Janet “Prissy” Gregory, a single mother with a haunted past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about the culpability of Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of assaulting a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of Calvin’s innocence, Janet decides, at great personal cost, to take on his case and fight for him when many of those closest to him turned their backs. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, she wages a 22-year battle against the justice system, and with the help of The Innocence Project, an organization that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing, she accomplished the near-impossible feat of overturning the travesty that put Calvin in prison for more than two decades.
Tonight at 8p Lifetime Movie Network in The Wronged Man Julia Ormond gives an amazing performance as a lawyer who tries to prove that the convicted man is innocents. When Prissy inherits the case of Calvin Willis she agrees to meet with the family, who has spent all their money to hire her firm and then she plans to move on because their money has run. But when she looks into his case she realizes he is innocent and spends the next 20 years trying to set him free at the cost of almost everything her life. The Wronged Man is based on actual events and it is really scary how someone who is innocent can be convicted of a crime and lose everything and the law that is there to protect him can’t do anything to set him free
