Bryan Stevenson

It would have been better if he'd been out in the woods hunting by himself when this crime took place, because at least then you had to entertain the possibility.

But because we were with him...

And we quickly uncovered evidence about the coercion for some bizarre reason when they coerced these two witnesses to testify falsely against him.

They tape recorded those interviews and they hid the tapes.

I found the tapes by going to another courthouse and doing some discovery.

And the first thing you hear on this tape from the witness is, quote, you want me to frame an innocent man for murder, and I don't feel right about that.

And the police officer effectively says, well, if you don't do what we want, we'll put you on death row.

And they put the witness on death row for three months until he agreed to testify falsely against Mr. McMillan.

They present that evidence at trial, some other evidence.

But we found out all of this stuff.

We found the police officer's log that said he was at Mr. McMillan's house.

Yeah, absolutely.

In the making.

You know, it comes from the people I got to represent.

You're absolutely right.

You know, for the six years we were working on this case... Six years?

Six years.

And I would get death threats when I go into the community.

We had bomb threats.

We had to clear our office on multiple occasions because somebody had...