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Original Title:	The Innocent Man
ISBN:	0385517238 (ISBN13: 9780385517232)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America Oklahoma(United States)

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town Hardcover | Pages: 360 pages

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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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Title	:	The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Author	:	John Grisham
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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

It is obvious from the title of the book whose side the author is on here. And it is hard not to be on the side of the wrongly convicted. I just wish that the author had taken the approach of presenting both sides of the story rather turning it into a soapbox against the wrongdoers - i.e. the Prosecutors, Police and Prison Staff. It would have brought better balance and made the book more respectable in telling this very important story.In the early '80's in Oklahoma a young woman is raped and

Started off slow but once half way through it picked up. Different set up for John grisham.

It is obvious from the title of the book whose side the author is on here. And it is hard not to be on the side of the wrongly convicted. I just wish that the author had taken the approach of presenting both sides of the story rather turning it into a soapbox against the wrongdoers - i.e. the Prosecutors, Police and Prison Staff. It would have brought better balance and made the book more respectable in telling this very important story.In the early '80's in Oklahoma a young woman is raped and

A well written True-Crime that is easy to follow and understand. However, it is also unnecessarily repetitive and could have been shortened. Despite that annoyance, it was still incredibly interesting and I found myself not wanting to put it down.I've heard of John Grisham many times, but learned about this particular book through the Netflix Documentary on the story. I started becoming very interested in the ways the court systems fail to protect the innocent when I watched another Netflix

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.

This not what I expected? The NETFLIX documentary seemed slow, it is a documentary but I expected more drama like a typical Grisham movie....?IMDb - The Innocent Man reviewNetflix - The Innocent Man TrailerThe True Story Behind The Innocent Man's Most Gruesome Murder - website link - 12/14/2018