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This 3 page paper is a book review of The Innocent Man by John Grisham, his first non-fiction work. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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his first foray into non-fiction, and its a harrowing story of a criminal justice system that no longer works. This paper briefly reviews the book and discusses its characters and
themes. Discussion In his review of the book, attorney G. Ware Cornell Jr. tells us what we already know: "Justice sometimes get to be a commodity, rationed not by need
but by wealth" (2006). Cornell notes that the justice system is designed to protect the innocent because the cost of a mistake can be horrific (date). Despite this, the last
thing a trial attorney wants is a client whos truly innocent, because "although the law presumes the client is innocent, trial counsel, jaded by thousands of lies from clients, does
not. If your lawyer does not truly believe in you, and you are truly innocent, can you get a fair trial?" (Cornell, 2006). This is the dilemma that Grisham explores
in the book. It deals with the case of Ron Williamson, a man who began with solid prospects and ended up a wreck. He had the talent to make it
to at least the minors, but was derailed by mental illness (Grisham, 2006). When Debbie Carter is killed in Ada, Oklahoma, the police cannot find the murderer; five years later,
an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung, the police work up a case against Williamson and Dennis Fritz, whose only crime was being
a friend of Williamson (Cornell, 2006). The prosecutors use "perjured evidence, discredited forensics, high emotion and active concealment of exculpatory evidence" to obtain a conviction and Williamson winds up on
death row (Cornell, 2006). The federal court finally heard the case, and found that Williamson had not received a fair trial; the district judge concurred, and ordered the state to
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