John Grisham's The Innocent Man
In the town of Ada,
Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on
his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by
drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far
from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was
savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the
flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson.
The
washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in
a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would
shatter a man’s already broken life…and let a true killer go free.
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama,
John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal
thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the
presumption of innocence.

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