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VOIR DIRE
Drama. Joe Sutton
1 man, 5 women
A prominent black man is arrested for buying crack. His lawyer says he was framed, set up by a racist white cop. It is left to a jury of six (as is the case in misdemeanours and many civil cases in New York State), a racially mixed group of five women and one man, to decide who is telling the truth. This they do over three' brutal, often explosive days of harrowing deliberation, as we take a peek behind the one door that will always remain closed to us - the door to the jury room.