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Presumed Guilty

Full-Length Season Pov Season 23 Episode 7 55:20 Premiered 20100727

Two lawyers struggle to free a man who has been wrongfully imprisoned in Mexico City.

Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. It happened to Tono Zuniga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. "Presumed Guilty" is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zuniga.

Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. It happened to Tono Zuniga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. “Presumed Guilty” is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zuniga.