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.

NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS, a feature documentary by Peabody & Critic’s Choice-winning journalist Deborah S. Esquenazi, embeds with the Innocence Project as they forge a rare alliance with the Chief of Police and the District Attorney’s office to rebuild James’s case, despite the slim odds of exonerations granted to defendants in the State of Texas. Will James win and live free after 40 years?