Release Date: 1962
Director: Robert Mulligan
Distributor: Universal Pictures
A white attorney defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in Mississippi.
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The criminal justice system in the 1930's was unfair, there is no justice when a jury has decided that the defendant is guilty before hearing a case at trial. All the evidence proved that the defendant was innocent but he still received a guilty verdict. What kind of justice is that?
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