Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham
View on GoodreadsPick almost any of these ten murder cases and the same failures turn up: tunnel vision, coached witnesses, jailhouse informants, flawed forensics, racial bias and prosecutorial misconduct. Grisham and Jim McCloskey each tell five, and you follow every case from arrest through the long fight for exoneration.
Core ideas
- The toll: The cases involve 23 defendants who together served decades, four of them sent to death row and one executed despite later evidence of innocence.
- Buried evidence: Suppressed evidence and police misconduct recur too, problems McCloskey's Centurion has worked against since its founding in 1983.
- Grisham's return: His first nonfiction since The Innocent Man in 2006 came after exonerees and advocates he had met asked him to tell their stories.
Published2024
Pages368
ISBN9780385550444
ReadJan 2025
