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Jayde 2021-12-29 08:01:20

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"It's easy to see this case as one man trying to prove his innocence.But when you take a black man and you put him on death row a year before his trial and exclude black people from serving on his jury.When you base your conviction on a coerced testimony of a white felon, and ignore the testimony of two dozen law-abiding black witnesses.When any evidence proving his innocence is suppressed and anyone who tries to tell the truth is threatened, this case becomes more than the trial of just a single defendant.It becomes a test, of whether we”re going to be governed by fear and by anger, or by the rule of law.

If the people standing at the back of this courtroom are all presumed guilty when accused. If they have to leave here and live in fear of when this very thing will happen to them. If we just accept the system that treats you better if you' re rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent, then we can't claim to be just. If we say we're committed to equal justice under law to protecting the rights of every citizen regardless of wealth ,race, or status ,then we have to end this nightmare for Walter McMillan and his family.

The charges against him have been proven to be a false construction of desperate people fueled by bigotry and bias, who ignored the truth in exchange for easy solutions, and that's not the law. That's not justice. That's not right.

I ask that this case be dismissed immediately, Your Honor.

Thank you."

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Extended Reading
  • Ned 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    It's a story of truth obscured by prejudice, the spirit of the law twisted by power, the pursuit of justice being thwarted and threatened, and all the values ​​you believe are on the verge of collapsing. But watching this movie and looking at the news around me, I have to admit that I envy them in the movie. Because of the world they live in, they still see hope despite the fuck.

  • Pasquale 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    Wonder Woman is a civil rights lawyer on death row, but she's not the protagonist. A few decades ago, there were many cases of black people in the United States being wronged (and there are many eyebrow pencils now), and black lawyers provided legal services for death row prisoners for free. While the lawyers in these true stories are great, especially in those days, there are so many movies like this that most of them don't seem to be very different. It doesn't seem to be particularly impressive, all of them are overcoming difficulties, helping the weak, and redressing their grievances (or being powerless), but the protagonists may be lawyers, journalists, civil rights fighters, and so on. This one isn't very special either.

Just Mercy quotes

  • Anthony Ray Hinton: [to Walter on his potential execution] You know what they said to me when they pulled me over... one of you niggers did it and... if you didn't then you're taking one for your homies

  • Walter McMillian: [to Herb] You need to be in a hospital not here