12/4/08

53. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Robbie picked this up at an airport but never had time to read it so I decided to give it a try. It was the true story of a man on death row exonerated by DNA evidence (before the death sentence, luckily). I've never read any John Grisham before so I'm not sure that liking his first non-fiction book means that I will enjoy his other novels, but I may have to look some up. I read all the Wikipedia articles that I could find about the actual case that this book is about. I even read the district attorney's web site about John Grisham's book being a pack of lies, but I found his side of the story pretty pathetic. I couldn't find any point where John Grisham was being unfair or dishonest about the actual facts of the cast. I also requested "The Dreams of Ada" (mentioned often in this book and about a similar case) from our library and they are ordering it.

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