“I want you to pretend with me for a moment. I want you to use your imaginations. I want you to close your eyes and listen to nothing but my voice…” A member in the jury is speaking, she is describing to them this little girl that was brutally attacked, raped, beaten, and left for dead. The courtroom drama is due to the killing of two white men accused of this horrendous act. The girl has described the vehicle they were driving. There is no mistaking this vehicle and its owner and partner. The two men are arrested. One admits to what they had done.
After their arraignment in court they are being brought back to their cells. As the prisoner’s walk by a closet, Carl Lee, the father of the girl bursts through and starts shooting. The two men lay dead and bleeding one on top the other.
Most people wouldn’t have missed their sorry souls, but this is the deep south, and the two men are white and the shooter is black. The question is obvious, "can a black man get a fair trial with an all white jury?" It also causes you to question what would you do?