Bryan Stevenson

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...

made bomb threats.

I couldn't, you know, I would start using different names.

If I tried to stay in a hotel, we use rental cars because I was constantly being followed.

There was so much resistance.

And then, you know, the ultimate insult in many ways was after having a good day in court, as you described, coming back the next day and then simply not letting people into the courtroom.

And I went over to the door and said, I want to go inside because the community leader said, oh, they won't let us in.

I said, what do you mean?

And I went over and I said, I want to go inside.