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Jake Brigance's A Time To Kill
In A Time to Kill, a little African American girl is abducted, raped, and murdered by two white supremacist men. After her father discovers that the criminals will likely walk away freely due to racism in the South, he decides to take things into his own hands. Carl Lee Hailey kills the two men who wronged his daughter, and expects to be incarcerated for his crime. His lawyer, Jake Brigance, delivers an amazing closing speech at Hailey’s trial. Although the jury believes that Hailey is guilty, Brigance uses ethics as a last resort. Brigance asks the all-white jury to close their eyes as he tells a story. He then tells the story of “a little girl” who was abducted on her way home from the grocery store. Using brutal and specific details to
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