On May 11th, 1992, Marilyn Malera was with a group of people mourning a friend who had

recently been killed by the Latin Kings.

The groups split up and Marilyn went out with a friend and another mortar who they both

had met that night, Jackie Montanez, who had her own, sorted history with that gang.

At around midnight, the three were driving to your humble park when two guys who knew

Jackie called out to her at a light.

They all agreed to meet in the park to hang out.

It turned out that these two men were members of the Latin Kings.

Jackie lured one of them into the bathroom to make out and when he stopped to urinate,

she shot him in the back of the head.

When she emerged alone, the other man asked about his friend and Jackie shot him too.

Marilyn and her friend were caught completely unaware and panicked.

They fled the scene.

Then the case fell into the hands of two of Chicago's now most infamous detectives who used

insectivized snitches, false eyewitness testimony, and coercive interrogation tactics to pull

Marilyn and her friend into a case that should have rested squarely on Jackie Montanez's

shoulders.

Then, Marilyn's hired attorney, inexplicably, advised her to plead guilty while getting

nothing in return from the prosecutors sending her directly to death row.

News of this case would reach then 29-year-old law professor Justin Brooks and it drove him

to uproot his life and begin a two and a half decade-long quest to expose the misdeeds

of those detectives and have the evidence of Marilyn's innocence finally heard.

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