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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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- 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!!!
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- 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 death row and I support the Innocence Project's objectives,...
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- 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 plot. I wasn't able to finish the book, I was able to listen to...
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- 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 that there had been, the "conviction of an innocent man" the...
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- Posted: Sep-20-2009
Wow - I feel drained after finishing this
Guh. This book was really compelling and just made me want to scream. I always squirm when I watch movies or dramas based on the premise that the protagonist is accused/convicted/pursued wrongly and no one will listen to them. Man, I even hate when it happened on Star Trek! I mean, come ON,...
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- Posted: Jul-18-2009
Couldn't put down
I have read many of Grishams books and they are all really good. When I began reading this book, I noticed that it was different from his other books. I soon discovered it was different because this was a true story. Because the book was based on a true story, it was never far fetched and this...
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- 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 force suspected Ron Williamson, a former local baseball...
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- Posted: Jun-13-2009
Legal Fiction Rock Star Grisham Performs Public Service By Writing This Book
First, the good news. As a courts and legal affairs reporter the past 40 years, I have covered thousands of criminal cases and trials. And I remain fairly confident that the grotesque miscarriage of justice so artfully detailed in this nonfiction masterpiece is a rare occurrence. After all, if it...
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- Posted: Jun-02-2009
Grisham is mad as hell and not going to take it any more!
I had long ago stopped reading John Grisham's novels. I think it was "The Pelican Brief" that ended it for me. I always though his first, "A Time to Kill" was my favorite. And in some strange way this new non-fiction book seems to be a worthy companion to that novel. But here Grisham is mad as...
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- Posted: Jan-20-2009
Amazing
Being a Criminal Justice Student I have really enjoyed reading this book. One of the best non-fiction in its Genre that I have read. Amazing story.I look forward to reading Journey Toward Justice and The Dreams of Ada.
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