The crowdfunded true-crime film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer is free to be released, following legal action by a judge portrayed in it.
A controversial film based on the real-life case of abortion clinic doctor and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell will now be released in US cinemas, after the conclusion of legal action against it by the judge involved in Gosnell’s 2013 trial.
Variety magazine reports that the makers of Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, are free to release their film after they settled with Judge Jeffrey P Minehart, who objected to his portrayal in the film.
Gosnell’s case became a lightning rod in the battle over abortion rights in the US. Having owned and operated clinics in Pennsylvania since the early 70s, Gosnell was repeatedly accused of performing illegal late-term abortions in unsafe and grotesquely unhygienic conditions, and in 2011 was arrested and charged with killing seven infants who had survived the initial termination procedure. In 2013 he was convicted on three counts of murder and the involuntary manslaughter in 2009 of Karnamaya Mongar, one of his patients.
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer stars Dean Cain as a detective investigating the case, and Earl Billings as Gosnell. Among the team behind the camera are executive producer John Sullivan, who previously shared directing credit with Dinesh d’Souza on America: Imagine the World Without Her and 2016: Obama’s America; writer-producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney who previously collaborated on anti-environmentalist documentaries Not Evil Just Wrong and Mine Your Own Business; and conservative political columnist and novelist Andrew Klavan, who is credited for the “teleplay”.
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