基于真实事件
门罗县 阿拉巴马州
好了 开始切块装车吧 All right, let's chop and load.
晚上好 警官 Good evening, Officer.
你们要看我的驾照吗 Y'all need my license or anything, huh?
不 没必要 No, that's not necessary.
你的卡车看起来很炫酷 That's a sharp-looking truck you got.
是的 先生 谢谢您 Yes, sir. Thank you.
轮毂看起来要不少钱 Those rims look like they cost you a pretty penny.
你的老板是谁 Who you been working for?
不 先生 我不为别人工作 Oh, no, sir. I don't work for nobody.
我有自己的制浆生意 Got my own pulping business.
我把这附近的树都清理干净了 You know, I clear out all these trees around here.
所以 你不用向老板报告 是吗 So, you ain't got no boss to check in with, huh?
那一定很不错 That must be pretty nice.
可以在路上跑来跑去 Free to run up and down the road,
无论你什么时候想去哪里 wherever you want to, whenever you want to,
开着这辆豪华卡车都可以去 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.
但我听说之前她也没能阻拦你 I heard that ain't stopped you before, though.
对吧 约翰尼·D Ain't that right, Johnny D.?
你想休息一下吗 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...
因为在你休息完之后 'Cause after what you done,
就没有任何借口逃脱这一切 I'm looking for any excuse to get this over with
就在这里 就现在 right here, right now.
先生 我什么都没做 Sir, I ain't did nothing,
我觉得你们找错人了 and I think y'all got the wrong person here.
你们把我 Y'all got me confused
和某个人搞混了 我想 with somebody. And I think...
我没把你和任何人搞混 I ain't got you confused with nobody.
我跟这事没关系 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.
我没做错什么 I ain't did nothing wrong.
我们都知道蒙罗维尔 We all know Monroeville
是个宁静的小镇 as the peaceful town
哈珀·李在此写下了 where Harper Lee wrote
《杀死一只知更鸟》 To Kill a Mockingbird.
去年 一场残酷的犯罪打破了宁静 Last year, that peace was shattered by a brutal crime.
在11月1日 On the 1st of November,
18岁的隆达·莫里森 18-year-old Ronda Morrison
被发现死于杰克逊洗衣店 was found dead at Jackson Cleaners.
莫里森被勒住并枪击 Morrison had been strangled and shot
凶手是沃尔特·麦克米利安 by Walter McMillian,
当地人称约翰尼·D known locally as Johnny D.
麦克米利安被陪审团定罪 McMillian was convicted by a jury
被判无期徒刑 who recommended a life sentence.
但如今 But today,
法官罗伯特·E·李·基 Judge Robert E. Lee Key
推翻了陪审团的决定 overrode their decision
判处麦克米利安死刑 and sentenced McMillian to death.
我们向社区保证过 We promised the community
蒙罗维尔治安官 Tom 泰特
我们会找到他 我们找到了 that we would find him, and we did.
你在我镇上犯了这样的罪 You commit a crime like this in my town,
不管怎样 你都要付出代价 one way or another, you're gonna pay for it.
如今麦克米利安在等待处决 As McMillian awaits execution
被关押在霍尔曼惩教所 at Holman Correctional Facility,
悲伤的社会在知道这些后 a grieving community can take some solace
可以得到些许安慰 in knowing that, today,
正义终于得到了伸张 justice has finally been served.
谢谢您 Thank you.
杰克逊 佐治亚州
你有一个小时 You got one hour.
你好戴维斯先生 我是布赖恩 Hi, Mr. Davis. I'm Bryan.
叫我亨利 Henry.
南方囚犯辩护委员会 The Southern Prisoners Defense Committee,
他们派我来告诉你 they sent me here to tell you that,
他们还没为你找到律师 that they don't have a lawyer for you yet,
但他们希望能尽快找到 but they hope to soon.
你不是律师吗 You're not a lawyer?
不 我还在上学 No. I'm still in school.
只是夏天在这里实习 Just interning here for the summer.
所以关于我的案子你没什么能说的吗 So, you can't tell me nothing about my case?
我本该告诉你 I mean, I was supposed to tell you
你在明年之前 that you're not at risk of execution
都没有被处决的危险 any time within the next year.
你能再说一遍吗 Can you say that again?
你明年前的任何时候 That you're not at risk of execution any time
都不会有被处决的危险 within the next year?
这是我很久以来听到的最好的消息 That's the best news I've heard in a long time.
如果我马上就要被处决 I didn't want my wife or kids
我不想让我的妻子或孩子看到我 showing up if I had an execution date coming.
现在他们可以来了 Now they can come visit.
谢谢您 Thank you.
真的 Serious.
我妈妈逼我加入我们教堂的唱诗班 My mom made me join our church choir
我那时大概四岁 when I was, like, four.
我高中一直唱男中音 I sang lead baritone all through high school.
我从小在教堂弹钢琴 I played piano at my church growing up.
非洲卫理公会吗 AME?
上帝是善良的 God is good...
一直都是 ...all the time.
一直都是 All the time.
两个AME唱诗班的男孩在死囚区聊天 A couple AME Choir boys hanging on death row.
我妈妈知道会疯的 My mom would go trip.
伙计 太疯狂了 Man, that's crazy.
你在哪所学校 What school are you going to?
我在哈佛 I'm at Harvard.
真的吗 你要去哈佛吗 Seriously? You're going to Harvard?
那是白人男孩的世界 兄弟 That's white-boy status, bro.
你来这贫民窟干什么 What the hell are you doing slumming it up in here for?
我上法学院是因为我只是想帮助别人 I'm in law school because I just wanted to help people.
只是还没找到最好的办法 Just haven't figured out the best way to do that yet.
说实话 这次实习 Honestly, this internship
是目前为止最好的经历 has been the best experience so far.
在死囚区工作是你最好的经历吗 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.
两小时前就该结束了 Should've been done two hours ago.
对不起我没意识到 本该看着时间的 I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Supposed to watch the clock.
先生 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Sir!
冷静点 他什么都没做 Calm down, he didn't do anything!
你得闭嘴 You need to shut your mouth.
没事的 布赖恩 It's okay, Bryan.
别担心我 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 ?
? 仍在祈祷 ? ? Still praying as ?
? 我要继续前进 ? ? I'm onward bound ?
? 主啊 请将我的足迹 ? ? "Lord, plant my feet ?
? 印在更高的地方 ? ? On higher ground" ?
正义的慈悲
两年后
苏塞克斯郡 特拉华州
妈妈还在生你的气吗 Mom still mad at you?
为什么生气 For what?
我不知道 I don't know.
也许是因为拒绝了所有的工作邀请 Maybe for rejecting all those job offers
这样你就可以在阿拉巴马穷困潦倒了 so you can be poor in Alabama.
豪伊给她讲了 And Howie telling her
莫比尔的私刑 简直在帮倒忙 about that lynching in Mobile didn't help.
什么 What?
我说那是七年前的事了 I said it happened seven years ago.
是啊 这样好多了 Yeah, that made it better.
你们俩本该站在我这边的 You two were supposed to be on my side.
爸爸 车况怎么样 Pop, how are we looking up there?
刚加了三升油 Just added three quarts of oil.
但你到了那里应该再检查一遍 But you should check it again when you get there.
好的 谢谢 All right, thanks.
跟你妈妈谈过了吗 Talk to your mom yet?
那些叶子惹到你了吗 What did those leaves do to you?
你不跟你儿子说再见吗 You're not gonna say bye to your son?
我知道你现在拿到了法律学位 I know you got your law degree now,
你觉得自己长大了 and you think you're grown,
但你还是我的孩子 but you're still my child.
如果你在那里被杀了 And I'm the one who has to deal
我是那个不得不 with your funeral arrangements
为你安排葬礼的人 if you get killed down there.
别这么说 妈 Come on, Ma.
你觉得这很有趣吗 Oh, you think this is funny?
因为如果你意识不到 'Cause if you can't see
你所做的事有多危险 the danger in what you're doing,
你得找哈佛要回你的钱 you need to ask Harvard for your money back.
你上学前可比现在聪明多了 You used to be smarter than that.
我第一次去死囚区的时候 The first time I visited death row,
我没想到遇到了和我一样大的人 I wasn't expecting to meet somebody the same age as me.
在同样的音乐中长大 Grew up on the same music.
就从像我们这样的街区来的 From a neighborhood just like ours.
也可能会落到我头上 妈 Could've been me, Mama.
我不想离你太远 我爱你 I don't wanna move far away from you. I love you.
但你总是教我为人民而战 But you always taught me to fight for the people
帮助最需要帮助的人 who need the help the most.
我为你感到骄傲 孩子 I am very proud of you, son.
我知道你的心是充满正义的 I know your heart's in the right place.
但没那么简单 But it's not that simple.
你这样做会让很多人不安 What you're doing is gonna make a lot of people upset.
你最好小心点 You better be careful.
我会的 I will.
我保证 I promise.
她笑了 There she goes.
你开玩笑吧 You gotta be kidding me.
我们有个协议 这个地方租期两年 We had an agreement to rent this space for two years.
你说已经约定好了 You said it was a done deal.
那时我不知道你要在这里做什么 That's before I knew what you were doing here.
我们为穷人 We are giving poor people
提供宪法保障的诉讼权利 比尔 their constitutional right to counsel, Bill.
你能跟我儿子解释一下 Do you mind explaining to my son
你觉得这有什么不对吗 what you think is so wrong with that?
伊娃 怎么了 Eva, what's up?
布赖恩 谢天谢地 Oh, Bryan. Thank God.
这是我们组织的执行董事 This is the executive director of our organization.
他刚到这里 正准备 He just got here and was expecting
搬进你答应我们的办公室 to move into the office that you promised us.
你说你是负责人 You said you were the director.
运营负责人 Director of Operations.
你让我在我老板面前 And you're making me look very bad
看起来很糟糕 in front of my boss right now.
她说你是律师 She said you were a lawyer,
但没人告诉我是死刑犯的律师 but nobody told me it was for murderers on death row.
我们为需要帮助的人提供法律服务 We're providing legal services to people who need help.
他们得去别的地方帮助 And they'll have to do it someplace else.
我这里不能有这样的人 'Cause I can't have people like that around here.
不是每个人都该在那里的 先生 Not everyone is in there for a good reason, sir.
祝你们度过快乐的一天 Y'all have a good day now.
真是人渣 What a piece of shit.
我很抱歉 I'm so sorry.
我可不想这么欢迎你 This is not how I wanted to welcome you here.
我会给我们找个办公室 我保证会的 I will find us an office, I promise you I will.
只不过我得改变策略了 I just gotta change my tactics.
没事的 在哪里我们都可以工作 It'll be fine. We can work from anywhere.
是啊 我们只要让克里斯 Yeah, we'll just have Kris
把客厅里他的玩具清理干净就行 clean up his toys in the living room.
-对不 克里斯 -是吗 - Right, Kris? - Oh, yeah?
我考虑考虑 I'll think about it.
宝贝 抱歉我说脏话了 I'm sorry for cussing, baby.
没事儿 It's okay.
但他就是个垃圾 He was a piece of shit, though.
我修的心理学 I was a psychology major
论文写的是关于死刑问题 而那时 writing a paper on capital punishment
我认识了第一位死囚犯 韦恩·里特 when I met my first death row inmate, Wayne Ritter.
他和他的朋友抢劫了莫比尔的一家当铺 He and his friend robbed a pawn shop in Mobile.
他的朋友开枪打死了店主结果两人都死了 His friend shot the owner and they both got death.
你是因为他才来干这个的吗 Is he the reason why you got into this?
他的律师公开地支持死刑 His attorney was openly in favor of the death penalty.
他觉得疯狗就应该死 He thought mad dogs ought to die.
很多死囚犯 A lot of the folks on death row
要么就是有着卑鄙的辩护律师 either had shitty representation,
要么连个为他辩护的人都找不到 or none at all.
所以我开始给电话黄页上每一个 So, I just started calling every law firm
律所打电话 in the Yellow Pages,
想找一个能帮忙的人 just trying to find anybody that could help.
我平均每天被拒绝20次 I was averaging 20 rejections a day.
她那会儿倍感压力 She was pretty stressed out.
我都打算放弃了 I was just about to give up
可突然接到了一个哈佛毕业的律师的电话 when I got a call from a Harvard lawyer saying that
他刚刚通过阿拉巴马州的司法考试 he had just passed the Alabama Bar
而且拿到了联邦资助准备开一个法律中心 and had federal funding to start a legal center
为死囚犯服务 for inmates on death row.
在你聘用我之前我就已经投身这个工作了 I was in before you even offered me the job.
那时候你也不知道我不能给你付工资 And before you knew I couldn't pay you anything.
真的吗 What's that?
对 道格还不知道这件事 Oh, yeah, Doug doesn't know about that part yet.
亲爱的 抱歉了 Sorry, honey.
怎么了儿子 你看上去很累 How's it going, son? You seem tired.
好了 我们去刷牙吧 Okay. Let's go brush your teeth.
我先带他去刷牙 Excuse us.
我等下给你把沙发收拾好 布赖恩 I'll make up the couch for you, Bryan.
我为你的所作所为感到振奋 I'm excited about what you're doing.
我也这么觉得 Me, too.
我应该被登记了 I should be in the log.
我今天预约了六位当事人 I'm scheduled to see six clients today.
之前没见过你 Well, I ain't seen you before.
那是因为我才搬来 That's because I just moved here.
你真是个律师吗 You really a lawyer?
我是 Yes. I am.
那我要对你进行搜身 Well, I'm gonna have to search you.
去那个房间里 把所有的衣服都脱掉 Just go on in that room there and take everything off.
律师在合法会见时不需要脱衣搜查 Attorneys aren't strip searched for legal visits.
你要是不进去脱衣服 Well, you ain't gonna visit shit
你就见不到那群垃圾 unless you get in that room and strip.
走吧 Let's go.
裤子 还有内裤 Pants and underwear.
弯腰 伸手 Bend over and spread.
可以了 You're clear.
我参加过越南战争 I fought in Nam.
是第一骑兵师的 First Cavalry Division.
亲眼目睹了战友死在战场 Saw a lot of friends die.
医生说我有创伤后应激障碍 Doctor said I got PTSD.
我干了一些他们口中所说的事情 I did what they said I did.
我把炸弹放在她的门廊上 I put the bomb on her porch.
我知道这有些说不通 I know it don't make sense,
但我没想要杀任何人 but I didn't mean to kill nobody.
我想他们应该就快要处决我了 I think they're gonna set my execution soon.
上一个律师说 Last lawyer said
他也无能为力了 there ain't nothing left to do.
不到最后一刻 就还有转机 There's always something that we can do.
无论你做了什么 你的人生都意义非凡 Whatever you did, your life is still meaningful.
我会竭尽所能 And I'm gonna do everything possible
阻止他们抹煞你人生的意义 to keep them from taking it.
现在告诉我 到底发生了什么 Now, tell me everything that happened.
曾经法庭给我指派了一个律师 I was given a court-appointed lawyer,
他太卑鄙了 and he was pretty pitiful.
从没跟我讨论过辩护策略 Never really talked to me about setting up a defense.
我见了那家伙也就三次吧 I probably met the dude three times.
一点不夸张 Literally.
他说对我最有利的就是 He told me that it would be in my best interest
不要反驳所有的犯罪指控 to plead no contest to all of those charges.
我打算以无罪抗辩 I'm gonna plead not guilty.
我说了我没做过这些事 I said I didn't do it.
这和我一点关系都没有 I didn't have nothing to do with that.
“你现在20岁 认罪之后 "You're 20 right now, if you take this plea
再老老实实服刑 and you do the whole time,
45岁就放出来了” you'll only be 45 when you get out."
我的审判过程只持续了45分钟到1个小时 In the middle of my trial, which only lasted
这也是闻所未闻了 45 minutes to a hour, which is unheard of.
他不让我站在证人席上作证 He wouldn't let me take the stand.
所以判决就是我有罪 So, they ended up finding me guilty.
法官嘲笑我 说 The judge laughed at me and said
“改过自新”是个老掉牙的笑话了 rehabilitation was a 70-year-old joke.
我的律师 My lawyer,
站在那里却一副事不关己的样子 he was there, but he wasn't there.
好像我自己在为自己辩护 It was like I was by myself.
我的上一个律师 就坐在你坐的位置 说 Last lawyer I had, sitting where you sit, said,
“约翰尼·D 别担心 "Johnny D., don't worry about nothing,
一切都会好起来的” everything gonna be all right."
然后他们判了我死刑 Then they put that death sentence on me.
家里花光了所有的钱 Family run out of money.
钱花光了 他也跑了 Money run out, he run out.
你又有什么不一样的 What you gonna do different?
我们要做的第一件事 Well, the first thing we could do
就是申请重审 is apply for a retrial.
我申请过 被驳回了 I already did that. They denied it.
你文件里能找到 It's right there in your files.
好 我们可以再申请复议 Okay, then we can ask for a reconsideration on that.
再不行直接向刑事上诉法院上诉 Then a direct appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals
想办法把案子送到州最高法院去 and work our way up to the State Supreme Court.
如果依然被驳回 可以根据第32条再申请 If we get denied there, we could file a Rule 32.
主要内容为课刑与判决 包括撤销或变更缓刑或监视释放 Rule 32是指美国联邦刑事诉讼程序规则32条
再是联邦人身保护令 Then a federal habeas petition.
人身保护令程序是联邦法院审查各州刑事程序的重要途径 主要适用于死刑案件 可视为死刑的复核程序
如果全都失败了 麦克米利安先生 And if all that fails, Mr. McMillian,
我们还可以把你的案子 we could take your case
想尽一切办法送到最高法院 all the way to the Supreme Court.
你不知道你来这儿干什么 是吧 You don't know what you into down here, do you?
你以为单靠说这些漂亮话 You think all of them fancy words
就能让你在阿拉巴马州有所成就吗 gonna get you somewhere around here in Alabama?
这只会把你生吞活剥 再把残渣吐出来 All they gonna do is eat you alive and spit you out,
当你的表现超乎寻常 他们就会像对待 just like every other black man they do,
其他黑人那样对你 when they step out of line.
你来到这儿 西装革履 You coming around here with them fancy suits,
说得冠冕堂皇 talking all white,
这些人都他妈的不在乎 these people don't give a damn about that.
他们想看到黑人穿的衣服 The only suit they wanna see a nigga in
就像我穿的一样 is the suit I got on.
麦克米利安先生 我知道这个过程很难 Mr. McMillian, I can see how that could be hard...
你不知道 No, you don't!
你不知道 你压根不知道 No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't.
你一个哈佛毕业的富家子 You a rich boy from Harvard,
你不知道这里都发生什么 you don't know what it is down here.
当你从出生的那一刻起就心怀愧疚 When you're guilty from the moment you born.
你能和白人有幸结识 And you can buddy up with these white folks
为他们提供娱乐 and make them laugh,
不管你做什么都是想让他们喜欢你 and try to make them like you, whatever that is,
你只说“好的 先生 不 女士” and you say, "Yes, sir. No, ma'am."
可轮到你的时候 But when it's your turn,
没有指纹也可以 they ain't got to have no fingerprints.
没有证据也可以 No evidence.
而他们唯一的证人也是编出来的 And the only witness they got made the whole thing up.
这些都不重要 此刻他们想的都是 Ain't none of that matter, when all y'all think is,
我看上去就像 is I look like a man
是个杀人犯 who could kill somebody.
可我不是这么想的 But that's not what I think.
你知道有多少人能从阿拉巴马州的死囚 You know how many people have been freed
牢房中被放出来吗 from Alabama death row?
一个都没有 None.
你凭什么觉得自己有本事改变这个局面 What make you think you gonna change that?
我也不会再傻呵呵地相信了 I ain't doing this shit again.
-守卫 -麦克米利安先生 - Guard. - Mr. McMillian...
我们结束了 We done here.
麦克米利安先生 别走 Mr. McMillian, please.
我是来帮你的 I'm here to help.
啥事啊 约翰尼·D What's up, Johnny D.?
打个招呼啊 Say hello!
兄弟 最近咋样 How's it going, my brother?
一切都好吗 How'd it go?
你是怎么满足他们的 操你妈的 How you treating them needs, motherfucker?
约翰尼·D Johnny D.?
约翰尼·D 在吗 Johnny D., you there?
来一口吗 赫布 'Sup, Herb?
雷在吗 Ray there?
雷 Ray.
这一刻真是美妙极了 Unavailable at the moment.
你神游到哪了 Where you at?
白金汉宫 我正和女王喝茶呢 Buckingham Palace. I'm having tea with the Queen.
她是一位十分和蔼的女士 She's a very nice lady.
喝完了我会告诉你的 I'll let you know when we done.
约翰尼·D 你觉得那个律师怎么样 Hey, Johnny D., what you think of the lawyer?
我觉得他还是个孩子 I think he a kid.
太幼稚不知道自己在说什么 Don't know what he's talking about.
许下了一堆自己无法 Making all these promises
兑现的承诺 he ain't gonna be able to keep.
我觉得他人挺好的 I thought he was nice.
他人好 Nice?
你要个好心的律师干嘛 The hell you want a nice lawyer for?
心地善良有个屁用 Nice ain't gonna get you shit.
看看约翰尼·D Look at Johnny D.
善良得像个小狗 可是却和我们关在一起 Nice as a puppy, yet he in here with us.
好吧 我没想到 雷 Well, I didn't know
你居然觉得我像个小狗 you thought about me like that, Ray.
我是说你真的太善良了 I mean, just you nice and everything,
虽然你比不上拉托亚 杰克逊 you not as nice as La Toya Jackson,
拉托亚 杰克逊 美国摇滚音乐歌手
但在死囚牢房的老男人里 你是大好人 but for an old man on the row, you a'ight.
你不是说我算是一个善良的老男人吗 Hey, I thought you said I was the old man.
约翰尼·D是老男人 赫布是老古董 Well, Johnny D. Is old, Herb, you more ancient.
抱歉让你失望了 Sorry to tell you.
赫布 把音乐打开 Herb, turn that music up.
没问题 You got it.
好的 这里 All right. Here...
布赖恩 Bryan,
你昨晚睡了吗 did you get any sleep?
我 I, uh...
我觉得麦克米利安没有杀人 I don't think McMillian did it.
州法院判刑的依据为 The State based its entire case
一位名为拉尔夫·迈尔斯证人的证词 on the testimony of one man. Ralph Myers.
迈尔斯大半辈子都呆在监狱里 Myers spent most of his life in and out of prison.
当他作证时 When he testified,
他正因另一宗谋杀案受审 he was on trial for a different murder,
结果他被判了30年 which he ended up getting 30 years for.
这买卖似乎不错 Seems like a pretty good deal.
他在证词中说到 In his statement, he said that
约翰尼·D. 在洗车场找到他 Johnny D. Approached him at a car wash
用枪逼他开车去杰克逊洗衣店 and forced him at gunpoint to drive to Jackson Cleaners
因为他的手臂受伤了 because his arm hurt.
听起来合情合理 That sounds logical.
到了之后 约翰尼·D.告诉他 When they get there, Johnny D. Tells him
在卡车里等他 然后他进去了 to wait in the truck while he goes inside.
然后当他在车里等的时候 And while he's waiting for his kidnapper,
他没跑 也没报警 he doesn't run, he doesn't go to the police.
相反 他还开车去烟酒店买烟 Instead, he drives to the liquor store for cigarettes,
然后回到犯罪现场 and then comes back to the crime scene.
真的假的 Excuse me?
迈尔斯听到枪声 就进去了 Myers hears gunshots, goes inside
看到了隆达·莫里森的尸体 and sees the body of Ronda Morrison
躺在地上 面朝上 lying on the ground, face up,
约翰尼·D.拿着枪站在她旁边 and Johnny D. standing over her with a gun
还有一个自称是负责人的白人老头 with some older white guy who he claimed was in charge.
有找过这个人吗 Anyone trying to look for him?
当然找过 Exactly.
等等 还有一个证人支持他的证词 Oh, wait. They have one other witness to back his testimony.
一个叫比尔 胡克斯的年轻黑人 A young black man named Bill Hooks.
说他看到约翰尼·D.的低腰卡车 Says he saw Johnny D.'s low-rider truck
在谋杀案发生前后 驶离干洗店 leaving the cleaners around the time of the murder.
就这些 And that's it.
只有这些证据 That's all they have.
也就是说 一位18岁的白人女孩 So, an 18-year-old white girl is murdered
在光天化日之下 被谋杀 in broad daylight
而警长有多久不能破案 and the sheriff can't solve the crime for how long?
差不多一年 Almost a year.
然后另一个被控谋杀的人 And then some other guy who's charged with a different murder
说他能告诉警长凶手是谁 says that he can tell them who did it
前提是他能得到宽大处理 if he gets a lower sentence.
然后那家伙就说是约翰尼·D.干的 And the guy that he says did it,
碰巧他又是一个住在穷人区的黑人 happens to be a black man from a poor community
所以大家坚信他是凶手 that no one would think twice about.
肯定还有更多的证据 There's gotta be more evidence than this.
我想见见检察官 I want to set a meeting with the DA.
汤米·查普曼几个月前 Tommy Chapman just took over
刚接手皮尔逊的案子 for Pearson a few months ago.
他以前是一名公共辩护律师 He used to be a public defender.
也许他并没有和他们同流合污 Maybe he's not in line with the rest of 'em.
欢迎来到蒙罗维尔 "杀死一只知更鸟"之乡
你参观过知更鸟博物吗 You visit the Mockingbird Museum yet?
没有 女士 Oh. No, ma'am.
那曾是一家老法院 It's the old courthouse
哈珀·李的爸爸在那里工作过 Harper Lee's daddy used to work in.
你可以站在 You can stand right
阿提库斯·芬奇曾经站过的地方 where Atticus Finch once stood.
史蒂文森先生吗 Mr. Stevenson?
-我是汤米·查普曼 -你好 - I'm Tommy Chapman. - Hey.
-你觉得我们还行吧 -是的 - You find us okay? - I did.
-很好 跟我来 -好 - Good. Follow me. - Yeah.
谢谢你 特蕾西 Thank you, Tracy.
史蒂文森先生 很多人都很想见你 A lot of people are very keen to meet you, Mr. Stevenson.
真的吗 Oh, really?
你是哈佛的律师 Well, you're a Harvard lawyer,
还搬到了阿拉巴马州 who's moved to Alabama.
你开始接手这些死刑案件时 You know, you start taking on all these capital cases,
我觉得大家只是想知道 people just wanna know
你图的是什么 what your intentions are, I guess.
我们只是想提供法律援助给 We're just trying to give legal assistance
给那些负担不起的人 to people who can't afford it.
好吧 法律援助是一回事 Well, legal assistance is one thing,
但要帮被判有罪的杀人犯洗脱罪名 but trying to put convicted murderers back on the street
完全是另外一回事 is something else entirely.
不管怎样 你来这 Anyway, you didn't come
不是为了和我讨论这个 all the way down here to talk about that.
布赖恩 今天有何贵干 What can I do for you today, Bryan?
我想和你谈谈约翰尼·D. 麦克米利安的事 I wanted to speak to you about Johnny D. McMillian.
你知道起诉他的不是我 对吧 You know I wasn't part of his prosecution, right?
而且我以前就是公共辩护律师 That was way before my time.
这就是我想见你的原因 And that's exactly why I wanted to meet you.
我已经看过好几遍证词了 You see, I've read through the record quite a few times now
而且严重怀疑 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
我标记的这些内容 at the sections I've highlighted here,
你会发现 拉尔夫·迈尔斯的证词有问题 you'll see some problems with Ralph Myers' testimony.
天啊 这可是最骇人听闻的罪行之一 Man, this is one of the most outrageous crimes
在门罗县的历史上 in Monroe County history.
你的当事人让很多人很生气 Your client made a lot of people very angry.
我明白 I understand that,
但这个案子很有问题 but there are some serious problems with this case.
我希望你帮忙 And I was hoping that I can get your support
弄清楚到底发生了什么 to figure out what really happened.
我已经知道是怎么回事了 I already know what happened.
约翰尼·D. 麦克米利安被陪审团定罪为 Johnny D. McMillian was convicted by a jury
残忍杀害一位年轻女孩 of brutally murdering a teenage girl
在我的社区里 in my community.
而且我的工作就是 And it is my job
捍卫这次定罪的真实性 to defend the integrity of that conviction.
即使此次定罪是基于伪证吗 Even if that conviction is based on false testimony?
我知道只有你这么想 You're the only one I know who thinks that.
那肯定只有我看过证词 Then I must be the only one who read that record
因为证词错得太明显了 because it's pretty obvious.
那家伙带来了太多伤害 That man caused a lot of pain.
周围很多人都因此感到痛苦 A lot of pain for folks around here.
如果你往大家伤口上撒盐 And if you go digging in those wounds,
你会让很多人很不开心 you're gonna be making a lot of people very unhappy.
好吧 我的工作不是让别人快乐 Well, it isn't my job to make people happy.
而是为我的当事人伸张正义 It's to achieve justice for my client.
好吧 Well...
这是拉尔夫·迈尔斯的两份供词 Ralph Myers' two confessions
以及比尔 胡克斯的陈述 and a statement from Bill Hooks.
我要复印 I asked for copies
所有警察和证人的陈述 of all the police and witness statements.
你手里就是 That's what you're holding.
开玩笑 剩下的部分在哪 This is a joke. Where's the rest of it?
这些就是麦克米利安案的所有资料 That's what's relevant to the McMillian case.
如果你想要更多 你必须申请 If you want more, you'll have to file
向法院提出的证据开示动议 a discovery motion with the court,
就像其他人一样 just like anybody else.
感谢你今天的到来 史蒂文森先生 Thanks for coming by today, Mr. Stevenson.
期待这项动议尽快出台 Expect that motion soon.
我也很期待 律师先生 I'll look forward to it, Counselor.
你应该去参观知更鸟博物 You oughta check out the Mockingbird Museum
就在你出城的路上 on your way out of town.
那是南方地区一个伟大的 It's one of the great civil rights landmarks
民权里程碑 of the South.
排好队 Keep in line.
帮助一个被判杀害白人女孩的黑人 Helping a black man convicted of killing a white girl
无疑是搞政治自杀 is political suicide in that county.
我相信提携他的人 I'm sure he's being reminded of that
会提醒他这一点的 by whoever got him his job.
从他说话的样子来看 The way he was talking,
我觉得他都没看过证词 I don't even think he read the record.
这并不奇怪 That doesn't surprise me.
嘿 克里斯 鲍比 进来拿点心 Hey, Kris, Bobby, come on in and get your snack.
好 Okay.
在去见他的家人的路上 I'm gonna stop by Jackson Cleaners
我要去一趟杰克逊洗衣店 on my way to meet his family.
好吧 如果早上还没你的消息 Okay. If I don't hear from you by morning,
我会派一个救援队去救你 I'll send a rescue party.
-但愿不会这样 -我也是 - I hope that's a joke. - Me, too.
小心点 好吗 But just be careful, okay?
抱歉 关门
就是他 That's him.
-你是那个律师吗 -是的 夫人 - You the lawyer? - Yes, ma'am.
我叫布赖恩 史蒂文森 My name is Bryan Stevenson.
我是 约翰尼·D.的妻子 米妮 I'm Johnny D.'s wife, Minnie.
很高兴见到你 Pleasure to meet you.
非常感谢你不辞辛苦开车过来 Thank you so much for driving all the way out here.
大多数律师几乎连电话都懒得打 Most lawyers barely make time to call.
这是我们的小儿子 约翰 This is our younger son, John.
我们的女儿 杰基 Our baby girl, Jackie.
希望你不要介意 有几个邻居 I hope you don't mind, a few of our neighbors
过来听听你要说什么 stopped by to hear what you got to say.
就几个吗 Oh. Just a few?
来吧 没事的 Come on. You'll be all right.
好吧 Okay.
嘿 听着 如果大家都在同时呱呱叫 Hey, now, we ain't gonna get nowhere
我们啥也谈不了 with everybody quacking at the same time.
现在 让史蒂文森先生谈谈 Now, let Mr. Stevenson talk.
很高兴见到大家 It's a pleasure to meet all of you.
谢谢您 Thank you.
我知道你们都有很多问题 Now, I know you all have a lot of questions,
但我真的很想先听你们说 but I really would love to hear from you guys first,
只是为了更好地理解 just to get a better understanding
你们对这件事的看法 of your perspective on things.
我们的看法不重要 Our perspective is ain't no way
已经认定约翰尼·D.是凶手 Johnny D. Did this crime.
那女孩被杀的那天早上 The morning that girl was killed,
我们都在炸鱼为教堂筹款 we was all having a fish fry here to raise money for the church.
约翰尼·D. 也在 Johnny D. Was here.
从早到晚 Morning till night.
和约翰一起修理他的卡车 Working on his truck with John.
那天你和你爸爸在一起吗 You were with your dad that day?
是的 我们早上6点就起床了 Yeah, we was up at 6:00 in the morning
把卡车放到支架上 to put the truck on the rack.
吉米也在 Jimmy was there, too.
对 我们在9:30前把变速器修好 Yep. We had that tranny cleaned out by 9:30.
所以 他的卡车没有变速器 Now, how he supposed to kidnap
他如何能绑架 some crazy white man all the way in Evergreen,
长青区的白人 then drive back to Jackson Cleaners
然后开车回杰克逊洗衣店 to kill that girl at 10:15
在10:15杀了那个女孩呢 if his truck ain't got no transmission?
好嘛 Hello.
那天早上你们有多少人和沃尔特在一起 How many of you all were with Walter that morning?
我丈夫不会杀人 不可能 My husband could have never done this, no kind of way.
不管我们是否和他在一起 Whether we was with him or not,
他根本不是杀人犯 he is just not like that.
大家都知道他们追杀他是因为那女人 Well, everybody know they went after him 'cause of that woman.
抱歉 米妮 Sorry, Minnie.
没事 It's okay.
也不是什么秘密了 It ain't no secret.
谋杀案发生几个月前 A few months before the murder,
约翰尼·D在镇上和一个白女人鬼混时被抓包了 Johnny D got caught messing around with a white woman in town.
她丈夫发现之后 When her husband find out about it,
把这事告诉了所有人 he made sure everybody knew.
人们议论纷纷 流言四起 People started talking, and the stories kept growing.
他从劈腿男 He went from being a cheat,
变成了毒贩 to a drug dealer,
又变成了迪克西黑手党的头目 to head of the Dixie Mafia.
所以有人说他是杀人犯的时候 So, by the time somebody call him a murderer,
也没人会怀疑了 ain't nobody thought twice about it.
他们爱说什么都行 They can call it what they want,
这只是另一种对黑人动私刑的手段 this is just another way to lynch a black man.
阿门 Amen.
我丈夫对我和这个家庭的所作所为 There ain't no excuse for what my
可找不了什么借口 husband did to me and this family.
那个死鬼伤透了我 Damn fool hurt me bad.
但他还是我孩子的父亲 But he still the daddy of my kids.
我真的不知道该怎么和他们说 And I really don't know what I'm supposed to tell them
别招惹麻烦 about staying out of trouble
就算你待在自己家里 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,
但他们还是会诬陷你杀了人 and they still going to put some murder on you.
没错 That's right.
不只是爸爸 It's not just Dad.
我们觉得他们把我们也一起判了死刑 We feel like they put us all on death row, too.
宝贝 Baby...
可以想见你所经历的痛苦 I can only imagine the pain that you're going through.
我会尽我所能 But I'm gonna do everything I can.
上个律师和你一样口若悬河 The last lawyer was talking just as big as you.
约翰 John...
然后他们就卷钱跑路了 Then they took all our money and split.
你有什么不同 Why you different?
我们的组织会支付所有法律费用 Well, our organization will cover all legal fees,
所以你们一分钱都不用付 so none of you will ever have to pay a penny.
我现在很清楚 这个案子是由谎言组成的 Now, it's clear to me that this trial was constructed with lies,
基于目前我所了解的 and based off everything that I've seen,
我觉得我们可以翻案 I think we could build a case
足以把约翰尼·D.接回家 strong enough to bring Johnny D. home.
不把他接回来 我绝不停歇 And I'm not gonna stop until I've done that.
在我看来你是个好人 Well, you seem like good people to me.
但你得说服的是约翰尼·D But Johnny D.'s the one you gonna have to convince.
我不知道你们其他人怎么想 I don't know about the rest of y'all,
但他说"你们不用出一分钱"已经说服我了 but I was sold on, "Y'all won't pay a penny."
阿门 Amen.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson?
叫我布赖恩就好 Call me Bryan.
好的 Okay.
这位是我朋友达内尔 This is my friend, Darnell.
他有些事想和你说 He has something he wants to talk to you about.
说吧 Go on.
我觉得我能证明他是无辜的 I think I can prove he's innocent.
你知道比尔 胡克斯吧 You heard of Bill Hooks, right?
知道 Yeah.
他作证说那天早上他在洗衣店 He testified that he saw Johnny D.'s truck
看到过约翰尼·D的卡车 at the cleaners that morning.
比尔鬼都没看到 Bill didn't see shit.
都是他编的 He made the whole thing up.
你怎么知道 How do you know that?
因为我和他在一起 'Cause I was with him.
我们一起在店里工作 We was working at the shop together.
-凶案当天早上吗 -是的 先生 - The morning of the murder? - Yes, sir.
我们从早上八点到午休关店前 We was fixing the head gasket on the Camaro
一直在修科迈罗的汽缸垫 from 8:00 in the morning till right after we closed for lunch.
警报响的时候他就在我旁边 He was right next to me when them sirens was going off.
他为什么要撒谎 Why would he lie?
因为这告密者和警察达成协议了 'Cause the snitch cut a deal with the cops.
他们因入室盗窃把他关起来了 They had him locked up for burglary.
他给供词的那天 就被无罪释放了 And the day he give his statement, he walk out free.
所有指控都撤销了 All charges dropped.
我们告诉过其他律师 We told one of the other lawyers,
但他们什么也没做 and they ain't do nothing about it.
你愿意签署一份可以在法庭上用的声明吗 Would you be willing to sign a statement we could use in court?
警察会看到我的名字吗 Police will see my name?
会记录在案的 It'd be on the record.
达内尔 像这样暴露自己并不容易 Darnell, exposing yourself like this is not easy.
但有了你的证词 But with your testimony,
我们就可以提出动议重开约翰尼·D的案子 we can file a motion to reopen Johnny D.'s case.
达内尔 Darnell,
我们需要你 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.
谢谢你再次见我 Thanks for seeing me again.
我知道我们上次见面的时候 I know the last time we met,
事情没有像我想象的那样发展 things didn't go quite the way I was...
真不敢相信你去见了我家人 I can't believe you met my family.
开在那条土路上 Drove down that dirt road,
挤在那间小房子里 crammed up in that little house,
和我的人说话 talked to all my people,
说你会为我而战 say you gonna try to fight for me.
这对我意义重大 That mean a lot.
这也对我意义重大 It meant a lot to me, too.
米妮想让我把这个给你 Minnie wanted me to give this to you.
如果你不介意的话 And if you don't mind,
我有东西想给你看看 I have something I wanna show you.
这是达内尔 休斯顿的声明 It's a statement from Darnell Houston,
上面说凶案发生时 saying that he was with Bill Hooks
他和比尔 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过你的卡车 So, there's no way he could have seen your truck there.
这是好事 对吧 That's good, right?
这很好 That's very good.
我会把这个和重审的动议一起提交上去 I'm gonna submit this with a motion for a new trial.
我知道你和米妮聊过了 I know you talked to, uh, Minnie.
她告诉你我对她做的事了 She told you what I did to her.
出轨一个这么好的女人 I ain't got no excuse for cheating on a woman
我找不到什么借口 good as that one, good as she been to me.
我不知道她为什么还在支持我 I don't know why she's standing by me.
她支持你是因为 She's standing by you
她知道你不该在这 because she knows you shouldn't be in here.
我也这么想 And so do I.
我知道你没有杀隆达·莫里森 I know you didn't kill Ronda Morrison.
如果你愿意 我可以在法庭上帮你证明 And I can help you prove that in court if you'll let me.
你见过我所有的家人了 You know, you done met my whole family.
你对他们了如指掌 You know everything about 'em.
但我对你一无所知 I don't know nothing about you, though.
-你想知道什么 -我想知道一切 - What would you like to know? - I wanna know it all.
比如 你为什么要这么做 Like why you... Why you doing this?
-我为什么做律师吗 -不不不 - Why am I a lawyer? - No, no, no.
为什么你要在阿拉巴马州做律师 Why is you a lawyer down here in Alabama,
接这些没人给钱的案子 taking these cases that ain't nobody gonna pay you for?
我也在一条和你一样的路上长大 I grew up down a road just like yours.
我和猪和小鸡一起 I played soccer in a dirt field
在泥巴地里踢足球 with the pigs and chickens.
以前在院子里抽污水 Used to pump sewage from my yard.
我十几岁时 我的爷爷被杀了 When I was a teenager, my grandfather was murdered
为了一台黑白电视 over a black-and-white TV.
我们一直在等着有人来帮忙 We kept waiting for someone to show up to help.
从没人来 They never did.
那一刻我才意识到 And that's when I realized that,
在我的社区之外 没人在乎 outside my community, nobody cared.
对他们来说 他只是另一个黑人 'Cause to them, he's just another black man
做工程时死了 killed in the projects.
我知道生活在阴影中是什么感觉 I know what it's like to be in the shadows.
所以我在做这些 That's why I'm doing this.
这理由真不错 That's a pretty good reason.
好吧 Okay.
好什么 Okay...
我们开工吧 Let's get to work.
好 Okay.
嘿 约翰尼·D Hey, yo, Johnny D.?
你和那个律师签约了吗 You signing up with that lawyer?
我要试一试 I'm gonna give him a try.
看来现在牢里的人都在和他合作 Seem like everybody on the row working with him now.
我觉得被冷落了 I'm starting to feel left out.
他真有那么厉害吗 Is he really that good?
希望如此 I hope so.
你觉得呢 赫布特 What you think, Herbert?
我该踹了我那个人 换成他吗 Should I just dump my guy and make the switch over?
赫布 你听到了吗 Herb, you hear me?
你在吗 You there?
我在这 I'm here.
赫布 你还好吗 Herb, you okay?
他们定了我的日子 They set my date.
听着 赫布 现在什么也别担心了 Look here, Herb, don't you worry about nothing now.
一切都会好起来的 好吗 Everything gonna be a'ight. Okay?
还没结束呢 Ain't nothing over yet.
布赖恩现在在帮你办事 You got Bryan working for you now.
我可不像你们 I ain't... I ain't like you guys.
我罪有应得 I deserve what's coming.
好了好了 听着 赫布 All right, now, see, Herb...
你又在胡说八道了 there you go talking out your ass.
你为这个国家战斗过 Now, you fought for this country.
然后他们就像垃圾一样把你扔了 And they threw you in the bag like the trash.
是战争让你的脑子不正常的 老兄 That war made you sick in your head, man.
你该在医院待着 You supposed to be in the hospital.
不该在这 Not here.
我和抓我的警察说我是无辜的时候 When I told the cops that stopped me I was innocent,
你知道他们说了什么吗 do you know what they said?
"是你们其中一个黑鬼干的 "One of you niggers did it
就算不是你 and if it wasn't you,
你也要帮你朋友担罪" then you taking one for your homie."
约翰尼·D的检察官说他知道是他杀了那女孩 Johnny D. prosecutor say he know he killed the girl,
是因为他立案照片上的样子 because of the way he looked in his mug shot.
你才没有比我们更罪有应得 赫布 You don't deserve this shit more than any of us, Herb.
一个女孩因我而死 A girl is dead because of me.
就算这样 别人也无权杀你 That don't give nobody the right to kill you back.
赫布特参加越战时才18岁 Herbert was 18 when he went to Vietnam.
阿拉巴马州 原告 对 赫布特 李 理查德森 被告
他是一次伏击中的唯一幸存者 He was the only survivor in an ambush
那场伏击杀死了整个排的人 that killed his whole platoon.
之后 他精神崩溃并企图自杀 After that, he had a mental breakdown, attempted suicide,
并被光荣地遣送回家 and was sent home on an honorable discharge.
回家后 他继续做噩梦 哭泣 Back at home, he continued to suffer from nightmares, crying fits,
跑出自己家 running out of his house,
向邻居大喊"敌人来了" screaming "incoming" to his neighbors.
他的律师根本就没有向陪审团提到 His lawyer didn't even mention military service,
他服兵役的经历 或是他的精神状况 or mental trauma to the jury.
庭审结束后几个月 A few months after the trial,
他因为行为不端而取消了律师资格 he was disbarred for misconduct.
当然会被取消 'Course he was.
那我们能做什么 Okay, what can we do?
因为他已经上诉过了 Well, since he's already been through the appeals process,
诉讼时效已经过了 the statute of limitations
这会让法官很难再听我们解释 is gonna make it hard for a judge to listen.
我们得努力让他听我们的意见 We're gonna have to try and make him.
我今晚就开始行动 I'll get started on the motion tonight.
-喂 -好的 - Hello? - Okay.
妈妈 找你的 It's for you, Mom.
谢谢亲爱的 喂 Oh, thank you, sweetie. Hello?
你是和那个黑人律师工作的贱人吗 You the bitch working for that nigger lawyer?
你是谁 Who the hell is this?
有人在你家下面埋了炸弹 The guy who put the bomb under your house,
如果你还坚持帮那个黑鬼约翰尼·D.的话 gonna blow your family all to hell,
你和你家人等着被炸飞吧 if you don't stop working for that nigger Johnny D.
所有人 快出去 Everybody, out of the house.
-怎么了 -外面说 - What's going on? - I'll tell you outside.
他们什么都没找到 They didn't find anything.
确定吗 And they're sure?
他们说他们确定 They said they're sure.
他们检查过地下室吗 像你说的那样 They checked the basement, too, like you said?
他们说已经检查过了 Said they checked the basement.
好的 Okay.
好了 我们可以撤了 All right, we're gonna move on now.
好了 宝贝 上床睡觉了 Okay, baby, let's get you to bed.
走了 Yo, come on.
你让我和你一起做这事的时候 When you asked me to do this thing with you...
我知道我会失去朋友 I knew that I'd lose some friends.
会有人诋毁我 背着我 Have people talk shit behind my back,
或者当面说 or to my face.
我不需要人们喜欢我 I don't need people to like me,
只要我所做的事是正确的 as long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do.
但是威胁我的家人 But threatening my family...
伊娃 我绝对不会怪你的 Eva, you know I'd... I'd never blame you
如果你决定不做了 if you needed to stop.
我不希望我的儿子长大后得知 I don't want my son growing up knowing that
他的妈妈因为害怕疯狂分子 his mom stopped doing what was right
就不去做正确的事情了 just because she was scared of some crazy bigot.
好吗 Okay?
麦克米利安的事我们怎么办 What are we gonna do about McMillian?
我们从零开始重新调查 We start the investigation from scratch.
找找看这里有没有愿意谈论这件事的 Find anyone in town who's willing to talk.
也许人们意识到我们的魅力之后 Maybe people will stop trying to kill us
就不想杀掉我们了 once they realize how charming we are.
关于隆达·莫里森的谋杀案 I just wanted to ask you a couple questions
可以问您几个问题吗 about the Ronda Morrison murder.
这只是 It's just, uh...
几年前在隆达·莫里森案件庭审中 You were on the witness list
你是证人之一吧 for the Ronda Morrison trial a few years back.
不好意思 帮不到你 Sorry. Can't help you with that.
你有什么事情 Is there anything, anything at all that you feel
-方便说吗 -听着 - comfortable talking about... - You know, look...
如果你不是为了帮助那个可怜女孩的家人的 if you are not working for that poor girl's family,
我就没什么好说的 then I ain't got nothing to say to you.
不好意思 Sorry, sweetie.
伊克纳警官 Officer Ikner?
我不是警察了 I ain't no officer no more.
我是约翰尼·D. 麦克米利安的代理律师 I'm a lawyer representing Johnny D. McMillian.
我了解到您是首先到达谋杀现场的警官 I understand you were the first officer on the scene.
我说对了 I was right.
炸鱼日是11月1日 星期六 The Fish Fry was on Saturday, November 1st.
与谋杀是同一天 The same day as the murder.
他们把这个贴的到处都是 They put these up all over town.
11月1日炸鱼日全天 为教堂捐赠5元钱吧
我可真想亲你 黛比 I could kiss you, Deb.
我们打算把事情做大 We're planning to grow this into something
让整个国家都在谈论这件事 the whole country will be talking about.
你可以说 这是从你的房子里起步的 And you can say that it all started in your building.
你究竟是做什么工作的 What exactly kind of work do you do?
我们就是帮助别人 We're just helping people.
Equal Justice Initiative
看着不错 完美 It looks good. It's perfect.
我的客户 赫布特 理查德森 My client, Herbert Richardson,
因为在越战战场拆解了炸弹 was recommended for a Medal of Valor
而被授予了勇敢勋章 for disarming a bomb in Vietnam.
我们得到消息 We got a tip that
你的一些员工可以为他的不在场证明作证 a few of your employees could back his alibi.
维维安·克拉克是在你们机构 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 我不是律师 No, I'm not an attorney.
但我向你保证 我们会好好对待你儿子 But I promise you, your son is in very good hands.
我们会通知你的 We'll let you know.
很高兴与您交谈 Good talking to you.
公平倡议 我是布兰达 Equal Justice Initiative. This is Brenda.
好的 马上 Yeah. Okay. Yes. Uh-huh. Just one moment.
达内尔 休斯顿找你 Darnell Houston.
喂 达内尔 Hello, Darnell?
等等 等等 慢点 慢点说 Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Slow down, slow down, slow down.
你在哪 Where are you?
-你还好吗 -不 先生 我不好 - Are you okay? - No, sir, I'm not.
达内尔 我们车上说 好吗 Okay, Darnell, let's go talk in the car. Okay?
他们凭什么把我关起来诬陷我作伪证 How in the hell they locking me up for perjury,
我说的全是事实 if alls I did was say the truth, hmm?
我就知道不该签证词 I knew I shouldn't have signed that paper, man.
我就不该听你的 Shouldn't have listened to you.
不 他们对你做的完全是不合法的 No. What they did to you was completely illegal.
好吗 我要去和地检说 Okay? Now, I'm gonna talk to the DA
让他撤销对你的指控 and get all these charges dismissed.
再也不会发生这种事了 This will never happen again.
你怎么会知道啊 Well, how the hell do you know, hmm?
你又控制不了那些人 You can't control these guys.
他们在我上班的时候逮捕的我 They arrested me in the middle of my shift,
当着我老板的面 in front of my boss.
我甚至都不确定 我的工作是不是还在 I don't even know if I got a job tomorrow.
他们对约翰尼·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.
我对抗不了他们 兄弟 I can't fight these guys, man.
你还是去找别人吧 Go on and find somebody else.
听着 达内尔 想想约翰尼·D. Listen, Darnell. Think about Johnny D, okay?
想想他的家人 他们需要你 Think about his family. They need you.
给我点时间让我处理掉这些事 Give me some time to work on this.
接我的车来了 That's my ride.
告诉约翰尼·D. 我很抱歉 Tell Johnny D. I'm sorry.
我需要跟你谈谈 I need to speak with you.
嘿 布赖恩 Oh, hey, Bryan.
你见过泰特警长吗 Have you met Sheriff Tate?
是谁下的令逮捕我的证人 Who ordered the arrest of my witness?
人们在这个案子中作伪证的话 When people make false statements concerning this case,
他们是会被追究责任的 they're gonna be held accountable.
没有证据的话 You can't arrest someone for perjury
你不可以因为作伪证而逮捕他 without evidence that a false statement has been made.
等等 你现在也是休斯顿先生的律师吗 Hang on. Are you representing Mr. Houston now, too?
我是 Yes, I am.
他的证词与比尔 胡克斯的证词截完全冲突 His statement contradicts Bill Hooks' entire testimony.
胡克斯并不是这案子的主要证人 Hooks ain't the State's main witness.
拉尔夫·迈尔斯才是 Ralph Myers is.
阿拉巴马第12-21-222号法案 Alabama Code 12-21-222
需要两人及以上的证词才能确认有效 requires corroboration of accomplice testimony.
所以如果没有胡克斯的证词 So, without Hooks,
定罪则是无效的 the conviction wouldn't be valid.
我昨天 You know, I went down to see
去看望了隆达·莫里森的母亲 Ronda Morrison's momma yesterday.
她以泪洗面啊 And she's in tears.
一直问我 为什么一个从北方来的律师 She kept asking me why some lawyer from up north
会来到这里 would come down here
要让他们从地狱再走一遭 and make them relive all this hell again.
你可以告诉她 Well, you can tell her it's because
是因为约翰尼·D.没有杀她的女儿 Johnny D. Didn't kill her daughter.
真正的凶手 And whoever did
并没有被绳之以法 is still out there somewhere.
我知道你一定特别希望证明 I know how desperate you must be
你对于我们的猜测是正确的 to fulfill your fantasy of who we are down here.
我们就是南方腐败的种族主义者 Just a bunch of corrupt Southern racists
诬陷黑人们谋杀 framing niggers for murder.
你就是来拯救世界的 And you here to save the day.
你想要相信什么随便你 Well, hell, you can believe that if you want to,
但我知道 那个女孩就是约翰尼·D.杀的 but I know that Johnny D. Killed that girl,
而且他一定会受到惩罚 and he's gonna answer for it.
你是如何知道的呢 你连直接证据都没有 And how do you know that? You have no hard evidence.
你的整个案件都是基于 You based your entire case
一个被起诉的重刑犯的证词 on the word of an indicted felon,
他的动机很大 who had every incentive
你想听什么他都会告诉你 to tell you what you wanted to hear.
拉尔夫·迈尔斯是自愿作证的 Ralph Myers testified on his own accord.
但这并说不通 And it made no sense.
他说的话都是自相矛盾的 He couldn't finish a sentence without contradicting himself.
针对达内尔 休斯顿的指控也是毫无依据的 Now, the charges against Darnell Houston are baseless.
在法庭上根本站不住脚 They'll never stand up in court.
应该被即刻撤销 They should be dropped immediately.
好吧 Okay.
你有问题吗 汤米 Is that okay with you, Tommy?
没问题 Sure.
这事完全不重要 Well, it doesn't really matter,
因为法庭已经驳回了你重审此案的请求 now the court denied your motion to reopen the case.
等等 什么 Wait, what was that?
你没收到传票吗 Oh, you didn't get the order?
法官现在在莫比尔呢 Well, the judge is down in Mobile now,
而且有时候邮寄会出问题 so, you know, sometimes they have mail issues.
你去告诉休斯顿先生 Listen, you can tell Mr. Houston
对他的指控已经撤销了 the charges against him are being dropped.
我能做的就是这么多了 I can do that much for y'all,
但其他的问题得在上诉时提出来 but anything else will have to be raised on appeal.
谢谢你来一趟 律师 Thanks for stopping by, Counselor.
什么事吗 警官 Something wrong, Officer?
下车 Step out of the vehicle.
我不明白 我没有超速 I don't understand. I wasn't speeding.
我说让你下车 I said step out of the vehicle.
我可以下车 I'll get out of the car,
但你得告诉我你为什么拦住我 but first can you tell me why you stopped me?
-赶紧他妈的滚下来 -等等 - Get out of the goddamn car! - Whoa!
等等 好的 好 马上下 Whoa, whoa. Okay, okay. Hold on.
-快点 -好的 - Come on! - Okay.
好 我解一下安全带 Okay. I'm taking off my seat belt.
出来 快点 Get it! Come on!
好的 我在开门了 Okay. I'm opening up the door.
-我出来了 -快点 - I'm stepping out. - Faster!
-快点 -好吧 我手里什么也没有 - Come on! - Okay. I have nothing in my hands.
-转过去 -是的 - Turn around! - Yes.
-好的 好的 -手放车上 - Okay. Okay. - Hands on the car!
你没必要拿枪指着我 You don't have to have the gun pointed at me.
我对你没任何威胁 I'm not a threat.
小子 闭上你的臭嘴 Shut your damn mouth, boy.
哥们 听我说 Hey, brother...
脑袋被抢顶着的时候 you ought to be careful with your words
说话可得小心点 when you got a gun at your head.
约翰 走吧 Let's go, John.
你们为什么拦我 Why did you stop me?
让你走了 We're letting you go.
你就庆幸吧 You should be happy.
即使他们撤了指控 Even if they drop them charges,
达内尔经过这一遭 Darnell ain't gonna testify
也不可能再出来作证了 after what they done done to him.
我知道这对咱们是当头一棒 的确是 I know we took a big hit. We did.
-但我们得继续收集证据 -不可能的 - But we just need to gather more evidence - No, no.
-来准备另一个计划 -他们会阻止的 - for another motion. - They gonna block it.
他们会阻止的 如果他们让我 They gonna block it. If they can put me
连续一年不受审 on the row for a year without no trial,
他们就能为所欲为了 they can do whatever they wanna do.
他们在审判前就把你送进死牢了吗 They put you on death row before your trial?
是 Yeah.
警长亲自把我送去的 Sheriff drove me himself.
他说 "要么坦白交代" Said, "I'm gonna give you a little taste of what it's like
"要么我给你点颜色看看" unless you confess."
你为什么现在才告诉我这些 Why are you just now telling me this?
这里都是这样的 This is how it is down here.
从我记事起就这样了 Been like this long as I can remember.
他们把你耍了 是吧 They messing with you, ain't they?
是啊 他们确实没让我好过 Yeah, they are. They're not making it easy on me.
不过我倒有个主意 I got a plan for you, though.
洗耳恭听 I'm all ears.
我是这么盘算的 Here's what I think we should do.
我觉得你得再培养个律师 I think you should train up another lawyer,
万一你完蛋了 'cause I'm gonna need somebody
好有别人接着替我辩护啊 just in case they take you out.
这样吗 It's like that?
就是这样 就这样 Like that. It's like that.
我还以为你是我朋友呢 Thought I had a friend.
这里可毫无朋友可言 Ain't no friends in here.
-世态炎凉啊 -是啊 - Cold world. - Yeah.
那么 咱们失去了达内尔 So, we ain't got Darnell.
下一步怎么办 What's the next move?
我们应该找拉尔夫·迈尔斯谈谈 I think we should talk to Ralph Myers.
-沃特 -不 - Walter... - No.
先听我说两句 Just listen to me for a second.
我知道这很冒险 I know it's risky,
可唯一能搞清他知道什么的法子 but the only way to find out what he really knows
就是让他自己开口 is for me to get him talking.
我知道他知道什么 I know what he know.
你可知他对我做了什么 You know what that man did to me?
拿我的命 Took my life away from me...
换他自己的命 to save his own ass.
他开口说的只有谎言 All he gonna give you is lies.
我一定会小心的 I promise I'm gonna be careful.
过来排队 Get in line.
迈尔斯先生 Mr. Myers.
你是鲍比吗 You Bobby?
我是布赖恩 I'm Bryan.
等会儿再来这套吧 Maybe later.
好吧 你要坐下吗 Okay. Do you wanna sit down?
你能先去给我买个饮料吗 You gonna buy me a Coke first?
还是说你要让我 Or you gonna make me stare
一直眼巴巴地盯着售货机 at them vending machines all day?
行 你想要什么 Sure. What do you want?
新奇士橙汁 Sunkist orange.
好 Okay.
再来点水果软糖 要是还有卖的 And some Jujyfruits, if they got 'em.
迈尔斯先生 很感谢你能见我 I just want to say thanks for meeting me, Mr. Myers.
我们可以从 Can we start by talking about
你对约翰尼·D.的证词开始谈起吗 your testimony against Johnny D.?
不能 No.
我不想谈他 I ain't talking about him.
可他是我来此的唯一原因 That's the only reason why I'm here.
你要是不乐意 那就走吧 You don't like it, leave.
别这么沮丧 Don't look so sad.
咱们可以聊点别的呀 We can talk about other things.
我喜欢聊天 I love to talk.
我老婆说 要是我说的每句话都能换来钱 My wife says if I got paid for every word I said,
我们早就是亿万富翁了 we'd be a couple of billionaires by now.
是吗 Yeah?
你结婚多久了 How long you been married?
长到足以造出两个孩子 Long enough to pop out a couple of kids,
再看着我老婆鼓动他们造我的反 and watch her turn 'em all against me.
你有孩子吗 You got kids?
我吗 没有 Me? No.
但是约翰尼·D.有 But Johnny D. Does.
是啊 Yeah.
养孩子最大的问题 The thing about kids is
就是他们和养狗不同 they ain't nothing like having a dog.
完全两码事 It's a totally different deal.
真希望早先能有人告诉我 I wish somebody had told me that in the first place.
而我的孩子们却觉得已经受够了 And my kids, they think they got it so bad.
他们想法和我完全不一样 They ain't seen nothing like I seen.
他们就一直没把我当成亲爹 Try making it as a foster kid your whole life.
这样一旦发现我有什么毛病 As soon as you figure out one shitty parent,
他们就巴不得换个新爹 they moving you to a new one.
我很抱歉 I'm sorry.
我相信养孩子很辛苦 I'm sure that wasn't easy.
他有几个孩子 How many kids he got?
约翰尼·D.有三个 Johnny D. Has three.
迈尔斯先生 我知道你和政府做了交易 Mr. Myers, I know you made a deal with the State.
可我认为他们没告诉你 But I don't think they told you
约翰尼·D.会因此赔上性命 Johnny D. Was gonna die because of it.
这确实不是件容易事 That must not be an easy thing to carry.
我希望你内心还残存一丝善念 And I'm hoping there's a part of you
想要让真相大白于世 that wants to make things right.
咱们能说说你的证词吗 Can we please talk about your testimony?
干什么呢 Hey!
从我被关进埃斯坎比亚那天起 From the day they moved my ass into Escambia,
我就不停地说 for something I'm telling you
这事和我没关系 I ain't had nothing to do with,
他们警察想问的只有隆达·莫里森 all them police wanted to talk about was Ronda Morrison.
莫里森这个 莫里森那个 It was Morrison this, Morrison that.
有时候一屋子里会有四五个警察 Sometimes four or five of 'em in the room at the same time.
你被捕那天 They were questioning you about her
他们就在问你她的事儿了吗 the day you were arrested?
我想说的是 Alls I'm saying is,
除了谁杀的那个女孩 ain't nobody cared about a damn thing
就没人在乎别的事了 besides who killed that girl.
当人们对某件事过分上心时 And when people care about a thing that much,
他们会不顾一切来促成此事 they'll do anything to get what they want.
你知道你这样刨根问底 You know they'll kill you
他们会杀了你的 对吧 if you get to the bottom of this, right?
等等 你去哪儿 Wait. Where are you going?
就说到这儿吧 鲍比 We done here, Bobby.
多谢你买的软糖 Thanks for the Jujys.
老大 可以走了 Ready, boss.
迈尔斯说 他在6月3日被捕当天 Myers said he was questioned about Ronda Morrison
就被问及有关隆达·莫里森的问题 the day he was arrested, on June 3rd.
但唯一的一份呈堂证供 But the only statement they presented in court
却是近两个月后录制的 was recorded almost two months later.
你说他们会不会把第一份供词藏在哪儿了 Do you think they're hiding his first statement somewhere?
如果是 那有可能还在埃斯坎比亚法院 If they are, it might be at the Escambia courthouse
和他另一个案子的文件存放在一起 with the files from his other case.
那儿你有认识的人吗 You know anyone over there?
我有 I do.
这是迈尔斯相关的所有资料了 That's everything we got on Myers.
你可以在那边复印 You can make copies over there.
-多谢您 女士 -小伙子客气了 - Thank you, ma'am. - Sure, baby.
他还蛮可爱的 结婚了吗 He's cute. Married?
醉心工作无法自拔 Married to his work.
米奇大叔还好吗 How's Uncle Mickey doing?
他又造了个棚子 He's building another shed,
因为另外两个显然不够 'cause the other two apparently ain't enough.
人总得干点什么 Man needs a project.
米勒小姐 Miss Miller.
这带子我能刻录一份吗 Can I take a copy of these?
我挣着卖白菜的钱何必操卖白粉的心 They ain't paying me enough to stop you.
播放
找到迈尔斯第一次证词的记录了吗 Did you find the transcript from Myers' first statement?
-给 -谢谢 - Yeah. - Thank you.
怎么了 What?
警长 我明白 I understand that, Sheriff.
这个是迈尔斯 That's Myers.
我就要和你说这个 And that's what I'm trying to tell you.
因为 我想跟你说实话 Because, I'm gonna be honest with ya,
我什么都不知道 I don't know a damn thing.
真的吗 Is that right?
这个是泰特 And that's Tate.
真的 长官 Yes, sir.
真得不能再真了 It's righter than anything I've ever said.
你愿意做个测谎测试 And you would take a polygraph test
来证明你确实不知道 to the fact that you do not know
是谁杀了隆达·莫里森吗 who killed Ronda Morrison?
是的 长官 我愿意 That's right, sir. I will.
你愿意当面对质 Would you face the person
前来作证的人吗 who came in here and testified that you...
我愿意同任何人对质 I will face any damn body in this world on that,
因为这就是个弥天大谎 because it's a stone lie.
如果你让我把一个无辜的人陷害成杀人犯 And if you asking me to frame an innocent man for murder,
我确实不愿意 well, that just ain't something I'm willing to do.
天啊 Holy shit.
赫布 你还好吧 Herb, you all right over there?
不好 No.
听着 Now, listen here,
别总想着明天的事了 you gonna have to get your mind off tomorrow.
布赖恩此刻正在琢磨对策 Bryan is working on that as we speak.
你明白法庭的套路 Now, you know how these courts here is.
他们会等到最后一分钟 They wait till the last minute,
但你一定能获准推迟刑期的 but you gonna get that stay.
我为什么要放那个炸弹 Why did I make that bomb?
赫布 不要这样 Herb, don't go there now.
我为什么那样做 Why'd I do that?
我没想伤害任何人 I wasn't trying to hurt nobody.
赫布 我知道 Herb, I know.
我为什么这么蠢 Why am I so stupid?
不 你不蠢 No, no, you ain't stupid.
那战争让你病了 That war got you sick,
现在你还是病着 and you still sick.
那女孩不该过来把它捡起来 Girl wasn't supposed to come by and pick it up.
听着 赫布 我要你 Listen, Herb. I want you to...
她不该过来把它捡起来 She wasn't supposed to come by and pick it up.
赫布 现在我们要冷静下来 This what we gonna do, Herb. We gonna slow your mind down.
还记得我们怎么练习的吗 Remember what we practiced now.
怎么做的 What we do?
-深呼吸 -好 - Deep breaths. - Yeah.
来跟我一起做 Come on, do that with me now.
深呼吸 Deep breaths.
吸气呼气 In and out.
再吸 Now in.
现在闭上眼睛 Now close your eyes.
忘记这些事 Get away from all this.
没有围墙 No more walls.
没有警卫 No more guards.
不用再打仗了 No more wars to fight.
只有你站在天地间 Just you, out in the open.
新鲜的风吹过脸颊 Fresh air on your face.
看那些松树 Look at them pine trees.
在我们出生前它们就已经在茁壮成长了 They've been growing since 'fore we was born.
在我们死之后还会继续成长 And they gonna keep growing even after we gone.
它们经历了我们所经历的一切 And they done been through the same shit we done been through.
但他们还能在微风中起舞 But they still dancing in the breeze.
你看到它们了吗 Can you see 'em?
对 Yeah.
很好 Good.
现在我要你别想其他事了 Now I want you to think about nothing else.
就想着那些树 Just keep your mind on that.
一切都会好的 And everything gonna be a'ight.
谨呈最高法院 赫布特 李 理查德森
我需要史崔克兰对华盛顿案 I need Strickland v. Washington,
还有赫布特的巡佐的口供 and the affidavit from Herbert's sergeant.
发出去吧 Let's send it.
赫布特 李 理查德森上诉人 对 阿拉巴马州答辩人
现在怎么办 Now what?
等吧 We wait.
EJI 这里是布赖恩 史蒂文森 EJI. This is Bryan Stevenson.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson,
法院刚刚对895395号案件下达指令 the court has just entered an order in case number 895395.
暂缓执行的动议 The motion for a stay of execution
和调案复审令的请求 and petition for writ of certiorari
都被驳回了 have been denied.
我们马上会将命令函复印件传真到你办公室 We'll fax copies of the order over to your office shortly.
-谢谢 -谢谢 - Thank you. - Thank you.
他说过要我过去陪他 He asked me to be there.
好吧 Okay.
我开车送你 I'll drive you, then.
来吧 赫布特 要走了 Come on, Herbert. We gotta go.
我能跟朋友道个别吗 Can... Can I say bye to my friends?
当你承受不了的时候 When it get too much for you,
你就深呼吸 you take them deep breaths.
想点别的 Let your mind go.
希望我不用独自面对 Wish I didn't have to do this alone.
你不是一个人 赫布特 You ain't by yourself, Herbert.
我们和你在一起 We all with you.
是吧 雷 Ain't that right, Ray?
对 赫布 你还没离开我们 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.
第一次来处决室啊 First time in the chamber, huh?
对 Yeah.
别想太多 你会受不了的 Don't think too much. You'll lose your shit.
还需要什么吗 理查德森先生 Need anything, Mr. Richardson?
你会放我的歌吧 You still gonna play my song?
已经准备好了 Got it cued up and ready.
谢谢你 Thank you.
今天很奇怪 It's been a strange day.
今天来问我如何帮助我的人 More people asked how they can help me today
比我一生加起来都多 than ever asked in my whole life.
我看起来好笑吗 Do I look funny?
我不知道他们要把我剃光 I ain't know they were gonna shave off everything.
你看起来挺好 You look fine.
大多数人不会有机会坐在那想 Well, most people don't get to sit and think all day
这是他们活着的最后一天 about it being their last day alive.
跟越南不一样 It's different than Nam.
至少我在那还有机会 Least I had a chance there.
我很抱歉 I'm sorry.
你是唯一一个愿意为我辩护的人 You the only one cared enough to fight for me.
因为我没有家人 Since I don't have family,
我告诉军队把我的旗帜送给你 I told the army to send my flag to you,
如果可以的话 if that's okay.
是我的荣幸 I'd be honored.
你能跟我一起祈祷吗 Can you pray with me?
当然 Of course.
他们准备好了 They're ready.
在远远的山坡上 ? ? On a hill far away ?
立着个老旧的十字架 ? ? Stood an old rugged cross ?
苦难与耻辱的象征 ? ? The emblem of suffering and shame ?
而我爱着那老十字架 ? ? And I love that old cross ?
此爱至深 ? ? Where the dearest and best ?
因为这是迷失的罪人被杀的世界 ? ? For a world of lost sinners was slain ?
而我会珍惜 ? ? And I'll cherish ?
这老旧的十字架 ? ? The old rugged cross ?
一直到我俯伏主脚前 ? ? 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号谋杀 shall be put to death by electrocution
雷娜·梅柯林斯 in the state of Alabama
根据法官杰里·M·怀特的命令 as ordered and decreed by Judge Jerry M. White,
你将在阿拉巴马州 for the murder of Rena Mae Collins
被执行电刑 on August the 16th, 1977.
即将执行 So ordered.
理查德森先生 Mr. Richardson,
你还有什么遗言吗 do you have any final words you'd like to say?
那老旧的十字架 ? ? Oh, that old rugged cross ?
被世界所鄙视 ? ? So despised by the world ?
我没有不适 I have no ill feeling.
我也没有异议 And I hold nothing against anyone.
而我会珍惜这老旧的十字架 ? ? So I'll cherish the old rugged cross ?
这老旧的十字架 ? ? The old rugged cross ?
一直到我俯伏主脚前 ? ? Till my trophies at last I lay down ?
我会背负这老旧的十字架 ? ? I will cling to the old rugged cross ?
终有一天拿它来换公义冠冕 ? ? And exchange it someday for a crown ?
老旧的十字架啊 ? ? To the old rugged cross ?
我会永远真诚 ? ? I will ever be true ?
甘愿受世人轻视辱骂 ? ? Its shame and reproach gladly bear ?
主有一天会呼唤我 ? ? Then he'll call me someday ?
去远方的家 ? ? To my home far away ?
主的荣福 ? ? Where his glory ?
我会永远分享 ? ? Forever I'll share ?
我们跟你同在 赫布特 We with you, Herbert!
我们都和你同在 We all with you!
我们爱你 赫布 We love you, Herb!
我们都爱你 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.
我们跟你同在 兄弟 We're with you, buddy!
坚强点 赫布 Be strong, Herb!
我会背负这老旧的十字架 ? ? I will cling to the old rugged cross ?
终有一天拿它来换公义冠冕 ? ? And exchange it someday for a crown ?
我们爱你 赫布 We love you, Herb!
沃尔特·麦克米利安 被告
我希望你这个重要信息 Well, I hope this important news of yours
会附带吃的 comes with some food.
因为我要饿死了 'Cause I'm starving.
坐下 迈尔斯先生 Sit down, Mr. Myers.
你上次可友好多了 You was a lot nicer the last time.
我听过了你6月3号的 I heard the recording of the first statement
录的第一次口供 you gave on June 3rd.
没有呈上法庭的那份 The one they didn't present in court.
你告诉警长 You told the sheriff
你对约翰尼·D或是谋杀毫不知情 you didn't know anything about Johnny D. or the murder.
你告诉他你不想陷害一个无辜的人 You told him you didn't want to frame an innocent man.
你记得你说过这话吗 Do you remember saying that?
我好奇的是 Now, what I'm wondering is,
你是怎么从6月3号对谋杀的毫不知情 how do you go from knowing nothing about a murder on June 3rd,
变成三个月之后的关键目击证人的 to becoming the State's key witness three months later?
是什么让你改变了想法 What changed your mind?
那是什么 What's that?
赫曼监狱的入狱日志 Intake log from Holman prison.
在1987年8月1号 On August 1st, 1987,
泰特警长转移了两名郡监狱犯人 Sheriff Tate transferred two inmates
去了死囚牢 from county jail to death row.
约翰尼·D Johnny D
Ralph Bernard Myers
和你 and you.
是因为你不肯作伪证 Did they move you to death row
他们才把你送去死囚牢吗 because you wouldn't testify against him?
他们在你去的几周之后 They executed Wayne Ritter
处决了韦恩·里特 a few weeks after you got there,
对不对 isn't that right?
星期四晚上他们处决赫布特 理查德森时 I was in the witness room when they killed
我在见证室里面 Herbert Richardson Thursday night.
那是我经历的 And it was the most horrific thing
最恐怖的事情 I've ever experienced.
我相信你也很难消化里特的处决 I'm sure Ritter's execution wasn't easy for you either.
他们把我放在离处决室最近的牢房里 They put me in the cell closest to the kill room.
大半夜所有人都开始叫 Middle of the night, everybody started screaming,
敲栏杆 banging on the bars.
然后 And then...
传来了他皮肤烧焦的味道 then came the smell of his skin burning.
我知道那味道 I know that smell.
能告诉我发生了什么吗 May I ask you what happened?
我七岁的时候 Seven years old.
我睡在养母的地下室里的时候 I was sleeping in my foster mom's basement
她的暖气爆炸了 when her heater blowed up.
我的睡衣着火了 Catched my PJ's on fire.
我尖叫了整整两分钟 I was screaming for two minutes straight
他们才找到我 before they found me.
所有人都知道我害怕被烧伤 Everybody knowed that I got a fear of being burned.
他们知道我在那种地方 They knowed what it would do to my head
会受到什么样的影响 to be in a place like that.
我一整晚都止不住地颤抖 I couldn't stop shaking all night.
像个婴儿一样蜷缩在地上 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...
都能再闻到他们杀的人的味道 You get another taste of the man they killed.
你不可能经历了这样的事情 You can't go through something like that
还无动于衷 and come out the same.
我知道 I know.
第二天早上我叫来警长 I called that sheriff the next morning.
我告诉他 I told him...
只要能离开这里 他想让我说什么都可以 I would say whatever he wanted to get me out.
他拿走了我的证词 And he took my statement,
第二天把我转移到了县监狱 moved me to county the next day.
迈尔斯先生 我们很快会开庭 Mr. Myers, we're going to court very soon
帮约翰尼·D争取他应得的重审机会 to try to get Johnny D. the retrial he deserves.
我希望你能出庭作证 And I'd like you to take the stand.
不 No.
不行 先生 不行 先生 No, sir. No, sir.
他们在利用你 They are using you.
他们利用你去诬告一个 They're using you to condemn a man
其实和你有很多共同点的人 that you have much more in common with than you think.
如果你内心还想挽回的话 And if there's any part of you that wants to make things right,
这是最后的机会 this is the last chance you're gonna get.
今天早晨鲍德温县法院 The tension is high this morning
1992年4月16日
被紧张的气氛笼罩 here at the Baldwin County Courthouse
这里将举行一场听证会来裁决 where a hearing is being held
那个因杀害隆达·莫里森而获刑的罪犯 to see if the man convicted
是否需要进行重新审判 of killing Ronda Morrison deserves a new trial.
莫里森小姐在阿拉巴马州蒙罗维尔的 Miss Morrison was only 18 years old
杰克逊洗衣店遇害时 when she was murdered at Jackson Cleaners
年仅18岁 in Monroeville, Alabama.
许多人从蒙罗维尔驱车两小时 Many have taken the two-hour drive here
到这里来支持重审 from Monroeville to show their support.
由于这个案子可能会导致群众情绪失控 Extra security precautions were implemented
实施了额外的安全防范措施 due to the highly emotional nature of this case.
隆达·莫里森的父母表示他们坚信 Ronda Morrison's parents said they have no doubt
麦克米利安先生就是杀害女儿的 Mr. McMillian is the man responsible
罪魁祸首 for the murder of their daughter.
但是麦克米利安的家人 But members of McMillian's family
声称他们抓错了人 claim they have the wrong man.
今天的听证会 Much of today's hearing
主要取决于拉尔夫·迈尔斯的证词 is hinging on the testimony of Ralph Myers,
该重刑犯是原庭审中 a convicted felon, who was the key witness
指认麦克米利安的关键证人 against McMillian in the original trial.
我们今天将要讨论的问题显然 What we'll be talking about today is obviously
容易激化情绪 an emotional issue.
如果在座各位有人认为不能 And if any of y'all don't think you can maintain
保持理智 a reasonable degree of decorum,
请你们现在离开 then I would ask you to leave now.
好吧 如果准备好了 那我们就继续 All right, if we're ready, then, we will proceed.
史蒂文森先生 Mr. Stevenson.
谢谢 法官大人 Thank you, Your Honor.
州政府起诉沃尔特·麦克米利安的案子 The State's case against Walter McMillian
完全取决于拉尔夫·迈尔斯的证词 turned entirely on the testimony of Ralph Myers.
没有其他任何证据 There was no other evidence
证明麦克米利安先生的罪行 to establish Mr. McMillian's guilt.
没有物证表明他与谋杀有关 No physical evidence linking him to the crime.
没有动机 没有人证 No motive. No witnesses.
只有一份证词 Only the word of one man.
我们要求传唤拉尔夫·迈尔斯出庭 We call Ralph Myers to the stand.
先生 请起立 Sir, please stand
右手放在圣经上 and place your right hand on the Bible.
你愿意向神发誓 You swear to tell truth, the whole truth,
一切居实禀告 毫不欺瞒吗 and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
迈尔斯先生 Mr. Myers?
是的 抱歉 Oh, yes. Sorry.
警卫凌晨两点就叫我起床 The guards got me up about 2:00 in the morning
带我来这里 to get me out here.
迈尔斯先生 你是否曾在1988年8月 Mr. Myers, did you testify against Walter McMillian
出庭指证过沃尔特·麦克米利安 in August of 1988?
是那时候吗 Is that when it was?
根据记录来看 是的 According to the record, yes.
好吧 那就是吧 如果你这么说的话 Okay, then, sure. If you say so.
你作证时对陪审团说了什么 And what did you say to the jury when you testified?
先生 说实话 我不太记得了 抱歉 I don't think I can fully remember, sir, to be honest with you. Sorry.
不 没关系 No, that's quite all right.
我这里有一份你的证词记录 I have a transcript of your testimony right here.
在法庭上 你记得曾经作证说 At the trial, do you remember testifying
1986年11月1日自己无意中参与了 that you were unwillingly made part of
一起谋杀和抢劫案吗 a capital murder and robbery on November 1st, 1986,
当天沃尔特·麦克米利安在洗车场看到你 when Walter McMillian saw you at a car wash
并因为胳膊受伤而让你开他的卡车 and asked you to drive his truck because his arm hurt?
是的 先生 应该是吧 Yes, sir, I guess so.
你记得说过你开车载麦克米利安先生去 Do you remember saying that you drove Mr. McMillian
杰克逊洗衣店 to Jackson Cleaners,
随后走进大楼 subsequently went into the building,
看到麦克米利安先生拿着枪 and saw Mr. McMillian with a gun,
站在隆达·莫里森的尸体旁边吗 standing over the body of Ronda Morrison?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
迈尔斯先生 Mr. Myers,
你在沃尔特·麦克米利安的庭审上 was the testimony that you gave
所作的证词都是真实的吗 at Walter McMillian's trial true?
我不知道 I don't know.
你不知道吗 You don't know?
我记不清了 I don't think I remember.
迈尔斯先生 你认识沃尔特·麦克米利安吗 Mr. Myers, do you know who Walter McMillian is?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
他在这里吗 Is he in this room?
是的 先生 Yes, sir.
能为我们指出来吗 Could you point him out for us?
我想再问一遍刚才的问题 I'd like to ask you that question one more time.
你在沃尔特·麦克米利安的庭审中 Was the testimony that you gave
所作证词是真实的吗 at Walter McMillian's trial true?
不是 先生 一点也不 No, sir. Not at all.
肃静 Order, please.
在隆达·莫里森遇害的那天 Did you see Mr. McMillian on the day
你见过麦克米利安先生吗 Ronda Morrison was murdered?
没有 先生 No, sir.
那天你开着他的卡车去了蒙罗维尔吗 Did you drive his truck to Monroeville that day?
没有 从来没有 No. Never did.
你走进杰克逊洗衣店 Did you go into Jackson Cleaners
看到麦克米利安先生 and see Mr. McMillian
站在隆达·莫里森的尸体旁边了吗 standing over the body of Ronda Morrison?
绝对没有 Absolutely not.
谢谢 Thank you.
我没有问题了 法官大人 No further questions, Your Honor.
迈尔斯先生 Mr. Myers...
我们怎么知道 how do we know
你这么做不是出于对之前的协议不满呢 you ain't upset with the deal you got,
你觉得改变说辞 and you feel like somehow by
也许能帮你脱身呢 changing your story, might help to get you out?
因为那是无稽之谈 先生 Because that just don't make no sense, sir.
你觉得谁能来决定我的命运 Who do you think is deciding what happens to me?
我是生是死 If I live or die?
不是我 也不是约翰尼·D It ain't me. It ain't Johnny D.
而是你们这些人 所以 It's all y'all that's deciding that, so,
我的说辞 how's my saying what I'm saying
怎么能帮我脱身呢 gonna help to get me out?
如果有任何作用 也只会害我进死囚牢吧 If anything, it's gonna help get me to death row.
但我不在乎 你们想对我做什么都可以 But I don't care. Y'all can do what you want with me.
因为我 'Cause me...
我可以看着你的脸 I can look in your face
或其他任何人的脸 问心无愧地说 or anybody else's face, dead eye to eyeball,
我所说的任何关于麦克米利安先生的事情 and say that anything I told about Mr. McMillian...
都是谎言 was a lie.
他今天在这里都是因为我 He's here 'cause of me.
我会感激你们送他回家 And I sure would appreciate you sending him home
回到孩子身边 to his kids where he belongs.
我们递交一份那天恰好经过烤鱼聚会的 We submit a copy of the official log
警员的日志 from the police officer that stopped by the fish fry,
证实沃尔特·麦克米利安当时和家人在一起 confirming Walter McMillian was there with his family.
迈尔斯先生说尸体面部朝上 Mr. Myers said that the body was faceup
在前台附近 near the front counter.
但是我发现她时面部朝下 But I found her facedown in the back,
在后面的洗手间里 by the bathroom.
向法庭呈交拉尔夫·迈尔斯 Submitting exculpatory records from Ralph Myers' stay
在泰勒·哈丁精神病院的无罪辩护记录 at the Taylor Hardin psychiatric hospital.
这份记录检方并未向辩护律师公开 Which the State did not disclose to defense counsel.
迈尔斯先生当时是我的病人 Mr. Myers was my patient at the time
他多次声称 and he claimed on numerous occasions
被人用电刑椅威胁 that he was being threatened with the electric chair,
如果他不说出 if he didn't say
当局想听到的话 what the authorities wanted to hear.
检察官想让我作证说 The prosecutor asked me to testify
她被人从前面拖到了后面 that she had been dragged from the front to the back.
我告诉他 "我不会在法庭上撒谎" And I told him, "I ain't gonna lie in court."
接下来 几周之后 And then, well, a few weeks later,
我被开除了 I got fired from the department.
今天呈交的所有证据 All of the evidence presented today
都对这个案子的结果至关重要 would have been critical to the outcome of this case.
将这些证据排除在外明显违反了 And its exclusion is a clear violation
布雷迪诉马里兰案 of Brady v. Maryland
布雷迪诉马里兰案：布雷迪和同伴波布利特被马里兰检方以谋杀罪起诉。 同伴波布利特在证词中承认只有自己实施了谋杀，但这份证词被检察官扣下未公开。 布雷迪虽未杀人却被判处死刑。之后布雷迪上诉到最高法院，认为隐瞒证词的行为 违反了他接受正当程序审判的宪法权利。
和麦克米利安先生的宪法权利 and Mr. McMillian's constitutional rights.
这个案子的真相尚未浮现 The truth has not been told in this case.
我知道事情已经过去很久了 And I understand a lot of time has gone by,
但我相信 but I personally believe
正义永远不会太迟 that it's never too late for justice.
我们请求法庭批准我们的提议 We ask the court to grant our motion
下令重审麦克米利安先生的案子 and order a new trial for Mr. McMillian.
谢谢 法官大人 Thank you, Your Honor.
谢谢 律师 Thank you, Counselors.
等我有时间看完所有的东西后 We'll reconvene at a later date,
我们再继续开庭 once I've had time to look through everything.
全体起立 All rise.
说实话 Tell you the truth, I didn't think
我没想到他会这么做 he was gonna go through with it.
老实说 有那么一瞬间 我也觉得他不会 Honestly, for a second there, I didn't think so either.
我不知道怎么形容现在的感觉 I can't even tell you how I feel right now.
谢谢你 Thank you.
如果你们想打个招呼 还有几分钟时间 We got a few minutes if y'all wanna say hi.
我们5分钟后离开 We leave in five minutes.
你怎么样 老家伙 What's up, old man?
-你做的很棒 -谢谢 - You did great. - Thank you.
查普曼今晚应该会联系你 Mmm-hmm. Chapman ought to call you tonight
告诉你他会撤销所有的指控 and tell you that he's dropping all them charges.
我不抱什么希望 Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
在宣读我的决定之后 Upon the reading of my decision,
一个月后
我希望法庭内保持秩序 I expect the rules of decorum in this courtroom to be upheld.
拉尔夫·迈尔斯曾出庭作证 Ralph Myers took the stand before this court,
宣誓会说实话 swore to tell the truth,
接着就推翻了之前庭审上的 and proceeded to recant most, if not all,
大部分相关证词 of the relevant portions of his testimony at trial.
显然他要么在庭审中 Clearly, he has either perjured himself at trial,
要么在本次法庭前做了伪证 or in front of this court.
经过仔细审查 After careful review,
本庭认为 it is this court's opinion
并无确凿证据证明 that conclusive evidence has not been provided
拉尔夫·迈尔斯在初审中作出伪证 that Ralph Myers perjured himself at the original trial,
且证人因出庭作证受到的压力 and that pressure put on him since his trial testimony
而做出的改变陈词不可采信 could tend to discredit his recantation.
因此 本庭判决 Therefore, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed
拉尔夫·迈尔斯的庭审证词 that the trial testimony of Ralph Myers
并未发现有伪证 is not found to have been perjured testimony
并且不再在此 and no new trial shall be granted...
-还没完 -进行新的审判 - It's not over. - ...at this time.
沃尔特·麦克米利安应当即刻返回 Walter McMillian shall be returned
霍尔曼惩教所 to Holman Correctional Facility
在那里 他将接受电击死刑 where he is to face death by electrocution.
你不能再这么对我们了 法官 You can't do this to us again, Judge.
坐下 年轻人 Sit down, young man.
-约翰 -这是我的爸爸 先生 - John... - This is my dad, sir.
约翰 我请你立刻坐下 John. I want you to sit down now.
他什么都没做错 He ain't do nothing wrong.
听你父亲的话 别在这里闹 Listen to your father. Not here.
他什么都没做错 He ain't do nothing wrong.
立刻坐下 Sit down right now
否则你会因藐视法庭被捕 or you'll be arrested for contempt of court.
法官 稍等 拜托了 法官 Judge, just give me one second. Please, Judge.
-稍等 -坐下 约翰 - Hold on one second. - Sit down, John.
我不会再说第二遍 坐下 I won't say it again. Sit down!
你毫无缘由就要杀死我的爸爸 我才不坐 Not if you gonna kill my dad for no reason.
他什么都没做错 He ain't do nothing wrong!
别在这里 别这样 Not in here. Not like this.
你要杀死我的亲人 先生 You killing my family, sir.
你要杀死我的亲人 先生 你 You killing my family, sir. You!
约翰 John!
法官 法官 他不是在反抗 Judge! Judge! He's not resisting.
约翰 他什么都没做 John! He ain't do nothing.
别反抗了 Stop resisting.
听见我说话没 别让他们击垮了你 You hear me? Don't you let them get you.
会没事的 It's gonna be all right.
行了 我们回家 Come on. Let's get you home.
拜托 别搞得很难看 Come on, man, don't make this hard.
行了 Come on.
不 别这么做 麦克米利安 行了 进去 No. Don't do this, McMillian. Come on. Go in.
约翰尼·D 行了 Johnny D., no! No!
约翰ny 行了 Johnny D., no!
约翰尼 Johnny...
放松 放松 Relax. Relax. Relax.
胳膊给我 给我 Give me your arm. Give me...
把他铐起来 铐起来 Get him cuffed! Get him cuffed.
放松 Relax.
干得好 Good job.
这是你
亲爱的米妮
没有人想要记得 Nobody wants to remember
这里是成千上万被迫为奴的人 that this is where thousands of enslaved people
被运抵 和沿街售卖的地方 were shipped in and paraded up the street to be sold.
而离这儿30里地的地方 Just ten miles from here,
黑人从自己家被拉出来 处以私刑 black people were pulled from their homes and lynched.
没人会谈这些事 Nobody talks about it.
而现在 这个来自特拉华的黑人男孩 And now this black boy from Delaware
走进他们的法庭 walks into their courtrooms
希望他们承认 and expects them to admit
他们判了一个无辜的黑人有罪 they convicted an innocent black man.
我承诺过整个社区 I promised that whole community
我要带着他回家 I was gonna bring him home.
然而我却把事情搞得更糟了 Then I just made things worse.
我听许多律师说 I've heard a lot of lawyers say
和自己的客户联系紧密并不好 it's not a good idea to get close to your clients.
距离产生美 Distance is healthy.
但是与你共事让我知道了那就是扯淡 But working with you showed me that that's bullshit.
你选择接近他们每一个人 You choose to get close to every one of them.
你爱他们就像他们是你的家人 And you love them like they are your family.
所以当你的家人受伤时 你也很难过 And when your family is hurting, you're hurting.
我无法完全理解 There is no way that I could fully understand
你所经历的那些事 what it is that you're going through.
但我相信 But I am pretty sure that
你对这个社区的意义比你想得要大得多 you mean a lot more to this community than you think.
沃尔特 我很抱歉 Walter, I'm so sorry.
被逮捕的那一天 我想着没什么大不了 Day I got arrested, I thought I was gonna be okay.
因为我知道真相 'Cause I got the truth.
只要他们和跟我在一起的所有人谈过了 Soon as they talk to everybody that was with me,
他们就会放了我 they gonna have to let me go.
然后警察就一直叫你杀手 Then the police keep calling you a killer.
某些白人说 他看见是你干的 Some white dude say he saw you do it.
新闻上的人说是你干的 News people saying you did it.
法官和陪审团说 是你干的 Judge and jury saying you did it.
然后你在死囚牢房待了 Now you on the row...
两年 三年 四年 two, three, four years.
你的朋友和孩子 Your friends and your kids
不再像过去那样联系你 ain't calling you like they used to.
再过一阵 你开始想 After a while, you start wondering
他们是怎么看你的 what they think about you.
你开始想 你怎么看你 You start wondering what you think about you.
真相已经不那么明晰了 The truth ain't so clear no more.
但过去这几天 But these last few days,
我一直在想迈尔斯 I can't stop thinking about Myers up there.
告诉大家是怎么到这地步的 Telling everybody how it went down.
这是我被关押以来 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 我记起来我是谁 The first time I remember who I is.
这些蠢货要做什么就做什么吧 These fools gonna do what they gonna do.
但是如果他们今天要带我去那把电椅 But if they take me to that chair tonight...
我要微笑着走出去 I'm going out smiling.
因为我寻回了关于自己的真相 'Cause I got my truth back.
你把它交还给我了 You gave that to me.
交还给我和我的家人了 To me and my family.
而没有任何一个人能夺走它们 And ain't nobody gonna take that from us.
你不会退缩的 对吧 You ain't quitting, is you?
不会 No, sir.
那么 你就没有理由感到抱歉 Then there ain't no reason for you to say you're sorry.
我知道上场听证会很令人失望 I know how disappointing the last hearing was,
但那不是结局 but that's not where this is gonna end.
我们正准备一项动议 We're preparing a motion
要把我们的证据提交至 to submit our evidence
蒙哥马利的州最高法院 to the State Supreme Court in Montgomery.
他们有权推翻上一次审判 They have the power to reverse the last decision
迫使巡回法庭重新审判 and force the circuit court to give us a new trial.
你觉得他们会那么做吗 You think they'll do that?
什么都没法保证 Nothing's guaranteed.
但我不相信 一个郡外法庭 But I can't see how an outside court
会忽略我们所拥有的证据 can ignore the evidence that we have.
然后呢 And then what?
就算他能出来 Even if he do get out,
除了我们的所有人也认为他有罪 everybody but us still gonna think he guilty.
就算他们在里面杀不了他 If they can't kill him in there,
也可以让他在外面社会学死亡 they can still do it out here.
这个我们也考虑过了 We've been worried about that, too.
我们在努力 让真相大白天下 And we're working on something to help get the truth out.
等你准备好我们就开始 布莱德利先生 We're rolling. Whenever you're ready, Mr. Bradley.
好的 布赖恩 你准备好了吗 Okay, Bryan, you ready?
好了 I am.
《60分钟》 美国著名电视新闻杂志节目
他的名字是沃尔特·麦克米利安 His name is Walter McMillian,
他的朋友叫他约翰尼·D known to his friends as Johnny D.,
而他已经在阿拉巴马的霍尔曼监狱 and he's been on death row in Alabama's Holman prison
待了快六年 for almost six years.
陪审团相信他们抓对了人 A jury was convinced they got the right man.
但如果你听了这个故事 也许不这么认为 But you may not be after you watch this story.
被谋杀的职员 The clerk who was murdered...
嘿 大点声 我听不见了 Hey, hey, turn that up! I can't hear it.
约翰尼·D说他们想处决的是错误的人 Johnny D. Says they want to execute the wrong man.
你没有杀死隆达·莫里森吗 You didn't kill Ronda Morrison?
没有 先生 我这辈子就没见过隆达·莫里森 No, sir. I never seen Ronda Morrison a day in my life.
上帝知道我没有 God knows I ain't.
谋杀当天 你有去过蒙罗维尔吗 Did you ever go into Monroeville on the day of the murder?
没有 No, sir.
你没去 You never went in...
没去蒙罗维尔 句号 Never went to Monroeville, period.
我告诉他们 我看见一个年轻女孩 I told them I had seen a young girl
张着嘴 躺在地板上 laying on the floor with her mouth open.
约翰尼·D站在她边上 Johnny D. Standing over her.
这是真的吗 Was it true?
不 绝不是 一点真的都没有 No, sir. Not at all. Nowhere near true.
如果麦克米利安的处决日定下来了 If an execution date is set for McMillian,
那一日来临 and that day comes,
他将走上电椅 and it's time for him to go to the electric chair,
你会畅快吗 will you be comfortable?
会的 Yes.
我会感到舒畅 I'd be comfortable with it.
你觉得那是公平 正义吗 他在 Do you think it's fair, just? He had his...
他在法庭上有过机会 He had his day in court.
他经过陪审团审判了 He, uh, was tried by a jury.
他们听了他的证言 然后相信了 They heard his testimony and they believed it.
查普曼说他将以伪证罪起诉迈尔斯 Chapman says he's going to indict Myers for perjury.
不是因为他在庭审时说的话 Not for what he said at the trial,
而是因为他现在说的话 but for what he's saying now.
接下来 我们将把证据提交至 Next, we'll be presenting our evidence
阿拉巴马州最高法院 to the Alabama Supreme Court,
希望他们能看到我们认为十分明白的事实 hoping they'll see what we think is very clear...
沃尔特·麦克米利安是无辜的 that Walter McMillian is innocent.
麦克米利安的命运现在掌握在 McMillian's fate is now in the hands
阿拉巴马州最高法院的手中 of the Alabama Supreme Court,
最高法预计很快就会决定 which is expected to decide soon
他是否有权接受新的审判 if he's entitled to a new trial.
三个月后
EJI 这里是布兰达. EJI, this is Brenda.
好的 我会告诉他的 谢谢 Okay. I'll let him know. Thank you.
最高法对麦克米利安案的裁决 The supreme court ruling in the McMillian case
等着被接受了 is ready to be picked up.
一会回来 I'll be back.
震惊今日席卷门罗郡 A wave of shock rolled through Monroe County today,
阿拉巴马州最高法院推翻了 when the Alabama Supreme Court overturned
巡回法庭之前的审判 the circuit court's previous decision,
批准对已被判处死刑的杀人犯 and granted a new trial to convicted killer
沃尔特 "约翰尼·D." 麦克米利安重新审判 Walter "Johnny D." McMillian.
这是郡外法庭第一次 This was the first time a court outside the county
用确凿的证据 was shown the overwhelming evidence
证明了麦克米利安的无辜 proving Mr. McMillian's innocence.
尽管法庭已经批准对他重新审判 Though the court granted him a new trial,
我们相信他应当被立即释放 we believe he deserves to be released immediately.
而这也是下次审讯我们要力争的一点 And that's exactly what we'll be arguing at the next hearing.
查普曼先生 你如何看待今天的审判 Mr. Chapman, how do you feel about today's decision?
无可奉告 谢谢 I have no comment at this time. Thank you.
我找布赖恩 史蒂文森律师 I'm looking for Attorney Bryan Stevenson.
-史蒂文森先生 -请问有什么事吗 - Mr. Stevenson? - How can I help you?
是的 先生 Yes, sir,
这份诉辩状是给您的 I've been ordered to serve you this pleading.
谢谢你 Thank you.
汤米·查普曼向法院请求了暂缓程序 Tommy Chapman is asking the court to stay the proceedings,
理由是 他需要时间展开一次新的调查 so he can open up a new investigation.
他明摆着就是想钻空子来重新立案圆谎 He's trying to buy time to rebuild his case.
他就是个人渣 That son of a bitch.
布赖恩 你明明知道他是无辜的 Bryan? You're asking the court
为什么还要让法院一直把他押在死囚监狱 to keep a man on death row you know is innocent.
律师先生 您说什么 Excuse me, Counselor?
您这是什么意思 I don't know what you mean.
就连最高法院都对我们的证据表示支持了 The supreme court supports all the evidence we presented.
你所有的证人也都已经撤回证词了 Every one of your witnesses recanted.
你现在一无所有 You got nothing left.
等会儿 可我的调查还没完成呢 Well, hang on, my investigation's still in process.
你什么都不会找到的 这点你我心知肚明 And we both know you're not gonna find anything.
你知道在60分钟的节目播放后 You have any idea the bullshit
你的胡话给我带来了 that I've had to put up with
多大的麻烦吗 since your 60 Minutes story aired?
郡长现在一直咬着我不放 I got the governor on my ass,
全国有色人种协进会也觉得我种族歧视 got the NAACP calling me a racist.
龙达的家人几乎是每隔五分钟就找我一次 I got Ronda's family checking in every five minutes.
你不能为了自己的名声 You can't keep an innocent man in prison
就把一个无辜的人囚禁在监狱里 while you try to salvage your reputation.
这件事和我的名声半毛钱关系都没有 This ain't got nothing to do with my reputation.
我只是不想辜负这个郡里的人对我的信任 This is about the people of this county
因为他们把自己的安危托付在了我手里 who have hired me to keep 'em safe.
那么你具体指的是哪些人呢 And what people are you talking about right now?
是指这附近的邻里街坊们呢 The ones from this neighborhood?
还是你们指控的约翰尼·D.的家 Or the ones from the black community
那些住在黑人居民区里的人呢 you took Johnny D. from?
你觉得他们过得安心吗 You think they feel safe?
汤米 你的工作不是捍卫原告 Your job isn't to defend a conviction, Tommy.
而是捍卫正义 It's to achieve justice.
只有你一直捍卫正义 And as long as you keep fighting this,
这一片的人才是真正意义上的脱离了危险 someone from your county has literally gotten away with murder.
所以你在饭点大老远跑来我家 You wanna come all the way to my house at dinner time
就是为了教我怎么做我的份内事吗 just to tell me how to do my job?
不 No.
不 我来这儿是因为我觉得 No, I'm here because I think you know
你是一个能明辨是非的人 the difference between right and wrong.
而且你很清楚 杀她的根本不是约翰尼·D. And you know Johnny D. didn't kill that girl.
我正在准备一项动议来驳回全部的控诉 I'm filing a motion to dismiss all charges.
我觉得你也应该加入这个行列 And I think that you should join it.
下次你要是再来我家 Next time you wanna stop by my house,
最好事先给我打个电话 appreciate you calling me first.
现在 布赖恩 从我地盘上滚出去 Now, you get the hell off my property, Bryan.
1993年 3月2日
布赖恩来了 There's Bryan.
-怎么回事 -他们不肯放我们进去 - What's going on? - They won't let us in.
我们已经在这儿等了一个多小时了 That boy is making us wait out here for over an hour.
不好意思 Excuse me.
你这是在做什么 What are you doing?
执行命令而已 Just following orders.
这是一个公开听证会 This is a public hearing.
快放这群人进去 These people need to be let in now.
你们现在可以进去了 Y'all can go in now.
现在里面可没位置坐了 Now that there's no seats left.
没关系 It's okay.
我们自己找位置 We'll find room.
-进去吧 -大家都跟上 - Go on in. - Y'all come on.
-借过 -好的 - Excuse us. - Yeah.
来吧 各位 Come on, y'all.
这边 来吧 Right this way. Come on.
好 Okay.
很高兴见到你 甜心 Good to see you, sugar.
好的 谢谢 太太 我这是应该的 Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
全体起立 All rise.
阿拉巴马州第二十八司法巡回法院 The 28th Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama
现在开庭 is now is session.
本次庭审将由尊敬的帕梅拉·巴沙卜法官 The Honorable Judge Pamela Baschab
为我们主持 presiding.
各位 请坐 Please be seated.
今天的人很多 We've got a full house,
所以我们最好尽快解决问题 不要拖沓 so let's try to move through this in a timely manner.
大家今天共聚一堂 是因为史蒂文森先生 We're here because Mr. Stevenson
提出了一项动议 has filed a motion to
以解除本案中所有对麦克米利安先生的指控 dismiss all charges against Mr. McMillian in this case.
史蒂文森先生 既然是您提出的动议 Now, Mr. Stevenson, since it's your motion,
现在就请您先发言 I'd like for you to speak to it first
之后我们再来听州法院的看法 and then we'll hear from the State.
这次的案子其实并不复杂 It's easy to see this case
只不过是一个人想要证明自己的清白而已 as one man trying to prove his innocence.
但如果你们在审讯前整整一年 But when you take a black man and you
就将一名黑人关进死囚监狱 put him on death row a year before his trial...
并且不让其他黑人参与他的陪审 and exclude black people from serving on his jury...
如果你们选择胁迫一个白人重犯 When you base your conviction
来伪造定罪证据 on a coerced testimony of a white felon,
却蓄意忽视整整二十名 and ignore the testimony of two dozen
遵纪守法的黑人目击者的证词 law-abiding black witnesses...
如果他清白的证据全部被压了下来 When any evidence proving his innocence is suppressed
想道出真相的人 被威胁到大气都不敢喘 and anyone who tries to tell the truth is threatened,
那这个案子 就不局限于 this case becomes more than the trial
对单个被告的审判了 of just a single defendant.
它就变成一次实验了 It becomes a test
支撑着这个社会的究竟是恐惧和愤怒 of whether we're going to be governed by fear and by anger,
还是平等与法治呢 or by the rule of law.
如果站在本法庭后方的所有人 If the people standing at the back of this courtroom
被指控时都直接被判为有罪 are all presumed guilty when accused...
如果 他们离开这里后还要忧心忡忡 If they have to leave here and live in fear
担心相同的事会落在自己头上 of when this very thing will happen to them...
如果我们对这种社会体制毫无异议 If we're just gonna accept the system
认为有罪的富人 值得比清白的穷人 that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than
更好的生活 if you're poor and innocent,
那么 作为法院 我们就不能代表正义了 then we can't claim to be just.
如果我们对外宣张说 我们会一视同仁 If we say we're committed to equal justice under law
不论贫富 种族 背景 to protecting the rights of every citizen,
来维护每一位居民的权利的话 regardless of wealth, race, or status,
那我们也是时候结束 then we have to end this nightmare
沃尔特·麦克米利安和他家人的这场噩梦了 for Walter McMillian and his family.
我们已经证实 所有针对他的指控和证词 The charges against him have been proven
皆为证人在被威胁的情况下 to be a false construction of desperate people
虚构而出 fueled by bigotry and bias,
为了省去麻烦 他们选择了让真相被埋没 who ignored the truth in exchange for easy solutions,
但那不是法律的宗旨 and that's not the law.
更别提正义了 That's not justice.
这样是不对的 That's not right.
法官大人 I ask that this case
我在此请求您驳回本案 be dismissed immediately, Your Honor.
谢谢您 Thank you.
查普曼先生 请问州法院对本动议 Mr. Chapman, what is the State's position
作何看法 on this motion?
法官大人 可否让我到法官席前去 Your Honor, may I approach the bench?
可以 Yes.
法官大人 Your Honor,
我有麻烦了 I'm troubled.
-你有麻烦了 -是的 - You're troubled? - Troubled.
我知道这个社区的居民们 'Cause I know that the people in this community
都想在晚上睡个安稳觉 want to go to sleep at night
要是有人犯了重罪 knowing that if someone has committed a terrible crime,
那他当然必须被擒拿归案 then that someone is gonna be punished.
但是 But,
在本次案例里 in this case...
法官大人 我又 Your Honor, I have,
重新核对了一遍证据信息 taken another look at the evidence...
然后 and,
请说 查普曼先生 Mr. Chapman, please?
州法院不反对该次动议 法官大人 And the State does not object to the motion, Your Honor.
什么 What?
查普曼先生 为了避免误会 To be clear, Mr. Chapman,
您确定您要驳回本案中的所有控诉吗 are you joining the motion to dismiss all charges today?
是的 法官大人 没错 Yes, Your Honor, I am.
肃静 Order.
请保持肃静 Please. Order.
既然如此 Well...
你们这倒是给我省了很多流程 y'all have made my job easy today.
在本次人民大战麦克米利安的案例中 In the case of The People vs. McMillian,
本院在此宣布 被告的动议已通过 the court hereby grants the defendant's motion.
麦克米利安先生 您身上所有的指控现已解除 All charges against you are dismissed, Mr. McMillian.
那是什么意思 What does that mean?
意思是你现在自由了 That means you're free.
-我自由了 -对 你自由了 可以回家了 - I'm free? - That means you're free and you get to go home.
你家人过来了 Your family's coming.
家 我回来了啊 I have my family back.
兄弟 我们与你同在 We're all with you, brother.
约翰尼·D. Yo, Johnny D.!
我从走出了法学院 I came out of law school
带着改变世界的宏大梦想 with grand ideas in my mind
走入了这片红尘 about how to change the world.
但麦克米利安先生让我明白了 But Mr. McMillian made me realize
光是只有脑子里的一个念头 we can't change the world
是不足以改变这个世界的 with only ideas in our minds.
我们必须心存着一股信念 We need conviction in our hearts.
欢迎回家 约翰尼·D
这个男人教会了我 要心存希望 This man taught me how to stay hopeful.
因为我现在知道了 正义最大的敌人 Because I now know that hopelessness
是绝望 is the enemy of justice.
希望 能成为我们前进下去的动力 Hope allows us to push forward,
哪怕有权势的人想扭曲真相 even when the truth is distorted
我们也绝不会停下脚步 by the people in power.
他们若是想让我们坐回去 It allows us to stand up
希望 就是我们奋起的理由 when they tell us to sit down.
就算叫我们"闭嘴" And to speak
希望也会给予我们发声的力量 when they say, "Be quiet."
这次的案子让了我明白了一些道理 Through this work, I've learned that
你做了一件坏事 each of us is more than
不代表你一生都是恶人 the worst thing that we've ever done.
1993年 4月1日
美国参议院就死刑展开听证会
与贫穷相对的不是富贵 That the opposite of poverty isn't wealth.
与贫穷相对的 是正义 The opposite of poverty is justice.
我们国家的形象 That the character of our nation isn't reflected
不在于我们如何对待有权势的富人 in how we treat the rich and the privileged,
而是体现在如何对待那些穷人 but how we treat the poor,
被漠视的人 被唾弃的人 the disfavored and condemned.
我们从这位清清白白的人手里夺走了太多 Our system has taken more away from this innocent man
多到我们甚至无力偿还 than it has the power to give back.
但我相信 如果我们能以他作为一次教训 But I believe if each of us can follow his lead,
我们就能让这个世界变得更好 we can change this world for the better.
如果我们仔细地反省一下自己 If we can look at ourselves closely,
面对真实的自我 and honestly,
我相信 我们都会看到 I believe we will see
自己的灵魂 还缺少了那么点儿正义 that we all need justice.
我们都需要心怀慈悲 We all need mercy.
也许 And perhaps,
我们每个人都会需要或多或少的宽恕 we all need some measure of unmerited grace.
谢谢 Thank you.
我真的教了你那么多东西吗 I taught you all that?
至少有一部分吧 Yeah, you taught me some of that.
那我还挺厉害啊 I'm pretty good, ain't I?
干得漂亮 Great job.
布莱恩·史蒂文森一直在帮助那些贫困的定罪囚犯发声 时间长达30年有余
获得轻刑 或上诉成功 甚至得到释放 他和他的代理律师在EJI成功地帮助了140多名死囚犯
调整设计出了一套针对死刑犯的法律服务 伊娃 Ansley继续管理着EJI 并在1989年
在1983年后的阿拉巴马州 赫布特 理查德森是65名多被执行了死刑的囚犯之一 其中 大部分人根本没有获得足够的法律援助
自那以后 布赖恩和沃尔特·麦克米利安成为了很好的朋友 直到后者在2013年因早发性突发痴抢救无效而去世
他在监狱里度过的那段时日则成了他死前一直挥之不去的阴影
{1896年 安东尼 "雷" 欣顿因为一份错误的弹道分析报告 被判双重杀人罪 而起诉人却说 光是看他的面相就知道凶手一定是他了
布赖恩最终把雷的案子上诉到了美国最高法院并胜诉 平白无故地坐了整整30年牢 终于 在2015年 欣顿先生被释放了
嗨 Hi!
天呐 谢天谢地啊 Oh, Lord, thank you, Jesus.
主啊 谢谢您 Thank you, Lord.
上帝啊 感谢您 Oh, thank you, Jesus.
在美国 监狱里每九人就有一名被错判的受害者 多么触目惊心的比率