2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. W | dG1feU5Xak94eWxBMlk
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00:01Officer Martin came in and candidly admitted that the only reason
00:06Bretton Butler was even stopped that morning
00:09was because he happened to be a black male walking in the neighborhood.
00:14Now think about that.
00:22A suspect's going to be a skinny black male wearing armed shorts,
00:26possibly using like a small character type pistol.
00:31I'm Pat McGinnis and I defend people charged with killing people.
00:37James Stevens and his wife were at a local Ramada Inn.
00:41They went to a continental breakfast.
00:44As they left, they're walking down a breezeway in that hotel
00:49and somebody shot and killed Mr. Stevens' wife.
00:53I'm Ann Fennell. I'm an attorney with the Public Defender's Office in Jacksonville, Florida.
00:57Went and got the victim's husband and he indicated that Bretton Butler was the person who shot his wife.
01:07So he's about 50 feet away and he says, that's the guy.
01:10Right.
01:11At some point, Brent, did Detective Glover hit you?
01:16Yes, ma'am.
01:18Did you shoot Mrs. Stevens at the Ramada Inn the morning of May 7th?
01:22No, ma'am. I didn't have anything to do with that.
01:24This entire case, everything important to it took place in two hours between 7 and 9 on a Sunday morning.
01:38And what the jury ultimately comes to believe about those two hours is going to determine whether Brent goes to prison for life or has returned to his family.
01:45Well, no, it's not just a very dangerous family.
01:46Well, I would say it's to be sure it's going to be too dangerous, his wife.
01:49And they can kill you as with an underpinning to your lawyer.
01:50He can kill you as with an underpinning to her husband or his wife.
01:51And they can kill you as with an underpinning to the attorney to his wife.
02:05And he'll be responding to his family.
02:08And if he says one driver is going to be a fairly daunting,
02:10they can kill you, but it's going to be because it's not going to be an underpinning to his wife.