The film Just Mercy opened this week. It is the story of Walter McMillan, who was wrongfully convicted in 1987.
The trial was a sham, all exculpatory evidence hidden, the one witness was a felon who traded his false testimony for a shorter sentence. This gross miscarriage of justice happened because those in power — the sheriff, law enforcement and the DA — all conspired to convict McMillan to bring closure to the community for a crime he had no part in.
