Murder In The County Of Monroe Chapter Summary

We are introduced to the author of the book, Bryan Stevenson who is a member of the bar in two states Alabama and Georgia. He then receives a call from the local Judge Robert E. Lee about a case which involves a man called Walter McMillian’s. He knew that he could have gotten into great danger but he decides to do the right thing and confront the case. In the county of Monroe an eighteen-year-old woman is brutally murdered. The murder took everyone by surprise and even after a few days of investigating no one could find concrete evidence to point out who was the killer. This in turn leads the police to be extremely anxious about solving this mystery. A poor woman is also murdered within a matter of days of the murder mentioned before. Karen

This, in turn, leads his business to lose many customers. The most surprising thing of them all is that there was no evidence against McMillian whatsoever. Except the fact that he was an african american man involved in an affair with a woman from another race. He had no criminal history but his tone of skin led some people to believe that he was possibly a dangerous person. Chapter 2
He briefly explains a pair of cases where black men died at the hands of the police simply because he they were black. Then he decides to portray how a man got beaten by the police simply because of a traffic violation that was not a big deal. He later died in his cell after being attacked by some officers. Stevenson assures that other prisoners witnessed the attack. He then learns about the death of a young black teenager who was shot and killed by an officer, who claimed that the he had been acting unconsciously. His parents got devastated because of two reasons:
• He was respectful and never showed acts of rebellion.
• There wasn’t any evidence of him being violent or handling any type of

She was sentenced to life in jail when she was just a teenager which is stupid because she is not in normal conditions. We also get to know the story of Ian, a guy who has been in solitary confinement for almost twenty years and he was also sentenced to life in prison without any parole. The situation becomes very delicate when Bryan shows us that there were a lot of young children who got to jail in Miami and they were all wither latinos or blacks. Antonio is a clear example of a guy who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that didn’t involve any physical injury and when he was just a teenager. Bryan got fed up of knowing that this stuff is happening and he decides to tell us why it is all a matter of business. And also how this people get to prison through a route that is flawed in many