A wrongfully convicted man faces a parole board to argue for his clemency based on new evidence. The tension peaks when the lead commissioner questions whether the prisoner's emotional plea is a genuine expression of remorse or merely a performance honed in the prison's theater program.
LEAD COMMISSIONER FERGUSON: Mr. Whitfield, this is a Clemency hearing for your conviction of murder in the second, for which you were convicted of 25 to life.
DIVINE G: That's correct.
LEAD COMMISSIONER FERGUSON: So are you acting at all during this interview?
DIVINE G: Well I-- Well no, not here. O
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