Written by Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, tells a story of an upcoming lawyer who wanted to help falsely accused individuals get off death row. Bryan Stevenson actually wrote this book about himself. As an African American lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School decided to move to Montgomery, Alabama in hopes of opening his very own law firm. However, this was not going to be your stereotypical firm. Stevenson purposely made his law office a non-profit to help inmates who were falsely accused of committing a crime that ultimately sentenced them the death penalty.
The concept of having a non-profit law firm was very interesting to me because whenever you hire an attorney it is known that you will need to
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When Stevenson was working on his first big case of man name Walter McMillian, Stevenson did anything and everything to prove to the judge and court that Mr. McMillian was an innocent man and was falsely accused. Due to false testimonies that were made in court because a few officers did not like Walter McMillian because he was black. The idea of thinking that blacks could get blamed for crimes that they did not commit just because the color of their skin was different compared to everyone else’s is beyond …show more content…
I would understand if it was a case similar to O.J. Simpson, who had all the odds pointing to guilty but found innocent for the heinous murder that he committed; but, this is about a man who was falsely accused from the beginning. When Walter McMillian went to court to be trialed for the first time, there was “reliable evidence” that miraculously proved him guilty without any type of forensics to back it up. I thought that to be found guilty there needs to cold hard evidence to show the judge for a fair trial? And to not side with someone’s opinion because they heard a lie from their