![]() 22, 1992, and if that seems like a long time ago, it was the middle segment in an episode that also featured Woody Allen defending himself against molestation charges and a piece about a grassroots anti-deficit group that was coincidentally funded by a private equity billionaire, so how long ago could it have been? Besides McMillian, the segment features the real Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. For a thumbnail sketch of the facts, here’s the 60 Minutes report about McMillian’s case that is featured in the movie. ![]() An overwhelmingly white jury sentenced him to life in prison, but the judge overrode the jury and condemned him to die.Īttorney Bryan Stevenson took McMillian’s case in 1988, and in 1993 secured McMillian’s freedom after demonstrating that the prosecution had withheld evidence and pressured their star witness into lying. McMillian was convicted after a trial that lasted only a day and a half. Walter McMillian’s ordeal is more or less accurately portrayed in Just Mercy: He was arrested in 1987 and charged with the murder of Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white woman who was shot in broad daylight at the Monroeville, Alabama dry-cleaning shop where she worked. The murder remains unsolved to this day, and the people who ruined McMillian’s life prospered in the aftermath. Just Mercy is structured like a standard legal thriller-secrets uncovered, wrongs righted, justice done, and so on-with one exception, which is that no one is punished in the end. The film is about inertia as much as anything: When Stevenson looks into McMillian’s case, it is immediately apparent he had nothing to do with the crime, but it still takes years to clear his name, simply because the gears of justice have started grinding. Just Mercy, director Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 memoir, is about the exoneration of Walter McMillian, a black man who spent nearly six years on Alabama’s death row after being convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Zadie Smith Never Should Have Listened to Her Critics ![]() A New Star Couple Has Emerged From the Wreckage of Celebrity Divorce Summer, and Nobody Knows How to Handle It ![]()
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