FREE: The Innocent Man - John Grisham

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Hardcover in excellent condition. The one corner of the dust cover is a little bent up. Storyline: 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 persue 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 showsigns of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 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 5 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 an dthe testimony of jailhouse snitches an dconvicts. 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.