Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern TownOn a busy Saturday morning in November 1986, in the small southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, a beautiful white teenager named Ronda Morrison was found brutally murdered in the back room of the dry cleaning store where she worked. Several months later, Walter McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was arrested and then convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair in a trial that lasted less than three days. His guilt was seen as unquestionable until a young, black, Harvard-educated Yankee lawyer launched his own investigation into the murder. Thanks to Bryan Stevenson's unremitting efforts, six years after Walter McMillian was consigned to a cell on Alabama's death row, he walked out a free man. The state had been forced to acknowledge that investigators had used perjured testimony and withheld evidence from the defense that would have proved him innocent. |
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Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town Pete Earley No preview available - 1995 |
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town Pete Earley No preview available - 1995 |
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