Mississippi Innocence (2011)
DVD, 58 minutes
Languages:
English
Producer:
Joe York
| Tucker Carrington
Personal notes
“Every story of a wrongful conviction and exoneration, from a storytelling point of view, is incredible. They’re great stories. They’re tragic. They’re sad. If we’re lucky there’s a happy ending; the guy gets out of prison. They’re all fantastic stories. But the one in Noxubee County, Mississippi, has got to be one of the best.“JOHN GRISHAM Excerpt from “Mississippi Innocence”
Brooks, Levon
Brewer, Kennedy
Judicial error -- Mississippi
Mississippi Innocence Project
Plot outline
In the early nineteen-nineties in rural Noxubee County, Mississippi, two young girls were – in separate crimes occurring approximately a year and a half apart – abducted from their homes, sexually assaulted, manually strangled and dumped into nearby pools of water. In each case law enforcement arrested a perpetrator almost immediately, and the prosecution announced that it would seek the death penalty in each case. As a result, Kennedy Brewer was convicted and sentenced to die by lethal injection; Levon Brooks was convicted and sentenced to a term of life without the possibility of parole. Combined, the two men would spend over thirty years in prison.
Both men are innocent.
Cast
- Levon Brooks
- Kennedy Brewer
- Joe York
- Tucker Carrington