TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2008.
7:00 p.m. 20th Floor.

SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW followed by a Q&A session with lawyer Shinichiro
Koike and Hiroo Ikeda, Film Director.

PRESUMED GUILTY - CREATING FALSE CONFESSIONS. Japan. 2008. 48 minutes.

Courtesy of Japan Federation of Bar Associations.

Directed by Hiroo Ikeda - Screenplay: Jinpachi Mori and Hiroo Ikeda.
Cast: The defendants themselves.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal
justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in
Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to
extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of vote-buying. Those who
buckled under the pressure and confessed spent over a year in prison. All the
"suspects" were finally acquitted, but remain permanently scarred by the ordeal.
This documentary is a dramatic reminder that indiscriminate arrests and
convictions should be fought with the full force of the law.

Please make your seat reservations at the FCCJ Reception Desk (3211-3161).

All movie screenings are private, non-commercial events restricted to FCCJ
members and their guests.

Edwin Karmiol. Movie Committee