A Time To Kill

In Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is raped by two white racists , "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb.. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl, Tonya’s father, emerges from the building's basement with a gun, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance. The judge of the case is a white man named Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley.Helping Jake on the case are his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks, fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner, and law student Ellen Roark. When the trial began, the white judge denied Carl to be able to get out of jail on bail.
The prosecuting attorney, Rufus Buckley, argued that no matter what, no person should take the law into their own hands. He also argued that this man is dangerous and should be incarcerated for the remainder of his life. The defending attorney, Jake Tyler Brigance, argues that Carl was only protecting his family and he had the right to defend his daughter in this case. He tells the jury to put themselves in Carl’s position and imagin spmebody raped their daughter. The jury is all white and so is the judge. So the defending attorney will have a hard time trying to persuade them to drop the charges on a blacj man for killing to two white men. After a long drawn out trial, Carl Hailey is found not guilty and he gets off for temporary insanity. In class we went over being found not guilty by pleading temporary insanity. We also talked about having a motive for commiting a crime and Carl’s motive was because the two men raped his young daughter.
The investigation in this trial was fairly simple. There were witnesses to testify against Carl and say