Murder on a Sunday Morning

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Murder on a Sunday Morning (French: Un coupable idéal, lit. An Ideal Culprit) is a 2001 documentary film directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The documentary explores the Brenton Butler case, in which a fifteen-year-old African-American boy was wrongfully accused and tried for murder in Jacksonville, Florida. The film follows Butler's public defense attorneys as they piece together the narrative and how the police coerced Butler into confessing. There was no physical evidence found, and the husband's visual identification of Butler as the shooter contradicted his statement to police. The film received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.

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