A powerful and thought-provoking true-story, "Just Mercy" follows young lawyer ... One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx), who, in 1987, was sentenced ...

"Just Mercy," released in theaters on January 10, tells the true story of Bryan Stevenson (Jordan), a civil-rights attorney who works to defend Walter McMillian (Foxx), who was wrongfully ...

Siblings Joy Cretton (second from left) and brother Destin Daniel Cretton (right) are shown on set of "Just Mercy ... Stevenson in 1989 defended Walter McMillian, a then-47-year-old black ...

One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, sentenced to death in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl despite evidence proving his innocence, and Stevenson encounters racism and ...