{"id":290980,"date":"2020-04-15T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1141222"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:16:20","slug":"watch-cyntoia-browns-fight-for-freedom-in-new-netflix-documentary-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/watch-cyntoia-browns-fight-for-freedom-in-new-netflix-documentary-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cyntoia Brown’s Fight for Freedom in New Netflix Documentary Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a story 16 years in the making. <\/p>\n

Nearly a year since Cyntoia Brown<\/strong> was granted clemency and finally freed<\/a>, Netflix is tackling her story in a documentary set for release this month. On Wednesday, the streaming service unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming film, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story<\/em>, <\/em>in which the now-32-year-old woman’s turbulent life story unfolds after being sentenced as an adult to life in prison for the murder of a 43-year-old man she said solicited her for sex when she was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim. <\/p>\n

The documentary, due out on the small screen on April 29, is said to dive into the violence Brown faced in her childhood through to ultimately gaining her freedom. <\/p>\n

“When I was 16, I did a horrible thing,” she says in a courtroom in the trailer. “I do pray that you show me mercy and that you give me a second chance<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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It was on Jan. 7, 2019, after her case gained national attention and support from celebrities, that former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam<\/strong> granted her clemency. Brown was officially released from prison on Aug. 7, 2019 after serving 15 years in prison. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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However, according to a statement from Brown on Instagram, she was not involved in the project.  <\/p>\n

“While I was still incarcerated, a producer who has old footage of me made a deal with Netflix for an UNAUTHORIZED documentary, set to be released soon. My husband and I were as surprised as everyone else when we first heard the news because we did not participate in any way. However, I am currently in the process of sharing my story, in the right way, in full detail, and in a way that depicts and respects the woman I am today,” she wrote online. “While I pray that this film highlights things wrong in our justice system, I had nothing to do with this documentary.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s a story 16 years in the making.  Nearly a year since Cyntoia Brown was granted clemency and finally freed, Netflix is tackling her story in a documentary set for release this month. On Wednesday, the streaming service unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming film, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, in which the now-32-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 01:05:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}