Just Mercy

00:40:48,859 --> 00:40:51,729 I can't believe you met my family. 674 00:40:53,030 --> 00:40:54,633 Drove down that dirt road, 675 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:56,301 crammed up in that little house, 676 00:40:56,368 --> 00:40:57,636 talked to all my people, 677 00:40:57,703 --> 00:41:00,171 say you gonna try to fight for me. 678 00:41:04,676 --> 00:41:06,311 That mean a lot. 679 00:41:08,580 --> 00:41:10,781 It meant a lot to me, too. 680 00:41:12,417 --> 00:41:13,485 Oh, uh... 681 00:41:14,885 --> 00:41:17,788 Minnie wanted me to give this to you. 682 00:41:20,791 --> 00:41:22,059 And if you don't mind, 683 00:41:22,126 --> 00:41:24,429 I have something I wanna show you. 684 00:41:26,831 --> 00:41:29,066 It's a statement from Darnell Houston, 685 00:41:29,133 --> 00:41:30,935 saying that he was with Bill Hooks 686 00:41:31,002 --> 00:41:33,238 three miles away at the time of the murder. 687 00:41:33,305 --> 00:41:35,940 So, there's no way he could have seen your truck there. 688 00:41:36,007 --> 00:41:37,609 That's good, right? 689 00:41:37,676 --> 00:41:39,411 That's very good. 690 00:41:39,478 --> 00:41:42,780 I'm gonna submit this with a motion for a new trial. 691 00:41:50,188 --> 00:41:52,156 I know you talked to, uh, Minnie. 692 00:41:52,224 --> 00:41:55,260 She told you what I did to her. 693 00:41:55,327 --> 00:41:57,262 I ain't got no excuse for cheating on a woman 694 00:41:57,329 --> 00:42:00,097 good as that one, good as she been to me. 695 00:42:01,266 --> 00:42:03,934 I don't know why she's standing by me. 696 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:05,237 She's standing by you 697 00:42:05,304 --> 00:42:07,406 because she knows you shouldn't be in here. 698 00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:10,041 And so do I. 699 00:42:11,543 --> 00:42:14,045 I know you didn't kill Ronda Morrison. 700 00:42:14,111 --> 00:42:17,582 And I can help you prove that in court if you'll let me. 701 00:42:24,822 --> 00:42:26,924 You know, you done met my whole family. 702 00:42:26,991 --> 00:42:29,528 You know everything about 'em. 703 00:42:29,594 --> 00:42:32,129 I don't know nothing about you, though. 704 00:42:32,197 --> 00:42:34,098 - What would you like to know? - I wanna know it all. 705 00:42:34,165 --> 00:42:38,035 Like why you... Why you doing this? 706 00:42:38,102 --> 00:42:39,471 - Why am I a lawyer? - No, no, no. 707 00:42:39,538 --> 00:42:41,273 Why is you a lawyer down here in Alabama, 708 00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:44,909 taking these cases that ain't nobody gonna pay you for? 709 00:42:52,484 --> 00:42:55,320 I grew up down a road just like yours. 710 00:42:56,521 --> 00:42:59,558 I played soccer in a dirt field 711 00:42:59,624 --> 00:43:01,226 with the pigs and chickens. 712 00:43:02,594 --> 00:43:05,230 Used to pump sewage from my yard. 713 00:43:09,133 --> 00:43:12,002 When I was a teenager, my grandfather was murdered 714 00:43:12,069 --> 00:43:14,138 over a black-and-white TV. 715 00:43:16,274 --> 00:43:19,211 We kept waiting for someone to show up to help. 716 00:43:21,413 --> 00:43:23,013 They never did. 717 00:43:24,949 --> 00:43:27,285 And that's when I realized that, 718 00:43:27,352 --> 00:43:30,054 outside my community, nobody cared. 719 00:43:31,390 --> 00:43:33,592 'Cause to them, he's just another black man 720 00:43:33,658 --> 00:43:35,293 killed in the projects. 721 00:43:39,431 --> 00:43:41,366 I know what it's like to be in the shadows. 722 00:43:44,302 --> 00:43:46,405 That's why I'm doing this. 723 00:43:49,940 --> 00:43:51,942 That's a pretty good reason. 724 00:44:01,386 --> 00:44:02,554 Okay. 725 00:44:04,989 --> 00:44:06,425 Okay... 726 00:44:08,860 --> 00:44:10,462 Let's get to work. 727 00:44:13,598 --> 00:44:14,999 Okay. 728 00:44:31,416 --> 00:44:34,118 - Hey, yo, Johnny D.? - Mmm-hmm? 729 00:44:34,186 --> 00:44:36,288 You signing up with that lawyer? 730 00:44:36,354 --> 00:44:37,988 I'm gonna give him a try. 731 00:44:38,055 --> 00:44:41,493 Seem like everybody on the row working with him now. 732 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,595 I'm starting to feel left out. 733 00:44:44,696 --> 00:44:46,598 Is he really that good? 734 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,034 I hope so. 735 00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:51,536 What you think, Herbert? 736 00:44:51,603 --> 00:44:54,372 Should I just dump my guy and make the switch over? 737 00:44:57,776 --> 00:44:59,311 Herb, you hear me? 738 00:45:00,044 --> 00:45:01,446 You there? 739 00:45:03,215 --> 00:45:04,583 I'm here. 740 00:45:06,218 --> 00:45:07,719 Herb, you okay? 741 00:45:12,958 --> 00:45:16,060 They set my date. 742 00:45:23,602 --> 00:45:25,169 Look here, Herb, don't you worry about nothing now. 743 00:45:25,237 --> 00:45:28,038 Everything gonna be a'ight. Okay? 744 00:45:28,105 --> 00:45:29,608 Ain't nothing over yet. 745 00:45:29,674 --> 00:45:31,943 You got Bryan working for you now. 746 00:45:33,678 --> 00:45:36,080 I ain't... I ain't like you guys. 747 00:45:36,146 --> 00:45:38,148 I deserve what's coming. 748 00:45:38,216 --> 00:45:41,118 All right, now, see, Herb... 74