Classic Statement

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
  • Louisa 2021-12-29 08:01:20

    I feel that my entire law school career is to understand this film from another angle

  • Greta 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    "Hugo wrote that to him each guillotine was named Lesurques (innocents who were wrongly guillotined to death), and he did not mean every prisoner whose head was beheaded by the guillotine. It's all Resuk, but just one Resuk is enough to put the guillotine to shame forever."

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