Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice. In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson tells of his experience with the American Justice system and his fight to free wrongly convicted on death row, those convicted as. She is resilient, patient, intelligent and hospitable. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in Delaware. Like Walter, she is from the poor black community just outside of Monroeville. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machinations, and legal brinksmanship-and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. But Just Mercy, a memoir, aggregates and personalizes the struggle against injustice in the story of one activist lawyer. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.īryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. In recognition of the books impact and importance, copies of Just Mercy were distributed to all incoming first-year students at Berkeley Law and criminal.

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