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 Mississippi Innocence: Levon Brooks & Kennedy Brewer
 Assigned Reading: Tucker Carrington, Mississippi Innocence: the Convictions and Exonerations of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer and the Failure of the American Promise, 28 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 123 (2015) [online text]
In-Class Video: "Mississippi Innocence" (Media & Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi)(a Joe York film)(2011). [58 mins.]"Mississippi Innocence tells the story of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, two men who combined spent over thirty years behind bars for crimes they did not commit." ~Internet Movie Database
Introduction: Web Resources
Mississippi Innocence Film
Mississippi Innocence Project
Mississippi Innocence: Videos
Mississippi Innocence Film Panel Discussion
[2:03 mins.]
Mississippi Innocence
[39:40 mins.] [The Southern Documentary Project] [Panel discussion on Mississippi Innocence Project. Panelist include former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Fred Banks, Huffington Post senior writer Radley Balko, New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson and Joe York, filmmaker of "Mississippi Innocence."]
Red Carpet with subjects and filmmakers of Mississippi Innocence
[5:39 mins.] [with Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer]
Mississippi Roads: Innocence Project
[12:57 mins.]
Supplemental Videos
Levon Brooks & Kennedy Brewer
Levon Brooks & Kennedy Brewer: Flawed Autopsies Send Two Innocent Men To Jail
[7:31 mins.] [NPR] [Mississippi Innocence Project] [forensic science (Dr. Michael West): human bite marks]
Levon Brooks Speaks with American Constitution Society blog
[3:11 mins.]
Red Carpet with subjects and filmmakers of Mississippi Innocence
[5:39 mins.]
A Long Road to Innocence: A Screening and Dialogue of "Mississippi Innocence"
[46:06 mins.] [See: Tucker Carrington, Mississippi Innocence: The Convictions and Exonerations of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer and the Failure of the American Promise, 28 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 123 (2015)]
Levon Brooks
[12:57 mins.] [brief focus on Lavon Brooks; background on the Mississippi Innocence Project]
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