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| Original Title: | The Innocent Man |
| ISBN: | 0385517238 (ISBN13: 9780385517232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America Oklahoma(United States) |
John Grisham
Hardcover | Pages: 360 pages Rating: 3.82 | 60338 Users | 4877 Reviews
Details About Books The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
| Title | : | The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town |
| Author | : | John Grisham |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 360 pages |
| Published | : | October 10th 2006 by Doubleday Books |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Mystery. Thriller. History. Law |
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John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.
Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits—drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder.
With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row.
If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
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Ratings: 3.82 From 60338 Users | 4877 ReviewsComment On About Books The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
A chilling tale of injustice and the troubles faced by a wrongfully accused man. It also highlights the problems faced by a mentally ill man who society is unable to deal with or help.It should be noted that this book should be titled "The Innocent MEN," since it describes 2 cases, each involving 2 men, 4 men altogether. We have the all too common and dastardly scenario of the DA's office and local police conspiring to win the case at all costs, fudging, manipulating, cheating, and tampering state's evidence, regardless of truth and justice. But for me, such behavior on the part of law enforcement authorities is not the shocking aspect of these tragic chronicles, but the
This is John Grisham's first Non Ficiion. It focuses on a young athlete wrongly convicted of a crime he did not commit.It is a scathing look at our criminal justice system and a story of sadness, tragedy and gross incompetence. It is also quite long and took me a great deal of time to finish but is very well written. I always love Grisham's work and this book, although tough to follow at times and very tragic, is poignant because of its reality. Unlike the characters in Grisam's fiction novels,
My new years resolution will be to not impulse buy books from Tesco. This was ok but by page 400 i was bored. I skimmed the last 100 pages. I'll give true crime books a rest for a while.
This is a very disturbing nonfiction book about our judicial system, a heinous crime and a wasted life. It showed how several innocent men were convicted of murder and that in reality, one is really guilty until proven innocent rather than the other way around. It is a very sad documentary about a talented high school athlete who really ruined his life with drinking, drugs and got framed for murder, and developed mental and physical illness. It's unbelievable how these innocent men spent 12
Nonfiction is hard to write because you have to strive to stick to the facts, and facts have a way of changing shape as each new perspective is brought into play.
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