Peter Maguire Peter Maguire i(A112918 works by)
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1 form y separately published work icon Plead Guilty, Get A Bond Ben Lewin , ( dir. Peter Maguire ) Australia : Lewin Films , 1990 Z1462466 1990 single work film/TV

A comedy of errors, Plead Guilty, Get a Bond explores the issue of how inaccessible a non-Aboriginal judicial system can be when applied to Aboriginal culture. Amy Winthrop is a young Aboriginal woman who has been charged with wounding her husband Freddie during a domestic argument. Everyone appears to expect her to simply plead guilty and receive a good behaviour bond. Her newly appointed and inexperienced Legal Aid Lawyer, Colin McKenzie, is outraged by this expectation, however, and persuades Amy to plead her innocence.
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