Jake Brigance: Summary

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In in a time to kill a little girl at the age of nine is kidnapped by two white teenagers. The teenagers take her to a field where they beat, rape, and even attempt to hang her on a tree limb. The limp of the tree then breaks and they come to a conclusion to throw her off a nearby bridge, and by God's grace she does not die. Her dad Carl Lee Hayley hears what has happened and takes matter into his own hands, he shots the two teenagers with a shotgun and is sent to court. Carl is defended by a lawyer by the name of Jake Brigance; a young white male. Jake Brigance starts off by asking the audience in the courtroom to close their eyes and just put an image in there head as he tells them what happened to the little girl. First he starts of by

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