Post by randex on Oct 24, 2006 7:30:31 GMT -5
This is a very good book and offers hope to those wrongfully convicted:
The Innocent Man
(Murder And Injustice In A Small Town)
Author - John Grisham
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.
This book is about wrongful convictions that occur every month in every state in this country,
and the reasons are all varied and all the same - bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness
identification, lying witnesses and snitches, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors
and judges.
Citizens and jurors trust their authorities to behave properly. When they don't the result is the
subjects of the book and others who have been wrongfully convicted.
This is a true story about Ronald Keith Williamson from Ada, Oklahoma who was convicted of murder
based on zero evidence and spent eleven years on death row.
The investigation, cops, prosecutors, lying and or faulty memories, and judges have an eerie similiarity
to the Scott Peterson case. Just change the names and faces.
Barry Scheck, The Innocence Project, helped to exonerate Ron on April 15, 1999 and participated in
filing a lawsuit naming "everybody" involved. In the fall of 20002 the lawsuit was settled for several
million dollars.
Ada, Oklahoma had to raise property taxes to pay for their part of the lawsuit.
The Innocent Man
(Murder And Injustice In A Small Town)
Author - John Grisham
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.
This book is about wrongful convictions that occur every month in every state in this country,
and the reasons are all varied and all the same - bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness
identification, lying witnesses and snitches, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors
and judges.
Citizens and jurors trust their authorities to behave properly. When they don't the result is the
subjects of the book and others who have been wrongfully convicted.
This is a true story about Ronald Keith Williamson from Ada, Oklahoma who was convicted of murder
based on zero evidence and spent eleven years on death row.
The investigation, cops, prosecutors, lying and or faulty memories, and judges have an eerie similiarity
to the Scott Peterson case. Just change the names and faces.
Barry Scheck, The Innocence Project, helped to exonerate Ron on April 15, 1999 and participated in
filing a lawsuit naming "everybody" involved. In the fall of 20002 the lawsuit was settled for several
million dollars.
Ada, Oklahoma had to raise property taxes to pay for their part of the lawsuit.