I saw that someone made attempt at a claim that this was far from realistic; however, there are multiple stories in the news where someone, after being wrongfully incarcerated for a crime that he or she had not committed, are able to finally be released after 40 years, in some cases. And that's just the ones that have, hopefully, not been executed although innocent. The writers of this short film even talked about a case that they had read about in which a person stayed in jail for weeks just because he had the same name. The person's court-appointment attorney did not even pay attention that the age age and height did not match and that, only when put in front of a judge, did the judge know that it was not the right person right away. This film does a great job, at the end, letting it be known how much of a life one loses when falsely incarcerated by job loss, housing loss and the cost of possibly getting a good attorney. The film also shows how poor can be tricked into pleading guilty to a crime that he or she did not commit due to being scared of the unknown outcome.
Review of Please Hold
