| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
“Shadows of Doubt: The State vs. Vincent Simmons” searches for the truth behind the accusation, trial, and conviction of an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. One of the ways in which the film looks for the truth is to facilitate a meeting between accused rapist Vincent Simmons, a black man who steadfastly maintains his innocence, and Karen and Sharon Sanders, the white twin sisters whom he allegedly raped twenty-two years earlier in Marksville, Louisiana. In the end, regardless of the efforts to look into the case, the film as well as the justice system fails to prove Simmons’ guilt or innocence, leaving him and the case in the same point where it has been two decades before. What the film manages to do however is to present a corrupt or markedly lax prosecution that was contemptuous of due process, clashing with an overburdened and largely disinterested defense.
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