NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, Texas Monthly doc on false murder charge, + Q&A w/ Patricia Cummings!
Schedule
Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Price Center & Garden | San Marcos, TX
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As part of Lost River Film Fest, a true-crime documentary of a false murder conviction: a Texas Monthly presentation embedded with The Innocence Project, directed by a Peabody-winning journalist... www.nightinwesttexas.com/
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Forty years after a gay Apache man is framed for the brutal murder of a closeted Catholic priest, a police chief uncovers long-buried evidence that shakes up the small, oil-rich West Texas town that imprisoned him. Directed by Deborah S. Esquenazi.
Followed by a conversation with Patricia Cummings, a national leader in the innocence movement, & former supervisor of the Conviction Integrity & Special Investigations Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
Screening underwritten by the Center for the Study of the Southwest at TXST and the Caldwell/Hays Examiner, who in July 2024 published a story entitled Plight of San Marcos Teen Accused of Murder Highlights Benefit of a Conviction Integrity Unit in Hays Co:
drive.google.com/file/d/1re5Cze0xjokVTYXLXY7F9EjVBVWsmsiE/edit
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$10 for a Friday Day Pass, which includes this screening, with complementary craft beer from Middleton Brewing
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Price Center & Garden, 222 W San Antonio St, San Marcos, TX 78666-5550, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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