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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--a book no American can afford to miss.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Judicial error, Trials, litigation, Trials (Murder), True Crime, Capital punishment, Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, Nonfiction, Legal System, Murder - General, Penology, Social Science / Penology, True Crime / Espionage, Williamson, Ronald Keith, 1953-2004, Mentally ill, Administration of Criminal justice, Judicial corruption, Biography, Trials (Rape), Trials (Homicide), Capital punishmnet, Large type books, Criminal justice, administration of, Mentally ill, biography, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2019-01-13, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Trials (murder), Trials (rape), AudiobooksPlaces
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Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
2017, Penguin Random House
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The innocent man: murder and injustice in a small town
2007, Arrow
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The innocent man: murder and injustice in a small town
2007, Delta
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Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, 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 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 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 jaihouse 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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