District Attorney Danny Buck ran into a problem—he couldn’t scare up a single juror in Panola County who was willing to put Bernie behind bars.
Sounds like a complete fabrication. That is not the way grand juries and trials work in Texas.
First, they have a Grand Jury to determine if there is sufficient evidence of a crime being committed. That is standard procedure in all Texas homicides.
Then, after a Grand Jury decides to indict, the suspect can plead or require a jury trial.
So, there had to be a Grand Jury indictment long before a jury trial ever was convened.
The movie just sounds like a hit piece on the South and Texas, at least from this review.