Started: 11/9/2024
Finished: 11/13/2024
Year: 2024
Pages: 330
Genre: True Crime
Grade: A
Reason for reading: library book
Type: hardcover
Blurb (from Amazon): "John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
"A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse."
Opinion: Most of us are aware of some sort of injustice when it has come to innocent people being wrongly convicted; some even executed. This book will make you shake your head at the level of injustice.
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