Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Starring Brendan Fraser and Martin Sheen. The true story of Harold Hohne and his inspirational battle to free his wrongly convicted son from prison., A fact-based account of a 20-year-old dropout (Brendan Fraser) wrongly convicted of murder. Harold Hohne: Martin Sheen. Mary Hohne: Caroline Kava. Duffy: James Handy. Beverly: Rebecca Schull. D’Angelo: Mark Metcalf. Kathy: Christine Dunford. Emery: Peter Friedman. O’Neill: Tristan Tait. Carol: Renee Estevez. Ferro: Zachary Mott. Paul Wendkos directed., Guilty Until Proven Innocent is a TV-movie dramatization of a an actual miscarriage of justice. Young Bobby McLaughlin (Brendan Fraser) is accused of murder when a teenager is killed during a Brooklyn drug deal. The arresting cop knows that Bobby didn’t do it, but is so eager for a conviction in this otherwise unsolvable crime that he strongarms an eyewitness into fingering Bobby. The boy’s foster father Martin Sheen is assured by the defense attorney that the truth will out in court. When Bobby is convicted, Sheen continues through legal channels to secure the boy’s release, confident that someone will be willing to open their eyes to the facts. But despite common knowledge that he is innocent, Bobby languishes for years in prison. Featured in the cast of Guilty Until Proven Innocent is Martin Sheen’s daughter Renee Estevez.