Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunke,and remorseless voung men. The mostlh white town reacts with shock and horror at the in human crime.Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justiceinto his own outraged hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life . . . and then his own...