The book was set in 1984. The movie was filmed in 1995/6 and they didn't age anything down.
It was still believable that a white jury would convict a black man of a crime they'd never convict a white man of in that time frame. Both the book and the movie were released in my lifetime and I'm not that old.
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u/DaLoneWanderer 29d ago
Took me 25 comments to reach a non-mississippi response. What the hell did this state do??