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"Just Mercy, " the new film about crusading attorney Bryan Stevenson (played by Michael B. Jordan), focuses on Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a wrongfully convicted death-row inmate from Monroeville, Alabama – the birthplace of Harper Lee, whose beloved novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" dealt with a lawyer fighting to free an innocent African-American defendant. The location, and the reaction of proud locals who resisted Stevenson's efforts to free McMillian, were true. "It was ironic to have people in the community tell me, 'You’re a lawyer, you should go to the "To Kill a Mockingbird" Museum, '" Stevenson says. "I had the same response every time: 'I'd love to, but I’m really busy freeing an innocent black man who has been wrongly convicted of a crime and facing execution. ' The disconnect between romanticizing that story and indifference to injustice in a real wrongful conviction, that very much parallels my story. " Jordan, who also executive produced "Just Mercy" (in theaters now in New York and LA, opens nationwide Friday), based on Stevenson's 2014 memoir of the same name, thought it vital to lean into the truth. "After meeting the man and understanding his work, to tell an honest portrayal is the only morally correct thing to do, " Jordan says. Here's how that goes down in "Just Mercy. " Our 'Just Mercy' review: Performances by Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx elevate predictable legal drama' Walter McMillian was nearly put to death for a crime he did not commit One of young lawyer Stevenson's first and most incendiary cases after founding the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative was McMillian, who had been sentenced to die in 1988 for the murder of an 18-year-old white woman on dubious evidence. After a day-and-a-half trial, the jury ignored multiple black witnesses who testified that McMillan was at a fish fry at the time of the crime. As shown in the film, McMillan was ordered held on death row even before his trial started. "It’s the only case I have ever worked on where my client spent months on death row, before ever having been convicted, " says Stevenson. "The newspapers would refer to him as 'death row defendant Walter McMillan. ' All of that led to the conditions that would make the wrongful conviction almost inevitable. That’s very accurate to what happened to Walter. " Bryan Stevenson was intimidated and threatened during the case Just as in the film, Stevenson received death threats for his work. "You're trying to do the right thing, trying to obtain justice and your life is being threatened, " Jordan says. Stevenson says a scene where prison guards subjected him to a strip search took place. Likewise, he was pulled over and held at gunpoint without provocation by police. "I had police officers pull their weapons out, point the gun at my head, and say, 'Move and I’ll blow your brains out, ' " Stevenson says. "Sadly, it’s a scene that’s familiar to a lot of people in this country. " Eva Ansley (played by Brie Larson) plays a large role in the film's fledgling Equal Justice Initiative, which provides legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes. Now operations director of EJI, Ansley has been an integral part since the organization's beginnings. Some EJI actions depicted during McMillian's long fight for freedom involved other lawyers. But for the sake of storytelling, these deeds were incorporated through Larson's Ansley. "When we had to figure out how to represent the other work, it was easy to decide that it should be represented through Eva’s commitment and the work she has done, " Stevenson says. A pivotal '60 Minutes' expose really did turn the tide for McMillian McMillian's case eventually drew national attention and was the subject of a 1992 "60 Minutes" expose that showed how flimsy the case was against the convicted man awaiting death by electrocution. "Perception is everything. To be able to put the facts out there for the world to see brought the pressure of society and helped wrongs get righted, " Jordan says. "That '60 Minutes' piece helped Walter McMillian get off death row. " In 1993, Alabama's Court of Criminal Appeals heard his case again. After turning down four previous appeals, the court ruled that McMillian had been wrongfully convicted. McMillian was freed after six years on death row and remained close with Stevenson until his death in 2013. While the timeline of the case was condensed for story reasons, Stevenson says he was relieved and impressed with the filmmakers' efforts for accuracy. "It was remarkable, " says Stevenson, who can laugh about one aspect of Jordan's realistic portrayal. "I told Michael the one area where he didn't have to be authentic was my body. He didn't have to lose the "Black Panther"/"Creed" body. He could keep all of those abs to play me. I wanted him to go on a warrior diet. ".

“ Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so.... [It] demonstrates, as powerfully as any book on criminal justice that I’ve ever read, the extent to which brutality, unfairness, and racial bias continue to infect criminal law in the United States. But at the same time that [Bryan] Stevenson tells an utterly damning story of deep-seated and widespread injustice, he also recounts instances of human compassion, understanding, mercy, and justice that offer hope.... Just Mercy is a remarkable amalgam, at once a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields. ” —David Cole, The New York Review of Books “A searing, moving and infuriating memoir... Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black or both.... Injustice is easy not to notice when it affects people different from ourselves; that helps explain the obliviousness of our own generation to inequity today. We need to wake up. And that is why we need a Mandela in this country. ” —Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times “Unfairness in the justice system is a major theme of our age.... This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: [Bryan] Stevenson’s life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life.... You don’t have to read too long to start cheering for this man. Against tremendous odds, Stevenson has worked to free scores of people from wrongful or excessive punishment, arguing five times before the Supreme Court.... The book extols not his nobility but that of the cause, and reads like a call to action for all that remains to be done.... The message of the book, hammered home by dramatic examples of one man’s refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made. Just Mercy will make you upset and it will make you hopeful.... Stevenson has been angry about [the criminal justice system] for years, and we are all the better for it. ” —Ted Conover, The New York Times Book Review “Inspiring... a work of style, substance and clarity... Stevenson is not only a great lawyer, he’s also a gifted writer and storyteller. ” — The Washington Post “As deeply moving, poignant and powerful a book as has been, and maybe ever can be, written about the death penalty. ” —The Financial Times “Brilliant. ” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, however, is very much alive and doing God’s work fighting for the poor, the oppressed, the voiceless, the vulnerable, the outcast, and those with no hope. Just Mercy is his inspiring and powerful story. ” —John Grisham “Bryan Stevenson is one of my personal heroes, perhaps the most inspiring and influential crusader for justice alive today, and Just Mercy is extraordinary. The stories told within these pages hold the potential to transform what we think we mean when we talk about justice. ” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow “A distinguished NYU law professor and MacArthur grant recipient offers the compelling story of the legal practice he founded to protect the rights of people on the margins of American society.... Emotionally profound, necessary reading. ” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review, Kirkus Prize Finalist) “A passionate account of the ways our nation thwarts justice and inhumanely punishes the poor and disadvantaged. ” — Booklist (starred review) “From the frontlines of social justice comes one of the most urgent voices of our era. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch who, through his work in redeeming innocent people condemned to death, has sought to redeem the country itself. This is a book of great power and courage. It is inspiring and suspenseful—a revelation. ” —Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns “Words such as important and compelling may have lost their force through overuse, but reading this book will restore their meaning, along with one’s hopes for humanity. ” —Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all. Just Mercy should be read by people of conscience in every civilized country in the world to discover what happens when revenge and retribution replace justice and mercy. It is as gripping to read as any legal thriller, and what hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation. ” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color. He has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.

“Just Mercy" stars Michael B. Jordan (left) as a young Harvard J. D. working to free an innocent death row inmate played by Jamie Foxx (right). © 2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harvard professors discuss new film, the story of Harvard Law alum Bryan Stevenson “ Just Mercy, ” the film based on the memoir of the same name by Harvard Law graduate Bryan Stevenson, ends with a sobering statistic: For every nine people executed in this country, one person on death row has been exonerated. Yet, at a talk in Boston following a recent screening of the film — which stars Michael B. Jordan as a young Stevenson, M. P. /J. ’85, working to free innocent death row inmate Walter McMillian, played by Jamie Foxx — Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker noted that makes the United States No. 1 in a problematic category. “We remain today the only developed Western democracy that continues to retain the death penalty, ” said Steiker, who directs the Criminal Justice Policy Program at the Law School and has written extensively on capital punishment. She called the U. S. practice something of a “historical accident” in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to declare it unconstitutional in 1972 because governing statutes “gave sentencers too much discretion that yielded arbitrary and discriminatory results. ” Blowback from the court of public opinion, a crime wave, and the administrations of two Republican presidents who appointed five justices to the court soon led to another pendulum swing. Four years later, the “American death penalty was back in business with a vengeance, as we might say. And for the next 25 years — the 25 years that included the story of Walter McMillian’s conviction and death sentence — American death sentences soared, ” said Steiker. “So from 1976 to about 2000, the U. quickly went to being one of the world’s leading executors every year. ” Cornell William Brooks (right) and Carol S. Steiker discuss the film in a Q&A session. Photo by Lorin Granger But then things changed again. Beginning in 2000, the death penalty began a “free fall” spurred by the use of DNA evidence, said Steiker. “The public discovered that in fact many people, not just Walter McMillian, had been tried and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for crimes that they didn’t commit … That fact, more than anything else, has moved the views of many people in the American public against the death penalty. ” Thirty states still have the death penalty, but its use is at record lows. According to a report by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, 2018 marked the fourth consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions and 50 death sentences, reflecting a long-term decline of capital punishment. The film follows Stevenson’s earliest days with the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, and his struggles to fight for McMillian in the face of racism, intimidation, and malfeasance. Stevenson joined the nonprofit organization that counsels those who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons, those unable to pay for effective representation, and those who have been denied a fair trial, in 1989, a year after he met McMillian. Stevenson proved that prosecution witnesses had been pressured to lie on the stand, and McMillian’s conviction was overturned and he was released in 1993, after six years on death row for a crime he had not committed. But not all of Stevenson’s clients are innocent. In the movie, he also fights for the life of Herbert Richardson, a Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who was charged with murder after planting a bomb on the porch of a woman who had broken up with him. Richardson was executed in 1989. Teaching other lawyers “how to advocate on behalf of guilty defendants, how to advocate for their lives, how to put on what’s called a mitigating case, how to basically show a jury … the humanity of a person, about how a person is more than the worst thing they have ever done, and how to plead to a jury for mercy, for just mercy, ” is another of Stevenson’s lasting legacies, said Steiker. Cornell Williams Brooks, who took part in the discussion with Steiker, said the film should “be studied like a casebook and a point of meditation. ” Brooks, professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice at Harvard Kennedy School, sees lessons for aspiring lawyers and policymakers in Stevenson’s embrace of proximity, the notion of getting as close as possible to the suffering and despair of those in need. “Bryan doesn’t interview his client from across the room; he is proximate, he is close, he is in touch with his client, ” said Brooks. And he is in touch with his client’s “story as a human being. ” Brooks also highlighted the importance of storytelling in the film and the ways in which Stevenson brings multiple voices to McMillian’s defense, adding a “moral gravitas” to the narrative and allowing his “humanity to come to the fore. ” For Brooks, the film also delivers on hope. “The eloquence of [Stevenson’s] example is that hope is morally chosen, not empirically demonstrated, ” Brooks said. “We have to choose to be hopeful, we have to choose to believe. ” In "Just Mercy, " Michael B. Jordan's character advocates for incarcerated people facing the death penalty. Steiker and Brooks urged students to think about the broad range of approaches available to them to work against the death penalty, including arguing for someone’s innocence and humanity, the skyrocketing costs from administering the death penalty, and the idea of forming coalitions with unlikely advocates such as prison wardens, guards, and police officers. “Lots of things appeal to different people, ” said Steiker. “You’ve got to study your target audience and you have to know what’s going to appeal to them. ” More broadly, Brooks encouraged his listeners to consider a historical framing when confronting institutional racism in the criminal justice system and beyond. “Talking about lynching, talking about the new Jim Crow, talking about stop-and-frisk being a digitized 21st-century version of slave captures and slave patrollers” is key, he said. “Simply telling the truth about racism [is] necessary but not always sufficient. ” “It’s time for us to take a step back … it’s a question of reflecting on what our moral values are as a society, ” said Lina Iddisah, who is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at the Kennedy School. Stevenson has pushed the historical narrative forward in Alabama with his most recent efforts, including the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and the nearby National Memorial for Peace and Justice dedicated to thousands of victims of racial injustice and lynching. Though not in attendance for the talk, which was sponsored by the Law School and Kennedy School, he made a brief appearance, introducing the film in a three-minute video. “I think we are living at a time when we have to be resolute in combatting the politics of fear and anger, ” said Stevenson. “Fear and anger is what gave rise to the wrongful conviction of William McMillian. It’s what allowed institutions to turn their back on fair and just treatment. We are living at a time where in too many communities our system treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. There is a presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to some people — black people, brown people, people who are different — and to combat this we need a community of people who are just willing to talk about what justice requires. ”.

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