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An Innocent Man (1989)

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

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Top billed cast

Tom SelleckJimmie Rainwood
F. Murray AbrahamVirgil Cane
Laila RobinsKate Rainwood
David RascheDetective Mike Parnell LBPD
Todd GraffRobby
M.C. GaineyMalcolm
Peter Van NordenPeter Feldman
Richard YoungDanny Scalise
Badja DjolaJohn Fitzgerald
Bruce A. YoungJingles

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