
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...
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Det här är alltså en sann historia om en man som döms till döden för ett brott han inte begått. Bara det gör att blodtrycket höjs avsevärt. Och när man sedan läser om hur allt gått till, om polisens inkompetens och lathet, ja hela rättsväsendets oförmåga att fungera på ett tillfredsställande och rättvist sätt, då blir man bara rent ut sagt förbannad. Läs mer på http://bokslut.blogspot.se/2012/07/den-oskyldige-mannen-av-john-grisham.html