The Innocent Man by John Grisham

A true story of conviction and devastating injustice

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John Grisham turns to nonfiction to examine the case of Ron Williamson, a former promising baseball player whose life unravels after he is accused of murder in Ada, Oklahoma. The investigation into the death of Debra Sue Carter leads to a conviction built amid troubling evidence, unreliable testimony and failures that carry enormous consequences for the people involved. Following Williamson through imprisonment and the struggle to challenge the case, Grisham considers how assumptions can harden into certainty within a justice system under pressure to produce an answer. The eventual role of DNA evidence exposes the distance between a convincing prosecution story and the truth. The Innocent Man is an account of wrongful conviction, persistence and the human cost of errors that institutions are slow to acknowledge.