In the small town of Canton, Mississippi, a young African American girl named Tonya Hailey is brutally assaulted by two white men. When her father, Carl Lee, discovers the horrific act, he takes matters into his own hands and kills the perpetrators in the courthouse, sparking a dramatic trial. Enter Jake Brigance, a determined lawyer tasked with defending Carl Lee against the prosecution's tough and ambitious D.A., Rufus Buckley. Can Jake prove that his client can receive a fair trial in a deeply divided society?
A Time to Kill
A lawyer and his partner risk their lives in 1960s Mississippi to prove the innocence of a wrongly accused black man, whose daughter was brutally assaulted by two white men, leading to a violent showdown with the Ku Klux Klan.
