基於真實事件
門羅縣 阿拉巴馬州
好了 開始切塊裝車吧 All right, let's chop and load.
晚上好 警官 Good evening, Officer.
你們要看我的駕照嗎 Y'all need my license or anything, huh?
不 沒必要 No, that's not necessary.
你的卡車看起來很炫酷 That's a sharp-looking truck you got.
是的 先生 謝謝您 Yes, sir. Thank you.
輪轂看起來要不少錢 Those rims look like they cost you a pretty penny.
你的老闆是誰 Who you been working for?
不 先生 我不為別人工作 Oh, no, sir. I don't work for nobody.
我有自己的制漿生意 Got my own pulping business.
我把這附近的樹都清理乾淨了 You know, I clear out all these trees around here.
所以 你不用向老闆報告 是嗎 So, you ain't got no boss to check in with, huh?
那一定很不錯 That must be pretty nice.
可以在路上跑來跑去 Free to run up and down the road,
無論你什麼時候想去哪裏 wherever you want to, whenever you want to,
開著這輛豪華卡車都可以去 in this fancy truck.
如果我妻子不同意也不行 Hey, well, not if my wife got something to say about it.
是啊 Yeah.
但我聽說之前她也沒能阻攔你 I heard that ain't stopped you before, though.
對吧 約翰尼·D Ain't that right, Johnny D.?
你想休息一下嗎 You want to make a break for it? Hmm?
不 先生 我不想做任何事 No, sir, I don't wanna do nothing...
因為在你休息完之後 'Cause after what you done,
就沒有任何借口逃脫這一切 I'm looking for any excuse to get this over with
就在這裏 就現在 right here, right now.
先生 我什麼都沒做 Sir, I ain't did nothing,
我覺得你們找錯人了 and I think y'all got the wrong person here.
你們把我 Y'all got me confused
和某個人搞混了 我想 with somebody. And I think...
我沒把你和任何人搞混 I ain't got you confused with nobody.
我跟這事沒關係 I don't have a thing to do with this.
先生 你把我和某人搞混了 Sir, you got me confused with somebody.
我沒做錯什麼 I ain't did nothing wrong.
我們都知道蒙羅維爾 We all know Monroeville
是個寧靜的小鎮 as the peaceful town
哈珀·李在此寫下了 where Harper Lee wrote
《殺死一隻知更鳥》 To Kill a Mockingbird.
去年 一場殘酷的犯罪打破了寧靜 Last year, that peace was shattered by a brutal crime.
在11月1日 On the 1st of November,
18歲的隆達·莫裏森 18-year-old Ronda Morrison
被發現死於傑克遜洗衣店 was found dead at Jackson Cleaners.
莫裏森被勒住並槍擊 Morrison had been strangled and shot
兇手是沃爾特·麥克米利安 by Walter McMillian,
當地人稱約翰尼·D known locally as Johnny D.
麥克米利安被陪審團定罪 McMillian was convicted by a jury
被判無期徒刑 who recommended a life sentence.
但如今 But today,
法官羅伯特·E·李·基 Judge Robert E. Lee Key
推翻了陪審團的決定 overrode their decision
判處麥克米利安死刑 and sentenced McMillian to death.
我們向社區保證過 We promised the community
蒙羅維爾治安官 Tom 泰特
我們會找到他 我們找到了 that we would find him, and we did.
你在我鎮上犯了這樣的罪 You commit a crime like this in my town,
不管怎樣 你都要付出代價 one way or another, you're gonna pay for it.
如今麥克米利安在等待處決 As McMillian awaits execution
被關押在霍爾曼懲教所 at Holman Correctional Facility,
悲傷的社會在知道這些後 a grieving community can take some solace
可以得到些許安慰 in knowing that, today,
正義終於得到了伸張 justice has finally been served.
謝謝您 Thank you.
傑克遜 佐治亞州
你有一個小時 You got one hour.
你好戴維斯先生 我是布賴恩 Hi, Mr. Davis. I'm Bryan.
叫我亨利 Henry.
南方囚犯辯護委員會 The Southern Prisoners Defense Committee,
他們派我來告訴你 they sent me here to tell you that,
他們還沒為你找到律師 that they don't have a lawyer for you yet,
但他們希望能盡快找到 but they hope to soon.
你不是律師嗎 You're not a lawyer?
不 我還在上學 No. I'm still in school.
只是夏天在這裏實習 Just interning here for the summer.
所以關於我的案子你沒什麼能說的嗎 So, you can't tell me nothing about my case?
我本該告訴你 I mean, I was supposed to tell you
你在明年之前 that you're not at risk of execution
都沒有被處決的危險 any time within the next year.
你能再說一遍嗎 Can you say that again?
你明年前的任何時候 That you're not at risk of execution any time
都不會有被處決的危險 within the next year?
這是我很久以來聽到的最好的消息 That's the best news I've heard in a long time.
如果我馬上就要被處決 I didn't want my wife or kids
我不想讓我的妻子或孩子看到我 showing up if I had an execution date coming.
現在他們可以來了 Now they can come visit.
謝謝您 Thank you.
真的 Serious.
我媽媽逼我加入我們教堂的唱詩班 My mom made me join our church choir
我那時大概四歲 when I was, like, four.
我高中一直唱男中音 I sang lead baritone all through high school.
我從小在教堂彈鋼琴 I played piano at my church growing up.
非洲衛理公會嗎 AME?
上帝是善良的 God is good...
一直都是 ...all the time.
一直都是 All the time.
兩個AME唱詩班的男孩在死囚區聊天 A couple AME Choir boys hanging on death row.
我媽媽知道會瘋的 My mom would go trip.
夥計 太瘋狂了 Man, that's crazy.
你在哪所學校 What school are you going to?
我在哈佛 I'm at Harvard.
真的嗎 你要去哈佛嗎 Seriously? You're going to Harvard?
那是白人男孩的世界 兄弟 That's white-boy status, bro.
你來這貧民窟幹什麼 What the hell are you doing slumming it up in here for?
我上法學院是因為我只是想幫助別人 I'm in law school because I just wanted to help people.
只是還沒找到最好的辦法 Just haven't figured out the best way to do that yet.
說實話 這次實習 Honestly, this internship
是目前為止最好的經歷 has been the best experience so far.
在死囚區工作是你最好的經歷嗎 Working on death row has been your best experience?
你得多出去看看 兄弟 You need to get out more, bro.
兩小時前就該結束了 Should've been done two hours ago.
對不起我沒意識到 本該看著時間的 I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Supposed to watch the clock.
先生 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Sir!
冷靜點 他什麼都沒做 Calm down, he didn't do anything!
你得閉嘴 You need to shut your mouth.
沒事的 布賴恩 It's okay, Bryan.
別擔心我 你回去吧 Don't worry about me. You just come back.
♪ 我在向上的道路 ♪ ♪ I'm pressing on ♪
♪ 努力前行 ♪ ♪ The upward way ♪
♪ 我每天都在攀登新的高峰 ♪ ♪ New heights I'm gaining every day ♪
♪ 仍在祈禱 ♪ ♪ Still praying as ♪
♪ 我要繼續前進 ♪ ♪ I'm onward bound ♪
♪ 主啊 請將我的足跡 ♪ ♪ "Lord, plant my feet ♪
♪ 印在更高的地方 ♪ ♪ On higher ground" ♪
正義的慈悲
兩年後
蘇塞克斯郡 特拉華州
媽媽還在生你的氣嗎 Mom still mad at you?
為什麼生氣 For what?
我不知道 I don't know.
也許是因為拒絕了所有的工作邀請 Maybe for rejecting all those job offers
這樣你就可以在阿拉巴馬窮困潦倒了 so you can be poor in Alabama.
豪伊給她講了 And Howie telling her
莫比爾的私刑 簡直在幫倒忙 about that lynching in Mobile didn't help.
什麼 What?
我說那是七年前的事了 I said it happened seven years ago.
是啊 這樣好多了 Yeah, that made it better.
你們倆本該站在我這邊的 You two were supposed to be on my side.
爸爸 車況怎麼樣 Pop, how are we looking up there?
剛加了三升油 Just added three quarts of oil.
但你到了那裏應該再檢查一遍 But you should check it again when you get there.
好的 謝謝 All right, thanks.
跟你媽媽談過了嗎 Talk to your mom yet?
那些葉子惹到你了嗎 What did those leaves do to you?
你不跟你兒子說再見嗎 You're not gonna say bye to your son?
我知道你現在拿到了法律學位 I know you got your law degree now,
你覺得自己長大了 and you think you're grown,
但你還是我的孩子 but you're still my child.
如果你在那裏被殺了 And I'm the one who has to deal
我是那個不得不 with your funeral arrangements
為你安排葬禮的人 if you get killed down there.
別這麼說 媽 Come on, Ma.
你覺得這很有趣嗎 Oh, you think this is funny?
因為如果你意識不到 'Cause if you can't see
你所做的事有多危險 the danger in what you're doing,
你得找哈佛要回你的錢 you need to ask Harvard for your money back.
你上學前可比現在聰明多了 You used to be smarter than that.
我第一次去死囚區的時候 The first time I visited death row,
我沒想到遇到了和我一樣大的人 I wasn't expecting to meet somebody the same age as me.
在同樣的音樂中長大 Grew up on the same music.
就從像我們這樣的街區來的 From a neighborhood just like ours.
也可能會落到我頭上 媽 Could've been me, Mama.
我不想離你太遠 我愛你 I don't wanna move far away from you. I love you.
但你總是教我為人民而戰 But you always taught me to fight for the people
幫助最需要幫助的人 who need the help the most.
我為你感到驕傲 孩子 I am very proud of you, son.
我知道你的心是充滿正義的 I know your heart's in the right place.
但沒那麼簡單 But it's not that simple.
你這樣做會讓很多人不安 What you're doing is gonna make a lot of people upset.
你最好小心點 You better be careful.
我會的 I will.
我保證 I promise.
她笑了 There she goes.
你開玩笑吧 You gotta be kidding me.
我們有個協議 這個地方租期兩年 We had an agreement to rent this space for two years.
你說已經約定好了 You said it was a done deal.
那時我不知道你要在這裏做什麼 That's before I knew what you were doing here.
我們為窮人 We are giving poor people
提供憲法保障的訴訟權利 比爾 their constitutional right to counsel, Bill.
你能跟我兒子解釋一下 Do you mind explaining to my son
你覺得這有什麼不對嗎 what you think is so wrong with that?
伊娃 怎麼了 Eva, what's up?
布賴恩 謝天謝地 Oh, Bryan. Thank God.
這是我們組織的執行董事 This is the executive director of our organization.
他剛到這裏 正準備 He just got here and was expecting
搬進你答應我們的辦公室 to move into the office that you promised us.
你說你是負責人 You said you were the director.
運營負責人 Director of Operations.
你讓我在我老闆面前 And you're making me look very bad
看起來很糟糕 in front of my boss right now.
她說你是律師 She said you were a lawyer,
但沒人告訴我是死刑犯的律師 but nobody told me it was for murderers on death row.
我們為需要幫助的人提供法律服務 We're providing legal services to people who need help.
他們得去別的地方幫助 And they'll have to do it someplace else.
我這裏不能有這樣的人 'Cause I can't have people like that around here.
不是每個人都該在那裏的 先生 Not everyone is in there for a good reason, sir.
祝你們度過快樂的一天 Y'all have a good day now.
真是人渣 What a piece of shit.
我很抱歉 I'm so sorry.
我可不想這麼歡迎你 This is not how I wanted to welcome you here.
我會給我們找個辦公室 我保證會的 I will find us an office, I promise you I will.
只不過我得改變策略了 I just gotta change my tactics.
沒事的 在哪裏我們都可以工作 It'll be fine. We can work from anywhere.
是啊 我們只要讓克裏斯 Yeah, we'll just have Kris
把客廳裏他的玩具清理乾淨就行 clean up his toys in the living room.
-對不 克裏斯 -是嗎 - Right, Kris? - Oh, yeah?
我考慮考慮 I'll think about it.
寶貝 抱歉我說髒話了 I'm sorry for cussing, baby.
沒事兒 It's okay.
但他就是個垃圾 He was a piece of shit, though.
我修的心理學 I was a psychology major
論文寫的是關於死刑問題 而那時 writing a paper on capital punishment
我認識了第一位死囚犯 韋恩·裏特 when I met my first death row inmate, Wayne Ritter.
他和他的朋友搶劫了莫比爾的一家當鋪 He and his friend robbed a pawn shop in Mobile.
他的朋友開槍打死了店主結果兩人都死了 His friend shot the owner and they both got death.
你是因為他才來幹這個的嗎 Is he the reason why you got into this?
他的律師公開地支持死刑 His attorney was openly in favor of the death penalty.
他覺得瘋狗就應該死 He thought mad dogs ought to die.
很多死囚犯 A lot of the folks on death row
要麼就是有著卑鄙的辯護律師 either had shitty representation,
要麼連個為他辯護的人都找不到 or none at all.
所以我開始給電話黃頁上每一個 So, I just started calling every law firm
律所打電話 in the Yellow Pages,
想找一個能幫忙的人 just trying to find anybody that could help.
我平均每天被拒絕20次 I was averaging 20 rejections a day.
她那會兒倍感壓力 She was pretty stressed out.
我都打算放棄了 I was just about to give up
可突然接到了一個哈佛畢業的律師的電話 when I got a call from a Harvard lawyer saying that
他剛剛通過阿拉巴馬州的司法考試 he had just passed the Alabama Bar
而且拿到了聯邦資助準備開一個法律中心 and had federal funding to start a legal center
為死囚犯服務 for inmates on death row.
在你聘用我之前我就已經投身這個工作了 I was in before you even offered me the job.
那時候你也不知道我不能給你付工資 And before you knew I couldn't pay you anything.
真的嗎 What's that?
對 道格還不知道這件事 Oh, yeah, Doug doesn't know about that part yet.
親愛的 抱歉了 Sorry, honey.
怎麼了兒子 你看上去很累 How's it going, son? You seem tired.
好了 我們去刷牙吧 Okay. Let's go brush your teeth.
我先帶他去刷牙 Excuse us.
我等下給你把沙發收拾好 布賴恩 I'll make up the couch for you, Bryan.
我為你的所作所為感到振奮 I'm excited about what you're doing.
我也這麼覺得 Me, too.
我應該被登記了 I should be in the log.
我今天預約了六位當事人 I'm scheduled to see six clients today.
之前沒見過你 Well, I ain't seen you before.
那是因為我才搬來 That's because I just moved here.
你真是個律師嗎 You really a lawyer?
我是 Yes. I am.
那我要對你進行搜身 Well, I'm gonna have to search you.
去那個房間裏 把所有的衣服都脫掉 Just go on in that room there and take everything off.
律師在合法會見時不需要脫衣搜查 Attorneys aren't strip searched for legal visits.
你要是不進去脫衣服 Well, you ain't gonna visit shit
你就見不到那群垃圾 unless you get in that room and strip.
走吧 Let's go.
褲子 還有內褲 Pants and underwear.
彎腰 伸手 Bend over and spread.
可以了 You're clear.
我參加過越南戰爭 I fought in Nam.
是第一騎兵師的 First Cavalry Division.
親眼目睹了戰友死在戰場 Saw a lot of friends die.
醫生說我有創傷後應激障礙 Doctor said I got PTSD.
我幹了一些他們口中所說的事情 I did what they said I did.
我把炸彈放在她的門廊上 I put the bomb on her porch.
我知道這有些說不通 I know it don't make sense,
但我沒想要殺任何人 but I didn't mean to kill nobody.
我想他們應該就快要處決我了 I think they're gonna set my execution soon.
上一個律師說 Last lawyer said
他也無能為力了 there ain't nothing left to do.
不到最後一刻 就還有轉機 There's always something that we can do.
無論你做了什麼 你的人生都意義非凡 Whatever you did, your life is still meaningful.
我會竭盡所能 And I'm gonna do everything possible
阻止他們抹煞你人生的意義 to keep them from taking it.
現在告訴我 到底發生了什麼 Now, tell me everything that happened.
曾經法庭給我指派了一個律師 I was given a court-appointed lawyer,
他太卑鄙了 and he was pretty pitiful.
從沒跟我討論過辯護策略 Never really talked to me about setting up a defense.
我見了那傢伙也就三次吧 I probably met the dude three times.
一點不誇張 Literally.
他說對我最有利的就是 He told me that it would be in my best interest
不要反駁所有的犯罪指控 to plead no contest to all of those charges.
我打算以無罪抗辯 I'm gonna plead not guilty.
我說了我沒做過這些事 I said I didn't do it.
這和我一點關係都沒有 I didn't have nothing to do with that.
「你現在20歲 認罪之後 "You're 20 right now, if you take this plea
再老老實實服刑 and you do the whole time,
45歲就放出來了」 you'll only be 45 when you get out."
我的審判過程只持續了45分鐘到1個小時 In the middle of my trial, which only lasted
這也是聞所未聞了 45 minutes to a hour, which is unheard of.
他不讓我站在證人席上作證 He wouldn't let me take the stand.
所以判決就是我有罪 So, they ended up finding me guilty.
法官嘲笑我 說 The judge laughed at me and said
「改過自新」是個老掉牙的笑話了 rehabilitation was a 70-year-old joke.
我的律師 My lawyer,
站在那裏卻一副事不關己的樣子 he was there, but he wasn't there.
好像我自己在為自己辯護 It was like I was by myself.
我的上一個律師 就坐在你坐的位置 說 Last lawyer I had, sitting where you sit, said,
「約翰尼·D 別擔心 "Johnny D., don't worry about nothing,
一切都會好起來的」 everything gonna be all right."
然後他們判了我死刑 Then they put that death sentence on me.
家裏花光了所有的錢 Family run out of money.
錢花光了 他也跑了 Money run out, he run out.
你又有什麼不一樣的 What you gonna do different?
我們要做的第一件事 Well, the first thing we could do
就是申請重審 is apply for a retrial.
我申請過 被駁回了 I already did that. They denied it.
你文件裏能找到 It's right there in your files.
好 我們可以再申請復議 Okay, then we can ask for a reconsideration on that.
再不行直接向刑事上訴法院上訴 Then a direct appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals
想辦法把案子送到州最高法院去 and work our way up to the State Supreme Court.
如果依然被駁回 可以根據第32條再申請 If we get denied there, we could file a Rule 32.
主要內容為課刑與判決 包括撤銷或變更緩刑或監視釋放 Rule 32是指美國聯邦刑事訴訟程序規則32條
再是聯邦人身保護令 Then a federal habeas petition.
人身保護令程序是聯邦法院審查各州刑事程序的重要途徑 主要適用於死刑案件 可視為死刑的覆核程序
如果全都失敗了 麥克米利安先生 And if all that fails, Mr. McMillian,
我們還可以把你的案子 we could take your case
想盡一切辦法送到最高法院 all the way to the Supreme Court.
你不知道你來這兒幹什麼 是吧 You don't know what you into down here, do you?
你以為單靠說這些漂亮話 You think all of them fancy words
就能讓你在阿拉巴馬州有所成就嗎 gonna get you somewhere around here in Alabama?
這只會把你生吞活剝 再把殘渣吐出來 All they gonna do is eat you alive and spit you out,
當你的表現超乎尋常 他們就會像對待 just like every other black man they do,
其他黑人那樣對你 when they step out of line.
你來到這兒 西裝革履 You coming around here with them fancy suits,
說得冠冕堂皇 talking all white,
這些人都他媽的不在乎 these people don't give a damn about that.
他們想看到黑人穿的衣服 The only suit they wanna see a nigga in
就像我穿的一樣 is the suit I got on.
麥克米利安先生 我知道這個過程很難 Mr. McMillian, I can see how that could be hard...
你不知道 No, you don't!
你不知道 你壓根不知道 No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't.
你一個哈佛畢業的富家子 You a rich boy from Harvard,
你不知道這裏都發生什麼 you don't know what it is down here.
當你從出生的那一刻起就心懷愧疚 When you're guilty from the moment you born.
你能和白人有幸結識 And you can buddy up with these white folks
為他們提供娛樂 and make them laugh,
不管你做什麼都是想讓他們喜歡你 and try to make them like you, whatever that is,
你只說「好的 先生 不 女士」 and you say, "Yes, sir. No, ma'am."
可輪到你的時候 But when it's your turn,
沒有指紋也可以 they ain't got to have no fingerprints.
沒有證據也可以 No evidence.
而他們唯一的證人也是編出來的 And the only witness they got made the whole thing up.
這些都不重要 此刻他們想的都是 Ain't none of that matter, when all y'all think is,
我看上去就像 is I look like a man
是個殺人犯 who could kill somebody.
可我不是這麼想的 But that's not what I think.
你知道有多少人能從阿拉巴馬州的死囚 You know how many people have been freed
牢房中被放出來嗎 from Alabama death row?
一個都沒有 None.
你憑什麼覺得自己有本事改變這個局面 What make you think you gonna change that?
我也不會再傻呵呵地相信了 I ain't doing this shit again.
-守衛 -麥克米利安先生 - Guard. - Mr. McMillian...
我們結束了 We done here.
麥克米利安先生 別走 Mr. McMillian, please.
我是來幫你的 I'm here to help.
啥事啊 約翰尼·D What's up, Johnny D.?
打個招呼啊 Say hello!
兄弟 最近咋樣 How's it going, my brother?
一切都好嗎 How'd it go?
你是怎麼滿足他們的 操你媽的 How you treating them needs, motherfucker?
約翰尼·D Johnny D.?
約翰尼·D 在嗎 Johnny D., you there?
來一口嗎 赫布 'Sup, Herb?
雷在嗎 Ray there?
雷 Ray.
這一刻真是美妙極了 Unavailable at the moment.
你神遊到哪了 Where you at?
白金漢宮 我正和女王喝茶呢 Buckingham Palace. I'm having tea with the Queen.
她是一位十分和藹的女士 She's a very nice lady.
喝完了我會告訴你的 I'll let you know when we done.
約翰尼·D 你覺得那個律師怎麼樣 Hey, Johnny D., what you think of the lawyer?
我覺得他還是個孩子 I think he a kid.
太幼稚不知道自己在說什麼 Don't know what he's talking about.
許下了一堆自己無法 Making all these promises
兌現的承諾 he ain't gonna be able to keep.
我覺得他人挺好的 I thought he was nice.
他人好 Nice?
你要個好心的律師幹嘛 The hell you want a nice lawyer for?
心地善良有個屁用 Nice ain't gonna get you shit.
看看約翰尼·D Look at Johnny D.
善良得像個小狗 可是卻和我們關在一起 Nice as a puppy, yet he in here with us.
好吧 我沒想到 雷 Well, I didn't know
你居然覺得我像個小狗 you thought about me like that, Ray.
我是說你真的太善良了 I mean, just you nice and everything,
雖然你比不上拉托亞 傑克遜 you not as nice as La Toya Jackson,
拉托亞 傑克遜 美國搖滾音樂歌手
但在死囚牢房的老男人裏 你是大好人 but for an old man on the row, you a'ight.
你不是說我算是一個善良的老男人嗎 Hey, I thought you said I was the old man.
約翰尼·D是老男人 赫布是老古董 Well, Johnny D. Is old, Herb, you more ancient.
抱歉讓你失望了 Sorry to tell you.
赫布 把音樂打開 Herb, turn that music up.
沒問題 You got it.
好的 這裏 All right. Here...
布賴恩 Bryan,
你昨晚睡了嗎 did you get any sleep?
我 I, uh...
我覺得麥克米利安沒有殺人 I don't think McMillian did it.
州法院判刑的依據為 The State based its entire case
一位名為拉爾夫·邁爾斯證人的證詞 on the testimony of one man. Ralph Myers.
邁爾斯大半輩子都呆在監獄裏 Myers spent most of his life in and out of prison.
當他作證時 When he testified,
他正因另一宗謀殺案受審 he was on trial for a different murder,
結果他被判了30年 which he ended up getting 30 years for.
這買賣似乎不錯 Seems like a pretty good deal.
他在證詞中說到 In his statement, he said that
約翰尼·D. 在洗車場找到他 Johnny D. Approached him at a car wash
用槍逼他開車去傑克遜洗衣店 and forced him at gunpoint to drive to Jackson Cleaners
因為他的手臂受傷了 because his arm hurt.
聽起來合情合理 That sounds logical.
到了之後 約翰尼·D.告訴他 When they get there, Johnny D. Tells him
在卡車裏等他 然後他進去了 to wait in the truck while he goes inside.
然後當他在車裏等的時候 And while he's waiting for his kidnapper,
他沒跑 也沒報警 he doesn't run, he doesn't go to the police.
相反 他還開車去煙酒店買煙 Instead, he drives to the liquor store for cigarettes,
然後回到犯罪現場 and then comes back to the crime scene.
真的假的 Excuse me?
邁爾斯聽到槍聲 就進去了 Myers hears gunshots, goes inside
看到了隆達·莫裏森的屍體 and sees the body of Ronda Morrison
躺在地上 面朝上 lying on the ground, face up,
約翰尼·D.拿著槍站在她旁邊 and Johnny D. standing over her with a gun
還有一個自稱是負責人的白人老頭 with some older white guy who he claimed was in charge.
有找過這個人嗎 Anyone trying to look for him?
當然找過 Exactly.
等等 還有一個證人支持他的證詞 Oh, wait. They have one other witness to back his testimony.
一個叫比爾 胡克斯的年輕黑人 A young black man named Bill Hooks.
說他看到約翰尼·D.的低腰卡車 Says he saw Johnny D.'s low-rider truck
在謀殺案發生前後 駛離乾洗店 leaving the cleaners around the time of the murder.
就這些 And that's it.
只有這些證據 That's all they have.
也就是說 一位18歲的白人女孩 So, an 18-year-old white girl is murdered
在光天化日之下 被謀殺 in broad daylight
而警長有多久不能破案 and the sheriff can't solve the crime for how long?
差不多一年 Almost a year.
然後另一個被控謀殺的人 And then some other guy who's charged with a different murder
說他能告訴警長兇手是誰 says that he can tell them who did it
前提是他能得到寬大處理 if he gets a lower sentence.
然後那傢伙就說是約翰尼·D.干的 And the guy that he says did it,
碰巧他又是一個住在窮人區的黑人 happens to be a black man from a poor community
所以大家堅信他是兇手 that no one would think twice about.
肯定還有更多的證據 There's gotta be more evidence than this.
我想見見檢察官 I want to set a meeting with the DA.
湯米·查普曼幾個月前 Tommy Chapman just took over
剛接手皮爾遜的案子 for Pearson a few months ago.
他以前是一名公共辯護律師 He used to be a public defender.
也許他並沒有和他們同流合污 Maybe he's not in line with the rest of 'em.
歡迎來到蒙羅維爾 "殺死一隻知更鳥"之鄉
你參觀過知更鳥博物嗎 You visit the Mockingbird Museum yet?
沒有 女士 Oh. No, ma'am.
那曾是一家老法院 It's the old courthouse
哈珀·李的爸爸在那裏工作過 Harper Lee's daddy used to work in.
你可以站在 You can stand right
阿提庫斯·芬奇曾經站過的地方 where Atticus Finch once stood.
史蒂文森先生嗎 Mr. Stevenson?
-我是湯米·查普曼 -你好 - I'm Tommy Chapman. - Hey.
-你覺得我們還行吧 -是的 - You find us okay? - I did.
-很好 跟我來 -好 - Good. Follow me. - Yeah.
謝謝你 特蕾西 Thank you, Tracy.
史蒂文森先生 很多人都很想見你 A lot of people are very keen to meet you, Mr. Stevenson.
真的嗎 Oh, really?
你是哈佛的律師 Well, you're a Harvard lawyer,
還搬到了阿拉巴馬州 who's moved to Alabama.
你開始接手這些死刑案件時 You know, you start taking on all these capital cases,
我覺得大家只是想知道 people just wanna know
你圖的是什麼 what your intentions are, I guess.
我們只是想提供法律援助給 We're just trying to give legal assistance
給那些負擔不起的人 to people who can't afford it.
好吧 法律援助是一回事 Well, legal assistance is one thing,
但要幫被判有罪的殺人犯洗脫罪名 but trying to put convicted murderers back on the street
完全是另外一回事 is something else entirely.
不管怎樣 你來這 Anyway, you didn't come
不是為了和我討論這個 all the way down here to talk about that.
布賴恩 今天有何貴幹 What can I do for you today, Bryan?
我想和你談談約翰尼·D. 麥克米利安的事 I wanted to speak to you about Johnny D. McMillian.
你知道起訴他的不是我 對吧 You know I wasn't part of his prosecution, right?
而且我以前就是公共辯護律師 That was way before my time.
這就是我想見你的原因 And that's exactly why I wanted to meet you.
我已經看過好幾遍證詞了 You see, I've read through the record quite a few times now
而且嚴重懷疑 and I have some serious doubts
他被定罪的合理性 about the reliability of his conviction.
如果你能看看 If you could take a look
我標記的這些內容 at the sections I've highlighted here,
你會發現 拉爾夫·邁爾斯的證詞有問題 you'll see some problems with Ralph Myers' testimony.
天啊 這可是最駭人聽聞的罪行之一 Man, this is one of the most outrageous crimes
在門羅縣的歷史上 in Monroe County history.
你的當事人讓很多人很生氣 Your client made a lot of people very angry.
我明白 I understand that,
但這個案子很有問題 but there are some serious problems with this case.
我希望你幫忙 And I was hoping that I can get your support
弄清楚到底發生了什麼 to figure out what really happened.
我已經知道是怎麼回事了 I already know what happened.
約翰尼·D. 麥克米利安被陪審團定罪為 Johnny D. McMillian was convicted by a jury
殘忍殺害一位年輕女孩 of brutally murdering a teenage girl
在我的社區裏 in my community.
而且我的工作就是 And it is my job
捍衛這次定罪的真實性 to defend the integrity of that conviction.
即使此次定罪是基於偽證嗎 Even if that conviction is based on false testimony?
我知道只有你這麼想 You're the only one I know who thinks that.
那肯定只有我看過證詞 Then I must be the only one who read that record
因為證詞錯得太明顯了 because it's pretty obvious.
那傢伙帶來了太多傷害 That man caused a lot of pain.
周圍很多人都因此感到痛苦 A lot of pain for folks around here.
如果你往大家傷口上撒鹽 And if you go digging in those wounds,
你會讓很多人很不開心 you're gonna be making a lot of people very unhappy.
好吧 我的工作不是讓別人快樂 Well, it isn't my job to make people happy.
而是為我的當事人伸張正義 It's to achieve justice for my client.
好吧 Well...
這是拉爾夫·邁爾斯的兩份供詞 Ralph Myers' two confessions
以及比爾 胡克斯的陳述 and a statement from Bill Hooks.
我要複印 I asked for copies
所有警察和證人的陳述 of all the police and witness statements.
你手裏就是 That's what you're holding.
開玩笑 剩下的部分在哪 This is a joke. Where's the rest of it?
這些就是麥克米利安案的所有資料 That's what's relevant to the McMillian case.
如果你想要更多 你必須申請 If you want more, you'll have to file
向法院提出的證據開示動議 a discovery motion with the court,
就像其他人一樣 just like anybody else.
感謝你今天的到來 史蒂文森先生 Thanks for coming by today, Mr. Stevenson.
期待這項動議盡快出台 Expect that motion soon.
我也很期待 律師先生 I'll look forward to it, Counselor.
你應該去參觀知更鳥博物 You oughta check out the Mockingbird Museum
就在你出城的路上 on your way out of town.
那是南方地區一個偉大的 It's one of the great civil rights landmarks
民權里程碑 of the South.
排好隊 Keep in line.
幫助一個被判殺害白人女孩的黑人 Helping a black man convicted of killing a white girl
無疑是搞政治自殺 is political suicide in that county.
我相信提攜他的人 I'm sure he's being reminded of that
會提醒他這一點的 by whoever got him his job.
從他說話的樣子來看 The way he was talking,
我覺得他都沒看過證詞 I don't even think he read the record.
這並不奇怪 That doesn't surprise me.
嘿 克裏斯 鮑比 進來拿點心 Hey, Kris, Bobby, come on in and get your snack.
好 Okay.
在去見他的家人的路上 I'm gonna stop by Jackson Cleaners
我要去一趟傑克遜洗衣店 on my way to meet his family.
好吧 如果早上還沒你的消息 Okay. If I don't hear from you by morning,
我會派一個救援隊去救你 I'll send a rescue party.
-但願不會這樣 -我也是 - I hope that's a joke. - Me, too.
小心點 好嗎 But just be careful, okay?
抱歉 關門
就是他 That's him.
-你是那個律師嗎 -是的 夫人 - You the lawyer? - Yes, ma'am.
我叫布賴恩 史蒂文森 My name is Bryan Stevenson.
我是 約翰尼·D.的妻子 米妮 I'm Johnny D.'s wife, Minnie.
很高興見到你 Pleasure to meet you.
非常感謝你不辭辛苦開車過來 Thank you so much for driving all the way out here.
大多數律師幾乎連電話都懶得打 Most lawyers barely make time to call.
這是我們的小兒子 約翰 This is our younger son, John.
我們的女兒 傑基 Our baby girl, Jackie.
希望你不要介意 有幾個鄰居 I hope you don't mind, a few of our neighbors
過來聽聽你要說什麼 stopped by to hear what you got to say.
就幾個嗎 Oh. Just a few?
來吧 沒事的 Come on. You'll be all right.
好吧 Okay.
嘿 聽著 如果大家都在同時呱呱叫 Hey, now, we ain't gonna get nowhere
我們啥也談不了 with everybody quacking at the same time.
現在 讓史蒂文森先生談談 Now, let Mr. Stevenson talk.
很高興見到大家 It's a pleasure to meet all of you.
謝謝您 Thank you.
我知道你們都有很多問題 Now, I know you all have a lot of questions,
但我真的很想先聽你們說 but I really would love to hear from you guys first,
只是為了更好地理解 just to get a better understanding
你們對這件事的看法 of your perspective on things.
我們的看法不重要 Our perspective is ain't no way
已經認定約翰尼·D.是兇手 Johnny D. Did this crime.
那女孩被殺的那天早上 The morning that girl was killed,
我們都在炸魚為教堂籌款 we was all having a fish fry here to raise money for the church.
約翰尼·D. 也在 Johnny D. Was here.
從早到晚 Morning till night.
和約翰一起修理他的卡車 Working on his truck with John.
那天你和你爸爸在一起嗎 You were with your dad that day?
是的 我們早上6點就起床了 Yeah, we was up at 6:00 in the morning
把卡車放到支架上 to put the truck on the rack.
吉米也在 Jimmy was there, too.
對 我們在9:30前把變速器修好 Yep. We had that tranny cleaned out by 9:30.
所以 他的卡車沒有變速器 Now, how he supposed to kidnap
他如何能綁架 some crazy white man all the way in Evergreen,
長青區的白人 then drive back to Jackson Cleaners
然後開車回傑克遜洗衣店 to kill that girl at 10:15
在10:15殺了那個女孩呢 if his truck ain't got no transmission?
好嘛 Hello.
那天早上你們有多少人和沃爾特在一起 How many of you all were with Walter that morning?
我丈夫不會殺人 不可能 My husband could have never done this, no kind of way.
不管我們是否和他在一起 Whether we was with him or not,
他根本不是殺人犯 he is just not like that.
大家都知道他們追殺他是因為那女人 Well, everybody know they went after him 'cause of that woman.
抱歉 米妮 Sorry, Minnie.
沒事 It's okay.
也不是什麼秘密了 It ain't no secret.
謀殺案發生幾個月前 A few months before the murder,
約翰尼·D在鎮上和一個白女人鬼混時被抓包了 Johnny D got caught messing around with a white woman in town.
她丈夫發現之後 When her husband find out about it,
把這事告訴了所有人 he made sure everybody knew.
人們議論紛紛 流言四起 People started talking, and the stories kept growing.
他從劈腿男 He went from being a cheat,
變成了毒販 to a drug dealer,
又變成了迪克西黑手黨的頭目 to head of the Dixie Mafia.
所以有人說他是殺人犯的時候 So, by the time somebody call him a murderer,
也沒人會懷疑了 ain't nobody thought twice about it.
他們愛說什麼都行 They can call it what they want,
這只是另一種對黑人動私刑的手段 this is just another way to lynch a black man.
阿門 Amen.
我丈夫對我和這個家庭的所作所為 There ain't no excuse for what my
可找不了什麼借口 husband did to me and this family.
那個死鬼傷透了我 Damn fool hurt me bad.
但他還是我孩子的父親 But he still the daddy of my kids.
我真的不知道該怎麼和他們說 And I really don't know what I'm supposed to tell them
別招惹麻煩 about staying out of trouble
就算你待在自己家裏 when you can be in your own house,
只管自己的事 和所有家人在一起 minding your own business, surrounded by your entire family,
但他們還是會誣陷你殺了人 and they still going to put some murder on you.
沒錯 That's right.
不只是爸爸 It's not just Dad.
我們覺得他們把我們也一起判了死刑 We feel like they put us all on death row, too.
寶貝 Baby...
可以想見你所經歷的痛苦 I can only imagine the pain that you're going through.
我會盡我所能 But I'm gonna do everything I can.
上個律師和你一樣口若懸河 The last lawyer was talking just as big as you.
約翰 John...
然後他們就卷錢跑路了 Then they took all our money and split.
你有什麼不同 Why you different?
我們的組織會支付所有法律費用 Well, our organization will cover all legal fees,
所以你們一分錢都不用付 so none of you will ever have to pay a penny.
我現在很清楚 這個案子是由謊言組成的 Now, it's clear to me that this trial was constructed with lies,
基於目前我所瞭解的 and based off everything that I've seen,
我覺得我們可以翻案 I think we could build a case
足以把約翰尼·D.接回家 strong enough to bring Johnny D. home.
不把他接回來 我絕不停歇 And I'm not gonna stop until I've done that.
在我看來你是個好人 Well, you seem like good people to me.
但你得說服的是約翰尼·D But Johnny D.'s the one you gonna have to convince.
我不知道你們其他人怎麼想 I don't know about the rest of y'all,
但他說"你們不用出一分錢"已經說服我了 but I was sold on, "Y'all won't pay a penny."
阿門 Amen.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson?
叫我布賴恩就好 Call me Bryan.
好的 Okay.
這位是我朋友達內爾 This is my friend, Darnell.
他有些事想和你說 He has something he wants to talk to you about.
說吧 Go on.
我覺得我能證明他是無辜的 I think I can prove he's innocent.
你知道比爾 胡克斯吧 You heard of Bill Hooks, right?
知道 Yeah.
他作證說那天早上他在洗衣店 He testified that he saw Johnny D.'s truck
看到過約翰尼·D的卡車 at the cleaners that morning.
比爾鬼都沒看到 Bill didn't see shit.
都是他編的 He made the whole thing up.
你怎麼知道 How do you know that?
因為我和他在一起 'Cause I was with him.
我們一起在店裏工作 We was working at the shop together.
-兇案當天早上嗎 -是的 先生 - The morning of the murder? - Yes, sir.
我們從早上八點到午休關店前 We was fixing the head gasket on the Camaro
一直在修科邁羅的汽缸墊 from 8:00 in the morning till right after we closed for lunch.
警報響的時候他就在我旁邊 He was right next to me when them sirens was going off.
他為什麼要撒謊 Why would he lie?
因為這告密者和警察達成協議了 'Cause the snitch cut a deal with the cops.
他們因入室盜竊把他關起來了 They had him locked up for burglary.
他給供詞的那天 就被無罪釋放了 And the day he give his statement, he walk out free.
所有指控都撤銷了 All charges dropped.
我們告訴過其他律師 We told one of the other lawyers,
但他們什麼也沒做 and they ain't do nothing about it.
你願意簽署一份可以在法庭上用的聲明嗎 Would you be willing to sign a statement we could use in court?
警察會看到我的名字嗎 Police will see my name?
會記錄在案的 It'd be on the record.
達內爾 像這樣暴露自己並不容易 Darnell, exposing yourself like this is not easy.
但有了你的證詞 But with your testimony,
我們就可以提出動議重開約翰尼·D的案子 we can file a motion to reopen Johnny D.'s case.
達內爾 Darnell,
我們需要你 we need you.
好吧 Okay, yeah.
好的 那就好了 Yeah, that'll do it.
好了 All right.
早上好 Good morning.
謝謝你再次見我 Thanks for seeing me again.
我知道我們上次見面的時候 I know the last time we met,
事情沒有像我想像的那樣發展 things didn't go quite the way I was...
真不敢相信你去見了我家人 I can't believe you met my family.
開在那條土路上 Drove down that dirt road,
擠在那間小房子裏 crammed up in that little house,
和我的人說話 talked to all my people,
說你會為我而戰 say you gonna try to fight for me.
這對我意義重大 That mean a lot.
這也對我意義重大 It meant a lot to me, too.
米妮想讓我把這個給你 Minnie wanted me to give this to you.
如果你不介意的話 And if you don't mind,
我有東西想給你看看 I have something I wanna show you.
這是達內爾 休斯頓的聲明 It's a statement from Darnell Houston,
上面說兇案發生時 saying that he was with Bill Hooks
他和比爾 胡克斯在五公里之外的地方 three miles away at the time of the murder.
所以他不可能在那看到過你的卡車 So, there's no way he could have seen your truck there.
這是好事 對吧 That's good, right?
這很好 That's very good.
我會把這個和重審的動議一起提交上去 I'm gonna submit this with a motion for a new trial.
我知道你和米妮聊過了 I know you talked to, uh, Minnie.
她告訴你我對她做的事了 She told you what I did to her.
出軌一個這麼好的女人 I ain't got no excuse for cheating on a woman
我找不到什麼借口 good as that one, good as she been to me.
我不知道她為什麼還在支持我 I don't know why she's standing by me.
她支持你是因為 She's standing by you
她知道你不該在這 because she knows you shouldn't be in here.
我也這麼想 And so do I.
我知道你沒有殺隆達·莫裏森 I know you didn't kill Ronda Morrison.
如果你願意 我可以在法庭上幫你證明 And I can help you prove that in court if you'll let me.
你見過我所有的家人了 You know, you done met my whole family.
你對他們瞭如指掌 You know everything about 'em.
但我對你一無所知 I don't know nothing about you, though.
-你想知道什麼 -我想知道一切 - What would you like to know? - I wanna know it all.
比如 你為什麼要這麼做 Like why you... Why you doing this?
-我為什麼做律師嗎 -不不不 - Why am I a lawyer? - No, no, no.
為什麼你要在阿拉巴馬州做律師 Why is you a lawyer down here in Alabama,
接這些沒人給錢的案子 taking these cases that ain't nobody gonna pay you for?
我也在一條和你一樣的路上長大 I grew up down a road just like yours.
我和豬和小雞一起 I played soccer in a dirt field
在泥巴地裏踢足球 with the pigs and chickens.
以前在院子裏抽污水 Used to pump sewage from my yard.
我十幾歲時 我的爺爺被殺了 When I was a teenager, my grandfather was murdered
為了一台黑白電視 over a black-and-white TV.
我們一直在等著有人來幫忙 We kept waiting for someone to show up to help.
從沒人來 They never did.
那一刻我才意識到 And that's when I realized that,
在我的社區之外 沒人在乎 outside my community, nobody cared.
對他們來說 他只是另一個黑人 'Cause to them, he's just another black man
做工程時死了 killed in the projects.
我知道生活在陰影中是什麼感覺 I know what it's like to be in the shadows.
所以我在做這些 That's why I'm doing this.
這理由真不錯 That's a pretty good reason.
好吧 Okay.
好什麼 Okay...
我們開工吧 Let's get to work.
好 Okay.
嘿 約翰尼·D Hey, yo, Johnny D.?
你和那個律師簽約了嗎 You signing up with that lawyer?
我要試一試 I'm gonna give him a try.
看來現在牢裏的人都在和他合作 Seem like everybody on the row working with him now.
我覺得被冷落了 I'm starting to feel left out.
他真有那麼厲害嗎 Is he really that good?
希望如此 I hope so.
你覺得呢 赫布特 What you think, Herbert?
我該踹了我那個人 換成他嗎 Should I just dump my guy and make the switch over?
赫布 你聽到了嗎 Herb, you hear me?
你在嗎 You there?
我在這 I'm here.
赫布 你還好嗎 Herb, you okay?
他們定了我的日子 They set my date.
聽著 赫布 現在什麼也別擔心了 Look here, Herb, don't you worry about nothing now.
一切都會好起來的 好嗎 Everything gonna be a'ight. Okay?
還沒結束呢 Ain't nothing over yet.
布賴恩現在在幫你辦事 You got Bryan working for you now.
我可不像你們 I ain't... I ain't like you guys.
我罪有應得 I deserve what's coming.
好了好了 聽著 赫布 All right, now, see, Herb...
你又在胡說八道了 there you go talking out your ass.
你為這個國家戰鬥過 Now, you fought for this country.
然後他們就像垃圾一樣把你扔了 And they threw you in the bag like the trash.
是戰爭讓你的腦子不正常的 老兄 That war made you sick in your head, man.
你該在醫院待著 You supposed to be in the hospital.
不該在這 Not here.
我和抓我的警察說我是無辜的時候 When I told the cops that stopped me I was innocent,
你知道他們說了什麼嗎 do you know what they said?
"是你們其中一個黑鬼幹的 "One of you niggers did it
就算不是你 and if it wasn't you,
你也要幫你朋友擔罪" then you taking one for your homie."
約翰尼·D的檢察官說他知道是他殺了那女孩 Johnny D. prosecutor say he know he killed the girl,
是因為他立案照片上的樣子 because of the way he looked in his mug shot.
你才沒有比我們更罪有應得 赫布 You don't deserve this shit more than any of us, Herb.
一個女孩因我而死 A girl is dead because of me.
就算這樣 別人也無權殺你 That don't give nobody the right to kill you back.
赫布特參加越戰時才18歲 Herbert was 18 when he went to Vietnam.
阿拉巴馬州 原告 對 赫布特 李 理查德森 被告
他是一次伏擊中的唯一倖存者 He was the only survivor in an ambush
那場伏擊殺死了整個排的人 that killed his whole platoon.
之後 他精神崩潰並企圖自殺 After that, he had a mental breakdown, attempted suicide,
並被光榮地遣送回家 and was sent home on an honorable discharge.
回家後 他繼續做噩夢 哭泣 Back at home, he continued to suffer from nightmares, crying fits,
跑出自己家 running out of his house,
向鄰居大喊"敵人來了" screaming "incoming" to his neighbors.
他的律師根本就沒有向陪審團提到 His lawyer didn't even mention military service,
他服兵役的經歷 或是他的精神狀況 or mental trauma to the jury.
庭審結束後幾個月 A few months after the trial,
他因為行為不端而取消了律師資格 he was disbarred for misconduct.
當然會被取消 'Course he was.
那我們能做什麼 Okay, what can we do?
因為他已經上訴過了 Well, since he's already been through the appeals process,
訴訟時效已經過了 the statute of limitations
這會讓法官很難再聽我們解釋 is gonna make it hard for a judge to listen.
我們得努力讓他聽我們的意見 We're gonna have to try and make him.
我今晚就開始行動 I'll get started on the motion tonight.
-喂 -好的 - Hello? - Okay.
媽媽 找你的 It's for you, Mom.
謝謝親愛的 喂 Oh, thank you, sweetie. Hello?
你是和那個黑人律師工作的賤人嗎 You the bitch working for that nigger lawyer?
你是誰 Who the hell is this?
有人在你家下面埋了炸彈 The guy who put the bomb under your house,
如果你還堅持幫那個黑鬼約翰尼·D.的話 gonna blow your family all to hell,
你和你家人等著被炸飛吧 if you don't stop working for that nigger Johnny D.
所有人 快出去 Everybody, out of the house.
-怎麼了 -外面說 - What's going on? - I'll tell you outside.
他們什麼都沒找到 They didn't find anything.
確定嗎 And they're sure?
他們說他們確定 They said they're sure.
他們檢查過地下室嗎 像你說的那樣 They checked the basement, too, like you said?
他們說已經檢查過了 Said they checked the basement.
好的 Okay.
好了 我們可以撤了 All right, we're gonna move on now.
好了 寶貝 上床睡覺了 Okay, baby, let's get you to bed.
走了 Yo, come on.
你讓我和你一起做這事的時候 When you asked me to do this thing with you...
我知道我會失去朋友 I knew that I'd lose some friends.
會有人詆毀我 背著我 Have people talk shit behind my back,
或者當面說 or to my face.
我不需要人們喜歡我 I don't need people to like me,
只要我所做的事是正確的 as long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do.
但是威脅我的家人 But threatening my family...
伊娃 我絕對不會怪你的 Eva, you know I'd... I'd never blame you
如果你決定不做了 if you needed to stop.
我不希望我的兒子長大後得知 I don't want my son growing up knowing that
他的媽媽因為害怕瘋狂分子 his mom stopped doing what was right
就不去做正確的事情了 just because she was scared of some crazy bigot.
好嗎 Okay?
麥克米利安的事我們怎麼辦 What are we gonna do about McMillian?
我們從零開始重新調查 We start the investigation from scratch.
找找看這裏有沒有願意談論這件事的 Find anyone in town who's willing to talk.
也許人們意識到我們的魅力之後 Maybe people will stop trying to kill us
就不想殺掉我們了 once they realize how charming we are.
關於隆達·莫裏森的謀殺案 I just wanted to ask you a couple questions
可以問您幾個問題嗎 about the Ronda Morrison murder.
這只是 It's just, uh...
幾年前在隆達·莫裏森案件庭審中 You were on the witness list
你是證人之一吧 for the Ronda Morrison trial a few years back.
不好意思 幫不到你 Sorry. Can't help you with that.
你有什麼事情 Is there anything, anything at all that you feel
-方便說嗎 -聽著 - comfortable talking about... - You know, look...
如果你不是為了幫助那個可憐女孩的家人的 if you are not working for that poor girl's family,
我就沒什麼好說的 then I ain't got nothing to say to you.
不好意思 Sorry, sweetie.
伊克納警官 Officer Ikner?
我不是警察了 I ain't no officer no more.
我是約翰尼·D. 麥克米利安的代理律師 I'm a lawyer representing Johnny D. McMillian.
我瞭解到您是首先到達謀殺現場的警官 I understand you were the first officer on the scene.
我說對了 I was right.
炸魚日是11月1日 星期六 The Fish Fry was on Saturday, November 1st.
與謀殺是同一天 The same day as the murder.
他們把這個貼的到處都是 They put these up all over town.
11月1日炸魚日全天 為教堂捐贈5元錢吧
我可真想親你 黛比 I could kiss you, Deb.
我們打算把事情做大 We're planning to grow this into something
讓整個國家都在談論這件事 the whole country will be talking about.
你可以說 這是從你的房子裏起步的 And you can say that it all started in your building.
你究竟是做什麼工作的 What exactly kind of work do you do?
我們就是幫助別人 We're just helping people.
Equal Justice Initiative
看著不錯 完美 It looks good. It's perfect.
我的客戶 赫布特 理查德森 My client, Herbert Richardson,
因為在越戰戰場拆解了炸彈 was recommended for a Medal of Valor
而被授予了勇敢勳章 for disarming a bomb in Vietnam.
我們得到消息 We got a tip that
你的一些員工可以為他的不在場證明作證 a few of your employees could back his alibi.
維維安·克拉克是在你們機構 Vivian Clark was one of the teenagers
收到性侵害的孩子之一 who were sexually abused at your facility.
不 我不是律師 No, I'm not an attorney.
但我向你保證 我們會好好對待你兒子 But I promise you, your son is in very good hands.
我們會通知你的 We'll let you know.
很高興與您交談 Good talking to you.
公平倡議 我是布蘭達 Equal Justice Initiative. This is Brenda.
好的 馬上 Yeah. Okay. Yes. Uh-huh. Just one moment.
達內爾 休斯頓找你 Darnell Houston.
喂 達內爾 Hello, Darnell?
等等 等等 慢點 慢點說 Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Slow down, slow down, slow down.
你在哪 Where are you?
-你還好嗎 -不 先生 我不好 - Are you okay? - No, sir, I'm not.
達內爾 我們車上說 好嗎 Okay, Darnell, let's go talk in the car. Okay?
他們憑什麼把我關起來誣陷我作偽證 How in the hell they locking me up for perjury,
我說的全是事實 if alls I did was say the truth, hmm?
我就知道不該簽證詞 I knew I shouldn't have signed that paper, man.
我就不該聽你的 Shouldn't have listened to you.
不 他們對你做的完全是不合法的 No. What they did to you was completely illegal.
好嗎 我要去和地檢說 Okay? Now, I'm gonna talk to the DA
讓他撤銷對你的指控 and get all these charges dismissed.
再也不會發生這種事了 This will never happen again.
你怎麼會知道啊 Well, how the hell do you know, hmm?
你又控制不了那些人 You can't control these guys.
他們在我上班的時候逮捕的我 They arrested me in the middle of my shift,
當著我老闆的面 in front of my boss.
我甚至都不確定 我的工作是不是還在 I don't even know if I got a job tomorrow.
他們對約翰尼·D.做的事 我很心痛 I feel bad, what they doing to Johnny D...
但我也只是想要生存下去 but I'm just trying to survive.
我對抗不了他們 兄弟 I can't fight these guys, man.
你還是去找別人吧 Go on and find somebody else.
聽著 達內爾 想想約翰尼·D. Listen, Darnell. Think about Johnny D, okay?
想想他的家人 他們需要你 Think about his family. They need you.
給我點時間讓我處理掉這些事 Give me some time to work on this.
接我的車來了 That's my ride.
告訴約翰尼·D. 我很抱歉 Tell Johnny D. I'm sorry.
我需要跟你談談 I need to speak with you.
嘿 布賴恩 Oh, hey, Bryan.
你見過泰特警長嗎 Have you met Sheriff Tate?
是誰下的令逮捕我的證人 Who ordered the arrest of my witness?
人們在這個案子中作偽證的話 When people make false statements concerning this case,
他們是會被追究責任的 they're gonna be held accountable.
沒有證據的話 You can't arrest someone for perjury
你不可以因為作偽證而逮捕他 without evidence that a false statement has been made.
等等 你現在也是休斯頓先生的律師嗎 Hang on. Are you representing Mr. Houston now, too?
我是 Yes, I am.
他的證詞與比爾 胡克斯的證詞截完全衝突 His statement contradicts Bill Hooks' entire testimony.
胡克斯並不是這案子的主要證人 Hooks ain't the State's main witness.
拉爾夫·邁爾斯才是 Ralph Myers is.
阿拉巴馬第12-21-222號法案 Alabama Code 12-21-222
需要兩人及以上的證詞才能確認有效 requires corroboration of accomplice testimony.
所以如果沒有胡克斯的證詞 So, without Hooks,
定罪則是無效的 the conviction wouldn't be valid.
我昨天 You know, I went down to see
去看望了隆達·莫裏森的母親 Ronda Morrison's momma yesterday.
她以淚洗面啊 And she's in tears.
一直問我 為什麼一個從北方來的律師 She kept asking me why some lawyer from up north
會來到這裏 would come down here
要讓他們從地獄再走一遭 and make them relive all this hell again.
你可以告訴她 Well, you can tell her it's because
是因為約翰尼·D.沒有殺她的女兒 Johnny D. Didn't kill her daughter.
真正的兇手 And whoever did
並沒有被繩之以法 is still out there somewhere.
我知道你一定特別希望證明 I know how desperate you must be
你對於我們的猜測是正確的 to fulfill your fantasy of who we are down here.
我們就是南方腐敗的種族主義者 Just a bunch of corrupt Southern racists
誣陷黑人們謀殺 framing niggers for murder.
你就是來拯救世界的 And you here to save the day.
你想要相信什麼隨便你 Well, hell, you can believe that if you want to,
但我知道 那個女孩就是約翰尼·D.殺的 but I know that Johnny D. Killed that girl,
而且他一定會受到懲罰 and he's gonna answer for it.
你是如何知道的呢 你連直接證據都沒有 And how do you know that? You have no hard evidence.
你的整個案件都是基於 You based your entire case
一個被起訴的重刑犯的證詞 on the word of an indicted felon,
他的動機很大 who had every incentive
你想聽什麼他都會告訴你 to tell you what you wanted to hear.
拉爾夫·邁爾斯是自願作證的 Ralph Myers testified on his own accord.
但這並說不通 And it made no sense.
他說的話都是自相矛盾的 He couldn't finish a sentence without contradicting himself.
針對達內爾 休斯頓的指控也是毫無依據的 Now, the charges against Darnell Houston are baseless.
在法庭上根本站不住腳 They'll never stand up in court.
應該被即刻撤銷 They should be dropped immediately.
好吧 Okay.
你有問題嗎 湯米 Is that okay with you, Tommy?
沒問題 Sure.
這事完全不重要 Well, it doesn't really matter,
因為法庭已經駁回了你重審此案的請求 now the court denied your motion to reopen the case.
等等 什麼 Wait, what was that?
你沒收到傳票嗎 Oh, you didn't get the order?
法官現在在莫比爾呢 Well, the judge is down in Mobile now,
而且有時候郵寄會出問題 so, you know, sometimes they have mail issues.
你去告訴休斯頓先生 Listen, you can tell Mr. Houston
對他的指控已經撤銷了 the charges against him are being dropped.
我能做的就是這麼多了 I can do that much for y'all,
但其他的問題得在上訴時提出來 but anything else will have to be raised on appeal.
謝謝你來一趟 律師 Thanks for stopping by, Counselor.
什麼事嗎 警官 Something wrong, Officer?
下車 Step out of the vehicle.
我不明白 我沒有超速 I don't understand. I wasn't speeding.
我說讓你下車 I said step out of the vehicle.
我可以下車 I'll get out of the car,
但你得告訴我你為什麼攔住我 but first can you tell me why you stopped me?
-趕緊他媽的滾下來 -等等 - Get out of the goddamn car! - Whoa!
等等 好的 好 馬上下 Whoa, whoa. Okay, okay. Hold on.
-快點 -好的 - Come on! - Okay.
好 我解一下安全帶 Okay. I'm taking off my seat belt.
出來 快點 Get it! Come on!
好的 我在開門了 Okay. I'm opening up the door.
-我出來了 -快點 - I'm stepping out. - Faster!
-快點 -好吧 我手裏什麼也沒有 - Come on! - Okay. I have nothing in my hands.
-轉過去 -是的 - Turn around! - Yes.
-好的 好的 -手放車上 - Okay. Okay. - Hands on the car!
你沒必要拿槍指著我 You don't have to have the gun pointed at me.
我對你沒任何威脅 I'm not a threat.
小子 閉上你的臭嘴 Shut your damn mouth, boy.
哥們 聽我說 Hey, brother...
腦袋被搶頂著的時候 you ought to be careful with your words
說話可得小心點 when you got a gun at your head.
約翰 走吧 Let's go, John.
你們為什麼攔我 Why did you stop me?
讓你走了 We're letting you go.
你就慶幸吧 You should be happy.
即使他們撤了指控 Even if they drop them charges,
達內爾經過這一遭 Darnell ain't gonna testify
也不可能再出來作證了 after what they done done to him.
我知道這對咱們是當頭一棒 的確是 I know we took a big hit. We did.
-但我們得繼續收集證據 -不可能的 - But we just need to gather more evidence - No, no.
-來準備另一個計劃 -他們會阻止的 - for another motion. - They gonna block it.
他們會阻止的 如果他們讓我 They gonna block it. If they can put me
連續一年不受審 on the row for a year without no trial,
他們就能為所欲為了 they can do whatever they wanna do.
他們在審判前就把你送進死牢了嗎 They put you on death row before your trial?
是 Yeah.
警長親自把我送去的 Sheriff drove me himself.
他說 "要麼坦白交代" Said, "I'm gonna give you a little taste of what it's like
"要麼我給你點顏色看看" unless you confess."
你為什麼現在才告訴我這些 Why are you just now telling me this?
這裏都是這樣的 This is how it is down here.
從我記事起就這樣了 Been like this long as I can remember.
他們把你耍了 是吧 They messing with you, ain't they?
是啊 他們確實沒讓我好過 Yeah, they are. They're not making it easy on me.
不過我倒有個主意 I got a plan for you, though.
洗耳恭聽 I'm all ears.
我是這麼盤算的 Here's what I think we should do.
我覺得你得再培養個律師 I think you should train up another lawyer,
萬一你完蛋了 'cause I'm gonna need somebody
好有別人接著替我辯護啊 just in case they take you out.
這樣嗎 It's like that?
就是這樣 就這樣 Like that. It's like that.
我還以為你是我朋友呢 Thought I had a friend.
這裏可毫無朋友可言 Ain't no friends in here.
-世態炎涼啊 -是啊 - Cold world. - Yeah.
那麼 咱們失去了達內爾 So, we ain't got Darnell.
下一步怎麼辦 What's the next move?
我們應該找拉爾夫·邁爾斯談談 I think we should talk to Ralph Myers.
-沃特 -不 - Walter... - No.
先聽我說兩句 Just listen to me for a second.
我知道這很冒險 I know it's risky,
可唯一能搞清他知道什麼的法子 but the only way to find out what he really knows
就是讓他自己開口 is for me to get him talking.
我知道他知道什麼 I know what he know.
你可知他對我做了什麼 You know what that man did to me?
拿我的命 Took my life away from me...
換他自己的命 to save his own ass.
他開口說的只有謊言 All he gonna give you is lies.
我一定會小心的 I promise I'm gonna be careful.
過來排隊 Get in line.
邁爾斯先生 Mr. Myers.
你是鮑比嗎 You Bobby?
我是布賴恩 I'm Bryan.
等會兒再來這套吧 Maybe later.
好吧 你要坐下嗎 Okay. Do you wanna sit down?
你能先去給我買個飲料嗎 You gonna buy me a Coke first?
還是說你要讓我 Or you gonna make me stare
一直眼巴巴地盯著售貨機 at them vending machines all day?
行 你想要什麼 Sure. What do you want?
新奇士橙汁 Sunkist orange.
好 Okay.
再來點水果軟糖 要是還有賣的 And some Jujyfruits, if they got 'em.
邁爾斯先生 很感謝你能見我 I just want to say thanks for meeting me, Mr. Myers.
我們可以從 Can we start by talking about
你對約翰尼·D.的證詞開始談起嗎 your testimony against Johnny D.?
不能 No.
我不想談他 I ain't talking about him.
可他是我來此的唯一原因 That's the only reason why I'm here.
你要是不樂意 那就走吧 You don't like it, leave.
別這麼沮喪 Don't look so sad.
咱們可以聊點別的呀 We can talk about other things.
我喜歡聊天 I love to talk.
我老婆說 要是我說的每句話都能換來錢 My wife says if I got paid for every word I said,
我們早就是億萬富翁了 we'd be a couple of billionaires by now.
是嗎 Yeah?
你結婚多久了 How long you been married?
長到足以造出兩個孩子 Long enough to pop out a couple of kids,
再看著我老婆鼓動他們造我的反 and watch her turn 'em all against me.
你有孩子嗎 You got kids?
我嗎 沒有 Me? No.
但是約翰尼·D.有 But Johnny D. Does.
是啊 Yeah.
養孩子最大的問題 The thing about kids is
就是他們和養狗不同 they ain't nothing like having a dog.
完全兩碼事 It's a totally different deal.
真希望早先能有人告訴我 I wish somebody had told me that in the first place.
而我的孩子們卻覺得已經受夠了 And my kids, they think they got it so bad.
他們想法和我完全不一樣 They ain't seen nothing like I seen.
他們就一直沒把我當成親爹 Try making it as a foster kid your whole life.
這樣一旦發現我有什麼毛病 As soon as you figure out one shitty parent,
他們就巴不得換個新爹 they moving you to a new one.
我很抱歉 I'm sorry.
我相信養孩子很辛苦 I'm sure that wasn't easy.
他有幾個孩子 How many kids he got?
約翰尼·D.有三個 Johnny D. Has three.
邁爾斯先生 我知道你和政府做了交易 Mr. Myers, I know you made a deal with the State.
可我認為他們沒告訴你 But I don't think they told you
約翰尼·D.會因此賠上性命 Johnny D. Was gonna die because of it.
這確實不是件容易事 That must not be an easy thing to carry.
我希望你內心還殘存一絲善念 And I'm hoping there's a part of you
想要讓真相大白於世 that wants to make things right.
咱們能說說你的證詞嗎 Can we please talk about your testimony?
幹什麼呢 Hey!
從我被關進埃斯坎比亞那天起 From the day they moved my ass into Escambia,
我就不停地說 for something I'm telling you
這事和我沒關係 I ain't had nothing to do with,
他們警察想問的只有隆達·莫裏森 all them police wanted to talk about was Ronda Morrison.
莫裏森這個 莫裏森那個 It was Morrison this, Morrison that.
有時候一屋子裏會有四五個警察 Sometimes four or five of 'em in the room at the same time.
你被捕那天 They were questioning you about her
他們就在問你她的事兒了嗎 the day you were arrested?
我想說的是 Alls I'm saying is,
除了誰殺的那個女孩 ain't nobody cared about a damn thing
就沒人在乎別的事了 besides who killed that girl.
當人們對某件事過分上心時 And when people care about a thing that much,
他們會不顧一切來促成此事 they'll do anything to get what they want.
你知道你這樣刨根問底 You know they'll kill you
他們會殺了你的 對吧 if you get to the bottom of this, right?
等等 你去哪兒 Wait. Where are you going?
就說到這兒吧 鮑比 We done here, Bobby.
多謝你買的軟糖 Thanks for the Jujys.
老大 可以走了 Ready, boss.
邁爾斯說 他在6月3日被捕當天 Myers said he was questioned about Ronda Morrison
就被問及有關隆達·莫裏森的問題 the day he was arrested, on June 3rd.
但唯一的一份呈堂證供 But the only statement they presented in court
卻是近兩個月後錄製的 was recorded almost two months later.
你說他們會不會把第一份供詞藏在哪兒了 Do you think they're hiding his first statement somewhere?
如果是 那有可能還在埃斯坎比亞法院 If they are, it might be at the Escambia courthouse
和他另一個案子的文件存放在一起 with the files from his other case.
那兒你有認識的人嗎 You know anyone over there?
我有 I do.
這是邁爾斯相關的所有資料了 That's everything we got on Myers.
你可以在那邊複印 You can make copies over there.
-多謝您 女士 -小伙子客氣了 - Thank you, ma'am. - Sure, baby.
他還蠻可愛的 結婚了嗎 He's cute. Married?
醉心工作無法自拔 Married to his work.
米奇大叔還好嗎 How's Uncle Mickey doing?
他又造了個棚子 He's building another shed,
因為另外兩個顯然不夠 'cause the other two apparently ain't enough.
人總得幹點什麼 Man needs a project.
米勒小姐 Miss Miller.
這帶子我能刻錄一份嗎 Can I take a copy of these?
我掙著賣白菜的錢何必操賣白粉的心 They ain't paying me enough to stop you.
播放
找到邁爾斯第一次證詞的記錄了嗎 Did you find the transcript from Myers' first statement?
-給 -謝謝 - Yeah. - Thank you.
怎麼了 What?
警長 我明白 I understand that, Sheriff.
這個是邁爾斯 That's Myers.
我就要和你說這個 And that's what I'm trying to tell you.
因為 我想跟你說實話 Because, I'm gonna be honest with ya,
我什麼都不知道 I don't know a damn thing.
真的嗎 Is that right?
這個是泰特 And that's Tate.
真的 長官 Yes, sir.
真得不能再真了 It's righter than anything I've ever said.
你願意做個測謊測試 And you would take a polygraph test
來證明你確實不知道 to the fact that you do not know
是誰殺了隆達·莫裏森嗎 who killed Ronda Morrison?
是的 長官 我願意 That's right, sir. I will.
你願意當面對質 Would you face the person
前來作證的人嗎 who came in here and testified that you...
我願意同任何人對質 I will face any damn body in this world on that,
因為這就是個彌天大謊 because it's a stone lie.
如果你讓我把一個無辜的人陷害成殺人犯 And if you asking me to frame an innocent man for murder,
我確實不願意 well, that just ain't something I'm willing to do.
天啊 Holy shit.
赫布 你還好吧 Herb, you all right over there?
不好 No.
聽著 Now, listen here,
別總想著明天的事了 you gonna have to get your mind off tomorrow.
布賴恩此刻正在琢磨對策 Bryan is working on that as we speak.
你明白法庭的套路 Now, you know how these courts here is.
他們會等到最後一分鐘 They wait till the last minute,
但你一定能獲准推遲刑期的 but you gonna get that stay.
我為什麼要放那個炸彈 Why did I make that bomb?
赫布 不要這樣 Herb, don't go there now.
我為什麼那樣做 Why'd I do that?
我沒想傷害任何人 I wasn't trying to hurt nobody.
赫布 我知道 Herb, I know.
我為什麼這麼蠢 Why am I so stupid?
不 你不蠢 No, no, you ain't stupid.
那戰爭讓你病了 That war got you sick,
現在你還是病著 and you still sick.
那女孩不該過來把它撿起來 Girl wasn't supposed to come by and pick it up.
聽著 赫布 我要你 Listen, Herb. I want you to...
她不該過來把它撿起來 She wasn't supposed to come by and pick it up.
赫布 現在我們要冷靜下來 This what we gonna do, Herb. We gonna slow your mind down.
還記得我們怎麼練習的嗎 Remember what we practiced now.
怎麼做的 What we do?
-深呼吸 -好 - Deep breaths. - Yeah.
來跟我一起做 Come on, do that with me now.
深呼吸 Deep breaths.
吸氣呼氣 In and out.
再吸 Now in.
現在閉上眼睛 Now close your eyes.
忘記這些事 Get away from all this.
沒有圍牆 No more walls.
沒有警衛 No more guards.
不用再打仗了 No more wars to fight.
只有你站在天地間 Just you, out in the open.
新鮮的風吹過臉頰 Fresh air on your face.
看那些松樹 Look at them pine trees.
在我們出生前它們就已經在茁壯成長了 They've been growing since 'fore we was born.
在我們死之後還會繼續成長 And they gonna keep growing even after we gone.
它們經歷了我們所經歷的一切 And they done been through the same shit we done been through.
但他們還能在微風中起舞 But they still dancing in the breeze.
你看到它們了嗎 Can you see 'em?
對 Yeah.
很好 Good.
現在我要你別想其他事了 Now I want you to think about nothing else.
就想著那些樹 Just keep your mind on that.
一切都會好的 And everything gonna be a'ight.
謹呈最高法院 赫布特 李 理查德森
我需要史崔克蘭對華盛頓案 I need Strickland v. Washington,
還有赫布特的巡佐的口供 and the affidavit from Herbert's sergeant.
發出去吧 Let's send it.
赫布特 李 理查德森上訴人 對 阿拉巴馬州答辯人
現在怎麼辦 Now what?
等吧 We wait.
EJI 這裏是布賴恩 史蒂文森 EJI. This is Bryan Stevenson.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson,
法院剛剛對895395號案件下達指令 the court has just entered an order in case number 895395.
暫緩執行的動議 The motion for a stay of execution
和調案複審令的請求 and petition for writ of certiorari
都被駁回了 have been denied.
我們馬上會將命令函複印件傳真到你辦公室 We'll fax copies of the order over to your office shortly.
-謝謝 -謝謝 - Thank you. - Thank you.
他說過要我過去陪他 He asked me to be there.
好吧 Okay.
我開車送你 I'll drive you, then.
來吧 赫布特 要走了 Come on, Herbert. We gotta go.
我能跟朋友道個別嗎 Can... Can I say bye to my friends?
當你承受不了的時候 When it get too much for you,
你就深呼吸 you take them deep breaths.
想點別的 Let your mind go.
希望我不用獨自面對 Wish I didn't have to do this alone.
你不是一個人 赫布特 You ain't by yourself, Herbert.
我們和你在一起 We all with you.
是吧 雷 Ain't that right, Ray?
對 赫布 你還沒離開我們 That's right, Herb. You ain't rid of us yet.
你一直都是很好的朋友 You've been a good friend.
第一次來處決室啊 First time in the chamber, huh?
對 Yeah.
別想太多 你會受不了的 Don't think too much. You'll lose your shit.
還需要什麼嗎 理查德森先生 Need anything, Mr. Richardson?
你會放我的歌吧 You still gonna play my song?
已經準備好了 Got it cued up and ready.
謝謝你 Thank you.
今天很奇怪 It's been a strange day.
今天來問我如何幫助我的人 More people asked how they can help me today
比我一生加起來都多 than ever asked in my whole life.
我看起來好笑嗎 Do I look funny?
我不知道他們要把我剃光 I ain't know they were gonna shave off everything.
你看起來挺好 You look fine.
大多數人不會有機會坐在那想 Well, most people don't get to sit and think all day
這是他們活著的最後一天 about it being their last day alive.
跟越南不一樣 It's different than Nam.
至少我在那還有機會 Least I had a chance there.
我很抱歉 I'm sorry.
你是唯一一個願意為我辯護的人 You the only one cared enough to fight for me.
因為我沒有家人 Since I don't have family,
我告訴軍隊把我的旗幟送給你 I told the army to send my flag to you,
如果可以的話 if that's okay.
是我的榮幸 I'd be honored.
你能跟我一起祈禱嗎 Can you pray with me?
當然 Of course.
他們準備好了 They're ready.
♪ 在遠遠的山坡上 ♪ ♪ On a hill far away ♪
♪ 立著個老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ Stood an old rugged cross ♪
♪ 苦難與恥辱的象徵 ♪ ♪ The emblem of suffering and shame ♪
♪ 而我愛著那老十字架 ♪ ♪ And I love that old cross ♪
♪ 此愛至深 ♪ ♪ Where the dearest and best ♪
♪ 因為這是迷失的罪人被殺的世界 ♪ ♪ For a world of lost sinners was slain ♪
♪ 而我會珍惜 ♪ ♪ And I'll cherish ♪
♪ 這老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ The old rugged cross ♪
♪ 一直到我俯伏主腳前 ♪ ♪ Till my trophies at last I lay down... ♪
你 赫布特 李 理查德森 You, Herbert Lee Richardson,
因在1977年8月16號謀殺 shall be put to death by electrocution
雷娜·梅柯林斯 in the state of Alabama
根據法官傑裏·M·懷特的命令 as ordered and decreed by Judge Jerry M. White,
你將在阿拉巴馬州 for the murder of Rena Mae Collins
被執行電刑 on August the 16th, 1977.
即將執行 So ordered.
理查德森先生 Mr. Richardson,
你還有什麼遺言嗎 do you have any final words you'd like to say?
♪ 那老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ Oh, that old rugged cross ♪
♪ 被世界所鄙視 ♪ ♪ So despised by the world ♪
我沒有不適 I have no ill feeling.
我也沒有異議 And I hold nothing against anyone.
♪ 而我會珍惜這老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ So I'll cherish the old rugged cross ♪
♪ 這老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ The old rugged cross ♪
♪ 一直到我俯伏主腳前 ♪ ♪ Till my trophies at last I lay down ♪
♪ 我會背負這老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ I will cling to the old rugged cross ♪
♪ 終有一天拿它來換公義冠冕 ♪ ♪ And exchange it someday for a crown ♪
♪ 老舊的十字架啊 ♪ ♪ To the old rugged cross ♪
♪ 我會永遠真誠 ♪ ♪ I will ever be true ♪
♪ 甘願受世人輕視辱罵 ♪ ♪ Its shame and reproach gladly bear ♪
♪ 主有一天會呼喚我 ♪ ♪ Then he'll call me someday ♪
♪ 去遠方的家 ♪ ♪ To my home far away ♪
♪ 主的榮福 ♪ ♪ Where his glory ♪
♪ 我會永遠分享 ♪ ♪ Forever I'll share ♪
我們跟你同在 赫布特 We with you, Herbert!
我們都和你同在 We all with you!
我們愛你 赫布 We love you, Herb!
我們都愛你 赫布 We all with you, Herb.
我跟你一起上路 大赫布 I'm walking with you, Big Herb!
相信你的心 赫布 Believe in your heart, Herb.
我們跟你同在 兄弟 We're with you, buddy!
堅強點 赫布 Be strong, Herb!
♪ 我會背負這老舊的十字架 ♪ ♪ I will cling to the old rugged cross ♪
♪ 終有一天拿它來換公義冠冕 ♪ ♪ And exchange it someday for a crown ♪
我們愛你 赫布 We love you, Herb!
沃爾特·麥克米利安 被告
我希望你這個重要信息 Well, I hope this important news of yours
會附帶吃的 comes with some food.
因為我要餓死了 'Cause I'm starving.
坐下 邁爾斯先生 Sit down, Mr. Myers.
你上次可友好多了 You was a lot nicer the last time.
我聽過了你6月3號的 I heard the recording of the first statement
錄的第一次口供 you gave on June 3rd.
沒有呈上法庭的那份 The one they didn't present in court.
你告訴警長 You told the sheriff
你對約翰尼·D或是謀殺毫不知情 you didn't know anything about Johnny D. or the murder.
你告訴他你不想陷害一個無辜的人 You told him you didn't want to frame an innocent man.
你記得你說過這話嗎 Do you remember saying that?
我好奇的是 Now, what I'm wondering is,
你是怎麼從6月3號對謀殺的毫不知情 how do you go from knowing nothing about a murder on June 3rd,
變成三個月之後的關鍵目擊證人的 to becoming the State's key witness three months later?
是什麼讓你改變了想法 What changed your mind?
那是什麼 What's that?
赫曼監獄的入獄日誌 Intake log from Holman prison.
在1987年8月1號 On August 1st, 1987,
泰特警長轉移了兩名郡監獄犯人 Sheriff Tate transferred two inmates
去了死囚牢 from county jail to death row.
約翰尼·D Johnny D
Ralph Bernard Myers
和你 and you.
是因為你不肯作偽證 Did they move you to death row
他們才把你送去死囚牢嗎 because you wouldn't testify against him?
他們在你去的幾周之後 They executed Wayne Ritter
處決了韋恩·裏特 a few weeks after you got there,
對不對 isn't that right?
星期四晚上他們處決赫布特 理查德森時 I was in the witness room when they killed
我在見證室裏面 Herbert Richardson Thursday night.
那是我經歷的 And it was the most horrific thing
最恐怖的事情 I've ever experienced.
我相信你也很難消化裏特的處決 I'm sure Ritter's execution wasn't easy for you either.
他們把我放在離處決室最近的牢房裏 They put me in the cell closest to the kill room.
大半夜所有人都開始叫 Middle of the night, everybody started screaming,
敲欄杆 banging on the bars.
然後 And then...
傳來了他皮膚燒焦的味道 then came the smell of his skin burning.
我知道那味道 I know that smell.
能告訴我發生了什麼嗎 May I ask you what happened?
我七歲的時候 Seven years old.
我睡在養母的地下室裏的時候 I was sleeping in my foster mom's basement
她的暖氣爆炸了 when her heater blowed up.
我的睡衣著火了 Catched my PJ's on fire.
我尖叫了整整兩分鐘 I was screaming for two minutes straight
他們才找到我 before they found me.
所有人都知道我害怕被燒傷 Everybody knowed that I got a fear of being burned.
他們知道我在那種地方 They knowed what it would do to my head
會受到什麼樣的影響 to be in a place like that.
我一整晚都止不住地顫抖 I couldn't stop shaking all night.
像個嬰兒一樣蜷縮在地上 Curled up on the floor like a baby.
我想呼吸 但是每次呼吸 Trying to breathe, but every breath you take just...
都能再聞到他們殺的人的味道 You get another taste of the man they killed.
你不可能經歷了這樣的事情 You can't go through something like that
還無動於衷 and come out the same.
我知道 I know.
第二天早上我叫來警長 I called that sheriff the next morning.
我告訴他 I told him...
只要能離開這裏 他想讓我說什麼都可以 I would say whatever he wanted to get me out.
他拿走了我的證詞 And he took my statement,
第二天把我轉移到了縣監獄 moved me to county the next day.
邁爾斯先生 我們很快會開庭 Mr. Myers, we're going to court very soon
幫約翰尼·D爭取他應得的重審機會 to try to get Johnny D. the retrial he deserves.
我希望你能出庭作證 And I'd like you to take the stand.
不 No.
不行 先生 不行 先生 No, sir. No, sir.
他們在利用你 They are using you.
他們利用你去誣告一個 They're using you to condemn a man
其實和你有很多共同點的人 that you have much more in common with than you think.
如果你內心還想挽回的話 And if there's any part of you that wants to make things right,
這是最後的機會 this is the last chance you're gonna get.
今天早晨鮑德溫縣法院 The tension is high this morning
1992年4月16日
被緊張的氣氛籠罩 here at the Baldwin County Courthouse
這裏將舉行一場聽證會來裁決 where a hearing is being held
那個因殺害隆達·莫裏森而獲刑的罪犯 to see if the man convicted
是否需要進行重新審判 of killing Ronda Morrison deserves a new trial.
莫裏森小姐在阿拉巴馬州蒙羅維爾的 Miss Morrison was only 18 years old
傑克遜洗衣店遇害時 when she was murdered at Jackson Cleaners
年僅18歲 in Monroeville, Alabama.
許多人從蒙羅維爾驅車兩小時 Many have taken the two-hour drive here
到這裏來支持重審 from Monroeville to show their support.
由於這個案子可能會導致群眾情緒失控 Extra security precautions were implemented
實施了額外的安全防範措施 due to the highly emotional nature of this case.
隆達·莫裏森的父母表示他們堅信 Ronda Morrison's parents said they have no doubt
麥克米利安先生就是殺害女兒的 Mr. McMillian is the man responsible
罪魁禍首 for the murder of their daughter.
但是麥克米利安的家人 But members of McMillian's family
聲稱他們抓錯了人 claim they have the wrong man.
今天的聽證會 Much of today's hearing
主要取決於拉爾夫·邁爾斯的證詞 is hinging on the testimony of Ralph Myers,
該重刑犯是原庭審中 a convicted felon, who was the key witness
指認麥克米利安的關鍵證人 against McMillian in the original trial.
我們今天將要討論的問題顯然 What we'll be talking about today is obviously
容易激化情緒 an emotional issue.
如果在座各位有人認為不能 And if any of y'all don't think you can maintain
保持理智 a reasonable degree of decorum,
請你們現在離開 then I would ask you to leave now.
好吧 如果準備好了 那我們就繼續 All right, if we're ready, then, we will proceed.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson.
謝謝 法官大人 Thank you, Your Honor.
州政府起訴沃爾特·麥克米利安的案子 The State's case against Walter McMillian
完全取決於拉爾夫·邁爾斯的證詞 turned entirely on the testimony of Ralph Myers.
沒有其他任何證據 There was no other evidence
證明麥克米利安先生的罪行 to establish Mr. McMillian's guilt.
沒有物證表明他與謀殺有關 No physical evidence linking him to the crime.
沒有動機 沒有人證 No motive. No witnesses.
只有一份證詞 Only the word of one man.
我們要求傳喚拉爾夫·邁爾斯出庭 We call Ralph Myers to the stand.
先生 請起立 Sir, please stand
右手放在聖經上 and place your right hand on the Bible.
你願意向神發誓 You swear to tell truth, the whole truth,
一切居實稟告 毫不欺瞞嗎 and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
邁爾斯先生 Mr. Myers?
是的 抱歉 Oh, yes. Sorry.
警衛凌晨兩點就叫我起床 The guards got me up about 2:00 in the morning
帶我來這裏 to get me out here.
邁爾斯先生 你是否曾在1988年8月 Mr. Myers, did you testify against Walter McMillian
出庭指證過沃爾特·麥克米利安 in August of 1988?
是那時候嗎 Is that when it was?
根據記錄來看 是的 According to the record, yes.
好吧 那就是吧 如果你這麼說的話 Okay, then, sure. If you say so.
你作證時對陪審團說了什麼 And what did you say to the jury when you testified?
先生 說實話 我不太記得了 抱歉 I don't think I can fully remember, sir, to be honest with you. Sorry.
不 沒關係 No, that's quite all right.
我這裏有一份你的證詞記錄 I have a transcript of your testimony right here.
在法庭上 你記得曾經作證說 At the trial, do you remember testifying
1986年11月1日自己無意中參與了 that you were unwillingly made part of
一起謀殺和搶劫案嗎 a capital murder and robbery on November 1st, 1986,
當天沃爾特·麥克米利安在洗車場看到你 when Walter McMillian saw you at a car wash
並因為胳膊受傷而讓你開他的卡車 and asked you to drive his truck because his arm hurt?
是的 先生 應該是吧 Yes, sir, I guess so.
你記得說過你開車載麥克米利安先生去 Do you remember saying that you drove Mr. McMillian
傑克遜洗衣店 to Jackson Cleaners,
隨後走進大樓 subsequently went into the building,
看到麥克米利安先生拿著槍 and saw Mr. McMillian with a gun,
站在隆達·莫裏森的屍體旁邊嗎 standing over the body of Ronda Morrison?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
邁爾斯先生 Mr. Myers,
你在沃爾特·麥克米利安的庭審上 was the testimony that you gave
所作的證詞都是真實的嗎 at Walter McMillian's trial true?
我不知道 I don't know.
你不知道嗎 You don't know?
我記不清了 I don't think I remember.
邁爾斯先生 你認識沃爾特·麥克米利安嗎 Mr. Myers, do you know who Walter McMillian is?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
他在這裏嗎 Is he in this room?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
能為我們指出來嗎 Could you point him out for us?
我想再問一遍剛才的問題 I'd like to ask you that question one more time.
你在沃爾特·麥克米利安的庭審中 Was the testimony that you gave
所作證詞是真實的嗎 at Walter McMillian's trial true?
不是 先生 一點也不 No, sir. Not at all.
肅靜 Order, please.
在隆達·莫裏森遇害的那天 Did you see Mr. McMillian on the day
你見過麥克米利安先生嗎 Ronda Morrison was murdered?
沒有 先生 No, sir.
那天你開著他的卡車去了蒙羅維爾嗎 Did you drive his truck to Monroeville that day?
沒有 從來沒有 No. Never did.
你走進傑克遜洗衣店 Did you go into Jackson Cleaners
看到麥克米利安先生 and see Mr. McMillian
站在隆達·莫裏森的屍體旁邊了嗎 standing over the body of Ronda Morrison?
絕對沒有 Absolutely not.
謝謝 Thank you.
我沒有問題了 法官大人 No further questions, Your Honor.
邁爾斯先生 Mr. Myers...
我們怎麼知道 how do we know
你這麼做不是出於對之前的協議不滿呢 you ain't upset with the deal you got,
你覺得改變說辭 and you feel like somehow by
也許能幫你脫身呢 changing your story, might help to get you out?
因為那是無稽之談 先生 Because that just don't make no sense, sir.
你覺得誰能來決定我的命運 Who do you think is deciding what happens to me?
我是生是死 If I live or die?
不是我 也不是約翰尼·D It ain't me. It ain't Johnny D.
而是你們這些人 所以 It's all y'all that's deciding that, so,
我的說辭 how's my saying what I'm saying
怎麼能幫我脫身呢 gonna help to get me out?
如果有任何作用 也只會害我進死囚牢吧 If anything, it's gonna help get me to death row.
但我不在乎 你們想對我做什麼都可以 But I don't care. Y'all can do what you want with me.
因為我 'Cause me...
我可以看著你的臉 I can look in your face
或其他任何人的臉 問心無愧地說 or anybody else's face, dead eye to eyeball,
我所說的任何關於麥克米利安先生的事情 and say that anything I told about Mr. McMillian...
都是謊言 was a lie.
他今天在這裏都是因為我 He's here 'cause of me.
我會感激你們送他回家 And I sure would appreciate you sending him home
回到孩子身邊 to his kids where he belongs.
我們遞交一份那天恰好經過烤魚聚會的 We submit a copy of the official log
警員的日誌 from the police officer that stopped by the fish fry,
證實沃爾特·麥克米利安當時和家人在一起 confirming Walter McMillian was there with his family.
邁爾斯先生說屍體面部朝上 Mr. Myers said that the body was faceup
在前台附近 near the front counter.
但是我發現她時面部朝下 But I found her facedown in the back,
在後面的洗手間裏 by the bathroom.
向法庭呈交拉爾夫·邁爾斯 Submitting exculpatory records from Ralph Myers' stay
在泰勒·哈丁精神病院的無罪辯護記錄 at the Taylor Hardin psychiatric hospital.
這份記錄檢方並未向辯護律師公開 Which the State did not disclose to defense counsel.
邁爾斯先生當時是我的病人 Mr. Myers was my patient at the time
他多次聲稱 and he claimed on numerous occasions
被人用電刑椅威脅 that he was being threatened with the electric chair,
如果他不說出 if he didn't say
當局想聽到的話 what the authorities wanted to hear.
檢察官想讓我作證說 The prosecutor asked me to testify
她被人從前面拖到了後面 that she had been dragged from the front to the back.
我告訴他 "我不會在法庭上撒謊" And I told him, "I ain't gonna lie in court."
接下來 幾周之後 And then, well, a few weeks later,
我被開除了 I got fired from the department.
今天呈交的所有證據 All of the evidence presented today
都對這個案子的結果至關重要 would have been critical to the outcome of this case.
將這些證據排除在外明顯違反了 And its exclusion is a clear violation
佈雷迪訴馬裏蘭案 of Brady v. Maryland
佈雷迪訴馬裏蘭案：佈雷迪和同伴波布利特被馬裏蘭檢方以謀殺罪起訴。 同伴波布利特在證詞中承認只有自己實施了謀殺，但這份證詞被檢察官扣下未公開。 佈雷迪雖未殺人卻被判處死刑。之後佈雷迪上訴到最高法院，認為隱瞞證詞的行為 違反了他接受正當程序審判的憲法權利。
和麥克米利安先生的憲法權利 and Mr. McMillian's constitutional rights.
這個案子的真相尚未浮現 The truth has not been told in this case.
我知道事情已經過去很久了 And I understand a lot of time has gone by,
但我相信 but I personally believe
正義永遠不會太遲 that it's never too late for justice.
我們請求法庭批准我們的提議 We ask the court to grant our motion
下令重審麥克米利安先生的案子 and order a new trial for Mr. McMillian.
謝謝 法官大人 Thank you, Your Honor.
謝謝 律師 Thank you, Counselors.
等我有時間看完所有的東西後 We'll reconvene at a later date,
我們再繼續開庭 once I've had time to look through everything.
全體起立 All rise.
說實話 Tell you the truth, I didn't think
我沒想到他會這麼做 he was gonna go through with it.
老實說 有那麼一瞬間 我也覺得他不會 Honestly, for a second there, I didn't think so either.
我不知道怎麼形容現在的感覺 I can't even tell you how I feel right now.
謝謝你 Thank you.
如果你們想打個招呼 還有幾分鐘時間 We got a few minutes if y'all wanna say hi.
我們5分鐘後離開 We leave in five minutes.
你怎麼樣 老傢伙 What's up, old man?
-你做的很棒 -謝謝 - You did great. - Thank you.
查普曼今晚應該會聯繫你 Mmm-hmm. Chapman ought to call you tonight
告訴你他會撤銷所有的指控 and tell you that he's dropping all them charges.
我不抱什麼希望 Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
在宣讀我的決定之後 Upon the reading of my decision,
一個月後
我希望法庭內保持秩序 I expect the rules of decorum in this courtroom to be upheld.
拉爾夫·邁爾斯曾出庭作證 Ralph Myers took the stand before this court,
宣誓會說實話 swore to tell the truth,
接著就推翻了之前庭審上的 and proceeded to recant most, if not all,
大部分相關證詞 of the relevant portions of his testimony at trial.
顯然他要麼在庭審中 Clearly, he has either perjured himself at trial,
要麼在本次法庭前做了偽證 or in front of this court.
經過仔細審查 After careful review,
本庭認為 it is this court's opinion
並無確鑿證據證明 that conclusive evidence has not been provided
拉爾夫·邁爾斯在初審中作出偽證 that Ralph Myers perjured himself at the original trial,
且證人因出庭作證受到的壓力 and that pressure put on him since his trial testimony
而做出的改變陳詞不可採信 could tend to discredit his recantation.
因此 本庭判決 Therefore, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed
拉爾夫·邁爾斯的庭審證詞 that the trial testimony of Ralph Myers
並未發現有偽證 is not found to have been perjured testimony
並且不再在此 and no new trial shall be granted...
-還沒完 -進行新的審判 - It's not over. - ...at this time.
沃爾特·麥克米利安應當即刻返回 Walter McMillian shall be returned
霍爾曼懲教所 to Holman Correctional Facility
在那裏 他將接受電擊死刑 where he is to face death by electrocution.
你不能再這麼對我們了 法官 You can't do this to us again, Judge.
坐下 年輕人 Sit down, young man.
-約翰 -這是我的爸爸 先生 - John... - This is my dad, sir.
約翰 我請你立刻坐下 John. I want you to sit down now.
他什麼都沒做錯 He ain't do nothing wrong.
聽你父親的話 別在這裏鬧 Listen to your father. Not here.
他什麼都沒做錯 He ain't do nothing wrong.
立刻坐下 Sit down right now
否則你會因藐視法庭被捕 or you'll be arrested for contempt of court.
法官 稍等 拜託了 法官 Judge, just give me one second. Please, Judge.
-稍等 -坐下 約翰 - Hold on one second. - Sit down, John.
我不會再說第二遍 坐下 I won't say it again. Sit down!
你毫無緣由就要殺死我的爸爸 我才不坐 Not if you gonna kill my dad for no reason.
他什麼都沒做錯 He ain't do nothing wrong!
別在這裏 別這樣 Not in here. Not like this.
你要殺死我的親人 先生 You killing my family, sir.
你要殺死我的親人 先生 你 You killing my family, sir. You!
約翰 John!
法官 法官 他不是在反抗 Judge! Judge! He's not resisting.
約翰 他什麼都沒做 John! He ain't do nothing.
別反抗了 Stop resisting.
聽見我說話沒 別讓他們擊垮了你 You hear me? Don't you let them get you.
會沒事的 It's gonna be all right.
行了 我們回家 Come on. Let's get you home.
拜託 別搞得很難看 Come on, man, don't make this hard.
行了 Come on.
不 別這麼做 麥克米利安 行了 進去 No. Don't do this, McMillian. Come on. Go in.
約翰尼·D 行了 Johnny D., no! No!
約翰ny 行了 Johnny D., no!
約翰尼 Johnny...
放鬆 放鬆 Relax. Relax. Relax.
胳膊給我 給我 Give me your arm. Give me...
把他銬起來 銬起來 Get him cuffed! Get him cuffed.
放鬆 Relax.
幹得好 Good job.
這是你
親愛的米妮
沒有人想要記得 Nobody wants to remember
這裏是成千上萬被迫為奴的人 that this is where thousands of enslaved people
被運抵 和沿街售賣的地方 were shipped in and paraded up the street to be sold.
而離這兒30里地的地方 Just ten miles from here,
黑人從自己家被拉出來 處以私刑 black people were pulled from their homes and lynched.
沒人會談這些事 Nobody talks about it.
而現在 這個來自特拉華的黑人男孩 And now this black boy from Delaware
走進他們的法庭 walks into their courtrooms
希望他們承認 and expects them to admit
他們判了一個無辜的黑人有罪 they convicted an innocent black man.
我承諾過整個社區 I promised that whole community
我要帶著他回家 I was gonna bring him home.
然而我卻把事情搞得更糟了 Then I just made things worse.
我聽許多律師說 I've heard a lot of lawyers say
和自己的客戶聯繫緊密並不好 it's not a good idea to get close to your clients.
距離產生美 Distance is healthy.
但是與你共事讓我知道了那就是扯淡 But working with you showed me that that's bullshit.
你選擇接近他們每一個人 You choose to get close to every one of them.
你愛他們就像他們是你的家人 And you love them like they are your family.
所以當你的家人受傷時 你也很難過 And when your family is hurting, you're hurting.
我無法完全理解 There is no way that I could fully understand
你所經歷的那些事 what it is that you're going through.
但我相信 But I am pretty sure that
你對這個社區的意義比你想得要大得多 you mean a lot more to this community than you think.
沃爾特 我很抱歉 Walter, I'm so sorry.
被逮捕的那一天 我想著沒什麼大不了 Day I got arrested, I thought I was gonna be okay.
因為我知道真相 'Cause I got the truth.
只要他們和跟我在一起的所有人談過了 Soon as they talk to everybody that was with me,
他們就會放了我 they gonna have to let me go.
然後警察就一直叫你殺手 Then the police keep calling you a killer.
某些白人說 他看見是你幹的 Some white dude say he saw you do it.
新聞上的人說是你幹的 News people saying you did it.
法官和陪審團說 是你幹的 Judge and jury saying you did it.
然後你在死囚牢房待了 Now you on the row...
兩年 三年 四年 two, three, four years.
你的朋友和孩子 Your friends and your kids
不再像過去那樣聯繫你 ain't calling you like they used to.
再過一陣 你開始想 After a while, you start wondering
他們是怎麼看你的 what they think about you.
你開始想 你怎麼看你 You start wondering what you think about you.
真相已經不那麼明晰了 The truth ain't so clear no more.
但過去這幾天 But these last few days,
我一直在想邁爾斯 I can't stop thinking about Myers up there.
告訴大家是怎麼到這地步的 Telling everybody how it went down.
這是我被關押以來 That's the first time I feel like myself
第一次找回自我 since I've been locked up.
第一次 我記起來我是誰 The first time I remember who I is.
這些蠢貨要做什麼就做什麼吧 These fools gonna do what they gonna do.
但是如果他們今天要帶我去那把電椅 But if they take me to that chair tonight...
我要微笑著走出去 I'm going out smiling.
因為我尋回了關於自己的真相 'Cause I got my truth back.
你把它交還給我了 You gave that to me.
交還給我和我的家人了 To me and my family.
而沒有任何一個人能奪走它們 And ain't nobody gonna take that from us.
你不會退縮的 對吧 You ain't quitting, is you?
不會 No, sir.
那麼 你就沒有理由感到抱歉 Then there ain't no reason for you to say you're sorry.
我知道上場聽證會很令人失望 I know how disappointing the last hearing was,
但那不是結局 but that's not where this is gonna end.
我們正準備一項動議 We're preparing a motion
要把我們的證據提交至 to submit our evidence
蒙哥馬利的州最高法院 to the State Supreme Court in Montgomery.
他們有權推翻上一次審判 They have the power to reverse the last decision
迫使巡迴法庭重新審判 and force the circuit court to give us a new trial.
你覺得他們會那麼做嗎 You think they'll do that?
什麼都沒法保證 Nothing's guaranteed.
但我不相信 一個郡外法庭 But I can't see how an outside court
會忽略我們所擁有的證據 can ignore the evidence that we have.
然後呢 And then what?
就算他能出來 Even if he do get out,
除了我們的所有人也認為他有罪 everybody but us still gonna think he guilty.
就算他們在裏面殺不了他 If they can't kill him in there,
也可以讓他在外面社會學死亡 they can still do it out here.
這個我們也考慮過了 We've been worried about that, too.
我們在努力 讓真相大白天下 And we're working on something to help get the truth out.
等你準備好我們就開始 布萊德利先生 We're rolling. Whenever you're ready, Mr. Bradley.
好的 布賴恩 你準備好了嗎 Okay, Bryan, you ready?
好了 I am.
《60分鐘》 美國著名電視新聞雜誌節目
他的名字是沃爾特·麥克米利安 His name is Walter McMillian,
他的朋友叫他約翰尼·D known to his friends as Johnny D.,
而他已經在阿拉巴馬的霍爾曼監獄 and he's been on death row in Alabama's Holman prison
待了快六年 for almost six years.
陪審團相信他們抓對了人 A jury was convinced they got the right man.
但如果你聽了這個故事 也許不這麼認為 But you may not be after you watch this story.
被謀殺的職員 The clerk who was murdered...
嘿 大點聲 我聽不見了 Hey, hey, turn that up! I can't hear it.
約翰尼·D說他們想處決的是錯誤的人 Johnny D. Says they want to execute the wrong man.
你沒有殺死隆達·莫裏森嗎 You didn't kill Ronda Morrison?
沒有 先生 我這輩子就沒見過隆達·莫裏森 No, sir. I never seen Ronda Morrison a day in my life.
上帝知道我沒有 God knows I ain't.
謀殺當天 你有去過蒙羅維爾嗎 Did you ever go into Monroeville on the day of the murder?
沒有 No, sir.
你沒去 You never went in...
沒去蒙羅維爾 句號 Never went to Monroeville, period.
我告訴他們 我看見一個年輕女孩 I told them I had seen a young girl
張著嘴 躺在地板上 laying on the floor with her mouth open.
約翰尼·D站在她邊上 Johnny D. Standing over her.
這是真的嗎 Was it true?
不 絕不是 一點真的都沒有 No, sir. Not at all. Nowhere near true.
如果麥克米利安的處決日定下來了 If an execution date is set for McMillian,
那一日來臨 and that day comes,
他將走上電椅 and it's time for him to go to the electric chair,
你會暢快嗎 will you be comfortable?
會的 Yes.
我會感到舒暢 I'd be comfortable with it.
你覺得那是公平 正義嗎 他在 Do you think it's fair, just? He had his...
他在法庭上有過機會 He had his day in court.
他經過陪審團審判了 He, uh, was tried by a jury.
他們聽了他的證言 然後相信了 They heard his testimony and they believed it.
查普曼說他將以偽證罪起訴邁爾斯 Chapman says he's going to indict Myers for perjury.
不是因為他在庭審時說的話 Not for what he said at the trial,
而是因為他現在說的話 but for what he's saying now.
接下來 我們將把證據提交至 Next, we'll be presenting our evidence
阿拉巴馬州最高法院 to the Alabama Supreme Court,
希望他們能看到我們認為十分明白的事實 hoping they'll see what we think is very clear...
沃爾特·麥克米利安是無辜的 that Walter McMillian is innocent.
麥克米利安的命運現在掌握在 McMillian's fate is now in the hands
阿拉巴馬州最高法院的手中 of the Alabama Supreme Court,
最高法預計很快就會決定 which is expected to decide soon
他是否有權接受新的審判 if he's entitled to a new trial.
三個月後
EJI 這裏是布蘭達. EJI, this is Brenda.
好的 我會告訴他的 謝謝 Okay. I'll let him know. Thank you.
最高法對麥克米利安案的裁決 The supreme court ruling in the McMillian case
等著被接受了 is ready to be picked up.
一會回來 I'll be back.
震驚今日席捲門羅郡 A wave of shock rolled through Monroe County today,
阿拉巴馬州最高法院推翻了 when the Alabama Supreme Court overturned
巡迴法庭之前的審判 the circuit court's previous decision,
批准對已被判處死刑的殺人犯 and granted a new trial to convicted killer
沃爾特 "約翰尼·D." 麥克米利安重新審判 Walter "Johnny D." McMillian.
這是郡外法庭第一次 This was the first time a court outside the county
用確鑿的證據 was shown the overwhelming evidence
證明了麥克米利安的無辜 proving Mr. McMillian's innocence.
儘管法庭已經批准對他重新審判 Though the court granted him a new trial,
我們相信他應當被立即釋放 we believe he deserves to be released immediately.
而這也是下次審訊我們要力爭的一點 And that's exactly what we'll be arguing at the next hearing.
查普曼先生 你如何看待今天的審判 Mr. Chapman, how do you feel about today's decision?
無可奉告 謝謝 I have no comment at this time. Thank you.
我找布賴恩 史蒂文森律師 I'm looking for Attorney Bryan Stevenson.
-史蒂文森先生 -請問有什麼事嗎 - Mr. Stevenson? - How can I help you?
是的 先生 Yes, sir,
這份訴辯狀是給您的 I've been ordered to serve you this pleading.
謝謝你 Thank you.
湯米·查普曼向法院請求了暫緩程序 Tommy Chapman is asking the court to stay the proceedings,
理由是 他需要時間展開一次新的調查 so he can open up a new investigation.
他明擺著就是想鑽空子來重新立案圓謊 He's trying to buy time to rebuild his case.
他就是個人渣 That son of a bitch.
布賴恩 你明明知道他是無辜的 Bryan? You're asking the court
為什麼還要讓法院一直把他押在死囚監獄 to keep a man on death row you know is innocent.
律師先生 您說什麼 Excuse me, Counselor?
您這是什麼意思 I don't know what you mean.
就連最高法院都對我們的證據表示支持了 The supreme court supports all the evidence we presented.
你所有的證人也都已經撤回證詞了 Every one of your witnesses recanted.
你現在一無所有 You got nothing left.
等會兒 可我的調查還沒完成呢 Well, hang on, my investigation's still in process.
你什麼都不會找到的 這點你我心知肚明 And we both know you're not gonna find anything.
你知道在60分鐘的節目播放後 You have any idea the bullshit
你的胡話給我帶來了 that I've had to put up with
多大的麻煩嗎 since your 60 Minutes story aired?
郡長現在一直咬著我不放 I got the governor on my ass,
全國有色人種協進會也覺得我種族歧視 got the NAACP calling me a racist.
龍達的家人幾乎是每隔五分鐘就找我一次 I got Ronda's family checking in every five minutes.
你不能為了自己的名聲 You can't keep an innocent man in prison
就把一個無辜的人囚禁在監獄裏 while you try to salvage your reputation.
這件事和我的名聲半毛錢關係都沒有 This ain't got nothing to do with my reputation.
我只是不想辜負這個郡裏的人對我的信任 This is about the people of this county
因為他們把自己的安危托付在了我手裏 who have hired me to keep 'em safe.
那麼你具體指的是哪些人呢 And what people are you talking about right now?
是指這附近的鄰里街坊們呢 The ones from this neighborhood?
還是你們指控的約翰尼·D.的家 Or the ones from the black community
那些住在黑人居民區裏的人呢 you took Johnny D. from?
你覺得他們過得安心嗎 You think they feel safe?
湯米 你的工作不是捍衛原告 Your job isn't to defend a conviction, Tommy.
而是捍衛正義 It's to achieve justice.
只有你一直捍衛正義 And as long as you keep fighting this,
這一片的人才是真正意義上的脫離了危險 someone from your county has literally gotten away with murder.
所以你在飯點大老遠跑來我家 You wanna come all the way to my house at dinner time
就是為了教我怎麼做我的份內事嗎 just to tell me how to do my job?
不 No.
不 我來這兒是因為我覺得 No, I'm here because I think you know
你是一個能明辨是非的人 the difference between right and wrong.
而且你很清楚 殺她的根本不是約翰尼·D. And you know Johnny D. didn't kill that girl.
我正在準備一項動議來駁回全部的控訴 I'm filing a motion to dismiss all charges.
我覺得你也應該加入這個行列 And I think that you should join it.
下次你要是再來我家 Next time you wanna stop by my house,
最好事先給我打個電話 appreciate you calling me first.
現在 布賴恩 從我地盤上滾出去 Now, you get the hell off my property, Bryan.
1993年 3月2日
布賴恩來了 There's Bryan.
-怎麼回事 -他們不肯放我們進去 - What's going on? - They won't let us in.
我們已經在這兒等了一個多小時了 That boy is making us wait out here for over an hour.
不好意思 Excuse me.
你這是在做什麼 What are you doing?
執行命令而已 Just following orders.
這是一個公開聽證會 This is a public hearing.
快放這群人進去 These people need to be let in now.
你們現在可以進去了 Y'all can go in now.
現在裏面可沒位置坐了 Now that there's no seats left.
沒關係 It's okay.
我們自己找位置 We'll find room.
-進去吧 -大家都跟上 - Go on in. - Y'all come on.
-借過 -好的 - Excuse us. - Yeah.
來吧 各位 Come on, y'all.
這邊 來吧 Right this way. Come on.
好 Okay.
很高興見到你 甜心 Good to see you, sugar.
好的 謝謝 太太 我這是應該的 Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
全體起立 All rise.
阿拉巴馬州第二十八司法巡迴法院 The 28th Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama
現在開庭 is now is session.
本次庭審將由尊敬的帕梅拉·巴沙卜法官 The Honorable Judge Pamela Baschab
為我們主持 presiding.
各位 請坐 Please be seated.
今天的人很多 We've got a full house,
所以我們最好盡快解決問題 不要拖沓 so let's try to move through this in a timely manner.
大家今天共聚一堂 是因為史蒂文森先生 We're here because Mr. Stevenson
提出了一項動議 has filed a motion to
以解除本案中所有對麥克米利安先生的指控 dismiss all charges against Mr. McMillian in this case.
史蒂文森先生 既然是您提出的動議 Now, Mr. Stevenson, since it's your motion,
現在就請您先發言 I'd like for you to speak to it first
之後我們再來聽州法院的看法 and then we'll hear from the State.
這次的案子其實並不複雜 It's easy to see this case
只不過是一個人想要證明自己的清白而已 as one man trying to prove his innocence.
但如果你們在審訊前整整一年 But when you take a black man and you
就將一名黑人關進死囚監獄 put him on death row a year before his trial...
並且不讓其他黑人參與他的陪審 and exclude black people from serving on his jury...
如果你們選擇脅迫一個白人重犯 When you base your conviction
來偽造定罪證據 on a coerced testimony of a white felon,
卻蓄意忽視整整二十名 and ignore the testimony of two dozen
遵紀守法的黑人目擊者的證詞 law-abiding black witnesses...
如果他清白的證據全部被壓了下來 When any evidence proving his innocence is suppressed
想道出真相的人 被威脅到大氣都不敢喘 and anyone who tries to tell the truth is threatened,
那這個案子 就不局限於 this case becomes more than the trial
對單個被告的審判了 of just a single defendant.
它就變成一次實驗了 It becomes a test
支撐著這個社會的究竟是恐懼和憤怒 of whether we're going to be governed by fear and by anger,
還是平等與法治呢 or by the rule of law.
如果站在本法庭後方的所有人 If the people standing at the back of this courtroom
被指控時都直接被判為有罪 are all presumed guilty when accused...
如果 他們離開這裏後還要憂心忡忡 If they have to leave here and live in fear
擔心相同的事會落在自己頭上 of when this very thing will happen to them...
如果我們對這種社會體制毫無異議 If we're just gonna accept the system
認為有罪的富人 值得比清白的窮人 that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than
更好的生活 if you're poor and innocent,
那麼 作為法院 我們就不能代表正義了 then we can't claim to be just.
如果我們對外宣張說 我們會一視同仁 If we say we're committed to equal justice under law
不論貧富 種族 背景 to protecting the rights of every citizen,
來維護每一位居民的權利的話 regardless of wealth, race, or status,
那我們也是時候結束 then we have to end this nightmare
沃爾特·麥克米利安和他家人的這場噩夢了 for Walter McMillian and his family.
我們已經證實 所有針對他的指控和證詞 The charges against him have been proven
皆為證人在被威脅的情況下 to be a false construction of desperate people
虛構而出 fueled by bigotry and bias,
為了省去麻煩 他們選擇了讓真相被埋沒 who ignored the truth in exchange for easy solutions,
但那不是法律的宗旨 and that's not the law.
更別提正義了 That's not justice.
這樣是不對的 That's not right.
法官大人 I ask that this case
我在此請求您駁回本案 be dismissed immediately, Your Honor.
謝謝您 Thank you.
查普曼先生 請問州法院對本動議 Mr. Chapman, what is the State's position
作何看法 on this motion?
法官大人 可否讓我到法官席前去 Your Honor, may I approach the bench?
可以 Yes.
法官大人 Your Honor,
我有麻煩了 I'm troubled.
-你有麻煩了 -是的 - You're troubled? - Troubled.
我知道這個社區的居民們 'Cause I know that the people in this community
都想在晚上睡個安穩覺 want to go to sleep at night
要是有人犯了重罪 knowing that if someone has committed a terrible crime,
那他當然必須被擒拿歸案 then that someone is gonna be punished.
但是 But,
在本次案例裏 in this case...
法官大人 我又 Your Honor, I have,
重新核對了一遍證據信息 taken another look at the evidence...
然後 and,
請說 查普曼先生 Mr. Chapman, please?
州法院不反對該次動議 法官大人 And the State does not object to the motion, Your Honor.
什麼 What?
查普曼先生 為了避免誤會 To be clear, Mr. Chapman,
您確定您要駁回本案中的所有控訴嗎 are you joining the motion to dismiss all charges today?
是的 法官大人 沒錯 Yes, Your Honor, I am.
肅靜 Order.
請保持肅靜 Please. Order.
既然如此 Well...
你們這倒是給我省了很多流程 y'all have made my job easy today.
在本次人民大戰麥克米利安的案例中 In the case of The People vs. McMillian,
本院在此宣佈 被告的動議已通過 the court hereby grants the defendant's motion.
麥克米利安先生 您身上所有的指控現已解除 All charges against you are dismissed, Mr. McMillian.
那是什麼意思 What does that mean?
意思是你現在自由了 That means you're free.
-我自由了 -對 你自由了 可以回家了 - I'm free? - That means you're free and you get to go home.
你家人過來了 Your family's coming.
家 我回來了啊 I have my family back.
兄弟 我們與你同在 We're all with you, brother.
約翰尼·D. Yo, Johnny D.!
我從走出了法學院 I came out of law school
帶著改變世界的宏大夢想 with grand ideas in my mind
走入了這片紅塵 about how to change the world.
但麥克米利安先生讓我明白了 But Mr. McMillian made me realize
光是只有腦子裏的一個念頭 we can't change the world
是不足以改變這個世界的 with only ideas in our minds.
我們必須心存著一股信念 We need conviction in our hearts.
歡迎回家 約翰尼·D
這個男人教會了我 要心存希望 This man taught me how to stay hopeful.
因為我現在知道了 正義最大的敵人 Because I now know that hopelessness
是絕望 is the enemy of justice.
希望 能成為我們前進下去的動力 Hope allows us to push forward,
哪怕有權勢的人想扭曲真相 even when the truth is distorted
我們也絕不會停下腳步 by the people in power.
他們若是想讓我們坐回去 It allows us to stand up
希望 就是我們奮起的理由 when they tell us to sit down.
就算叫我們"閉嘴" And to speak
希望也會給予我們發聲的力量 when they say, "Be quiet."
這次的案子讓了我明白了一些道理 Through this work, I've learned that
你做了一件壞事 each of us is more than
不代表你一生都是惡人 the worst thing that we've ever done.
1993年 4月1日
美國參議院就死刑展開聽證會
與貧窮相對的不是富貴 That the opposite of poverty isn't wealth.
與貧窮相對的 是正義 The opposite of poverty is justice.
我們國家的形象 That the character of our nation isn't reflected
不在於我們如何對待有權勢的富人 in how we treat the rich and the privileged,
而是體現在如何對待那些窮人 but how we treat the poor,
被漠視的人 被唾棄的人 the disfavored and condemned.
我們從這位清清白白的人手裏奪走了太多 Our system has taken more away from this innocent man
多到我們甚至無力償還 than it has the power to give back.
但我相信 如果我們能以他作為一次教訓 But I believe if each of us can follow his lead,
我們就能讓這個世界變得更好 we can change this world for the better.
如果我們仔細地反省一下自己 If we can look at ourselves closely,
面對真實的自我 and honestly,
我相信 我們都會看到 I believe we will see
自己的靈魂 還缺少了那麼點兒正義 that we all need justice.
我們都需要心懷慈悲 We all need mercy.
也許 And perhaps,
我們每個人都會需要或多或少的寬恕 we all need some measure of unmerited grace.
謝謝 Thank you.
我真的教了你那麼多東西嗎 I taught you all that?
至少有一部分吧 Yeah, you taught me some of that.
那我還挺厲害啊 I'm pretty good, ain't I?
幹得漂亮 Great job.
布萊恩·史蒂文森一直在幫助那些貧困的定罪囚犯發聲 時間長達30年有餘
獲得輕刑 或上訴成功 甚至得到釋放 他和他的代理律師在EJI成功地幫助了140多名死囚犯
調整設計出了一套針對死刑犯的法律服務 伊娃 Ansley繼續管理著EJI 並在1989年
在1983年後的阿拉巴馬州 赫布特 理查德森是65名多被執行了死刑的囚犯之一 其中 大部分人根本沒有獲得足夠的法律援助
自那以後 布賴恩和沃爾特·麥克米利安成為了很好的朋友 直到後者在2013年因早發性突發癡搶救無效而去世
他在監獄裏度過的那段時日則成了他死前一直揮之不去的陰影
1896年 安東尼 "雷" 欣頓因為一份錯誤的彈道分析報告 被判雙重殺人罪 而起訴人卻說 光是看他的面相就知道兇手一定是他了
布賴恩最終把雷的案子上訴到了美國最高法院並勝訴 平白無故地坐了整整30年牢 終於 在2015年 欣頓先生被釋放了
嗨 Hi!
天吶 謝天謝地啊 Oh, Lord, thank you, Jesus.
主啊 謝謝您 Thank you, Lord.
上帝啊 感謝您 Oh, thank you, Jesus.
在美國 監獄裏每九人就有一名被錯判的受害者 多麼觸目驚心的比率