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In real life, Richardson had psychological problems from his combat experiences—he was the only survivor of an ambush that killed his entire platoon—and ended up in a Veterans Affairs hospital in New York after the war. For a thumbnail sketch of the facts, here’s the …[Stevenson] spoke passionately, without notes, about how politics, racial bias, and money all corrupt the justice system. White dry-cleaning employee Ronda Morrison, 18, had been strangled and fatally shot multiple times at the Jackson Cleaners in Monroeville, Alabama in 1986 and McMillian was wrongfully fingered for it, according to court paperwork.

For example, the movie features a white prison guard (Hayes Mercure) who initially forces Stevenson to strip search before meeting with a client. Stevenson, who recently celebrated his 60th birthday, has helped release 135 wrongly accused prisoners sentenced to death. In any event, if the film version of Even being completely exonerated didn’t end the torment the state of Alabama caused him. When 18-year-old community college student and dry-cleaning clerk Ronda Morrison (pictured below) was shot multiple times at Jackson's Cleaners on the morning of Saturday, November 1, 1986, Walter McMillian and his wife Minnie were hosting a fish fry at their home, where he … Then he stared crying. For Charles and Bertha Morrison, the picture is a daily, painful reminder of their smiling daughter with the sparkling blue eyes - their only child. In the movie, the hearing in which Stevenson submits the overwhelming evidence that McMillian was innocent is referred to as “Judge Foster,” played by Lindsay Ayliffe, looking as much like Jeff Sessions as possible. Photos by Warner Bros. and Brad Barket/Getty Images for POLITICO. 2019-12-02T16:55:52.000Z. Eighteen-year-old Ronda Morrison, a white dry-cleaning clerk, was murdered at Jackson Cleaners on November 1, 1986, in Monroeville, Alabama.

You haven’t been feeling well, and so you’re here so you can get better. Just Mercy ends by noting that a white man was later identified as a suspect in Ronda Morrison’s death.

McMillian’s prosecution and exoneration have been the subject of two books: Walter McMillian’s ordeal is more or less accurately portrayed in Attorney Bryan Stevenson took McMillian’s case in 1988, and in 1993 secured McMillian’s freedom after demonstrating that the prosecution had withheld evidence and pressured their star witness into lying. Ronda Morrison was the young adult daughter of an influential local white family in Monroeville. But judging from Stevenson’s memoir, Larson’s performance is true to life.Ralph Myers, the career criminal who testified that Walter McMillian killed Ronda Morrison, only to recant the entire story years later at Stevenson’s prodding, really did the things he’s shown doing in the movie. In fact, he had dozens.

But every source agrees about one thing: McMillian had nothing to do with the murder of Ronda Morison. The scene in the movie in which Ansley chews out a landlord for refusing to rent them office space because of their work doesn’t come from Stevenson’s book, but he does note that the University of Alabama School of Law had promised them office space, then backed out of the deal. Murder of Ronda Morrison. What right did he have to come lecture me about morals?For his part, Stevenson was apparently even less of a fan of Chapman’s in real life than he appears to be in either version of In the movie’s scene in which Tate arrests McMillian, he taunts him by saying things like, “Those rims look like they cost you a pretty penny—who’ve you been working for?” That’s shitty, but in Walter McMillian’s version of the story, as Tate has categorically denied saying any of this.

But after the couple broke up, Richardson decided the best way to win her back was to plant a bomb on her porch, then save her from it. The white community is baffled by the mysterious murder of a beloved young woman. And you'll never see this message again.Photo illustration by Slate.

McMillian had an alibi for the murder. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass.

“Please get me out of here. Unfortunately, the woman’s 10-year-old niece picked up the bomb and was killed instantly in the ensuing blast.There are other aspects of Richardson’s story where the film diverges from Stevenson’s book. In the memoir, this happens while meeting with a different client at a different prison, and the guard’s change of heart comes after hearing Stevenson testify about the horrible abuse his client suffered in the foster care system, because the guard was also a former foster kid.Meanwhile, an incident in which the police pulled their weapons on Stevenson for sitting in his car outside of his apartment in Atlanta is relocated to a traffic stop in Alabama—although the bomb threats and general creepiness from the locals are mentioned in both books.Brie Larson plays Eva Ansley, who in real life co-founded the Equal Justice Initiative with Stevenson and currently serves as its operations director. She had been shot numerous times from behind.

Please? In 1988, they secured federal funding to set up the nonprofit that eventually became the Equal Justice Initiative.

He moved to Alabama to follow a nurse he had met at the hospital, dated her, and was happy, for a time. She Readers like you make our work possible.