"Just Mercy "is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer as he is coming of age while presenting a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he did not commit. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.
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