some crimes are heinous some punishments just but when Justice rushes to judgment honor is the first casualty this is the story of Lewis till a soldier a father and a man whose fate was sealed not by evidence but by the urgency of War Lewis till was no saint born in 1922 raised in the rough streets of Chicago he found himself in trouble early a domestic dispute with his wife M landed him in court ordered enlistment into the US Army a sentence not of bars but of War he wasn't given a choice but was he ever truly given a chance