Murder on a Sunday Morning 2001 - DBpedia online article
The following events took place in Jacksonville, Florida: ‘James Stephen and his wife were at the local Ramada Inn. They went to a continental breakfast … As they left … someone shot and killed Mr Stephens’ wife.’ Murder on a Sunday Morning, McGuinness defendant’s brief, 2001
Mr Stephen identified him as the man who had shot his wife. ibid.
He [Brenton] told me about how the detectives had treated him. ibid.
Officer Martin came in and candidly admitted that the only reason Brenton Butler was stopped that morning was because he happened to be a black male walking in the neighbourhood. ibid. defense woman
Detective Glover hit him in the stomach and … his face. ibid.
They beat a fifteen-year-old boy because he is innocent. ibid. McGuinness
‘Now a year later police say they had the wrong guy.’ ibid. ABC 25 news
The Brenton Butler case (officially State of Florida v Brenton Leonard Butler) was a murder case in Jacksonville, Florida. During the investigation of a shooting death outside a motel in 2000, police arrested 15-year-old Brenton Butler and charged him with the murder. Butler subsequently confessed to the crime, and the case went to trial. However, during the trial he testified that he had been brutalized into his confession, and he was acquitted. The case gained significant notice in the media, and became the subject of an award-winning documentary, Murder on a Sunday Morning. DBpedia online article