The Innocent Man
(Grisham, John)
John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small townjustice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thrilleryet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen fromthe State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with theOakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursuehis dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreamsbroken by a bad arm and bad habits drinking, drugs, and women. He beganto show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in withhis mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was rapedand murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime.For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson andhis friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 andcharged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, theprosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony ofjailhouse snitches and convicts.
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