Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)

Original title

Un coupable idéal

Directed by

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Genre

documentary film, crime film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

15

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a fifteen-year-old boy wrongfully accused of murder in Florida. It follows his defense attorneys as they uncover how police coerced a false confession.

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What happens

Murder on a Sunday Morning (French: Un coupable idéal, lit. An Ideal Culprit) is a 2001 documentary film directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The documentary explores the Brenton Butler case, in which a fifteen-year-old African-American boy was wrongfully accused and tried for murder in Jacksonville, Florida. The film follows Butler's public defense attorneys as they piece together the narrative and how the police coerced Butler into confessing. There was no physical evidence found, and the husband's visual identification of Butler as the shooter contradicted his statement to police. The film received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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