to get a jury of your peers. knowing he needed a sympathetic jury, clive drew on his experience working in mississippi and petitioned to enlist jurors from rural and sparsely populated pinola county. i knew that pinola county was divided into two halves, and one-half was majority white, and the other half was majority black. forrest allgood didn t know about pinola county, and when pinola county came up, i said, we ve got to have one district or the other. why don t we have the second district? and no one thought about it, and everybody agreed to that. forrest allgood s face, i ve never seen anything like it as he walked into that courtroom. he was not used to dealing with a jury that was majority black. the jury consisted of one white and 11 black jurors. while it s not like those inju jurors are sitting there saying i m going to acquit her because she s a black woman because
after serving 25 years as district attorney, forrest allgood was voted out of office in 2015. i guess my whole thing is you went through all this 20 years ago, and now that you look at all the facts, are you willing to say you made a mistake? ms. butler s case actually helps us forward at a great personal cost to her certainly. but when we can acknowledge our injustices, for mississippi, that s a big thing. the reason sabrina s case has always been very important in my own experience is because it s a case where i believe no one committed a crime. i believe that little walter died of natural causes from a tragedy that we didn t fully
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