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Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable idéal) - 2001

Jacksonville, Florida, May 2000.

Mary Ann Stephens is shot

in the head at point blank range

in front of her husband.

Two hours later,

a 15-year-old black American, Brenton Butler,

is arrested walking down a nearby street.

Jean-Xavier De Lestrade's

Academy Award-winning film

follows his trial.

Everyone involved with the case,

from investigators to journalists,

is ready to condemn Butler,

except his lawyer Patrick McGuiness.

A dazzling and magnetic presence

of Hollywood proportions,

McGuiness reopens the inquiry,

and in a dramatic and spine-tingling

sequence of events,

he and his team discover a slew of shocking

and troubling elements about the case.

Murder on a Sunday Morning

is gripping and heart-wrenching

- the stuff suspense novelists only dream of writing.