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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This hybrid fiction-documentary engaged the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional, yet unscripted, trial that never happened for one of the nation's most disturbing tragedies.
2) Just mercy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5" -- a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
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