02398nam a2200313 a 4500 7676 BD-DhAAL 20151025112455.0 151025s2006 nyu 000 0beng 2006048468 9780099493570 9780385517232 0385517238 DLC DLC DLC NNC OrLoB-B BD-DhAAL KF224.W5535 G75 2006 345.766/02523 22 Grisham, John. 12831 The innocent man / John Grisham. New York : London : Doubleday : Arrow Books : c2006. 501 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. "In the major-league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory." "Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa." "In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder." "With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row." "If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you."--BOOK JACKET. 7676 Williamson, Ronald Keith, 1953-2004 Trials, litigation, etc. 15658 Trials (Murder) Oklahoma. 15659 Judicial error Oklahoma. 15660 Capital punishment Oklahoma. 15661 ddc BK 35882 35882 0 0 ddc 0 345_766000000000000_02523_GRI 0 56416 SCL SCL GEN 2015-10-25 Gift: 6 31 345.76602523 GRI 3020007676 2025-09-14 2025-06-24 1 2015-10-25 BK