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Murder on a Sunday Morning

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Initial DVD release
  
April 29, 2003

Duration
  

Language
  
English

8/10
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Genre
  
Crime, Documentary

Music director
  
Helene Blazy

Country
  
FranceUnited States

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Release date
  
September 14, 2001 (2001-09-14) (United States)February 26, 2003 (2003-02-26) (France)

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Murder on a Sunday Morning (French: Un coupable idéal) is a documentary film directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. Its subject is the Brenton Butler case, a criminal case in which a fifteen-year-old boy was wrongfully accused of murder. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in 2001.

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Brenton Butler was arrested and tried for the 2000 murder of a tourist in Jacksonville, Florida. The prosecution's case relied heavily upon a positive identification made by the victim's husband, and on Butler's confession, which the teen claimed was coerced. The film follows Butler's defense team building their case for his innocence.

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