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Donna Mills, Robert Wagner and Steven Bauer hedine the powerful miniseries "False Arrest." Accused of murders she didn't commit, convicted of crimes that weren't her own, a woman fights desperately to prove her innocence and hold her family together in this gripping true story of passion and betrayal.
Joyce Lukesic (Mills) seems to have it all : a luxury home , a handsome husband (Wagner) and terrific children. But her secure world of privilege is abruptly ended by the mafia-style executions of her husband's business partner , his wife and her mother.
An ambitious state investigator (Bauer) links Joyse to the crimes, using an Arizons law that allows one peron involved with a crime to assuse another - without corroboration. A known criminal who os tied to the murders claims Joyce was involved, and she is handcuffed in front of her own daughter and led away to jail.
The ensuing trial of justice. Certain of her innocence, Joyce maintains a calmdemeanor. The District Attorney portrays herto the jury as cold and manipulative, using her apparent lack of emotion to prove guilt, despite a glaring lack of evidence. The verdict of guilty demands the death sentence. Joyse is sent to jail, where she desperately tries to appeal the case.
Joyce's dream kife has become a living mightmare. Stripped of her family and possessions, she is left to fend for herself against brutal, hardened criminals and must draw on every ounce of will and character she possesses to survive behind bars, Her husband offers no support; he may well have ordered the killings himdelf. With Joyce in jail , he sells the house and leaves town with all their money.
Strengthened by her ordeal, Joyce emerges a streefighter, willing to take on a hostile justice system from her jail cell. Never again will she take freedom for granted, as she fights to prove her innocence and hold her shattered family together
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