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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-11-2009; An Innocent Man by John Grisham; Amazing research and depiction given by John Grisham. Really makes you wonder how many innocent men and women have been convicted of crimes they didn't commit. Great read!!!; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-09-2009; Don't waste your time reading this book; I have read every one of Grisham's books. I wish I had never read The Innocent Man. I wish I had those hours of my life back. Although I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of the book that an innocent man should not be sentenced to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-24-2009; Too boring.. no conversations, just pure narration.; This book was very interesting at first but I eventually got bored and even felt frustrated as I felt too much details and narration was provided about little details about the characters that I felt were really not important to the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-24-2009; More Fundamentalist Christian bashing; Fundamentalist Christians overwhelmingly support the death penalty; and this book completely undermines any supposed valid reason to contine to support the death penalty. And even when the evidence, and then the justice system, found...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-11-2009; An Innocent Man by John Grisham; Amazing research and depiction given by John Grisham. Really makes you wonder how many innocent men and women have been convicted of crimes they didn't commit. Great read!!!; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-23-2009; Quick Review; A legal thriller from John Grisham with a twist -- this one is true. In the early 1980s, in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma a young cocktail waitress is brutally raped and murdered in her apartment. Right from the start, the local police...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-09-2009; Don't waste your time reading this book; I have read every one of Grisham's books. I wish I had never read The Innocent Man. I wish I had those hours of my life back. Although I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of the book that an innocent man should not be sentenced to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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