Let this be a lesson to some young person out there. If you have an idea, about anything, carry it through as far as you can. You will often stop at some point when you realize it's not going to work, but everyone has at least one good idea and it's a goddamned shame when you look up one day and find out someone else had the same idea and carried it through.
Case in point. Tonight while watching television and ad come up for a new show scheduled to begin in January. It's called "Found Innocent." It gave me a cold chill.
You see, I had this idea years ago, even wrote what's called a treatment for it. I have searched for that treatment but so far no luck. In it the main protagonist each episode took on the case of a person imprisoned and maintaining his innocence. Each prisoner would provide a different story, some of them actually innocent and others who were just where they were supposed to be.
I found it. It's dated May 5, 2014, but it may have been updated on that date. I probably had been thinking about it long before that, Anyway, just because I can, this is what I had prepared: ( And for the sake of truth I am not going to make any corrections or changes at all. This is the way I left it in 2014)
INNOCENCE
BAsed in the cliche that everyone in prison says he's innocent and loosely based on the Innocence Project
He has a buddy in the police department. They meet when the detetective forces his way into the office (most police don't like the lawyer) and makes him very nervous. Turns out the lawyer ahd been instrumental in proving the policeman's convicted brother was actually innocent and so he says a faver is owed. Lawyer takes liberal advantage of access to police files.
He has to have a secretary gatekeeper helper but this is cliche. He could have a law grad student helpling with all the hyoung innocence'
Private detective. This is going to be a woman, tough and capable who does investigations for the lawyer. There can be sexual tension here, but she over the long run pushes off any hint of connection.
Detective's boss and colleagues don't like his connection with the lawyer and at times try to subvert him.
Head of the firm: Silver haired white guy who doesn't like all the pro bono work. )A thought here some civil case he forces on the lawyer turns out to be connected to one of his innocence cases.
Maybe need a nemisis prosecutor.
FIRST CASE
Prisoner, hard case biker gangster who is guilty of a lot but not the crime he was convicted of. not very likable but that's part of the deal of the innocence project, if the person is not guilty he is not guilty no matter what kind of person he is.
The guy's crime: Seeing a biker gang fight. Gun shots. A guy goes down. Just then someone attempts to drive a pickup truck through the center of the fight scattering combatants in all directions. The prisoner sees a guy layng in the street and grabs the shoulders of his lether jacket and pulls him to safety, only in turning the guy over to learn he is not only dead, he is wearing the jacket of the other gang. Our biker pulls th body into the bushes and hightails it not realizing he has dropped his knife by the body and picked up some blood on his own clothing. By a circuitous route he makes it to his bike as he hears sirens. He atempts to get out of there but the street he heads down has cops coming at him. He makes a quick turn into an alley. but his rear wheel hits a spot of oil and he skids out of control into the side of a building right in front of the comps and knocks himself out. He wakes up in jail. The bllood on his coat, his knife by the body, and a witness who saw him dragging the bodyh away are enoujgh to convict him. He gets 15-30 for second degree murder largel becasue of the prior arrests and convictions. mostly for assault but a couple of minor possession drug busts. His gang is supected of drug trafficking.
During the fight: whole bar erupts. Spills out into the street. As it does a big guy grabs the girlfriend and drags her kicking out a side door into an alley. There he slams her against a dumptster then throws her to the ground, holds her down and starts to tear off her jeans. from her pocket she pulls a knife and stabs him in the stomach. and while he is still shocked she cuts him across his neck. Then she is abel to squirm out from under him and head away from the meless int he street down toward to opposite end of the alley.
In the street sirens and then police and the boyfriend runs and turns into thee ame alley to escape. when he is about halfway down the alley a car roars into the alley heading toward him. He sees the victim laying there and runs, pulling him out of the way just as the car passes. But, right behind the car comes a police car. The police see the guy with the victim, come to a stop and jummp out to subdue the guy and put him under arrest.
Meanwhile the gril has left the alley just before the first car, hides agains a wall is it also emerges and turns away from where she is hiding. Once free of any observation, she makes her way down the street and into the darkness whil her boyfirend is hauled off to the jail.
CHANGE THIS SLIGHTLY TO AVOID IDENTIFYING THE REAL KILLER. During the fight a big tough guy drags the girl out of the bar by a back door opening into the alley. Minutes later the boyfriend/convicted runs into the alley to escape police. He sees another figure farther donw the alley running away. He starts to follow mostly for his own escape but trips over the guy. A car screetches into the alley chased by police. The figure disappears at the end of the alley in the same shot where the biker is pulling the victim out of the ay of the car. The car roars past followed by a police care which sotps when they see the biker with the body.
Now how do they prove him innocent.
1 did they check his knife for blood
2. attack the witness... did he actually see the guy stab the victim no only dragging him away
3. forensices: blood on his jackt is it the kind of spatter that would come frtom stabbing someone? No only dragging and turning over. Knife found by body, too bloody from neck wound, no prints, blood washed away. Might somewhere find an odd print of partial finger but cut off evenly. Like made from fingerless gloves like got girl was wearing. Looking at one print taken.middle and lower sections of finger but no tip print.
4. Depth of stab wounds, neck wound is shallow but evidence knife was twisted while in the wound.
5. Investigation centers on identification of the mystery person in the alley. Interview people in the fight. Did anyone see anyone go out the back door? Identifiable. Bartender might have seen (a man and a woman leaving) Later admits, man was forcing woman out the door.
SOULUTION
Turns out she did it. WEaker knife wouldnds plus a gun shot from a small weapon.
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