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Murder on a Sunday Morning
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Genres: Indie & Art House, Documentary, Mystery & Suspense
NR     2003     1hr 51min

Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 04/29/2003 Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Nr

     
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Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Creators: Isabelle Razavet, Pascal Vernier, Ragnar Van Leyden, Christine Le Goff, Denis Poncet, Yves Jeanneau
Genres: Indie & Art House, Documentary, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Indie & Art House, Biography, Crime & Conspiracy, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: Docurama
Format: DVD - Color,Full Screen
DVD Release Date: 04/29/2003
Theatrical Release Date: 04/08/2003
Release Year: 2003
Run Time: 1hr 51min
Screens: Color,Full Screen
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 1
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English

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Movie Reviews

EVERY JUROR IN A CAPITAL CASE SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE
A. L. Straayer | Illinois | 07/12/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I live in Illinois, a state that a couple of years back put a moratorium on capital punishment because too many people on death row were found to be not guilty thanks to DNA evidence or whose trials proved to have had very many serious flaws. You would not
believe - or, if this movie appeals to you, you probably would believe - how vitriolic the letters to the editor got in my very conservative hometown paper. The bottom line was virtually always " he was proven guilty in a court of law" blah blah blah. Nothing was said about actual guilt or innocence. Nothing was said about the very real fact that out of all the people involved in capturing, investigating, defending, prosecuting, and judging a person's crime there might be a mistake or two, a deliberate lie or two, a bad apple or two, someone with their own particular agenda
that could be detrimental to discovering the truth. No. A horrendous crime has taken place. Someone has to pay. If that someone happens to be guilty so much the better but it is not an absolute requirement. We all need closure. We all need revenge.There are so many things that jurors should be made aware of ahead of time before judging a case. From this documentary it would be 1) not all police are honest; 2) some police are ruthless; 3) not all signed confessions are the truth (forced extractions are just one of several reasons why); 4) not all murder investigations are thorough; 5) and eye-witness accounts and identifications are not always accurate.At the end of the trial when the lawyer for the prosecution was summing up, she said (and I paraphrase) "We have an eye-witness that says this young man did it. That is the only proof you need of his guilt." That woman was lying and she should have been called on the carpet right then and there for it. First of all the witness could have been lying (but I don't think he was, in this particular case) and second he could have been wrong. Time and time again eye witness testimony has been proven to be wrong even though the witness is not actively lying. I have to believe every officer of the law and every officer of the court knows this. Why was she allowed to say that and get by with it? In this case, it is a comfort to know that she didn't get by with it.Thank God for this particular Public Defender and his crew who not only believed their client was innocent, but were intelligent and savvy enough to find the flaws in the State's case.Thank God for the jury. Not all juries would have been so smart or unbiased.Thank God for director de Lestrade and his crew for being at the right place at the right time. We as a nation need to be made aware of the underbelly of law enforcement. Night after night on channel after tv channel we are told about all the criminals out there and their dastardly crimes. We are all becoming paranoid which could make us even more eager to put away every unsavory and unsavory-looking person out there.Thank God for the defendants' family who were whole (in so many
ways) and who stood by him every step of the way.We need to be careful, vigilant, and demanding of excellence in all things that we do, not the least of which is in seeing that justice is done. In the Old Testament of the Bible , the single most prevalent concept is Justice. We need to remember that punishment is not any part of Justice, if there is no Truth."
Justice . . .
David Oberlander | 05/11/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"For the bulk of the movie, you see the flaws in our judicial system. The cops. the pressures. But, the verdict demonstrates that there is justice . . . sometimes. The heros are the two public defenders. Smart, tough and ready to rumble . . . they never flinch or take the easy way out, but fight for the obvious truth in this case. It exposes the flaws in eye-witness testimony. Under the stress of having a gun thrust in your face, of your wife being killed, is such observation reliable? Finally, the detectives come off as low-life scum . . . giving a bad name to all honest cops. I doubt that a million dollar dream team of lawyers could have done a better job than the two public defenders. How can we have a death penalty? Dirty cops, eye-witness testimony, a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Doesn't take much does it?"
YIKES!! This movie is a jaw-dropper
David Oberlander | 03/25/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was a little put off when i first started watching this documentary by the seeming low-budget quality. It was filmed for HBO and looks like it was shot on video. The movie is basically a document of a court case and takes you slowly through the process: the evidence, the crime, the witness, the accused, etc. It doesn't stray too far away from the courtroom. However, what you witness - a young black man being tried for a crime he may not have committed (the murder of a white woman) unearths some institutional racism of the highest order. The astonishing thing is how clear the film makes it. The fact that all of this happened just a few years ago (and not in the 1950s somehwere in the deep south)is very, very troubling.I cannot, in fact, think of another movie about botched police work that is quite so frightening. If you watch this movie all the way through till the end, I promise you, the last five minutes will make your jaw drop to the floor. Very heartbreaking. An excellent, illuminating film."
Filtered Angels
Laurel825 | 01/09/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Faith affirming, not just in a spiritual sense, but in the doggedness of people such as attorney Patrick McGuinness, those willing to dig, scratch and bait.

McGuinness' artful dance of allowing the "law" of that city to trip itself up is a two-step worth viewing. He's earned his place in a smoky Heaven.
-Laurel825"