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B8The Beacon Journal Tuesday, February 3, 1987 TELEVISION 'Guilty of Innocence' a fresh look at old nightmare Mark Dawidziak crime, and he had an innocent belief the judicial system. This blind trust -led to early mistakes that prevented an adequate defense. Even his court-appointed attorney, Sigel (Dabney Coleman, who starred the series Buffalo Bill, the miniseries Fresno and the theatrical films 9 to 5, Golden Pond and WarGames), has doubts. By the time lawyer and client discover they can trust each other, the all-white jury has brought in a verdict. Sigel becomes more determined than to fight for Geter.

The defense is bolstered by the arrival of NAACP attorney George Hairston (Paul Winfield, star of the theatrical film Sounder and the miniseries King). Wary of the arrangement at first, of the lawyers soon realizes he needs the other's talents. The dramatic techniques used in Guilty of Innocence may not be all that innovative, yet the characterizations The outstanding cast leads us into nightmare and makes us care about outcome. turing. Director Richard T.

Heffron's brisk pacing also keeps the material fresh and the viewer intrigued. Dayton native Dorian Harewood (The Jesse Owens Story miniseries) stars as Geter, who, when the TV movie opens, has settled near Dallas to work as an engineer at E-Systems Corp. It's the summer of 1982 and he's planning a Christmas wedding to nurse Marcia Hickson (played by Debbi Morgan). Geter is a shy and studious young man. Quiet moments are devoted to reading the Bible.

He believes in the pursuit of wisdom and its gifts "honor, pleasure and peace." While getting out of his car on an August day, Geter is greeted by two guns and the words, "Police officers, we have a warrant for your arrest." He is stunned. "What did I do wrong?" he asks. After booking Geter, the police arrest roommate and co-worker, Anthony Williams (Victor, Love). Both are suspected of robbing several fast-foot restaurants in the Dallas area. Hill Street Blues jRemingtonSteele News Moonlighting Jack and Mike News 'Guilty of innocence: The LeneJI GeterStory" News The Answer Praise the Lord 1968KRichard Widmark) Policewoman Hill Street Blues Remington Steele News Moonlighting Jack and Mike News Frontline: Earthquake In Faceof Terrorism Previews "Guilty of Lenell Geter Story" News Moonlighting Jack and Mike News "Streetsof Fire" (1984)(MlchaelPare) Sanford Frontline: Earthquake InFaceofTerrorism Bodyw'tch just Geter going it have here tion my a questioned by lawyers, a 60 Minutes report and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Executive producer Sheri Singer and writer Harold Gast decided that this struggle for freedom was the stuff TV movies are made of, and CBS agreed. So, tonight at 9 (on WJW-Ch. 8, WKBN-Ch. 27 and Wheeling's WTRF-Ch. 7), the network will air their fact-based Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story.

Although the pattern of this drama innocent man fights to be exonerated is familiar, strong performances more than compensate for predictable struc TONIGHT News NBC News News Entertain. Matlock News ABC News Fortune Jeopardy! Boss News CBS News PMMagaz. Almanack Praise the Lord TBNToday Mork Too Close Knight "Madigan" News NBC News Newlywed Dating Matlock News ABC News 23 Music Videos Who Boss Square 1 MacNeilLehrerNews Business News CBS News M'A'S'H 3'sComp. The Wizard News ABC News Fortune Jeopardy! Who Boss Gimme 3'sComp. M'A'S'H Magnum GED: Writing MacNeilLehrerNews Nova: Planes Crash and his BettyJean E-Systems supervisor Charles Hartford (actorcountry singer Hoyt Axton) shares their incredulity.

Lenell Geter isn a criminal, he maintains. "It's just some dumb mistake somebody made," tells his fiancee. "They're to straighten out." The police, though, say they several eyewitnesses. "What we have is like a tem porary malfunc- Dorian Uarewood of the system, which the checks and balances will correct," Geter assures Williams. "Yeah, I know that," Williams answers, "and you know that.

But lawyer don't think so. He keeps asking me if I want to plead guilty." You see, the TV movie's title carries double-meaning. Geter was innocent of TheTonightShow Late Night News B.Miller Nightline "Sherlock homes' Taxi Kojak Hawaii Five-0 TBNToday Whitaker Joan Rivers Hitchcock Mannix jTheTonightShow LateNight Off the Air Nightline The700Club News jOfftheAir MacNeilLehrerNews Off the Air WKRP Jeffersons Big Valley News Nightline Nightlife Swaggart (1:10) OKtheAir Matt Houston McL'ghlin Off the Air Country Niteline OfftheAir T.J. Hooker 12:40) Spasms" (1983 mmsMm Magnum Cannon Entertain. Joe Franklin (1966)(WliHam Hoidai) Leroy GoIdenAgeofTV Answers (NedBeatty) in Entertainment Video Vibrations Audience Program the in Ed in On ever team each are.

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You are told to stand. The judge reads the verdict: guilty as charged. The shock of the words surges through your body. Your legs buckle. Your attorney tries to offer words of comfort, but you don't hear them.

You're innocent. Somehow, the system went horribly wrong, catching you in the failed mechanism. All the happy security you once knew has been turned upside-down. You've been brutally pulled away from relatives and friends. You're facing life imprisonment.

If you're lucky, you wake up at this point and shakily push away the terrors of a dream. Lenell Geter's nightmare, however, didn't disappear with the clanging of an alarm clock. It wasn't a dark illusion conjured up by his unconscious imagination. It was terrible reality. A 24-year-old engineer living in Texas, Geter was wrongly accused of armed robbery.

His 1982 conviction was 6:00 p.m. 51 Tonight 's Playllat Deep Purple, Bad Attitude; Jason the Scorchers, Golden Ball Chain; Colin James Hay, Hold Me; Spoons, Bridges Over Borders; Julian Cope, World Shut Your Mouth; "Weird Al" Yankovic, Polka Party Medley; The Pretenders, My Baby; Wang Chung, Let's Go; Dave Edmonds Band, The Wanere; World Party, Ship ot Fools; Robert Cray, Smoking Gun. piil Crook Chase See 10:00 p.m. Akron Area Association of Churches 6:30 p.m. fffTil Cable and Your VCR How to make the connection.

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Ms. Estevez guested on ABC's Growing Pains series. NBC Nightly News and Today will air from China for five days, starting Monday, Sept. 28. NBC will carry a live hour prime- time from China on Oct.

1, the 38th anni versary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. The Sept. 27 editions of Sunday Today, a 90-minute morning program that will premiere in September, and Sunday's Meet the Press will include live and taped material from China. Taped segments on business news from China will be satellited to Be fore Hours, the early-morning NBC program that will pre miere March 2. American net Riptide Second time for Anthony Herrera in 'World Turns' From staff and wire reports Anthony Herrera, who plays James Stenbeck on CBS' As the World Turns, returned last November to the role he handled in 1980-83.

Herrera played Dane Hammond on ABC's Loving in 1984-85. Herrera had small roles in CBS' Secret Storm and NBC's Search for Tomorrow before playing Jack Curtis in CBS' The Young and the Restless from 1975-77. In 1983, Herrera produced and directed the award-winning short film, Mississippi Delta Blues. In 1986, he adapted Eudora Welty's short story The Wide Net (on PBS' American Playhouse) for film and directed it. Herrera, a former New Orleans juvenile probation officer, was in the CBS Helter Skelter miniseries.

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