 8 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.107 Stream size : 607 MiB Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01) Audio Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 1h 46mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 73.1 MiB Trackers: http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/announce http://tracker.thepiratebay.se:80/announce http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.se/announce http://torrent-downloads.to:5869/announce Visit us at: http://tracker.ConspiracyCentral.net Enjoy & Seed!

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OnlyMe54321 (2008-12-30)

Thanks - sounds like it's worth seeing.

NodesOfRanvier (2010-11-13)

shot in the dark, but anyone at 100% seeding this?
could have sworn i saw a 100%'r yesterday but i seem to be stuck at 87.4% atm and avg. 7.6 kB/s download after ~50hrs maybe? Couldn't find this anywhere else so worth a comment to see

NodesOfRanvier (2010-11-13)

whoops i mean ~20 hrs...

NodesOfRanvier (2010-11-14)

that 100%'r was a sneaky bastard but i finished downloading anywho.
finished watching, good quality.. will seed a few weeks...