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Walter starts off and begins his pulpwood business. It's his own independent business that allows him to gain lots of respect and lets him be his own boss.

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Walter begins his scandalous relationship with Karen Kelly, a white woman. Interracial relationships were very frowned down upon during this time, also the fact that both had different partners at the time.

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Ronda's body was found on the floor of Monroe Cleaners. She was shot 3 times. Her death starts the bad events in Walter's story.

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Ralph Myers accuses McMillian of killing Ronda. He comes up with this huge story for attention, and the police use his story due to the fact that McMillian is a black man.

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Evidence Is Found In McMillian's Favor (1987)

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Evidence Is Found In McMillian's Favor (1987)

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Myers is asked to point out McMillian in a store and is unable to identify him without the help of the store owner. The investigation continues and the ABI mic up Myers and asks him to start a conversation with McMillian. It becomes apparent that they don't know each other.

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Bill Hooks, who has a reputation of a snitch in the prison, was promised release and reward money in exchange for information on McMillian. Hooks tells the officers that he saw a truck with two men at the gas station, and correctly identifies Walter's truck.

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McMillian is Accused of Sodomy (June 1987)

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McMillian is Accused of Sodomy (June 1987)

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The townspeople are fearful and angry which only persists with time, this pressures the ABI to continue with the McMillian theory because that's all they have. Myers ends up accusing McMillian of sexually assaulting him, and he's detained because of anti-homosexual laws.

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McMillian has an alibi, but the police end up ignoring his claims. The police end up bribing Bill Hooks to say that he had seen Walter's truck on his way to the cleaners, which had finally allowed the police to put him into death row.

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Myers is on and off on death row (February 1988)

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Myers is on and off on death row (February 1988)

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Myers begins to have second thoughts as he starts to process what he had done, he tells the police that he no longer wishes to cooperate. They end up sending him back to death row where he begins to show signs of psychological distress. He is sent to the mental hospital as a result. The trial gets pushed back for Walter.

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LAST ONE!! Walter is officially convicted of capital murder (1988)

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LAST ONE!! Walter is officially convicted of capital murder (1988)

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Pearson makes it so that the Jury is nearly all white, with the exception of one member. After all the arguments, the courtroom separately discusses for less than 3 hours. They come back and Walter is pronounced guilty in the courtroom.