Crime After Crime (2011) on Netflix
NR20111h 35mBiographyCrimeDocumentary
Debbie Peagler is serving twenty-five years to life in a California prison for the murder of the boyfriend who abused her. Two rookie land-use attorneys take up her case.
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Plot summary
Debbie Peagler is an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence. She was convicted of murder in the death of a boyfriend who abused her and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in a California prison. Two rookie land-use attorneys take her case for free through the California Habeas Project. Their effort to free her brings attention to domestic violence and the criminal justice system.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crime After Crime (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Potash spent five and a half years on the film and got cameras inside a maximum-security California prison, where rules barred the media from filming interviews with specific inmates, by becoming Debbie Peagler's "legal videographer" and making a separate documentary about the prison's rehabilitative and employment programs.
- Potash filmed the group Arrested Development visiting Debbie Peagler in prison and singing with her and the inmate gospel choir she led; their performance of the Solomon Burke song "None of Are Free" is excerpted in the film and played in its entirety over the end credits.
