What if poor little Alfie Evans were a prince?

Apr 26, 2018 by Jill

by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:

John Grisham’s acclaimed novel, A Time to Kill, climaxes with one of the most dramatic and animated closing arguments in legal fiction.

A 12-year-old black girl is raped and beaten by two white supremacists. Her father kills both men with an M16. A white attorney is defending the girl’s African-American father.

He says to the jury: ‘Now I wanna tell you a story. I’m gonna ask ya’all to close your eyes while I tell you this story.’ Jake Brigance, the attorney, proceeds to paint a graphic picture of the rape, humiliation and hanging of the little black girl to a packed courtroom.

‘Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body, soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood – left to die,’ each word stabbing the heart of each juror, his voice soaring to an impassioned crescendo.

‘Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she’s white. The defence rests, Your Honour.’ Brigance’s variation on the argumentum ad misericordiam stuns judge, jury and viewers, and he wins the case. Grisham, however, is going beyond the appeal to pity. ‘What would you do if she were your daughter?’ he is asking his white audience in the setting of a racially charged American South.

‘Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she’s white.’

Now I ask you to imagine a little boy dying of a rare degenerative brain disorder in Britain. His parents are moving heaven and earth to save him. The hospital and doctors decide against the parents’ wishes to end his life because there is no point in trying to save such a hopeless case. His parents knock at the doors of every court in the land until their knuckles bleed. The courts rule that the doctors should let Alfie Evans die.

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