![]() This is not the problem Jake faces, though, as, when he returns home one evening, his house had been burned down and with the jury having internally already decided Carl Lee is guilty, it seems the odds are stacked against them. With his family away, Jake’s attraction to Ellen grows, but the two decide not to act on their feelings. After a change of venue is denied, District Attorney Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey) calls for the death penalty for Carl Lee and the trial begins. While they are making plans, the brother of one of the rapists, Freddie Lee Cobb (Kiefer Sutherland) forms a chapter from the Ku Klux Klan and places death threats against Jake and his family. He puts a team together including divorce lawyer and friend Harry Rex Vonner (Oliver Platt), liberal activist Lucien Wilbanks (Donald Sutherland) and law student Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock). Jake decides to take Carl Lee on as his client for a marginally lower fee than normal and enters a not guilty plea due to reason of insanity. He is arrested without resistance and charged with murder and attempted murder of a police official. Jake confirms there is a possibility of this happening, which leads Carl Lee to go to the court house with a gun, killing both men and unintentionally shooting Deputy Looney (Chris Cooper). Jackson) goes to lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to see if there is a possibility the men will be acquitted due to the deep-set racism within their area of Mississippi. Uncertain that the men will face the justice they deserve, Tonya’s father Carl Lee (Samuel L. She survives her ordeal, the two men are arrested, and word spreads of the evil act they committed.
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