There are very few films that I think everybody should be required to see and this is one of them. If this film does not open your eyes to the reality of criminal law, well, nothing will. The story involves the robbery and murder of an older woman in Jacksonville. The woman is shot dead for refusing to give up her purse, her husband witnesses the act. The one thing that the husband is sure of, is that the murderer was a black man. *SPOILERS* Sadly, the Jacksonville's PD's solution is to go out to the crime scene a few hours later and arrest the first black person they see. Who they arrest is a 15 year old boy, on his way to Blockbuster Video. What is next, is pure insanity. The police charge the young man, who is from a nice family, with no criminal background, with murder. Not only will the police get an alleged confession from the accused, but they will also get a positive ID from the husband of the murder victim. The only problem, the kid did not do it. Yes, it is true, witnesses are wrong and people often confess to what they did not do. What few people realize, is how often police and district attorneys are the real criminals. Too often, the evidence does not lead to the suspect, the evidence is instead built around the suspect. More often than not, that suspect is black. I have this film and I show it to my classes every year and every year young people start to realize that justice is not black and white. And sometimes, those people we think are the good guys, well...
Review of Murder on a Sunday Morning
