The Innocent Man by John Grisham This is Grisham’s first non-fiction book. If I hadn’t seen that
on the cover, I wouldn’t have believed it. This is story of a man, Ron Williamson,
and his alleged accomplice, Dennis Fritz, both wrongly accused of rape and murder in a
small Oklahoma town. The local police and judges, as well as the state and federal
systems, all rushed to justice to convict someone and failed to look past their noses to
find the real killer. The ineptness of everyone at every level is disgusting and
unbelievable…the stuff of fiction. After years on death row, Williamson was a
physical and mental mess, but he finally got help from the Indigent Defense System, a
group of legal eagles who help indigent, wrongly accused inmates. |