Plot: Medgar Evers is a black civil rights activist in Mississippi, who was gunned down by an assassin on June 12, 1963. This is later suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, is the murderer and he would be tried twice and both trials ended in hung juries. For more than 30 years, Evers' widow Myrlie has been trying to bring Beckwith to justice and she believes that she has what this takes to bring him to trial again. However, most of the evidence in the original trial have disappeared but assistant D.A. Bobby De Laughter decides to do what he can to help her despite being warned that this might hurt his political aspirations and the strain it's causing on his marriage.
Alternative Plot: In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.) is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods). However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of whites. Now, decades later in 1989, Evers' widow, Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg), thinks she has evidence to finally convict him. But no lawyer will touch the case except the young and brash Bobby DeLaughter (Alec Baldwin).
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