![]() ![]() ![]() Within minutes of the assault, Gulley and McCants were apprehended together. She could describe him only as “quite a dark colored boy” with “curly type hair.” Gulley, McCants, and Sullivan are all African American. Bruner never even saw her attacker clearly. Someone knocked on her door, and as she went to open it, another person who had entered through the back of her home grabbed her from behind. Bruner, an older white woman in her early seventies, was sexually assaulted in her home. The three boys entered the home of Lena Bruner in the morning, while no one was there. On the morning of May 4, 1989, Michael Gulley, fifteen, and Nathan McCants, seventeen, convinced thirteen-year-old Joe Sullivan to accompany them when they broke into an empty house in Pensacola, Florida. Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela - a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all.” ![]() “Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South.” Stevenson will be speaking at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures on Monday, January 25th. Littsburgh is thrilled to be able to share with you this chapter from Bryan Stevenson’s best-selling, award-winning book Just Mercy, “a powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice-from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.” ![]()
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