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Tonya's outraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, consults his friend Jake Brigance, a white attorney who had previously represented Hailey's brother, on whether he could get himself acquitted if he killed the two men. Jake tells Carl Lee not to do anything stupid, but admits that if it had been his daughter, he would kill the rapists.
Tonya's father, Carl Lee Hailey, contacts Jake Brigance, a white lawyer who previously defended his brother Lester. Jake admits the possibility that the rapists will walk free. Carl Lee goes to the county courthouse and opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing both rapists and unintentionally wounding Deputy Dwayne Looney, whose leg is later ...
In 1990, five years after successfully defending accused murderer Carl Lee Hailey, attorney Jake Brigance is assigned by Circuit Court Judge Omar Noose to the case of 16-year-old Drew Gamble, who has been accused of murder after killing Stuart Kofer, a deputy sheriff who was his mother Josie's boyfriend.
The Secrets of Hillsong, a new four-part Hulu documentary series from FX and Vanity Fair, explores the rise and fall of a megachurch -- and the charismatic pastor at the center of it all.Most of ...
The civil case filed by Hailey Brooks’s parents. In the wake of Hailey’s death, April and Trey Brooks of Raleigh, her parents, filed a wrongful death suit in April against several parties.
Jake Brigance, Carl Lee's former attorney, had gained much fame after the Hailey trial, as well as the respect of the black community and of many whites, but he has little to no money to show for it. During the Hailey trial, the Ku Klux Klan had tried to intimidate Jake by burning his home. Jake has yet to see any of the insurance money for the ...
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Jun. 13—Katrina Kubik testified Thursday that a beating she purportedly received from Demichaelo Lee five weeks ago in a Joplin liquor store parking lot put her in the hospital with a brain ...